skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For whatever it is worth, you can setup Takeout to make a copy every X months for a year or something like that. Far cry from automated solution, but better than nothing.

I need to find Photos alternative because that's the last Google service that gets any real use.
> Sprinters are very much malnourished to keep weight to a minimum.

This is NOT how any professional sprinter trains. Due to the nature of the exercise and the massive caloric expenditure that happens during sprinting, the mindset is more about trying to fit in in as much food as possible (while keeping to reasonable macro-nutrient ratios) rather than attempting to "keep weight at a minimum".

Haven't you ever seen how practically every 100m sprinter looks? It is not a physique that could be described as minimal, at all! My PB for the 100m is ~10.4s, so not quite pro but very fast.
Are you trying to say you don't use a herb-mint facial mask as part of your morning routine?
I gave Slacker Radio the big heave-ho when they decided they wanted to help themselves to my contact list. They did that just before I was about to pony up for a paid subscription. Bullet dodged.
‘Fair use’ and the new Copyright Law in Indonesia (2014)
Not for everyone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17431609

From the comments:

> Because of a keyword monitor picked up by their auto-moderation bot our entire project was shut down immediately
Parler offered 40% equity for Donald Trump exclusivity
Thanks for maintaining it! I have fond memories of that game.

One time about 80% of my class in school ("Informatik-Berufsschule" in Switzerland) was playing that game while the teacher was talking about some boring Active Directory design topics. Suddenly one of the students screamed "HEADSHOT!", followed by an annoyed teacher and everyone quickly minimizing the game window :)
Show HN: HowManyUsers – Show how many users viewing your web page
NYT last Feb had published article encouraging readers to go to China amidst the pandemic, the logic being that China is safe and our xenophobic bias might be responsible for us considering China unsafe.
Start the process of getting out right now.

Get an email address that you own, on a domain you control. Switch to a provider that takes your money for whom you are the customer - not the product.

I did this with Fastmail and Iki.fi, a Finnish non-profit[1], who have been selling people "permanent" email addresses since 1995.

[1] http://www.iki.fi/
> Compare to The Mafia Code:

Including that doesn't help your argument much. And apart from "do not be an informer" and "don't rock the boat" the mafia code is pretty much unarguably good advice. Employees should be following it.

We'd all be better off if everyone was rational, honourable, independent and classy.
Is there anything you guys in New Zealand haven't done better during this pandemic? :-)
One thing I find fascinating is that it feels like Common Lisp, Racket and Clojure are talked about a lot, but from the top of my head I would not be able to name everyday software or tools written in any of them.

Meanwhile I rarely encounter discussions and talk about Guile while at the same time seeing it "everywhere" (Guix, embedded scripting in GDB, Gnucash).

This is just my personal feeling though.
It's SUPPOSED TO BE pay-to-play. Google is a business. That's how businesses work. That's the entire point.
Saying it is 1000% wrong implies that you are arguing emotionally, not rationally.

It means I was employing the common rhetorical device of exaggeration.
Google lens does it, is it not part of stock android? My phone runs Android One, so I think it's all stock but I could've missed a subtlety.
Also not the parent. Right now I have a home NAS (on Debian) running HomeAssistant for home automation interfacing and a WireGuard VPN server.

I also have a VPS running a DNS server for ad and distraction filtering (AdGuard Home, I prefer it over Pi-hole for downstream DNS over TLS), another WireGuard VPN server (for more permanent use of the aforementioned DNS server), Etesync for E2EE contacts/calendar syncing, and a Signal TLS proxy for helping users connect to Signal. These services are all specified in Docker Compose files for easier management, although I should adopt an online management tool so I don't need to login over SSH every time.
> The opinion is significant because it beats a legal path that British judges would follow if Parliament were to agree new legislation allowing the High Court to decide on matters of genocide.

Why would an honest judge let themselves be guided by a mere counsel's opinion?

Regarding how the allegations of "genocide" (in contrast to the wider crimes against humanity, I guess) are explained, I think the opinion diminishes the massacres of e.g. the Jews and the Armenians; although I'm pretty sure that it's not a novel use of the word in the opinion.
What an odd article/website. While deciding against offering a free plan is a (reasonable) choice that is made by many SaaS products, it's obviously not a blanket thing everyone needs to follow. Free plans in SaaS products are to get people to evaluate/for marketing data and to hopefully ultimately lead free users to one of the paid plans (or drive some other revenue source, e.g. advertising). I think this is quite well known by now? Perhaps the author needs to capitalise more on what their business gets out of the free plan (e.g. marketing data), and work on converting that into to more paying customers.

The DO $5 vs $500 comparison is odd as well. Maybe you would be able to spend less support time per customer. But what DO offers is pretty much a commodity by now. If DO no longer offered anything under $500/month... well, it's not that hard to figure out what would happen.

The article goes on discuss alternatives, but while these solve some free-plan problems, these have other problems:

- trial periods means you will probably put people off sign up, because they are waiting for a 30 day period where they think they will have enough time to try it out

- free for FOSS/education/charity means you have to spend time deciding and justify who gets it and who doesn't

- lifetime try-out plan eliminates recurring revenue, which is kind of a big thing for SaaS products...

And then to top it off, at the bottom there is a link to the author's "Friendly Captcha" project, which alongside more paid plans with more features and limits, has... a free plan!
That thread reads like someone put the Stadia shill bots on maximum overdrive.
mailbox.org from me as well. I compared them with fastmail and they don't upsell on the personal domain and let you pay as you use storage.

Both have unpleasant web accessibility experience, but it is not consideration for many.
If it's gone from the play store that doesn't matter, you have it installed.

Breaking OS changes are a problem, it's true. Thankfully they basically never happen on phones (certainly if you have a phone that stopped updates ~4-5 years ago it will still work).
> The world is not burning. Do you know what was before play store, YouTube, twitch, whatever... nothing.

You know what was before electricity? Nothing. But switch that off today, and the whole world will burn.

Between Google Drive, Photos, GMail, and Google account being used as authentication, losing a Google account is a life-crippling situation for many people.

> It's not like they came and stomped over your beautiful garden.

That's the thing, though. They did. They put a highway next to it, and now nobody is gardening, the garden shop closed down, everyone's commuting to the city, and no one wants to buy my produce because my garden is too close to the road...

...or, to unpack it: the big platforms, by their very existence, killed off people's "beautiful gardens". Facebook and Reddit are why discussion boards are mostly dead. Google is why it's infeasible for most to host their own e-mail server these days (the heuristic of distrusting senders other than the big e-mail providers only works because there are big e-mail providers).
I am not fan of regulation, but apparently not every abuse of the market can be solved by courts in a practical way. Like in this case, a mere mortal can not possibly sue Google.

I can imagine the EU will step in soon. There are multiple different aspects of being locked out of a "free" service provider like Google:

- Losing your email addresses - even if it was provided for free, will cause an immense harm. Email addresses will soon be transferable between companies like mobile numbers are today.

- Losing your own data - GDPR was a first step, user should have a right to his own data even if he was locked out of a platform.

- Losing digital goods like apps or ebooks. With a transferable email address these will become transferable too.
I spoof my router's MAC address to change my external IP address at will. But yeah, hopefully they can't see the MAC addresses on your local network.
I'd say it's more about how we feel about them.

A lot of it is in the standard modus operandi for extraverts and introverts. For extraverts, meetings feel productive, because they get their energy from social stimulation. They also like brainstorms and similar initiatives, despite research saying they decrease productivity and innovation. Most "people person" and "idea guy" functions tend to be extraverts, so they drive the narrative.

For introverts, discussing ideas provides energy. Meetings discussing feelings, inter-departemental drama, brainstorming, etc feel like the waste of time they are. A lot of meetings are poor replacements for thinking ahead or actual planning.
Honestly it doesn’t sound too far off from the direction the USA has been currently trending
Good luck with that. My Takeout export was supposed to start three days ago.
TIL the Mafia has a pretty decent, humane code of conduct.
I've been having "meeting free Mondays" for about 2 years now. They're never entirely free of meetings, but often I'll only have one meeting mid-afternoon. The result is that I can spend most of the day focussing on work I actually need to get done myself. To help with this, even before the pandemic, I'd almost always work from home on Mondays as well.

I also tend to try to keep mornings relatively free of interruption as I find getting a good start really sets the tone for the day as a whole. If I can spend 5 or 10 minutes planning out what I need to do, and then make useful progress on something during the first hour then I'm usually set for the rest of the day.

My team know that they can contact me if they really need to, but it does massively cut down on casual interruptions as well as delivering the obvious benefits of a clear calendar.
That’s from two different producers, one is AZ in Europe, the other the Serum Institute in India. Maybe they just have different costs.
I recall back in the early days (before NZ Covid Tracer was released) we had the same system where every shop had a QR code that linked to its own guestbook type website.
Yeah, I'm Chinese and I hate my government, but please do it for the right reason.
Baby steps. It's not the magnitude but the attitude.
I can see the Black Mirror episode already...

"In the case of Johnson v Esposito where the defendant is claimed to have sent an email to the plaintiff wherein this created a detrimental page rank effect due to defendant's low score..."
My point is that if you install the code through a dependency of a dependency it should be leaving license notices entirely intact, fulfilling the license.

Of course javascript optimizers and the like might throw a wrench in the works these days, but that's a pretty recent and specific problem.
Windows is in an even worse position because of NTFS file locking shenanigans. A lot of the time you can't even update the userspace without rebooting.
A very well done article! I wonder what an integration with a Python REPL might look like.
A lot of webmasters are amateurs who expose their credentials even when robot rules are respected. Google dorking is a way to find that credentials and other sensitive data and information.
If you get your own domain, get one on a well-known TLD (e.g. .com, .org or your own country code). If you get a gTLD that's not well-known, there are some endpoints that will block you because your email is "not valid".
Already downloading my takeout export as I write this comment :). Will probably use backblaze for backup cloud storage of stuff.
LibreSprite is an open source program for creating and animating your sprites
Make sure you don’t use any of the other services: don’t post to YouTube from that account, don’t share Google Docs, files etc.
That's the abuse of monopoly part.
Most apps on Android behave like a malware. The most annoying ones are those who randomly take over the screen and play ads with annoying music and you have no way to close it quickly and you don't know which app is displaying those. Only solutions so far is to actually disable apps one by one and see if the problem appear.
I think Google should remove all apps that do that.
My friend's phone who is not IT literate, essentially looks as the IE6 back in the day.
Amazon deals in counterfeit goods all the time and there's still been no substantial changes to how they deal with it either.

If you sue a behemoth like Google or Amazon, they'll likely gladly make a settlement with you that's considerably greater than the actual damages because they value the NDAs and lack-of-PR damage from the inevitable Wall St. Journal headlines...
When it comes to freemium, what are the pros/cons of doing a limited-time (but fully-featured) free trial, versus a feature-limited (but not time-limited) free tier?
You're correct. They didn't mean he can't train upper body but there are limits to upper body mass. A bodybuilder doesn't make a good footballer.
Have been using them for 5 (?) years now and I can't complain as well.
Worse than that, these systems are perfect for decision laundering. You can make the system do arbitrary judgements, and blame negative consequences on "bias in the training data" or such.
The Chinese ‘Debt Trap’ Is a Myth
Out of the major developed countries, Britain is leading in vaccine distribution. In terms of infections, British numbers are on par with other European nations when controlled by population.

Where is this negativity coming from? From the outside, it looks like you're doing something right.
What if my Google Cloud account gets nuked because of something not related to it? Can I still contact the Cloud support to get my account back open again?
I'm sure hiring a taxi will have the same benefits and it will end up being cheaper and even more convenient when you consider all the costs and hassles, which including parking in these short trip situations, insurance, rapid depreciation, maintenance, etc. The issue with mass transit is always the last mile, but foldable lightweight e-scooters and mini e-bikes can solve it.
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Agreed. The only way reviews can be done is by stores doing the review based on source code, and have submitting source code be mandatory with automated builds before review. That is not something companies like Apple or Google would even care about, it is not in their interest, since it is not their problem.

The phone market is a duopoly, Google and Apple have the market shared between them. There is no need to really improve this situation for end-users. For me it feels like Windows XP all over again.

I am a happy user of a Linux phone. I very much enjoy and support Jolla and Sailfish OS, while also hoping for the Pinephone and the Librem 5 to take off and be available as an option for daily use.
People at Google really do want to fix this... But it's a minefield of:

* Legal stuff (eg. some algorithm detected child porn in his account, is an employee legally allowed to look at it to confirm the algorithm was correct? no.)

* Internal Politics (eg. one team has found this account DoSing their service, while the account is perfectly normal in all other ways, but due to Googles systems being so complex a single-service ban is very hard to implement)

* GDPR/Privacy laws (The law requires the deletion of no-longer needed data. As soon as his account gets banned, the data is no longer needed for Googles business purposes (of providing service to him), so the deletion process can't be delayed.

* Stolen/shared accounts. All it takes is one evil browser extension to steal your user account cookie and go on a spamming spree. Figuring out how it happened is near impossible (user specific logs are anonymized). Usually just resetting the users logins doesn't solve it because the malware is still on the users computer/phone and will steal the cookie again.

* Falsely linked accounts. Some spammers create gmail addresses to send spam, but to disguise them they link lots of real peoples accounts for example via using someone elses recovery phone number, email address, contacts/friends, etc. In many cases they will compromise real accounts to create all these links, all so that as many real users as possible will be hurt if their spamming network is shutdown.

* Untrustable employees. Google tries not to trust any employee with blanket access to your account. That means they couldn't even hire a bunch of workers to review these accounts - without being able to see the account private data, the employee wouldn't be able to tell good from bad accounts.

* Attacks on accounts. There are ways for someone who doesn't like you to get a Google account banned. Usually there are no logs kept (due to privacy reasons) that help identify what happened. Example method: Email someone a PDF file containing an illegal image, then trick them into clicking "save to drive". The PDF can have the image outside the border of the page so it looks totally normal.

Yes, it's solvable, and Google should put more effort into it, but it's hard to do.
> Apps that offer what should have been offered by the OS vendor in the first place.

Wouldn't that be anti-competitive? Similar situation when Microsoft was including IE on their system that made them a quasi monopolist with subpar product.
I'd rather have Google having stricter rules when it comes to malware.
What I see here is a research institute in Barcelona without any reference on research market share regarding audio papers, selling Raspberry PI based stuff.

While interesting, hardly any leading number 1, top of the tops.

Ableton runs just fine on Apple M1.
PropTech Industry, Startups Overview and Trends 2021
>"The new concept would accelerate the particles using

magnetic reconnection

– a process found throughout the universe, including the surface of the Sun – in which

magnetic field lines converge, suddenly separate, and then join together again

,

generating lots of energy

. Reconnection also occurs inside doughnut-shaped tokamak fusion devices."

(Side note: I think that there's something here with respect to understanding Energy -- itself...

Also, I think the word "Energy" is etymologically interesting... because we see the same root: "En" -- in words like 'Entangle', 'Entropy' and 'Enharmonic'... is there a relationship there? Or is it mere coincidence?)

Future ToDo: Study Magnetic Reconnection in the context of understanding Energy...
I would argue that "European cuisine" is closer to "Chinese" or "Indian" cuisine in scale of diversity as the parent comment mentioned. The other two are just far less discoverable, at least internationally and possibly domestically as well.
Not everyone wants to use more spying software.
The best thing is using your own domain, then you can change your providers whenever you need to.
Tested on Firefox 85.0 on Linux mint. The id is different across a normal window and a private window.
Also tried using a new profile using `about:profiles` and again the id was different.
Hide all the meetings where you're an optional attendee. Better yet, auto decline them.
Reproducibility in ML: why it matters and how to achieve it – Determined AI
if this ship is purely wind powered and basis on the published info this seems to be the case, i.e. there is no main engine of any type/fuel for propulsion - commercially it’s not viable.
Shipping is highly optimized for arrival to a destination/port on a very narrow time window. Even delays of a couple of hours will be extremely expensive. For example, late arrival to SUEZ means that the vessel will join the end of the convoy at a premium rate costing hundreds of thousands of USD in additional fees. Not only that, Ports and Charterers (Liners) are working basis specific arrival times, you cannot simply arrival late because the wind was not favorable.
It could work as an assisting system, such as Flettner rotors , skysails ,etc
Greg Egan opened up the path with Sci-Fi novels based on hard physics. They have a select audience but they are a treasure.
Oh, wow, this is even worse than my guess.
DO NOT generate a random MAC Address in the manner suggested here. You have a change of setting the "Locally administered address" bit, or worse the unicast/multicast bit. This will cause some network switches to silently drop your packets and you won't know why.

I learned this at 2 in the morning trying to bring up a second FPGA. Couldn't work out why it didn't work when the first one did, and it turned out to be because someone (possibly me) had picked the MAC Address 01:02:03:04:05:06 (we were on a private network).

Instead, pick an OUI you like (the first 3 bytes), and then randomly generate the last 3.
Genocide is political?
Is .dev or .io considered a well-known gTLD by now? I’m in process of setting up email for my .dev domain.
Re AdblockPlus, I can recommend Ublock Origin instead. The UBO developer (Raymond Hill) repeatedly chose ethical behavior over money.
> Yeah, it's always in the flashlights, the barcode scanners, the background packs.

Why are Google afraid to release a free non-harmful version of those popular apps. Is it to keep the illusion the app-store is a vibrant market place where tons of developers get rich? It just seems nuts to allow all those harmful apps (that does virtually nothing) to float among the top downloads.
To emphasise, our national broadcasters are not our only broadcasters, so the funding of our media is not dependant on the government. There are commercial broadcasters as well.
I just wish that regulation would step in and make behavior like this illegal for the corporate giants. It is definitely possible to limit the power of the TOS, and it's already done in some cases in Europe (certain common TOS clauses are just void and do nothing).

One simple thing I'd really like to see is forbidding companies from terminating service without stating a reason, which seems like a really basic requirement. Once you have that, the next step could be legislating that there has to be a way to appeal service termination.

But right now, we're in the middle ages with this. "You're in jail, no we won't tell you why, no, there is nobody you can ask why and no process to revert it".
You’re right. How dare Microsoft abuses their monopoly and ships Windows with a clock in the taskbar!

And why stop here? We should open the market for TCP implementations. The status quo is anti-competitive and stifles innovation!
The answer is in the question:

- If you are offering a free trial, you want all your users to be customers

- If you are offering a free tier you bet your free users will either: become customers at some point or create some free marketing for you

I don't know if there are pro/cons, there are just times when you need one, and times when you need another. If you sell something really expensive, you can't put a free tier for example. It is always difficult to quantify the marketing aspect of things.
The State of the Serverless Art
It's not a big deal. I've had a .so domain for a decade and have only had to use a different email a couple times.

There is a different danger however — after about 8 years the annual fee went from about $15 to $60.
Fuzz Testing Is Teamwork – No More Fuzzing Ninja-Style