skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This strikes me as a little disingenuous. Neither IPFS nor DAT are inherently dependent on DNS. If you're referring to HTTP the gateways that lots of people use with both IPFS and DAT in order to host static sites, arguably that's because support for UDP and other useful p2p tools in the browser is experimental! But people still find both IPFS and DAT useful for hosting static files. (libdweb is really exciting by the way: https://github.com/mozilla/libdweb)

From what I can tell, most "serious deployments" of DAT and IPFS are made by people directly using the loose underlying collections of libraries that implement each of them. These people often end up putting together application specific transport and discovery layers that work for their specific application.
>But the way this happens is pretty benign:

That would definitely be how FB describes it...

But the reality is FB had previously been investigated by the FTC for privacy violations and practices, in order to avoid enforcement action, the entered into a settlement agreement with the FTC agreeing not to engage in certain practices, develop new privacy standards and practice and allow 3rd parties to audit their privacy practices regularly...

FB violates that settlment agreement, including but not limited to, scraping email contacts from its users which allowed them to not only get that initial data they were not entitled to but more importantly to them to obtain secondary email address they could link to single users and even emails of non-users to create shadow profiles and buildout their social network through other email contacts. For example I’m not a FB user, you are, they inviolation logged into your email and scaled your contacts, identifying me, and then they build my shadow profile and build my profile from every other user who had me in their contacts.

Probably not benign.
Keep in mind that Navi (RX 5700 series) is out next month and is a new architecture.
Guardian Firewall – The first real firewall for iOS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMD_Global

(I would kill for another silver Nokia E61, but with modern CPU, running mainline Linux, with an unlocked bootloader, and isolated baseband, preferably with open device firmware.)
The greatest power of Syncthing I've found is that once you get two devices to handshake, you're done.

Laptop, meet phone Id, phone, meet laptop Id. Laptop, meet desktop, desktop meet laptop. Oh I've got my server, server meet desktop meet laptop and vice versa.

Want some files to be available on all devices at once? Put it in the Bank Cannister folder which you've set as active for all devices.

Want to drop airdroid or plugging in your phone's internal storage to transfer media files to/from the phone? Setup phone<->laptop<->desktop folder named PhoneMusic and tell the syncthing app to store the contents of that file in the same directory as your already existing music root.

Want off-site backups but too cheap to pay for backblaze like me? Backup to Blu-ray, local external drive, and sync to off-site location (my dad's PC or DO droplet).

And when I say sync, I mean setup the syncing folders then let it background P2P sync on its own time. Eventual consistency might as well be instant for all but 1% of the time where you look for the file then see it written to the 'local' drive before your eyes.
Keys.openpgp.org – Launching New OpenPGP Keyserver
the bitcoin viewpoint is that being backed by energy consumption is a Good Thing. Its harder to manipulate than Proof-Of-Stake or other alternative consensus protocols.

At a larger societal level, we should definitely be worried about tackling emissions for climate change. For this, very few people are advocating getting rid of energy consumption in our societies. Yes, in the short term, people recommend being mindful of the emissions impact of your lifestyle (e.g. a flight has a large carbon footprint) but in the longer scheme of humanity's development we'll always have greater and increasing energy needs.

With that in mind, a lot of focus has been on using non-emissions producing energy (solar, wind, nuclear, etc.) to mitigate climate change. Seen in this context, bitcoin is agnostic to the source of the energy, and its Proof-Of-Work protocol is fine.
> Dropbox still does sync really well and has the best app, in my opinion -- including the only one that works on Linux

That used to be true, but Dropbox decided they no longer wanted that market-advantage.

I’ve uninstalled Dropbox from all my Linux machines because it no longer supports ZFS (or any other file-systems except ext4).
Yes, they all get deleted from Photos; and in Drive they are moved to Trash. They also get moved to Trash on your phone if sync is on. It's also very hard to unlink Drive and Photos. I can't remember how I did it, but I turned off the feature immediately once I found out how useless it is.

This is a good change. There is no reason to sync them to Drive if Photos's underlying storage is not Drive in the first place, which it sounds like it is not.
The ptr::write is needed because the stack vector contains bytes and the code wants to do a pointer cast and write a u64. It could be done in safe Rust with u64::to_ne_bytes and a copy_from_slice or something like that, but since all of this code is extravagantly unsafe anyway, I think it's reasonably clear to Just Do It :)
Web Request and Declarative Net Request: Explaining the impact on Extensions
The CPC will violently crush any attempt to ask for the rule of law in mainland China. If you protest in mainland China you may get Tiananmen Square'd. The authoritarian regime does NOT permit criticism, introspection, or questioning of the CPC regime. Public communication is censored.
This needs to be upvoted more for the consumer.

Last part that's unclear, my Pixel auto uploads to Google Photos -- is that changing? (does anyone know?)
They may have just succeeded...

https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-are-98-sure-they-ve...
I was pretty impressed with Basecamp's. https://basecamp.com/about/policies/privacy
In that first video he states Hong Kong was leased to Britain for 99 years. Not exactly true. Hong Kong Island was seized like Gibraltar. Only the New Territories were leased. (the footage admittedly corrects this).

"The lease consisted of the rest of Kowloon south of the Shenzhen River and 230 islands, which became known as the New Territories. The British formally took possession on 16 April 1899." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Hong_Kong#Growth_and_e...
Show HN: Fern: a curses-based mastodon client
Do you suppose the author of this opinion piece wrote the New York Times' privacy policy?

Edit: some fair counterpoints to me, below. But publishing an opinion piece does not necessarily imply endorsement, and nor does it diminish the author's point(s) one iota.
Someone on HN once left a comment that made it really clear why it is better to "let x guilty men go free than incarcerate one innocent man." A big part of their point: if you put an innocent man in prison, you are still letting a guilty man go free. The real killer is still out there. And you aren't even looking for him because you have announced "case closed."

So this is similar to part of the problem with low value or harmful medical practices proliferating. If you are doing x, you probably won't be doing y. Its use actively excludes the use of better therapies in most cases.

But, worse, biological processes are complicated and there can be critical windows of time for x to happen. If people are ignorant of such a window and how to use it effectively, some people will have dramatically better outcomes than others in a way that promotes the all-too-common perception that it's just random. For medical issues, this can be literally life or death.

Furthermore, use of low value procedures pollutes the data with lousy outcomes. If you don't identify that x treatment is the culprit, then the perception that patients with x condition have yadda prognosis proliferates. This actively promotes poor outcomes by encouraging doctors and patients alike to accept a poor outcome as the norm and to be expected for your condition.

Additionally, once a practice proliferates, it tends to persist. It becomes a habit. Habits are hard to break.

And doctors are people. Most people want to do something, anything rather than doing nothing. For a doctor, doing something, anything is probably less likely to get them sued for malpractice than taking a wait-and-see approach, even if waiting is the wiser move. It's going to be harder to defend the choice to do nothing if it goes to court. It flies in the face of how the human mind works.

It takes substantial education, wisdom and self restraint to do nothing when the problem is your responsibility to fix. Even if you know that's currently the best course of action, it is all too easy to cave in the face of social pressure, especially if you have reason to believe that not going along to get along may come with substantial penalties (like a malpractice lawsuit).

To my mind, the following linked article is related to that last point, but I also wrote it and I've had four hours of sleep. Apologies if it seems unrelated:

https://raisingfutureadults.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-hand-li...
Two women, but yes, agreed - we don't have confirmation on the motives. To be clear for others, that interpretation isn't in the original article. It's only on this hacker news link title.
The Pixel 3A seems like a good fit. Just picked one up and am quite impressed with it so far.
Game of Thrones spoiler ahead:

I am not wild about that name. The Lannisters are the bad guys throughout the run of the GoT story and by later seasons it is revealed that their wealth has mostly wasted away. They are only able to keep up appearances of wealth through taking on large amounts of debt and by looting their enemies. Yes, the single primary characteristic you would assign to the Lannisters is wealth. I am just not sure that is worth associating your product with all their secondary traits like deceit, fraud, selfishness, and ruthlessness.
Your resume gets out there, a recruiter submits you somewhere, trying to get traction. You submit yourself there and now you're attached to a recruiter (and his expenses) that you shouldn't be.
Why don't you use the Apple Photos option that keeps (or syncs back if you don't have it locally) the original file on your Mac and then just do a regular TimeMachine, Arq, rsync backup of the directory from your Mac? I think that's what this feature is for, only downside is that you need the disk space for it but shouldn't be a problem with an external drive.
Arrrgh!

I'm already planning to get off ChromeOS (unscrew the write protect screw!) and Google services, but this takes it one point further.

If they remove this option, they should better integrate Google Photos with Chromebooks. Chromebooks have somewhat buggy Drive integration, but it's there. Android at least have it better, because if you can select files from Drive, you can do the same with Photos. GMail finally has proper integration with it.

I also used the integration to move some photos to Photos, because it is was easy on a Chromebook.

With current resource hungry GMail, Maps and Photos low end Chromebooks are almost unbearable. And that was supposed to be their niche.
I've read some in-depth analysis of AMD's calculation somewhere too, but I forget where. I do remember that the TDP numbers on AMD are closer to maximum power draw.

Never investigated GPUs. One way to find out would be to trawl Anandtech reviews and collect TDP and measured power draw numbers, they always take measurements.
Lannister always pays its debts. Unfortunately, not yours :)
In any case, we have on our roadmap some features such as setting financial goals and financial advice. We have a public roadmap here: https://github.com/orgs/lannister-capital/projects/1 any feedback is highly appreciated
I used bazel on Threadripper and it's much faster there than on a standard lower core machine.
That's a ridiculous misunderstanding of value. Just because you waste valuable resources to produce something doesn't mean the thing you produce is now valuable. If I feed my dog millions of dollars worth of beluga caviar, it doesn't mean his dogshit is now worth millions.

To the degree that bitcoin is valuable today, it's because speculators think somebody else will pay them more for it in the future.
Does anyone from Twitter reading know why (or when) China, Hong Kong and Taiwan were removed as location options for trending news in Twitter?

https://twitter.com/LeoAW/status/1138718391978536960
It’s not highly confidential information. Mostly its to use a machine with adequate ram. Besides I’m using end to end encryption instead of being MITMd by their third party ‘security’ gateway
To be honest, changing the time on a machine is a very serious concern. Accurate timekeeping is crucial in security, that's how you connect events together.
If your machine is slow and inefficient, it needs repair or resources. Fix the machine, don't build a smaller one propped against the side of the garage. A rising tide raises all boats, put your effort towards improving the company by rising the tide.

You are adding redundancy and overhead elsewhere. Now you have 30 people at your company playing account admin, managing passwords and permissions to different platforms. "Oh but it only takes me a couple minute a day" x 30 = a part time admin job.

People tend to ignore succession too. What happens if trains hit people, or they land poorly skydiving, or they move on to another job. Oh they signed up for that critical service with a personal gmail account?

Im not even advocating kitchen sinks in my post, and neither was the article. The article was pretty explicit that there are the two types of projects big and small, and to let small projects be agile, but still keep them visible and sanctioned. They dont need to be shadow projects. You are creating a false dilemma. Its not "either it goes into the kitchen sink or its shadow IT." The machine may very well recognize "hey two other teams are working on variants of this, can you all get together and share notes. We would also like copies of everything you have all learned for when we re-implement this in three years." A good IT rule might be "sure you can sign up for your SaSS service and manage it yourself, but if it supports SSO, we are implementing SSO or you dont get to sign up."

If you need a stop gap temporary project to last you until the ERP is implemented, good management will recognize that and support it as part of a continuous improvement cycle. They might buy something damn well knowing that they already have a plan started to decommission it in two-three years.
It was China Telecom re-announcing the bad routes 
this
 every time.
One could even go down to a slightly modified Gopher protocol. Just let publishers publish in whatever format they see fit (PDF, docx, html, ...) and let the users configure the viewer in their browsers.
So this only applies to 1password.com not the desktop app synced through cloudprovider/filetransfer/whatnot?
AWS is opening a datacentre in SA next year: https://aws.amazon.com/local/africa/
> ProtonMail

How's the imap support or using 3rd party email clients?

XMPP encryption is super janky, and the ecosystem is dying a slow death. Matrix is looking pretty appealing, but it doesn't work that great as a direct messaging platform. I've found that notifications are often delayed and and the UX is focused on the chat room case.

> Google Play Services

that's the easiest, don't use android :)
Matt, long time no talk!

This is awwwwwwesome!!!

I was just the other night telling somebody I wish I had something like this.

Another feature (do you know anything that does this, or if it could be done in timeliner?) is if it could republish my photos to Facebook if it got them from Google Photos, and vice-versa?
Yeah, I did see that I'm just confused how a whole bunch of other valuable DR stuff got GPL'd, but not CP/M.

Also, from past perusing, the GEMDOS sources for the Atari ST were basically a fork of CP/M 68k. There's source in there with comments that go back to CP/M. The relocatable binary format loader, for example. I would be surprised if there weren't pieces that that could be scavenged for this project.
They should have at least added a black guy too if diversity was what they were going for.
My perspective is people committing crimes are similar to persons suffering an illness. We as a society should be approaching both situations the same because that's how we obtain cures and not with the mindset of the current justice system. The justice system is slowing progress similar to if we approached illnesses with the mindset of the justice system.
Ad hominem fallacy: attacks the characteristics or authority of the writer without addressing the substance of the argument.

source: https://medium.com/@fagnerbrack/personal-experience-doesnt-m...
The existing Xboxes and PlayStations already use AMD CPUs.
Meanwhile, the New York Times privacy policy is also enormously long and unreadable. It even links to the Google privacy policies, saying that by reading the NYT you also have to be aware of the Google privacy policies, because the NYT uses both Google Ads and Google Analytics.

https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/115014892108-Priv...
According to (https://www.marketplace.org/2017/05/19/how-much-does-it-cost...), it's above $31,000 per inmate per year (up to $60,000/year). That's $0.000095 per person per inmate per year. Assuming an average of 33 not-executed-but-would-have-been inmates per year, and that they actually live 45 years in jail (because they're not all going to live 90 years there), that's 1,485 inmates at any one time (my math may be wrong).

That works out to about $0.14 per year per citizen, or $0.37 per household (assuming all my math is more or less correct)

I agree with your analysis that it's not a lot of money. I will ponder this.
Sure, it's not a silver bullet, but I suspect the risk model is better understood (post it away from me if geographic region matters, be careful of fingerprints and hair). It also has to be preemptively intercepted, rather than crypto which is recorded forever (if I pay upfront for a year, a bad actor has one shot to intercept, whereas with crypto they can _always_ analyse the transaction history to see if I've slipped up and they can correlate transactions anywhere).

I don't think either gives you an absolute guarantee[1], but cash doesn't have as many subtle pitfalls.

[1] At the end of the day, you have to assume Mullvad isn't compromised _anyway_, so even if they did, it may not help (as you can probably be identified from your traffic)
The identity and fate of Tank Man is generally unknown. If you have information to the contrary, please share it.
Honest question, what about GraphQL is straight forward? As a web developer I've been curious about its hype for a long time but every time I look at its implementation I balk.

I have a lot of experience with JSON-REST APIs and RPC systems like gRPC and they both seem clearly superior (especially in tandem with code generators) where as GraphQL seems like a ton of extra work on the client and server side for little gain. When asked most developers say its because you can limit which fields you query, and I have to politely explain to them the existence of an SQL SELECT query...
>"This is a tactic to stay on the charts and drum-up sales."

Uhm yes it's a business, it's called the "music business" for a reason. What's your point? To my point - Queen is there because there was just a huge biopic movie that won 4 Oscars. There is also an Elton biopic that was just released. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys had a big summer tour planned that was just cancelled. And Bob Seger is currently on tour. That's traditionally how the music business worked - artists toured to sell records in the markets they were playing in. Pink Floyd being on the charts is nothing new either. It's a constant. They have been on the top 200 for Dark Side since it was released in 1973[1]. And it spent decades on the chart before there were any reissues of it.

There is also no shortage of long tail content that sells well to diehard fans but not enough to chart. Visit Rough Trade Records in Brooklyn/London or Amoeba Records in SF or LA if you want to see just how big of a business "specialty" reissues are - most of which will never show up on any charts.

[1] https://www.billboard.com/articles/events/greatest-of-all-ti...
The simplicity of things. If you needed to write a 20 line shell script to solve a problem. That was fine. Today we argue about if tools are production ready. We take the simplest of problems and magnify it 20x. It will need a framework with 100% code coverage and 5,000 github stars, blah, blah, blah. All of a sudden you end up with 10k line of code, CI, CD and a team of 10 people for something 1 person could have rolled out in a day with a shell script.
I believe you. But I think the mistake is here:

> if it is possible to get someone who believes something not-absolutely-factual to examine the foundation of those beliefs.

That's extremely unlikely to happen, especially on the internet, and you can do a lot of damage in the process—especially if the way you go about it isn't obviously distinguishable from simply arguing the opposite side.
Yes, there's certainly a landgrab occurring in this space, and Google is certainly pouring a massive heaping of G-Juice on k8s in order to get in front of the user. In software, controlling the user interface is controlling everything.

Ultimately, it's to their credit, because in some small measure, it counteracts an Amazon-controlled dystopia headed by Galactic Emperor Bezos, so perhaps we should be glad for it. It's just sad that so many systems have to be the collateral damage.
But swarm only has overlay network iirc?

Swarm is great to get simple orchestration going, but it doesn't really do the same thing.

With k8s you can configure multi-point routing, storage backends and load balancing among other things.

With swarm, you get ... Overlay network (which is shit if you actually need to really scale) and 'scaling', which starts n containers of the same service.

Swarm feels more like an mvp which actually works even for small teams. K8s is more like a behemoth which only dedicated personal can fully tame with a silly amount of features most people don't need.

We've used both at my current job for toy projects (self hosted). Never in production however.

And I'm a personal user of gcp - which works wonderfully .. albeit more expensive than simple root servers
tomb seems fine on ios and android. I don't use it though
Nice. Does OpenRPC have any concept of streaming, a la gRPC?
That will depend on the treatment in question. In some cases, the practice is harmful per se. In other cases, it's not harmful per se, but will prevent a better treatment option from being deployed.
> what is life, or intelligent life for that matter?

Dolphins?

> How would we know what we were looking at if we even saw it?

We try very hard not to see it!
How to Avoid Drowning
You assume rehabilitation is always possible or cost-effective. From a utilitarian viewpoint, it might be best to simply rid society of some people forever. I’m not arguing for or against that view, but it’s a possibility. The issue of “free will versus determinism” doesn’t settle the question of capital punishment like you think it does.
I think if not discussed it will always be out of scope.