skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Of course, that wasn't scalable.

As opposed to this approach? I have my doubts. Of course, if you are a developer that's very important to the company, you may have the clout to push this through (which may then be perceived as a privilege given to you by colleagues: "ah, so-and-so is so important that he gets his undisturbed time, and we others have to schedule our meetings around him"), but what if everyone would be given the right to block off large portions of their calendar as they please? That would make it almost impossible to schedule meetings with a significant number of participants. For this to work, it would have to be embraced company-wide, e.g. a policy of "no meetings on Wednesdays and Fridays". Having customers involved further complicates things...
> Is there really no way for a user to get in touch with a human agent?

File for a C&D and then, if that does not help, a court-issued injunction order ("Abmahnung" followed by "Antrag auf Erlass einer einstweiligen Verfügung"), if you're German. This works somewhat reasonable for Twitter, Facebook and Google.
The documentation about this flag is on this Ubuntu wiki page:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ToolChain/CompilerFlags
This is not a constructive line of argument.
I think Fastmail ticks all your boxes except the split tab for messages and ads. Not sure about pricing. They’re cheap enough for my use case.

The UI is much better than the gmail one, and the mobile apps are excellent. It supports tags or folders, depending on user preference (I prefer folders, so this is a huge advantage vs gmail.)

The spam filter is much better than gmail’s, at least for my account. Over the same corpus (my email went to both during a transition period), they both let zero spam through, but gmail was incorrectly blocking 10-30% of incoming email until I disabled its spam filter.
Process, methodologies and tools are the resources available to you to tackle the problem from a technical point of view, rather than a goal unto themselves. People and collaboration are how you set those goals, and how you decide whether the processes in place fulfil those goals
> That is the world you are asking for, not the one we presently live in.

So, like mobile? Which is 70%+ of computing these days? :-)

> Freedom, for not only the end user but all the way up to distro packager. Systemd is designed to be non-portable, and force a network-effect pressure. I was similarly suspicious about WSL designing toward a linux API instead of POSIX... an effort to reduce the potential for alternatives emerging in the future, where your choices are windows or linux.

Freedom to do what? Init systems should be a solved problem, done and done. Innovation should happen higher up the stack, the init system should be uniform, hopefully flexible and universally adopted, and ideally standardized fully (as in ECMA & co.).
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.and.games5...

Still there as of yet.

But maybe he means that he won’t be pushing any updates to Google Play?

Current Version
1.4.0.5.2.1

Updated
December 8, 2020

Requires Android
4.4 and up

Time will tell I guess
I'll never do that, because I've done it without any kind of profit in mind. I've done it just to help people and the community.

I think that if the app is open source, it's harder to hide such behavior.
Ask HN: How can an engineer become great at UX and interface design?
Hello HN'ers

I've been working professionally as a software engineer for 10 years+. I'm pretty good with cloud computing, building services and all that goes along with that.

I'm also a creative person but really have kind of ignored UX and design.. I'd love to strengthen my skills here so that I could essentially build any kind of app or website with world class UX + design.

Are there any brilliant books that you could recommend, any resources that absolutely changed your being as a UX designer?
They have finished recruiting. I believe towards the end of January.
Because Twitter sucks and let you post lots of text in images but not in text. It's awful.
Play Store isn't struggling for content. Removing terraria from it has zero impact on Google's bottom line. Stadia on the other hand very much is - removal(or cancellation) of an extremely popular indie game from the platform just accelerates its inevitable demise, something that will very much hit google's bottom line.
Great work! I use PHP every day and interested in getting learning Lisp language. Are there real projects written in Phel?
Are B Corps cleaning up their digital impact?
Their new slogan is hilarious. It's not even one slogan, it's three:

* Respect the user

* Respect the opportunity

* Respect each other

The first one is obviously a joke, because nothing says "respect the user" like canceling a beloved service with millions of users, or "updating" the product while losing half the features.

The last one makes you wonder why they had to put it into a slogan. Isn't it the baseline expectation? It's somewhere on the level of "Don't steal your colleague's belongings" as far as slogans go.

But it's the second one that is absolutely the best, and by that, I mean the worst. Orwell would've had a lot to say about it. The thing is, it has absolutely no meaning in the English language. What's next? Say hi to agility? Don't offend capital gains? Console excellence?

Of course, it doesn't really matter. The whole thing has a mafia vibe, as Google's slogans and culture are drifting towards loyalty rather than standing up for what's right.

--------

If you want to have more fun, look at Google's Community Guidelines[1]

Compare to The Mafia Code:

* Be loyal to members of the organization. Do not interfere with each other's interest. Do not be an informer.

--[Google: Treat our data with care. Don't disseminate NTK information.]

* Be rational. Be a member of the team. Don't engage in battle if you can't win.

--[Google: follow Three Values, in particular: Respect the opportunity.]

* Be a man of honor. Respect womanhood and your elders. Don't rock the boat.

--[Google: Do your part to keep Google a safe, productive, and inclusive environment for everyone.]

* Be a stand-up guy. Keep your eyes and ears open and your mouth shut.

--[Google: Discussions that make other Googlers feel like they don't belong have no place here.]

* Have class. Be independent. Know your way around the world.

--[Google: You are responsible for your words and your reach.]

[1]https://about.google/community-guidelines/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...

> When inserted into a computer, the CDs installed one of two pieces of software which provided a form of digital rights management (DRM) by modifying the operating system to interfere with CD copying. Neither program could easily be uninstalled, and they created vulnerabilities that were exploited by unrelated malware. One of the programs would install and "phone home" with reports on the user's private listening habits - even if the user refused its end-user license agreement (EULA), while the other was not mentioned in the EULA at all. Both programs contained code from several pieces of copylefted free software in an apparent infringement of copyright, and configured the operating system to hide the software's existence, leading to both programs being classified as rootkits.

> on about 22 million CDs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish

> The installation included a universal self-signed certificate authority; the certificate authority allows a man-in-the-middle attack to introduce ads even on encrypted pages. The certificate authority had the same private key across laptops; this allows third-party eavesdroppers to intercept or modify HTTPS secure communications without triggering browser warnings by either extracting the private key or using a self-signed certificate.
It's like page rank but even worse?
I couldn't find this information. What is the magnification that you get in this way?

With those $15 digital microscopes, you get at least 150X.
iOS these days also grants Apple full automatic OS updates by default, too.

You can turn it off, but you have to dig in settings. During initial iOS 14 setup it has a screen telling you it's turning autoupdates on, but you're not allowed to opt out there.

Unattended upgrades are a remote code execution vulnerability.
This is why I get all of these kinds of apps from F-Droid instead of the Play Store. Here's the QR code scanner I use: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.t_dankworth.secscanqr/
Could the author be outsourced engineer in India, trying to sync his hours with American working time?
I'm terrified of browser extensions for this very same reason (and yes, I still use them). I wish the browser vendors supported some kind of pinning to source code for open source extensions. Right now I have at least 2 extensions running that I know could access my passwords on any website as I enter them. One of those is Lastpass, which I use for storing/generating those passwords anyway, and the other is AdBlock Plus. Could other extensions access sensitive information? I'm not sure, but I hate not being able to see the source code of apps which need so many permissions.
All my employees use a JSON formatter on Chrome. Such apps require permissions to view all sites...

I require them to create 2 profiles in Chrome (and a 3rd for personal purposes), one for dev and one for official purposes, but I know that, in remote work, they get less serious.

It’s a major security problem. I’m wondering whether I should purchase the Chrome extension’s source code and deploy it myself on the store.
Zora: Universal Media Protocol
Try OpenScan, open source document scanner app...

Source: I am a user
Sorry, how does paying for Google Workspace prevent you from getting your account locked and not being able to do something about it? I do believe that to login to the admin back-end and to contact support in the first place, you need to log in with your Google account.

Also, their support is... not exactly useful. I had to use it once a couple years ago (a feature wasn't working, I forgot which one) and all they could offer where excuses and "we take XY very seriously" and "thanks for bringing this to our attention". They never fixed it, of course.

Google has excellent engineers who crank out amazing stuff with a passion. Google is however shockingly bad in converting these things into something of lasting value, supporting and improving the excellent seeds they have/had (just look at the famous Google graveyard). As money is no object for Google, you can only come to the conclusion that all this is done on purpose and even purposely sinister. They focus on their ad business as that has a ROI that blows literally any other product in existence out of the water. And they just don't bother with anything else anymore. I mean, why would you spend your days toiling, building and maintaining stuff earning a decent (but not an obscene) wage if you had an ATM, nay a dozen, that just shoot free money at you all day like crazy.
I can understand it, but it's still sad, from a societal perspective ("make the world a better place" etc. etc.).
But can you build mobile apps with it?
are you kidding? Gmail UI is absolutely horrendous! I haven't used it in 4 months, and last week had to go there and was shocked and the mess it is. I guess I'm spoiled by Fastmail, which is actually fast, efficient and clean.
Love the post, good luck!

Re “Productivity equiation” from Ali Abdaal:
Productivity = Useful output / time x f (where f is the ‘fun factor’),
but treating f as constant is wrong - even fun projects can get tiresome . A good measure might be instead an inverse 'tediousness' factor, e.g. how tedious are the worst expected tedious parts of the project (like the 'fun' bottleneck) and make sure you don't get stuck when you reach those points.

Also fun project tend to be novel, but novel project have the highest amount of unexpectedness, so its good to decide on a few 'novel' things and let the rest of the project be based on stuff you know well.
I would like to see, something that would change/ask for a new IPv6 address for each application on your computer, or for each browser tab a different IPv6 address.
> odd title

I don’t think so

A (specific) Liberal Art for the (other) Liberal Arts
Yet we've had people argue that they wouldn't give us the public part of their JWT RSA signing keypair, because "they wouldn't publish that anyway", hence this post.
Yeah, it's always in the flashlights, the barcode scanners, the background packs. They all address super basic functionality that many, many people seem to want (if I could just set a ringtone from YouTube, it'd save me from going through a bunch of shady apps, if I ever needed a ringtone that is). Yet they just aren't included in the base OS (or weren't always, my lineage OS has a flashlight currently). Therefore, they offer very low hanging fruit(super simple app, one can hardly ask money for it, so how does one make money?)

I heard from a friend that iOS has TOTP and indeed a barcode scanner build in, same goes for cal/carddav. To be fair, my wife's Pocophone also comes up with a QR-code icon when the cam detects a QR code. And, FireFox for mobile has a QC code scanner build in (although since I now have to open a new tab for each new page and I end up with many many tabs of the same 4 websites I find myself using FF less and less).

Maybe the experience on Pixel Phones is better? GCam makes a lot of difference in many aspects.
Spend ~$5 of Google Adwords, and chances are you'll have someone calling you regularly trying to talk you into using it more - at least that's my experience. In the past it's been a pain to get them to stop bothering me.

If I have an issue with Google, I might try starting an adwords campaign and ask to speak to supervisors when their sales calls comes through, and see if there's an in along the way of "we would spend more, but you see you've done X that needs to be resolved first".

My other approach - not tried it on Google, but it worked very well on DHL and Uber so far - is to sign up for LinkedIn's premium subscription and use that to Inmail a bunch of VPs/SVPs and set out my grievance. My experience so far is that you need to find someone high enough up to be under the illusion - from lack of customer contact - that everything is well. They often seem to be shocked to hear that customers hit the wall, and get approached rarely enough that it's a novelty for them to help out (as such, it'll probably stop working if everyone starts doing this...)

With DHL in particular I got an SVP to get his assistant to light a fire under the customer service operation by telling them said SVP wanted to be kept up to date on how it went, and Cc'ing said SVP and me on the e-mails. A package they "could do nothing about" because it was supposedly on a boat back to the US, magically appeared in my office one business day later after it was located in a depot 5 minutes from my office (I wish I could say that was the first time DHL has told me a package was somewhere completely different to where it actually was)
One thing that I haven't seen mentioned yet here is the role of luck in life.
I've worked with some people who have been laughably bad and yet have amazingly been promoted as the senior boss while technically brilliant was a terrible judge of character. The 'laughably bad' guys job was so cushy he's still there 5 years later.
I've seen other brilliant guys not be promoted when they worked hard and totally deserved it while an incompetent other person got the job instead.
Luck is very under appreciated for how far people can go in corporations.
Most VPS providers tick most of the boxes on your list, so I'm not sure what you're on about.

Also $100 for his case would be $1 per 60 monthly visitors. I hope they're not planning to be ad-supported, because then they will be leaking money at an amazing rate.

Plus what is the point of scaling when you're losing money at any scale?

I run a site with roughly 2 million monthly visitors. On AWS it would cost me $20,000/month on traffic alone.

Instead I run it on 4 dedicated servers and a bunch of VPS, costing me around $500/month all-in-all.

I could hire a four system administrators for the money I save, to look after each of my four dedicated servers full-time. How does AWS beat that?
It’s not an issue with Big Sur, rather it’s a hardware issue with Macs starting around 2018. I had the same problem on a 2020 MacBook Aid running Catalina.
I think I'm going to spend the next few days working on a backup strategy for all my google related data and accounts...
Give me back the years I spent playing this absolute masterpiece!
We've all been signing those nefarious EULAs for decades, long before Google play store.

Stallman has been shouting about it for equally as long and we either called him a crank or label GPL as viral whatever. We reap what we sow.
Using it since the release for swiss residents and everything is fine. The interface is slight with lot of customization available. The storage quota is huge and we can use several apps to connect our email or synchronize files stored on the drive. Defenitely a realy good alternative to other providers
The second paper is interesting, and I have only skimmed it, not read it (I'l check it out this evening). Basically it compares 8 country's with harsh measures (mrNPI's) with 2 countrys with lighter measures (lrNPI's)

It might imply that lockdowns are not the only way forward, but surely does not advocate doing nothing.

Some notes from Page 5 figure 2 - That whole table is interesting to show what works and what doesn't.

France, national lockdown is in green, i.e. significant effect estimated on daily growth rate. So lockdowns do work, according to the paper.

In lrNPI's, the countrys without lockdown, the table suggests as alternatives:

* For South Korea: Optional social distancing and emergency declaration.

* For Sweden: School closure, no public or private gathering.

I'm not sure if this is much better than a complete lockdown. There are also big differences in how well people follow guidelines from their governement. Cliché maybe, but i see optional social distancing working better in South Korea culture than in an USA style 'fuck the gubberment' culture.

The site's PDF viewer should be taken out and shot, BTW. Here is a download link:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/eci.13...
Why Machines That Bend Are Better
China has this for its citizens already
Metal Refactoring -  making a Kawasaki Z2300 V12 motorcycle
There's a userscript manager built into your browser: it's called "extensions".

No, I'm serious. Yes, extensions come with extra complexity, but that's because they have things like permissions, so that you don't have to trust Joe Developer as much.
And provides out of the box DNS caching, like any modern operating system.

Do Linux users really want their year on the desktop, or will they keep complaining at any change to get there?
"UK 'Kent' variant with the E484K mutation - it was seen in 11 out of 214,159 samples"[1]

There's been only a handful of cases with that variation in the UK, it is not the dominant strain which the AstraZeneca results you referred to came from.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55900625
I have a feeling that tunneling might just be a better option that creating VPN in enterprise setting. For instance, if you have confluence, jira etc running in your enterprise private network, instead of creating a VPN and asking endusers to connect to that VPN. They could expose each app with a authenticated tunnel. In this way the threat matrix reduces down to the application that is exposed and not whole private network. I wondering if something like this exists.
What method do you use? I want something automated, I don't have time to trigger google take out every so often and then manual click 100s of links and download them.
Another episode of Stallman was right.
This was ~15 years ago. The bandwidth metering was in place to throttle people doing big downloads via the internet. We had something like 1gb per week at 100mbps, then gradually got brought down to something like dialup. Internet2 was not metered.

There were people running internal torrent trackers and file indexing/sharing sites on the LAN that could saturate the network infrastructure between the various dorms and buildings on campus. I guess the whitelisting also helped figure out who was doing what when problems happened.
French Marketplace Accepting Crypto
Yes, I looked around now for a provider supporting custom domains so I don't need to change address just because I change provider and came up with a few popular ones: Fastmail, Protonmail, Runbox. Note that Protonmail is "special" about their IMAP/POP3 support, only supporting select clients and then via a particular helper application.

It's not only this issue with Google being like a wall when things happen, but also that I dislike their semi-AI based interface. While I like their good spam filter, there's a lot of other stuff going on there, and that without any inbox rules that I have set up.
Netflix has a 30-day trial though. (Which is fine to explore what it does)

So I guess the solution is to have a way to have your customer test your product in a thorough way.
I've got a shorter one! (which may or may not work anymore. its old and hastily written :)

https://github.com/chrislgarry/XFinityHotspotSpoofer/blob/ma...
How Do I Get Email Address Lists for Email Marketing?
I have offered a free plan for my SaaS from day one, with quite generous limits, on a niche with mostly paid-only alternatives. I think it comes down to tradeoffs.

As a self-funded solo founder, this has helped me gain many users since launch, which give me plenty feedback and help to validate new product features without having lots of marketing effort so far.

I don't sell any data, or display ads on free accounts. The reason to upgrade is more capacity, or complementary features for business users (e.g. alerts or organisation/team accounts).

That said, a couple of things to consider:

- Do your numbers: if you have 100 free users for every paying customer, are you going to be profitable? Can you handle the costs?

- In my experience, free users tend to attract more free users.

- They can generate a lot of support pressure, but handled right can be a great way to understand your customers problems. Handled wrong can kill you.

- Expect a small percentage of free users to cause the most trouble. From creating several accounts with different email addresses, to publicly complaining about the free plan being limited, to requesting lots of features only to switch to another free product once it's time to upgrade.

- If you're targeting B2B, price might not be as much of a factor as you might think. Are you going to save or make money for other businesses?

I could talk more about this, but will probably write a blog post one day with more learnings once I have them.

I’m happy to offer a free plan as long as it’s sustainable and I can see the benefits. So far it’s going great for me, but know what you’re getting into, and be sure you can handle the costs both in time and money with low conversion rates vs a trial model.

Edit: I moved the comment to this discussion as it's more fitting. I removed the link to my product.
How to prepare your web application for the cloud
It will be flagged into oblivion by Chinese accounts soon.
You already can, if you use an email provider like gmail with your own domain name.
All based on the results of a study with 95% CI between -50% and 60% efficacy.
Which resolvers actually follow that path?
My Moto G8 Power (G Power in the US) Android phone has it as part of the Camera app; when you point the camera at a code, a small bubble will pop up at the bottom allowing you to follow the link/see the content.
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