skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Turchin noted that a person can be part of an ideological elite rather than an economic one. (He doesn’t view himself as a member of either. A professor reaches at most a few hundred students, he told me. “You reach hundreds of thousands.”)

His theories are interesting, but the fact that he claims not to be part of the elite himself indicates he's got some serious intellectual blindspots. Modern academia is one the most perfect examples of "elite overproduction" there is. Hundreds of thousands of doctoral students investing huge amounts of time and money to chase a relatively tiny pool of prestigious teaching and research positions.
Vaapi recently got AV1 support.
Can't recall specifics, just that everytime I head about Bluetooth its always that every vendor's Bluetooth stack is a conpletr mess and that the spec as well if a source of confusion.
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As a hobby road cyclist I can recommend doing some core / stability training in addition to cycling. And of course, make sure that your bike and its geometry (saddle and stem height, stack and reach) generally fit you. Biking should not hurt - unless it's due to the high effort you put in.
I don't think you can use 6TB on a single account, you would probably need to create multiple accounts.
We benefit daily from all sorts of horrors, that's not a justification to keep doing horrors.
> No, the definition that is "very well agreed upon"

That's what you say. I'm a vegan for 7+ years and know many. One thing so great about veganism is that the mission/definition is very clear. Pls see Wikipedia, or one of the many introductions on YT.

> The logo on supermarket products that denotes the product as "good for vegans" is based purely on that lack of animal products, not on any ethical beliefs beyond that.

Supermarkt product dont hold ethical beliefs. They may fit with certain beliefs though. That's what's indicated with "suitable for vegetarians/vegans". They could be more "correct" or cater for a wider public by saying: "fits with a plant based diet".

Plant based is the word for the diet component of veganism.

> there are a considerable amount of people without qualms about using animal products in other spheres of life than food.

They are not vegan according to the definition.

> Veganism has set itself apart from vegetarianism because in common parlance the latter term covers diets that allow milk products.

And eggs. And honey. And the fact that veganism is more than a diet, hence vegans not going to zoos and not buying wool/fur/slik/leather.
DRM is an extra fee imposed on the parties that follow the letter of the law. It's like building permits but the transfer of wealth is to a private entity instead of the state (which has its pros and cons).
I remember that third-party being anti-virus softwares. Then given enough time they basically became malware themselves, and we got rid of them for the most part.

Now that third-party is the computer vendor itself. Will we be able to get rid of them when they all start going down that path ?
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> It's a matter if taking a couple of minutes to educate people.

While it sounds nice in theory, is just unrealistic.

We'd also need to educate people why they cannot use random proprietary rental application on their mobile device that's not google or apple, or connect to a university vpn that doesn't support linux properly. Many workplaces use zoom for meetings, or google suite, etc etc

Exclusively switching to open/ethical software starts to resemble living like a hermit in the woods, and in reality makes ones life more difficult, reducing the impact the person can do on others.
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This is a pretty established distribution model often called "bottom up" approach, and it's particularly relevant to enterprise sales where you allow the users to start using the software without friction [something that was proper to "consumer" applications] and then allow management to pay for that software, or users to pull their corporate credit card and buy what their budget allows.

One turn-off for us for machine learning platforms was going to the website, wanting to try the software, and then finding a button that says "Schedule a demo" or "Schedule a sales call". I want to try the software, not talk with your salespeople. I want to create an account, or request access to a demo account without speaking with someone. Then I want to be able to pay for it without speaking to someone. I have the proverbial, and sometimes literal, credit card in my hand: let me pay.

That weighed on our decision to make our own platform[0], because we simply don't like to buy things this way.

Again, there are differences with low-touch and high-touch software, and situations where the regulatory context or contract amounts require that at some point, people sit down together, but that's for particular cases and clients. We made custom machine learning products for large enterprise, so we sit a lot with clients, but the word "custom" is there.

Some content that goes into this is Slack's CEO discussing this with Yammer's former CEO[1]. Slack's CEO also discussed this in a Pando Monthly[2]: they didn't have a "sales" team, but sometimes needed to 'onboard' a large organization. He also addresses how raising $1B reassured many 'traditional' and 'sensitive' organizations into using Slack for internal communications.

- [0]: https://iko.ai

- [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NbXBGjUrA0

- [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbM1iOi33NY
> My Thinkpad X1 Carbon

Are they easy to repair? And is 8/16GB enough? Looking to buy something similar too.
That was definitely a troublesome paragraph. I’m not sure what point he was trying to make exactly. The rest of the article is much better though. Master recordings for example - is this offensive? It seems almost identical to the usage of master in git - to mean the primary or original version. Or Grandmasters in chess. It gets a bit ridiculous to think master in itself is a bad word, doesn’t it?
It's only going to get more difficult to switch to another email provider as time passes, you should switch now.
Linux desktop. I just use what's presented and get on with my work. I don't have a particularly complicated setup, but I found something that works and I've been using it happily enough for over a year having migrated from Windows.

I don't know what disputes are being argued over, so I bothers me not in the slightest. Would it help if you just ignored the detail and just worked with what's presented?
If that was true they would not have made the change as the marketing value of "unlimited" would have more than paid for the few users that did exceed.

However they know, as with all data things, that people will continually expand their consumption, with more and more mobile devices making not only extremely hi res photos but now 4K video, the need for storage will only increase

This type of comment is on the same vein of "640K ought to be enough for anybody." or "we will never need more than 4,294,967,296 addresses"
He complains about the reseller and their incompetence, but (incompetence aside) this is basically what he's looking for?

I know it's one of those things that tends to change over time, particularly if your account rep changes, but wouldn't simply finding a reseller that doesn't suck be the answer here? Perhaps one that lets you automate quotes and purchases...
No egress charges, so it's cheaper than Glacier for some use cases.
The internet is full of entitled people. I've never seen such entitled people in real life. Unfortunately lately HN is no different. I am also an avid user of Google Photos. From my perspective, they did keep their promise. They will store your photos for free before a certain timeline. Just because someone did a favor to you for some time, that doesn't mean you are entitled to their help forever.
> Fascinating. I wonder what's out there, especially deep in oceans.

It does not matter. As soon as we get there, there will be nothing.
That seems like a great incentive to hire Ray Charles to run your backhoe.

Something like "must list the find in <central location> and give interested parties <some reasonable set of options in some reasonable timeframe for investigating and possibly excavating>" seems like it would serve the interest of history/science much better.
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A prison with golden walls is definitely safer and more convenient than freedom in the wilderness. The day the jail guards decide they don’t like you for some reason, you may start rethinking your lifestyle.

I’m 100% apple hardware atm, my first mac was the macintosh plus with 128kb ram, and i’m an iOS professional developer. Let me tell you that moving away from apple is not going to be easy for me, but with the recent trend in government behaviors (always in the name of Good and Security) i feel that i have no choice.
Y-Combinator backed company which does something along the lines of what you describe: https://onetool.co/home/
The math might be right but it doesn’t make the theory or assumptions correct.

GIGO is always an issue, especially in field where it’s very hard to make unbiased measurements of anything.

We have the same thing in economics our models that explain things in hindsight are actually quite good but their predictive power is often at the level of reading tea leaves and chicken bones.
Bryce Harrington is the founder / board member of inkscape if memory serves. As far as the Samsung Open Source Group is concerned Carsten Haitzler was heavily involved with that. Carsten is also the founder of Enlightenment. I'd be surprised if there is no one on HN who couldn't get a hold of one or either of them.
Linux works perfectly on mine as well, but I use Fedora.

The trackpad is bearable, and I have a 3rd generation so my 1080p screen isn't IPS, but it works well enough for $200.
Almost. I'd say they meant, "the lifetime of this version of the terms of service of the Google service."
> What makes you believe Amazon will honor “unlimited” this time round?

Because Amazon has an incentive to keep me as a Prime customer (I'll buy more crap on Amazon). Most people don't pay Google a single cent.

So it's not that I trust Amazon, it's that the economic model for Amazon including unlimited storage in my Prime membership makes sense.

(Note: I wouldn't bet on Amazon staying unlimited for the next 50 years, just providing the counter-argument.)
Hey, OP here.
Code not written by me, but by a friend (iscgar) with no HN account.

On my late 2019 MacBook Pro, using clang 12.

clang -O3 -march=native fizz4.c
./a.out | pv > /dev/null

Starts at around 4GiB/s and drops down to 3.8 after a while, probably due to battery/heating.
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I suppose. The usability of Google Photos is pretty awesome, though, I'd find it very difficult to switch. Both the Android app and the web app are maintained and work extremely well (imho, ymmv). Does video, too. Tight integration with Android devices and other Google products, fairly convenient sharing functionality, and almost everybody has a Google account. (This is what Microsoft devotees must have felt like in the early 00s...) And at this point I'm easily served by the lowest tier, 20 EUR for 100 GB.
That would decimate google user accounts if it happened.
I just tought my laptop died
At least in the past it seems like China doesn't care about copyright or the DMCA. Why not host a repository there? There are a lot of ethical issues but if your goal is to avoid the DMCA, why not?
> 1. slim, light 2. long battery life. 3. track pad.

https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/
Doesn't even need to be "Linux-first." Our standard Linux laptops at Red Hat are Thinkpads, many of which are used by people who are not particularly technical and use a locked-down corporate build. (Many others run Fedora or CentOS.) I'm sure we have many thousands in use.

The Dell XPS 13 is supposedly good too although I don't have personal experience.

I use Macs quite a bit but the idea that running Linux on a properly-selected modern laptop is likely to be an exercise in frustration is just a myth at this point.
It is honestly crazy how many times Jobs was able to force his personal choices into the designs of Apple products, and then force the entire industry to follow suite thanks to the influence of Apple. And I am not even mad, he was correct (in hindsight) multiple times - styluses, Flash, and so on. Even in death, he may be proven right about his dislike of fans.
Even as Trump Cut Immigration, Immigrants Transformed U.S.
Estimated 1-3% developers of developers I worked with run MacOS. Maybe it is a local or SV thing, but most I know prefer the freedom. In the industry I work there aren't many tools for Apple ecosystems available.

edit:
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/

It is quite high and to correct myself: Some developers have a Mac for iOS development. Most people I know hate it.
> To be fair, Google's pricing on storage is more than reasonable

That probably depends, on whether you factor in the profit Google makes from mining your data. That should be subtracted from their operating costs and only then compared to what they charge for the storage. My guess is that they'll make quite a killing on the thing, as a whole.

Even besides the morally questionable aspects (of the data mining), considering their position and leverage they might very well be slapped with some anti-trust rulings in the future.

Unlikely to happen in the US, since the meaning of anti-trust there has been systematically eroded and limited to where it has become all but a complete farce (compared to its original meaning/intentions). However, that's what you get when large corporations can pump vast amounts of money into politics, as if they were a voting citizen. But there is still some hope in other places. Either way, it shouldn't take rocket science to see how Google has a tremendous (unfair) advantage over any competition in this regard (which is what anti-trust really is about; not just avoiding/regulating absolute monopolies).
First and foremost, Google is an advertising company. And this is reflected in everything they do.

The idea that Google is a technology company --- is really just another marketing facade. Their technology is only as good as it has to be to further their advertising objectives. Any product they offer is subject to the whims of their advertising needs.

All of which leads to the current state of affairs. You wouldn't expect "free" technology or data storage from a restaurant. And you shouldn't expect it from an ad company either.

Any disappointment here is really a reflection of unrealistic expectations and naive acceptance of Google's marketing hype.
Given that Gmail does not have, and never has had, infinite free storage it seems quite hard for it to follow the same path... It's already there.

Specifically, Gmail had 1GB quota at launch. These days you have 15GB combined across Drive, Gmail and Photos for free, and paid plans if you need more space.
I don’t know it does have issues but last few weeks I’ve been having a lot of fun learning BLE with html and an esp32.

My goal has been to use BLE to allow a user to connect to my device to enter WiFI credentials. So far it’s pretty nice...
use Fedora. I run Fedora on a Dell XPS and version 33 is great.
We get it. We want you to accept a "worse" experience and contribute to making it competitive. We don't "deserve" Apple, we chose it long ago (edit: many of us, because of problems with MS that Apple is now emulating) and it has changed to take advantage.
Computers are tools to do work.

Evangelists do nothing but attach a higher value to computers in an effort to convince others that they are not doing "work" and that their way is the right way.

You would be hard pressed to find a better tool to do your work than a Mac/iPad/iPhone in 2020.
In case you don't know, GrapheneOS is based on the open sources parts of Android (AOSP) so the apps are developed on Android's JVM (Dalvik?). Maybe it's possible to code with Clojure.

Actually it looks like it's possible : https://github.com/clojure-android

Myself I'm learning Flutter to be able to develop my own apps when I can't find what I need on FDroid.
As a director at successful startup I see how we went from being able to buy new software in minutes by pulling credit card to multi stage procurement process of public company.

All changes got good intention:
1. We need to be secure. Know what kind of data there.

2. We need check and balances for finance.

3. We need to be compliant.

Etc.

I would love if there would be open consortium that could provide a lot of services, without price overhead that also establish some quality/security/compliance bar for its members.

Companies as a broker model is flawed. Procurement won't accept paying 20%+ extra for same stuff. Terrible lock-in.
> We doing DB/cron queries now with "web frameworks" ? :O

It depends on what web framework you use, but yes.

If you had a Flask, Django, Rails, Phoenix or Laravel app it's a matter of writing a DB query in your ORM / data mapper of choice and having that execute on a scheduled job using Celery, Sidekiq or Oban (a couple of different popular job processing tools).

So yes in those cases I would treat that as something my web app handles. Going into the implementation details of ORMs and background job processing strategies didn't seem important for the sake of that post. The takeaway is it's possible to solve that problem with very little code in a typical web app.
Good idea. Just looked up the „Moments“ app in the iOS app store and consensus seems to be that it is pretty bad and slow (sub 3 star rating).
This could also enable bundling. For example you could have a startup bundle that includes anything from cloudflare's pro plan to tools for email marketing.
doesn't Salesforce already has something like this ?
Heroku addons ?
Reading into this beyond what you were intending I'd love for private data to be as regulated as money
Actually, AWS Marketplace is trying to do exactly this.
The problem is TIME. Taking 10,000 IU for a medium amount of time will very very likely be fine.

But due to fat solubility and therefore slow build up in the body, you are increasingly growing towards toxic levels over a long time.

The body can only regulate vitamin D before synthesis, after sunlight exposure. But if you take already-synthesized vitamin D, that regulation won't kick in and you're free to get hypervitaminosis.

Time in combination with individual biology are what brings issues here. Get blood work done (it cost me 30€ in Germany but was combined with 2 other tests).
> This is cool though. I'll be curious to see what he works on.

Well, after seeing what happened to Leslie Lamport, i don't have high expectations.
Marginal cost is meaningless when you are dealing with exponential values. There are four trillion photos on Google Photos currently. That number is increasing faster than the cost of drives is going down.
I would even go as far as to suggest setting up your email with your own domain. This way switching providers is as easy as just changing a few DNS settings.

I've been running that setup for a few years now and it has been flawless. Spam is almost entirely gone, with a catch-all address I can simply sign up to websites with <website name>@mydomain, makes it easy to track down if one of them ends up doing shady things with your mail!
"What we poor souls didn't understand all these years is that" computing and information processing started out as tactical and then strategic components of military, intelligence, and industry. The central computing infrastructure ("the Cloud") and attendant closed/dumb psuedo-terminals (closed systems, walled gardens) is precisely the vision outlined in the 60s if not the 50s.

Two unexpected events in information processing technology threw monkey wrenches in the industrial and geopolitical policies of the strategic thinkers dreaming in DARPA, SRI, and elsewhere:

1 - Personal Computing was an unexpected event. It has taken all of 4 decades to put that genie back in the bottle. The topic of this thread.

2 - AI. This mainly threw a big wrench in the planned integration of Communist China into the Western system. AI enabled CCP to maintain control of the Chinese society, which was completely unexpected.

Having advanced general purpose, user programmable, computing machines networked globally in the hands of peasants is simply unacceptable to the folks who gifted humanity with these tools.
USB thumb drive is still "live installation media"
You're not looking hard enough, which is also part of the problem.

Back in the "golden years" you'd have to put effort in to finding and participating in the community. The real hackers are still somewhat underground simply because they're anti establishment; actively seeking out the high effort, loss making niches that attract fringe thinkers and the unique characters required for true innovation.

Crypto parties, maker faires, get to one. If nothing exists locally, build it and they will come. (And admittedly I need to take my own advice).
They had an incentive to keep me as an Amazon Cloud Drive customer, too, until they decided they didn’t if I stored more than 1TB. So I canceled.

In the case of Prime I doubt a non-negligible percentage of Prime customers would cancel over losing unlimited storage, so the incentive to keep it unlimited is even smaller.
This is a shame, and for me the most relevant complaint I’ve read in this whole thread.

I presume the official Apple answer is “trade it in and we’ll recycle it for you”. I think this is probably a win in environmental terms, and a loss in individual economics terms.
I think gmail has lower chance of this happening because google needs to feel the "pulse" on whats happening in the world by reading your email. Photos are quite repetitive and they done enough of AI training.
First they restricted execution of unsigned binaries unless you run in a substantially-unprotected mode: https://github.molgen.mpg.de/pages/bs/macOSnotes/mac/mac_pro...

Then they disabled execution of all unsigned binaries. To run on a default Mac, you either pay Apple or compile on the user's own machine which is obviously unsustainable. https://eclecticlight.co/2020/08/22/apple-silicon-macs-will-...

They've also removed any 32bit support, in case you could make do with old programs that don't make Apple some money.

I'm still on Mojave and will not upgrade. Personally, my last MBP was bought in 2016 and I have no intention of getting another one as long as they continue exploiting developers and the public in this way.
Is google mining photos for profit?

What kind of profits are there to mine data in google photos?
It might also be worth mentioning that measuring 25-hydroxy is also an approximation at best. That still has to be converted to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin by the kidneys. People with high insulin resistance (diabetics, pre-diabetics) or kidney damage tend to have problems converting 25-hydroxy. Measuring 25-hydroxy is primarily used for toxicity and even that has variables that are difficult to measure, so a statistical baseline is applied.
Isn't this the classic pattern followed by almost all startups? Create a product that loses money and attracts users. Sustain it with VC money until you have a large number of users who are highly dependent on the product. Then switch to profitability, knowing you can do so because you've already hit critical mass and users aren't easily able to switch away.

You don't have to like it, but it is legal and it is how many of the most celebrated startups got to where they are today.
Can we get an "official" remark on what specifically causes the opinionated editorialization of some titles with a question mark? I know I'm not the only one who finds it off-putting.
I wouldn't count on it considering they unbundled ad free twitch from prime 2 years ago [0].

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/20/17761760/twitch-prime-tur...
Not even "able charge higher rates for that service in the future", equally good is just bought out and shut down.
That's bit of a hyperbole. How is ML horror?