skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The author is 100% correct on everything.

The author is certainly correct on some things, but makes no good argument for why node.js should run in the Browser. I'm not even clear he understands what node is, or what he would gain from being able to use it in the browser, when it can already run Javascript just fine as is.

No, Google should stop the show and bring node.js to his browser because he can't be bothered to go to Google to look up what a PATH is.

I'm not saying programming can't be much more user-friendly; it certainly can be and should. Heck, maybe Chrome would do well to ship with a lightweight IDE to edit code in outside of the console. But the author hasn't listed a reason node.js has a place in Chrome natively, and is going on to claim they should. Talk about entitlement.
Plus one for Nextcloud, which I use as a self-hosted version for years now.

If you don't like the self-hosting part, there are even offers which make it simple, like the one from Hetzner[1].

But there are also other providers:

https://nextcloud.com/signup/ (click 'Change Providers')

[1] https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share
Indeed it is. And if you look at it, most of the arguments against tech in general - including all the hand-wringing about AI, privacy and evil tech bros - they're all arguments against capitalism. But it would be boring to repeat the same thing that's been repeated for the past 100+ years, so people instead confuse symptoms with cause.
Node.js could improve their installer, would that solve all of OPs complaints?
Yup. That must have been how I triggered it -- I moved main folder around.
Unless it's -V for verbose. Or -i for infile. Or no flag for infile. Or no flag for outfile. Or...
I still love Opera12
Will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Australia is tiny in the grand scheme of things but the average revenue per user is huge, there's still a lot of money on the table here, along with the domino effect.

The government will face huge amount of pressure and be forced to backflip within days if they actually go through with it, but perhaps that is what they want, to set up this narrative that these entities have far more power than any democratically elected government, which for the most part I think is entirely correct, these companies can make or break many governments on Earth.

And while I support them in what they are doing, in the back of my mind all I can think is that Rupert Murdoch probably pulled some strings to make this happen for his own benefit and it's corrupt all the way down.
It's quite funny how badly some of those comments on the previous post have aged:

"We have a golden period of forty-some days before a new administration comes to power that has shown every intent of using that information to deport people and create a national Muslim registry."

Lol, no.
No, I was just saying that in my vast experience the two things that you described as:

"absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with programming. Nothing. Zero. Zilch. It is completely superfluous knowledge"

Were indeed critical components to all of these systems, and organisations, and that it's not a big ask to require a programmer to know them.

Also, on what authority do you decide what is programming and what isn't?
I recently moved away from Dropbox due to its increasing hostility. I am currently evaluating pCloud, though I am not sure they are the one I want to go with: They have some severe problems with consistency across syncs and they allow themselves to push advertisement through their desktop apps ie. they are highly intrusive. I guess I will give them the year I paid for and then move on.
Does the author not get browsers at all?

Chrome should include a nodejs installation by default because the commandline is scary?
Does he know, that node is based on the V8 engine that's part of Chrome? Packing it in would be redundant and it's a pure backend integration. You dont need nodejs to learn javascript.

If Pathes and Commands are scary, just right-click on your desktop.
Click New->Text Document and name it "index.html".
Open the document in a text editor of your choice.
insert <html><head><script>###
</script></head><body></body></html>
into the file.
Replace ### with your js code.
Open file in browser..
Its that easy.
FFS, some people just want to complain.
"250 picodollars / byte-month" is just a hackish way of saying "$0.25 / gigabyte-month, pro-rated down to the byte."
I'm working on a crypto front running bot. It's been quite the project, the server for my node is costing me $1000 a month.
Syncthing might be a good option for those that wish to migrate. It is a stable open-source solution for syncing a directory in many-to-many clients situation. The syncthing itself provides no servers. But if you wish to have a central server it could be as easy as just installing synchting on your main machine or a cheap VPS. The UI is good enough and it is stable.
I can understand why that may be thought to be that way, and maybe some folks are just exactly that way.

> But what's really obvious on this site is that many Americans cannot discuss other choices.

Many of us certainly can, however, America is often whalloped over the head for not being like other countries. In some threads this is made out peacefully, like here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25766884

In others, America is widdled down to very reductionist arguments that Americans already debate endlessly. Things like, "This is a very uniquely American point of view" as if to eschew our problems like they don't still deserve debate because we should be just like everyone else. An example is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25486350 Of course, this can be pretty frustrating because America isn't all the same, though I know it can be easy to perceive it that way. States in America are more like countries in the EU with respect to their homogeneity, or lack thereof. In some ways we have some overtones that are the same, but we're all different. As dang pointed out, HN represents a lot of people from outside Silicon Valley too.

You seem to allude to this here:

> Every "by the way, in X we don't have Y, we do Z" on this site is a recipe for confrontation.

and I agree. Maybe this is people learning they actually are part of a more global community and how to respect one another while also fostering thoughtful, curious debate. I can tell you that I often wake up in the morning to read my threads from the night prior because I want to know what the global community, outside of America, has had to say. As I'm doing right now in fact. That's to say, hearing your voice matters at least to me.

I'll try to pay attention to what gets downvoted, and if that's happening you'll get my upvote.
At the moment Apple support site states that:

> Though all iPhone 12 models contain more magnets than prior iPhone models, they’re not expected to pose a greater risk of magnetic interference to medical devices than prior iPhone models.

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/important-safety-info...

It would be interesting to verify this, i.e. compare the risk of interference for iPhone 11 and iPhone 12.
Relevant: YC also has a RFS, https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/
As a product focused company trying to create a great UX, it's really quite easy to justify something like this for creating a better UX. I can imagine a PM looking at the collaboration flow, UX researcher finding friction in initiating collaboration, testing mockups where Dropbox "magically" knows your colleagues, and it getting great reception from users. Most users still don't care about privacy, most users assume email addresses are essentially fully public.

This part is a better UX for the majority of users.

The problem comes when there's a data leak, or when the marketing team decide to email those contacts, or some time later that could really easily be argued as "this will never happen", and may often not, but it's possible.

It's details like this that differentiate the "good" product companies from the "great" product companies, specifically because the detail of "not collecting email addresses" would never be noticed by those users, by construction.
>Do we say we don't want kids learning math?

No, but I also don't want them being paid for their efforts to prove the Riemann hypothesis using only an abacus.

>we need to be better teachers

According to google there are about 1,040,000 results for 'what is "$PATH"?'. I feel like one or more of those is probably a pretty good resource.
> they just couldn't grok the reason

It's hard to make someone understand something when their salary (and entire reputation - given that increasing engagement/retention by X% is a big selling point on a resume) depends on not understanding it.
Yes, ironic in the sense that, by retiring those bitcoins from circulation, usable bitcoins are more scarce, which drives prices up, making the loss even more valuable in the future.
Check out the nextcloudpi project. Paid once for the pi/drive/case 4 years ago and been a happy user ever since.

It's been so worry free that when I had to move house I had to read the docs again to make sure I do things right. And that's on top of me studying the project well enough the first time I set it up that I ended up contributing some patches.

P.S. There are hosted offerings for nextcloud but for a household with 2-5 users I think nextcloudpi has the best value proposition.
From my perspective, Dropbox was doomed to decline ever since they made a big splash about how proud they were of moving off of public cloud in to self manage data centers.

While they no doubt reduced their operating costs with that move, I couldn't help it feel that this meant that they were investing so many of their precious mental cycles, hiring cycles, maintenance cycles, into plumbing instead of user-centered innovation which was their original sweet spot.

What was celebrated at the time as a great example of how cloud is a big mistake for people to me is in fact the opposite and should be used in future as a good business case study.

Folks never think about the opportunity cost; they get blinded by $$$ figures which are so misleading
Thanks for the polite response, I was quite nervous about asking the question incase it was perceived poorly to be honest.

It sounds like my problem is that I'm looking for a one fits all solution. I guess the answer is that Americans have decided different groups are entitled to different things based on historical events and inequalities. I tend to think quite individualistically so treating someone differently based on their ancestral background doesn't come naturally to me.

> Re your Europe question: I believe the thinking goes that natives there are rich, so why should they have more even more land rights? The political poles are flipped, the political left sees no injustice to be fixed by empowering the privileged.

I will say that in my experience isn't true, at least if you're looking on an individual level. Part of the reason I asked the question is because I've asked the reverse to people here in the UK. I'm from a working class background and I know a lot of Brits from working class backgrounds who are unhappy with being "minorities" and feeling culturally alienated because of immigration into their communities. I know one elderly man who due to the effects of migration now lives in a majority Muslim area of my city and often expresses his sadness with no longer being able to enjoy Christmas with his neighbours or not being able to read the posters put up in his council flat, etc.

I've found here in Britain people rarely take these complaints seriously. When I ask people here if we should feel some sympathy for those who feel they're losing "their culture" as "their group" becomes the minority the answer is typically that they need to get with times and adapt to the change, but I'm aware that this is different from the American perspective, which does take the concerns of native groups becoming minorities due to immigration seriously. Funnily enough the only time I've heard anyone give a different answer was from a Muslim immigrant and I wonder if that was because of their sympathy for the struggles of being a minority.

I don't know if there is a right answer to this though. If we want to become are more globalised world these changes are inevitable, but at the same time time I do seem to feel some sympathy knowing that not everyone is asking to live in a globalised world and that many would like to continue living in a nation that resembles the one of their ancestors. I'm just rambling now, but I think about this a lot because I know it's the cause of many problems in the West today (Trump, Brexit, nationalism) and it seems we have quite poor, or at least highly contradictory answers – some cultures deserve to be preserved, some need to get with the times; some natives have rights to their ancestral lands, others are racist for wanting the same; some groups concerns over being a minorities is valid, some groups need to just accept their new minority status. These answers, at least to me, don't seem to be satisfactory. I don't know what the answer is, and I doubt there is a perfect one, but at the very least our answers to these questions shouldn't be contradictory.
What a team of 13 can achieve in one year in speech recognition?
> Programming can and should be much, much more user friendly than it is now.

For what sort of users? It's clear a number of people here consider the command line difficult. I do not. There are many tools that make simple tasks very simple. I use it for manipulating tab files. I can pipe data through scripts and back through command line utilities, pipe it directly into a database, or do the reverse. It's very simple, and very powerful.

Just because you don't understand it or aren't familiar with it doesn't mean it isn't simple, powerful, and user friendly.

Most programming languages are very simple. a = 1, b = 2, if a+b > 2, doSomething(). You can't actually make the logic simpler than that - this is why visual programming fails. It's still programming, but it turns out a limited visual/gui tool to do these logical operations is much harder to manage and work with than actual code.
Spaced Repetition [1] seems to be the missing dimension in note making/taking that leads to optimal recall.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition
fair, there are commandline tools by third parties that dont conform. From reading your other comments, though, I can tell that you likely don't enjoy learning complicated systems in order to leverage them for your advantage. Just like the author of the article, you complain on and on, without displaying any sort of passion for the good things this complexity brings.
That idea actually seems like a good demonstration of how corrosive politics actually is. Like, if you look at the actual evidence... France, whose current leader was hailed as the anti-Trump by the US media, is at about 1 Covid death per thousand (and they're not the worst-affected in Europe, not by a long shot), the US is at 1.2, former success story the Czech Republic is about 1.3. The evidence just doesn't seem to support the claim at all. Yet because the current President of the US is hated by the press, every right-thinking person knows otherwise.
This is super interesting:

http://en.ritsumei.ac.jp/news/detail/?id=278

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.0034...

Apparently he showed his "rotating snake" image to a neural network trained to predict upcoming video frames, it also "saw" the illusory motions.
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Yeah but they're bad cause they have to be.

I can't just wave my magic wand and eliminate Bash, and all $PATH nonsense.

It existed before.

So as a programmer, I expect you to know about it. There may be a day when the knowledge is obsolete. Where we can coordinate politically and socially enough to eliminate all usage of bash and $PATH. But those are social and political problems.

As a programmer, I expect you to have the technical knowledge necessary to do your job. Stop complaining about the social and political context that brought $PATH to existence and just know how to use it, and don't write something like it yourself.

Programming is not AWFUL. People and the social and political aspects of interacting with others is AWFUL and always will be. We work around it, we make it better, and we improve it. But no, our tools are not CRAP, they're not AWFUL. We build amazing, wonderful things with these tools.

What a short-sighted perspective. Just pass. Seriously.
Yes, of course. Because your other tools are so bad that even the command line is easier.

I am saying, the fact that those tools are bad is not a given. We could have better tools.
Interesting to imagine an ex-king in disgrace qnd exile from a European country. Having been born under Elizabeth II and having her hang on so long, I can't imagine a similar circumstance for the Commonwealth.
> Once the iPhone was brought close to the ICD over the left chest area, immediate suspension of ICD therapies was noted which persisted for the duration of the test.

Yeah so if you have a pace maker, try not to put magnets near your heart. The main practical impact for smart phone users with pacemakers seems to be that you shouldn’t carry a phone with a magnet mount in your breast pocket.

The article also mentions WHY pacemakers are so sensitive to otherwise benign levels of magnetism:

> All ICD’s have an in-built switch (Reed switch, Hall-effect sensors, Giant magneto sensitive resistors or coils) which respond to an externally applied magnetic field.

It’s not clear from the article what function these magnetic sensors provide. I suspect it’s either a way for the internal device to interface with an external control circuit or just a minimally invasive off switch.
Do you need Google login though? I think for every platform I have created a separate account (and don't link them together).
Sync ( www.sync.com ) is pretty good, I wish their app and web ui was a lot better, the search sucks but I have been a paying customer for two years now. I like that it doesn't force you to collaborate. And that it's quite barebones.
I have a 49 bucks a year for 500gb plan, which they no longer offer, but I guess I'm grandfathered in
I am repeating myself from another thread but I'm 90% sure of the answer and no-one checks: are you sure OneDrive works well? Can you sync PST files? [1]

[1] https://www.eejournal.com/article/onedrive-down-the-road-to-...
I was (and still am) in the same situation as the author two years ago. I bought a pair of JBL LSR 305 that I placed at each side of the screen, roughly 120cm away from each other and at arms length from me. They're about 30cm away from the back wall.

The problem I have is with the bass. Standing in the normal position to interact with my PC, the bass strength is low. Now, the moment I move back about 1 meter, the bass strength becomes great (the one I'd expect from this pair of speakers).

I really don't know what to do :/
People don't tend to hug their hobs though...
> In the example of your Amiga, your hard drive failed

The crucial part here is that software caused the hard drive to fail. That was my point - I think it's easy to forget how fragile most home computer OS:es were 25-30 years ago compared to today.
To be fair, he (and I think it’s a fair assumption that it’s a he) didn’t say it was for a year, rather it occurred last year
I don't even have a password, I think.
Helping developers understand each other's code
I think you're missing the points: 1 modern velocity of (dis)information scales faster than geography and has more than made up the difference and 2 that coups are the result of a sequence of coups attempts.
The core argument here genuinely seems to be that private banks don't want to become obsolete. The article spends a lot of time saying this is bad (or saying that they say it's bad), but it's not clear to me why this is (or even if it truly is).

I must admit over some skepticism given the extreme loucheness of the banking sector.
Climate Change: Earth To Reach a temperature Tipping Point next 20 to 30 years
The principle is true and follows from the rule that no resource should be idle if there are requests that need it to be processed.

Memory, however is seldom the bottleneck. This is because most apps are not designed to queue requests if they don't fit in the available memory - they just allocate until they fail.

So, unless your apps are designed to queue requests in order to fit them into memory, this principle is probably not the explanation for the high memory usage.
I really wish mobile OSes would allow you to grant apps permissions but serve fake data, (that's important!) without giving the app the ability to tell the difference. Just so it appears to the app that you've given the permission, when you in fact have not. This would solve this entire class of problems and then some. So, for example:

- App "has" access to contacts, but the system returns that you have none.

- App "has" access to location, but the search for GPS satellites never completes.

- App "has" access to storage, but it's actually /dev/null.
They've already been told they have to delete this data and refused.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42961025

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/13/police-keepi...

In the UK, we have no "poison tree" doctrine so (with limited exceptions) illegally gathering or using evidence doesn't prevent prosecutions. So there is really no incentive NOT to illegally keep data like this.

Its also worth noting the UK had a distinction here between illegal (criminal and punishable) and unlawful (not permitted but not a crime either, like say trespassing or taking something that isn't yours accidently). This act is (AFAIK) unlawful. So no police officer can be arrested and personally criminally charged for keeping this data. Its not something you don't have a right to do...
It is but the GDPR isn't being enforced even against bigger and more blatant violations so there's no risk there.

(please don't refute this with a link to enforcementtracker.com unless you can show me a fine that's even remotely close to being dissuasive)
> FYI - never use oauth to log into anything you care about.

I definitely agree with this. While it's true that Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple are probably better at securing accounts than most other companies, there's always the possibility that they can be compromised.

Another problem is that if your oauth provider decides to close your account for whatever reason, it may be difficult or impossible to unlink everything from it.

Not only do I create real accounts for any service I want to use, I divide them up among multiple separate email accounts, so that if one account is compromised, I limit the associated services that are vulnerable as a result.
As things stand: Yes, to both your questions.
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Yah, looked at it too.
Still thinking if E2EE is worth losing search and OCR.