skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But it doesn't sit right

Your argument makes sense, and I share your feelings on an emotional level, but at this point, the whole argument can be reduced to "sharing video files streamed from google drive is an equivalent of hosting a video on youtube, so the same rules apply", and that's hard to beat.

If you want to store whatever material you want for personal consumption, you are welcome to. But if you enable sharing, that's when all those extra rules start applying, because you are effectively turning it into a personal youtube that is still hosted by google, and DMCA strikes and other stuff will apply just the same.

Similarly, you can make backup copies of a DVD movie for yourself by burning them onto writeable DVDs. The legality of it is dubious due to copyright law being plain awful at times, but you won't get prosecuted for that if you truly had it only for personal backup reasons. The second you start distributing those DVDs in massive amounts to people, you start inviting a pretty legal trouble to your doorstep.

Mind you, I absolutely disagree with the ban of both the historical footage, as well as the whole google account just because of that footage. However, I do believe that making video public via a shareable link or otherwise puts it in the territory where content rules similar to youtube might get reasonably applied.
If they offered such a service people would accuse them of locking accounts to increase revenue.
My understanding seems to have been incorrect, if the words "external links" are in the ruling itself I don't know how Apple squirms out of that one. I guess by denying their return to the app store on other grounds.
Stimmt. If more people are working from home then the management class might get a taste of precarity.
Animal husbandry is not "torture and murder". Man is the ruler of this planet and has the right to feed himself as he sees fit.
I was attempting to humorously point out that after 10 years Apple shortcuts, it was very difficult to relearn how to type. Not just Copy/Paste, but Home/End and Page Up/Down, selecting lines and moving things around. They are all different in Windows Linux land.

I should have learnt Vi.

(And for the record, I like Apples better, and tried to emulate them on Windows for a while but It was never quite right)
Whole baked / boiled potatoes = probably not that bad all in all (as long as they are not slathered in butter and cheese and sour cream and bacon.

French fries, hash browns, vodka = probably not all that good.
I don't mean to be insensitive but what on earth possessed you to have your only copy of anything be held by some gigantic corporation, let alone one as completely nihilistic as Google.

Dear Everyone, Buy a USB stick and keep some copies of your important stuff in your own possession.
I agree, they'll have to come up with a continuous process to replace the batch process they have now.
This will already inform mypy that after that if statement x is type string.
Keep what up? The court ruled that they don’t have a monopoly, and that Epic was in breach of contract. Apple didn’t do anything wrong except the steering clause.

If anything Apple is better off now than before.
I'm a payer, on multiple domains. I disagree with "fine" and suggest "not absolute trash" as a replacement.
Gee, what if there was an industry standard simple to implement cryptographic messaging protocol (unlike PGP).

That is to say, there is never a good solution to this basic problem which should have been solved 30 years ago, on top of having to convince your mob boss on what to use.
You're looking at a very different kind of Nx engineer. The kind I'm talking about is where they approach a brand new problem that no one has an idea how to decompose using any tech that they have a clue how to operate, then a concise solution somehow appears using mostly what is already in service with careful splitting of tasks that appear clear and obvious only in retrospect. It's not about volume of output, precisely the opposite.
> Fighting climate change is not a game of "what would be more effective" and ranking solutions (especially in between countries), it's a game of "what are ALL the things we can realistically do".

I don't agree. We have limited time and energy to act. Getting people to stop beef in countries where it's not a problem is a waste, compared to using that time and energy to focus on a more important problem. I think focusing on moral imperatives instead of the most efficient actions is actually dangerous, as it's a denial of the reality we live in.
Such a joke each time Google is restraining/removing useful features with the pretext of protecting the user's privacy, and then, you have something like that that is pushed without a lot of consideration for the user...

You know the truth, for advertisement, they want to know if the user is behind the screen and watched an ad. It will help things like YouTube ensure that you don't switch window or leave the computer during the advertisement before your video begins.

The joke is also to pretend that you are safe because "permission" will be asked. But you know how it works, if refusing permission does not feed fake data, website will refuse to work, show a video or article content if you don't enable this permission!
So that’s why they’re “going out of business”
> I'm all for simple distraction-free tools. Heck, I've occasionally pondered about buying actual typewriter to write on.

I'm more old-school than you. I actually do a lot of writing on actual paper, with a pen. As-you-write edits are easier even than on a computer (I just move the pen to the spot that I want, rather than having to move the cursor[1]), and I can write anywhere - wherever I think best, not wherever I have power.

But I don't want to write on a typewriter. Edits are incredibly painful there.

[1] Yes, I know, it feels like the cursor just goes where you look. It doesn't, even on an editor that you've used for 30 years.
> and management has to justify why one person is higher paid than the other

And when they can't, do you think they will raise your coworkers salary to match yours, or bring yours down? (I know what I'd bet on) Persons who benefit from that asymmetry of information may not even know it. I'm not saying you are one of those people, but if your first reaction wasn't "Yes I deserve to get paid 2x my coworker", then I suspect you won't continue to be in a transparent system.

You also skipped over my first question in my previous reply. I am interested in your feedback on that. You claim that "knowledge is power". Can you point to an industry or large segment of jobs where this sort of salary negotiation (such as yours) takes place in a transparent system. Alternatively, can you point to any study/research that backs up your claim?
With Impossible and Beyond Meat's proven success do we really need cultured meat? Though personally I have no idea why Impossible and Beyond have been successful over existing delicious veggie burgers.
I like the premise, though I disagree with their idea that they should fund equally offensive but opposite. that just fuels the flame war....I don't think it helps. I think they should perhaps....donate that money to a truly good cause that is also objective and non political nor affiliated.
No I mean I scrolled past all the comments that linked to the videos and they were all "the account that posted this video has been suspended" or "that video has been deleted". Don't remember the exact messages, but they were all deleted by Google.
I'm working on an open-source desktop app [0] similar to Jupyter but more oriented toward non-data-science developer workflows like querying/joining data from multiple databases and scripting and graphing for internal reporting.

Another similar tool, but maybe more data science focused, is Simon Willison's Datasette [1].

[0] https://github.com/multiprocessio/datastation

[1] https://github.com/simonw/datasette
What do you think about the ability for researches to pick & choose which papers to include in a meta-analysis?

Double-blind is important for a reason, researchers are exceedingly good at proving what they want to prove even if subconscious, can meta-analysis studies ever overcome this?
No, once you start a call, which requires native code for the full offering (N>2, any time and duration). See TANSTAAFL reply above.
This post is five years old.
>Instead of perusing such experimental treatments, they could just get vaccinated.

This is the attitude I am talking about.
As I said earlier, I agree treatment options are not a substitute for vaccination. Why does being pro-vaccine necessitate being hostile to treatment options?

First off, Some people can't get vaccinated, and some vaccinated still get ill.

Second, for those who refuse to get vaccinated (as ill advised as it may be), don't we want them to have the 2nd best health outcome possible? Don't we want to minimize healthcare burden and social harm?

It seems like there is a large contingent of the population that want these people to suffer and die, and root for treatments to fail. Some sort of vindictiveness where folks are willing to sacrifice the public interest and their own to spite the vaccine-resistant.
Given the siloed disjointed nature of various Google products, it's probably because the security and Takeout teams don't care to deal with with one another.
His four part tweet seems to have been written by an AI. It contains the same phrases and platitudes contained in almost every statement made when a C-level exec leaves for a new outside role or an internal "special projects" job at their current employer.
You'd think Google breaks into your house, uploads your data, and deletes the originals.

Think of cloud accounts like any other form of backup. Two is one, one is none.

Hard drives die, cloud services come and go. No backup is forever.
China Aims for a Permanent Moon Base in the 2030s
All of those walmart departments are doing the same thing: they sell you different kinds of consumer goods in a single marketplace.

If you get banned from the entirety of Amazon marketplace by harassing sellers in the gardening equipment department, that seems fair. If you get your AWS account banned for doing the same thing that has nothing to do with AWS, that's a different story. One thing is a consumer goods store, the other is a cloud service provider.
It's Chromecast Audio, but for Spotify.
Well worst case nothing changes and the prices are still listed in the same currencies they are today. But if crypto is even a little bit successful then perhaps the number of currencies used to display prices will reduce to a smaller number and make things simpler.

For the buyer they can use any currency they want transparently and for displaying prices things can only get better.
So you think if google really thinks you're a terrorist that they are obliged to go on supporting you? There's a big difference between having no idea terrorists use your platform, and actually supporting them by enabling those you believe to be terrorists.
A corporation is run by people. They're 'negotiating' with hundreds or thousands of people. I'm not sure where you're going with that.

The idea is, it's not really negotiation when you turn off their water or shut down their loading dock. That has nothing to do with negotiation. That seems very clear, and not hyperbolic at all.

I don't think I've been extreme, but I do know we disagree on what extremes should be 'cricket' and which are over the line. The strong signal I get from this thread is, labor should be allowed any and all tactics because 'labor is good'. That's just not true, fair or rational.
That's certainly noble, but it doesn't send the message that you're unhappy with DRM. You're ultimately engaging in piracy and at the same time not voting with your wallet.

I don't see any alternative, but just wanted to make that point.
It seems like in 2021, doing better than faxes is pretty reasonable. If things like that are legitimately the significant barriers today, then doesn't that suggest it should be very easy to get them fixed?
I assumed (and hoped) this was mechanical from the title. I was a little disappointed to find out it was electronic.
I read half the article and skimmed the rest so maybe this was addressed and I missed it.

The existing meat industry, in the US at least, is subsidized both directly and via corn subsidies. Secondly, it bears none of the costs of its externalities. If those were factored into the cost of meat used by the report it might make for a more fair comparison.
Fantastic memory issues and how to fix them
This news will be gone tomorrow, forgotten by Friday and they can spin a flashy thing on Monday. Solved! (for some limited definition of solved)
It's possible that Google could provide support, but they are also trying to create a reputation of providing infrastructure so reliable that the technology is simply finished and doesn't need support. They don't want to give the impression that they're giving up that battle.
Some of that land historically was inhabited by relatives of current herbivores (bisons) so some of the land is feeding herbivores as it did historically.

Now, there are places where forest was cut down for grazing. Thats true. We also have experience where leaving the land alone a few decades reverts it back to forest (this is seen in forests in the eastern US which were once grazing lands for domesticated herbivores and now are back to being mature forests.
> But Wardle found that in some edge cases, a bug in the Taiwan-censorship code meant that instead of treating the Taiwan emoji as missing from the phone's library, it instead considered it an invalid input. That caused phones to crash altogether, resulting in what hackers call a denial-of-service attack that would let anyone crash a vulnerable device on command.

Which was also a bug—the conditions of which's existence are manifestly political (which I have zero desire/intent to defend here), but nonetheless an Apple-side bug that was patched eventually
The example I was replying to was when the patient was already diagnosed with a chronic illness and still had to go back to the doctor every month or so to renew the script, because reasons.
Another angle would be electro-mechanical. A la the IBM Selectric series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter
For #2: I tried it, downloaded the large file and installed. Then on launch, it couldn't find any JupyterLab install from my Conda environments, and it asked me to find it. I just uninstalled. I'm not sure what it wants or how it interacts with my many Conda envs and it's too much hassle to try and sort that out right now.
Why don't you pay for them lol. It's off patent there's no money for large trials. See the links supplied above, there's data from entire countries now at least.
The future is more meat, especially as more people are lifted from poverty and are able to afford better food. Most people eat it every day.
A reminder that in 1982 you could buy "1K ZX Chess" for the Sinclair ZX81.

It ran in 672 bytes of Z80 machine code, including graphics.

(Unfortunately a few features had to be left out. But still.)
I would suggest to keep the app as an independent front end
Letting users choose the server back end.
The cynic in me thinks they are concerned less with this disproportionally impacting people of color and more with wanting to be the preeminent distributor of marijuana.
Show HN: Data-minimal Mailchimp alternative built on top of your SQL DB
> so the expansion curve of the nozzile is made to direct exhaust directly aft with no further expansion.

Exactly the opposite. The gasses will INFINITELY expand as the atmospheric pressure on the Moon is for all intents and purposes exactly zero.

> Engines are designed to extract maximum energy from the propellant, so the expansion curve of the nozzile is made to direct exhaust directly aft with no further expansion.

Engines are NOT designed to extract maximum energy. Engines are designed for COMPROMISE between extracting maximum energy and other parameters like mass of the rocket.

For example, the engine could extract more energy from the propellant if the bell was larger. But that would make it also heavier and would reduce the performance of the rocket as a system.

Another example, part of the fuel is wasted to create screen to protect the engine from overheating. It is injected on the sides of the engine and does not burn. This waste is a planned compromise because better cooling mechanism would be much heavier and so wasting a little bit of fuel is best way to improve total performance of the rocket.

> Youd' inject these into the nozzle further enough down that they go directly down and out, not to the sides. (...) You can design it so that virtually none of the material ever hits the nozzle walls

No, you can't.

You mister, need to learn some physics.

The way engine works is by creating pressure. That pressure acts on the bell (the sides) and transfers to the rocket.

The "sides" aren't there to ornament the rocket, they serve a very important purpose as they are the surfaces which direct the exhaust back and on which the pressure of the gasses act to propel the rocket.

None of these two important roles can be fulfilled without the gasses actually pressing on them.

The vacuum regime isn't any different. There is positive pressure within the bell and this propels the rocket forward as the gasses expand backwards.

If you injected (ejected) fuel directly down and out you would get pitiful thrust the likes of your bottle of coke gets when a mint is dropped in it.

There are engines that do what you describe (ion engines) but they work in a very different way.
Hey HN, Chris from Vero[1] here.

We're building a newsletter/messaging product[1] that connects directly to SQL databases rather than storing user data ourselves. Think Mailchimp but sitting on top of SQL. Or Mode, Looker, etc. but for sending messages.

Vero Newsletters does not store user or activity data. This is important to us. We run queries inside your data warehouse, use query results to personalise your newsletters then forget the data.

The only information we maintain is endpoint (e.g. email address) subscription statuses: Vero is a giant “sieve” through which all messages pass to ensure unsubscribed endpoints never receive another message.

Why is this approach different?

- Invest in a data flywheel. If all your data is read from and written to a central data warehouse a flywheel is created. Investments in data aggregation and organization benefit all users and tools that leverage the central warehouse. This avoids the scenario where customer data is copied to several platforms, all siloed. We are actively working not to become another “system of record”.

- Save money. We don’t store data so have a different cost structure. This means we can charge per message rather than per subscriber. This is unusual for messaging / marketing products and means our pricing is much more cost-effective.

- Minimal data footprint. By not syncing we help you store private user data in fewer places. Data in less places is always a good thing and there are a growing number of tools that can provide secure access-as-needed. We also intend to build out a self-hosted version of our product: much more achievable under this model.

We launched our original product here on HN nine years ago[3]. Since then we’ve been squirrelled away quietly building a business. It’s been an interesting journey.

We think it’s time for the next major iteration in how marketing/CRM software is built.

We hope this data warehouse-first, data-minimal approach will resonate with the sorts of builders here on HN and would love to hear your thoughts, questions, concerns or ideas re: where we're going. Thank you!

[1] Our product: https://getvero.com/newsletters/
[3] Post on HN many years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4129228
> most known criminal dev teams are hacker groups in Russia

citation, please!
Debugging with LLDB often feels broken or incomplete in Swift than with Objective-C, as well.
Widely used supplies like that are usually just put into a general overhead account, sometimes specific to a department.

Healthcare companies would need to attribute things like depreciation of equipment (MRIs & CAT scanners for example), as well as doctor and nurse time (outside of operating rooms). These things are generally not tracked accurately, and many professionals are indignant at the idea that they could be.
Terrorism is usually only defined by your allegiance, yes. In this case google is a US company so in the case they know violent islamic extremists use their platform, their allegiance is with the Americans, even if it happens to be the Americans blow up innocent Arabs and the extremists may just be engaging in self defense.
Post in the top 5 of the subreddit currently: "Is there a good self hosted, cross platform OneNote / SimpleNote like app out there ?"

Yep, scum of the earth. /s
The locations are also used to show the route on a map. You can actually see it by clicking on a yellow location marker. It's a bit hidden because the UI is still a bit buggy, so until I get it fixed it's more of an easter egg.

The "MVP" for collaborative albums would be sharing an account. At this point you could even create a new account just for the trip, so your friends don't get access to your other photos. I realize it's not ideal, but maybe it's enough to try it out?

The albums are shared insofar as anyone with the link can see them and they get indexed by google. But there is no central feed where albums or photos might appear. Adding password protection and a noindex option on a per-album basis is also on my list.
Grow and eat your own vaccines?
Sorry, does anyone in tech actuallty use a commercial VPN?

I have friends who are non technical who often ask me "what VPN provider should I use?", and my response is usually "Why are you using one?". They often say it's to protect their privacy from... someone, they don't know who. However they never know the privacy policies of their VPN company or how to protect against things like DNS leak.

It seems most people actually use them to watch a streaming service in a different country. This is just piracy with a hat on. I don't understand why they don't just pirate the media without paying anyone a monthly fee and be done with it.
Facebook was PAID to carry disinformation campaigns. It's just another sort of advertising to a certain way of thinking, and they probably figured they were acting like a common carrier and waited to see if counter-disinformation campaigns coughed up any money to retort.

I don't think it was happy times at Facebook when they figured out what they'd collaborated with, but it put them on the defensive. And Mark Zuckerberg isn't really wired to play defense. He is not a natural diplomat.
Steal the content and Venmo the creator?
I regularly use Alphasmart Neo for long-form writing, so let me share my perspective.

Having a small screen does not feel limiting. It is enough both for writing continuously, the focus of Freewrite, and for editing the last few sentences. I wish it had better contrast and adjustable tilt, though.

Syncing via emulating a keyboard ensures that I can pair it with nearly any device. This gives more peace of mind than using a proprietary service Postbox or wondering if it will stop working with the next standard of WiFi. Also, wireless connectivity comes at a cost of autonomous time.

There is a community https://www.flickr.com/groups/alphasmart that has many discussions of Alphasmart and other writing devices. It goes back more than fifteen years.