skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And? Have they ever sent an email to someone not on the service lying and saying, "so and so is trying to connect with you on <Apple Service>"? Have they ever harvested your contacts and then spammed them with ads for your service? Because Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. have. Backing your Contacts up to iCloud so they're on all your devices isn't remotely the same as apps like Facebook and LinkedIn slurping up your contacts for their own use and it's extremely disingenuous of you to imply it's the same thing.
Logistics infrastructure is one major cost factor. To get a data center up and running requires moving large quantities of heavy, high-value, and relatively fragile equipment through ocean ports and over roads and/or railroads. In regions of the world with less quality infrastructure, it's significantly more expensive to transport that stuff.
Oh yay, a new interface to learn. Just what every body asked for, not. Companies do this all the time to justify higher prices. Some times, a well-done piece of software can just go into maintenance mode for a while.

But do you know what I hate about dropbox? Dropping support for most linux filesystems. Seriously, why? That was the one deciding factor for me. I had looked at other options, but that did it. Owncloud does a fine job, and most people at my company like it fine.
You've already hit the nail on the head.

Facebook is providing a friendly user interface to do normal people stuff. To the users who aren't technically sophisticated or haven't thought deeply about any of this, sucking up their contacts and shipping them off to wherever is just not something they would have imagined, let alone agreed to.

And yet they did, at least technically, when they clicked some button saying they had read 40-pages of legalese.
Humidity is a bigger factor than temperature. 90 degrees on the west coast is nice because it's not humid, 90 degrees in Southeast USA is unbearable because it's 90% humidity.

https://www.weather.gov/safety/heat-index
Especially given we know cave paintings from several thousand years ago are relatively intelligible. People hunting bison.
Public transport, like public roads, healthcare and education, are critical to the viability and profitability of almost any other enterprise. As such, it is logical to subsidize them and take profitability out of the equation.

This works very very well for first world Western societies.
A novel druggable interprotomer pocket in the capsid of rhino- and enteroviruses
If you host your data center in Africa, but use cloud services in USA or Europe, the latency is going to kill you and your app will even be slower. So you must be willing to give up using AWS, Azure, GCP, etc. If not, then the title of the talk should be AWS, Azure, GCP should build data centers in Africa, but then it doesn't make sense economically. The article mentioned how Nigerians spend about $60 million a year on outside data centers. VCs won't even invest in a software only startup that will make $60mil a year. Let alone a business like a datacenter that needs physical location, properties, personnel, etc
>it was only posted on Facebook

Not sure how email solves that problem.
I found this map: https://afterfibre.nsrc.org/

There's distinct hubs in West Africa, Southern Africa, and East Africa, but a lack of intercontinental terrestrial connections (there's almost a link across the Sahara, nothing live directly connecting East and West Africa).

From what I can tell, Chad, DRC, and CAR are all not really politically stable, so I don't know how realistic cables running across those countries is.
> One major limitation with the Google Photos API is that it's impossible to get the location data from the photos through it.

Shouldn't jpegs have this data if geoloc was on at the time of shooting ? Am I right in understanding that you imply that this meta-data is somehow disconnected from the file on Google Photos ?
Multi-writer not working, and still requiring hacking workarounds?

This bothers me.

P2P Reddit ( https://notabug.io/ ) has been doing this for over a 1+ year.

All content there updates in realtime too, fully decentralized. (WebRTC or daisy-chained socket relays)

I did not build NAB, but I work on the underlying P2P protocol that powers it ( https://github.com/amark/gun ) which competes with DAT - but I've always recommended DAT to people because I thought it already had working multi-writer apps on it.

Paul, isn't this already possible? You've shown me demos!
"This is where you get poison rocks to put in the rivers of enemies."
I understand this opinion but here is something to consider.

If you are going to execute people for "premeditated aggravated assault leading to injury" (would a high school fight after a football game qualify?),

What keeps people from ramping the crime up into flat out murder? What is the additional negative incentive?
Perhaps we need data from "real" benchmarks, such as SPECCPU2017. Geekbench is merely a toy compared with SpeCPU.
So... you're opining on a service you've never used? I guess you're on the right site for that.
Agreed. Even without going down the philosophical rabbit hole, it should be clear in 2019 that retributive justice is unseemly.
I have an Android One phone. When I take video, it appears only in Google Photos, but cannot be played, says it's processing. Doesn't matter what platform or browser, the video can only be downloaded, not played within Photos.
https://support.google.com/photos/thread/66336?hl=en

Google Photos is terrible. Bad UI. Bad organization. Slow. And useless for videos.
I hate the new website it's so slow. Even the blog took 10s to render, why does a blog need to be flashy, just show some text.
Sorry for been negative, but I liked the simplicity of the old Dropbox: You create a magical folder in a machine, a magical folder in another machine, and they are automatically synchronized using pixie dust or something. I don't want a new social media network.
Google strips it out. As a work around people have been using the "sync to Drive" feature, which allows downloading of photos with the GPS data in-tact. But now that's going away...
>it’s fab.

Given that it's AMD, shouldn't that be "it's fabless"?

I've got a mix of Intel and AMD, and have had no loyalty back to when I replaced my Pentium 75 with a pre-unlocked AMD Duron from OcUK.

I'm so glad to see AMD not only raise its game exponentially, but also force Intel to compete. It's good for everyone.

My next purchase will probably be a Ryzen 5 2600, because the price drop ahead of the 3xxx has made them ridiculous value for money.

Definitely a good time to be a PC gamer.

Slightly frustrating that the integrated graphics 3x00G chips are basically Ryzen 2xxx chips though. I hope the g-range gets a refresh with proper Zen 2-based chips shortly.

WRT "who next", did you see the Chinese AMD custom Ryzen+Vega APU console last year, the Subor Z-Plus, with 8GB GDDR5 as shared system and graphics memory?
> These help a lot to be sure, but the city has gone from having an economy that was almost a third of the mainland's in 1993, to a fifth at the handover, to less than 3% today.

That is because of China's growth, not Hong Kong's loss. China was just way way behind in 1993.

> The idea that rights and liberties are absolutely essential is a nice bedtime story we can tell ourselves, but if there weren't multiple paths towards economic development, then China would never have risen to the current level.

Frankly, just being able to access gmail without using a flaky VPN is a huge boon to many when doing international business.
China has pioneered biometric measurements of people on things other than face, like gait, so also, maybe wear a single platform shoe :)
That's exactly our gsuite workflow. Support technicians take pictures on their phones and we use synology cloud sync to backup the Photo folder on Google Drive to our the home folder on our file server.
Pretty well written piece for a an intro to this issue. Same issue with cookie acknowledgements. Some important quotes:

“These are documents created by lawyers, for lawyers. They were never created as a consumer tool,” Dr. King said.

"The BBC has an unusually readable privacy policy. It’s written in short, declarative sentences, using plain language. "

The BBC example shows that it is possible to write a readable policy, if a company cares to.
A good example of how far the situation came is described here: https://abovethelaw.com/2010/06/do-lawyers-actaully-read-boi...

>Judge Posner at ACS panel: For my home equity loan, I got 100s of pages of documentation; I didn’t read, I just signed. #ACS10 #Posner #LOL
These cannot run at the same time as the output of one feeds into another one. Data travelling from one core to another could mean additional performance loss. Some plugins use multiple cores if whatever they calculate can be parallelised, but still the quicker it can be done the more plugins you can run in your chain.
> AMD chip at 105w (and AMD give real tdp), while the Intel chip is at 185w (and Intel give tdp in non turbo mode).

Both AMD & Intel list TDP for all cores used at base clock frequencies. The major difference is Intel heavily leverages what they call all-core boost to never actually run at their base clock, allowing them to list rather ridiculously low base clock frequencies. For example the i9-9900K's base frequency is listed at 3.6ghz, but the all-core turbo frequency is a whopping 4.7ghz. That difference is how you end up with a CPU that expects a whopping 210W of sustained power delivery (the 9900K's PL2 spec) even though its TDP is only 95W.

AMD doesn't (didn't?) have an all-core boost concept, so their base clocks are just higher, making their TDP number closer to real-world. But still technically base-clock numbers and not boost numbers, and so you will still see power draw in excess of TDP.
> Why would it not be possible to use multiple cores?

Because the software doesn't do it (much; I've been told some applications do time-delayed mixing for stuff like delay) and the software is entrenched.
I helped build an analytics platform that served more than millions of events. Nothing about it is really difficult until you scale heavily.

The tl;dr - It's not worth your time / energy to build from scratch at this scale. Leveraging an existing standard like the analytics.js spec [1] makes web analytics very easy and quick to get started. With this approach you just have to add one JS snippet to your website and never need to update it in your code. If you are interested in the internals, you might enjoy digging deeper into the spec to understand why it was designed this way.

Two services that implement this spec are Segment [2] and MetaRouter [3] [full disclosure: I helped build the product that became MetaRouter at a previous job]. They have different target audiences and pricing models but both are worth a look.

You can think of these types of services as a meta analytics service that routes your events to destination analytics services and data stores of your choice. The great thing about using the standard is you can benefit from all of the many integrations that have already been created with various analytics services, databases, data warehouses, etc [4]. These destination catalogs can also help you decide what services to explore and try next as you need more advanced features.

To get started with a meta analytics service, in the management dashboard, just add your API keys and config values for each service. For a simple service like Google Analytics this is literally just one simple key to copy and paste.

As far as adding custom even monitoring to your site, within the analytics.js spec, first, you mainly want to be concerned with the Track call [5] which is a way to say for an arbitrary event e.g., ProductAddedToCart, I would like to attach this JSON object of properties e.g., a product name and price.

And finally, user info like name, email, IP, etc are handled by Identify [6]. You can add custom fields too (traits on an identify are ~= properties to a track event but less transient).

Going with an existing standard and SaaS-based approach will save a ton of time and engineering effort.

[1]: https://segment.com/docs/spec/

[2]: https://segment.com/

[3]: https://www.metarouter.io/

[4]: https://segment.com/docs/destinations/

[5]: https://segment.com/docs/spec/track/#example

[6]: https://segment.com/docs/spec/identify/#example
We only know one system that "worked", and thus may have a biased view of what conditions can create advanced life.

The article mentions "toxic atmospheres", but oxygen was toxic to 99% of the existing life when it first started increasing on Earth. Life switched strategies to use it instead of choke on it. "Toxic" is relative. The other factors you mentioned may have similar issues.

Some bacteria can thrive under high radiation because they have four nuclei and related error correcting. It costs some energy to have that feature, but that's not a show-stopper to the critter.
Where are you that it would be that much of a problem, if you don't mind me asking?

Cultural normals are one thing, but on a personal level people do tend to enjoy interacting with one another.
https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://...
I've almost entirely de-Googled, with the one straggler being YouTube. There just aren't viable competitors. I pay for YouTube premium to get rid of the ads while still paying for usage (combined with all the tracker blocking I can reasonably do), but man that $12/month is crazy. I don't care about youtube music, youtube gaming, or any of their other "value"-add junk so it's an increasingly hard pill to swallow. I just want an ad-free plan. $8/month was much more tolerable in that respect. Hell, why doesn't Google offer a Google-wide tracking / ads opt-out plan? With their reach they could probably set up a plan wherein sites with google ads get a kickback of a subscription in exchange for not displaying ads. I'd be willing to bet Google would make more money off of me if they did that.

The other product I gave up recently was Fi. It was a hard thing to give up because if you can use it then it's really the best service out there for most. What ended up kicking me there was the paltry phone support (only token support for iOS, which I switched to, and only a handful of android devices). When I found out I could get a T-mobile plan through work that offers all of the functionality I want (though some things are gimped in comparison) for a price that, while high, was at least tolerable.
Why not use an open source app like Syncopoli (which is a rsync client, available on F-Droid) to back up your pictures (including location and other metadata) and other files on your phone to your rsync server, which would be your own computer or VPS?
What do you mean by leapfrog?
Team of American Hackers and Emirati Spies Discussed Attacking the Intercept
When I read this title, I immediately assumed they were eliminating the "free unlimited ("high quality") photo storage for android users". I expected this because recent advertising for the Pixel 3A explicitly advertised that as a feature - so I thought it might be going away for non-pixel-owners.

Instead, after reading the article, I am just confused. I have no idea which photos are on drive and which are on photos - are they going to count double towards my used storage?

Regardless, I'm happy to have all my photos backed up elsewhere. And maybe this is the last piece of motivation I need to finish setting up a self-hosted cloud - storage is certainly cheap enough.
My objections are thus:

1) Facebook uses any info I put into their platform to create a centralized, indexed, searchable, public database of people. This is dangerous for a lot of reasons, but notably in the vagaries of Facebook’s privacy settings (which seem to get reset every so often).

2) Facebook allows advertisers to target using a huge number of selection criteria. This allows advertisers to target some very specific — and vulnerable — groups in a way that is creepy at best. See also how the GOP was easily able to target specific racial cohorts in tight districts to spread FUD — the same tactics also work outside of politics when trying to sell things.

3) Machine learning outside of Facebook’s control makes it trivial to connect social media accounts to other activity the user may perform on the Internet — and thus connect that semi-anonymous online content to their real world relationships (e.g. the database of porn actresses linked to their Facebook profiles)

This collection of user data is Facebook’s entire business. The whole corporate bureaucracy is set up to protect this database and its data collection activities. You can’t have Facebook without it. So in a word, a lot of people object to Facebook’s entire business model — it’s just most people weren’t aware what that model asked them to give up until recently.
I used to use google photos. But then, I found that it was building facial profiles of every one in my pictures, and creating "albums" thereof. I didn't ask for that, and it's creepy as all get-out. Good-bye, google photos.
They're pitching Internet censorship with criminal sanctions, all because someone slightly slowed down a video of Nancy Pelosi? No, I think the most likely scenario is that some seriously damning footage exists of key political players, and all their patsy NGOs are trying to pre-prime public perception to be able to dismiss anything that threatens their narratives as fake.

This is some true 1984 shit justified by the premise that people are too lazy to think for themselves and that the technocrats must maintain full monopoly over the "truth."
Credit Union Times on Loans for All
Dropbox seems to have prioritized enterprise customers and de-prioritized consumers as customers. Most consumers would need a solid storage and sync solution, and nothing more. So you’re likely not the target customer any longer.
Also noteworthy on Compaq compatibility with PC... Compaq came out with an 80386 PC-compatible before IBM did. As did at least one other company around the same time, IIRC (ALR?).

I don't know the reason IBM was beat to the punch on 386, and maybe HN knows. My first guess is that they were working on all the changes for launching the PS/2 series (e.g., different bus). There was also IBM's PC/RT (before the RS/6000), and I guess maybe they thought they'd move away from x86 and all the clones.
I'm in Los Angeles where we have Lime scooters all over the place. It's not rare, it's been a daily occurrence.

I can care about more than one thing at a time. Human refuse in my streets is a problem I deal with, and so is dockless transit.
Don't know about girls specifically, but I recall having seen images of something like 4-5 cops hitting one protestor in a similar manner.

Our police force is significantly more violent than the German one, and I think the English one as well.
Different workloads have different IPC characteristics. A generalized benchmark like this doesn't really give any guidance on how fast a single core would be for audio processing.

But, as another person mentioned, this benchmark wasn't run at the full boost clock for the 3950X, assuming this isn't a faked result entirely.

Please excuse my lack of experience with audio processing, but...

What you're describing about the output of one plugin being fed into the input of another is analogous to unix shell scripts piping data between processes. It actually does allow parallelization, because the first stage can be working on generating more data while the second stage is processing the data that was already generated, and the third stage is able to also be processing data that was previously generated by the second stage.

Beyond that, if you have multiple audio streams, it seems like each one would have their own instances of the plugins.

So, if you had 3 streams of audio, with 4 different plugins being applied to each stream, you would have at least 12 parallel threads of processing... assuming the software was written to take advantage of multiple cores.

If the software is literally just single threaded, there's nothing to be done but to either accept that limitation or find alternative software.

EDIT:

AMD claims that their benchmarks show that the 3900X is faster at Cinebench single threaded than the Intel 9900K. (https://images.anandtech.com/doci/14525/COMPUTEX_KEYNOTE_DRA...) The 3950X has a higher boost clock, so it should be even faster.

I really think you should really wait until you see audio processing benchmarks before making dramatic claims like "It looks like I wouldn't be able to run my chain in realtime on this new AMD" based on a -3% difference in performance on a leaked benchmark of a processor that isn't even running at the full clockspeed. How can you be so sure that a 3% difference would actually prevent you from running your "chain" in realtime? But, based on the evidence available, the chip should do 9% better than the recorded result here (4.7GHz actual boost divided by 4.3GHz boost used in the benchmark), reversing the situation and making the Intel chip slower. Suddenly the Intel chip is inadequate?! No, I really don't think so. Even though Zen 2 seems like it will be better, I feel more confident that even a slower chip like the 9900K would be perfectly fine for audio processing.
The New York Times is as bad at privacy as anyone. Here is their policy:

https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014892108-Priv...

They make extremely illegitimate claims about "needing" to collect your personal information to provide their "services". Which is absolutely untrue since they're a newspaper you could read completely anonymously with zero degradation to experience (except where they've deliberately hobbled that option).
There are no official OneDrive client for Linux.
If you follow a16z podcasts or their blogs, you’ll see they too doing quite a bit of this :-)

https://a16z.com/posts/
No.

If you witnessed murders at the same rate you see them on television it would be like a nuclear war, we would all be dead in 30 minutes or so.
> I find it very useful to take a picture on my phone and then have it magically appear in my desktop file system later.

I setup a Syncthing app on my phone and aimed it at my photos folder on my device. Once I connected it to the syncthing on my computer, it p2p securely syncs them over the internet, resulting in the same magic effect.

My old alternate to that is Onedrive which has a Camera Upload feature in its app that uploads your photos to a Photos folder in your onedrive which you can have synced to a local folder on your computer.

Same result either way, one is p2p and Open Source, the other is proprietary.
> Ultimately AMD fumbled with the Bulldozer/Excavator lines of CPUs

I've heard this baseless assertion before but so far I've never heard any semblance of support. Why do you believe that AMD "fumbled" with their Bulldozer line?
That looks really interesting, but apparently they are terrible at picking names. Their website talks about ICP (Internet Computer Protocol). Searching for this leads to the identically abbreviated (and apparently already well established) Internet Cache Protocol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Cache_Protocol).
I must lack imagination! I cannot figure out what the ROI is if one codes stuff to randomly submit crap to forms.
That's the difference between then and now. Then you had to go to all this effort just to surveil an American ambassador. Now the President of the United States carries a consumer-grade device made in China and running an ancient version of Android around in his pocket.
I guess you’ve never interacted with a large fraction of people that are typically committing violent crimes. A lot of them are these brutish unhinged characters, with low IQ. They are mentally defective, you can either lock them away for the rest or their life (more humane) or kill them (generally frowned upon). There is no way to rehabilitate them.
One of the limitations of the justice system: we cannot punish all people who do bad things, only those who have been caught and we can obtain the evidence against.
Isomorphic/SSR Application Stack for RiotJS