skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To give a little perspective, I basically don't have any pre-Yahoo/Google email history. So maybe going back 20 years or so and not much in the way of digital archives before about 10 years before that. Essentially nothing from BBS days, email on various proprietary systems, etc. Some shards here and there from the 1980s and a few things that were digitized prior.

I'm not sure if it's good or bad (probably a bit of both) that much of my early time online is largely gone--and I didn't have a significant time "online" before I was about 20 or so.
It's not about excusing bad behavior.

Here's for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25291778 (another reply here that explains)
I thought SDF was even free? I never used it myself but I know of it.

Also to be honest: If you're not even going to log into your email for 2 years, why bother even paying for it? :)
Is there a limit to the number of service animals that can be on board a plane at any given time? It seems like the airlines will happily allow an unlimited # of passengers to pay $200 to fly with their pet under the seat in front of them.
tl;dw. Does it really take 20+ minutes to tell us?
The Amish in the Market: Competing Against the Odds? (2017)
Slackforce and the Beginning of the End of SaaS Sprawl
No doubt. But how many scientific tools also become cultural icons? in an era where we need more young people becoming passionate about science and space, the loss of Arecibo feels like the loss of the Challenger to many.
excited about Storage and Functions!

for storage, a common pain point is whether or not images (or video) hosted in storage will be CDNified for fast delivery. my dream wish is that there'd be an easy option to specify whether an image should be put on that optimized path, so that when i access it i know whether i'm getting the CDN or the origin version. itd also be nice to do things like specify dimensions or compression quality (basically making it an image optimizing CDN)

for functions - both scheduling and durable functions would be cool :)

both are tricky things to do right for local dev. wishing you all the best!!
Backups and self-hosting! These threads keep coming up where [Cloud service] deletes someone's data, bans their account, or otherwise denies service suddenly, and someone always asks "What [other cloud service] should I utterly rely on?" Maybe the answer is to not rely on cloud services to store the only copy of something precious or important to you.
Not even joking, if The Green New Deal is passed in any form I honestly expect a civil war to happen. The Green New Deal (yes, the one that literally received 0 votes in the senate [0]) is the economic equivalent of falling on a sword and being so tone deaf that you don't hear your own scream once you bleed out. Not to mention that the US cutting emissions would basically have an insignificant effect globally, destroy energy independence, just "offset" emissions and pollution to china in order to produce solar panels, while also ignoring the fact that China and India have been building dirty coal power plants almost monthly as of late...

[0] - https://nypost.com/2019/03/26/senate-rejects-ocasio-cortezs-...
Being able to get a multiplayer PCB made for just a couple bucks certainly makes it easier.
Then there will be 64/128 5990x parts out
Given the age of the structure, I would expect it to be full of lead and asbestos.

Also try to tone down the hubris, Ozymandias.
The M1 is their entry level CPU and it's compiling software as fast as a fast i7 or i9. They don't have very far to go to catch ThreadRippers, 24 Firestorm cores should more than do it.
I worked at an education tech startup so we were mildly aware of our app being run on slowly performing computers. Low bandwith conditions were more of the worry tho.

Honestly, people running slow computers are probably just used to poor performance. I fully agree with you that we should do something about it but I don't see that happening unless it's a strong priority (feature X/y/z or performance? is usually the conversation).

Anecdotally: I'll never forget the first time I launched an app from an SSD and vowed I was never going back.
Without leverage that comes from collective bargaining, how does the intelligence change your negotiating position?
China is the greatest enemy to freedom – US intelligence chief
Salesforce, Slack, and the Future of Work
It strikes me that, at least in the west, you could legalize cocaine but you probably would not find anyone willing to produce it because of the liability from cardiac sudden death.
In a way I think this is a good thing. When someone dies their history will be cleaned up automatically. Leaving less burden on their family to clean it all up. It's a big problem nowadays, because the processes to get someone's accounts closed aren't simple at all.

I wouldn't want my emails to be around forever. And while I'm alive I will definitely check it more than once a day, let alone once every 2 years :P
I agree, that community is it's own worst enemy.
BTW, the entirety of my post after the URL is simply quoting from that page. I would have liked to have remembered to put ">" in front of those paragraphs so it was clear that I didn't write all of that, but c'est la vie.
The problem is that everyone treats gmail like it's a component of internet infrastructure. When your personal emails go to your friend's spam folder regardless of how conformant and well behaved your mail server is and they think its your fault for not using gmail, that's a problem.

I've had google lock me out of my account due to their bad password reset heuristic (which is a social scaling problem due to the above) which means I'll completely lose my address in a year (currently forwarded to my own domain.)

There are similar social network effects with eg. Facebook, iMessage etc. although the abuses and problems are slightly different.
It’s a totally fair assessment however, imo, many of the trouble that drugs cause for society are caused by the illegality and stigma.

Addicts less likely to seek help, more likely to be arrested, loose their job, steal for money to pay exorbitant prices due to its illegal nature, develop health issues that are a drain on resources, relapse due to bad social situations from the above and overuse because of poor quality control.

I have a dream of a regulated, taxed and controlled industry from which the profits are used to fund rehab, drug education and social programs to help communities. Is it aggressively progressive? Yes! Is it a bit a scary? Yes! Is it potentially better than the current situation? I think so.

I’ve never used drugs. I don’t drink alcohol and haven’t for over a decade (never had a problem, just choose not to) and I don’t drink caffeine - I don’t say this to make myself out to be a saint (my wife can provide a detailed list of my flaws) but I don’t see the system that we currently have as optimal and think we should try something new.

Let the down votes commence.
> it gets at least one email every couple years

Receiving emails does not seem to have anything to do with it. You need to login once every two years.
That's curious because the agency that does these PERM applications on FB's behalf told me that they're doing the recruitment process and asked me for paperwork related to that. Maybe they were confused about my type of visa.
Yahoo Mail does the same with only a 1 year threshold and regardless of how much data you use. Don't log in for 12 months = lose everything. Sadly found this out the hard way - most of my childhood email accounts were wiped :'(

Now they're also disabling email forwarding for free users which I've been relying on for a decade to catch occasionally relevant emails. Might really be forced to shell out the $3.49 a month for their paid option...

I guess this is kind of inevitable with the scale of storage these kinds of companies work with. Probably someday Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. will have similar plans as the older data they store starts losing its value.

https://www.ghacks.net/2020/11/05/yahoo-mail-drops-email-for...
Adding up to 1.8m (!!!) iOS and iPad apps (including games) to the platform was probably one of the biggest changes as a result of the M1.
I guess my deceased dad's email was deleted(hotmail). I found an old email address of his and was trying to get into it just to reconnect since he died when I was a child. I get shouldn't see other people's stuff but still... would have been interesting as it was in the early 2000's that he was around. Would have liked to see how his mind operated. Afterall he was a successful person (eg. operating a 60ft yacht for several years) and he also referred to the handover of Hong Kong to China 1997 in recent context. I unfortunately did not inherit/learn that business savviness aspect. Seeing his emails would have been like time travel.

I had that Black Mirror thought to strip personality from data.
There's nothing in this article that's bashing them. It's useful information about a policy change.
Yes, the point I was trying to make that the large difference in value between tool and target that is implied is completely irrelevant.
'The wettest day ever' in Southeast Alaska
I'm enjoying sitting on the sidelines and watching people "save" in a fiat "currency" whose value is not linked to anything intrinsic, whose supply can magically be increased at the discretion of a few powerful individuals, and whose value has been declining relative to almost any tradeable assets.

What a time to be alive. No wonder the M2 money supply is at an all time high. No one has any idea of what the intrinsic value is of anything.
There's usually a third party manufacturer you can get replacement batteries from for any decently popular system.

My cost on batteries/electricity is probably less than I would have spent on fuel. The noise/size/maintenance-free advantages of electric are huge too.
> “Getting ahead of the curve on preventing cryptocurrency providers from repeating the crimes against low- and moderate-income residents of color that traditional big banks have is- and has been- critically important,” said Congresswoman Tlaib. “From the OCC to the Federal Reserve to those peddling stablecoins the protections the STABLE Act would make possible are more needed than ever amid a pandemic that will breed riskier financial decisions out of necessity because our federal government continues to fail us all by not providing adequate relief legislation.”

You mean this part? I was going to downvote you, but it does seem a bit demagogic, because other minorities besides blacks are being financially exploited too. People of all colors can make bad financial decisions, it's not their color but their lower income and education.

Ideally, I'd expect legislation to steer these eCoins to less muddy waters for everyone, not to appeal to emotion.
There was quite a variety of MOSFET before FinFET, it yeah, that was a hard right turn.
What is revolutionary about it? We still haven't seen Zen in the same node as the M1. Zen still scores higher in absolute terms (albeit at higher power).

It's evolutionary. The power efficiency is great, and the core design is great (wouldn't expect less from those who were Intel's and Qualcomms most talented staff), but calling it revolutionary is an overstatement.
Show HN: PolicyTrail – Privacy policy hosting for mobile app developers
Belgium’s shops were shut ‘as a coronavirus shock tactic’
It has the number 7 next to it on coinmarketcap. That seems a good indication of it being 7th on coinmarketcap.
Trust me, people in the pedal-making industry know exactly how much influence those interviews have, and that's why they put so much effort into making those artists happy.
such as prison
If IMAP only usage was considered inactive I’d have lost my gmail and hotmail accounts over a decade ago.

Startup idea: SaaS that you register you email addresses and periodically does an IMAP request to keep them active. Premium tier would provide actual archiving of your emails.
I used to work for one of AWS's biggest customers. This was 100% how we operated, we told AWS what we wanted them to solve, and they would build it for us. When we're done closed beta testing it and getting changes in, it gets released as a public service a year later or so.
Seconding this, I love fzf but I love skim a little more.
Building a Multi-Tenant Rails App with Subdomains
I wouldn't believe that Google deletes data even if they wrote it in stone.
Will they do it upon request, too?
Much easier to make large cuts when you're on a completely different level to to begin with. Replacing coal with natural gas and patting yourself your back because you made such a contribution while locking in another 30 years of fossil energy use is beyond me.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...
That's true. UHD Blu-rays tend to be around 50-75 Mb/s, while 4K streams/VOD from Netflix tend to be around 15-20 Mb/s. In my experience though, the difference is less noticeable (on my pretty good 4K OLED) than I would expect.
Sure! As an admin, you're unable to see any passwords in an employee's "Personal" vault. This is by design, so that user-specific passwords aren't visible to _anyone_ in the org except for that user.

However, this has a few downsides. All of those features I mentioned (alerts for re-used, leaked, weak, or old passwords) are visible to the owner of the private vault, but admins won't be aware of those issues. It requires trust and security training to make sure that those issues are handled appropriately for private passwords.

Also, if someone has edit access for a vault, there's no way to prevent them from moving credentials to their personal vault or exporting credentials. Most people won't know how to do that and won't bother... but it's always a risk.
>If your company serves a smaller niche than the giants in the a16z analysis, you probably need top down sales much earlier in the growth journey.

Any suggestions regarding how much earlier?
Dollar is not the currency where I live.
The commentary on adding OO to Lisp is garbage.

> "Making Scheme object-oriented is a sophomore homework assignment."

Demonstrating basic OOP in C is likewise a suitable homework assignment.

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Inheritance/Single/C

Making a viable object-oriented programming system for others to use is not a trivial task in any language.

No object system for Scheme that people actually use had been written by a sophomore as homework and gone into production in that state. (Linux started by a school kid tinkering with kernel programming too; but it would be a strawman to say that a bright undergrad can make a serious Unix clone in a few weeks that Amazon can put into the cloud and sell services on.)

The Common Lisp object system took many people years of work, and integrates deeply into the language, such that every object type has a class and can participate meaningfully in the object system without being wrapped in a class.

> Due to the difficulty of making C object oriented, only two serious attempts at the problem have made any traction: C++ and Objective-C.

Those are examples of having enough traction to actually get people to switch from C to a new language.

Ad hoc object systems have been implemented in C programs umpteen times, and a number of such things are available, or have been historically available, as formal libraries for use in C programs.

These all have "traction" in their "respective" projects and ecosystems; there is a lot of OOP action within C.
Is that more useless than the person just choosing not to mask in the first place?

Yes people may break the laws or not follow the rules, that doesn’t mean there is no value. There’s surely a black market for passports, ids, etc, does that mean those documents are useless?
Because (a) by the rules of engagement, management is not required to share original feedback, and (b) the original feedback could be used to identify the sources. In this case, there might have been a real risk to the sources given the individual in question is known to mobilize internal and external forces like Twitter mobs to personally attack people and bully them into submission.
You are not alone. Apple products are the best
This tells me you are unaware of the practice of contracting programmers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/03/09/tech-co...
> We don't know the full list of demands

Timnit is far from silent. She could share them if she wanted to. She appears to think that that would hurt rather than help her.
Hinkley Point C costs more than 12.5B:

"The plant, which has a projected lifetime of sixty years, has an estimated construction cost of between £19.6 billion and £20.3 billion. The National Audit Office estimates the additional cost to consumers (above the estimated market price of electricity) under the "strike price" will be £50 billion, which "will continue to vary as the outlook for wholesale market prices shifts"."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_...
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8; do

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/null &

done
This person forced Yann LeCun (one of the top 3 AI/ML researchers today, head of Facebook AI, and an ML researcher since the 80s) to give up on Twitter after she took exception to this tweet of his: https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1274782757907030016

She lives her life attacking people who she disagrees with, and brings in race/gender into any conflict where she's involved.

I am surprised Google had hired her, because it was only a matter of time they'd become collateral damage in this roving tornado of hate and aggression.

From what I have seen today, she gave them an ultimatum: do this, this and that or else I will leave. They decided to not do those things she demanded, and then proceeded to fire her before she could do any more internal damage.
TinyCheck allows you to easily capture network communications from a smartphone

Somewhat disappointingly (and different to my understanding of "easily" and "from a smartphone") followed further down by:

In order to make it working, you need a computer with a Debian-like operating system and two Wi-Fi interfaces. The best choice is to use a Raspberry Pi (3+) with a Wi-Fi dongle and a small touch screen...
Suppose you have a company and you need 3 people who can do X. You interview as many Americans as you can, and find 1 who can do the job. You fill 1 position with that American, and now start interviewing non-Americans and find 2 who you hire for the other two positions. This seems entirely within the intention of the H1B program.

Now suppose instead of 3 employees, you need 3000. You find 1000 Americans able to do the role, and hire 2000 non-Americans for the remaining roles. This still seems consistent with the intention.
Wife says to her programmer husband, "Go to the store and buy a loaf of bread. If they have eggs, buy a dozen."

Husband returns with 12 loaves of bread.

Most software engineers can read the above joke, and laugh at themselves, then go ahead and upvote your comment not realizing that it is EXACTLY THE SAME THING.

Employee: "This is extremely important to me. If you can't address what is important to me, then I can't work here anymore"

Google: "OK, thanks for your resignation".

This is not okay. Google is "technically correct" - but it is appalling behavior that should make every Googler shake with discomfort.

Employees are people. People can get dissatisfied. Frustrated. Angry. Sure, you can say companies don't owe anything to anyone because there is at-will employment.

But the reality is unless we want to live in a dystopia, people should be allowed to voice concerns and anger and frustrations, and not be fired for making things uncomfortable or inconvenient.
This might sound weird, but do you have the BenQ DVI driver installed? [1]

[1] https://www.benq.com/en-us/support/downloads-faq/products/mo...
It certainly is impossible to stop drug use with force. Telling Americans not to do something they want to do has never worked. Not in the British colonies, and even today with wearing masks during a pandemic: there are some people willing to throw punches rather than be told to wear a mask. Something about personal freedom, liberty to pursue happiness, its engrained in the psyche of the population. They won't do what you tell them to.

That being said, I think you over estimate the number of people who don't use hard drugs simply because its illegal. There is also a stigma, financial cost, health conscious reasons, or just don't like the effects or side effects.
These people are not paid by Facebook, but by Tata - they are contractors.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.13544

Underlying paper here. Originally published several months ago and updated with more information last week.
That’s called propaganda, not democracy.
Perhaps they could do what the American thugs did, and open casinos.
Future headline: I was captured as a sex slave for two years and when I finally sneaked internet access Google had deleted all my contacts
What if it built the nuclear plants but kept the coal plants running anyway? That's basically the current situation except with renewables. Before you tell me that those coal plants are necessary because renewables are intermittent... let me tell you that we already have more than enough natural gas plants to replace all our coal plants today....
Central banking as it exists in the US is designed to encourage spending. One person’s spending becomes another’s income. Having finite dollars and increasing demand leads to a currency that only increases in value. If an asset increases in value, there is an incentive to acquire it and not part with it.
Well it's certainly not the uptime!
AergoLite: Replicated SQLite Secured by a Blockchain
do you have any evidence that they aren't people? if so, i'd like to see it. actually, i'd like to see any methods of determining if a reddit user is a bot or not.
As a manager, I would say tell your manager about your struggles. Or tell someone who is in a position to ask you what you think in those meetings.
"While I do not personally believe this, the most cynical belief is that this is data gathering and lead generation, that Treasury is really a Robinhood-style business, so the docs asked are retained to be later analyzed for secular, non-compliance reasons like identifying new customers (i.e., the recipients's business) and pricing."

Thank you for this insight, however unlikely it may end up being - it is very well taken.
That's not quite what I wrote. The larger companies don't care about you as the retail investor, but they of course care about valuation. But the valuation is often based on some belief / future predictions. Otherwise we wouldn't have large changes and following corrections. The value of the business does not change that much - the collective idea about the value, opportunity, chance of speculation, and other things influenced by the validation is what changes. Also no company would complain about having too high valuation as long as it's consistently too high.
you can manually delete your account and all data, today, and Google will actually delete everything much sooner than two years from now. You can also set your account to auto delete n months after it becomes inactive.
Hopefully they follow through. Sometimes people find sneaky ways to get out of their contractual obligations. Especially in cleanup jobs such as this where the primary damage is to the land. It can be difficult to find someone with both the power and interest to enforce such contracts.