skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is all just a PR stunt and Google's business model goes against user privacy.

It's quite interesting the way people are more willing to trust Google than Facebook with their data though. I think this might come from Google actually offering more "useful/needed/can't live without" offerings vs facebook's more vanity based services.

For example, Google takes your very privacy sensitive location data but also returns you amazing mapping capabilities (google maps), transit information, nearby points of interests etc.

They might have access to all your text messages, emails, contacts etc but returns you useful features like the last year's Duplex feature or auto reply suggestions in emails etc.

Facebook's vanity based offerings are quite shallow imo - Instagram is just hyper edited pictures to scroll through, messenger/whatsapp might be useful but it has quite good competition from iMessage or simple text messaging. So for people who actually care about privacy, they are still okay with Google having their data but are not okay with Facebook having their data because FB doesn't really offer much of real value. This could be because Google being a much older company than FB. FB has also had quite major privacy issues (Cambridge Analytica being one of the major ones) and they have shown that they really don't care at all about privacy.

One thing to note though, I still don't think Google should operate the way they do and I am not willing to compromise so much of my privacy. That's why I stick with iOS even though I know Android offers more power (especially since I am an iOS and Android Developer). iOS's AI might be inferior but it gets the job done for me and I appreciate the privacy stance of Apple over Google.
For statically linked binaries, why wouldn't you use the SCRATCH (0 kb) 'image'?
The Python test is indeed a large outlier! I wonder how reproducible it is, and what the reason might be.
There are even cheaper options that are just as good.

The xiaomi m365, for example, is one of the most commonly owned electric scooters, (I am pretty sure it used to be the model that Bird based their scooters off of), and you can buy them for ~425$ or so.
Why is musl slower?
a) Their comments indicate otherwise.
b) They could say that then. Instead they are blaming Google for more or less lying about Duplex, which is quite disrespectful to the people who have actually worked on it.
c) If they had expressed disappointment about the service having limited availability, I'd not be here making this point.
I feel exactly the same way as you.

Loathe is a strong word. And I loathe everything about Apple and the iPhone.

But I think I'll get an iPhone next. And it's not even because I hate Google or because I don't like Android. I just believe in voting with my dollars. And Apple at least is masquerading as a company that makes a product and wants to sell that. I like the idea of the transaction. I buy my phone and then I own it; I'm done.

With Google, I buy the phone, and the phone owns me.
It has nothing to do with search rankings. Allegedly, they are demoting wrongthink publications in multiple places.

Besides, if the results were sorted only by rankings (not that the rank was a particularly great thing) it woiuld've been OK, but theyu are personalized which is a Bad Idea(tm).
A number of reasons, but for starters, consider inequality. Are we going to give Yemen a nuclear power plant? Somalia? Can Bolivia afford one?

They are expensive, require tremendous infrastructure, and mean deploying fissionable materials to countries that maybe shouldn't have them. So it's solving a First World problem, and exacerbating the divide between rich and poor.
I think it's funny because the entrenched establishment politicians like Steve Bannon are also the ones most opposed to Sanders and his allies.
The base image may be small, but all the packages and metadata are large, and the dependencies are many. Alpine always leans to conservative options and intentionally removes mostly-unnecessary things. So average image sizes are higher with an Ubuntu base compared to Alpine.
Fresh is there at least partly because cars didn't used to have AC. If you are driving in-town or stop-and-go having a fan on your face with fresh air takes a bit of the edge off.

Also in heating mode, there's little reason not to use fresh, as we can heat up cars really easily.
Anecdotal evidence but this is my third day of fasting and my productivity is significantly higher. Oddly enough, the hunger I feel is similar to what I'd feel if I skipped breakfast going into lunch.
Did they say that the data never leaves the device? Just because it's local inference doesn't mean it doesn't leave the device. They have a strong incentive to call home with the transcripts/metadata to improve their model on you.

I haven't had the time to wade through the barrage of information Google has put out in the last few days (ironically)...did they explicitly say that?
It's sloppy writing. They mean it is the empty string in /etc/shadow.

Following some links from the CVE, you can find the details (from https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-20...):

> In builds of the Alpine Docker Image (>=3.3) the /etc/shadow file contains a blank field in place of the encrypted password

> ...

> The net result of a blank sp_pwdp field is that the system will treat the root user as having no password, rather than a 'locked' account if a ! or is explicitly specified.*

For those not super familiar with how Unix/Linux password files work, if the field is non-empty, the system will collect a password, hash it, and compare for a match. If the field is empty, the system will just skip prompting for a password and log you in after entering a username.

Arguably, this is crappy design and a better design for /etc/shadow would be to require some kind of explicit, very obvious value like "NO-PASSWORD-REQUIRED".
Most modern European housing also has to abide by strict energy efficiency and air leakage standards, so they come with heat-recover air exchange systems.
No need to jailbreak. Just dial 3001#12345# for field mode and enjoy the stats!
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While I don't follow #2, I suggest two more item:

Take the time to learn some good programming practices. If you're lucky and fall in love with scientific programming, your programs will grow to a point where they are unmanageable without some techniques borrowed from computer science and software engineering.

Have someone show you the "out of order execution" and "hidden state" failures.
As someone who wants to pitch containerization at my enterprisey company, what is the takeaway message here? Do I still assume Docker/kubernetes is the way to go? Sounds like I don't want to stake my reputation on Docker Swarm? Is there another container platform this community recommends other than Docker?
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Would you mind sharing your VM setup with PCI passthrough? I had looked into this previouly, but guides I saw seemed to only let you pass it through depending on settings at boot of the host OS. From what I understand, this means that if I wanted to pass the GPU through to the VM, I would lose it in the host OS until I reboot again. Does your setup let you hotswap it w/o a reboot?
These will still be both GPU and CPU on the 14nm process, right?
It's quite clear Hitler and Jesus's followers changed the course of world events at a very large scale.
Sun made $200 billion of revenue over 28 years. Yes, Sun missed opportunities -- but (as someone who worked at Sun during the internet boom) Sun definitely took advantage of plenty of them. Or are you making the case that Sun's technological output was so substantial that the $200 billion over the nearly three decades represents a "bigger missed opportunity in business than Docker"?
"However, when I see an ad for Allbirds or a cool new leather jacket, I feel very much inclined to explore or purchase a product that I will genuinely be happy with"

You've been trained to buy things and don't even realise it. What would happen if you didn't see that ad for the jacket, would you go without clothes? Heck, maybe you'd go visit a store and meet new people. Or you'd save more money.

The whole premise that we need advertising to make us happy is ridiculous.
Languages I recall us considering include: Java, Kotlin, Swift, C++, Dart, Lisp, Lua, ObjectPascal, Python, C#, Go, Rust, TypeScript, JavaScript itself, Perl.

I wish I had our notes from back then, but I looked for them recently and couldn't find them. Our best theory is we did it on paper or on a whiteboard. :-(
For what it's worth, there are workalikes for both Github and Slack which are at least tolerable -- Gitlab has most of Github's core features, and there are multiple slack-alikes (the one I've got experience with is Zulip, which I, at least, find to be a whole lot better than Slack). BUT...

Just having open-source (or free software) alternatives doesn't necessarily solve the problem. Gitlab and Zulip still leave your data scattered around back-end DBs which may not be terribly accessible in 20 years' time if the software itself doesn't still run.
The reason this is related to browser fingerprinting is that cross-site cookies aren't _just_ used for CSRF, they're also a way to track users across sites.

With this change, developers will have to _explicitly_ declare when they're using cookies for that purpose (by setting SameSite=none) which makes it easier for browsers to identify cookies used for tracking and give users control over them.
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No, they aren't 2-stroke, they're 4-stroke. They sound similar to a little 250cc roadbike - quiet and puttering.
If your currency is a reserve currency, this measure is unnecessary--you can just print more of it.
I think most people save under this extension even if they are using a different kernel (i.e. they are running R, Julia, Matlab, etc. code in the notebook).
My subjective take is no more valid or invalid than others' personal opinions.

I don't think Facebook is without flaws, by the way. But I do think they're doing a lot correctly as well, and that Zuckerberg is smart enough to navigate the company carefully through very difficult decision points. It is easy for armchair activists to rant about Facebook en masse but there are no easy solutions, and at some point they have to square with the fact that yes, Facebook serves a lot of people who aren't themselves and who think differently from themselves.

When I see the constant stream of one-sided articles that offer no nuanced intellectual take on Facebook or operating such platforms neutrally, it does make me write off those journalists and those groups of activists whom the journalists feature. And the reason really is that they comes off as willing bad-faith participants in a political power dynamics struggle (who can foment the most outrage!) rather than people pushing for a principled outcome that fairly serves everyone, including those they disagree with.
> Many Android users also lament the lack of a visible filesystem but that's a huge plus in my eyes.

iCloud is accessible as a "filesystem" on iOS. It's a decent compromise that doubles as a dropbox replacement
i bought a wave-plus[0] on a whim, and it's also been eye-opening. it doesn't measure particulate matter directly, but has a VOC meter (and radon, which is their strength) that similarly spikes for all sorts of things, including closing the windows at night. it's battery-operated and connects to a phone app via bluetooth (which then can sync to their cloud dashboard if you choose).

i may buy a foobot[1] one day, as it was highly rated in recent studies on pm measurements, and has an api.

[0] https://www.airthings.com/wave-plus
[1] https://foobot.io/
Same boat here. I'm not with Android because I think the OS is better or because I hate privacy. It's a matter of cost (I think I paid $650 net for my S9+) and lack of hardware options.

I'm preaching to the choir, but it sucks that the only two viable options these days require such huge trade-offs. And that the premium for privacy is so much greater than what typical Android hardware costs.

I'm glad you've been able to find a trade-off that works for you. I'm hoping something changes in this duopoly system we have.
Yes, if it means one less mine in tropical regions or near the places where people live, that is a net benefit.

Arctic region is not even in its natural state, but is a result of human intervention from 10K years ago, when by eliminating mammoths we converted highly productive savanna-like arctic steppe into mosquito infested empty place it is now.

Of course any mine anywhere must be controlled to produce as little pollution as possible, and rare species must be protected, or their genomes must be digitized.

But if it was technologically feasible, i would even support terraforming both of this regions to make them habitable.
I've already held that opinion of Google products for some time after seeing what a ghost town Sites and Docs are, and the shutdowns of Reader, G+, Wave, etc. At best it seems that you can count on a product silently losing support for years as a hint that you should migrate.
Imagine you were able to find the magical instrument to bet on this event. Let's simplify and say its based on shorting both RMB:USD and these secondary foreign real estate markets. (the details don't really matter much for this argument)

I first heard this IDENTICAL storyline in 2002. This magical instrument has been shit over the last 20 years. RMB:USD is suspiciously flat by design. Real estate in Canada as mentioned has skyrocketed.

The long term bet you are proposing has failed 4 for 4. Your near term bet has failed 10+ out of 10+.
What do you mean "to blame," as if AC is a bad thing?
Honestly, OTP isn't much different than writing for any other chip, the difference is just you only get one shot per chip. So if you made a mistake in your code and burn a chip, oops it is trash so you start over with a new one. Also, I kinda use machine and assembly language interchangeably, but in reality they do have some slight differences with assembly technically being slightly higher level than machine, just be aware some purists get on their rants about this, and literature can sometimes be confusing if you don't know there are a few differences.

You'll have to pick up their machine instructions and learn them, since it is RISC based they likely stuck close to one of the RISC based standards as there is no reason to reinvent the wheel. You can absolutely do it, I would just think it might make more sense to start just a little higher level first, then go here. But I totally respect jumping to the lowest level and working up as I have done that too.

To get started, I am sure they manufacture a programing/flash board, buy it and a bunch of chips. Find a problem to solve that makes sense given what you are working with, and learn their machine instructions. If you know how to program the basics are the same, except you have to manage everything, clock, RAM, register spaces etc. Lots of good books on embedded work, just remember that the chip you are looking at isn't really a micro processor, it is a limited micro controller.

I started off in Basic, C, Pascal and Motorola assembly (then x86) way back when, then kinda settled into C/C++ for low level and Javascript for pretty much everything else, except mobile. So how I learn these is just by doing exactly what I am suggesting to you, find a problem that seems fun to solve and just start working at it. Sometimes for my own sanity, I would write things in C to get a feel for what I wanted to do (just mocking up in/outputs), just helped me think a little higher level at first. I would also many times output the assembly using gcc as a way to give me some ideas, but usually that is just an idea since these small micro controllers aren't likely supported by any major compiler.

Good luck, this can be a ton of fun.
Nice! Had no idea. Thank you.
There certainly are others, but Docker ‘just works’. Start with a small team and show some value/velocity.
If the market was fair, then it's the US's fault to not make more attractive products and buy tons of stuff from China. It wouldn't be China's fault that they are successful and we are not. It would be like Obama bitching about Germany that I mentioned above. But that's not what's going on here. China is playing unfairly.
40mb vs 5mb is like 5x difference.

There are also slimmed down images based on Debian or Ubuntu. A number of packages is a bit older versions, though.
It's interesting to think about this worldwide in terms of dependency ratios.

Right now, there is a working-people boom globally, as most of the post-1950 baby boom is in their working years, national barriers to trade have fallen down, and the huge post-1985 population boom is entering the workforce. A lot of people are working, and there are relatively few old people to take care of. This has led to a global savings glut - people are financially saving some of their earnings to take care of their eventual old age.

This situation will not last forever - the global baby boomers will enter retirement, life expectancy is increasing, and the generation after Millenials (and their global equivalents) is tiny, with fertility falling off a cliff even in developing nations. That means fewer working people supporting more retirees. Technology has been stubbornly ineffective at increasing elder-care productivity, even as it's been very effective at increasing life expectancy. No financial engineering in the world can paper that over - regardless of how many dollars are injected into the economy, how much people have in their 401k, how much is in their bank account, and how many homes they own, there are still only a set number of people available to care for elders. Additional savings just means the price of elder-care will rise to soak up all the savings, and the price of assets will fall as people rush to sell them to afford the increasing price of elder-care.

The result is potentially explosive. People who assumed they have enough set aside for a comfortable retirement will find that a.) a "comfortable retirement" becomes increasingly more expensive and b.) the value of those assets is suddenly falling. There will be widespread calls for the government to fix things, but there's nothing within the government's power to fix: it still takes a certain amount of labor to help your grandparents out of bed, change their bedpans, bathe them, measure their medications, etc. So the chance of social unrest becomes dramatically higher, which means that maybe that escape plan of moving to Vancouver is pretty important. That just exports the problem, though, and destabilizes other countries.
I3en drives have lower peak IOPS compared to the ones on I3 but storage latency is 30-50% lower on I3en. Also, it is 50% cheaper than I3 on per GB basis.
We compile to JS for execution on the browser. We don't use the NPAPI or Pepper plugin APIs. We intend to work on any standards-compliant browser. (I used to be the editor for the HTML standard, so I have some skin in this game.)

What size would you consider acceptable for a mobile Web app?
I am generally a fan of Linux and FOSS on my personal gear. However, I'm still not sure where this article is coming from, or who it addresses.

The author seems to be mixing the use of FOSS in the professional world with the use of FOSS in their personal world.

In a professional environment, there is no room for "modeling your values". It sounds harsh, but that is the way it is. You use what works. Yes, Linux OSs do some things better than Windows OSs, and vice versa.
Creative mode only.
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Some responses:

#1, China is going to have to buy a lot more gold. They only have about 1/4 as much gold as we do. And if they buy too fast, they'll push up the price, which hurts their currency. Not saying you're wrong, but there are limits here. https://moneyweek.com/499249/how-much-gold-does-china-have-a...

#2 - many ways to deal with this, but it has to be in balance

#3 - I don't understand your - can you elaborate?

#4 - not at the cost of seeing their economies whither up and disappear. An aging demographic curve in most countries is already going to do damage - giving the rest of the country away won't help. We're already seeing increased protectionism around the world in different forms (e.g. the US with tariffs, the EU with regulations, etc.) One example is here: https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/arcelormittal-idling...

5 - Not all bad things are created equal. Check out this and read the text next to the graph titled, "China Population Growth": http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/china-population/

6 - this doesn't work with an aging population. The demographic curve hurts (see #5 above)
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"distroless" is just Debian packages. Their self-description is fairly annoyingly misleading, since they don't mention that they are just using packages from Debian.
It could be that it's a hit piece concocted by the secretive privacy cabal, still working at their evil plan to hurt people by making them control their private information and at the same time to inconvenience powerful corporations from doing whatever they want.
I never understood how it was even possible for a relatively small sliver of the dev stack to command a $1b valuation.
That's absolutely not true for people who make it in the first place.
I think Balmer lost vision of what a "platform" truly is. Microsoft understood this in the 90's with Windows, forgot it in the 00's under Balmer and seems to be recapturing it heading into the 2020's. They could be a huge force again by the end of next decade.
I’ll try not to be opinionated, but starting an app inside Ubuntu typically has 50+ processes.

In most cases with Alpine-based containers, the only process is the one that you actually want to run.

Add to that that modern Ubuntu uses systemd which greatly exhausts the system’s inotify limits, so running 3-4 Ubuntu-containers can easily kill a systems ability to use inotify at all, across containers and the host system. Causing all kind of fun issues, I assure you.

So the cost is not just about disk-space.

Disclaimer: more experience with LXC than Docker.
You might want at least a shell in the container for debugging?
The original created Minecraft Java applet was available on the website for a long time. It looks like it's now been converted to WebGL -- I wonder if it's compiled from Java or reimplemented.
This one really freaks me out. Especially since many of the TOS are downright abusive. Discord, for example, reserves the right to read through and listen to all your communications and monetize that in any way and you agree to let them sell all that to anyone, forever.

The fact that we're just sort of expecting everyone to slave away on github every night and weekend to remain employable is pretty disgusting too. That's not sustainable.
The R ecosystem also has a text-based notebook format that they call R Markdown, with a long lineage going back to the TeX days.

It never caught on outside of the R community, but the format itself is language-agnostic.

https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/
This! GDPR Subject Access Requests are a godsend for forcing non-compliant companies to come to terms with their shitty practices.

I emailed an estate agent recently to request information about a listing. I immediately started getting regular "Have a house to sell?", "Interested in these listings?" emails. I had not requested these, or given permission.

One SAR later and I've got a hand-signed letter from their legal department, promising to investigate (as required). A week later I got a lovely report of the bollockings and training that had been doled out in the local office. I've since verified with alternate details. They're behaving now.
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