skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean - the people who designed Gravaton 3 seem to agree with my premise, so at least that’s some validation. Alternatively, do some CPU profiling with your workstation - a massive amount of time is simple waiting for memory returns.
I had a similar experience with eBay. In my case, they suspended my account for no reason and refused to delete my bank account information. They are literally holding my banking details against my will. I might actually call the police on them because its so shady - and we are in the same county.
This is pointless. Evolutionary process allow plant and animal based ecosystems to adapt to a dynamic planet. Reviving a specific example of a species is just filling zoos.
> residential routers plus a USB stick will make this more possible.

This smells like "let them eat cake" except in the context of technology. Not everyone is able or even wants to mess with that stuff. There's a vast difference between "Yes, backup my stuff, Apple; Here's my card" and "I know what an IP is"

At $12/year you literally cannot get anything like what Apple offers just in terms of backup — not the equipment, not the man hours required to maintain it. Even if I were able to set it all up, it would cost me a huge amount of money in lost revenue just to maintain it safely.

It feels like "I could build dropbox in 5 minutes" never stopped.
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Yes, definitely L3/L4 (and QNX) inspired! In terms of the Roscoe talk: I think it's a great talk because he talks about the problems, but I don't particular agree with the proposed solution. ;) In particular, I don't think it makes sense to have single operating systems spanning these wildly disparate, heterogeneous cores; to me, it makes much more sense for each to have its own (tiny) operating system -- e.g., Hubris.
This is what inverted totalitarianism looks like when it crushes the innocent. Now imagine what it can do to activists and dissidents.
There are plenty of laws that override terms and conditions. A one example, on many countries landlords can not throw out tenants on a whim. Telephone companies can not cut off service on a whim. There are similar laws for utility companies and banks. Arguably it's about time for similar laws for Apple, Google, and Microsoft who potentially hold the keys to your entire life.
Covid-19 Post-Acute Sequelae Among Adults: 12 Month Mortality Risk
It seems like that provision wouldn’t hold up in court (at least in a sane legal system, I guess that means it might hold up in the US), rendering it moot.
Same here.

I had a Nest thermostat for a while and ultimately ended up using it like a dumb thermostat with 7-day wake/work/return/sleep settings. It kinda put me off on automation. Now I have my own home-made BLE / video IoT gadgets that I manage myself.

It is waaaay more coding & fiddling, but in a fun way and not a "I paid $500 for this crap" way.
>” The people hanging out outside abortion clinics and gay clubs with all caps boards such as "GOD HATES F*S" and "YOU WILL BURN IN HELL"?”

Do you believe the majority of churches have attendees like this? Westboro Baptist is not at all representative of the local congregation but plenty of people think that kind of behavior you mentioned is common. I believe it is due in-part to unfamiliarity.
They still exist:

https://www.amazon.com/Honeywell-CT87K1004-Available-RoundHe...
This is your periodic reminder that not all problems have a technical solution. There probably is no bot scanning for this. If it’s ever enforced, it must be through manual human action.
> We wish to forge a new path forward, one [...] of user-owned and operated pages [...]. Find us on Discord.

SURELY there is something better out there, if your goal is to stop propping up proprietary monoliths?
I think the suggestion was to get your own domain. You can use gmail as a service and if they kick you off you still own your domain and your email address. If you're smart you might backup the email. That's fairly easy to do.
Even if the cables were marketed easier, you still want to see info pop up if you have the wrong one.
HIV was also completely ignored for the most part because they thought it was "gay cancer". Politics aren't biology but they can certainly become it. We pay more attention to things than we did then I hope. Millions of excess deaths in a given year should be noticeable given that you and I can argue this from nearly any point on the terrestrial surface remotely.
> but my PCs don't require Google to function

Macs don't require an Apple account to function either.
That will detect files in a system package, but not files in a system package depended on by a system package depended on by a system package. It depends on how the distro packages deps and how apps use them. There are apps which use non-linked files that are only provided in extra packages. And even if you walk the whole dependency graph for a single package and export all listed files, you miss files that are created and updated during the setup steps of a package install (which are not listed in the package).
VLC hasn't fixed the many-years-old bug where seeking causes pitch to randomly shift (https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/14287, previously https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/10056). And IIRC when VLC plays network streams (eg. Youtube) and they get disconnected, VLC often aborts playback instead of reconnecting (don't know if this bug is tracked or not, or fixed, since I use mpv for Youtube now).
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started
> Self hosting is not something a normal person can just learn overnight and manage.

It's not something most tech people can really (properly) manage either.
> If some hospitals screw over a patient no doctor would say people need to learn surgery and self operate on themselves.

That's quite a false equivalence you've vomited out right there.

If self-hosting is too difficult it's an engineering problem for the folks you're saying need to respect their craft a little bit more to f*cking get off their asses and collectively fix to make more accessible/practical.

Nearly everyone already self-hosts a wireless micro-ISP in their home in the form of a WiFi router. The next step is for these little boxes to grow some serious storage and more functionality catering more to everyones data storage and access needs, with first-class standards-based integration in ios/android/$whatever-you-want-because-standards-matter-bring-back-RFCs

FreedomBox [0] is a step in this direction, Eben Moglen's conference talks on the subject [1] are worth giving a listen.

[0] https://freedomboxfoundation.org/

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U8PyukPyGE
I'm going to assume you're acting in good faith and just haven't seen this definition of platform.

The one everyone else in this thread is using is "an application or website that serves as a base from which a service is provided" (that's straight from Merriam-Webster)

Examples include (also from M-W):

"music streaming platforms"

"has built a cloud-computing platform for use by others"

"billions of photos scraped from Facebook and other social media platforms"

The only one that really could count in your examples is email, and if you think that doesn't have problems try setting up your own server and sending to gmail, hotmail, and other large providers without getting sent to spam or outright bounced.
Please review the stated history of events—-it IS extremely unlikely.

She is making a case in the court of public opinion.

Granted she has more clout than the “average joe” (and the very fact that this is even being discussed is evidence for it) but ANY case without corroborating evidence is just hearsay.

She should “put up or shut-up” and the levels of “put” required are so minimal that her PR credibility before the “court” on this matter has a very short half-life.
Depends, are we willing to practice basic public sanitation during influenza outbreaks or are we returning to the days before germ theory? I care more about my grandparents than the economy, I take the flu shot yearly, what exactly is the issue with preventative medicine?
This is actually a lot more sane than you might think, and quite doable. There's no reason any critical data needs to reside on your phone, you can have it all on a different computer or cloud or somewhere safe.

Seeing the fact that every government, company, and criminal seem(s) to be highly motivated to exfiltrate data from your phone, perhaps it's one of the less safe places to store PII/critical data in the first place. (And that's before considering that it's highly portable and can simply be lost. )

If the critical data isn't on your phone in the first place, then you can't lose it.

But since your phone has network access, and as long as you have a decent data plan, your data need only be one tap away anyway.
Gotcha capitalism and inverted totalitarianism. Submit to the interests of the plutocrats and go into debt buying today's fancy widgets, or be banished.
The mercury switch behaved kind of like the first hill of a roller coaster. It would linger at the edge of transition until it reached a breaking point then it would drop.

Some modern thermostats try to emulate this behavior. The Honeywell T6 line of thermostats have technician settings for configuring this behavior though no technician takes the time to configure them for a home.
Portable network access device. ;-)
Or companies can report reviews and a bot react when lots of such reports triggers?

I think the best solution would just to block the relevant capabilities related to the ban rather than deleting the whole account based on some strange activities. Why doesn't companies do this?
Common misconception, the median age skews younger in history because most humans died in infancy. If you survived to adulthood you could expect a similar lifespan (50-80)
There was a stabbing at the Jerusalem parade in 2015. I don't recall one ever happening in Tel Aviv but I might be mistaken. The two cities are separated by a distance of 65 kilometers, 5-10 degrees Celsius, and 200 years of cultural change.
Something very similar happened to me with Amazon. I used a new debit card from an online bank to purchase an expensive item and deliver it to a foreign address (which is admittedly suspicious). The payment bounced, Amazon immediately locked my account and requested to see a card billing statement sent to my home address to reactivate it. Upon login I am presented with a stern request for documentation, a pdf upload field, a tweet-sized text field for comments, and all communication comes from a noreply@amazon.com address. All my kindle/audible/etc media immediately became inaccessible.

I went through every possible channel to explain that the card does not send me a billing statement and I cannot possibly produce one, requesting to be called or at least emailed by a human, to no avail. After spending tens of thousands of dollars on Amazon over the course of fifteen years I couldn't even get a personal call from the case manager, and all my purchased media is gone.

To this day I have found no resolution, and the only next step is to contact them through a lawyer.
A similar case was posted yesterday, though it involved adding gift cards: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29437627
Ask HN: Please Give Me Advice
Can’t make myself do anything anymore

Im not achieving anything, no matter how hard i try

On my 6th month of doing barely anything and it’s already December

I’m regretting that i didn’t use the time to achieve something meaningful

I have money, yet i’m miserable and unhappy

I feel ashamed of being that guy who is always depressed, angry and sad

All i dream of to make a contribution and make an impact

Yet i struggle to find anyone who needs my help

I’m thinking my (dead) grandparents would be embarrassed of me being such a loser

I’m trying all my best to be a good person, yet i’m still not good enough for myself

I used to think it’s not that bad: i’m not hungry, have a warm place to stay and guaranteed inheritance

Yet, i feel like i’m a useless parasite, nothing i do brings joy to me
This is a great analogy, going to steal this one.
At time of writing this reply I don’t see anyone challenging this premise, so fine I’ll go for it.

Tons of stuff gets done all the time. All around us. A lot of it is unremarkable because it’s so commonplace. Where I live, most of Seattle’s most vulnerable buildings have been retrofitted for earthquakes with nearly no fanfare. It’s an enormous task, but it happened gradually and in compliance with regulations. It doesn’t fit the narrative of getting stuff done I’m some big show of accomplishment, but it certainly fits the narrative of the original tweet.
And if your domain registrar decides to ban you for whatever reason?
Just yesterday, I was telling myself I had been a fool to spend more money on yet more cable-ware, when I am surrounded by cables I don't need.

But now I feel a lot better, thanks.

Charging cables are set up in a couple of places in the house, aren't used for data. My dealer for charging cables is Rolling Square. They are nicely built and have complicated adapters on the ends that can handle all the USB-PD stuff, up to 100 Watts:

https://rollingsquare.com

Data-wise, they are just like Apple's charging cables: USB 2, 480 Mbit.

For data, I go with OWC Thunderbolt 4 cables. My two-meter cable should arrive tomorrow.

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-thunderbolt-4-cables

I feel like there should be a 12-Step program for this.
Not entirely related, but I’m sort of sad that these giant storage buildings don’t need to exist any more. There’s something about having everything on paper, and getting a printed memo on your desk that can’t be replaced by email.
This sounds like The Trial by Franz Kafka. You get thrown into a bureaucratic machine and you have no idea why. And no way to appeal.

These account suspensions scream for regulation that forces a company to explain the suspension and offer some kind of appeal process. Otherwise I see a very dark future where super large companies kill people's livelihoods and nothing can be done.

It's striking how the guy goes out of his way to not be angry at Apple. Very interesting psychology. Stockholm syndrome or just begging the king for forgiveness?
Microsoft's Plot to Kill QuickTime (2007)
I guess that's fair. I missed the 3 letter hyperlink in the Github README. Would be nice if some credit was given on https://sfu.mirotalk.org/ Normally I would not be so pedantic about the use of a library, but mediasoup is doing the vast majority of the heavy lifting that makes this possible.

Edit: I see the mediasoup project is also listed by name in the credits section. So I rescind my earlier comment. I still think it's a fine line to call this project itself an SFU though.
Emailing the c suite seemed effective in this case.
The U2 lyric is “she moves in mysterious ways”. Just a little different.
Business as usual. Drop the ban hammer haphazardly.
Had a Facebook account since 2006. You basically have to claim you are an alumni from a school you didn’t go at all
TCP/IP relies on your ISP routing you. They can disown you, taking you offline.

Email is fairly dependent on DNS which is fairly dependent on a domain. Your TLD can deregister your domain, and domain hijacking is still a thing. Similarly, most people do not have an appetite to self host email and are subject to the whims of their provider.

BitTorrent is a decent example, DHT are fairly robust but also not easily searched. The discovery method of BitTorrent is frequently subject to DMCA takedowns. These takedowns have taken down legitimate torrents as well.

TLS and RSS are not platforms, and fall victim to the same thing as email.

The internet is built on many levels of trust, but just because we trust in it doesn't mean it isn't possible to deplatform at very low levels.
They often have under similar kinds of executive or insider duress
You usually can't detect them other than running the program and watching it die, or running the program with strace and looking for the files it's trying to stat/open.

You can actually pipe the output of strace into exodus and it will include the files that were accessed by the program in the bundle. For example:

strace -f nmap --script default 127.0.0.1 2>&1 | exodus nmap
> Wait til you find out about what other systems you rely on have imperfect fraud detection.

>

> There isn't a platform any large number of people use that is exempt from this.

Okay, but with the other platforms that I can think off[1], my computer and phone still continue working. I can effectively work without those platforms and do not need to purchase a new computer or phone.

[1] Maybe I'm thinking of the wrong ones (Twitter, FB, AMZ, etc). Which platforms were you referring to?
One decade later, Minecraft world generation is interesting again
To be fair, git and mercurial are very similar. I wouldn’t recommend anyone to go with mercurial for a new project because of the network effects of git but I’ve used and been happy with both.
I think to some extend it is. Only the good stuff is worth preserving, so that’s the only thing that remains.

On the other hand, since it’s now so cheap to produce stuff, there’s no real reason to make it last longer any more.

I also feel like the marginal cost of labor is much lower now with everything being machined. If labor costs $1000 it’s easy to justify $200 in materials. If labor is $10, not so much.
I just had the same issue with my Facebook ads account (which I haven't used in years). I couldn't event lodge an appeal because they don't let you do so unless you have 2 factor auth. I'm sorry, but I so don't trust Facebook/Meta with my phone number.
Is this something that would allow me to demo my electron app to visitors on my website? Or take it a step further and sell instances to users?

If someone has consulting chops to help me with this I’d love to chat.
I'm pretty sure Nazis are outlawed in Germany. I don't think they overstepped their bounds. They'd be pretty stupid to let it happen again.
You're not wrong but what else is there? In 1994/5 IRC was awesome. In 2021, IRC sorta kinda sucks.

They have to start somewhere...
Few people have anything resembling a plan.

Just don't ask randos on the internet. You'll hear this often, because there's truth to it: Seek therapy. It's not a sign of weakness.

And if the therapist doesn't "click" with you, see a different one.
Given John Malone’s recent overtures to Trump, it’s possible that this is a Liberty Media PIPE deal with the intent of adding Trump to Liberty’s channel lineup as a FOX/OANN competitor, which would be broadly consistent with their corporate strategy. Of course, this being Trump, it could also be a bunch of Russian oligarchs via private placement, so who the hell knows.
Apple already exerted that control

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/10/15/apple-demands-tel...
I never thought I would see Summerland on hacker news. Heh.
Might have something to do with Amazon selling 3rd party inventory and pushing any losses onto actual sellers.
That's definition (b) from M-W. Definition (a) is "operating system." Though that's kind of a layman's oversimplification and it's more specifically the operating system's API implementation, which is why Java qualifies by providing the same thing.

But also, how does email not fit under (b)? Or Signal etc.?
I have had decent success sending letters to the CEO of companies and CC'ing the FTC and Better Business Bureau.
Look, coating an entire office in tacky gold leaf isn’t cheap.
Find an interesting hobby.
>"The only option is to create a new account and move on"

The only option is to talk to a lawyer and try to file criminal charge against their interference with enjoinment of the things you paid for.
They're working on it. Excavation is indeed a pain, there's a lot of extra traffic recently due to the construction, and people complain about the noise too. But it's happening.

I don't expect it to help much with the Shabbat issue, but politics are hard to predict so we'll see.
Oh. That's pretty cool
IMHO don't just try to fix this one part of your life.

At the most basic level it starts with being more organized. As empty as that sounds, it's actually pretty significant. As cliche as it sounds it's deeply true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientiousness
Tim Apple is good about stuff like this. He helped me desolder the broken wristband on my iWatch.
Most people have at least 2 or 3 with any bank they work with (checking, savings, credit)

If my bank left me high and dry in a foreign country I would absolutely cut ties.

I've done enough international travel that I maintain redundant checking accounts for just such a situation, but there are plenty of people out there that keep all of their accounts in a single place...
If you're in the EU, you might be able to do something about this using GDPR.
That's not pressure. It was entirely within their power to not respond, and then what?
Wow. This reminds me of my experience with Coinbase. I find it interesting that they don't see how troublesome all this is. There's a human on the other end of the technology, and shutting them out without a solid reason, or the ability to reasonable appeal is crazy.
Routers and USB sticks are the long term trend? How exactly will a USB stick handle apps purchased through the App Store or your subscription to Apple Music?

The long term trend is the exact opposite. People don't want to the manage hardware and all the issues of configuration, backups and troubleshooting faults that come with that, just to watch a movie. They want to palm off that responsibility to an external entity.
I think the talk was titled as it was to emphasize that Rust here wasn't a tool that they chose to use to develop a robust OS, but a tool without which, developing a robust OS is impossible. Without a language that enforces security (like C), it is demonstrably impossible to write a robust OS.
This is the zeitgeist so what you're feeling is reasonable. We live in material abundance but spiritual destitution. So unfortunately I don't think there is anything you can do individually that will help other than maybe look into folks like Neil Postman, Alan Watts, Carl Sagan, etc. and read what they wrote to see if it can be applied in your individual circumstances. It's hard to do anything about an individual problem until you understand its systemic causes and can place it in the proper context for analysis.
Can you get os updates without an apple account? My Mac always bugs me for my apple ID when updating things. I'd be happy to get rid of that, maybe it's for apps.
I have called everyone in my area, many times, nobody could give me an appointment

Already on drugs, but taking them makes me feel more shit, because then i have a thought that i'm a broken person and can't live a normal live without depending on meds
I am OK if such a thing happens but they really need to provide an appeals process and explain what triggered the fraud detection.
Even though you cut your losses, I wanted to thank you for this comment. I sincerely appreciate the reading/watching material.
Register a Google Voice number. I have one specifically to give to all companies I don't want to give my actual phone number to.
>"all my purchased media is gone"

I feel sorry but personally I would never "buy" something of that nature that I can not truly own/control. All my media is in format every player would understand and backed up in couple of places.
Set your age to below 13 in Coinbase for a fun surprise.

As soon as you click "update", you are insta-locked out of your account.
Walled gardens are not the baby, in that metaphor. The so called benefits are rentseeking arrangements, exploiting and imposing ignorance on consumers. The costs to society outweigh any advantages by many orders of magnitude.
Not all platforms have bash by default.
When you reread your own comment, does it strike you as being narrow-minded?