skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My email address is linked to several hundred accounts which I use to run my life, manage my household, do finances, etc.

Any reputable service allows changing email addresses. For less important services like Amazon you can use an email alias. Tutanota and Proton are nice email providers whi do not read the content of your emails and and not scan files.

> My email address is, of course, the primary means of communicating with me other than phone.

If you have a phone, can't you just install a messenger? Session does not require a telephone number nor a smartphone, I think.

> I also use Sign In With Google on dozens of the above accounts, so they are a definite dependency on the Google account.

In your Google Account settings which accounts use Sign In With Google. Go to each account and change authentication to email and password wherever possible.

> I own an Android phone and a Chromebook. I operate 3 personal accounts, and my employer relies on Google as our primary business platform.

Does not prevent you from using a secondary email for your personal important stuff like government and financing.

> My Google Calendar and Tasks are my sole method of scheduling everything I do in life, from daily tasks to events I attend and everyone's birthdays.

> My Google Contacts contain all contacts of everyone I know and is the sole repository of that data.

Should be exportable as ics files I think. Make at least a backup once in a while.

> Google Docs and Sheets are my sole word processing and spreadsheet apps, which I use to great effect for writing letters, managing household, etc. etc. I know them like the back of my hand, and I also use them every day for work.

Get an offline editor like LibreOffice. Online editors are crap when your internet connection is off or need to make a ton of content.

> All the photos I've ever taken since 2015 are stored only in Photos. Not many, of course, but some I'd miss.

You can download them for offline use, make a backup and then print out the ones you really care for.

> I'm increasingly using Wallet and GPay for financial transactions and event tickets. I even hear tell that my jurisdiction is putting driver licenses on Wallet now.

If you use GPay, it is even more important to not have any content stored in your account. See the case of a father sending his doctor a picture of his son for diagnosis. It was falsely recognized as child porn and the father had no way to get back the account. If your account gets suspended, you are out of luck.

> So could you rephrase your advice to me please? Which $20/year service replaces these apps, and permits easy import of all my data from Takeout?

> If someone used 365, would you demand that they GTFO Microsoft and junk their Windows systems? What should we run? A PDP-11?

Noone said to nuke your Google account. In fact you're being very passive aggressive despite not having made any effort on researching alternative apps. Don't tie your whole offline and online identity to one provider who doesn't care about you except for your (and people close to you) money and data.
Google didn't buy the books they incorporated into books.google.com either.

You can use books without buying them. e.g. libraries, or borrowing books from anyone even if they're not a "library".

Copyright is not about internal use, it's about copying and distribution.

This is not about what anyone thinks should be legal, but rather what is legal under the current law. The law was not designed for the digital era where "use" could be something other than a person consuming the content, and this has not been meaningfully addressed, therefore other uses are legal by default because that's how the law works.
Positive attraction.
I think it is not about AI is capable of writing any software or not. I think it is more about explaining well AI what exactly you want AI to write.
Define "typical".
> You can't think that the NSA and CIA are stupid

Au contraire
Eh, it can kinda work. If you have 1, 2,3,4TB drives you can make RAID10 out of first GB, then stitch 2TB RAID0 from second and third and RAID1 it with 2TB out of 4th drive. then raid1 out of remaining GB on 3rd and 4th.

Then glue it together with LVM and hope for best.
They mean the components, presumably.
As someone who joined yesterday after seeing this HN post, I can honestly say I'm extremely disappointed in this. I went into this expecting a grand RS 2009 replica, but instead what I found was a twisted version of that filled with bugs and an obvious lack of attention to detail. Massive game breaking bugs at every turn. For example: the biggest glitch you can imagine; when your character dies you dont get moved back to spawn, but you could just pick up your own items lol. And another one that allowed infinite attack XP gain with an autoclicker(the dummys at varrock never cut you off past level 8 attack). Also missing NPCs everywhere that messed with the immersion. I logged 39 bugs in my first 24-36h playing, and didnt even get a chance to report them all because the tyrannical admin Ceikry banned my account for "bug abuse". all because I was talking about a HIGHLY obvious glitch that I found 10 mins after finding it and "abused" for literally 500xp. Unbelievable that this bug was allowed, and once I alerted them to it they did an emergency patch. I was banned for my "attitude". I really had high hopes for this and even planned on contributing pull requests to the game for new content like quests, among bug fixes but Im glad they showed their true nature before I got too invested and wasted my time with their immature antics. Just know this isn't a RuneScape remake, but a dark version of it - missing content - with weird custom features like PKing removed only in non-deep wildy(?)- and the wrong requirements for items (fremmenik cloak(?) ran by tyrant staff who bans you for shining light on their shocking incompetence.
> savings rate is about 50%

> couldn't go more than a few months without working

How are you calculating your runway? Naively I'd think a 50% savings rate means 1 month off for every month worked.
There's really no way to relate rifling/etc to a specific gun. Unless it was forged in some bespoke process that can also be accessed and replicated the rifling pattern will look like 100,000 different guns. Other analysis is also bunk (blood spatter, gunpowder stuff, etc). Ammo matching can provide circumstantial evidence but is likely defeated by just shutting your mouth.

Most criminals subject to this are probably caught because they loaded the magazine without gloves and left a fingerprint on the casing that gets completely etched into it on firing. Or, you know, police do actual police work and pressure the right people into narc'ing on the suspect.
Yes, it was two very successfull CIA operations.

I mean, i often argue with a friend who think that the CIA best operations are those we don't know, but imho it's conspiracy thinking, and the CIA was caught, many, many times. Also there was no real proof for the Shah that the CIA was this involved (until like 5 years ago when the CIA just declassified and admitted it), which to me is quite impressive.
I just...leave it then create new RAID out of free space once I get more than 2-3 disks that are bigger. But yeah, PITA.
That's honestly very similar to saying "4K Blu-rays are just incrementally better than VHS", by ignoring most of the differences and just considering that they're both media for video.
The logical move would be for Spotify to product their own, that way they don't need to pay anyone. I mean c'mon it's 2023, how hard could it be to create autogenerated white noise, Apple already does it.
Kyle Mitchell is a developer-turned-lawyer who wrote a short blog post on this topic[1] where the second paragraph predicted article headlines like the OP submission:

"I’m sure there will be links like “Court Rules AI Art Can’t Be Copyrighted” aplenty. They will be wrong. The court didn’t rule that AI art can’t be copyrighted. It ruled that copyright requires human authorship, surprising approximately zero copyright lawyers…or people who have read the Wikipedia page."

[1] https://writing.kemitchell.com/2023/08/19/Exactly-Wrong-AI-C...
> I had to open it up and jump some pins on the mainboard, and then had to get a specific piece of [hardware]

I had to do that for almost every new game and hardware upgrade on my old 386. Welcome to the club, pal.
It’s like some demented Winnie the Pooh
We use high temperature paper (170F, 20% dark at 6mJ/mm²). It will not turn dark left many days in a truck dashboard in the summer in Texas.
I once found a stack of 7 year old receipts and they were completely readable.
Dope! Feedback:
1. An option for infinite time would be lovely.
2. I'd love to have a way to see both the original and my painting. Keyboard shortcuts to toggle back and forth? I find the biggest challenge is I keep forgetting... Side by side of painting + original with maybe an additional overlayed would be great.
> would it sound different?

I don't believe it would. While there can be pretty bad PRNGs, they are typically implemented to produce a particular statistical distribution which would be identical to a real random source for the purposes of white noise. This is due to the fact that audio is a superposition of frequencies which takes time and multiple samples to cohere.

PRNGs can be bad for things like crypto because each individual generated value has significant implications for the entire set of operations.
I thought so, too. Upon a quick search, the most powerful magnet ever made on Earth is around 45 teslas, which according to WolframAlpha is 450,000 gauss. I'm assuming the difference is that these stars have the magnetic field strength everwhere on their surface and covering a huge region beyond the star, whereas the human made magnets, likely superconducting, only have that field strength in a very small area. That's just an intuitive guess though, as I don't know for sure.
It would be nice if there was a webring like mechanism in RSS feeds so that authors can personally recommend other RSS feeds. With a smart enough RSS reader, it can act as a simple web crawler finding potential feeds to recommend to the user based on recommendations of other RSS feeds.
I've been using intellij to write code that uses a Java 21 or 22 dev build for months. Do you perhaps mean support for running the IDE itself on Java 21?
Still an interesting read:

https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/
I have a feeling this will lead to the creation of a system that compares works and the law will simply define a given threshold to conclude whether it's copyright violation or not.
I used aqicn, so maybe its dataset isn’t as accurate. But anything close to 300 is going to feel uncomfortable, 500 unbearable. I’ve been exposed to 1000 in Beijing before that really sucked.

Good luck out there.
Good for them but how is it just and fair?

Why your friends get cheap rents and not my friends who would also like to have cheap apartments in SF?

How is it fair that everyone who doesn't have rent controlled apartment is paying more for their apt than they otherwise would, as dictated by supply-demand 101.

How is it fair that a private entity (a landlord) subsidies another private entity (renter) under threat of government violence?

In any other business context (e.g. selling cars) such rules would be beyond the pale.

Can you imagine the government telling Ford that if a buyer meets some criteria Ford has to sell them F-150 at 40% discount? It sounds absurd but this is what rent control is.
More like #JustBlueStatesThings
No. Some of the best brands are the ones you’ve never heard of like innogrit and phison, because they’re the ones making the chips everyone else uses. Most companies are just building out reference designs from one of these handful of companies and the quality is completely identical.

And the ones who aren’t, like Samsung, are notorious for even worse reliablity.

The situation is completely reversed from 10 years ago, these are commodity products now and the people who use the reference design do better than the ones who go their own way, like Samsung. Samsung’s reliability has been worse than a random small brand like innogrit or Sabrent in the modern era, 100%.
So, why OpenZFS can't fix their license ?
If you don't bother to mention how they attained the capital, you could be describing feudalism as well!

Realize the most important aspect of capitalism is the ability to accumulate capital, to a fundamentally infinite end because any limits will be overturned by the controllers of the capital.
> These two descriptions of resiliency simply are not the same. I would obviously not run the pool in a degraded state for any longer than it takes to resilver the degraded mirror.

Then you are just wasting 10TBs.

I'm firmly in Murphy's camp regarding the storage troubles (hell, I can't find a specific pic of my passed dog which I know I had from 4 (four!) copies of my photos, ffs) and I treat RAID just as a mean to increase availability.

In your case, if you really wouldn't run the degraded array until it is resilvered then your availability is excessive in the all cases except:

how long it would take you to recover/restore your data in a catastrophic failure?

And why do you have only the critical data 3-2-1ed?
Project Valhalla, Simple as it can be, but not simpler
So all apple needs to do is enable a gps that destroys the Secure Enclave if it detects that it is on a cellebrite campus.
- "Remove planning rights from local/city government entirely"

- "use the government to essentially take land and repurpose it"

These are third world tactics.
Low Cost CO2 Sensors Performance Outdoors Close to Reference Grade Instruments
i'd lean towards the idea that while our memories can be imprecise, language patterns might not be just a byproduct of how memory is formed or pieced together. perhaps the environment, upbringing, and even personal experiences interweave with the linguistic structures, molding our recall in certain ways. it's multifaceted, and maybe it's less about one causing the other and more about them influencing each other.

I'd even argue that while memory can be fallible, it doesn't necessarily mean that language patterns are solely an emergent effect of memory creation or reconstruction. there's potential that cultural, social, and experiential factors interplay with the linguistic aspect
It wouldn't sound different, even if you have absolute pitch, whatever the "speed" of the random sounds would be.

Both algorithms will generate sufficiently random values from a human perspective. Unless you carefully look into them, with a very specific mathematics / crypto knowledge, you wouldn't even be able to tell which one is pseudo-random, and which one is random: and if you somehow are able to, then it would just mean that the underlying RNG is very, very bad.
Gotta keep an eye on those totally-not-made-up-for-political-purposes kulaks. First, they'll want to keep all* of the grain they grow, next their homes. Such selfish people.

* - enough to eat, anyway.
As demonstrated in Oppenheimer, security clearance processing is not one where the US Government must obey any court or evidence rules. They can deny secret access for any reason at all.

Did that case against polygraph.com ever go to trial? Sounds like a slam-dunk free speech case, but I imagine the DOJ was willing to settle for anything to avoid that being fought in open court.
> edit: ah, you just have them in a mirror. In that case, the magnitude of the risk may be less as you only need to copy data once to rebuild. I’m not sure though as I’m not an expert on the topic.

Sadly, the problem still exists even for a simple mirror.

Though it can be mitigated by configuring a slow rebuild rate, so the new drive would have the time to perform the maintenance.
That is accurate even if it sounds mildly derogatory. Any kind of confrontation is very difficult for some people while it means nothing to others.

Simple example, when somebody cuts into a line in a super market, how many people actually speak up? Most of the time I see eye-rolls, angry shrugs but people just move on.
if you're talking yaml... you could argue that config file is also code, just a different language
It almost sounds like you're making an argument in favor of the "digital afterlife" trend, whereby you essentially leave an LLM of yourself.
So so many submissions for something so recent.
I'm moderately interested in housing crisis analysis but haven't really heard much about zoning. Do you have a good source on that youd recommend?
It is going to be weird in the future, when people realize how much use these companies get out of things like the $200 scan and perpetual license to somebody’s likeness, and as a result stop using them. All art will be presumably based on remixing a set of scans from between like 2020 and 2025.
These days, everything actual is already based on software. It is miserable. It's nearly impossible to talk to humans these days. Even talking to someone at a hospital or doctor's office is nigh impossible at times. I have also noticed an increase in the automated phone systems and even human representatives just flat out hanging up or ending chats on me, when it is they who are having the problems. But I just get a condescending "call us back when you have the required information". I especially hate when the automated system says "it looks like we're having a problem". No, I'm not having any problem. It's you having the problem.
Tweaking My 1969 Dodge Charger’s Balance with a Battery Relocation
As someone who also lives in California, can you point out the parts of the state where there's nowhere left to build? It certainly isn't any of the places I've lived (Beverly hills, SF, East Bay), each of which has seen significant commercial redevelopment in my lifetime. None of them are dense by global standards either. SF only has 25% the population density of Paris, for example.
It saddens me that the Lord of The Rings was commercialised.

It was one of the happiest parts of life - to be able to read the books and venture into that world.

It's been spoiled for me by the ridiculous movies like The Hobbit (holy god, Peter Jackson turned Dwarves into ridiculous comedy clowns, covered Radagast with birdshit) , the endless licensed garbage and whilst The Lord of The Rings movie was quite good it hacked the story instead of treating it with reverence. The movie should have changed nothing, regardless of what "modern audiences" expect.

The Harry Potter movies were fabulous in my opinion because the stories were not hacked by directors who felt they knew better than the original author. I may be wrong on that but that's my understanding - that largely the Harry Potter movies are true to the script.

Thank goodness there's a single example in this world of a great work not being commercialised - Calvin and Hobbes.

UPDATE:

A counterpoint to my grumble about the hacking of Tolkien's work:

Anyone who would like to listen to the most fabulous audiobook of The Hobbit that was ever made:

https://www.discogs.com/release/4205817-JRR-Tolkien-Nicol-Wi...

It was made in 1974 narrated by Nicol Williamson. You can find pirated versions of it popping up on the web from time to time.

It's truly beautiful.

Email me if you want a copy - I might know a link. andrew.stuart@supercoders.com.au
Anyone who does this will get unelected in the next election, so that’s where the lack of will comes from. You have to sell these ideas to the people first somehow, the politicians aren’t going to commit political suicide to enact them, we are really problem.
You're missing the point; Without Cloud connection, how would the Gongfay Kommissariat know what you're printing so they can deduct Sesame Credit?
Assuming human civilization is still around keeping track of things, Buzz Aldrin.
It is not the machine at all. I have a ResMed AirSense 10 AutoSet. Bystanders tell me that they hear next to nothing. It is the sound that is made in the mask (ResMed AirFit F30i) when I inhale that drives me crazy. Every time I breathe in, it sounds like Darth Vader.
Ya, that’s basically how China does it.
It's extremely hard, to convert free users to paid, when you have not attached them tightly to needle of your service.

My friend tried to do similar thing in his startup (very much like Disqus), but he have not success in converting small sites to paid services, so concentrated on totally different market - large corporations, like FT, Washington Post, etc.
You mean threads, right? https://www.similarweb.com/blog/insights/social-media-news/t...
Fantastic song and one of my favorite Beatles guitar solos.
Could you please stop perpetuating flamewars on HN? I get that other commenters were being provocative but feeding it is not a good response, and you did it in a dozen places.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They're not stupid but they have to maintain the shroud of "this works", both internally and externally, lest the word get out that "the intelligence community doesn't even believe in their own polygraphs"
I'm not suggesting it necessarily accounts for the entire difference. You said you were interested. I shared what I know.

If you were not interested and just want to double down on you are right and anyone who has another view is wrong, then don't claim to be sincerely interested in the alternate view and then someone like me can skip bothering to share what they know with you as a pointless waste of time.
Vulcanism is not weather. Weather is atmospheric.

Live long and prosper.
This is a great observation. Corporations just keeping pushing costs, infrastructure, features, quality assurance, and even testing onto regular people and customers. We're everybody's little compute engine.
Communist governments used the threat of violence to take by farmland by force. How did that turn out?
As someone with a spare receipt printer and studying for a private pilots license……genius
Rent control probably should be banned.

But by the same token, proceeds from rent should be taxed at the full land value of property, so that the only profit from rent is from improvements. The tax proceeds should then be used to subsidize rent, if necessary.
To the Finland Station is about the Russian Revolution.
I think the point is local government is more accountable to its citizens than state or national governments and therefore removing something inherently local from its purview, like land planning, would be stupid.
Wow, that's incredibly rude on the salesperson's side. I shouldn't have to continue to say no. It completely violates the "the customer is right" aspect of customer service.
> From a requirements perspective, it's akin to film-making (film making is even more predictable than software development!!) -

Its actually the exact opposite - when making films they don't shoot the scenes in the sequence they are viewed, they will shoot every scene at the same location in one go due to the cost of setting up equipment, getting staff onsite etc.

The exact opposite of agile.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

We're particularly trying to avoid ideological battle here, regardless of which ideology people are battling for or against.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Shorthand scripts, as used by stenographers tome to mind; while there are common conventions I understand that many of them were extended by individual users to the point of being unreadable to anyone else.
Slate is also nice.
This is reminding me of the John Cleese bit about hamlet having 8262 words and comparing the Shakespeare roles by word count.
Yep and it says

> The technology preview is now available with Helidon 4.0.0-ALPHA5. We will continue releasing previews as the development evolves.

and in the default branch `helidon-3.x` there's no `nima` path too, same for a `helidon-4.x` branch.
I’m open to paying, if the program offers value that the open source ones don’t offer.
I meant mainly artistic creators.