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In light of multiple companies attempting to redefine what the words "free" and "unlimited" mean, I would like to propose the following update-for-the-21st-century definitions:

Free: A product or service that is entirely without cost to the end-user until after it has already been purchased.

Unlimited: A reasonable amount that should in no way exceed average consumption.
love the idea thanks for the tips
Sure, except no drive sync software is as convenient or user friendly as google photos.
I selfhost Nextcloud. Great for syncing files and photos
We all live in a society. If folks need help in an exceptional time and you do not help them, folks will remember that you spent the time locked in your bunker instead of helping the neighbor whose supplies were flooded. Someone is always going to be forced to rely on others: A wheelchair cannot easily go over downed limbs, for example, and the user won't necessarily be able to flee a fire without help.

Additionally, if you want folks to be prepared, they need both the means to prepare and the space to do it - which basically means having a robust safety net and/or minimum pay laws.
Re replying, more likely the issue was the comment was too new, HN doesn't let you insta-reply as a means to make it harder to get into a minimal-thinking flamewar style argument.
I've been working on a side project to help teams focus - https://www.indiehackers.com/product/our-time-to-think - It's surprisingly hard to find people who actually want to not be distracted.
I don't know a single employer that pays employees for their home office space, nor one that pays for internet or power a desk or proper chair or office phone number.

I do know several however that will provide only a Chromebook or crappy "corporate laptop" but not a proper workstation.

You do realize this is not a discussion about "out of state" taxes or the general merit of work from home. This is specifically about the appropriateness of employees who work from home being levied "extra" taxes.
Amazon photos provide unlimited photo storage for Prime customer.
If you're only concerned about the disasters that happen all the time, then you're not in the same mindset as your typical prepper.
Personal attacks like this are not allowed on HN. We ban accounts that do it repeatedly, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I remember that fondly. We spent many a night chatting away at Dr Sbaitso only to get a vague but sometimes snarky response on a blue screen with yellow text.. if my memory doesn’t fail me? Also SB pro came with a few more tidbits, one of them was the nutcracker demo and a parrot app, breathtaking at the time too.
I have a symmetric gigabit connection now, and I can barely max it out. My main machines are wired internally with gigabit, and my wifi supports 1.3Gbps across the backhaul.

The only time I've ever maxed it out is with five torrents running at once, and that only lasts a second or two, because then they're done. And we're not a light usage household. It's pretty common for us to have three or four streams all running at 1080 at the same time, plus other big downloads and videoconferencing. One main limiting factor is that I've never seen single service provider get close to gigabit speed (like updates from Apple or Sony for example). It has to be a swarm to get even close.

I'm not sure what I'd do with 2Gbps. The rest of the internet just isn't there to support fully utilizing that connection.
I see, so it’s a way of effectively decoupling the state of the aggregate (store it inside the db) with the actual querying (just query the db). That way, at any time, you can just stop the aggregate/sink, and recover where you left off.

We have implemented our event store on top of PostgreSQL. I’m not a big fan of using Kafka as an event store.
You do not need to teach young children how to use a gun if you instead teach them to never, under any circumstances, to touch the gun. This is not hard to do, though many irresponsible people neglect to do so. And none of this goes out the window even in fantasy "shit hits the fan" scenarios; the rules for how to handle (or, to not handle) guns remain the same. The rules keep you safe when you follow them dogmatically. As soon as you start making 'common sense' exceptions to the rules, that is when you put yourself in danger. A lot of people have gotten hurt after thinking "I know I shouldn't point the gun at myself, but I KNOW I just unloaded it so logically there is no danger..."

(And anecdotally, I've personally witnessed no correlation whatsoever between military service and taking gun safety seriously.
YMMV.)
On one hand I wonder if it makes sense to get an old Pixel 1 from eBay so that I can continue to upload free photos forever (or at least until the Google Photos APK is not updated anymore for the old Android version running on the Pixel 1).

On the other hand I wouldn't be surprised if Google just closes the accounts of people who upload large amounts of pictures and videos (taken on another phone) with the Pixel 1.
Have you heard of Randomised Coffee Trials?

Here's an example of one (healthcare) community that try them: https://q.health.org.uk/community/rcts/

> How does it work?

> Every member who signs up will be sent the name of another randomly-chosen member on the 1st of every month. Each pair can arrange a brief informal meet-up at a time that suits both parties – be it a phone call, Skype call, Google Hangout or even a coffee in person.

> “RCTs have given me the opportunity to talk to people who work in areas that I don’t usually come across in my day to day work.” Lesley Goodburn, Patient Experience Consultant

> RCTs allow Q members to connect with a new member each month and hear about what other colleagues are working on and share any ideas and inspiration. There are no rules here – RCTs should be viewed as an informal opportunity to connect with peers, however if scheduling means that you can’t meet that month then it’s ok.

> We think you’ll enjoy these fun and fruitful conversations – it’s organised serendipity. Matthew Mezey, Q’s Community Manager has written a blog about the benefits of RCTs.

And here's a link to that blog: https://q.health.org.uk/blog-post/easy-time-light-impact-hea...
So annoying. I live in Austin and for years watched as they slowly built out neighborhoods, waiting for them to come to mine. Eventually they did, and a guy went door to door asking for a $10 deposit as a way of gauging interest. For a year they trenched and installed underground lines.

Just as they did it in front of my house, Google announced they were no longer expanding their fiber network. Now there are three orange cable butts sticking up from the ground at each end of the block, lashed up to telephone poles but not connected to anything electrically.

But I'm glad the people a couple blocks over from me are getting 2Gbps service while I suffer with Spectrum cable internet. Oh, they recently refunded the $10 they collected a couple years (or more) ago.
This would be great if it came without the levels of coercion towards the women in relationships.
> It’s not my job to think for you.

This should be the modus operandi of most internet discussions. Well said.
The point is that the idea that disasters are immediately followed by violent banditry is entirely a fabrication of hollywood.

In real life, when disaster strikes people band together. Humans are fundamentally social animals, we have been for our entire 150,000 year history. Our lizard-brain instinct is to seek help and help others.
This is absolutely not true for middle class people. Having to divide up households is extremely expensive and even when no money changes hands it can destroy peoples' standard of living. I watched this happen in my own extended family in just the last few years.
If you use Windows the built-in Photos app has pretty good indexing.
That's not true. It's a generic term that represents any type of preparedness.
Europe puts limits to the export of cyber-surveillance technologies
Or stay in an ugly marriage? Kids will get over it.
RPI 4 meets Flutter and Rust
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There is no better bargaining chip when it comes to negotiating with investors than paying customers. I'm saying maybe this is a baby step into the continuum you describe.
If my statement is premature the parent’s all caps statements are barely more than a zygote.
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Very largely agree (and the chasing squirrels analogy made me laugh!) but of course the speed comes without any extra effort from Apple - so if your native app becomes attractive because its now that much quicker - say some form of video editing - then you're good to go.
> they want users to be customers, not “products”

Google will basically need to re-invent their whole business to do this and there are few signs this is where they are going. They still track the hell out of everyone. They still make the overwhelming majority of their money from advertising.

This isn't going to make Google stop being creepy Google. They are just trying to get some of their sideline projects to break even.
I don't need to; the first I remember hearing of Trump was locals sounding off in an Aberdeen pub. Anyway, "local golf club owner" is my idea of parochial, and a good joke.
I didn't see this in time to make a difference by replying, but this crosses into personal attack in a way that's not cool with the site rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

If you wanted to say how it seemed to you and raise the questions you felt were unanswered, that's of course fine. But jumping to psychological interpretation and personal denunciation based on a handful of beans in a blog post is not the kind of magic beanstalk we want here.
You should look into the supporting data before making comments like this. The evidence for the timeline of past Cascadia zone megaquakes is actually quite solid. We can even corroborate the records from North American samples with samples from Japan when the resulting tsunamis caused damage there.

This is a good introduction if you want to know more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ7Qc3bsxjI
Not having “FSD” is a feature. Anything under level 5 automation breeds complacency, and Uber proved that you can’t even pay someone to watch the road properly.
Is there any technical document describing how it works ? For example, order-preserving indices (for range queries) are often an issue in end-to-end databases ; did your design allow to you to provide them, or did you just consider solving this problem out-of-scope ?
Came here to leave this comment, with a slight variation. I was so exhausted from 2 years of legal separation that I just decided not to bother with a divorce. It has practically no advantage, and it's easier to stay technically married wrt issues related to kids.
Hehe - that's cool. Thanks for the explanation.
> Making quotas a concern again will pave the way for people to start competing with them by offering cheaper storage

Are they also going to have a lucrative ad business subsidizing the servers and staff?

Not to totally take away from your point (and interesting story) which is still valid. Just a reminder of what we've gotten for 'free' for so long often is a consequence of other business models working in conjunction.

As a side-note, training people to pay for things is great news for privacy-mind folks though. Just as a behavioural thing, that's always a huge barrier to starting a business that doesn't rely on data or ads.
Would their workflow allow just keeping a server on hand to do the number crunching, and still getting to use Apple Silicon on a relatively thin client?
At any price? You could throw something like souper at the problem[0]. It makes compilation about 20 times slower in some benchmarks in their paper. This is on the IR level, iirc similar optimizers exist for assembly generation, so you can throw that in as another pass.

[0] https://github.com/google/souper
It sounds like R's design decision to use a non-standard NaN value to represent NA is an obscenely bad one. Wasn't it obvious that this would become a problem someday?
Didn't Intel just sell off it's SSD division to SK Hynix?
Why not use something like Cadence/Temporal/Amazon Workflow Service?
One of the government's fundamental purposes is to protect and maintain your enshrined rights.

For example the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

In other words, an inalienable right which is taken away from anyone who is shot and killed or disabled by another person.

There's a very strong argument that the right to life trumps the right to kill.

The USA is a legendary place for amount of gun crime. Probably if you didn't keep shooting each other so much, nobody would care about registering the guns, and you'd be happy.

But collectively you do shoot each other rather a lot. Strikingly more than a lot of other countries.
Jim Hefferon, who is also a HN member, has a great free Linear Algebra textbook. People all have their own preferences but I actually prefer his to Strang's.

https://hefferon.net/linearalgebra/
Gotta love the completely superfluous dig at Cloudflare. As if providing the client IP is what enabled the attack. That was probably the least interesting part of the attack. Cheap shot Akamai.
The tower of theorems may be a graph, but it is not a directed acyclic graph. (You probably want it to be directed, though...)

That is, you want to get to Z? Well, you start at A. But you can get there by the sequence B, D, H, R, Z, or you can get there by B, C, F, H, R, Z, or by B, C, F, J, Q, S, U, Z. There is more than one route to proving many important theorems.
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Certainly seems so in Austin, TX.

Google Fiber arrived, and now Spectrum has "940 Mbps Internet", AT&T Fiber has "Internet 1000", and Grande (regional cable company) has "Gig Internet".

And in neighborhoods where they overlap, some of those providers have prices (introductory offers?) that are ~$10/month cheaper than in other neighborhoods.
I will take a dynamic language over bad statically-typed languages any day, no matter how good the IDE is.
I don't meant to take away from the article, but it makes me sad to see such awesome people building and writing about really cool bespoke solutions. It's obvious that Arun knows their stuff and is able to communicate it clearly.

The sad thing is that Dropbox Product has so heavily dropped the ball that users like myself (from back in 2009) have switched away in droves over the past few years.

I understand that Dropbox core functionality wouldn't have been enough to multiply the valuation of the company to what investors expected. But it would have been nice to not jam collaboration features into the product and mess up the simple, platform-native UI with it's current abomination. I'd pay $10/mo forever if I could get the 2010-esque Dropbox Mac client and sync service back since it's way better than anything else (especially iCloud).
I know that feeling!

Pulled the trigger on that three times now.

My first cluster was Raspis and ODroids. The two issues I had - not everything runs on Arm (yet) and memory constraints were tough to work with.

My second cluster - 4 Atomic Pis. The (Intel Atom) quad cores were fine but the 2GB of memory was a real problem when I started playing with more interesting workloads.

The current "production" home cluster is 4 old laptops. They're earlier gen i7s and I've dropped 16GB of memory and 1TB spinning disks in each one. I've never been happier with a cluster. I've been free to spin whatever I want up and it just works. Using RKE to setup Kubernetes takes about 5 minutes to build a cluster and I'm using Longhorn for replicated container native storage. I've run experiments for work and my own experience. Whether its Redis / Cassandra cluster or a Kubernetes Operator I wrote, it can always handle it.
BPF has always been statically verified, back to 1991 or whenever.

If anything, eBPF is less sound than classic BPF, because the verifier is dramatically more complicated, as is the execution environment.
"Docker Hub's rate limits seem unlikely to impact most usage of Docker, and people who're pulling 200 images every six hours should either seek to set up their own registry to take the load off Docker Hub or throw some money to help shoulder the costs. Even if the user's only grabbing Alpine images at 5MB per image, 200 in six hours starts to add up!"

Maybe there's something technically wrong with the Docker model?
Psychologists Express Growing Concern with Mindfulness Meditation
Not sure it's totally necessary to be scrolling through long blurry screengrabs of code to get the gist of the exploit. Seems like it would be easy enough to show the code as text, and have it be collapsible (collapsed by default) so that you can take a gander if you're interested.
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The new direction is really promising.
However, we at ScyllaDB (/me am a co-founder) already meet most of the requirements. We use C++20 with an advanced shard per core, we have an open format for the files, you can easily import/export them. One can use Scylla as a general DB and also run KairosDB for timeseries specific if needed.

Recently we have a MSc project to add Parquet which is a very good direction, couldn't agree more.
I think even if you do need a web interface, there are enough plug and play tools that will give you something that works reasonably well. That isn't to say that a service like Config.ly couldn't do a much better job.
C++ is still very much used, along with Python. These languages are generally used for the overwhelming majority of our backend services.

JS/TS are used in the Terminal's view layer. You can make services in these languages as well, AFAIK, but I don't think it is very common.
I was thinking more about libraries that choose to abort, and already compiled.
I too will take a stab.

All 3 point to people getting married for the wrong reasons are just not getting married anymore.

Getting married because you're young and "in love"/pregnant- bad idea.

Getting married because you want to have sex -- bad idea.

Getting married as a means to acquire resources/security from a man -- bad idea.

by "bad idea" i just mean fraught with risks, amongst them divorce.
can someone recommend an easy way to migrate Google Photos straight into Dropbox? (without having to download the Google Takeout exports locally (I've got like 400 GB of photos...))
Depending on how lazy they were, you might be able to use the coax as a pull string for the Cat5e.
I've seen some shops do things like this. Making their own tools to get around odd shitshows they've gotten themselves into. I suspect that there are a number of people within the org that aren't fans of Webpack or some other set of tools that would have made some of their decisions end up with the consequences in the article. They didn't quite state it but I suspect they're trying to use a specific stack instead of a more obvious stack to make typescript work.

edit: just adding though, that this isn't surprising with a dev base of 2000 js developers.
> Without religion, children or a stable income, why would a person need or want to get married?

I suppose there are legal reasons to get married.
Not everything they do will fit your view of how they should support the web.

Believe whatever you like.

But this means you are also choosing to ignore absolutely enormous investments at every level of the stack that they have made to increase web performance, adopt standards and improve web user experience.
What problem is this addressing in India? Mobile data coverage is good overall, and the pricing is cheap too.
I thought the 13" MacBook Pro only had an 8 GB option
http://archive.is/xMTjO
It's not smuggling when the drug isn't controlled.
> Knobs

Can someone explain to me the point of a GUI knob?

Is it just the analogy to physical knobs on mixers that makes people comfortable with them in GUIs?
To be fair, current quotas are nothing like email quotas used to be.

You can store a very reasonable amount of photos in 12GB. Gmail is still practically unlimited to most people.
Matt, did you see Promnesia? https://beepb00p.xyz/promnesia.html

There are a lot of converging ideas out there, for "self-hosted NSA of yourself" type software which gather your own data from services you use and index it / make it more accessible to users. Would love to see something serious come out of it.

I followed Timeliner early on and really like the idea, but yeah it's a bitch to get traction for this sort of thing. You need people willing to implement backends for basically everything, then maintain them.
Taking both of the replies below into consideration, we end up with ~3M yearly impressions, or $3K-$21K in revenue. No one is going to survive with that.

Perhaps the right model is to aggregate to the county level. I mean, does a town of 5000 actually generate enough 'news' to support a reporter?

I live in a town (suburb) of 80K people and our local paper's twitter has ~6000 followers and seems to tweet about 3-4 times a day.
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I'd love to see an entry in the FAQ explaining the weird name.
I buy it tw, three times a month. While i lived alone, once, maybe even less. I don't know how large an "8 pack" is, but buying 10 rolls in a package is normal here, and usually you buy one pack, together with other groceries.

Media panic made people buy 5, 10 packs (full carts), because they saw americans and australians do it, and other be left without, so they hoarded the stuff.
I think it's less Google and more FTC; and at minimum, Google's desire to have a defensible position when the FTC comes knocking.
Exactly. Growing up, we all subconsciously build mental models of the minds of others that help us interpret the motivations behind the actions of others and anticipate future actions. For many women, their fathers play a dominant part in their modelling of the minds of men that help them sort out situations where there's conflicting information. This is clearly a generalization, but my experiences are close enough to what I've read.

I've had one girlfriend who was essentially abandoned by her father and another whose father was essentially indifferent to her emotional well being or success in life. It was pretty obvious that at least for both of them, they always had a nagging feeling that I seemed to love and support them, but maybe it was just a charade. After noticing the connection, I actively sought out women with supportive fathers who clearly cared for their daughters.

My father-in-law is strict, but unquestionably supportive of my wife. My wife talks to her dad on the phone at least 5 times per week. When we were first dating, I consciously asked my wife about her father and watched her body language and listened to the way she talked about him.

Even early in our dating, my wife was far more likely to have a charitable interpretation of my actions/motivations vs. my ex-girlfriends whose fathers showed little evidence of caring. On the other hand, my wife still calls me 2-3 times per day at work, but it's a small price to pay for her subconsciously believing I genuinely have an altruistic interest in her well being.