skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Works for my workflow. I work on reasonably small files (my whole cloud storage is about 20 gb) and I like to have the storage available in my file manager at all times. Wouldn't want to run proprietary software or waste memory on it.

The biggest problem I have with these 3rd party clients is sometimes things just don't work right. Like for example gimp just fails to open files in the synced folder (google drive not the OP project) until I copy them out and open them. Not sure what the issue is though.
One nit generates another; on and on it goes. I wasn't even further explaining the concept, just explaining why.
I was a very early Dropbox adopter but eventually switched to OneDrive a few years back because they bundled Office 365 with 1 TB of storage. I just went and looked at the official Dropbox plans to see if there was a family plan similar to the 5 users I get with Office 365/OneDrive...and found their plan/pricing page overwhelming. There's rows upon rows of features to compare across versions like "Traffic and Insights" and the "Plus button" forcing me to keep scrolling just to see that a family plan costs $16.99 a month for 2 TB. No option for a cheaper plan with less storage. I feel like they are missing the mark when it comes to marketing to consumers here.
I would make that tradeoff in a second.
I mean... I guarantee you that corporations buying xboxes for entertainment in the office are writing them off.
If they let me do that (and have more than one local vault) I'd still be using 1Password.

I have no particular qualms with paying for software whether as a one-time purchase or a subscription.

I just don't want all my stuff syncing to and reliant on 1Password's infra.

I'll pay them $5/mo to self-host my own passwords. But they won't let me. So I switched to KeepassXC.
I still think of a car as an investment, although you don't get your return from selling it. You get it from using it. Compare the depreciation + fuel + insurance with the cost of a monthly train and bus pass and occasional cab/Uber when the train/bus doesn't take you to where you need to be.

And depending on locality, a car can get you to a better paying job (or a job period). So having the car brings you returns on your investment every paycheck. Well, the car + your time at the job + your time and expense in education that made you qualified for that job and pay level.
What if Seattle guy was born in Seattle, do you want them to move? :-D
Is there a way to export stuff from the keychain in bulk yet?
Wow. Thank you for that thoughtful response. C aside, Haskell is my primary recent experience, so everything you say resonates. Like Idris, you're doing a lot to clean up Haskell.
As a senior with three cars, I’ve looked at this in depth. The inconvenience isn’t worth it until I’m a hazard to myself. So I’m certain it’s unfeasible to prime young workers without a mass transit situation.
Spoiler alert: they will still discriminate.

It's not like Netflix enjoys making it a PITA to use their service, but the people who on the content care a great deal about it. They leverage these disparities to maximize their cash flow.
In case anyone is wondering what "Prodigy" (mentioned in the article) was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service)
> There's rows upon rows of features to compare across versions

After you grow as a company and hire lots of engineers and your core product is "good enough", you have to try to pivot/stay relevant/compete/innovate I guess. Lots of manpower (I have no idea how large their engineering team is) need to be kept busy I guess?
PM Ardern: NZ should attempt to keep Covid out of the country indefinitely
[inflation enters the chat]

You can buy to consume today at a lower price than you likely will in the near future, assuming serious inflation on everything. So consuming today might be a good investment since you end up with a lower cost today for a product that you will buy soon anyway, the real return will depend on the realized inflation, which in some countries is not negligible.
I guess anyone can interpret it however they want. If you’re challenging yourself in your career, you will eventually find yourself in a position where you legitimately don’t know what you’re doing, and people are depending on you to figure it out. Early in my career I thrived in these situations, because they mirrored my experiences in college. Later in my career, the problems got bigger and I found myself wondering if I would ever figure these things out, saying to myself, maybe I’m actually not smart enough, maybe I took the wrong career path? But, if you keep your composure, read the docs, ask the right people for help, you figure it out and move on. I always assumed that’s what people meant. Seems like young people today have much more anxiety that we used to though, so maybe the definition has shifted.
This guy obviously doesn't know anything about the cost of an unopened Mario Bros game for the NES #investment
The premise of "the literal act of copy+pasting a file is a lost sale!" is farcical, yes.

If a record label tried that in court, this would be a well-deserved jab at that specific fallacy.

However, it would be an equally farcical strawman to claim this piece has anything to say about copyright in general.
There are financial instruments if you want to die with nothing while having plenty of money when you are alive. If you think it is a terrible thing for a grandparent to want to leave money for their grand child's college tuition, then I'd encourage you to make sure you don't help your grandchildren, but it is important to some people even if it isn't something you want to do.
Similar experience. I pay for the 100GB Google one plan which comes with the excellent google photos service and I went to see what dropbox offers and found their cheapest plan was extremely expensive comparatively and they offer less features. I'm just not sure how they even compete at this point when they do the same thing as every other cloud storage product but cost more. And you even have to pay extra for family sharing which is just free with Google.
This doesn't sound particularly different from when I was active on there a decade ago.

Does Linden Labs still have a weird habit of banning people running large "Internet meme"/chan-culture sims? (Actually, TBH, that almost seems forward-thinking nowadays...)
If you're losing a war badly, one of the first things to look at is changing tactics. Climate change activists don't seem capable of this. If they want to win this war, come up with a different strategy and new tactics. This one isn't working.
The "imagine $X" construct has colloquially grown to mean "$X is irrational", which is strange to me here - the lack of binary diffing means if you change a single bit of your video editing project, the whole thing gets synced to the cloud. Dropbox is a common solution for small business VCS that's not VCS, I've seen it used for born exactly that way a half dozen times the past decade.
Exactly. Like the Clinton/Lewinsky thing-- it was the start of exposing a predator. (Clinton's accusers came out of the woodwork after that, many with firm evidence, some with settlements in hand.)
It depends what you mean by "official broadcaster". They do not officially speak for or represent the British Government in any way. The BBC is of course mainly made up of British citizens who generally have the interests of the UK in mind, but dynamically editorialising headlines at the behest of the government isn't something we've ever seen happen. It's hard to imagine how that could be done without a lot of people at the BBC knowing about it and getting upset.
I've found this to be a common mindset among people who started out with Java/C#/C++/etc.

Modern statically-typed languages are a totally different beast. Type inference is widespread and powerful, and you end up writing very little additional boilerplate. On top of that, guarantees like the prevention of null values greatly increase the value you get from having static types.

If you haven't tried one in a few years, I recommend revisiting them. TypeScript is a great place to start.

PS: It's totally possible, but also totally unnecessary, to write TypeScript like you would Java or C# (lots of classes, nullable-everything, explicit types for everything). To get the most out of it you honestly have to do the exact opposite of that (turn on strict null checks, use plain types, leverage type inference as much as possible).
So, why exactly is Novavax even better?

>>The recent results confirm that it has roughly the same efficacy as the two authorized mRNA vaccines, with the added benefit of being based on an older, more familiar science.

What does roughly mean here? Pfizer and Moderna don't "roughly" have the same efficacy against Delta. Moderna has much higher efficacy.

Efficacy against the Delta variant is not a minor detail, Delta is the dominant variant, by far. Efficacy against older variants is simply not relevant anymore. The clinical trial results published [1] are silent on that.

Given that, I think it's completely unsupported to state that Novavax is "even better". It might be, or it might not; it might be better than Pfizer, but worse than Moderna. We simply don't know. This article should not have been allowed to be published. There is no evidence presented for the strong claim in the title.

[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/us-clinical-tr...
Who pays more than FANG outside of FANG?

In the U.S., financial services shops that figured out tech is money. Or, rather, that time is money and tech shrinks time. Think banks’ trading groups, hedge funds, etc.

Along with those, a larger sector of FS bitten with the transformation bug. Even in the non trading related financial services, if a company’s emphasis is on figuring out how to tech before getting eaten by challengers or juggernauts, the pay may indicate how existential the need.

On the other hand, many in the financial industrial complex haven’t realized this yet, and are still trying to “take costs out”, doing reductions in force of knowledgable workers, offshoring any roles not understood by the executives, etc., or paying bottom dollar domestically for coders and IT support, rather than well enough for software or systems engineers.

Large companies are likely to have a mix of these models all at the same time, so understand what type of group you’re looking at.

Also note that financial titles are often inverse ranks of engineering titles, with SVPs below directors and VPs as the junior-most roles.

Note(1): Pro-employee compensation disclosure laws are starting to get passed where (a) you don’t have to say what you used to earn, and (b) a company may have to disclose the comp for your role and similar roles the moment you ask, not after you make it to offer. Check the laws governing both your zip code and the company’s and know your rights to help even out information asymmetry.

Note(2): Performance multipliers are worth paying for. Automation is worth paying for. Anything thought through and written once to do work, that then does that work many times in less time, or for many people in less time, or both, is worth paying for. FANG code runs at staggering scale. FS code makes staggering money in milliseconds. Look for places where each line of code is multiplying output — how many fold drives how much that code, and its engineers, should be worth.
And if you’re retired, how many Lyft rides does that buy you?
There's still plenty of georestrictions on Spotify. As an Aussie, I see heaps of songs on play lists that are greyed out.
Godharts law in action. I think the problem is less that the metric is insufficiently tolerant of being gamed, as it is the research institutions are not sufficiently policing the researchers.
> if we decide as a society that deleting information from publishing platforms goes against the common good, then we can do that.

Yeah this sounds nice and all but ultimately someone has to make the rules about what can and cannot be said. Should we never delete any content period? What about child abuse or calls to violence? who gets to define violence? Is telling people that masks don't work a call to violence? Maybe not but you could make the argument.

Ultimately it comes down to who we want to wield this power, and right now it's between corporate interests and the US government. Considering that the ruling party is the one pushing the tech giants into this kind of censorship (pretty evident if you watched the tech hearing last year), I think I'd rather let the corporate interests have the power for now. The funny thing is, me from ten years ago would be outraged by this take. Things have changed pretty fast.

Disclaimer: I work for google opinions are my own
Aha, that was my mistake!
> A UK person could easily get access to Netflix US by getting a friend in the US (or a US-based ebay seller) to set up their Netflix account

This can't be any random stranger if the UK person will be using the US person's means of payments. Therefore, not 100% but it could work in most cases.
Ask HN: What are you using to replace shared iCloud Photos albums?
Please recommend a boomer friendly photo sharing service that is also privacy conscious…if such thing even exists.

Looking for easier/better alternatives than doing Nextcloud, ownCloud, etc.
I love mosh. It's great on slow connections of any sort, but particularly great on phones.

On short/medium trips I no longer bring a laptop. Just my phone and my bluetooth keyboard. I have successfully updated my rspamd DKIM signing config from a hotel lobby, among other things, with just those devices and mosh.

Mosh is great.
Note that Mosh has not had release for 4 years, even when pull requests are accepted on github, and the team lead says "we are too busy/burned out".

https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/1115
Nonsense. You're saying you'd prefer shaving 125 Mbps off your Internet connection over 60 MB of your 8+ GB of RAM.
Annuities require more starting wealth than safe retirement with equities.

I don't think it is a terrible thing for a grandparent to want that. I think it is a terrible thing for society to permit it.
I think the key is that Buffet knows what makes him happy and isn't running around spending money on random things trying to figure out what expensive thing would make him happier.
definitely a stretch but have you tried eating more healthily and exercising more consistently?

i believe in addressing causes, not symptoms, and lack of activity in general causes a lot of our pain in our bodies.
I wonder what's stopping dropbox from revoking their API tokens. Isn't this competing directly with the "official" clients?
I wish the stress was relieved, alas I merely started yoga.
How many hours of driving is the break-even for flying? 7 hours would be cutting it close, considering transportation to/from the airport, security, and waiting for boarding and post arrival. Personally my cutoff is driving long enough that it requires an overnight motel stay on the road.
Did he really? Classic example of demo driven development
Thank you for posting this partial transcription. The whole speech is well worth listening to.

The loss of freedom has only accelerated since 2012, when Moglen gave this speech. I wish he would give them more often. He’s truly a voice for freedom, and there are not that many.
I realize this isn't a high value comment, but I lived in Hong Kong for a couple years during the handover. The socio-political turmoil over the past few years has been painful to observe.
I am curious how this will work long term, as we are nowhere near controlling COVID on a global scale and even well resourced countries in the West or very disciplined/authoritarian countries are struggling.
Ye olde Facebook Messenger used Jabber and you could connect to it using any Jabber client.
I know the pace of development has been pretty slow for the past few years — but Mosh is a good enough idea that I really hope it picks up steam again (better true color support, for one thing, would be a big feature)
> I'm curious about how you see the attack surface increasing when using 1Password. My knowledge of how it works is that it always stores your passwords in an encrypted blob that can only be decrypted with a combination of username, "master password", and vault password. So no matter if it's in Dropbox, 1Password's servers, or your own hard drive, if anyone obtains a copy of the password file they still have to crack it before they gain access to anything.

_If_ they obtain a copy of my password file.

"My email is nucleardog@nucleardog.example, my password is abcdef12345."

If I'm using 1Password's cloud service I'm... screwed? You now have literally my entire digital life.

If I'm syncing anywhere else, you've got a much bigger task ahead of you. First you have to _find_ where my vault is stored, then you need to gain access to it.

There's an extra layer of security to the way I want to do this. An extra factor of authentication. I don't want the only thing between you and my entire life to be one set of credentials.
They didn't mean that you need diabetes to get your diploma?
- forums like hn

- checking hiring ads every once in a while

- tech on twitter

- talking to users
Alternatively, set things up so that you can use the same public key as used by the signing probes as the target address on another block chain. Dump $1B into the target address.

As long as the money remains untouched, you can be fairly confident that no one has the private key.
Selling content for different prices in different markets:

- increases revenue

- relies on being able to separate those markets effectively

It's not obsolete, because it still works.

And it's not a historical accident resulting from past business models.

Content providers with no 'analogue' history also have geographical pricing. Example: Wes Bos' excellent JavaScript courses are priced differently depending on your country.
Highest recorded temperature of 48.8C in Europe apparently logged in Sicily
I think it's very simple: if you'd describe its usage as a "skill", it's probably fine. Obvious "navigating this cheat menu UI takes some practice" cases aside.

If a professional team uses data analysis and then teaches their players something like "at 30s, on this map, this player rotates from here to here in 70% of games", that's just good training. If they have this data being live-streamed to their second monitor, it's cheating.
I think the article reaches a wrong conclusion.

Visit Bogleheads.org, you'll find plenty of people who are doing quite well simply by living below their means and investing the slow, steady way.

Also, as near as I can tell, a lot of the FIRE people are younger folk. Don't be fooled into not taking part-- you can be relatively wealthy, if you can just save a little and exercise patience.
My alternative take is it's because they have too many highly paid engineers who need something to do. People overestimate how logical decision-making is at large companies.
This response is infuriating. Pretend it's not that bad? No one feels the need to do anything. Be realistic about how bad it is? The people who believe you get too depressed to do anything while the others call you alarmist. What "strategy" would you propose?
My rebuttal would be that in the US there is a strong cultural reaction against such "political correctness", while CCP seems to be doubling down on the necessity of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics with Xi Jinping as the nation's steward.
In spite of the author's argument, this reads as linguistic prescriptivism to me. The meaning of words changes over time. If you endeavor to hold a grudge every time language evolves, you're going to end up a pretty grumpy person. So, try yeeting the prescritivism for a while, fam. See if you vibe with it.
Mosh is the only reason I can bear working over a satellite internet connection. The local echo is fantastic. It's also fantastic for working over VPN connections where the tunnel collapses occasionally and you don't want to lose 30 active sessions.
Charitably, maybe he's borrowing from Taxi Driver. Puts the Padme / Anakin Skywalker relationship in an interesting light though.
I feel like this is clearly not going to work without basically 14 day latency to all in and out travel which seems... impossible to sustain.
Logistical impossibility due to a lack of specialized freezers. In Canada at least, the federal government just bought a ton of freezers.
That requirement isn't user hostile, and it's not even that bad.

You have to give your address to people that ship you things. You used to have to use your email address to sign up for websites. Nobody complained. People used throwaway emails if needed. It's not like they're reading your files.

Gatekeeping the means of contact is an asymmetry that allows Apple and Google to retain power. Remember, these companies were trying to shrink wrap all of us and sell/tax access. An artificial world impossible to operate in without them.

This act needs to go a step further and guarantee web downloads of apps independent of app stores as a first class construct. It also needs to allow runtimes and alternative web browsers specifically to combat Apple.

Furthermore, it should disallow devices from coming with a default app store or default browser. (Similar to the EU's browser choice screen for Microsoft Windows.)

Then we'll have a fair mobile world for the first time ever. Apple and Google will still make a metric ton of money. They'll also be able to start focusing more on future endeavors and innovations, which would be good for them and for us.
Why would it matter to them? They are already more expensive than other providers. Rclone connects to multiple cloud hosting solutions already too. If they revoked API access I'm pretty sure the backlash would be the final straw.
I agree, I'm not a lawyer but it's not clear to me what laws the hacker broke.
Why would you pay for a yearly Uk license??
I don't want another software store or walled garden, I just want a way download my software and run it.

This is how I install software on my PC, if it's not in the distro's package repo:

wget -o the-binary https://path.to.binary.com/bin.01.02
mv ~/.local/bin/the-binary
chmod +x !$

If I don't do that, I compile the source.
If you make a lot of changes, the Dropbox sync works. Google drive or OneDrive choke in a variety of situations.

The product sucks in lots of other ways.
TDD stole much, if not all, of the airtime Event Sourcing should have received.
> More than that, github was floundering economically, and Microsoft bought them to ensure continuity, because Microsoft was the single largest user.

Yeah they paid 7.5B so they can continue using their favorite web app? This is possibly the most naive take I've read on it that ignores any of the strategic reasons for actually acquiring them.
I recently refactored a small set of services to use events instead of depending directly on eachother. I initially had Kafka in mind, but it would've been an absolute overkill. A "simple Kafka" would definitely be nice for these cases.

I ended up using Redis Streams [0], which was good enough for my small-scale need. We already had Redis in our stack too, so it was a very simple integration.

[0] https://redis.io/topics/streams-intro
The fact that Netflix does not ban people from streaming Netflix-made shows and movies makes me think it's not Netflix that really wants to do it, but third party copyright owners that push them to do this.
Your description doesn't sound like it's feedback based on game-state, though.
Those two concepts are not mutually exclusive. Each change can be idempotent by marking some identifying information about the state it was trying to update.

increase balance by 10 (it is currently 100)
balance is now 110
increase balance by 10 (it is currently 100) <- duplicate event!
event has already been applied
balance is now 110

It can definitely break down at some point (maybe the user really did want to increase by 10 two times, they just clicked twice really fast?). But idempotency and change-based flow can live together.
Should say [2011]
Not to mention usually also a mailing address.