skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Democracy and the rule of law provide a considerable level of predictability. Google knew they couldn't work in the UK, but knew that they could succeed in California. Not everywhere needs to be conducive to every type of business or opportunity, as long as people and capital are free to flow to the places they can be effectively used for a given purpose. Fundamentally Capitalism is simply individual equal freedom of action within the law, freedom of association and respect for property rights. All the rest of capitalism just flows from respect for those basic principles.

The problem with authoritarianism is that not only does it have all the regulatory limiting problems of free capital democracies, but you also can't even rely on those rules, at all, because a leader can overrule them at a whim at any time.
It should be possible to enable Cloud Identity Free on your gsuite tenant. So you can use a free identity account for your admin account and only pay for gsuite on your main email account.

https://support.google.com/cloudidentity/answer/7384506?hl=e...
This is such excellent advice that I wrote a detailed step-by-step instruction guide for people that don't know how to do precisely that:

https://sneak.berlin/20201029/stop-emailing-like-a-rube/

It even has special instructions about how to secure the domain registration and DNS accounts. :)

(Don't use G Suite, though.)
> It is important to understand why historians have put so much weight on things like the french revolution and the trappings of the Roman Empire.

It's true that things have provenance. However, one of the things you learn as a modern history undergrad is this: be skeptical and critical of the historical record.

The historical record isn't a perfect reflection of the past. It's always coloured. Why is so much emphasis put on the French Revolution? Or the American Revolution? Because both events are re-purposed to support national identities of both modern France and America. Those identities encompass a vast range of cultural and moral values that permeate daily and societal life. It provides an answer to the question "Who are we?"

However, when the Parisians took to the Bastille on the 14th of July or the Bostonians decided to throw British tea overboard, they didn't do so with the decisive notion "Well, this will lead to the establishment of the Republic with all it's modern trappings and entire national mythology." No. They just did that as an expression to their grievances to their legitimate sovereign at that particular time in history, and not much more.

It's the responsibility of historical researchers to undo history of the many layers of meaning and value, and re-tell the story as it unfolded at the time based on established facts.
Won't the password reset link of a blocked Google user get emailed to their inaccessible gmail inbox?
I assumed these were using some kind of iframe trickery.
A Rotman lens might be interesting as well.
The incentives can change through eg law as forest_dweller has already mentioned in his comments. I think most people "understand" the current economic situation works out quite well for closed platforms, but it doesn't mean a better way does not exist and can work out just fine economically
There's always a long tail. The big issues (like the fact that docker doesn't currently work) will be dealt with quickly, but for every relevant package that 99% of people indirectly need to be updated, and then that updated version to be linked to in the thing you're actually using takes time. It will also turn out that there will be a few things that aren't maintained any more and replacements will be needed.
That's great news. Facebook and Twitter don't (Facebook as of a few years ago, Twitter as of this year), as I learned the hard way.
That's why we need more women in power.
Title party thing!
I grew up in Socialist Poland. What you're saying is absurdly far away from reality.

Very few people say that things were better. It was a miserable time back then, and the life has drastically improved for the vast majority of the society.

When there was toilet paper delivered to the stores, it was a big deal. And by "toilet paper" I mean a gray, thin, one-layered, recycled one. It's weird we didn't switch to the asian water-bidet style then.

There was literally nothing available in the stores. Imagine your local supermarket, but with literal empty shelves, just vinegar on some of them.

There was even a joke about a guy who comes to a hardware store:
- I'd like some screws
- We don't have screws
- I'd like some nails then
- We don't have nails either
- Well, what do you have?
- Nothing.
- Why don't you close the store down then?
- We don't have the locks either.

This was a reality for dosens of millions of people back then. Saying that anyone misses that time, and that many people had it better is some kind of a sick fantasy.

Also, it wasn't due to US politics (although it didn't help). With the private enterprise being trashed, and people demotivated to do any sort of work (what for? "If you sit, or you stand, 100zł payment is your right" - another common joke), it was bound to collapse.

If anything, people in Poland saw West world as the one that was fighting to get us out of it all (and as a place of freedom and possibility).

And really - the crazy 90s after the communist rule fell, we saw a huge increase in the quality of life for almost everyone.
The general reaction I'm hearing about the UI changes is "barf". I'm not a Mac user though. Is it that bad?
>Tsss... Nintendo :p

Chances are this was subcontracted.
I've been using name@name.tld for a long time now, I realize the repetition reads a little oddly but I've never cared enough to switch to anything else.

I guess I should have started using forname@surname.tld to make it all nice and neat, but I've no desire to change now.
What does the innovation pipeline at Mozilla look like nowadays? Will it dry up drastically soon?
No we may need to sacrifice our standard of living and stop driving cars so much. We may need a complete revolution of corporations and government.
Does this have any advantage over the official a tour of go ?
The guide to how cars work
A revolution in the field of energy research
I don't know if the ratio is better. In Spain wages are way higher and blood tests are free. And after reading some comments here it doesn't look that expensive in other countries compared to their median wages.

I know Romania pretty well and I'd say they have Romanian wages and European prices on almost everything.
Shouldn't this be named nping? I'm not 100% serious there, but why break conventions? g is for GUI, n is fo TUI (from ncurses).
You will have to clarify how the Soviets "forced" the PRC to engage in a foreign war.
> There’s no 2050

Ther 1050Ti was replaced by the 1650, 1650S and 1650Ti
I was skeptical initially.
The laptop has been dissected and scrutinized by multiple people with nothing suspect discovered.
On the other hand - which brand is safe ? Thinkpad has installed rootkits multiple times.
Until there's proof to the otherwise, I think it's worth withholding preconceived ideas.

In any case, everyone has their own level of comfort, and that's important.
Did you read the article? It says nothing of the sort. “Old people are evolutionarily valuable” doesn’t mean that dying of old age is good; if anything, an affirmation of the value of old people helps support the idea that dying of old age is bad.

Also: the important part of “old” in this article is “people who have lived for a long time”, not “people who have aged and are close to death”.
That's because you can successfully deceive people as to whether you made a mistake.
I actually agree that war was a disaster, but he was held accountable to the electorate and won an election after having started the war. How much more accountable do you want? Every single voter in America had the opportunity to express their opinion and together they chose to keep him in office.

Corporations absolutely are held to account. The US is holding hearings on the tech giants at the moment. Apple is in court over the App Store. Microsoft got smacked down over anti-trust. Banks and google have been fined billions of dollars.

Theres a reasonable case that these sanctions were not sufficient, but that's just an opinion. Other people's opinions differ. Sorting that our is what democracy is for, but we cant always expect it to produce the results you or I personally prefer.
The GDPR (in Article 15(4)) states that the right to obtain a copy of your personal data should not ‘adversely affect the rights or freedoms of others’. This means that when responding to an access request, the controller should consider the rights of third parties, such as their data protection rights, trade secrets, or intellectual property rights such as copyright. This could arise, for example, where your access request relates to a record containing both your personal data but also the personal data, trade secrets, or intellectual property of others.

A balancing of rights exercise would need to be conducted by the controller to balance your right of access your personal data as against the identified risk to the third party that may be brought about by the disclosure of the information. The GDPR notes that these considerations should not result simply in a refusal to provide all relevant information, but the controller should endeavour to comply with the request insofar as possible whilst also ensuring adequate protection for the rights and freedoms of others.
If you read this, you should probably also read this very recently blog post[1] by Neil Mitchell.

http://neilmitchell.blogspot.com/2020/11/turing-incomplete-l...
I'd argue, never use a third party service to log in, if you can.

I always use my email to sign up. If I can't register by email, there's a good chance I won't use that service.
Maybe I misunderstand you (and I definitely misunderstand people who advocate micro-services like everything and the kitchen sink), but aren't we collaborating on enormous projects for many years already? Linux, Windows, all large open source projects (without them being micro-services) etc. But again, maybe I misunderstand what you mean.
Stop with the modal newsletter pestering, Jeffrey, and maybe I’ll read your article.
The GeekBench tests have revealed that the clock frequency of the M1 cores is 3.2 GHz, both in MB Air and in MB Pro.

Therefore M1 succeeds to have a slightly higher single-thread performance (between 3% and 8%) than Intel Tiger Lake and AMD Zen 3 at only 2/3 of their clock frequency.

The speed advantage of M1 in single-thread is not high enough to be noticeable in practice, but what counts is that reaching the same performance at high IPC and low frequency instead of low IPC and high frequency results in having the same performance as the competitors at a much lower power consumption.

This is the real achievement of Apple and not the ridiculous claims about M1 being 3 times faster than obsolete and slow older products.
It’s worth noting that you’ll get the same outcome if you register everywhere with a free Gmail/iCloud/whatever account. The only sure way you won’t lose access is to set up your own domain and use a decent email provider that allows to use it (Yes, ironically even Google Workspace/GSuite).
This might sound like sarcasm to us but I've honestly heard people claim this with a serious face, as well as: "I'm not doing anything bad, so they'll never block me". Guess it's not a problem until it actually happens to them.
Obviously JSON is not suited for tabular data, but perhaps another format could be used. Ultimately, the user shouldn't care about JSONs or tabular objects.
I usually use it for random websites, but not for services I use everyday
Good point, but if Google suspends my account I've got bigger things to worry about than the dozens of sites I've used once or twice a year.

Paying for your own domain also comes with its own troubles. If you're not using Google (or some other service) as your mail forwarder, good luck being able to email anyone. Stealing you custom domain is also a real possibility, and negates your investment in Gmail 2FA.
For those that don't want to pay, Yandex allows you to set up a number of emails using your own domain for free.
VBScript is still used by Windows admins
Python is biased towards "explicit is better than implicit". It would rather fail with a TypeError than silently coerce types and risk masking logic/type errors.

> Why do I have to care about types in these dynamically typed languages?

Because Python is strongly typed, and types determined behaviour.
Quantifying the Performance of GC vs. Explicit Memory Management (2005) [pdf]
The people who have problems with types and think removing them makes programming easier are the same people who have problems with syntax and think that replacing text with some kind of graphical representation makes programming "easy for non-programmers".
Comparing performance of this page between Chromium and Firefox is just very depressing :(
» Google knew they couldn't work in the UK, but knew that they could succeed in California.

Sort of tangentially related, this reminds me of a story (not sure if it is true, I don't even remember the source for it) that movie-making became centered in California because the creative people wanted to not be forced to follow some onerous patents of camera manufacturers or something.

Edit: Wikipedia article for Hollywood also says this:

» In the early 1900s, most motion picture patents were held by Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company in New Jersey, and filmmakers were often sued to stop their productions. To escape this, filmmakers began moving out west to Los Angeles, where attempts to enforce Edison's patents were easier to evade.

The citation is http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h3871.html
On the Subject of Fusion ( Rather than .Net 5 )

Is it basically LiveView on Elixir?
We are no longer the "target" audience. I will use Catalina with Little Snitch until it's possible. In 3-4 years time someone will finally realise that Linux is the future of professional work and will make Photoshop/Illustrator clone with quality performance. Resolve is working reasonably well under Linux, Blender works, the only Apple thing I cannot remove is Logic.
Also battery degradation.
I agree. For an extreme example, by taking an extremely restricted subset of Python, Numba is able to get crazy speed-ups, automatic compilation to GPU kernels, etc. I've been waiting for someone to implement the subset of Python that allows for no GIL and huge speedups by cutting out some of the dynamic stuff. I'd bet 99% of the code I write would fit in that subset.
Stability on macOS? Laughable.

Macs are pretty popular among musicians and producers. When El Capitan dropped, pretty much all audio hardware and software stopped working. I remember that you couldn't use Native Instruments plugs and the majority of pro audio interfaces stopped working.

This was fixed after a while, but it took at least half a year for everything to work again for 50% of users and a full year for everything to work for 90% of users.

If you upgraded by accident and didn't have backups, you were in trouble. Even if you had backups, you could still have issues.

Here's a link from back in the day:

https://macprovideo.com/article/audio-software/5-reasons-mus...

Now, did something similar ever happen on Linux or Windows?

I can safely say that a lot of people lost some revenue because of that upgrade (there were also issues for video production software), at least until the word spread that you shouldn't upgrade.
How could my domain be stolen? :O
A better C with coroutines is what I wanted.
Basically nobody is using it:

> While TxF is a powerful set of APIs, there has been extremely limited developer interest in this API platform since Windows Vista primarily due to its complexity and various nuances which developers need to consider as part of application development.

> As a result, Microsoft is considering deprecating TxF APIs in a future version of Windows to focus development and maintenance efforts on other features and APIs which have more value to a larger majority of customers.
>Generally speaking, it looks like microservices behave a lot like the early procedural programming languages by not considering the actually complicated stuff.

+1
In my experience “modern distributed systems” is codeword for handwaving away the complex questions like transactionality and consistency and thinking mostly about the happy path behaviour.
To what extent does this apply to iCloud mail?
Lossy image compression creates artifacts, which are in a way of form of falsely reconstructed information - information which wasn't there in the original image. Lossless compression algorithms work by reducing redundancy, but don't create information where it wasn't there (thus being very different from super-resolution algorithms).
Theres no way to know if they have considered the alternatives, because it is illegal to even present or discuss any alternatives, and illegal to ask them about it.
The only thing worse I can think than having Google read your email is having Yandex read it.
Coronavirus: North Korea and Russia hackers 'targeting vaccine'
Reminded me this tweet: https://twitter.com/dotMudge/status/739502344073797632
FCA will let you do your own software updates as long as you buy their micropod. I'll have to look up which ones require dealerships because thats a bit strange to me. A lot of dealerships have a guy they call to come do flashes for them. Usually an independent contractor that circles around dealerships of every make flashing things for everybody.
Remember OpenID? Yes, that's what it was for, OAuth wasn't never meant for signing in other websites who just want your mail or something... Of course, all these big tech corps quickly dropped OpenID, they don't want people to control their online credentials or identity...
Yes, and it bothers me a lot, even if it's in an iframe, that it has my real name from my Gmail account inside the unrelated third party pages. I do not trust Javascript iframe policies from preventing the host sites of exfiltrating my name from the Google signin frame. Javascript and browser exploits have a long history.

This uBlock Origin rule blocks the popups at least:

##iframe[src*="accounts.google.com/gsi"]
Are you actually the owner of steve.com? Because I've been ordering Dominos pizza with the email steve@steve.com for years.

Edit: nevermind. I see you own the .net tld. I've definitely used that to order pizza too. Sorry about that.
This mentality is also called: "if you have a hammer, every problem is a nail". I guess this paradigm is much older then programming :-)
Disqus offers you sign-in using one of aforementioned services but you don't have to use that feature. You can make an account normally and sign-in using email/passsword. The author says you should prefer the later, not boycott any service offering the former.
Doesn't work on Firefox Android. I never go to Reddit by typing URL; I go to Reddit because I follow a link to it.
Nerf the noun did, but not nerf the verb.
Interesting this post has 47 upvotes but my needle moved from 767 to 789 which is 22, where did the rest go lol.
> Still, it requires RNA fragment synthesis, and DNA sequencing. Those seem like regulate-able technologies, right?

Every second college and some high schools have these machines.
It may seem to be magical thinking, but then it goes out into the world and actually delivers magical solutions. Would you like to know how much emissions reduction has come from voluntary impact reduction? Zero. Nothing. The inconsequential fraction of a fraction of people who are willing to significantly inconvenience themselves for others means nothing. Imposing your will upon everyone else to enforce restrictions may sound appealing, but that is never going to happen. So now what?

The people looking for tech solutions will try to think their way out of the problem. Need to reduce CO2? Ok, here is cheap solar and improved battery tech. Horizontal drilling and fracking to deliver cheap natural gas and drive coal out of the market. Modular nuclear and next gen geothermal. Electric cars and smart metering. It is interesting to be sitting in Europe where everyone talks about solutions but accomplish nothing, while tech advancements allowed the US to reduce CO2 emissions to levels last seen almost 30 years ago.

It seems to me that people looking for tech solutions are the only ones making progress on the problem of climate change, and doing so in a way that means they might be able to create substitutes that allow everyone else to continue in oblivious denial without noticing that their climate impact is reducing. I think there is a lot to criticize and object to in tech solutions to these problems, but assuming that any other group is actually going to solve the problem seems to deny reality.
Google sued: Idle Android eats mobile data to send telemetry and preload ads
This is brilliant. I love when people find unused features or weird implementation details in things.

Also kind of jarring how this is the first bit of "retro" tech that I have seen a reverse engineering post on that I actually used when it was new..
> Receiving email at your own domain is table stakes for adulting online […]

Thanks but I won't read the rest.
Airplanes operated for passenger transport are on a very controlled maintenance program. Almost all parts are numbered and tracked, including their age, flight hours and cycles (basically number of flights). You cannot replace even a bolt with another that isn't according to the same manufacturer spec and tracked in the same manner.

So some screws could be the same spec, but in general you don't just pick one out of a bucket and screw it in.
Materials Science is super mind blowing, but a lot of the stuff published is so difficult to read, with complicated equations, unpronounceable elements.

So it’s good to read an article that explains why these discoveries are important, by keeping it brief and without getting lost in the details.
> It would be great if you could provide practical examples where generics could significantly improve Go code.

It would be great if you stopped patronizing people who just provided you an explanation you just don't want to hear.
We have 800+ small businesses as customers. This one is from a large company who don't come in as inbound lead. Don't you think it is better to understand how to work with them rather than hitting a wall with their purchasing department?
Related question: what is the best way to publish code so it is censorship resistant?
Can’t see any obvious benefit for the company’s signing the agreement other than a PR opportunity.
This reminds me of the VMU on Dreamcast. It was a memory unit with a built in monochrome screen. When 'docked' in the controller it would show extra information about the game you are playing. As well as saving games, you could also download minigames that could be played solely on the VMU. Some of them let you play with friends by connecting two VMUs together (no cables needed, the connector is half male half female so two connect together) - although supposedly I was the only person in the world with a Dreamcast, as all my friends at school had PS1.

https://venturebeat.com/2009/09/12/the-best-dreamcast-vmu-ga...
I'm genuinely puzzled as to what Apple would have to have done to convince you with the M1 given the machines it was designed for. It's an 8 core chip that runs in a fanless laoptop and outperforms all of the competition in that form factor.

We haven't seen what the desktop versions with much higher TDPs and discrete graphics will look like yet but you've written them off?
EU Funds Biometric Tech Used for Returning African Migrants
If there was any public documentation on the "Lumina" protocol, one could create a Ghidra plugin that interacts with the server. Sadly, I don't have a copy of IDA (and therefore cannot reverse engineer the protocol) and the author of lumen.abda.nl hasn't released the source code.