skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was an issue 10+ years ago and I'm shocked it still exists. In the early days of Google+, some people lost their accounts for not having "real names". Whether or not you agree with a real names policy (I don't), you should never lose access to your Gmail or Google Photos or Youtube channel because of it.

Even though this didn't happen to me I learned that my Gmail is too important to lose so I can't use that account for anything else and that's dumb and shortsighted of Google.

It says a lot that this hasn't been fixed in 10+ years to safeguard your Gmail account in particular. Uploading an offending image (which could be an ccident) to Google Photos shouldn't terminate your AdWords account.
Makes me wonder if for blind people forms of phonetic typing would be more useful.

Like chord keyboards.

Or maybe some other less wide spread but also less complex to use phonetic input methods?
So there are a couple of issues at play here. First, a merchant can charge your account with only your card number, date and CVV. If you call up and pay someone, say an insurance company, that’s all they need. Now your bank might automatically reject that charge if it seems suspicious, but that’s their call. This is why fraud is/was so rife in the US, because anyone who imprints your card can pay with it. Adding a chip and 3D secure mitigates that somewhat. If someone steals your card, usually it’s just an inconvenience because the bank will freeze your card, issue a new one and refund fraudulent transactions.

Typically the reason you see 3D secure is for chargeback protection. Chargebacks from fraudulent cards are both common and expensive for retailers and they want to minimise it - so they check your address etc. Ever notice that the checks sometimes make no difference? For example sometimes the billing address gets checked and fails if you put in the wrong one, other times it doesn’t seem to matter. I believe this is a merchant decision (some places just use it to generate invoices for tax purposes).

I don’t know of any regulation for using apps, but 2FA may be required? With Wise I can respond either via SMS or the app. I also have another fintech card which gives the option of sending the OTP over email which is useful when the app isn’t available. Also as an expat I have two phones with different sims, so I need solutions that aren’t device locked (at least one bank only allows me to have one mobile device registered).
> Well, IMAP rather than POP3.

I set this up a couple of weeks ago. I think Gmail only allows pop3 for email fetching, because I just couldn't get it to even try connecting to my IMAP. pop worked great though.

The settings even lists "POP Server", not "Server", even if you choose port 143 or 993

> I don’t think there’s a single legitimate reason to use POP3 any more

Well, pop was designed as a "download the messages" protocol, IMAP as a "keep messages on the server" protocol, right?

So while it doesn't prevent IMAP, pop is actually a better mapping in intent.

Pop is clear about what "the email" is. IMAP opens questions like "so… all email? Or just INBOX, or what?". And while it's not mandatory to delete the emails from the server with pop, it becomes even more of a complex question with IMAP.

The choice of pop3 very strongly implies answers to all of these questions, with no surprises.

Are there downsides to pop here that I'm not considering?
Elon Musk has donated $5.7B in Tesla shares to charity
This would be ridiculous quickly. Imagine the protestors getting Trump to go to re-election within a week of the 2016 election.

Say Hillary won.

How long would it take the anti-Hillary side to shut things down long enough to get another election?

In a polarised partisan climate, you'd have weekly elections.
I would separate the app-rendering and document-rendering, but in a composable way. Document-rendering would be much like reader-mode today where the browser applies a lot of styles to make the text beautiful and readable based on the user's preferences. App-rendering would have incredibly consistent default styles (such as no margins, no padding, no underline on links). Basically I feel that browser default styles are ugly because they are afraid to break the "app-rending". I think separating these would allow the browser to make document-rendering much nice. I wrote a blog post with more detail. https://kevincox.ca/2021/07/14/chrome-and-content-modes-in-h...

On the other side can a major browser fix keyboard shortcuts. I want 1. User controllable keyboard shortcuts. (Ideally with some sort of scripting or macro system) 2. Don't allow websites to override important browser shortcuts. Why can't I open my history when looking at a Google Doc?!
For what value of X?
Interesting. How did you do that? Does the "Contact US" form really work?
> Google mean while has the same business-to-business support that it does for private customers like the author here. For some services it’s because Google doesn’t care, but they do care about Education and they still can’t figure out how to readjust to be a valuable business partner even when they actually want to sell you something.

My experience with Google's business support is that instead of talking to a brick wall, there's now someone between you and the brick wall. Support is very responsive, and the response is always "I've filed an internal support ticket". When you ask for an update after weeks/months, the response is basically "there has been no update on the support ticket". As a bonus, your support ticket with them will sometimes auto-close because there hasn't been any activity - I had to ask Google Cloud support to re-open an unresolved issue three times once.
Yahoo had search. The Gmail one worked a bit better, mostly because you could automatically tag things, but it was not unheard of.
Just had a friend who was talking about this. Account was hacked or Instagram just decided to make her do this.

Tried it twice, and it didn’t work. Couldn’t find any way to contact anyone, so basically got fed up and closed her social media accounts.
Indeed, there are a million things they could do other than suspend the entire account.

It's just lazy admins on a power trip retaliating, doing the easiest & cheapest thing they can think of. Hardly different from blocking an entire /24 because a hacked wordpress install on some VPS started sending spam. Big overreach, but nobody holds them accountable. It reminds me of mafia & gangster movies where the revenge is extended to an entire family/business/building because one bad actor offended one of the mobs.
There is a general problem with poor customer service. In the past, I think most people had the belief that you had to have good service to keep customers and if you didn't, you lost work and possibly eventually the business.

Nowadays, so many services are so sticky that it is not the case that a business has to give good service and also unrealistic to expect people just to go somewhere else if they don't like it.

In a different but related example, I am remortgaging. The new lender has their own conveyancer who should be handling things. The conveyancer is really slow, doesn't respond to emails or phone calls for an update and if they don't sort things by the end of this month, I will need to pay another $500 on my mortgage payment. What can I do? Go elsewhere? Not at this rate, I cannot afford to wait another 2 months to apply for another mortgage and I could even end up with the same conveyancer. The Lender isn't interested because it is waiting for the conveyancer and the only person who will be out of pocket will be me. Others have had entire sales fall through because the same conveyancer took so long.

So what I was thinking was a new law that you are not allowed to advertise or take on any new customers unless your TrustPilot score is above 4. A bit Black Mirror but it might just work ;-)
Instructional video – how to create a brain-computer interface (ironbci DIY)
Yes we are headed to that point. Whether the public will resist at some point is the big question (or if it even still has the power to do so).
Europe and the rest of the world is paying something closer to the true cost of using fossil fuels. Although, with compounding climate change, prices are not keeping up. They are, in effect, subsidizing North America and China's addiction to cheap fossil fuels, which are cheap because externalities are not priced in, and are additionally subsidized by NA governments.
No, they're worse. I'm using Brave + DDG - I can't completely de-google-ify, but I can try.
For some reason your comment reminded me of the Reichstag fire decree. It’s worth reading on, how the government used an emergency protection order to go full throat to a dictatorship..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire#:~:text=The%2....
> Better would be to move emails into a new mailbox after fetching them, so that you don’t need to see them again but they’re still there, but I don’t know if anything supports that concept.

The best way to do this, in my opinion, is to tee the emails to another mailbox as they come in, not as they get pulled from the inbox.
Not watching 2 hours of FUD
I’m wondering how super-recognizers [0] would fare.

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/superior-face-rec...
In the early days, I was thepimp@hotmail.com. One day, my account was suddenly suspended because of the handle, no other reason, all data permanently gone, no backsies.
Me too. Currently leaning towards iCloud. It’s very inexpensive for email with a custom domain and I trust Apple a bit more than other tech companies.
It’s congress not government bureaucrats that are in charge of the really big ticket items.

As such these companies setup manufacturing to be in an optimal set of districts to ensure their success even if it’s inefficient that’s just more pork.
I bought an iBook G4 1.33ghz single-core with 512mb of RAM and 40gb spinning disk to use as my daily driver. It's perfect for reading Wikipedia and other text-based sites and I just found a really good Bible program specifically made for OSX 10.4. I feel very focused as I don't get side-tracked by YouTube because I can't run it! I almost never program outside of work unless I have an idea for something so I put my more powerful Macbook in the closet!

It has definitely brought adventure back to the internet for me instead of the YouTube algorithm kicking my ass every day recommending stuff that I NEED to watch.
I learned this lesson the hard way - 11 months of freemium, decided to add a trial because "why not?" - now something like 95% of new users choose the trial of the Pro plan, instead of the free tier.
Generate running Go code from Ent schemas
Ent just got a new extension, that can generate basic CRUD endpoints with OpenAPI v3 documents for any schema graph.
reminds me of geocities
True, and even though I don't like the style, having more free assets van only be a good thing. So kudos to OP!
Fastmail handles the whole thing admirably as far as I'm concerned.

Get your custom domain, create a mail user with Fastmail: username@mydomain.com

Set things up nicely (do read the docs), particularly look at catchalls, wildcards and aliases

Give out separate email addresses to each and every service you use: service@username.mydomain.com

Bonus: You can easily send emails back from each address you give out and if you create a label called "service" for the example above, mail coming to that address will be automatically labelled without needing to create a rule.

I used to use spamgourmet and used to get some resistance from sites using misguided email validation considering it a spam service (oh the irony) - now with Fastmail, everything just works.
I think it makes the Canadian government look weak and inept when it can’t come to an agreement with its own people. It does make the Canadian government look weak, but I think they lose face at home more than abroad by not working this out.
That seems to be the comparison you want to make, not me. Remember, I started with dissolution!
Intel to Acquire Tower Semiconductor for $5.4B to Expand IFS Capabilities
> You are offered full-time hours! Yes! Except because you hit the boundaries/limits/edge cases in the legislation, your net income will only increase by $30 a week, because your income tested supplementary assistances will decrease as your earnings do.

My mother at one point made $25/mo too much for her childcare assistance because she worked some overtime. She lost her assistance for months and ended up several thousand bucks in the hole. Plus joy for me, since when parents can't afford childcare, guess who gets to do it instead? If you guessed usually the oldest kid, here's a prize!
This is one specific instance being unreasonable[0] rather than the software itself having unreasonable defaults (which could be modified if it is free). Having the whole network impose same filtering, like Reddit does, is significantly worse.

[0] https://toot.cafe/about/more#blocked-instances
A link on the homepage is not some huge deal, who even goes to Mozilla's homepage? People that want Firefox will search for Firefox, with no VPN mentioned.

I don't think the burden of making the VPN client forced them to fire the developers.
Should governments be concerned about looking "weak"?
Legacy systems will be broken.
You're absolutely right that the "peacemaker" in situations like this should be a secret, anonymous, properly held elections.

However, resigning every time there is a protest, even a spectacular one, is obviously not an option for any democraticaly elected governement.

Pick a cause you defend, and a right you'd want to preserve ; browse recent history to find out when was the last time a massive protest was held by people with the opposite side of view.

Western democracies are warry of calling elections for anything but picking representatives. More direct forms of democracy would clearly help in this case.

The current scenario is that the elected governement takes harsh measure, and the people will have to wait and vote them out of office.

(Which, I believe, is a fundamental difference between most western democracy and more autocratic regimes - I'm ready to reevaluate that when there is suspense again in a russian / NK / china election.)

This is _very_ unfortunate for governements that have been recently elected and have strong parlementary majorities.

I wonder if a better "better scenario" in such crisis would be to have different level of population oversight, depending on the time scale of measures.

As in: first, the elected governement takes extraordinary measures, with relatively free reign for short period of times (days / weeks.) "Extraordinary time calling for extraordinary measures", etc...

Than, parlimentary oversight kicks in, to prolong measures in the "months" scale (I'm one of those annoying people who believe representatives have a role in democracy. Sorry.)

Than, referendum / votations need to occur for anything longer than a few months.

It would not "solve" the issue - because, a vaccine mandate might very well have been agreed by referendum in Canada, and truckers would _still_ have blocked roads. But in the grand scheme of things, I'd rather have this process.
These people are moderate libertarians, not the right. If it was the right and if they were copy/pasting from BLM it would be a violent White supremacy movement. That's just not going to happen.
And what if, after reading the ToS, they object to some clause? Their only recourse is not using the service. Object to more than a handful, and soon your only option is living in a cave.

That, or push for legislation that limits what may be put into contracts, clickthrough or others. But since contracts are sacrosanct, and the highest purpose of society and the law is enforcing them, that option is off the table.
Except it is[1] when you want to appease your Sikh community.

Tactics used during the protests that Trudeau supported and described as peaceful[2]: Gherao (encirclement), dharna (sit-in), raasta roko (traffic obstruction), demonstration, suicide, counter legislation.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0h48p7JspA

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_Indian_farme...
Flagged: Just churnalism of this blog post from 2021:
https://atchistory.wordpress.com/2021/12/05/reminicences-4-c...
3 things:
* Do your homework.
* Understand what's going on in class.
* Think ahead.
I disagree, the riots in America perpetrated by antifa had a significant policy shift and public opinion impact. The burning of Kenosha and other cities, was probably the only time a protest in modern history has had an effect on public policy.
During the pandemic Joe Biden and his friends sent me a check by direct deposit into my chase checking account. We already have a digital dollar. If you have a checking account at one of the main banks then you're already hooked up to the monetary panopticon. If you think Bitcoin solves this then you don't really understand how money works and you are replacing one narrative fantasy with another one.
I guess this works if you have a team of mostly jrs or are working on something truly unique. Most software doesn't have challenging work - it's mostly basic, boring, run-of-the-mill CRUD and/or API integration. Especially when you are working on a mature product. It's been years since I've worked on a project that even had tasks that would take more than a week.

You also absolutely need some constraints- "do this any way you want" can lead to "resume driven development." Too much of that and your code becomes completely unmaintainable. Which I guess is usually fine if you're a startup lighting VC money on fire, but if you are developing software for paying clients then you won't be in business long.
I was writing them down for a while until I realized the ones I forgot about tended to have obvious flaws almost like my subconscious was filtering things.
"What ought to be my main focus?"

Networking.

That's what I wish I did more of. It's disgusting how much of the world operates under "networking", which tends to be just a thin veil concealing from only the most gullible the true underlying activity of cronyism. "It's who you know, not what you know", has become a widespread saying embraced by the corporate world.
I've worked at BAE Systems, Inc. and Raytheon and there is so much extra bullshit it will make your head spin. I'm a veteran and I left the industry in disgust. I will never consider defense software again unless there are some drastic changes.

I've always said that the US Govt pays $10 for $1 worth of work.

https://media.defense.gov/2019/May/01/2002126691/-1/-1/0/SWA...

> The current approach to software development is a leading source of risk to DoD: it takes too long, is too expensive, and exposes warfighters to unacceptable risk.

> Nothing is changing: most of this has been said before and the 1987 DSB report on military software pretty much says it all. What is it going to take to actually do something?
Did you go to Caltech?
Maybe it's the difference between protesting and rioting? Did the truckers burn stuff down and loot shops?
What car is it? In what country did you purchase it? To me that sounds beyond reality…
Most monitors don't support more than 60Hz, so 120Hz is still is bit iffy sometimes. Apple can't help some monitor vendors take their time to get their stuff together.

None of the 64 bits versions of Windows run 16 bits code. And lots of games are broken because the DRM used a kernel driver or some other stupid assumption.
The SwingSet demo didn't work at all for me on Linux. (I'm running fully patched Garuda KDE on x64, which is basically arch.)
All that may be true (though some will quibble)...

However, what's the answer without contravening liberal democracy?

There is no principle within liberalism or democracy that says "if the legal protest lasts more than X it stops being legal".
This would also be good for something like https://search.marginalia.nu/ where the results you'll get are mostly text-based.
I think you can't just split. I think you need to be able to nest both. For example a lot of sites will want a styled header for "branding" and will refuse to use "document mode" if they can't have that, so they will render their whole site in "app mode" which is basically the same today. So I think you need to let them render their header in "app mode" and the text in "document mode" and even embed a little game/tweet/calculator that is in "app mode" inside the document.

Basically your last paragraph. I think if we want to let people use the document mode we can't lock them into a restricted environment. Instead provide them a better user experience that they can opt out of at any point when they need to. Otherwise the first limitation and they will throw the whole thing away.

Unfortunately this means that scripting will still be available everywhere, but I actually think that is fine. I know scripting can be used for evil but it also can produce great experiences when applied lightly in the correct places.
How do you get a modern browser on Tiger these days? As far as I know TenFourFox is no longer maintained and nobody forked it either.
They are paying for it with their finite funds.

Not true! In crypto land, they have unlimited funds --- just mint more Tethers --- which they have done repeatedly.
One of the most impressive parts of the post is this:

> We "flipped the switch" and enabled this performance boost for all existing EFS General Purpose mode file systems over the course of the last few weeks

Surely it wasn't as simple as flipping "[x] Make filesystem slower than it could be" to unchecked.

It would be cool to read up on how they did this. I'm guessing lots of folks are writing a lot of data to the existing old set up, does anyone have any guesses on how they hot swapped that to the new set up with no downtime or data inconsistencies?
Mods are not paid by Reddit, admins are paid but I think that some admins are also modding a few subs.
That … seems like a company that isn’t doing postmortems correctly. You’re not supposed to robotically implement every “what would have prevented this”. It’s just there to explore the space of such things and provide your options. “This is so rare and low impact that we change nothing” is a valid option!

The purpose of keeping a record of past postmortems is that you can potentially go back and say “oh gosh, it isn’t actually rare, and so maybe the more elaborate countermeasures are justified”.

I’ve seen the opposite extreme happen, where a devops guy was adamantly against writing a postmortem at all, because “it wasn’t our fault” and “it probably won’t happen again”. Facepalm.
It's not even a majority % of Canadian truckers in Ottawa. Let alone the population of Canada. This seems like a great way to establish a tyranny.

> Might not be as effective as a dictatorship or a oligarchy, sure, must a much better government to live under.

Oh, I see. That's what you're advocating for.
It's not welfare it's a subsidy. And it's okay because it's for people we like, rural farmers who vote GOP, rather than people we don't like, inner city populations who vote Democrat.
> Hire the best innovative thinkers in the industry and set them free to invent browser apis for developers to use.

I think they should be doing the opposite: Adding features the users want to use and keeping the web as simple as they can get away with. Google is already busy giving web developers whatever APIs they want, that is not a fight Firefox can win.