skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only thing scarier than the thought that Google has algorithms that track your every move is that these algorithms are fundamentally faulty and furthermore they take decisions based on these algorithms. Case in point Google ads thinks I'm 70 years old and married
I second this. Migadu has great support and affordable prices. I also like the fact that you can link any number of domains to your account without extra costs.
you mean ready like societies in the US, UK, China, France and other aggressors and occupants (so often wearing blue helmets)? Or men in suits sitting in off-shore banks in the West who help loot the continent on nation-state scale (Gabon => France)? Or Germany who still refuses to acknowledge and pay retribution for war crimes in the region? Or did you mean the current EU government with its Erdogan & FRONTEX firewall that ensures we keep those refugees in concentration camps during a pandemic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_genocide
This is so interesting. I had a similar experience like what you described. A friend of mine drunk dialed me when she was partying with her girlfriends, telling me that her friend thought I was cute.

It felt weird - that she was sharing photos of me with her friends - and a bit objectifying too. But yeah, I had the same thought as you. It felt nice.

Also, your writing style is amazing. If you ever write a blog or a book, I would give it a try just on the basis of how well you articulate thoughts.
I'd think mostly that you could make free too good and everyone just uses that. But if everyone is using ur app, then you have a userbase and you could start monetizing them.
This guy speaking - with Obama's voice - is eerie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5yw5cR79VA&feature=emb_logo
Real-Time Prediction Serving, Simplified
Soldat and UT for me as well :) And Trackmania. And of course some browser games like MotherLoad.
http://www.drilers.com/
> were a problem since foundation of Google

You might be right, but Google changed as a company.

They started selling phones (ok, even if your account gets locked... you can still use your phone and/or create a new account to install free apps from what was the android market)

They started to sell storage (ok, even if your account gets locked, as long as you can retrieve your contents with Takeout, you just lost access to Google Drive, and not something of lasting value)

And they've been selling music (not anymore), movies, books, games (both on Play store and Stadia)... and more hardware that ties into their services (e.g. Nest Hub is useful precisely because you can have it automatically show your pictures from Google Photos, and you can have calls with other people on Duo)

The more new commercial products they offer, the more they should be careful about account bans. At the very least you want to segment access to them (as an extreme* example: even if you uploaded child pornography on Google Drive, after you'll have paid your debt to society, you ought still be able to play Cyberpunk 2077 that you purchased on Stadia)

(* extreme both because of the heinousness of the crime, and also how trivial/unimportant a videogame is on the grand scheme of things... but I think there's an easier case to be made for someone to retain access to the game that they purchased, vs retaining access to their Google contacts, which might not even be backed by any payment for the service)
A Victorian Two-Penny Hangover
Is that really true? Truck driver is a recognized trade in Germany, and the number of apprenticeships continues to rise: https://www.eurotransport.de/artikel/bkf-azubis-und-eu-beruf...
Google, Google, Google! When will you guys learn that you simply can't do this? You want me to use Google Cloud Platform but you keep killing off apps and locking people's accounts. Why would I trust you with my livelihood? The PR fallout from stories like this is killing your chances.
Well, it's something like read/watch later. Or jumping between resources, which essentially I forget open, and once or twice a day I clean them. To be honest, the extension never actually solved any issues, because memory does not drop as promised - I'm not even sure why. And guess what happens if you have 50 tabs, which you want to unsuspend at once - often Chrome crashes. In general, there's no more inefficient piece of software than Chrome. You open the same pretty plain pages in Chrome and Safari and you see the vast difference in resource utilization. I am switching to Microsoft Edge as it now has automatic tab suspension, vertical tabs, and many more features. Oh, and a better sync service - Chrome encrypting your sync data with decades old password and not allowing you to change it is pathetic! Or using Google's password, but then you need to remember your initial Google password as if you change it, the sync password doesn't change. Outstanding Google engineering! Not to mention that I can't delete password en masse in its password manager, and I have some old password that are no longer valid, but I can't just wipe them all. Oh, well...
How does it handle updates? Can the non-expert user just click a button? Mediawiki strikes me as a service that would absolutely need command line access to upgrade?
Xonsh is a fully featured Python shell with shell syntax added.
https://xon.sh/
I'm confused, your point on: "Instituting racist policies to only help certain businesses [5]." ...

The link you provide says it was "fake". Maybe I've misunderstood.
New Microscopy Concept Enters into Force
100% agree. They just keep shooting themselves in the foot. Unbelievable.
Hypothesis: the internal operations of any sufficiently large organized crime group become indistinguishable from those of a corporation.
I just finished a book (link in profile) in an obtuse/absurd humor style and there could be some overflow here.
The imminent stable-version apocalypse
Whats your point? That Linux hasn't yet taken over the audio world?

Well, my point is: its happening, even if its not being done with whitepaper sniffers and marketing people involved.

There are far more audio hardware manufacturers using Linux in their products than ever before. There are also far more pro-level audio applications being developed for Linux, than ever before. It is a rapidly expanding market for Linux, and it has the potential to seriously undermine the current leaders with disruption. Once the pro-audio world catches wind of what can be done with Linux Audio, packaged in a nice box (a la Zynthian), I'll wager that within a year this situation of Linux-as-underdog in the audio world will be very, very different.

Its already happening in studios around me - I see people freaking out over the M1 move and Apple lockdown, looking for alternatives. UbuntuStudio is a godsend for those in that situation ..

EDIT: notice that I linked to the CLOSED issues for Zynthian, and that a majority of those are from 3rd-party developers getting their synths and effects products packaged for Zynthian. This represents a sea change - not to mention the fact that this work from the Linux Audio world is rapidly propagating great value to the M1 (Apple ARM) situation ..
>Why would they continue like that.

Sheer hubris?
After 1.5 years with KaiOS this isn't the way
Gridsort: A stable sort faster than std:sort
Chances are they simply can’t get their internal teams/systems in line to enable partial bans, and nobody with the political clout to get it done cares.
I just recently setup Zoho and seem to be working fine so far. Their web mail interface is decent but I don’t use it much.
Does any know what SDK they were using? I work in adtech and would like to review traffic from this SDK and potentially block it.

Edit: Seems they're using MoPub and AdMob
However you don't have to be there while it runs. Have the automation scrape content you care about into a database on a regularly basis, and then your viewing of it takes however long a few SQL queries take.
Footfall People Counting System broadcasts SSID, unchangeable password, runs SSH
This is true, I bought a .club domain and had to realise that some providers classify it as spam.
Covax: Canada defends taking vaccines from sharing scheme
Things like .rocks, .guru, .club, and all those other recent gold-rush gTLDs have been a disaster from the spam standpoint*. It doesn't help that some registrars are complicit via allowing massive bulk name purchases, so I see zillions of somebody@{random-word-1}{random-word-2}.goldrush addresses, all with valid DKIM/DMARC.

* Not to mention phishing. Is that link going to foobank dot com or foobank dot club?
The battery on the apple watch is pretty exceptional in my experience. Always on screen and still lasts me about 2 days no matter what I do
Glad you brought this one up. I also had the app you mentioned installed and noticed pop-up ads in Chrome.

I immediatly uninstalled the app and left a review. Like many other negative reviews I received some copy-pasted response stating they only have some in app ads.

It is beyond me that the developers just lie about including malware in their app while it is so obvious they are.
Standing desk + monitors.

Or whatever you need to make home office setup better as offices are not opening anytime soon.
Avoid .io; it’s not reliable and raises ethical questions:

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20171113150544/https://getstream...

[1] https://plan.io/blog/moving-from-planio-to-planiocom/

[2] http://www.thedarksideof.io
Depends on the product of course, but I think a safe generalization (coming from my experience) would be that free trials have better conversion rates compared to limited indefinite free ones.

Should be noted, a limited version should still provide some value, i.e. a version of the app that doesn't save documents doesn't count because its usage in time is artificially limited by the functionality.

People seem to tend to stick and extract maximum possible value from indefinitely free plans, put up with and work around the limitations. It's a strange phenomenon but the way people evaluate $0 vs. non-$0 products seems irrational. Possibly because we can't seem to accurately estimate the time we waste on working around limitations on a free product vs. the money we would have paid for a fully functional product, i.e. estimate the time wasted in terms of money lost.
That seems good. A government should do the best for their citizens regardless of what it means for other countries. It doesn’t sound like South Africa’s can even do that.
> 10 lines of complains

Why didn't you walk over there and order it yourself ? People became so incredibly lazy, they'd do anything for the illusion of convenience... It almost sounds like a parody

It reminds me of a friend telling me I could order a beer through an app instead of moving my lazy ass 50 meters down the street to buy it myself for half the price and half the time.
Search rooms and Automated anonymous access to Clubhouse rooms
So a happy ending!
Parler ideology is seeping in it seems. fairly new account with only karma of 16. you just need to look at their comment-history. flag+move-on!
Being logged out isn't enough. You have to eliminate all of Google's tracking cookies to avoid the profile bubble they've created for you.
Why? You may well need to do this in case of Address Clashes.

Its not unknown for a manufacturer to mess up and reuse MAC addresses.
it's entertainment. what are the "odds" when buying tickets and popcorn at the movie theater?
So what are you arguing? Because I see a list of disparate platforms sharing the same init system, and I see the homogeneity that is systemd/linux. What is that a counterpoint to? Or is this a celebration of network effect?

> POSIX isn't enough for a modern operating system.

So there should be no standard? I can think of only one time I ran into a shortcoming that can be blamed on POSIX, and a few more where the OS just did a bad job in implementing the standard. Can you imagine how awful things would be right now if the DoD hadn't forced the concepts of interface commonality and multi-source procurement? You'd likely be reading this on a Honeywell glass TTY hooked up to an IBM timeshare. Because without standards the network effect acts as an insurmountable barrier to entry, and incumbents fully control the height of that barrier with needless complexity and arbitrary breaking changes. Hell, not that long ago there was talk about wielding GPL export symbols as a weapon to punish nvidia... I'm no fan of nvidia, but I like the idea of an API inspired by spite a lot less. Also, in a world where your vision prevailed, there would be no AMD - because Intel already set the industry "standard", so why worry about second-source availability?
> I don't want to spend my time digging through ancient forum posts on why jack/pulse can't "just work"

This means "I don't want to think about it" installing a whole distro is way too much work for someone with this attitude.
Has this woman just invented the rocket that will take us to Mars?
Tasting Coffee
That is the whole point of baseless statements like "Linux is the platform of choice for audio and acoustic research and was chosen by the CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics).", without any numbers to prove them.

I can be gladly proven wrong, assuming you have numbers to share, otherwise we are talking about "Year of Linux Audio".
Abandoning Google services will not work because only a negligible number of people will actually do it.
Here's what may actually work:

- Make a website documenting cases like this and strongly encourage visitors to install an ad-blocker and tell friends and family and social media followers to do the same.

- Whenever there's a high-profile case like this, ask people to install an ad-blocker and share a link to this website.
Vim is lovely, I always install Vim plugins in all editors. Pxtl, just be careful so you don't get stuck in Ex mode o.O
Why have you put saving between quotes?
Yes, everything. But, I mean, there's a difference between breaking into a vault and comms eavesdropping: one can be fixed, the other one not.
Looking at the list I'd go for SpaceX (00-26-12)
They're not so much harder to write. I spent may be an hour to figure it out. You need simple manifest.json where you'll enumerate stylesheets, scripts and URL filter rules and where to inject them. Of course you don't need all of those things, if you're OK with uBlock, don't add URL filter rules. And then you need to write a little bit of code to insert custom JavaScript on the page, because by default it's executed on extension behalf and can't just access any page DOM.

Here's example of my manifest.json:

{
"manifest_version": 2,
"name": "My Web",
"version": "1.0",
"icons": {
"16": "icon_16.png",
"32": "icon_32.png",
"48": "icon_48.png",
"128": "icon_128.png"
},
"permissions": ["declarativeNetRequest"],
"content_scripts": [{
"matches": ["https://www.pornhub.com/*"],
"run_at": "document_start",
"js": ["pornhub.js"]
}, {
"matches": ["https://www.youtube.com/*"],
"run_at": "document_start",
"css": ["youtube.css"],
"js": ["youtube.js"]
}],
"web_accessible_resources": ["pornhub_script.js", "youtube_script.js"],
"declarative_net_request": {
"rule_resources": [{
"id": "rules",
"enabled": true,
"path": "rules.json"
}]
}
}

I think, everything there is pretty obvious.

Here's my youtube.css:

.video-ads {
display: none;
}

Here's my pornhub.js which just injects pornhub_script.js:

(() => {
"use strict";
var script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = chrome.runtime.getURL('pornhub_script.js');
script.onload = function() {
this.remove();
};
document.documentElement.appendChild(script);
})();

And here's my pornhub_script.js which disabled stopping video when I'm switching tabs:

(() => {
"use strict";
const originalDocumentAddEventListener = document.addEventListener;
document.addEventListener = function (type) {
if (type !== "visibilitychange") {
return originalDocumentAddEventListener.apply(this, arguments);
}
};
})();

And some of my rules.json:

[{
"id": 1,
"priority": 1,
"action": {"type": "block"},
"condition": {
"urlFilter": "/pagead/"
}
},
{
"id": 101,
"priority": 1,
"action": {"type": "block"},
"condition": {
"urlFilter": "||doubleclick.net/"
}
},
...

You can just copy this structure and it should work in Chrome (open chrome://extensions/ and click "Load unpacked").

On the plus side: you're not giving up any control over your user scripts to addon authors.
it might be your speakers. Speakers are't neutral, they are optimized for a specific frequency response. Which means that the loudness might be "dropping significantly" rather than you not being able to listen to a specific frequency. Use pro headphones to properly test your hearing :)

(that's also why expensive studio monitors cost so much - the "this song sounds good on any type of speakers, from in ear-headphones, to cheap car radio speakers, to pro headphones to on cheap television", master once listen/play everywhere, used to be a big problem in the audio world. (it might still be, but I left that world -- consider the cheap car radio speakers as the Internet Explorer 6 of the audio world and you get the idea!)
What's the best way to back up your data? Google Takeout? Is that easily ingestible into other email programs?
> Massive Market Opportunity

Ah boy do I wish reading an article like this few years back. This point is exactly what we missed when offering a Freemium plan to users. It doesn't work for products that, by design, are built only for a specific set of users.

> First, if you are missing even one of these, it might not be the pricing strategy for you

Yup. Freemium is for you only if you can to tick _ALL_ of those boxes.
> The 2 major parties are deadlocked in disagreement

In Finland we have 3 major parties, so some version of A+B, A+C, B+C is usually in power. (Except now, when it's 1 major and 4 minor.)

https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/finland/
(I don't agree with the objection, for exactly the reason you stated, I'm just answering the question of what it is.)
This can be gamed. There are so many stolen credit card numbers and/or payments using Apple/Google pre-paid cards out there, so it's not difficult to automatically build accounts with this kind of 'reputation'.

Unfortunately the best way to do KYC is (still) human intervention (and use of data).
It doesn’t necessarily follow that just because some companies do it one way and some do it the other, it doesn’t matter. There can be a lot of other factors at play.
Logically i would have thought the opposite would have happened, since natural immunity is mostly to the nucleus protein (difficult to mutate), and vaccine immunity is based on the spike protein (easy to mutate). I would have thought any partial vaccine immunity would increase mutation rate.

Also been worried that mass vaccinations might short-circuit the mutate to less severe variant process that happens in nature. By taking the advantage away from the current spike configuration we might give an advantage to a worse variant that would naturally have died out (out compete by its parent variant)..

Disclaimer; I'm more qualified to write a science fiction novelette on this theory than a medical paper, so take all this with a big grain of salt.
I'm South African, and married to a Brit. We moved to the UK some years ago, and I was really excited about not being angry about politics all the time...

...

Oh well
This is hilarious. So obvious that it was written by a non programmer. Since the "respect the" part repeats 3 times.

Also no programmer had anything to say how bad it is. In a software company...
mRNA-Based Experimental HIV Vaccine
Google was never nice.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3460094
I commented on this phenomenon last month. As true then as it is now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25275252
Is there a language with better tooling and a better ecosystem?

Because the Scala tooling has become quite awesome in the last three to four years and the ecosystem is superb.

Sure, you can go with Kotlin which I guess shares much of the ecosystem (from Java). But you will miss out on a lot of the Scala libraries and features that make Scala nice to work with. And if you are learning a new language anyway, why not go for the real McCoy?
At last, the regime that enabled Amazon's monopoly power is crumbling
I suspect that the primary difference is that "being fired" has a more literal meaning in the Mafia.
Approval Voting (1978)
It’s worth mentioning that the definition of genocide does not require an attempt to kill off every member of the group, like the Holocaust and Armenian genocide. The 1948 UN convention on genocide included “causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group, deliberately imposing living conditions that seek to ‘bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part’, preventing births, or forcibly transferring children out of the group to another group.” Obviously planned mass death of a group is genocide, but that’s not the only defined requirement.

The coiner of the term genocide also included this in their description of it:

> the disintegration of the political and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the personal security, liberty, health, dignity, and even the lives of the individuals belonging to such groups.
Do not use .dev, some companies are using .dev for internal dev hosts and might be blocking on DNS level all external dev addresses.
Yesterday’s TWiV 717 podcast [1] is a great resource explaining antibody escape. Takeaways:

1. Reinfection is most likely driving the selection pressure that results in antibody escaping variants.

2. SARS-CoV-2 Antigens are present in the gut of many individuals for months after the initial infection.

[1] https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-717/
Life itself is shaped like a fractal. A study of this geometry is a study of the shape of being. The machine elves will explain in more detail.
Freenas is the open source equivalent.
Good news: Curevac needs only a standard refrigerator for storage. Hopefully it works. Also, Biontech is working on a V2.0 with less cooling required.
I love this game since 2003!
> due to Googles systems being so complex a single-service ban is very hard to implement

Now that sounds like a technical problem that could be solved!
The Mafia /g has teams that all do the same thing. Google has teams doing different things: here, in one corner, a team makes something benign or maybe even positive, over there, other "googlers" are doing suspect things, like putting together the [AI] surveillance infrastructure. They are all "googlers" but only some used to have TSCs. So "respect each other".

Now as far as "the user", well the joke is apparently on GP, as everybody and their dog knows that 'on the internet, if the product is free, you are the product and not the user!'. Even dogs on internet know this, but alas, HN has forgotten. So, "respect the user" means respect the folks who are paying us to track everybody and their dog on the internet.

Respect "the opportunity". Translation: This is a "Golden Time' for the few to lord it over the many! So the respect the user, and respect each other, and the rest should be grateful for having 'the permission' to use our platform.

Hope this helps.
Queen's property manager and Treasury to get windfarm windfall of nearly £9bn
I have a .is and .co that I hope are considered well-known .
I think that this is a situation where the former are all server-side tools used beneath the surface to power that SaaS used by millions every day, while the latter is visible in a small handful of tools used only by the tiny fraction of the population that would visit sites like HN and even then Guile is used (statistically speaking) by no one.
Heya mate! Long time fan, since 2003!

You're not the original developer? Does he get any money from the Steam sale? The situation is rather weird and different people seem to know different things.

Could you shed some light on the situation?