skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue there's no real alternative to YouTube. There's got to be orders of magnitude more content there than all of its competitors combined.
Their size insulates them from competition, which means less accountability.

We need to give them competition in the form of neutral and permissionless decentralized platforms. Such platforms should be the primary forum for commerce and communication, and privately owned permissioned platforms like Google should be small/bit players in comparison.

Right now the situation, in terms of whether the digital commons are primarily controlled by private companies or by public networks, is the opposite of what it should be.
I use Fastmail with a personal domain name.
We used to do free trials but I think early on as a bootstrapper/indiehacker not having a free plan helps you get from 0 to 1 faster, which should be your goal. Understanding what set of features results in someone not only paying for the product but sticking each month as well. Offering a money back guarantee has been a good in between for us, this way users still have some sort of recourse if things don't work and it helps alleviate their purchasing decision. We also capture a bit of that revenue if they decide to continue to use the service (since they pay the whole time rather than a free 2-week/30 day trial). Lastly it helps get more serious buyers in the door and reduces support w/ free users early on.

Free trials don't create this dynamic of having skin in the game, most of the time people will forget they're on a free trial and aren't incentivized to give any feedback as to why they didn't convert. By them needing to reach out to get a refund things are much more aligned with your goal of understanding if you are delivering enough value or why not.

I think as you grow larger (or are VC backed/trying to capture market share), exploring a free plan is pretty important to help with that. But if you've grown to that point, having a free plan or not is likely the least of your worries.
Are most people here doing B2B? I assumed it was mostly b2c
Here's is the EMA summary (I believe the full assessment report is not yet public): https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-recommends-covid-19-va...

Key snippet:

Most of the participants in these studies were between 18 and 55 years old. There are not yet enough results in older participants (over 55 years old) to provide a figure for how well the vaccine will work in this group. However, protection is expected, given that an immune response is seen in this age group and based on experience with other vaccines; as there is reliable information on safety in this population, EMA’s scientific experts considered that the vaccine can be used in older adults. More information is expected from ongoing studies, which include a higher proportion of elderly participants.

I'd assume the EMA's assessment is based on AZ's data and application, rather than on reports from German newspapers or politicians.

We can probably all agree with the EMA's assessment that AZ's effectiveness for the elderly is likely but not convincingly demonstrated yet. Based on this it's reasonable for different national EU agencies to give different recommendations for application to the elderly. For instance, in the Netherlands national agency recommends using Pfifer / Moderna for the 65+ and AZ for 65-.
Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't the ephemeral nature would make that difficult? (or more difficult than on something like Twitter)
To add to the list there's also Sandstorm: https://sandstorm.io
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You recommended JIRA?

To someone that you don't hate?
Shows the bias in machine learning. One simple parameter isn't added and the whole model is bullshit.

One parameter would be: Amount of money this customer has spend on our products.

Another would be: Active time since signup.

I'm pretty sure if "money spend > 0" is actually a legitimate threshold to remove a lot of spam, although not all. "money spend > 200" might to the trick though.
To be honest our lockdown measures were the best they could have been, given the socioeconomic climate.
Do not host your own email unless you really, really want to do that for learning purposes or something similar.

You can use fastmail, or if you don't want to lose Gmail's UI you can use GSuite which lets you use a personal domain name.
For anyone reading this, this person is not embellishing or being a complainer as mentioned by some others here. In fact, it is actually much worse than what is described here, the list would be very long if all of it is listed here. Other than the covid corruption, there are a ton of other issues too that makes everything worse (SAA, Eskom, Post Office, broken municipalities, State Capture, Telkom/Icasa, The Guptas/Zuma's/Malema's/Ace/Vbs Saga).

The biggest piece that is broken in our country is our Justice system. None of the evil people will put one foot in jail. Our democracy/gov is a sham. It's just theater at this point. They are all actors, being paid to extract value from us (aka your labour). Their bosses are not in South Africa..

I saw a picture the other day of the Police Minister sitting next to Ace and having a laugh. It is revolting. That person completely raped one of the Provinces and now he sits in parliament making jokes with the person who should lock him up.

Stuff like that. Loads of it. It doesn't feel like a real country anymore at all. At least until some form of justice prevails, until then it's all just lies and corruption.
Sorry to disappoint! I'm not a grizzled netcode veteran. I guess my strength is explaining complex topics in an accessible way - that's the main contribution of these articles, and the same can be said about my Computer Graphics book. [IMPOSTOR SYNDROME INTENSIFIES]
I don't know if it differs from various vendor releases of android but certainly on my Samsung S20, QR codes can be read without an additional app just by pointing the camera app at one. I seem to recall my Pixel XL did the same.
When I used something like this on macOS, it confused software like OmniFocus that used the MAC address for licensing and synchronization. I'm not sure if that's still the case, but worth keeping an eye on.
Compile to C is perfectly fine. I have not seen anyone really bash that architecture.
Plenty people arguing for a free plan in the "Don't Offer a Free Plan" thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26059517
I'll give you YouTube :)

YouTube feels like it's about to hit some wall though, content matching copyright take downs seem to be getting out of control.
It's possible to have a system that marks high profile accounts that shouldn't have automated actions applied ... that it appears Google doesn't have something like this is worrying.
I remember seeing on our university VAX in the early 80s in Germany. Either on the screen or on print-outs. Probably more commonly on the screen, but occasionally someone sent it to the printer.

No idea whether a local operator (yeah, there was one sysadmin and 1 or 2 operators for 2 VAXes) or even DEC had installed it.
Can you imagine any serious new project starting on Google Cloud with their lack of human support? I wonder if Google knows this is why they will never compete with Azure or AWS.
> Good example of standing up.

But he won't pull Terraria from the Play Store I guess. Because he has no choice unless he wants to wreck his business.
Actually, crime disproportionately affects the poor in South Africa and the poor are disproportionately black.

The “real” crime rate for middle and upper classes is far lower than reported numbers suggest.
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I wonder though if the really good trial data of the MRNA ones mean they’ll be able to do just safety trials (nothing on effectiveness) in the future, while the Oxford collaboration will be closer scrutinized.
These are exactly the cases that worry me. ML / AI is not ready to be used like that. IDK if it ever will be, but they are already using it in production anyways.
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Yes, the good old Don't Be Evil days. I've asked so many people if they can remember Google's old slogan. Nobody does.
The world is not burning. Do you know what was before play store, YouTube, twitch, whatever... nothing.

It's not like they came and stomped over your beautiful garden.
If the OP open sources his QR code reader app then the "free" model is absolutely sustainable.
and pretty soon google is charging 'protection money' to all the victims of a hack.
I don't think it was ever Stallman's point. He is smart enough to recognize most users aren't going to be technically competent.

He's also smart enough to recognize is that most people are going to have someone technically competent in their circle of friends, or within few minutes of walking distance. So people need a set of rights that will allow them to ask or hire someone else to care for their computing. In this sense, Free Software is like Right to Repair - it isn't about making individuals technically competent; it's about enabling local markets of specialists.
Is it an extension? (I know technically it is). Voice could be captured as accent/pitch/tone... I guess it’s a problem as there would be too much natural overlap, so not really a novel expression.
> repackaging the official Terraria Windows game and passing it off as their own work

Those would be easy to take down due to code/asset reuse and name reuse. You don't need to be an author on the platform to file DMCA reports. Otherwise, there are already lots of actual Terraria clones by different names.
Since there are no comments after 4 hours, I'll write a longer one.

I read this paper a while back and learned that the Turing Test, even if it was purely a test for imitating a human rather than specifically a woman, is still greatly underspecified. It depends a lot on who is being tested, what questions they ask, how long can they have this conversation, and how the human being tested responds.

I would like to propose a different test that is more clearly specified and has more modern day relevance, that I call the imPoster test.

The imPoster Test evaluates whether a human can judge whether a sample of social sharing activity is from someone they already know, or if it is generated by computer software (a bot) to imitate that person. Like a Twitter or Instagram feed. Therefore, the relationship between the judge and who they're evaluating is controlled rather than random. It can be set up like the original Turing Test Imitation Game, where the judge sees the feeds from both the bot and their friend, but doesn't know which is which. This test has a few desirable properties compared to the Turing Test:

1) Variation from the conversation is reduced, as the communication is purely one-way, and the judge is trying to determine if it is a known specific person rather than a random person (who can exhibit an unpredictable wide range of behaviors).

2) We're testing a form of digital identity of a person, which can build on more parts of artificial intelligence (user modeling, computer vision, NLP, social graph), rather than ad-hoc conversation which is mostly NLP.

3) Rather than a resulting "pass" or "fail" decision, it is possible compute a score based on how many posts a judge correctly labels as belonging to the poster.

I'd be interested in hearing if others think this is an interesting challenge as an AI benchmark.
> anyone doing business with you

If they did this, how would you prevent people from saying that is unfair, or making it seem like it is pay to play, or something like that?

Disclaimer: Work at Google (far from this space); opinions are my own.
It’s a bank app. Keep your bank apps up to date.

Complain about updates all you want but not keeping your bank apps up to date is the wrong solution.
Same thing happened with Schmidt too. I have heard stories of people banned from (some) Google's services and unable to get any help a decade ago. Nothing new here, unfortunately((
> made it a webpage, and called it a service.

That is added value for many people.

Some people will google the answer to their question, land on this webpage, read the transcript for this one video that caught their interest in the first place, and be done with their task.
I've had to deal with googles support for Google Apps/GSuite/Google Workspace (or whatever they call it now) and in many cases it's not much better than no support. Often the people you could get on the phone had no overlap with the people that could help you and even when they could help you they had no sense of urgency and some pretty critical issues could take weeks to get a proper answer.
I came here to mention how stunned I am to know where you are describing; been around the US and never found a club as unique for layout or people

Although for a dance scene it was a lot more booze driven than drugs when I was local to it, and they had old vinyl booths around the walls of the dance floor but no bottle service
Additionally you can have two/three separate phones, linked to separate accounts for different purposes. I keep one phone separate for phone gaming.
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If that happens, they should sue Google for dealing in counterfeit goods.

They’ll have a ridiculously strong case.
Google One comes with phone support
Three days from initial warning to disabling their account is ridiculous though. What if the person behind that mailbox was off sick or on holiday?
The Stadia version is the one cancelled. I doubt Google doesn't have a tougher screening process for games for Stadia, since they are the ones running the game. It is highly improbable that a knockoff game will land on it.
As long as the cost of false-positives is lower than the cost of human support staff, they will keep doing this stuff.

Millions of pages of EULA, but not a single line in there to protect the user? No right to get your data once banned? No right to appeal or even be informed about the reasons?

Just imagine if Google ran the Justice system! They would suspend peoples drivers licenses without their knowledge and then throw them in jail because of a two strike rule when they get caught driving with a suspended license.

...
I try to do everything in my power to keep two days entirely free for real work. If that doesn't work, at least I'll usually have one day without a meeting / distraction.

Obviously, this is not always something you can control, but if you can I highly recommend it. If you are in a position to do make this decision, make it clear to everyone all the time that you're e.g. not available on Tuesdays.
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Me neither, but I also haven't seen anyone very enthused by it either
Scala and Scala.js (https://www.scala-js.org/)

It's an amazing stack, integrates nicely into the existing ecosystem and has phenomenal usability.
Oh wow, one hundredth of a user.

People really need to start respecting m=milli and M=mega.
I switched from gsuite to protonmail, but I kinda wish I had checked out fastmail
The letter said that my account was banned because of violation of their terms. no further details. no options for the solution of the problem.

until today i don't know what the issue was. i only can assume that some nude pictures of my ex gf were uploaded to skydrive a few days/weeks before the account was banned.
Why is saying that "China is commiting genocide against the Uighurs" flagged as political, but saying "Russia is distorting GPS to protect Putin", isn't?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26061652
Good for them! Now if they can just send their supplies our way?
Quote from Malwarebytes site: "Peter V. Jaspers-Fayer - Why does this article not contain the publisher and the icon of the app in question? There are many called "Barcode Scanner", and by omitting this information, you have caused unwarranted panic by users of innocent apps of the same name."

The fact that Google allows applications on Google Play to have identical/duplicate names is a significant ongoing problem as it causes considerable confusion.

I'm not against apps that have similar functions having identical (duplicate) filenames as this stops developers having to dream up ridiculous names that have little or no bearing to an app's function but it would make sense to separate the apps in some simple way that users could easily identify. For instance, apps with identical names could be flagged in many ways such as, say, Google providing a sequence number to the end of the filename. And I'm sure there are many other suitable ways I've not thought of.

As for the fact that Google lets malware onto Google Play and that it has happened many times demonstrates the fact that Google doesn't consider the matter of highest importance. That's to say, keeping malware off users' Android phones is not as important as making money from its advertisers.

If keeping malware off apps were equally important to Google then this is malware would have unlikely escaped Google's monitoring, as Google has just about every technical measure at its disposal to monitor apps for malware—and I'd venture to say that even its AI technology could be brought bear.

Clearly, if both issues aren't of equal importance in Google's eyes then it raises questions as to why Google keeps changing or adding certain features to its Android operating system in the name of security but which annoy users (and in effect violate their privacy—in that users' data, etc are even more transparent to Google whether the user likes it or not).

Day by day, Google is proving itself to everyone to be more of a worry.

—

Note: I'm one of those who have an app on my phone named 'Barcode scanner' and it took me a while to determine (fortunately) that the one I have installed is not the app in question.
Utterly untrue. AWS is not a 'systematic risk', that's absolutely ridiculous and I can't even begin to address that statement.
Czech here. JetBrains is really incorporated as a Czech corp., but in the same way that many ships are registered in Liberia. I have some paid licences of JetBrains, I have e-mailed back and forth with JetBrains employees in different positions, and all were Russians.
I don’t buy the blub analogy. There are lots of languages I don’t know that I know are more powerful than the ones I do... it isn’t even difficult to think about.

I’ve met lots of people smarter than me too and I can easily identify why: oh she really knows more about x than me, or he’s very good at destructuring things...
Nope. My Adsense account was banned almost 9 years ago. I followed their appeals process, gave all the information required, and received automated responses every time. I repeatedly appealed over the last 9 years, receiving the automated rejections every time, until finally a few weeks ago for some reason they approved the appeal and my account was reinstated :shrugs:
10. Conclusions

Visual Programming and Program Visualization are interesting areas that show
promise for improving the programming process, especially for non-programmers, but
more work needs to be done. The success of spreadsheets demonstrates that if we find
the appropriate paradigms, graphical techniques can revolutionize the way people
interact with computers.
This is the exact opposite of what Google/Apple want to do. Why pay a human to do something? Let the computer do the thing, and a Google-human will listen only of the victim-human will yell loud enough. This is their tiering system.

On the other side though, Google cannot have 1 FTE per 1000 'clients' (paying-humans and/or product-humans). As a 'father' here wrote, you stay or you go. Or at least keep the personal stuff out ('15years of gmail' - WHY???) and leave the app-stuff within Google (or Apple for that matter).
> the common word you would use [for] PhD is professor or scientist

Those are not common words for people possessing a PhD, and that's good because they are totally inappropriate words.

A PhD is a type of qualification (a very unusual one, in that it requires original contribution to knowledge rather than just learning existing knowledge, but it's a qualification nonetheless). "Professor", in total contrast, is essentially a job title. It's very possible for someone to have a PhD and not be a professor. The most common case is where a PhD holder has simply not stayed in acamedia at all; actually this probably describes the vast majority of PhD holders (by simple maths of the number of PhD students per academic). Even for people in academia there is typically a gap before you get the formal title professor (here in the UK it historically goes PhD student, postdoc, lecturer (the first one of these that is a permanent job), reader, professor; in the US it's a bit different and sometimes you have someone called "associate professor" but not be entitled to use the "Professor" as a title before their name, but there's still certainly a potential gap in the middle).

"Scientist" has many of the above problems but is less of a formal term so could maybe be slightly more widely used e.g. maybe a postdoc or someone working in certain types of industry could be called scientist. But it's still basically a job title so it doesn't work for someone that gets a PhD and then becomes a carpenter. It also has the opposite problem that someone could potentially be a scientist without holding a PhD, so if you specifically want to refer to that then it's imprecise. But it has the much larger problem that it only applies to science! It would be very odd to call someone a scientist because they hold a PhD in modern art or literature, or even mathematics or economics.
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This is actually quite interesting from a wind-powered cargo perspective. Normally stories like this are about ships that can carry 2,000 TEUs (a measure of freight containers) while the biggest conventional ships carry 20,000 TEUs. This ship can actually carry 7,000 cars while the biggest conventional car carrier manages 8,500. It's in the same ballpark with far less fuel usage. It could feasibly replace car carriers on routes where wind is an option.
When "a" substack who knows, from the TFA:

> Purely for comparative purposes, a two-bullet rundown of my own corrections policy:

> If a reader points out anything untrue or unfair, I (i) pay out a bounty, (ii) make in-line and end-note edits to the original, (iii) update my public corrections log

> If the mistake is serious, I also publish reflections on where things broke down and what I’m doing to limit future risk (example)
> [...]
> Big Canadian bank too. US$65b mkt cap.

Well then, let me tell you about Toronto Dominion bank (TD, market cap ~$105B)

The app allows you to photograph a cheque to deposit from the app. This option is displayed for their TD USD chequing account.

I scanned a cheque from a US bank in the app (to deposit into my USD chequing account), only to be informed that cheques from US banks cannot be deposited using the app and that I'd have to go to a branch.

The same app is missing transactions and does not correctly display the current balance of some accounts (which are correctly shown in EasyWeb) The app has also blocked screenshots, so I was unable to provide their customer support with proof of the missing transactions.

Call me entitled, but I would expect all transactions and current account balances visible in the web interface to be accurately reflected in the bank's official app.

If you have ever experienced N26, Revolut, or any number of European "FinTech" banks, you will understand that Canadian banks are busy banging rocks together while telling you they're hot shit.