skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My sons are in their thirties and when I was homeschooling them around two decades back there were already online homeschool umbrella schools. This has existed a long time, so someone has to know something better than what I'm hearing this past year from schools that suddenly and unexpectedly became remote-only overnight due to the pandemic.

Homeschooling has a really terrible reputation -- which I tend to forget because I didn't homeschool for religious reasons and those who do have something of a tendency to give the practice a bad name. So the idea that homeschoolers know anything useful gets dismissed out of hand and then a lot of homeschooling parents are the moms. Homeschoolers are often middle class families with a full-time homemaker doing the teaching and the world is really bad about acting like homemakers are all idiots who don't know nothing.

I am out of the loop on this and have baggage over how I've been treated, so I mostly just shake my head and pass on participating in such discussions on HN. I don't need the grief. But "Homeschoolers know something useful that can be borrowed upon" is exactly the point of my initial comment.

What I've read about remote K-12 schooling has been truly horrifying. I think it would be difficult to do anything worse than what I've seen described.
I'm referring specifically to the situation where an entire service is going to be shut down, and silence many, many people who presumably were not doing anything illegal.

At the risk of a stupid analogy, AWS have near-Death Star like capability at this point, so blowing up Alderaan in the name of killing a few people on it the local government seems unwilling to seems like it should have a few checks and balances.
I have ubiquiti gear for my home network. It's pretty good for what it is, which is basically "consumer networking gear for power users" but I'm not sure I'd use ubiquiti to do serious networking for an enterprise environment. Maybe a small business/doctor's office type of environment.
That's a big wish list for compact.
This is interesting because having layoffs at a company that should be going off like a rocket during a pandemic is odd. What is going on at Dropbox that prevented them from taking advantage of the huge shift to remote work?
Submitted this as interview details, especially with questions, are rarely shared. Apparently interviewers were OK with this.
Is this a typical outcome of an open-source project that gains widespread popularity? It's a trend that popular projects get criticism that is too personal. This is a tricky problem. The obvious answer is to be anonymous on GitHub and not care when complaints get too shrill. This hurts the professional value of being an open-source contributor. How to achieve a balance between this and the need to insulate oneself from haters in the (unlikely) case your open-source project hits the big time?

I recall a similar story, I think it was the guy who wrote the Python library for the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins. In his case, I think he used his main email for commits and that was included by the Debian package maintainers who refused to change it.
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This was my thought too. I don't know what Dropbox employess are going through but on the surface this looks a lot better than the layoffs that I've witnessed first hand.
Do you remember in what context he say that?
I was in the second scenario. It definitely is workaholism, and from my own experience the price check your body, mind and family gives in the end is not worth the financial gain...
Yesterday's Martin Fowler link/discussion is a good recent example: https://martinfowler.com/articles/202101-lies-and-democracy....
The latest router in the series is Linksys WRT3200ACM: https://www.linksys.com/us/p/P-WRT3200ACM/

It has decent open source support and even WiFi drivers are open: https://github.com/kaloz/mwlwifi

The WiFi firmware though is not, which became a problem when NXP bought Marvel that made the chips for WRT3200ACM. NXP is unresponsive and doesn't do anything to update the firmware.

See: https://community.nxp.com/t5/Wireless-Connectivity/Drivers-f...
Shame is completely natural emotion that exists in a wide variety of human social interactions to modulate behavior. Sometimes it is negative, sometimes it is positive. Here is a positive example: https://habitica.com/

In education, fear of failing your in front of your peers or teachers is a strong motivator for most people. It is a positive thing in most such cases.

> "why uninterested parties in X took the subject"

As for this, it is known, that sometimes in life we have to beneficial things that we hate. Like washing the dishes. We are not "basing our educational system on it", but part of it will often be beneficial+uninteresting.
More like a Consumer Protection Association.

They're using involved in lobbying the government, but not just that: also resolution of disputes between members and companies and doing product reviews, for instance.
> they would likely open themselves up to a class action suit for people who feel like they overpaid for years.

That's overly dramatic. Companies cut prices every day.

It is however true that Dropbox cannot compete on price with the likes of MS, Google, and Apple. They can only compete on experience and features, and few people are impressed by their evolution in those areas.

Do we really need a monstruous (and monstruously slow) html view when right-clicking on the systray icon? Do we really need online file-viewers that, most of the times, seem meant to stop you from getting at the actual file?

Dropbox was great when it did one thing flawlessly and got out of your way, while allowing for hackability and true cross-platform support. When they were doing fun things like the easter-egg-hunts and challenges to get extra space. Now they often feel like Yet Another SV App shouting "LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! I CAN DO THIS AND THAT AND YOU DON'T NEED ANYTHING ELSE IN YOUR LIFE! LET ME INGEST ALL YOUR DATA AND LOCK YOU IN FOREVER!". I still have an account mostly because I have a free grandfathered account, but the minute they turn it off (and inevitably they will, since they are now a Serious Company with Serious Strategies and Serious Spreadsheets) I'll just check out.
They're covering 6 months of it, so it's free for 6 months. After those 6 months it does get expensive, yes.
Try a higher-quality power supply for your RPi.
WD has their own cores and they are OpenSource. Very nice designs. They also spend a lot of money on the open source ecosystem for chip development.

See:

- https://www.westerndigital.com/company/innovations/risc-v

- https://chipsalliance.org/

- https://github.com/chipsalliance/Cores-SweRV
I never dove into the WRT devices myself but it definitely has a niche.
The rejection of lasers is simply incoherent.
In my country, most classroom have an unofficial facebook group or discord channel. My little sister (20y) organizes zoom call for her own group of classroom friend to work together. They work but also chitchat, comment world politics, social issue, etc. It is awesome to assist.
Pretty much. America First Streaming is using RedWhiteBlue Hosting, FreedomDNS, etc. and BLM Streaming is using Antifa Hosting, DefundPoliceDNS, etc.

And for the rest of us who are caught in the middle, those above options are all that we have.

Imagine if restaurants only had Kosher and Halal food, but no longer make "regular" food because "regular" people will reluctantly eat Kosher or Halal, but Kosher and Halal customers will not entertain "regular" food.

So the entire stack all the way down becomes bifurcated due to political beliefs.

https://nassimtaleb.org/2016/08/intolerant-wins-dictatorship...
I always like to keep in mind what Patrick McKenzie (aka patio11) like to say: "everyone's preference space is N dimensional".

I mention that because a lot of people see "compensation" and think only money but that is just one of many dimensions e.g. flexible schedule, career growth, benefits etc

This is a great blog post about using those other dimensions when "just throw more money" is not an option: https://web.archive.org/web/20130409033601/http://www.articu...
Doesn’t have to be spores germinating. Could very well be a living fungal cell that had the conditions to replicate.
This might seem like a naive question, but how is it possible to verify that 3 is true?

I get how it might be done in theory but real life is complicated. Has anyone attempted to do this?
Dropbox is continuing to fail?
We need a new browser. If Google can’t censor the web, they’ll make changes at the browser level. I would be surprised if they haven’t already started using the browser to filter unwanted information.
Amazon.com is nothing but a sales site so I cannot imagine why anyone would think it is anything other than a path to try to route around in-app purchases, same with Bandcamp. The one with the developer blog and a patreon link is a lot weaker, but the other two examples were explicity not allowed according to the rules at the time.
I created a contactess menu web app to digitize restaurants. What do you think?
> Airbnb will cancel reservations in the Washington, D.C. metro area during the Inauguration week

Disregarding that it's for a good cause...

Surely this should be the Hosts decision? Isn't AirBnB's whole spiel that it's just a middle-man marketplace where buyers and sellers meet?
I don't understand why this doesn't get more discussion. It's a much more conservative step than "medicare for all" and would do a lot of good.
> The internet, unlike in cyberpunk dystopias has plenty of alternatives and platforms.

Sort of, but at this rate it seems they won't last. It seems the internet is doomed to just become more and more centralized.
> I don't like how files shared with me count against my quota

I stopped using dropbox many years ago over this one issue.
I'm not even sure that pulling someone from Google Cloud was a good idea to begin with.
At present I'm choosing to trust Signal.

That doesn't mean I blindly trust them, only that despite seeing potential for abuse I judge that they have more incentive to be telling the truth than not.

Also check the comment by user faitswulff where they mention how they have been subpoenaed "and could only supply account creation time and last connection time".
I'm in the have high job demands and high job control situation, it's still totally miserable.

Good article.
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> Would you want the government to force you to host unsavory characters in your home that you disliked?
That is what you are asking the government to force Google to do.

By supporting the antitrust case against google I am asking the government to force people to put unsavory characters in their homes?

I’m sorry that just doesn’t track... at all.

I do support the free market, and to have that we the people have opted to prevent megacorps from stifling competition and wielding their powers unjustly.
The thing is that I (and many people) still want exactly the core product that Dropbox offers (and does better than anyone else), even if that's a smaller market than it was ten years ago. It makes sense that businesses would want to get all of their IT solutions from a single integrated company for simplicity's sake, and it makes sense that consumers don't mess with actual files as much as they used to. But for my own purposes I actually wish Dropbox would stop trying to move beyond their core product. And even though the market of people like me has shrunk, I don't think it will ever go away completely.
Yeah and since you have the possibility of dealing with state actors with deep pockets, you have to wonder if Android or iOS doesn't have the ability to copy your private keys and send those off somewhere for storage. Because of signal's popularity, it feels pretty possible to me.

If the NSA did have it backdoored somehow through the OS, it's a good bet they'd force LE agencies to use parallel construction to keep that information top secret.

That is why we really need open source hardware and OS's. A good (or even functional) open linux phone can't come fast enough.
Upvotes and downvotes are worthless. We need authorship identification analysis tools to visually identify shills, astroturfers, bot armies, people paid to promote things and the koolaid drinkers who back them up.

For example, my posts would be marked as a F/OSS Zealot/Linux Fanboy. Or something like that.

And further, if my account downvotes something about Apple, it should have less impact than if someone who is an Apple fanboy does it. Balance.

Just an idea. ;)
Hello, future? Yes, this is Richard Stallman calling from the 1980s. I think what you might be looking for is the source code to the entire software stack.
Since v4.0.0 (see https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=a94b783952cc...). We are always up for improving the code generation quality but of course there is a trade off with JITs given we are not compilers. I suspect there are still big wins if we can come up with a reasonable solution for re-generating a hot-path of basic blocks with much better optimisation.
Why should they be going off like a rocket?
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I'm saying it because the left learned very quickly that you can bypass the hard work of arguing positions by instead arguing the holder of them is irrational and or evil in a sense. It's much more effective to call someone else evil than to put forwards your ideas of good.

By calling me irrational, I do not need to be compromised with or taken seriously; compromise and dialogue is based on the fact that people are both making good faith efforts to engage. Part of what is chilling about the whole social media thing recently is that it's arguing that it causes people to be in an irrational state and not to be taken seriously. Go home trump voters; you are drunk on social media.

So yeah, there is a lot of judging going on, because that kind of judging is more effective than compromise. You yourself sound like you are open minded more because people will need time to come to the undeniable truth than anything.
Their UX has become worse, questionable design choices, and 2 GB limit is almost a joke. Chances are, if you're in the market, you just use something like Box which provides a lot more value for free.
Congrats on the launch!
Curious, how do you plan to handle CF template upgrades when you need additional permissions as you enhance the product?
In addition to "learning how to learn", esp early schooling offers a lot of social benefits, plus (depending on country etc) food and time away from home, which are important to a lot of kids (unfortunately).
Entirely depends on what the goals of the union are. If you want to improve your position in search rankings, a union is not going to help you. If you're a youtube creator who wants a larger cut of advertising revenue, a youtube creators union may make sense.

I find it unlikely that there's any issue that cuts across all of Google's customers (advertisers, publishers, cloud users, gsuite users, etc), so a Google Customers Union probably does not make sense.
off topic: I'm the type of person who likes to select text while reading, and this page is terrible for that. It seems to replace the select cursor icon with a highlighter icon, which is super jarring. It also adds a weird popup after you selected text.
Absolutely not. These are anti-competitive abuses, and the only self-executing, guaranteed remedy is to break them up and let something else take its place. Consumer unions are a form of corporate moat-building that became popular in the 70s and was never as effective as proponents wanted it to be.
I made this push yesterday, I installed Telegram. Cant complain, its quite a refreshing experience really.
I let my social photos and snapshots on my phone auto-upload to Google Photos.

Lightroom CC automatically ingests any raw images I take on my phone. I sort and archive those on Lightroom Classic later.

My Lightroom photo library mostly lives on my Synology NAS. This gets backed up to Wasabi using their Hyper Backup utility.
I don't think that necessarily says that ImgTec will be upstreaming the open drivers, more that they don't have a better option at the moment and will be replacing closed source components with each revision.

I hope they will, but I'll believe it when I see it. They've been extremely allergic to open source in the past.
Apple was trying to buy Dropbox to incorporate into the OS.
> "Having a link to an external web page to receive donations [by a registered charity or a non-profit] is not considered a violation on the App Store"

Which e.g. "PayPal@zx2c4.com" is not, clearly.

The words you are missing are important.

One of the reasons why I do not gift money to WireGuard developer(s) is that they have taken the steps to obscure where and to whom the money is going, which is in and of itself fishy. Just labelling something as 'donation' does not make it so.

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> window's cloud storage is REALLY good. Far better than dropbox IMO.

That's "thanks" to Dropbox though. Microsoft's "Live" features used to be terrible. It took a competitor to show them how it's done and force them to step up their game.
What is censoring for search results? I think is this: search for a definite term (like a site name) and get no result, where previously you got many results.

This happens all the time, but is not noticeable for large numbers of people.

This may be argued as acceptable when it comes to political speech (as it is the fashion these days). This is also not new at all, historically. Whenever an authority adopts or makes a map of a territory, the authority defines what exists and what not. Google is a map making company.

But when there is no obvious political reason? Then there is copyright (Sci-Hub), or other private entities interests into play.

You may argue that everything is political, though...

My blog [1] mentions that since October 2020 most of my recent posts are no longer discoverable via google or ddg search. Why? perhaps because I repeatedly made comparisons with the East India Company :)

[1]https://chorasimilarity.wordpress.com/about/
I find all of this so hard to relate with. I’ve worked for a decade, have a high paying job and have been promoted multiple times but to me none of it is enjoyable. I don’t think I could ever be happy in a situation where I’m required to do something for 9 hours everyday. I can’t get around the idea that all of this a weak abstraction to make money and care very little for approval from authority figures.
> In 2009, Steve Jobs wanted to pay more than a hundred million dollars for Dropbox. As Houston later told Forbes’ Victoria Barret, when he politely turned down his hero’s offer, Jobs declared that Dropbox was a feature, not a product. Jobs was right: To do what we all want it to do, syncing has to be baked in to all the gadgets we use today. OS companies are warming to that notion—and they don’t need Dropbox to do it.

https://pando.com/2012/02/26/steve-jobs-was-right-dropbox-is...
They could have just said continued healthcare for 6 months - that's got to be a lot better than paying for 6 months of COBRA.
I think you are vastly underestimating how hard IT departments will kick you if you request or bring a device that cannot properly execute the company-critical legacy Windows x64 software. Like SAP, for example.

(SAP is the largest non-American software company by revenue and does business management, workflow automation, and bookkeeping)

My prediction is that outside of hipster startups, M1 will have no effect on business laptop sales.
I used a WRT54G v2.2 for more than 10 years.

A few years ago I wanted to setup a repeater with it, but it was not powerful enough to handle AES in repeater mode, if I remember correctly.
>So you're not really allowed to solve one without solving the other

The final comments from the developer directly contradicts this claim:

>I'd be happy to review a merge request that added the ability to disable recursive search in the file chooser using a GSettings option ... I was thinking more along the lines of having a key in the file chooser settings schema that would be observed by Nautilus.

The idea there is that the key should be in a standard location read by nautilus (or some other GTK file manager) if it also decides to implement that feature. Edit: I also should note that it appears there was not even initial consensus about this, the other GTK developer seemed to be skeptical at first.
I'd look into more project based "classes" instead of a rigidly taught curriculum. As more of a guided process than explicit steps, with the student getting to pick the direction they'll go in.

That's what taught me the most. It's a shame there aren't more opportunities like that in classes in general. Could be a question of teacher hours available, or because we can't effectively measure progress between wildly different projects. Still, I think it's more in-line with the way a workplace functions now.
Yeah definitely. Sometimes you can't simply cut something away so you have to try to stay away from it as long as possible. I think the situation would improve if they just separate.
> You can then build it from source

To be secure you would HAVE to build and install it from source.

But then again your OS could possibly inject code to get the keys. Or a keystroke logger may have been installed.
> You're continuing to demonstrate that if I answer your questions it has no bearing on your ideology.

Again, how am I demonstrating that? I honestly can't see anyway that you have any idea what I think, from my comments in this thread, without just completely making up a projection out of whole cloth.

> Now you want to know if Twitter has an active account with AWS. I could answer that. But does it matter?

It does seem to matter, when the question is "should AWS stop hosting Twitter because of the way in which they moderate their content?". AWS can't do that if Twitter is not hosted on AWS... So I fail to see how it doesn't matter.

To answer what I think your original question was, filling in assumptions for my (still unanswered...) questions: if Twitter is hosted on AWS, and if AWS notifies them of content they are hosting with AWS that violates the AWS terms, and Twitter refuses to remove that content, then yes, I believe AWS is within their rights to suspend Twitter's account.
Bitwise manipulation question? How often is this done at a web company? Maybe at Microsoft it's more apt.
> Everything you just said could be equally said about worker's unions, so why do we have worker's unions either instead of just using the government?

Mostly for historical reasons - it was workers unions who fought and paid in blood for worker rights, and no one (other than the Nazi regime and various real-Communist countries) tried to have governments assimilate unions.

Another reason is that governments are slow as molasses to react to changes. A union is way faster and it has (by its existence) a direct connection to the immediate needs of the workers.
I have a couple connections on LinkedIn that work at Dropbox, and through them I have noticed a decent amount (certainly more than usual) of somewhat-high-up individuals leaving Dropbox in the past couple weeks. Might just be completely coincidental, but I wonder if they had advance notice (or perhaps just saw the writing on the wall)?

Also anecdotal and total speculation, I interviewed at Dropbox a couple years ago and they were making a big push into b2b Dropbox, particularly with Paper, but I've yet to really hear about them successfully breaking into that space (have never met or even heard of a company using Paper in the wild). Olivia (the COO that's also leaving) used to head up b2b functions at Google before joining Dropbox. I wonder if these layoffs are also from the b2b teams and perhaps Dropbox is pulling back from (or at least rethinking) those efforts?