skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if this will penetrate upward to the CTO level, but 'rclone'[1] is an open source, standards based solution to cloud-to-cloud migration.

You can use rclone - and all its powers - without installing or running it locally:

ssh user@rsync.net rclone s3:/some/bucket gdrive:/blah

... as there is a cloud storage provider with rclone built into the platform.[2]

[1] https://rclone.org/

[2] https://www.rsync.net/products/universal.html
Apple isn’t users friend, or defender of the people.

It’s biggest company in the word, that tries to make most amount of money by monopolizing markets. And privacy sells nowadays, so they exploit that to grow even more. Of course users get something in return, but that’s not the reason why do that.

It’s one of the greatest PR campaigns of modern world, to have people believe that biggest company in the world cares about them and has their backs and interests. It’s almost Orwellian.
You only have that right in advance, though. If I get an iPhone and buy a bunch of software on it and then 3 years later Apple Changes The Terms Of Our Relationship, I don't have any ability to migrate my data (let alone my purchases) to another platform. Not only do I have to buy a new smartphone, I have to re-buy my apps even if those apps are available on Android. Even if the app's developer wants to give me the app for free on other platforms, they can't, because Apple refuses to give developers any information on their customers. This came up previously when some OS X software had to leave the Mac App Store. Likewise any music or videos I bought on iTunes won't migrate over to my Android phone - in the era of physical media this wasn't a problem, you could pop your CD or DVD into any player you want so you had true freedom.

Windows and Mac and Linux environments are not sandboxed like this either. All my data is files in folders, and I can export it as I like to another machine.
If every presentation insulted you, or implied you didn't get exist, maybe you'd get pissed off at it as well.
Sortof related: I just wanted to add that many MTA's email servers also support this concept. Using milters or scripts, you can default emails to be stored in the hold queue, then release them based on ingestion time.
The implication in his argument was that prices will increase in general.

My argument is that we don't know what the overall effect will be.

Edit: In other words, if housing increases by $10 but the cost of other stuff decreases by $20 then you still come out ahead.
TL;DR "Fault Tolerance" Capabilities are better for people who regularly face faults
These two things don't compare:

a) People in position of power demanding sexual favors from people so that they can get on with their work or get small rewards.

b) Competitive entertainers prostituting themselves for rare opportunities to become wealthy celebrities. Exchanges of sex for extreme rewards.

Equating how people prostitute themselves for celebrity status and high income to the abuse that some background dancer gets every day is wrong.

I understand that people live and understand things trough celebrities, but that's not where the real problems are.
Giving away pretty clearly means the objection is to the free nature. Getting paid makes a big difference - you now obtain tangible value from the interaction that you can turn into things like food or housing.
Actually, I'm referring to the fact that Amazon Prime members can rent digital videos without Apple getting a cut. See the Verge article kevingadd posted below.
It disturbs me that with each day, it seems like the Great Chinese Firewall was a good solution.

You keep out the foreign competition letting internal competition foster and you stop a capital drain.

Imagine if the EU had it’s own Alibaba, Baidu or WeChat...
That is a lot of taxpaying money...
Yes, rsync is a great toolinnsome cases it might even find which blocks changed and only retransmit those.

However if you have frequent writes I would be careful.
No, it's just one of too many things, big and small, making browser web apps annoying. The entire point of a browser was a relatively simple viewer app that renders docs ok on most devices; not an opionated renderLikeChrome mode. If the basic concept of leaving a page for linked content, then coming back can't be handled without heuristics, then clearly the web app model is broken af.
When people say "billionaire" in this line of comments they are trying to point out the perceived hypocrisy that Noam is likely VERY well off... even having a few million dollars can set your family up for life. You are immediately in the top 1% in the US which puts you even higher anywhere else in the globe.

Noam could never pick up a job again and he will have likely made more money than the average US worker will in their lifetime.

His observation of scorn at employees who are well-compensated NOT jumping at the opportunity to work weekends to get something done for users is a sign of privilege (and probably also a sign of his drive, which is commendable) and maybe a little lack of empathy.
> Please don't use "Europe" when comparing unless it applies to all 50 countries.

As someone who lives in a smaller European country, I can empathize. At least on HN, it seems like both Europeans (in the regional sense) and non-Europeans are guilty of this. However, while the parent claim may or may not be accurate in this case, I think the use of "Europe" can reasonably be interpreted as referring to the region in aggregate, just as North America or Oceania might be used.

My larger problem with the parent and GP comments is that they both make specific claims about "Europe" that aren't self-evident without any citations.
I'm in IT, but I've worked as electrician and carpenter for some years. IMHO this is not easily comparable as you'd think.

You can easily estimate the time required to perform some physical tasks. It's a bit different if you're working on something you never did before, but again as an electrician or carpenter this rarely happens after the training period. Working more hours generally does result in more work done, although the physical factor makes this work-life balance waaay more obvious to whoever is working.

In IT I'm constantly working on things which are slightly different than before. Time estimation is big common issue in the field. I'll be fully honest and say that working 4 or 8 hours a day makes absolutely no difference in work being done for me, except in very rare cases. Dedication has nothing to do with it (I love what I do). Technically I'm not stopping to work at the 6pm hour mark, my brain keeps thinking about technical issues also during off hours and the weekend.

I don't know about you but I felt physically tired, but satisfied at the end of the day when working as a carpenter. Sense of accomplishment was much more rewarding. When coming home I would enjoy something different. The next day I was recharged.

When working on problem-solving, I don't feel physically tired, but I can still feel exhausted in a way that prevents me doing other things. It's much, much harder to find a good balance. And I'd stress this again: putting more working hours sitting in front screen is not necessarily achieving anything.

Note also that these crazy perks as outlined in the article are not my experience in IT working in several places in EU. Yes, our working hours are more flexible due to the nature of the job, but I've yet to see such entitlement in my career. Maybe I've been unlucky.
You’re really close! A lot of cities in Texas got really cold in 1989, so about 32 years.

There was also a freeze in 2011 that didn’t break records, but broke the energy grid.
Dynamic Preemption Support Sent in for the Linux 5.12 Kernel
Reminds me of printed phone books. Every unit in my 35 unit building would get a new one every year. They'd sit in a pile (how many phone books do you need). For a couple years they'd stack this years phone book on last years phone book.

Now not needed.
You could say that about anyone or anything at any time and to any end including wild, unsubstantiated conspiracy theories. I don't think it's very constructive.
This is why my default is text until a call becomes obviously better. "Where do you want to go for dinner?" ten messages of hemming and hawing, "Call me when you're free". A call forces an interruption on the person, or a game of phone tag. Texting can be answered when each person is able, and can be used to coordinate the call.
Explain the difference in functional ability between the iPad vs the Switch? Xbox series x? PS5? Web Browser, email, streaming media? All possible on any of the devices. The only difference is that Apple is better at building devices that people like. Apple built the platform, built the hardware, designed the OS, and built the sdk/API's but now they aren't allowed to control their own platform? How does that make any sense?
Question for HN: If you were talking with someone at a conference and heard him say

> The job of management isn't hard (I'm doing it)

What signals would you look for to tell the difference between these two possibilities?

A. This person has so much tacit knowledge of good management that they don't realise how much skill they are applying day-to-day.

B. This person has zero awareness of how their team is burning out underneath them.
Because it is unethical to intentionally harm someone for the benefit of medical research.

I need to read up on it, but I expect that this challenge trial has been given ethical approval because there is now some evidence from the larger (non challenge) trials that a vaccinated person being exposed has a low risk of harm (for the relevant age group).
I've struggled with the "keep coding" part. Not just because I don't have time in between my other responsibilities, but because my teams feel ownership over their products and have all the deep knowledge it takes to build and maintain them correctly. I still know how to code, but I rarely have enough depth in a particular system to know the appropriate way to solve something. I'm like a plucky junior dev/everyone's boss.
We worked together at what I can only describe as a data collection meat grinder. One of those places that loves to say it's all about people one side of their mouth, and act completely contrary to that in the day to day when it comes to chasing revenue and growth. He was met with heavy resistance from senior level business directors because he actually put what the company said were their principles into practice every day. This burned him out a little bit, so he took a break, and is now looking. You hiring?
"everyone who bought an iPhone knew that's what they were getting and did it anyway" is an incredibly strong assertion you're not making an effort to support here. Are you seriously claiming that every owner of an iPhone understood the nuances of Apple's app store policies before they bought the phone?
This kinda used to be a thing https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD
This is beyond dramatic. To actually suggest copy/paste is preferable is asinine.

Once you get used to them, they are fine. I never have issues with submodules and I get to easily change revisions of dependencies.
Because games are optimized for immersion and being roughly analogous to reality, not for efficiency of describing events. That would be the purpose of a news article. Pictures are included, but text is the focus.
Text is actually made of a bunch of little pictures. Pictures: check and mate!
The Javscript War 2021
https://youtu.be/ddd6EDhPxxs
It was called XBox Live Indie Games, you could sideload anything you wanted once you paid the initial fee, and then you could put it on the store and accept purchases if it got through a peer review system.
I'd say a video rental is a new purchase. The customer may already be subscribed to Amazon Prime, but they're paying additional money to watch that specific video.
And if AWS hikes rates (or reduces discounts) on you once their algorithmic AI determines your switching cost exceeds the rate hike?

"Oh they would NEVER do that"

And these gee-whiz heavy-binding services would NEVER steal your data.

The strange thing at work is people bend over backwards to use AWS stuff:

"I made this virtual network card that I can detach and attach to another VM when we want to keep the same address for a box!"

How about we use DNS.

AWS services are great for things like their Postgres as a service and other things that fundamentally have standards based access.

But the others like big data streams will be a bit more convenient in the beginning and then you're beholden to their supported features and the fact you are handing them visibility to your data.
Although this emulates async/await (AA), under the the "async" emulated functions is message passing that must keep track of the connection between requests and responses at runtime (E.g. with state mapping request ids to response ids).

I think the key issue is that the inputs and outputs are disconnected in the static program text (and only connected dynamically at runtime).

Two contexts that matter for understanding how a system transitions between states are:

1. Program editing/reading.

2. Runtime.

I think AA is superior for understanding the system as a whole in both these contexts, because at edit time the IDE jump to def/show all usages allows you to understand every function that will be called, and at runtime you can get a stack trace to understand where the current function came from, and where it is going.

With message passing runtimes, both 1 and 2 require extra mental models on the part of the programmer, because they also need to understand the network topology (which either is not possible statically, or requires extra tooling on top of functions).

Message passing breaks down your system into CSP's, which makes it easy to understand each sync process, but hard to understand the whole system, as the same program-writing-process that allowed you to break down your components is working against you when you need to put them together again to understand the whole system.

I could be wrong as I have not used modern IDE's or debugging tools with message passing runtimes lately.
Speaking of RadioShack, here's a site [1] that has scans of the catalogs from 1939-2011, include the retail catalogs, the industrial catalogs, and the specialized catalogs.

[1] https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/index.htm
> App developers are not the ones who should be monetarily supporting the ecosystem, the end user has already paid for the device.

Where does this "should" come from? Just because you don't think that's the best way to run an ecosystem doesn't mean nobody should be allowed to do it. If it's a bad model, that's Apple's problem, not yours. If you think you have a better model, start a new company with a different model.

> Not only that, without developers, there is no ecosystem. An iPhone without apps is less useful than an iPod touch with apps.

The fact that Apple has a rich and thriving ecosystem demonstrates that their business model works just fine.

> Having multiple app stores will allow users to circumvent government censorship in countries where Apple is forced to follow the governments demands.

Won't one of those government demands be, "No third party app stores"? (Or, "No third party app stores that we haven't approved"?)
But the question remains unanswered, is this behavior we should expect or reward when it is one of the world's largest and most influential actors?
In 1993 I saw a complete ground-based anti-satellite laser system in New Mexico that had everything to burn a satellite except for the laser (aka. "optical tracking system") It actually did have a 25W laser that excited a "sodium guide star" in the upper atmosphere that controls a mirror that undoes atmospheric twinkling and is necessary if you want to uplink laser energy with high efficiency.
What are you talking about? Both Microsoft and Apple have had great success developing macOS and Windows while allowing third party developers to develop and distribute apps without an additional tax. There's clearly room in the market for operating systems that don't sell personal data and aren't artificially restrictive to generate more revenue. The fact that Apple cut the tax in half for small companies just shows how disconnected the revenue from the App Store is from the cost of running it.

By all means, keep overpaying for Spotify on the App Store so Apple can collect their 30% each month, but don't force me to. Customers already pay to use a licensed copy of iOS on supported hardware and governments have every right to protect the customer from perpetually getting screwed by Apple. At the very least, we shouldn't allow Apple to limit free speech so that developers can't mention a way for their users to save money.
In every single work I was at people sometimes took a day off next day. It is not like everyone would had infinite amount of days off - it was never a massive problem.

Once in a while someone is missing. Typically, rest of team moves on through their day normally.
No one in the US builds or uses functional fireplaces to heat the house. We have not done so for over 100 years. Any fireplace you see in the US is a decorative feature designed to look nice and set a 'mood' for a room. There are some off-grid wood-heated homes, and some places will have fireplaces designed to efficiently heat a room or two, but statistically these are so close to 0% as to not exist and in many locations it has become illegal to install wood-burning fireplaces due to the air pollution they cause.
Do you have any concrete points or just snark?
Wrinkling atom-thin layers of carbon could make tiniest chips yet
It's more that intelligent people are still human, and human beings are not good at being clear-headed when they feel that their identity is being attacked (ego protection). If you identify as "rational" or "intelligent" that makes you vulnerable to defensive behaviors to defend your self-perception.
that's the dumbest thing i've read today, grats
Is your data in Apache Kafka? See in topology view
What does that have to do with anything? You never said anything about paying money. I don't have to pay anything to run Mint or Mario Run on my phone so what's your point?
I think 30% is excessive but as a developer my biggest gripe with the AppStore is definitely the tight grip Apple has over what's published. You might work for years on an app and all that effort can vanish into thin air if Apple decides they don't want it.
Yep. It's just blatant with this government. And it's not just the universities. They're doing it with schools. They're doing with the NHS. Councils even.
Apple does not actually have a monopoly, Android exists, has more market share, more options and features, and a better ecosystem of compatible smart devices.

If Apple is forced to allow third party app marketplaces it is clear what will happen. Every major player will make their own marketplace and force you to use it to access their software and whatever other software they have paid to make exclusive. Epic is one of the absolute worst offenders for this sort of behavior. So to everyone claiming "you will still be able to use the curated app store", I guess that's true but only technically.

IOS will not be a better place should Apple be forced to go through with this. This is not being an "Apple apologist". I think we all agree that Apple will happily exploit the people forced to offer services through their platform. But if they are forced to take their hands off the wheel they will lose the power that allowed them to push through some fairly groundbreaking privacy protections, including sign-in with Apple, which I personally deeply appreciate.
The USA's DARPA program funded important research into

- The internet

- GPS

- Graphical user interface and mouse

- Onion routing

- Voice assistant

Hopefully this program executes well. There is clearly a big social payoff to betting big on credible people doing risky research with high potential impact.

https://www.itpro.co.uk/technology/34730/10-amazing-darpa-in...
The terms of that program are particularly nasty, though. You can't really rely on it unless your revenue is going to be way below a million, because it locks in for the following year. If you have a spike in revenue (hooray, good year!) your cut is suddenly 30% in the next financial year even if your revenue drops way below a million.

They didn't have to do it this way, which really makes me wonder what their intent was. They could have gone with a simple system like 'we look at how much you made this year, and everything over 1 million is taxed at 30%', but instead we got a weird complex system.
I'm not sure what I'm being dishonest about? If you're to say that the iPhone is a general purpose computing device then you have to also compare it to other general purpose computing devices and take into consideration the general purpose computing market. Maybe it's simply the best one with the best features? I mean, I know that if I had to choose to only have one (a laptop or iPhone) I'd choose the laptop because it has features that the iPhone doesn't.

But they also have overlapping features, complementary features, and sometimes mutually exclusive features. You mention payments - I can pay for things using my laptop, or if I have a credit or debit card (ya know, the thing you're using for payments) I can just use that at the store normally. Messaging - yep you can send messages from your laptop. I could go on. The killer feature of the iPhone is that it's in your pocket, but it's also a limiting factor. You can live without one, easily, however. Doom scrolling Facebook (sorry, keeping in touch with friends and family - totally not addiction) is not important and living without that is very easy.

> Your list of manufacturers does not take the platforms into consideration. None of those are allowed to use apples platform unless they follow their strict rules.

I can't use any of those manufacturer's platforms without following their rules. I'm not sure what you're trying to explain.

> There isnt't a competitive market unless ther's free movement and perfect information and the two smart phone platforms have large lock-in effects today so it hardly qualifies.

You can debate whether it's a competitive market, but I'm not sure what you're explaining here is part of the considerations, or at least these may map to larger overall considerations. But you have to be careful to be specific about what you are talking about. Are we talking about the iOS App Store, or the general purpose computer market? It matters.

> The portion of the market that is android or windows are competitive markets, it's easy to switch from a samsung phone to a lg phone.

You can easily switch from iPhone to Android as well. One of my friends does it at least once a year because he wants to be "all-in" on either Google or Apple but finds flaws in each.
SWEET16: 300 bytes interpreted byte-code language by Steve Wozniak
> ERCOT said Tuesday that of the 45,000 total megawatts of power that were offline statewide, about 30,000 consisted of thermal sources — gas, coal and nuclear plants — and 16,000 came from renewable sources.

- https://www.chron.com/news/article/Texas-blackouts-fuel-fals...
It's absolutely hilarious to watch a Prime Minister, who has previously given £100k in Tech funding to his mistress, now establishing an even bigger tech fund without the FOIA requirements so that he can... get away with giving £100k in Tech funding to his mistresses in the future I guess?
It is competitive, it's just as easy to switch between Android and iOS, it's not cheap but just as easy.
That is actually a good and very practical question.
Yep, I use this all the time if I'm setting up a machine/network and am waiting on a `ifconfig_whatever="SYNCDHCP"` or a network drive mount that I know will never succeed.
Right, and my point is simply that if inorganic chemistry is more than capable of harming life, it’s a bit strange to assume that organic chemistry and life would somehow have less capability to do so.