skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly better source:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-trump-telecommu...

seeing the reasoning includes violations against ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) its difficult to see how the US isnt creating some sort of whipping boy for its own agenda. Bluecoat, Intel, IBM, and hundreds of other companies have been accused of ITAR violations as well yet were not subjected to a 7 month long PR campaign from Washington to ablate them from the economic playing field. This feels like telco's flexing their close relationship to washington and pushing for a scorched-earth policy rather than be caught completely unprepared for 5G. "if we cant sell it, you cant have it" sounds rather less like a capitalist nation.

it also bears remembering that none of their CEO's were detained in foreign airports and led to Jail to await US extradition.
Not to mention a native Linux client, that's huge for me.
Henry Ford didn't actually say that, though it was in line with his thinking, perhaps.

https://hbr.org/2011/08/henry-ford-never-said-the-fast
But look at the industry - "Big iron" (Cisco, network solutions?, juniper, dynalink ...) have all had these issues, over and over and over again.

Given the lack of subtlety and the wide spread existence of these same exploits/backdoors/bugs indicates there's a level of care that is missing in engineering of these devices that makes it plausible that this is by ignorance rather than malice.
161MB MSI for a budgeting app... I know there's a thing as electron bloat but this is kind of all sorts of insane.
In Florida Walt Disney had a greater plan than another theme park. He wanted to try and provide a living experience, a prototype for the cities of the future. He died before this could happen but the original plans for EPCOT were epic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPCOT_(concept)

That's why they wanted a power plant, to be independent from that externatlity. With Walt, that plan died.

I am pretty pro-nuclear but that's probably not a bad idea to refresh an agreement made during the 60s and either revoke it or add some security constraints.

The last thing you want if you are pro-nuclear is another scandal of a nuclear power plant being poorly handled.
I know nothing about the decisions behind where Cloud Run and GAE run, but even customer GCE VMs run on top of Borg, not just the control plane. GAE predates most or all of GCP, and there weren't separate GCP clusters when it got launched.

(Used to work for Google including the GCP team, but haven't worked for them for over 4 years and I'm not speaking for them now. I'm reasonably sure this is all already public info.)
The $200k Paint Job
Also important to notice: OneDrive does not count shared folder from other users against you. See: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/add-and-sync-shared...

So with shared folders, you can have 5T space in OneDrive.

Also Office 365 Home is $80/year on Amazon.
Interpret how you want, but I take it to mean basestations and back end infrastructure.
They have backed down on the Store/UWP, which is progress.
‘Wood wide web’– network of microbes connecting trees–mapped for first time
What's the risk threshold you'd be comfortable with?

1 in a 1,000?
6 in 10,000?
13 in 10,000?
1 in 100,000?
WHEN WILL THEY INVENT LEVEL 5 AUTOMATED GROCERY DELIVERY?

THEY JUST NEED TO PROMISE TO DO SO, AND BOOM, $100B VALUATION
On the other hand, humans driving ourselves extinct might be the best long term scenario for the rest of life on Earth.

Realistically, the universe doesn't care one way or the other about us.
Yep.

http://fortune.com/2016/09/16/samsung-galaxy-recall-china/
The battery was different but had a similar problem - https://www.scmp.com/tech/enterprises/article/2026800/samsun...
My understanding (not an expert) is that it's a combination of less high jumps/falls because "wood chips hurt", and reduced long bone injuries for the jumps/falls that due occur due to differences in the way the material responds to the impact. Wood chips slide and absorb some of the kinetic energy, while rubber matting (and probably rubber chips?) stay in place and rebound the energy back.
To be very honest heart disease is also overreacted against. Especially when people read things like "food x causes % increase in heart disease"

But in the end it is a "natural" cause of death., It's not like people wouldn't be dying of something else

20yrs extra? Sure. 0.5% increase in heart disease for people over 60? Don't waste my time
Delivery is pretty cool. I'm still waiting for a VC to subsidize $2 meals (including shipping) to my house.
I wasn't EY, I was in through a small local firm. And we billed much less :). So the weekends when the EY guys didn't fly home, they had a few hundred $ to burn. We lived well on the weekends!
A few years ago I would have agreed. However, when Dropbox started telling me which file systems I could use (not even consistent across OS), then Dropbox just became another dumb syncing service.

The main killer of course being that they dropped support for exFAT, so there's zero way to use Dropbox on a drive shared between OS. That sounds a bit niche, but it basically means Dropbox can't be used on external storage.

Don't get me wrong, exFAT is dated. However, the supported file systems vary between OS, so you can't even use Tuxera (or FUSE) NTFS on Mac.

There's a lot of complaints about this on the Dropbox forums; so they know, they just don't care. So that's a black mark both technically and for customer support.
You know, inflation...
73 years from founding to IPO. :-O
The P3 Pro is really nice. I wish it was worth it.
Do you have any actual examples?

Chinese TV & newspapers spend most of their time speaking about how good China and Chinese companies are rather than caring about US companies. Lots of Chinese people are not aware of the "trade war".

I'm not asking for many just 1 recent example.
So glad I left Dropbox after they got hacked.
I'm a bit surprised by this reaction actually. I know it's in HN favor to keep the comment section academic; so my apologies if my comment came off construed as conspiracy theory. Given that early 2017 a heavily discussed topic was fake news and intentional manipulation of social media, this did not seem out of the realm of possibility for me, hence my original comment.
Wow I just actually enjoyed using twitter for the first time ever. I'll keep that link in mind.
Isn't Swift also refcounted?
Yeah, like Harlem, and LA.
Dropbox double dips and counts shared folders against you? That seems weird because they're already counting it against the person who uploaded it to begin with. So for a 1GB file they have removed a total of 2GB of quota between the sharer and the receiver.
I've been programming professionally for a little over 20 years (and programming in general since I was 8 years old, on a Commodore 64). Over the years, my desire to program has only increased, and my projects have become more ambitious. However, my tolerance to bad software has diminished significantly.

Software just doesn't seem to work anymore. It seems that every time I try some new piece of software, I'm one of the few unlucky ones who gets the "Error: friprack has no strubnozzle" error message, have to dig through dozens of pages of forum posts leading to "never mind, solved it" messages with no further explanation, and finally figuring out that it's a missing dot in the configuration file, so that I can move ahead one more millimeter to the "Error: unknown domain", and the cycle continues. This happens in both hardware and software, and it sucks the life out of any project you might be working on.

Software is terrible. Testing is terrible. U/X is even worse, and yak shaving de rigueur. The problem, unfortunately, is that too many non-craftsmen are in the arena now, with more piling in as they smell the money.

It used to be so difficult to find information (trying to find the right books at your crappy local library, figuring out how to use a modem, trying to find BBSes to call that weren't long distance, etc) that only the most dedicated practitioners could succeed. Nowadays, anyone can publish an npm module full of edge cases and security holes, which then gets subsumed into all sorts of mega-frameworks until the whole thing blows up as malicious actors move in.

So do I still love programming? Absolutely! I just don't trust other peoples' code anymore. Maybe it's time for craftsman guilds...
You may still want to worry about platform lock-in, if only for the option value of being able to leave when Apple inevitably makes a decision you disagree with.
It is, for genes, though.
I would barely trust Lenovo if I had completely wiped the drive, and even then I'd be wary. Huawei is a whole different animal. I wouldn't allow a Huawei device in my home or office unless it had the battery removed and it was enclosed in a Faraday cage.
Well there's how much you might be able to charge as a developer (and the amount of money you'd have to make as a freelancer to account for things that full-time jobs typically provide, like benefits, etc), and then there's what you can charge in a particular situation.

Is your friend likely to be able to pay you, say, $4000 for website updates? (40hr @ $100). How about $2000 (40hr @ $50)? You know this person better than we do.
Ping @MicrosoftOutlookAndroid/IOS - Make this happen!
Not sure why I understand why this is a big commitment. The first two steps (manager call and a tech interview) are already happening. I'm changing the onsite to exclude whiteboard programming and do real hands-on keyboard programming plus code reviews and presentation which are all things that an engineer is expected to do.
I charge $30,000 and did absolutely nothing.

I was hired by a publishing company to take their 1990s web site into the modern age, a couple of years ago. I reported directly to the owner of this small but well known company in their industry. On day one, he sat with me for 10 minutes and outlined what he wanted done and then promptly left for a publishing conference for two weeks. He gave me nothing to access the web server or any of the source.

So, I spent two weeks putting together a few potential designs and showed them around to influential persons inside the company. They loved it! But when the CEO returned, he immediately pushed back against the hamburger icon for a menu selection among other things he thought his customers would find difficult to use.

I said I would work on that, made some changes I thought he would like, but when it came time to present them, he was gone again on another sales meeting out of town for a few days.

When he came back, he asked me to work with his graphic designer to create some animations for an iPad program they sold. I had never done that but quickly learned. He then went to France. He called me twice to ask about the progress and some additions he wanted but, when he returned, he was too busy to meet with me about that project.

I continued to ask for access to the server but never received a response.

Then, he presented me with an iPad app they had some company in India develop. He said it had some minor issues but he wanted me to work on it. It was written in ObjectiveC but I knew nothing about it and had never developed anything for Apple products before. He gave me access to his Lynda account but he needed the app fixed in two weeks. I told him it was impossible.

So, he hired a college kid who was fluent in all that. He gave the kid two months to solve the problem but he hit a road block and last I heard it past the three month mark trying to get that to work.

For me, since he didn't have time to work with me on the company web site, he said his mother had an event coming up for a charity she ran and she needed a web site right away. I knew nothing of the charity or the event. I had no pictures, no text, no idea what she would want beyond a general outline the CEO gave me but he wanted the whole thing up and running...in two weeks.

I said I can't do that. So he fired me.

I had accomplished absolute nothing. I asked him why he thought I could write iPad apps. He said it was because I said in the interview I once wrote an app for the iPhone. I said, no, I wrote a little test program--a "Hello World"--using Cordova but that was it.
For project budget and billing purposes, it is sufficient to track the number of hours each day. This court decision, however, would require to also track the start and end time, as well as the durations of all breaks. That's because there are laws regulating how much break time you have to take each day (dependend on how many hours you work) and also how much time has to pass between two work days. If you're working from home, you'd have to track every little interruption in which you walk the dog, take your child to kindergarten, etc., otherwise your start and end time won't fit your billed hours.

Of course, nobody will bother with such tedious timekeeping, and will instead just enter plausible but made up values for start and end times, rendering this court decision useless.
I didn't say it was universal, but it's extremely widespread, and more importantly, it's widespread among a diverse set of languages that don't share a common root.

Incidentally, the Wikipedia page for "Mama and papa" says that in Old Japanese the word for "mother" was papa.
For anyone looking for an open-source self-hosted alternative: I've been really happy with Syncthing [0]. It's as invisible as Dropbox once set up.

It supports arbitrary topologies (two peer machines syncing, one central always-on machine and lots of clients, etc.); with a VM in the cloud it can closely emulate Dropbox (sans web-based file browser), but it will also support e.g. just a desktop at home and a laptop that syncs when it's on the LAN. Pretty useful!

[0] https://syncthing.net/
Dell doesn't have a way into your TPM, or to into Windows its authentication loop. Either would create a gaping security hole very likely to be exploited.
So no, Dell can't unlock/decrypt your laptop without your password. The most they could do is bypass your BIOS/EFI password.
That reminds me of the villian robot in I, Robot movie. They don't want to harm human, they just want to keep them in the house, so that there is less crime, and less people die.

It may take away freedom. But freedom should not be a reason to trade lives.

Some may say the playground is about happiness, some may say it's about the freedom to experience.
Maintaining 1000 servers
Used to work on 2nd gen AppEngine.

I helped ship the runtimes!

Yes, this is due to age. GAE and Run depend on pieces of infrastructure going back a long time.
Did they consider it minor even AFTER the first crash? I think even if you accept that such a glitch was overlooked prior to the Indonesian crash, it is hard to see the justification for continuing to withhold this and other information related to MCAS after the first crash - which - remember - was very much related to the AoA indicator.
I'm not going to take your obvious bait. There's thousands, use google
Actually iCloud’s $10 a month plan gets you 2TB these days
727 had about the same issue. Interactions with high lift devices would cause major problems on approach to stall.

The FAA certified it anyway. The U.K. gave it conditional certification contingent on the addition of a stick-pusher to be able to operate in U.K. airspace. See the Royal Aeronautics Society D.P. Davies Interview, specifically the 727 one.

There was quite a bit of controversy amongst test pilots at even granting the certification, seeing it as setting a precedent that would lead to a slippery slope that would culminate in less and less airworthy designs.

Nevertheless, the certification authorities accepted the argument that as long as instabilities could be countered by technological means, it would be acceptable.

Let me clarify though, that without MCAS, a responsible pilot would definitely be constrained to a much thinner envelope, but within that thinner envelope, the plane can fly just fine.

The deployment of flaps, also takes the plane out of a regime where MCAS is a factor.

So both legal, and practical precedent for it exists. Given additional training of course.
Just looked up blue light photo toxicity, that is some scary stuff! So is staring at blue light computer monitors all day causing corneal cell death?

How much is this increasing the risk of macular degeneration?
Check out this little country called Afghanistan.

Although, not sure if any Universities specifically have been built there by the West, yet.
> 7 month long PR campaign

While 5G may be a new front in this battle, US suspicion of Huawei goes back a long time -- at least as far back as the Bush administration. The current administration might be antagonistic toward China, but in no sense did they invent the war against Huawei.
Try those companies' sync apps and you'll be back to Dropbox in a hot minute. I once tried to use the OneDrive app and it said my files would take 9 hours to back up, after an hour I gave up and tried Dropbox and it did it in an hour.
China's Huawei, 70 affiliates placed on U.S. trade blacklist
The SEC isn't a lawmaking body; its job is to decide whether somebody is breaking the law as it stands. So there is no question of "before it was illegal" or ex post facto law here: the question is whether cryptocurrencies (or some subset of them that meet specific criteria) are breaking existing law. If the SEC takes this case (or any of several similar ones) to court and wins, that doesn't mean the cryptocurrencies involved have suddenly become illegal: it means they were illegal all along, it just took law enforcement a while to catch them.
I remember understanding people talking but not knowing how to speak when I was very little. I guess I’m a genius
The Berkeley location was also their corporate HQ.

I think 90% of my meals were from GO (with the remaining 10% split between E&J BBQ and Brennan's) when I lived in Berkeley.
Yes. And agreed.

I’m sure whoever came up with the idea got a nice raise.
Grocery Outlet kicks ass. Sure you don't know if you'll find what you wanted , but you'll definitely find something you didn't know you wanted, and at kick-ass prices.
If only it were that easy. If you think this way you're very much part of the problem. People's right to life supersedes right of way. We have to work together to accommodate each other's mistakes and reduce pointless suffering.
Fair point, and an important one!

As we're running out of time we ideally need both to happen, but it's good that green tech is becoming increasingly more financially viable. As a little gem, just about all reports from the SA Tesla battery installation make for simply fantastic reading.
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Genuinely curious...but what chips? Huawei is pretty well vertically integrated, and has been for some time.
Rwanda could be the first country to wipe out cervical cancer
While I totally agree that the pollution sucks when it sucks here, it has been trending better year over year for the past ten years[0], and is lower on the list than the most populous parts of California (including the entire LA area and the entire SF Bay Area) in terms of year-round, short-term, and overall air pollution[1].

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/83hj3v/air...

[1]https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=2452992&itype=CMSI...
Vscode has great Typescript and JS support. Arguably the best of any editor. I still use jetbrains for other languages, it's really hit or miss.
Java seems to have done pretty well, and it didn't have broad stdlib support for asynchronous I/O until a few years ago.
In my experience, syncthing works as advertised, however the UI is a bit of a mess(as many open source projects have).

Especially the android app. The status of what the program is doing at the moment is not communicated very well. The refresh rate for status updates seems to be very low, and so you have connection status being disconnected, then jumps to connected after a few seconds of frustration("why isn't it connecting!!"). Then it sits there at 0% ("whats wrong!), and jumps to 64% after a few seconds, then 99%. Then sits there("is something wrong?"). Eventually it finishes and everything is fine("yay it worked!").

Love the project. Hope they get UI experience down though, as it is the main thing holding it back in my opinion.
Files, other than backups and app data that's only useful for the actual devices, are pretty service-agnostic. All you need to do is to copy over everything to another service and you're up and running.
> Generation 3 reactors have been in operation for decades, proving themselves perfectly safe.

That is just not how it works.
FAANG comes out on top if you reorder that list by market cap instead of revenue.
If you had not been hogging the left lane you would not have been in that situation to begin with. Hence you deserve a ticket.
Seems odd that the article doesn't mention Horizontal Gene Transfer at all. This phenomenon could explain why some archaea encode genes that are common in eukaryotes.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28189637
The syncing is unparalleled because Dropbox does block-level/delta syncing (per 4KB I think?) instead of file-level syncing.
This becomes very readily apparent if you store large variable files on Dropbox vs. another cloud storage service. Change a few KB? Dropbox syncs it in a few seconds, whereas most (nearly all) other services will happily re-upload your entire multi-gigabyte file again and again and again on each edit.
I have been using a self-hosted Seafile[0] instance since 2014 hosted on my Linux server. It's written in Python[1]. I have never had an issue with it. I sync to my desktops, laptops, phones, etc. It works on all major platforms. It has an online browser just like Dropbox too, supports link sharing, WebDAV, etc. Its server-side storage is based on git[2].

I was really impressed with all the upgrades throughout the years. The upgrade scripts that come with their installations which I run on my Linux box are clearly labelled (e.g. 5.1_to_5.2.sh) and run successfully without giving me random obscure messages that you might sometimes expect.

I recommend people check it out to see if it could work for you.

The only downside really is that since it's git-based storage, you can't just specify "this is the directory I want to serve", rather you have to upload everything via Seafile and it will write it out in its git filesystem (which means it's duplicated if you already have a copy on your filesystem.) This is in contrast to OwnCloud[3] I think, which will let you access/serve remote files from their original location.

[0] https://www.seafile.com/en/download/

[1] https://github.com/haiwen/seafile

[2] https://manual.seafile.com/develop/data_model.html

[3] https://owncloud.org/
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Start a slippery slope argument? We're way beyond started. We already have people actively seeking to tie the most mild institutions around to the most vile opinions around any way they possibly can, so that they can ban and silence anyone they disagree with. It's already happening, and only a sincere commitment to freedom of expression for all, even those we disagree with, can stop it.

Have you read the Christchurch manifesto? I have. One of his goals was accelerationism, to actively get more people banned from communication by taking extreme actions, so that they get angrier and driven to more violent actions themselves. And we're playing right into the hands of him and those who think like him by banning and censoring everything in sight.