skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It should be obvious by now that cancel culture isn't about being considerate and avoiding being offensive, but instead the point is bullying others and dominating them. They even admit as much:

> I wanted to start by focusing on the obvious one, Its harder for them to object to just one to start with, then once they admit the logic, we can expand the list

From Scott Aaronson's blog, when Quantum Supremacy was cancelled, because, as "master", "supremacy" is also wrongspeak.

Edit: link for the above quote https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4450
A particularly annoying side effect of this is that if you want to bring an existing repo into GitHub, the instructions now include `git branch -M main`, which will cause all sorts of problems if you have documentation, aliases and scripts which relate to a repo which exists in multiple places.

I don't mind if GitHub wants to change their default, but don't assume that I want to change that for my own already-existing local repos.
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Any of them, frankly. Even "Should the US default on its debt via the debt ceiling" became a political football in the last few years.

The 23rd, 24th, and 26th amendments would all likely meet strong Republican opposition if proposed today.
There's a conundrum that requires further investigation which is the intertwining of the concepts of privacy and security and how in order to increase security protections of their products there must be a decrease of privacy. Security requires a probing knowledge of the details of what is running on the device.

The same information that can contribute to increased security for the end user is also valuable to sell to advertisers if, delightfully ironically, the security vendor is ok sharing private information with said advertisers.
If you're interested in such things, Lev Gumilev is another historian which delved into this, but is virtually unknown in the western world. I can't say that I agree with everything he says, but I still think it's unfair that his work is completely absent from the conversation.
> Anil Sabharwal, Google Photos’ then-head, said in a blog post when the service launched in 2015. “And when we say a lifetime of memories, we really mean it.”

That sure did change and within the classic 5-year business plan model as well.

>Most of Google’s product strategy has been bait & switch, and I say that with all due to respect to the engineers. It’s the leaders who make these decisions

Yes, though how many where planned and how many organicly just ended up that way from a business perspective.

We are all used to the marketing budget phase of companies, initially offering great services and deals, just to get a foothold and then after that period, change bit by bit with the niceties eroded away.

Sad to say that many company does this, just marketing wise it feels less obvious as they are initially in effect using the customer base as the marketing with word of mouth and as people love free, that works out. So down the line many will feel put out by such changes, some will stay with it be that economical evaluation or hassles in moving (not everybody a tech head), so a complacency lock-in happens with so many.

Personally the straw with google came from the endless robotic termination stories having all the services pulled for one misinterpreted action upon on another service they just happen to run. But more so the way they handled Google Music, forcing those who paid for content to be shafted towards a platform just forcing you to pay again as some subscription model to access features you had before and would expect. With that, faith in many things Google does will be tainted, however good intention they seem, the worst case down the line thoughts will stick out way more from all the past instances now.

That all said, I do get it, companies operate to make profit, otherwise they are not a company but a charity. Still, false advertising needs to catchup with the digital age and T&C needs some form of regulation as currently it's still a bit of a mess. After all, people brought Google Phones, sold by Google and some would of done so on the back of what was said in 2015 - so there is that whole avenue of debate that may play out legally. So could be something that gets more depth in the comming months.
>Storage is growing faster than humanity can fill it

Maybe, though I'm not sure it's without breaking a sweat. Also, someone is most definitely footing some rather large bills.

According to this blog post[0] the amount of data uploaded each day is over 4 petabytes. For Drive, Photos and Docs only, i.e. it doesn't even include YouTube.

[0]https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-policy-update/
> Folks, try to understand marginal cost.

'Marginal cost' doesn't work like you think it does.

Marginal cost means the cost for adding one new user. But they aren't paying to add one new user. They're paying for all users.

If each user's storage cost 1 dollar a month then yeah adding an individual new user is basically free. But if they're supporting 100 million users then it's a hundred million dollars a month. Which isn't free.

If you still don't quite get it - try this thought experiment. If storage is free then could you afford to set up a storage data centre? If not, why not? It's free after all, in your mind.
Disagree.

Every single time I end up I a discussion about the electoral college it returns to “the founders knew what they were doing.” There is absolutely a reverence for the popular perception of the founders and the idea that it were possible for them to be completely wrong is just not viable in the discourse today.
Does it ensure the executable you downloaded and granted access to is still the same and was not modified afterwards?

Another reason is that if a cert (or a cert in the chain) is known to be compromised it can be revoked—would the mechanism used on Linux give some equivalent of that, or one has to be rely on bug trackers or apply updates to ensure trusted signatures are up-to-date?
I wonder whether the situation will improve now that Firefox has support for hardware decoding on Linux. After all, the DRM could be completely handled by the GPU without any help from the driver. Just feed it some binary stream and tell it where to put it.

Although the issue with your compromise theory is that not all browsers are supported for high definition even on MacOS or Windows, at least theoretically (don't have a Netflix account to check). In particular, Chrome isn't supported, although Chrome-based Edge is.

From the Netflix help page on watching UHD [0]:

Netflix is available in Ultra HD on Windows and Mac computers with:
Microsoft Edge for Windows
Windows 10 App
Safari for MacOS 11.0 or later

From the Netflix help page on watching on Windows [1]:

Windows computers support streaming in the following browser resolutions:
Google Chrome up to 720p
Internet Explorer up to 1080p
Microsoft Edge up to 4K*
Mozilla Firefox up to 720p
Opera up to 720p
Windows 8 app up to 1080p
Windows 10 app up to 4K*

The situation is similar on MacOS, where only Safari supports 1080p [2]

[0] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/13444
[1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23931
[2] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/55764
I looked up the MSI Prestige and apparently there exist a limited edition of it that's completely pink, I mean really, really pink: https://www.msi.com/Business-Productivity/Prestige-14-A11X-P.... Not a big fan of the color, but it sure is interesting to see. I now wonder if the color would be a good deterrent for thieves.
> 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. Just like a boss plays a tyrannical role in principle, in practice many bosses are a delight.

This really makes it difficult to take anything in this article seriously.
I like the comic and it's definitely hilarious, and but it's not necessarily an apt comparison. Imagine the same situation with a bank holding your money. Are you paying them? (I assume you're not... I guess if you are, you probably shouldn't be.) Does that mean they're not in the business of storing your money and should be able to just give it away if you don't claim it in a month?
To whom do you believe google has disclosed private user photos?
Problem is the pipeline. Schools that really bought iPads for "digitalization" will produce learn results that are significantly worse for understanding tech applications and information technology, because the principles get obscured by fancy UI. Nevermind that it wouldn't even be different from their phones.

A problem is that teachers would require some extensive training first before they can even try to teach kids something they didn't know before.
Why isn't apple doing OCSP stapling & caching? Reverse proxies have long since solved OCSP availability with stapling and caching.
There’s a rather strong counter to this is:

I, and the vast majority of computer users, don’t want to manage every nitty-gritty detail of the security and privacy of my computer. I have better things to do. In fact, doing it fully competently is more than a full time job.

So farming this out to a third-party is a necessity, for me and many, many others.

Of course, it’s not perfect. How much can I trust the third party? How well can they prevent, fix, or remediate bugs, breaches, and other threats? How much do they even want to?

It’s not perfect, that’s for sure. We see bugs. We see potential tracking opportunities. We see difficult to work-around limitation...

But no one is offering a better solution. Not for me, that is, nor the vast majority of computer users.

If your response to this is “Look at the sheeple defending Apple!” you aren’t getting it.
Yeah there is no chance that the voting age could be changed today. Young people vote left. The GOP would never permit an expansion of the voting population that leaned against them.
Something like that functionality-wise, but it's still more than Glacier ($16 vs $22 for ~4TB).
What are you on about? Apple's touchpads feel like mush, even by touchpad standards.
This is insane! Wow
It’s a ballpark estimate from various real world benchmarks I’ve done over the years (I’ve spent a lot of my career optimizing Python, including rewriting things on occasion). In the case of web framework benchmarks, I’m guessing that the fastest Python web frameworks are almost pure-C, and the benchmark is probably running very little actual Python code (while the Go benchmarks are pure-Go) this doesn’t extrapolate well to real world applications where the web server is never the bottleneck and your bottleneck tends to be app code that isn’t easily rewritten in C. Mostly the 100-1000X figure is intended to compare pure-Python code with pure-Go or pure-Java.
Kids kind of makes it all pointless. They catch everything and bring it home.

It was nice not being sick for so many months.

2 weeks after they went back. Bam, everyone sick.

And that’s with intense mask rules and distancing
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What duties would Walmart be paying that Apple wouldn’t?
Strongly agreed.

Those are reference customers and should be treated with much greater privilege. They are early adopters and could very easily become early the next group of vocal detractors. I can't help but wonder about the poor client advocate Stripe fired before they made this move.
>I think the point is that before, if you had a computer, you had the ability to inspect, modify and program, and with curiosity you'd learn.

That's a rose-colored view that maybe reflects a small window in time.

But take the 80s. First of all that computer was maybe $5,000 in today's money. (Yes, there were some limited alternatives like the Sinclair and Commodore 64 that were cheaper.) Long distance telephone calls were expensive as were the big BBS systems like Compuserve. Any software you purchased was costly. A C compiler was hundreds of dollars. (Turbo Pascal at $50 was an innovation.)

Perhaps more to the point, most people didn't just have a computational device of any sort. So the fact that, if you had one, you could use it for a lot of different purposes is sort of irrelevant.
I am indeed self-hosting, but just a Raspberry Pi+HD. The Google/Amazon Photos is the backup/convenience. Since I want off-site backups in case something happens in my apartment, when/if Amazon goes this road I'll probably rent some general purpose storage in the cloud.
See Peter Turchin's write up to this http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/the-mad-prophet-of-conn...
* I would run out of red pen if I were marking this post as a paper, but it's also tiringly inflammatory.

* I also don't know that any progressives are pushing blasphemy laws, this is by definition a conservative action to preserve and protect institutions.

* I was hoping for a technical article too, but w/e.
> Are you saying that the result of Citizens United is that instead of being a slave to the people or organizations that own the media landscape we are slaves to simply the richest people or organizations. How is that any better?

The alternative is that only billionaires that control media empires get to pick what messages you hear.

More importantly, the CU ruling was that groups of non-billionaires (ex: a union or PAC) could pool their resources together in order to amplify their combined message.

> That is trading one devil for another. I don't want a good guy with $1B battling a bad guy with a $1B. That doesn't fix anything.

It sounds like you just want to silence voices that may be louder than your own.

> I want everyone's political speech to be on a more even playing field. That currently can't happen due to the First Amendment and the interpretation that says money is equal to speech.

If I spend my time making and selling widgets but feel strongly about a political issue or candidate, why can I not spend the money I earned (and paid taxes on!) to promote that issue or candidate? Must I purchase a TV network or a newspaper in order to push my agenda? That's what CU addresses.
Which model did you get? I've thought about one for a while, but the prices seem more entry level business than personal.
“private”
Microsoft Zerologon Flaw: All You Need to Know About the Latest Threat – HostNOC
That is terrible but what can a landlord legally do ? they can be sued by the other side.
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Don't superglue anything that is near a circuit board. Superglue + solder = cyanide. Devices can catch fire.
Thanks for the pointer and of course thanks to George for iTerm2! I just joined his patreon.
Maybe next time try to actually read the article before criticizing it.
I'm an avid photographer and had a few friends who were hooked on google photos, I've always been skeptical because I know how pricey storage can get and figured this would always happen. I'm glad I didn't move all my photos onto Google Photos like my friends, I don't envy their situation now.
That isn't just a tech thing either. Look at "new and improved formulas" or other companies which after they develop a good reputation piss it away cutting corners.

Google has the ultimate smartass retort to justify it to critics especially if they are on Capital Hill. "I thought it was considered unfair competition now to provide something others can't now because we are apparently 'too big' now."
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Ask HN: Leaving a secure job for a remote contract position
Hi folks, I've been interviewing for several weeks looking for better income and challenges. I'd need to work as a contractor because I am living in South America and all the interested companies are from the US.

The things is, being a contractor means that the company can no longer need my services whenever they want and that's the reason I've been having troubles deciding to follow this path or not.

I'm in a good position right now and I'll need to leave a secure job plus some clients in order to start on the new job.

I consider myself a good professional but it's difficult to know beforehand what level of output will the new company require. I'm afraid I won't be up for the task and they will end the contract a month or two after starting.

Do you have any experiencies related to this? Am I being too dramatic? Is there a way to better approach this?
Any specific examples of his work on this?
I tried Evernote on Windows, it was so much buggier and slower than the browser web app, it was really unusable.
I don't know how "privacy" and "https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/" can co-exists in one OS.
This is not true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24881988.
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> Docker does matter, because the Docker image should take the place of requirements.txt (your "locked" dependencies) in your deployment process.

In practice it doesn't tho.

Let's say I'm working on a project without a lock file and commit a change that updates my dependencies. I get distracted by anything and don't push the code for a few hours.

I come back and push the code. CI picks it up and runs a docker-compose build and pushes the image to a container registry, then my production server pulls that image.

With this work flow there's no guarantee that I'm going to get the same dependencies of dependencies in dev vs prod, even with using Docker. During those few hours before I pushed, a dep of a dep could have been updated so now CI is different than dev. Tests will hopefully ensure the app doesn't break because of that, but ultimately it boils down to not being able to depend on version guarantees with Docker alone.

There's also the issue of having multiple developers. Without a lock file, dev A and B could end up with having different local dependency versions when they build their own copy of the image.

I've seen these types of issues happen all the time with Flask development. For example Flask doesn't restrict Werkzeug versions, so you wake up one day and rebuild your image locally because you changed an unrelated dependency and suddenly your app breaks because you had Werkzeug 0.9.x but 1.x was released and you forgot to define and pin Werkzeug in your requirements.txt because you assumed Flask would have. The same can be said with SQLAlchemy because it's easy to forget to define and pin that because you brought in and pinned Flask-SQLAlchemy but Flask-SQLAlchemy doesn't restrict SQLAlchemy versions.

Long story short, a lock file is super important with or without Docker.
The mainstream news I listen to (radio stations while driving) just says there is bellyaching from the campaign, but it is so dismissive of anything the whitehouse says that the question of election integrity does not seem to have registered with them. That's why I was surprised CISA had to say anything.

If you are interested in the issues, of course there is no limit to the depth of the rabbit hole you can run down, but the media position here has been its usual expression of disgust for anything outside its perceived status quo. Mainstream news is like listening to teenagers reading out texts from their dad with eyerolls.
While I agree that Bluetooth audio on Windows is crap, its saving grace is that when it works, it's stellar. I have the same headphones as you, and audio quality is consistently significantly better on Windows than on Linux (most notably when I'm also using the microphone).
Funny how people think anyone cares to hide this key after it is out now.

Leaked = known

Do they need to take action? Obvious but not because the key is out but because it would look bad if Google wouldn't do anything.

Content providers might hesitate to do deals like this again.
Google Alerts?
Sure can. The Microsoft plan allows you to ungoogle yourself.

Get a @your-domain-name email which comes with the same corporate outlook with calendar integration and everything else that comes with it.

Also, 1 TB.

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Another good option is Apple - they charge reasonably 0.99$ for 50 GB

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Finally, dropbox is really good too and I have been using them since the beginning.
I just graduated university this year and used the site in high school and a little bit in university (just freshman year calculus). I don't remember how I found the site, either I was Googling math stuff, or a friend was and sent me a link. Many friends in high school and university used the site, it's definitely still popular. A high school teacher may have recommended it as well. It's a great site.
Maven is far more complicated and burdensome when compared to virtualenv and pip... pom.xml, what a righteous mess of XML and overly specified nonsense.
On LTE (which often falls down to 3G) my TCP OpenVPN is God sent. It makes my network usable. It's especially visible during COVID, because all those people want to use the same mobile provider, becasue DSL connection is rammed by others.

Sadly OpenVPN over UDP does not work as good - DNS queries are failing and so on. Wireguard falls even more behind.
This trade-off doesn't go away when you start a company. It actually gets worse because not only do you lose that personal time, but you also have 100x the amount of stress.
https://www.appxite.com/ is one company doing exactly this
Thats not how promises work.
Exactly. Apple has done a good job of selling the "we care about your privacy" line, but it's still just a line they're feeding you.
they're so big disclosing those photos to their algorithms is questionable privacy-wise.
Oh, nothing. But until they do, why pay Google, if I already pay Prime?
>> using a program called Little Snitch (really, the only thing keeping me using macOS at this point)

I cannot believe the incredible the feats of mental gymnastics that some people will perform in order to ensure that evil corporations stay in control.

How can someone who knows so much about illicit data collection still be using macOS instead of Linux for example? I wouldn't be surprised if the author also owns Apple (AAPL) shares by now.

People these days will support evil while claiming that they're merely hedging against it...

Be careful because you might tear a few neurons if you keep twisting your brain like that.
Probably 90% of developers I've worked with in the past 5 years used a Mac, and really wanted to do so. I know a handful that left Linux to do it, and have told me they can't imagine going back. I'm not sure that your'e right about developers.

I do know that my next machine will be Linux. I'm probably going to put together a desktop for my office, and I'll buy a System76 laptop or whatever for those times when I want to work from the porch.
If every day trader is picking stocks at random, a small handful will beat the market.
15 GB/30,000 days ≈ ½ MB/day. You can’t type that, but that would be a single photo every week or so, or about 4,000 over a lifetime. Doable, but it would require quite a few habitual changes for most.
How likely could GMail follow the same path ?
I think this is complete FUD to be honest. There is a war on the market due to economic incentives. There are some criminals, but they don't target your workstation specifically.

Previously a hacker might have gotten access to your computer and maybe you had a keylogger, which could compromise you to a great deal. Today you have so much of your info not on your local device that you have countless additional attack vectors. Where do peoples info get leaked? In cloud services mostly.

edit: And of course your info is not safe. The programs you run get send to Apple. That is nothing else as a data leak.