skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article on China linked to is also excellent: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31478-china-s-communist-c...
Running your own server or convincing those who run the server that Sieve support is a boon for productivity - which it definitely is. If 'those' are the likes of Google or Microsoft, good luck with that.
thank you IntronExon! i should have written it more like this :)
It will if you go to settings->accounts and passwords.
There's no need to be condescending, and there's a much simpler solution to avoid being influenced by ads.

It's called making data-driven decisions.

Step 1: Find a set of products that solve your problem based on independent reviews, e.g. what Stiftung Warentest writes.

Step 2: Use several price comparison engines, e.g. idealo, Preispiraten, Hardwareschotte to find the cheapest option for the products.

Step 3: Order there.

If you methodically follow this algorithm, you are immune to making ad-based decisions.
Ok, fair enough :). I assumed you're dismissing Musk's efforts wholesale, on the basis of 'there being more important problems down here' - which is a position I frequently see people taking.

I admit I'm not a strong believer in suitability of Mars per se right now either, but I appreciate how cool it sounds and how it drives the imagination.

Personally, I believe the time is ripe for building an industry in near-Earth space (or cislunar space, as it seems to be fashionable to call it these days). Mining asteroids and orbital manufacturing - it fits well with all the dreams of Moon bases and Mars colonies, and right now we have companies pushing simultaneously on every area required to bootstrap it (including SpaceX which is doing a great job lowering launch costs). I think SpaceX gets it too, given the recent Shotwell's comments[0][1].

--

[0] - "Expect we’ll do BFR/BFS missions to the Moon before Mars, given administration’s interest. Hope it will be for a permanent settlement." - https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/931089584640884737 and also https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/7dbaqw/shotwell_exp... for more context.

[1] - "We've got our eyes on Mars. It's kind of a fixer upper planet. But we will participate in the lunar program." - https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/951539911966052353
That's an Interstellar like scenario. Things literally are very bad in India. Ecological disaster has already started. But the same is true for most countries.
Sometimes it helps if you think back to one year before you started with your current work, what things were important to you then.
The rise of cloud storage has totally transformed the "backup" problem. Just by using cloud storage, you get near-realtime offsite backup without thinking about it. Vendors like Apple have built it into the OS. It's really one of the nicer things that's happened in personal computing lately.

Granted, there's still benefit to doing a traditional "snapshot" style backup. Something like Backblaze is still a good idea. But arguably it's more of a belt-and-suspenders thing at this point. (Especially if your cloud storage offers version history.)

While I've loved Backblaze's blog posts over the years, seems like this was not on their radar ten years ago. They were seeing it just as a traditional backup/restore problem. I see they've since introduced a cloud storage product (B2), but it doesn't sound that competitive.[1] Here's iCloud for comparison:

- $0.005/gb/mo (2TB plan) with unlimited data transfer

- Baked deep into the OS, totally automatic

- Intelligently purges local files when storage runs low

- Integrates with Photos app for optimized media storage

- Syncs while the device is asleep (Power Nap)

- HSM-protected keychain backup (geeky but groundbreaking security feature)[2]

(Not so nice: doesn't do version history. Dropbox does.)

Again, I've really enjoyed Backblaze's posts and hope they continue thriving in this new landscape.

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html

[2] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Krstic.p...
Thanks. Seems like it's only an iOS app.
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"for extra clearance" .

I have been in quite a few countries, everyone poorer than the US , yet somehow , as cheap as they made their bathrooms, it isn't possible to look into peoples stalls.
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Well let me tell you - being one of those Italian migrants - that Italy is stuck in a rut. What the parent wrote is painfully true even for myself. Only people I know of that live a “normal” life are the privileged ones, who’d be elite anywhere else.

I don’t know the exact causes: lack of focus on high margin activities (like, in the ‘90 the right was celebrating the small cottage industry in the North East, who was essentially competing with Eastern Europe and China... anyone’s guess how that ended?)

Or if it was staying in the Eurozone, as until ‘90 we were ok deficit-wise. But very uncompetitive so we took a load of debt just to stay in the Euro - and buy German goods for cheap - and not to become competitive.

In the meantime industrial production de-mobilized out of Europe and we’re just stuck with post-industrial parks and nothing to replace them with.

I’ve somewhere read that neo-liberal single market zones develop a trend where human (economic) potential remains constrained by the local macro-zone, hence migrations.
India has more arable land (though less productive) than China.
What is success, really?
Note that only non-exported functions can be called directly. If you call a exported function, it has to go through the GOT to support redirection (LD_PRELOAD). There's a flag to disable that.
Do have source for that on a country level?
Well, yes. This is why we are building a solution that you can install anywhere https://github.com/1backend/1backend

You might jokingly say we are reintroducing the servers into the serverless concept :D

But I think we are just giving freedom back to the users.
And India did have different govt for 6 decades that didn’t focus on Hindu agenda but had “Us vs Them” in other forms.
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I wonder if organisations are getting the benefits they perceive, I suppose if you bill by the hour you are but I know from personal experience nothing kills my creativity like overwork.
Wikipedia says 200M (which is still an insane number). Typo in the parent comment?
I believe Google already does that with video ads. Part of Google's rules are that there be no autoplay video ads. But on YouTube annoying autoplay video ads are their bread and butter
I think the most ingenious anti-piracy trick was "Game Dev Tycoon"'s, which is after this post was made.

The pirated copy had users unable to win or pass a certain point because their games started to get pirated (in the game).

They also released the cracked game themselves to torrents, thus bypassing the troubles other games had where legite players got hit by anti-piracy issues.

http://www.greenheartgames.com/2013/04/29/what-happens-when-...
You could have the user register by providing an email and clicking a verification link, and then optionally allow em to link third-party services.

You don't need that complex workflow; most third-party authentication services allow you to also request the user's email address during the initial process.
I don't know if this is a complete list, but a search returned this page: https://codegists.com/snippet/xml/wbsautofillquirksplist_saa...
I also spent hours on that site when I was ~12, in 2007! Now doing an MEng...
Romania is beholden to a post-communist party since 1989 using the same tactic - promise pension raises. Old people mostly vote with them, sacrificing the future of the country. They make a mess, then step down for a term to let the opposition fix it, then come back with more promises. And the old people love them because "What has the opposition ever done for us?" and "They are all corrupt, anyway, no matter the party".

But now even the leader of this party has a huge corruption case against him, so he tries to change the laws to save his ass, by making corruption legal. In the last 12 months he changed 3 prime ministers (all from his party, absurd as it seems) because even they were afraid to do the illegalities he demands. He's a joke and we can't get rid of him. Why can't he directly take the PM seat? Because he has already been condemned for corruption in a past case, so he's barred. He can still lead by proxy, though.

Sometimes I think old people shouldn't be allowed to vote because they got little time left and don't care much for the rest of us (the future they won't get to see), so they'll gladly sell our futures for a modicum raise in their pensions. If you vote, you should be held to the reality of what you voted on. It's unfair to vote and die soon (same thing happened in UK where old people voted out and young people are left with the consequences).
Unfortunately, the opposite is true for basic resources such as clean water and air: look up "Earth overshoot day" [1]

[1] https://phys.org/news/2017-08-earth-resource-spent-august.ht...
Can you elaborate on #3 a bit? I'm not sure what you mean and m really curious. I've always gotten the vibe that the SRE recruiters were not giving me an honest view of the realities of that job.
Funny stuff. I still have my Lenslok with my copy of Elite for the ZX Spectrum.

Square Enix used to punish pirates for their multiplayer games by putting them all together on to the crappest servers they had and making the gameplay slightly crappy in every possible way.
Ok? Your comment doesn't contribute much...
We can't just go changing the laws because some segment of the population doesn't like speed limits.
I am (I suspect) a little bit older than you and have been working at a FANG company for nearly seven years. (Before that I was at a company that may as well be included in the list.)

What your comments about aerospace remind me of is something I would myself frequently do: fantasizing about a different industry about which I know very little. (Years ago, I used to imagine going back to school to study law, on the grounds that being a lawyer is a good way to really work for social change.)

Obviously I didn't go back to school, and I certainly can't tell you what the right decision for you is. I think a bit of curiosity about the road not taken is natural--but you also have to be clear-eyed about what the alternatives actually look like.

To your specific question, however, I would strongly recommend interviewing at a few other teams inside the company and a few other companies. Before I came to my current employer, I interviewed here and a few other places. Some of them struck me by how _bad_ the interviewers were; in fact, my interview experience at my current employer (where the interviewers impressed me by their intelligence) convinced me, at the time, that if I didn't get the job I would stay at my then-employer rather than move to a less impressive place.

So interviewing can be clarifying in terms of showing you what else is out there, and helping you make a trade-off between natural wanderlust and, you know, not settling for something shitty just because it's new. ;)
Hear, hear. I am formerly Google Payments too. Don't leave just yet, there's plenty of hope for you staying and transferring to another org.

I have been at Google about 12 years now and had a three year stint in Payments until somewhat recently. Out of all of the organizations, projects, and products I worked on (6 projects, 12 managers, 5 offices, 2 continents), Payments is the least Google-feeling of them all with the worst management and politics (frankly it was fucked). The rest of Google was a dream in comparison. Had I known Payments was in bad shape, I might not have joined it originally.

Before leaving, try somewhere else. I recently founded my own team elsewhere build software for distributed system infrastructure, and I cannot tell you how fun it is. The joy is still at Google, but Payments is a blackhole. I can't believe the rest of the leadership tolerates that hostile black sheep of an org.

Google is largely what you make of it.
FYI This other comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16300104

Says Symantec sold their cert business to DigiCert

So could it be a cert that was issued as Symantec and just now shows as DigiCert and would still give you the error?
There is a high chance that it will explode, let's say 10%, (This number is based in a back of the envelope statistic of the first few flight if several rockets. It's probably close to the correct value, but don't take it too seriously.) (A well tested rocket for manned mission has a 1% chance of failure.)

If it explodes and they have a car, they will just tweet some joke like "I guess my insurance will not cover it." and begin the investigation.

If it carries someone else satellites, they will get for weeks press coverage of each of the groups that build a satellite, and how they ruined the master thesis of someone, how other group worked in the satellite for a year, how it was the only opportunity of other group to cure cancer, ...
> ..we went from flapping our arms to not flapping our arms..

agreed, but there is so much to do in space that will evolve our flapping into something better, imho :)

> It's sci-fi, so let's ridicule people working on it

i am not ridiculing him in any way, just questioning the priority of going to Mars in the timeline that is being planned.

this is more about prestige and personal desires, seems to me..

> we're bitching about one person driving few billion $ to be spent on it.

you can only spend a dollar once. a couple billions is not peanuts to most people still..

well, his investors probably agree, so its fine. never disappoint your investors, right :)
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A grade-separated junction, in the context of trains, is discussed in more detail at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_junction .

> A flying junction or flyover is a railway junction at which one or more diverging or converging tracks in a multiple-track route cross other tracks on the route by bridge to avoid conflict with other train movements. A more technical term is "grade-separated junction". A burrowing junction or dive-under occurs where the diverging line passes below the main line.

> The alternative to grade separation is a level junction or flat junction, where tracks cross at grade, and conflicting routes must be protected by interlocked signals.

The examples you gave are all from the US, which as I mentioned has been designed around cars for almost a century.

We (in the US) are a local minimum where it is hard to switch to a mass transit system because we've spent so much time optimizing for cars.

That doesn't mean that mass transit systems are inherently less efficient. We have only to look to NYC (to say nothing of other countries) to see numbers far in excess of what you mentioned.

So if rayiner's assertion is correct, that the government has an obligation to optimize the limited use of public land - which I disagree with - then I still argue that it means we should be doing a transition to a different way of organizing our cities and towns so they are better optimized for mass transit instead of personal vehicles.

Like what The Netherlands started in the 1970s.
Whilst I agree the policy is reasonable given the amount they charge per month, it's something I've only learnt about from reading comments and not from their marketing.

In fact, their marketing claims "Never lose a file again. Get unlimited cloud backup for your Mac or PC. Just $5/month."

Only on reading the help does it seem that if the client doesn't connect with the server within 6 months, then all your backups are gone. I'm not saying this is unreasonable, but it seems a bit counterintuitive given you are still paying for the service. I just still haven't found the bit about disconnected drives.

I really like Backblaze's articles on HDDs and they really seem to be customer focused, but I had to dig in the help to find this.
The animation & sources here is a good starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate
Is that any different or worse than the insurance company using street cameras to determine blame?
Nobody cares if you are happy with your old model; maybe there just isn't any reason for you to upgrade at all.

But for people that want a new laptop, the MBP is the best machine available by many metrics, especially the screen - it's finally bright enough I can work outside on a sunny day.
I find it useful for asking 'has anyone changed x because I'm seeing this stacktrace when I do abc?'. I don't expect an immediate result but when a devleoper has some downtime then they can check and respond.

It's better than email because they can see the chat from other devs around the issue.

The only thing I'd like to do is be able to stop auto-playing gifs and block @here from certain people who abuse it.
Always online DRM, combined with an easy point of entry for people to buy and manage games. Their prices have historically been good, and they are also convenient and trustworthy
Providing a relatively lean, no-bullshit-attached interface for buying games + adding a gamification layer (achievements, social profiles). That, and frequent discounts.

For people who have the money to buy a game, using Steam is much easier (and free of perceived malware risks) than torrenting.
But does anyone actually follow that algorithm 100% faithfully? We are not machines, fortunately.
How is that legal? In the UK, over 5 employees means you need 2 toilets, over 25 means you need 3.
I believe that the speed limit is based around speed. I think it is generally safe to drive the speed limit, except under extraordinary circumstances. I also think it’s rather easy to drive at less-than-safe speeds (there are grey areas depending on circumstances) while ignoring the limit.

I mean, maybe you could make efficiency arguments, but in my experience going over the speed limit rarely helps you get anywhere faster around major metro areas. So such arguments would probably have to argue for specific circumstances. Even the autobahn has speed limits posted in certain areas.

If we’re going off purely anecdotal evidence, I’ve noticed that people tend to speed because they are poor with time management, or they are paid to speed by some organization (consider pizza delivery).

Meanwhile, what are you proposing?
yes, good points.. 10% is quite high.

i was not thinking about people's master thesis going up imto the sky, but more amateurish, hobby projects.. but that might put the rocket itself in danger.

so my idea is off :)
>Because wasting time on transpiration also kills, small slices of lost life in parallel.

So you're willing to put other people at risk, for an immeasurable gain to yourself?

Maybe you should take public transport more, where you can actually do something else while being transported?
Implicitly I was referring to a given car model, which isn't going to have that much variation in weight.
>Personally, I think that limit is much closer to 1 trillion people living on the earth than it is to 1 billion people.

Honestly, you can think whatever you want. But what people want to think and what's actually true often don't line up, and they certainly don't here.

Wikipedia says that the total land mass of Earth is about 150,000,000 km^2. Do you really think a global population density of 6666 people/square kilometer on every single piece of land on earth is in any way sustainable? That's a population density that exceeds Tokyo. Japan's population is heavily dependent on food imports to sustain itself. When the whole world is denser than Tokyo, where is the food going to come from?
In general it's a bad look to respond to the good reports but not the bad ones.
So has anyone got a guide on implementing the relevent portions of these best practices in ADFS?
Thank you for your thougtful comment but I think you somewhat inflate two different points. On the one hand, there is sentience, on the other hand, there is our behavior towards other beings. You can certainly see the sentience in beings and still „punish“ or „correct“ them if they do wrong. This is what we have our judicary system for. In many places we already use this system in regards to animals (endangered species, etc.) but we could do more if we were to agree on the general idea that all life has some basic rights (and responsibilities).

So we can certainly aim to recognize the status of all animals and still keep on functioning. It might involve some degree of unease in certain situations (e.g., a bad feeling when stepping on an ant) but simply ignoring the sentience of other beings because of this unease seems like a lazy way out.
> Personally, I believe the time is ripe for building an industry in near-Earth space (or cislunar space, as it seems to be fashionable to call it these days). Mining asteroids and orbital manufacturing

yes!! i am all for that, and equally inspiring if you ask me :)
Similar thing in the lower parts of Mexico. As told to me by some locals on a stop while riding through the country on my motorcycle, there are plenty of locally known, overgrown ruins that are yet undeveloped as visitor sites simply due to lack of funds or renovation resources.