skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nothing against paying for services but there's a noticeable and very aggressive drive towards lockin and monetization of its users.

Google is an advertising business. Always was and always will be.

YouTube is an advertising supported service. Compared to normal TV where you’d be watching 8 minutes of ads for every 22 minutes of content, YouTube having you watch 5-30 seconds of ads before you can press the “skip” button is a huge reduction in total ad time relative to TV standards.

Yet expectations have shifted so much toward free services that even showing (mostly) skippable shirts ads on the internet seems to make people angry.

> - Frontpage search is full of ads

Google is a search engine that makes money by showing ads. It shouldn’t be surprising that there are multiple ads on search results. That’s the entire deal with a free search engine.

> - Gmail used to have some Infinity plus storage plan but now after 15gb is used you can't receive email. And they're using Photos towards this quota.

This seems fair to me. 15GB is a lot of e-mail.

The company behind the linked blog post will only give you 1GB free and limit your search capabilities. 10GB will cost you 20 Euros per year. Even Google’s paid annual plans feel like a bargain.

Honestly I don’t really see the problem. Google was never a free no-strings-attached provider. There’s a lot of talk about “selling your data” from uninformed critics, but they don’t actually do that. They put ads on services and that’s how they provide them for free. It’s no different than the commercials on TV or the ads covering cheap magazines and newspapers.

The only difference really is that internet users are extremely demanding of free services.
Yes it can.
Well, the private yard is harder, but also the least required.
You said you were speeding, right? But somehow the judge can't just say "ah right, looks like it's the wrong traffic statute that's been filed. Here's a fine for whatever it was that you actually did, you can just settle it here or we do a proper trial if you disagree".

I mean of course we don't want people to be convicted of things they didn't do, but how is it ok for someone to get away with something they did do, just because some bureaucrat picked the wrong law?
Yes. Money is the abstraction or value - it's the abstraction itself, not the currency itself, as the currency could take any form (gold, fiat paper, grapes, pearls, or a 4 ton Rai Stone [1][2])

Edit: Rai Stones often don't move (like coins/paper money do), but rather stay in one location. Per Wikipedia: "The ownership of a large stone, which would be too difficult to move, was established by its history as recorded in oral tradition, rather than by its location. Appending the transfer to the oral history of the stone thus affected the change of ownership"

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/02/15/131934618/the-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
Even were we to assume that Google is telling the truth regarding the activity tracking, let's switch the context here and make the setting relatively benign.

Imagine Microsoft or Apple were to reset settings around crash reporting, causing all Windows and MacOS systems to begin sending crash report data. Would this be acceptable? This would IMO be scummy as well.

Even if all you say is true to the above, if company policy requires it to be off, then this is costing companies money to bring them into compliance with policy, suddenly, because of Google.
I know at least one of these people. When you give her an opportunity she hits the ball out of the park. Wherever you put her she quickly rises to the top, but she has been denied many opportunities because she doesn’t test well on standardized tests.
Not sure I follow. Sounds like the aquifer was depleted, so they decided to add more water to the aquifer. From where did they get the water to recharge the aquifer?
A lot of diets work at least in the short/medium term, for those that have selection bias and "completed" them.

That's very much _not_ the same thing as a doctor recommending or prescribing them having any effect.
The post does not mention Latin America, only Africa. Using "emerging markets" is somewhat imprecise then. I believe the title could be updated to reflect that, maybe to "serving the African region".
I refer you to my GP comment, where this is covered.
You can also pass a flag to have all overflows checked, if desired. We do, even on embedded where space is a premium. We’ll take the performance hit.
Of those, the icebreakers have been commercially successful due to logistics of fueling in the attic and the heavy fuel needs of ice breaking (both solved by a reactor that only needs to be refueled once every few years).
Not to get too targeted at people here... but I need to get something off my chest on this topic, and your comment serves as a pretty decent launching point.

I'm not going to be saying this to attack people, but I am going to be pretty stern and resolute in my language here. Fair warnings have been given.

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Tobr, and anyone concerned...

For this kind of thing to occur, every single one of you out there would need to grow a backbone.(no offense, but its true.) I can't begin to start complaining about how many spineless fuckwits are out there letting these kinds of people like google get away with this all the fucking time, all because no one ever actually stands up for each other. Sure, they'll virtue signal when someone makes a scene, stuff like that.

But when the chips are down and its time to fight, these cowards run. These spineless fuckwits that ruin our society is all of you. All of you who never stand up against your boss. All of you who never tell your teachers off when they are in the wrong. All of you who never tell your families to be better, because they'll just act worse. Or your supposed so called 'friends'.

This problem is much deeper than just Google Tobr and crew reading this. This problem goes straight down to the heart of the reason as to why humanity just can't seem to catch a break in regards to evil people out there.

Remember, google's only good advice ever, they screwed up. "Don't be Evil."

They are evil, because all of you are gullible cowards; with only a few exceptions existing and not as a rule.

And to those who figure "You're wrong!"

PROVE IT. Get out there and do something useful for once in regards to this problem. I might believe you then.
The Chinese and Russian ships will dock in their own ports and the ports of poorer countries until the rich westerners get over themselves and realize it's not that bad.
Over the last five years, the Java Platform has seen a tremendous amount of evolution and improvement in a variety of areas, including: language features in Java, Kotlin, and Scala; Functional Programming; dev environments; test workflows; Reactive; Stream processing; and distributed data.
brew install rust
cargo install difftastic

Worked for me without any problems.
> The easiest way to understand the shortcomings of these tests (at least their older versions) is to realize that students who use paid SAT/ACT-prep materials and services get higher scores than students who don't.

Yes, and affluent people with family friends on the boards of non-profits can show volunteer work that’s way more interesting in an application than being actively involved in your church or mosque. Rich people can hire essay consultants to understand what the (mostly white American) admissions officers are looking for: https://cepa.stanford.edu/content/essay-content-strongly-rel...

Of all these measures, the SATs show the smallest benefits from paying to prep.
Is it on purpose to push narrative of great diversity?
IntelliJ Idea for sure.
Art and music are given outsize importance and attention as a societal cohesion crutch. There should be less artists.
How the Oscars Impacted the Internet
Agreed. It’s so good it feels like it should have been that way all along. For example, when you view the help for a function Emacs has always given you a link to the source code where that function is defined. Helpful shows you the source code right in the Help buffer, and shows you a list of callers, and gives you buttons that enable tracing or debugging for the function.

Once I discovered Helpful, all of those things seemed so obviously useful that I can’t understand why nobody else thought to put them there, including myself.
That's fair. The place most people are coming from when they start a business is usually that their idea is "brilliant" or "world-changing". Some ideas are better than others and most aren't as good as people think they are. Yet, even if the idea is actually brilliant, it doesn't matter at all without execution. Even the brilliant ideas will eventually change quite a lot during the execution of product / market fit to find those first few customers who will actually pay you money. People would be best served by convincing the first customer to buy something that actually doesn't even work and is just a webflow of what could be. Ask them what they want changed and promise to do that and then and only then starting making what they have agreed to buy.

Yes, my original post was not verbose, but I think people are better served by hanging signs all over their start-up that say what I wrote. Ideas are fun, ideas are hopeful, ideas can be magic, ideas can fill your heart but success comes from out-working everyone else. I have several truly great company ideas but I've never started them because I know in my heart that I don't want to go do all the work required to make it success.
Does the Twitter algorithm hate your friends?
They have a good cert rating but ipv6 is not responding [1] and some clients will be denied based on cipher policy. I would be surprised if that applied to Chrome but one can always check. The DNS entry for ipv6 should be removed if not used.

[1] - https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=egbert.net&hi...
That's a generous way of describing anonymous 'rumours'.
Their rivers freeze also, but I assume they are lambing to participate in arctic shipping routes, maybe the one above Siberia to get to Europe.
Free idea to anyone out there: a self-heating electric wok. It shouldn't be too hard to put heating elements spread across the under surface of a wok and make it fully electric.
> Give it 40 years and people will be saying "rust bad, new thing good".

Why is this an argument? Yeah, personally, I'd be very happy if in 40 years there's something better than Rust. It's been a solid few decades of C prominence, and moving from lang to lang should of course not be something that happens every few years. But on the scale of 40 years? I'd hope we aren't all still using something made today in 40 years, let alone a few years old.
> It is hilarious that some parts of Germany outlaws "Z" while at the same time giving weapons that will end up in the Azov regiment, which soldiers would be thrown in jail in Germany for wearing their nazi insignia. Like, Germany is for real arming neonazis in a foreign war.

It's no more hilarious than the US paying lip service to democracy and then overthrowing whole foreign governments, or the US babbling about the First Amendment and then propping up theocracies in the Middle East. In fact, if anything, German actions are far less hypocritical, their scale considered.
I used to straddle the two worlds, maintained and supported a multi-site AD domain with AFS integration for user $HOME and some sort of unholy LDAP/kerberos bridge for login. About once every year or two I'll miss something about the way Windows does things, compared to normal (meaning "linux"). Like the NTFS permissions model, that's cool.

But it's just once a year :) And the last time I was deep in windows was win7, whenever that was. I tried to use a win10 machine and gave up.

Besides, I thought the big new feature in modern windows was that WSL improved to the point you can run unix tools! ;)
In my experience most of these are responsive but don't have much "software". This one took the crown for being so feature rich, even including a browser. The only other project I can remember that does this is FriendOS.
This is only (barely) useful alleviating short-term pressures related to emissions, otherwise it's a race to the bottom.

If not everyone can live a life of high satisfaction without throwing the world over carrying capacity, then we’re overpopulated. Ultimately the global growth rate is expected to stagnate, and we're expected to make strong gains in emissions reductions in the next few decades so it's a moot point except insofar as we need imperative solutions. In the very long run, environmental encroachment and destruction scales with population - only dampened by either innovation, or imposition of lower quality of life for commoners like us.
I've followed a few links that explain the mechanism of quadratic voting, but still haven't seen a simple explanation of why it might be a good idea.

What makes quadratic voting better than just converting credits directly into votes -- one credit, one vote? ("Cumulative voting")
With rustup, it's pretty easy to update/change your cargo version.
Tell that to the people who now, instead of just going to a polling place and placing a paper on an envelope, have to download and store digital certificates, possibly download and install new programs and deal with the troubles of all that, just so "verifying votes" is slightly easier for the minority of people with the knowledge of the system and ZK proofs.

Also, you're assuming the system is perfectly implemented. In reality, such a system will be complex, will have many more pieces than the ZK system itself (and those pieces will have vulnerabilities), and will require users to do more which will also be prone to errors and vulnerabilities.

I don't understand the insistence on electronic voting for elections. It's less transparent to laypeople, offers small benefits and adds significant complexity both in the implementation and use.
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Epic and Fortnite is now the single biggest corporate donor to Ukraine
I have been using Debian "unstable" for the last 15 years, which basically is just this: instead of releases all updates come incrementally, so the size
of an update is typically only depending on how often I do my `apt-upgrade`.

Is Rolling Rhino Remix anything different from this?
I want to counter the idea that OS 9 was either stable or not stable. I made money in grad school fixing people's Mac OS 9 setups, and I had many satisfied customers. Basically, one bad Apple spoils the barrel. If you add "crazy media network extension from hell" alongside all your dozens of working apps, then yes, the whole OS becomes unstable. Similarly with low-quality Photoshop plugins, OS startup services, odd hardware drivers or even corrupt font files.. yes, the whole OS can crash "daily".

On the other hand, like a great day at a public theater act, when it goes well, it really does go well. I have OS disks and applications saved to this day, in their own filing system in a drawer, that run great, look great, and are a joy to use. And so you know, months of daily, extensive use, with no crashes.
I am often out of my depth so please be kind to me. I will try to be kind to you.

The end.
> Paper voting is extremely expensive to scale

And thus is impossible to hack at scale.

It costs $x to run an election and count the votes for Y thousand peple voting for a position, that scales pretty much linearly - have 1 ballot and 1,000 votes costing say $100, have 1 ballot and 1 million votes and it costs no more than $100,000
Re: vehicle tracking and privacy standard in 2024, by U.S. law, is going to be pervasive tracking. It will include driver behavior analysis, perspiration and respiration sensors, and have intervention capabilities. This is all in HR 3684 Section 24220.

Full text: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3684...
Relevant section: https://archive.ph/eMF8Y#toc-idb8cfafb0-6273-428e-a005-03391...
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29427068
That section is not supported by any external references.

I've done some digging and this pretty important information (if true) was added unsourced in this edit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dzhokhar_Dudayev&...

It probably should be removed without any kind of reference to corroborate it, it's been more than 15 years since that edit has been made and there is zero evidence for this.
It's probably worth thinking about how ugly this is going to get politically. Right now, we basically have a bunch of wealthy people jetting around the world on private planes pushing for changes to society that will make ordinary people worse off in ways visible to them every single day. Not the super-wealthy, of course; why, the very idea that they should change their lifestyles first is an evil right-wing plot to undermine necessary measures against climate change for the benefit of evil big businesses, according to the accepted mainstream media prespective. We have the banking industry and the super-wealthy using their control of funding to slowly starve and dismantle the energy infrastructure that supports people's current lifestyles; most of the cost of this will fall on ordinary people who effectively have no say, but the media coverage sytematically lies and says it's big businesses and the wealthy who benefit from it and will pay the price. (They do things like counting all CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use as being caused by the companies that extracted them, and spin this to make it sound like those companies are the ones benefitting.)

Now, according to the media coverage, this will have the exact opposite effect - think about all the articles about "green jobs" and the "green economy", all the column inches claiming that ordinary people will be better off and rich right wingers are just trying to trick them into thinking otherwise to protect themselves. The propaganda can't go on forever though. Sooner or later, the true social costs of all this and who is actually losing out will become undeniable, and at that point a lot of people are going to be very angry.
I am not sure that what I was talking about is directly related to a change in beliefs, I am not a catholic, but nonetheless a lot of my decisions are affected by the catholic doctrine, even by "muscle memory", because my point of view has developed within the context of this culture, so I am not sure that going from 50% of people associated with a cult to 18% makes the drop in how people behaves also so marked?
"Russia has “drastically” reduced its military activity near Kiev and Chernigov..."

Until reliable reporting bears this out, it's likely a lie.
Like Okta, I pay them to not do this.

Anyone skimmed their enterprise SLA docs to see how much we are due back?

Developers ain't free.
Feel the same way as you, and I had to withdrawal as a child and now have mental disorders in the spectrum of schizophrenia. So anecdotally, I imagine that’s correct.

The loss of boundaries thing is very real, I know there are some upsides to it but most days it’s hard to not feel like a curse
I've never worked near helicopters, but they went on my "never take a job anywhere near these things" list after the third time I accidentally stuck my hands into the whirling blades of the ceiling fan in my living room.
Because they really don’t use that information for advertising. They even stopped scanning @gmail account email for ad purposes in 2018. Advertising still happens outside of these core services, eg via cross site tracking in the web browser.
Modems used to cost a dollar a baud, about $100 for a 110 baud modem, $300 for a 300 baud modem, and $1200 for a 1200 baud modem.
If she has an iPhone:

Settings > Phone > Silence Unknown Callers

It's a nuclear option but it works
FL has emerged as a promising technique for edge devices to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model while keeping their training data on the device, thereby decoupling machine learning from the need to store the data in the cloud. However, FL is difficult to realistically implement due to scale and system heterogeneity. Although there are several research frameworks for simulating FL algorithms, none of them support the study of scalable FL workloads on heterogeneous edge devices.
At-will employment effectively negates any legal protections for termination, except in the rare circumstances where you can prove that you were illegally fired.
There's the French company Grain de Sail: https://graindesail.com/fr/
I would love it if version control stored an AST that also includes comments and dividers (where right now we would leave an empty line) and dev machines rendered it out however they wanted. They could even change the language of keywords in addition to normal formatting.
Downvote me to hell, but all I could read, despite the good intention, is about taking advantage of emerging markets because of the opportunities they offer to Western entrepreneurs. How is this not digital colonialism?
What about fostering local entrepreneurs to develop a local healthy startup community?

>> more altruists with experience working in the developed world should try this approach.

This post should have been called "the Western man's digital burden"
> I don't know the rules in the USA, but in the UK it is generally forbidden to stream yourself voting or take a photo in the polling station. Maintaining the secrecy of ballots is high priority.

Except we allow postal voting pretty much willy nilly, especailly in areas where intimidation can happen
Fair. Interesting that you think something like this could work in a non-work context, but not in a work-context. Curious: Do you have the same reaction to the one by Rands that inspired me to write mine? https://randsinrepose.com/archives/how-to-rands/
Ask HN: Can I get my Amazon account back?
I was recently contacted by an Amazon recruiter and asked to apply for a few jobs in my area. Upon realizing that I gave him the email of my regular Amazon account, I endeavored to re-activate it after it had previously been locked by Amazon for apparent suspicious activity. I'm fairly sure I called them at the time, with no result, but this time around, they're telling me to get fucked, essentially.

The first rep I spoke to said that because I had no purchase history in the last year, she was unable to verify my account, even after sending me a 2FA auth code, and refusing to accept any prior confirmation codes or information from any other receipts I had in my archive.

The second rep I spoke to said that my account "did not have the information available to answer the questions needed to verify my account" and that she "can't tell me what that required information is, because my system tells me the account doesn't have it".

I've used this account for many years, and yes I haven't used it for purchases in a year, because largely I didn't have a job and didn't have the time to go through a lengthy phone tree. At no point was I told me account would become irrecoverable. Now though, they're telling me my only option is to re-create the account with the same email address, obviously losing my purchase history and any documents or other records I've uploaded over the years. This is all not to say there wasn't suspicious activity on the account. There was, and I did contact Amazon about this, and they were not able to help me before locking the account.

Do I have any recourse? This seems insane. I'm in Canada.
To be fair, it seems like Google backtracked on this due to the negative attention. All of their original statements about this made it clear they would be tracking people after the change, but in the two months since the original announcement they must have changed their minds.
Socrates stumbles upon Hacker News
are you sure it is more overhead? Sanitize overflow adds a single jo in the critical path. INTO has been microcoded for decades in 32 bits.
When I visited my step-grandmother in (then) West Germany in the 1980s, she had a private yard, despite living in an apartment tower...in the middle of Frankfurt. Apparently such allotments are common in Germany, even in cities.