skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Physical impossibilities of p2p models" - Although there might be structural limitations, I think they're not too strong.
Just because we currently do not have a major p2p network doesn't mean that it's not possible.
I think it's very possible to have something like this (even for availability). You just need to have a good design/mechanism.

But there's the problem (why we didn't see something like this yet): No one puts many resources into the design of p2p-stuff. The competing, central solutions get tons of resources from big companies that try to make money with it. There is no company that tries to build something p2p because with giving away the control, they give away the possibility to make money out of it.

A working example of offline storage would be bitmessage (although I think It won't scale).
A much more interesting development would be lake: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8974-practical_mix_network_desig...
>lower growth

How many healthy/successful companies out there have _no_ growth? That's my point.
The part "by editorial board views closest to yours" says it all. All newspapers have views. They choose what is "good" or "bad" based on their views. That's why cross-checking is essential.
"It's not without issues" to me means I might object to parts of it but overall I'm positive, or I feel the issues can be accommodated, tolerated, or corrected.

"It has issues" is to me a stronger, more general objection to the whole thing.
I use Google for my 'main' feed of photos just because Photos is an excellent product and I don't mind if they are downsampled for sharing or posting online.

I also keep all of all of my processed RAW files on Amazon Prime Photos. I never log into the app though, it's simply just my offsite backup. My NAS automatically syncs to Amazon Photos weekly.
32 cores makes it sound like they bought a regular Xeon or EPYC chip and sent it to the ISS
Technical solutions can't stop people you intended to share your secrets with from breaking your trust, but they can help prevent uninvolved third parties from getting direct access that no one intended to give them.
I'm having an issue on Firefox 63 as well. No content is loaded. Works fine in Chrome.
I really like these atomic/functional css libraries with any sort of frontend framework or templating system that leverages components.

Personally, I have been using Tachyons with React for the past couple months, and it's been a blast. Compared to writing html templates with Emmet and css with Sass, I feel as if I am more productive and like I can reuse more components.

It's worth a try if it interests you!
In AvE's case, it's an unlisted YouTube video that is embedded and linked to from his Patreon page, then a publicly listed YouTube video for the regular release.
If this article didn't make it click for you, that's understandable. It took me a long time of hearing about this & thinking it was stupid before it made sense. When that happens to me, it's usually a sign of something good.

The author of Tailwind suggested I read his best effort at explaining why this makes sense.: https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-...

Towards the end of the article it started clicking for me.
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> "to sell" is most often understood to be completed transaction.

That is certainly the understanding of laymen. However, if you talk to people who work in sales, and look at their "pipelines" for creating sales leads, followup, closing, and whatever else they do, you get the sense that "selling" is actually an extensive, multi-part process. At least I think that's the view most sales professionals would have.
Hey that's really cool! Thanks for the link to Humane Tech Community, looks promising and will definitely check it out. Good luck!
That's the nature of any higher-level language: you reduce flexibility and gain ease of use for particular use cases.

E.g., With Ruby and Python and Java you lose a lot of the flexibility that pure C gives you. You can't directly manage memory directly any more, for example. Is that a bad thing? Not for most people.

Note also that one of the major goals of an operating system is to limit flexibility. The first thing an OS does on starting is to lock a bunch of functionality away from any other code. Similarly, virtualization and containerization are mainly about removing capability.
Discussion thread from 2014 fwiw: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7270891
it could (again, based on a particular isotope), but only in theory, because how would one count the mole worth of atoms?
Engineers, not people.
I imagine they meant to say "at least" transparent and just typo'd it. Otherwise the rest of their comment makes little sense.
To this I would add: When in Rome, do as the Roman's do.

When you are repairing other people's code, don't change it to your style, fix it in theirs.
There would be a lot of wars right now if it was "normal world" ad you define it.

I think the intent here matters and it doesn't seem like it was intended to harm the Belgian government or their people. That probabbly matters a lot.
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Not to be a downer, but the current top story is "Thousands of Native voters in North Dakota getting free IDs". The reason that's necessary is not not depressing.

It's sort of like "Man who fell off click only broke both legs".
Similar boat, have to look after my parents now and the difference between my father watching Fox News (well...any news these days) regularly and not is night and day. He's far more angry with it on, its just nonstop outrage and cynicism. I'd love to find something that would satisfy his desire to 'stay current' without the overreaction and FUD, but maybe he'd just go looking for it anyway.
NCSA Mosaic 2.7, one of the first graphical web browsers
Patreon has had some pretty major fuck ups over the years. How can you consider them a trusted service?
> You mean they recently stopped you using a debit card to pay money into your bank account? Why would you do that?

That's the only way to get money into a Revolut account. That, Apple Pay or a SWIFT transfer which costs a fortune.
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Na. Allies have always spied on each other. You just rarely hear about it because the Russian/Chinese/NK/etc spies go on the news/get prosecuted, and the allie's spies get quietly asked to leave and the home country gets a nasty-gram.

For example many embassies routinely batch collect all cell phone conversations within range[0], which is quite useful since they're often located in another country's capital city.

There's a reason why high level government officials have what are essentially VPN-ed cellphones now.

[0] http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/cover-story-how-...
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> Error estableciendo una conexión con la base de datos
Coding is a means of getting something done. They are just set of instructions that computers can process. So technically, there is an argument to be made that tomorrow we could have a new way of creating instructions for computers and not through human coding? Who knows. Just like when cars replaced horses, it did not change the fact that people still need to travel. Just the "how they travel" part changed.
> I think that Smugmug needs to explain the differentiation between Smugmug versus Flickr

Perhaps. Personally I'm not sure they do need to particularly do that though. Smugmug is a place to backup and showcase your photos as an individual. It's a portfolio service. There's not much community there really.

Flickr was a community for high quality photography. They talk at great length in the post about how it lost it's way and want to get back to the community and quality aspect.

If anything I'd say they're talking about the right stuff - how they're going to make Flickr great again.
A combined personal map view with the ability to place any of my un-geotagged images (thanks SnapBridge!) would be most welcome.
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That’s an interesting point and I’m stealing it for in real life conversations, to point out the human element of secrets - but we should understand people are bad at keeping them while also not allowing Facebook to monitor messages to find a better way / leverage to sell us things.
That's not how licenses work.
Pretty much.

The Spaceborne Computer includes the HPE Apollo 40 class systems with a high speed HPC interconnect running an open-source Linux operating system. Though there are no hardware modifications to these components, we created a unique water-cooled enclosure for the hardware and developed purpose-built system software to address the environmental constraints and reliability requirements of supercomputing in space. Generally, in order for NASA to approve computers for space, the equipment needs to be “ruggedized” – or hardened to withstand the conditions in space.

https://news.hpe.com/hewlett-packard-enterprise-sends-superc...
paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/115/17/4325.long
They started planning before it was clear that RV64GC would be the standard profile. I think its highly likely that they will go in that direction as well.
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For one, having enough iodine in the soil was important before we started fortifying our food with it.
That's fairly standard. The problem there is going to be attaching ddr3 modules to a board. BGA is a pain in the ass for anything past 10x10 using a toaster oven. And for doing it "right" you really need xray QA.
I still don't understand what the connection to 'German' is.
You treat your stylesheet as your style guide, design system, or single source of truth. That's where you define your fonts, colors scales etc.

So you actually don't have to think about specific widths while you're building, you reference a width that is already set up in your stylesheet!

I find that it improves the design to dev workflow. You experiment with design in a design tool like Sketch, and then translate your final idea or rules into a stylesheet, which is the basis for your live prototyping in editor & browser (wrapping HTML elements and referencing styles in your stylesheet).
> If this operation was ONLY meant to target a subsidiary working mostly inside the middle-east with legitimate terrorist ties, I'd imagine they would have included the Belgians.

I am from Belgium and quite frankly I'd understand why GCHQ would want to bypass our own security services. Understaffed, underpaid and under skilled.

Now that's just the pragmatic in me, the citizen in me is really concerned about that case (and why the UK is allowed to go on pulling such stunts considering that kind of things has been going on since WW2).
Is it possible to better shield them or would that require putting the computer in an airtight lead box?
I feel like this is a browser UX problem, right? A browser designed to prevent phishing of readers of both ASCII and non-ASCII languages might display both the punycode and unicode versions of a website, and if a heuristic is detected that a homograph is used that would otherwise result in an Alexa Top 100k site, display a dialog to warn against a phishing attack. (Your flüge.de example shouldn't trigger that warning, for instance.)

https://github.com/phishai/phish-protect is an attempt to do this, but I think there's a better middle ground for international users that doesn't simply block-by-default all punycode domains.
Friendica and others will also post to both, I believe.
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>Any seed-grown tree is going to produce fruit that has characteristics of both its parents

Not apples, they're exactly the opposite:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple#Breeding

>This is because seedling apples are an example of "extreme heterozygotes", in that rather than inheriting genes from their parents to create a new apple with parental characteristics, they are instead significantly different from their parents, perhaps to compete with the many pests.
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>Are we sure we didn't just fail to detect it?

I would be interested in knowing more about the possibility of that from people who study comets.

The alternative theory is the object is an extremely thin sheet (0.3mm thick), which is what these scientists suggest as the best fit for the data. That would be a really thin slice of space rock.
AI made money before.

All it takes for an AI winter to happen is for the hype to go way beyond the reality, the AI doesn’t have to not make money, it just has to make not enough money as expected. It is very much like a housing crash: the houses are still useful to live in, just that their value is not as high as expected.
> (proprietary) software developer

Don't know from where you pulled that off, probably inspired by the communist manifesto, but such software developers are also users and the distinction is entirely superficial in order to advance an agenda.

Down with the bourgeoisie, heh?

> By forcing developers to disclose their changes to MongoDB essentially makes the end-users more free, since they can then replicate more parts of the program they are using.

So wait, "end users" are empowered developers now?

Oh, is this a good guys versus bad guys thing?
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it’s kind of frustrating, cracking open old code for a change or bug fix and seeing some really gross helper function you have to use. the temptation to take 30 minutes and refactor is too irresistable sometimes.

I do agree with the basic idea of the article though.
maintenance/sustaining = touch the code as little as you can (helps with diffs)
greenfield = take the time to make it right for as long as you can
You can manually delete conversation histories

Visit: https://www.facebook.com/messages/

Mouse over a conversation, click the cog, "This will permanently delete all conversation history [Cancel] [Delete] [Archive]."

But won't deny Facebook could make this easier/automated.
> Nope. It very much is not. Because an SPA doesn't start working until it's done 5-10 server round trips, the slowest part of any website interaction. Regular-backend-framework-served websites are functional after 1 server round trip.

Incorrect. A server-side-rendered SPA will be just as functional as the regular-backend-framework-served website, that is functional after 1 server round trip, as in the html is served to the client.

This is the big problem with people who don't know how SPAs should be done. And you keep on circling the problems that should be blamed on poorly written applications and bad design choices, not SPAs as a paradigm.

The rest of your arguments seems to be based on the fact that you do not know how properly written SPAs are supposed to function, ergo the rest of your arguments is invalid, sorry.
EDIT: did not know about the english poem "In flanders fields".

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/john-mccrae-in-flanders-fiel...
Bloating your markup with classes is simply a bad habit. It bites you hard in the long run.

Even the framework that they are using proposes better alternatives.

“Tailwind encourages a "utility-first" workflow, where new designs are initially implemented using only utility classes to avoid premature abstraction.

While we strongly believe you can get a lot further with just utilities than you might initially expect, we don't believe that a dogmatic utility-only approach is the best way to write CSS.”

Read this page: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/extracting-components/

A class based rapid prototyping framework is a powerful tool, don't get me wrong. However, like all tools you should only use them when they truly are needed.
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The project involves HPE, which is a separate company, not the PC and printer Hewlett-Packard.
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> la base de datos

I smirked while reading that. A base of data.
There are several Android clients, including Dandelion, found in the F-Droid repository. I think there's one in the Google Play store as well. No iOS clients, but the mobile site works quite nicely.
The conversation is about Googles lack of respect, not Mastercards.

For Maastercard, hiding “we can sell your data” in a 8+ page contract full of small print legalese that’s designed for people to skip over is hardly fair notice. Should people read and understand it? Yes. But most don’t.

Also, it’s silly to say that “you’re the product” with Visa and MasterCard. Most cards have a fee associated (with the norm for any rewards card being around $80-120 in Canada) and they have a insane 20% interest on purchases. That’s vastly different than using Facebook for free.

The privacy quip was directed to Google. Just because they -can- do something, doesn’t mean they should.

The third most valuable company in the world hardly needed to purchase offline purchases to further profile people who don’t know they’re being profiled “to remain competitive”.
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Not too much different? I can speak out against the government here and not get disappeared, or have a negative impact on my social credit score. A social credit score which can limit my ability to associate with certain people, get good employment, good housing, and unrestricted travel. I don't understand how that translates to "nearly the same freedoms". Let's not get started either with freedom of religious worship as well.
It's Ubuntu-based, with some modified KDE desktop.
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I am supporting several interesting YouTubers on Patreon that offer early access and they just post the link to the unlisted YouTube Video to their Patreon Feed.

Technically there is no access control other then that YouTube links are not easily guessable.

It is probably not a huge concern for these YouTubers if there are a few people who see the video early when they are not supposed to.
China HAS the money to invest itself much like the Saudi’s do. Chinese VC money chasing Chinese investment opportunities is obviously not going to create a backlash. I suspect even YC China is setup to support Chinese VCs rather than to inject American VC into China, but I have no documentation to back up that hunch.
Ditto for the torrent link.

Can't download the thing because the torrent file is behind a crashed database.

We have magnet links for a reason, goddamit. /rant