skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When my internet connection slows down, I just run Speedtest once or twice. My providers detect that and restore the bandwidth they’d been stealing.
I find it interesting that you picked the Saudi flag to represent the Arabic language.
we use Google drive it has "small packages" 100 200 GB that are really cheap.
The title should have indicated the article was from 2018 and properly quoted the articles title.
People lie on their resumes. I got tired of doing double duty as a developer and the “AWS Architect” and was finally able to get a req to hire someone. Plenty of people came in with certifications and “experience” up the wazoo but couldn’t answer simple architectural questions.
I can't help but feel you are dancing around the question, and are not really comfortable with the direct outcome of your stance, which is: You are arguing that killing innocent people is OK sometimes. You don't really seem willing to examine that head-on.

If you are uncomfortable with and unwilling to examine the consequences of your stances, consider that that may mean you know on some level that they do not hold up.
I think I just googled `docker matrix-puppet-hangouts` (seems to be second link in my results), but I googled a lot of stuff :)
edit: Polar ice caps are already floating in the sea, so they will not effect sea level as much by melting - the volume is already accounted for. The problem is that the sea ice caps reflect a ton of energy that allow ice to form on land. Melting land ice has a different effect on sea level rise.

All I could find on short notice was related to Antarctic Ice cover, this article from NASA does a good job of explaining why the two are not directly correlated in the immediate term - it seems that "One of the main things we learned was that as grounded ice retreats inland, the bedrock under it lifts up elastically,"

The author goes on to say "Although this sounds like good news, the scientists say it's important to keep it in perspective. "It's like a truck traveling downhill that encounters speed bumps in the road," said Larour. "The truck will slow down a bit but will ultimately continue down the hill" - just as the ice sheet will continue to melt and sea level will continue to rise."

From https://sealevel.nasa.gov/news/161/antarcticas-effect-on-sea...

For actual numbers: https://sealevel.nasa.gov/
I do it all the time... on Twitter and Reddit.

In real life I would never even look at eyes of a stranger.

Probably some people here can relate.
18086 frames of Game of Thrones analyzed with computer vision
You may enjoy the Naomi Klein book, "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate". It's about halfway through the list.
Does anyone else see "work in progress" at the top of the page?
Because the vast majority of the earths history has been without ice on the poles. Obviously this will force changes on humans no doubt.

However, trying to shoehorn this natural fact into a political / carbon-credit trading scheme is deeply cynical that is apparent to most >100 IQ people.
That has no bearing on if the claim is falsifiable or not.
> I guess if some country tells us not to use Microsoft because they spy for USA then GCHQ would tell us about their incompetence too. And maybe actual spying?

Right this is their job and this is the first time they have done it, whats not to get?
I just want my files backed up and sync’d across device.

iCloud changes look promising. May be time to ditch Dropbox. If only Apple would have a good app on Linux and let me run Mac OS time machine into iCloud.
From IPFS: You don't. As long as a connected node is hosting the file, it will be available to other peers. For a file where a single host is "pinning" a file (= purposfully hosting the file), it will fade out organically once it leaves the caches of all the nodes that accessed it once.

From IPNS: You point the IPNS entry to something nonsensical and then by default it will be gone once the TTL of the old IPNS entry is reached (kind of like DNS).
Whenever I'm wearing my IT hat at work, a big part of it is being a detective looking for clues that somebody, somewhere, is about to do this. Then I can insert myself into that process. It would be preferable to be included in the beginning, but one must work within the reality of the situation.
Physical libraries lending books are much more protected by first sale doctrine than any other legislation. There are some additional rights for libraries/archives at both the federal and (in some cases) state level but it's very far from a carte blanche to replicate and freely distribute copyrighted digital content.
Ask HN: Personal Highs and Lows in a Co-Working Office Environment?
What are your personal highlights and lowlights when working in a co-working space? Please qualify your comments (duration, frequency, etc).

Note: this question is intended for people who are currently working in, or have worked in the past, a co-working, "flexible office" environment.
I do believe that it would be norm in near future.
You can store photo and video for some time (for legal purposes mostly) but after that you would need to either obtain consent of everyone on them, remove the photo or edit it (replace real people with computer generated ones).
The tech for the latter is basically already here.
Yes.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/28/congress_approves_s...
Citations on wild predictions in past not being correct?
>A full investigation by whom?

The scientist seeking to determine if it is falsifiable. That no scientist has the resources necessary to do so now does not have bearing on determining if some claim is falsifiable or not.
Dropbox is the worst offender of feature creep I know. Why would I possibly want to create new files in Dropbox?
Encrypted messaging apps are trending in Hong Kong
Severity is part of what is meant by unusual. Life imprisonment for a minor crime would be considered unusual punishment.
If this has been debunked I would like to know and stop repeating it, can you provide links?
The reference was to no more permanent ice in the Arctic. Arctic ice floats. Floating ice displaces its mass in seawater. When it melts, it becomes fresh water, displacing roughly the same volume of seawater as it did before, so minimal change in sea level. The main problem with loss of arctic ice is that water absorbs much more sunlight than ice, contributing to a positive feedback loop.

The Greenland ice sheet, and Antarctic ice are a completely different story. Their melting will raise sea levels directly.
According to Wikipedia, Namecoin uses proof-of-work just like Bitcoin, and is therefore very energy-intensive / an environmental disaster. Therefore I could not support Namecoin even if it works perfectly as you say it does. We're going to need a more environmentally-friendly solution to decentralizing DNS.
US military does this as well (shorter duration). The reason is so that people are loyal to the role, not the person.
Stellar Meridian
To me it reads like this - VP didn't care about the consequences of utilizing their solution and didn't care about IT; they simply wanted their stuff done, without acknowedgling prioratization of tasks.

The proper way this could have been resolved is by VP utilizing people's skills they've hired. Does this solution look good and will accomplish the task that was prioritized? Excellent! Pass it to IT to evaluate. If the task has specification - excellent, have somebody in IT look for a product that ticks all the boxes and let's choose it together.
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In all fairness, one of these guys organizes trips to North Korea. It's not like they were making themselves inconspicuous.
About technical interview questions :

I am not against it at all. It opens the conversation to some technical aspects that can be very intersesting to talk about.

As a candidate I love getting technical in interviews because It allows me to see how my prospective manager thinks. If we have radically different ways of taking care of a technical problem it's a red flag for me.

In the same area, I like the "let's talk about your last project" question too.

So, I've had my share of technical interviews and here what I observed :

I am usually unable to produce good software when the specs I'm supposed to use are not precise enough. I don't mean not complete enough. I mean not precise enough.

Be it on the job or in interviews I seriously question the ability of some interviewers to produce good technical interview questions.

By good I mean precise, using the right vocabulary.

I do not mean complete. You can knowingly give an incomplete spec to the candidate to see what kind of questions he/she would ask to try and get the whole picture. (or if he/she goes head first into an unsolvable problem)

But the details that are given need to be explained in precise terms. Not in a shadowy weird dialect based on a model that only the interviewer understand.

I've had my share of technical interviews and most of my fail attempts at live coding were due to (my lack of skill but also) questions not precise enough or misusing technical terms (sometimes even not grammatically correct questions).

The latter usually make me feel awkward because I wonder if those interviewers simply lack the minimum intelligence to explain a simple feature with precise words.

Good engineers I have worked with always use precise words to describe precise concepts. Using wrong or imprecise vocabulary is proof of a lack of understanding of the job and/or a will to try and sound "smart" or "tech-savvy" to compensate for some kind of inferiority complex.

So maybe a good advice to interviewers would be : technical questions on interviews yes. But good technical questions.
Some cities do. Denver has Denver B-cycle, and they are giving out 5280 free annual passes this year (not sure if they do this every year). The non-free option is still a fraction of the costs of the for-profit private companies. There are also a plethora of e-scooter brands though and I see them more often than bikes.

Boston has Bluebikes (e: seems like it's a partnership with Motivate?), also pretty cheap. A lot of people I knew in Boston had some kind of discounted rate through their employer where they got unlimited complimentary 30-minute rides.
Al Gore has made the claim multiple times:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ice-caps-melt-gore-2014/

e.g. in 2007:

Their latest modelling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years. Professor Wieslaw Maslowski told an American Geophysical Union meeting that previous projections had underestimated the processes now driving ice loss.
The blog has a loading icon? It took 10-15 seconds to render for me.

Anyone else think this client-side app trend has gotten in the way of recognizing a great case for a server-side render (or even a cached page)?
Same. It isnt as nice as Dropbox as there doesn't seem to be any linux support, so I use Grive running as a cron job.

It does run on ZFS though. I never realised Dropbox didn't. I guess that puts to rest that ocasssional nagging thought that maybe it would be worth the extra £8 or so to move to Dropbox.
Noone cares about earths history. Earth will be fine. Nature will adapt.

What we care about is that all of industrialized human civilization has been with polar ice caps...
> and they punish users for blocking it with an 8-second loading delay

Google and the other search engines don't show AMP links if you have JavaScript disabled because it is impossible to prerender them without JavaScript, so you shouldn't even see AMP links without JavaScript. This criticism is nonsensical.

> Google doesn't have a right to damage/destroy the Web or take control away from publishers so that Google can compete with Facebook and Apple

The publishers get to decide if they want to integrate with Facebook, Apple, and all the AMP caches. The former two they have less control over because they only go to one company and don't have open governance.

> Publishers don't want AMP

They want the first two even less, but I don't see anybody complaining about that. As I said earlier, the problem for publishers is that users demand instant loading. AMP at least lets the publishers control analytics, ads, A/B testing, etc.

But we've gotten way off track again. Users demand instant loading pages. How do you solve it? Would you rather have Google require the publishers directly integrate with them as Apple and Facebook have done and not allow other link aggregators to benefit? Users also like RSS, which takes even more control away from publishers, does not allow above-the-fold loading optimizations for users, and has a much less rich experience, but nobody here has ever complained about RSS.
I wish OWC made an updated ministack (https://www.owcdigital.com/products/ministack) that supported Thunderbolt and had a built in PSU.
The whole thing looks like something out of the 80s. Like a bad VCR science video that you know still gets played when it comes time for the kids to learn about atoms.
The majority of Earth's history made it a completely uninhabitable place for humans. Seems like it would be in our combined best interest to prevent it from becoming that way again.
What could be the best alternative to Dropbox?
Sounds somewhat similar to GDPR, does it ?
Yea it definitely just the fear of striking up a conversation rather than an individual not wanting to have a conversation. If someone were to speak to me I would not be opposed but me starting the interaction is whole different story.
You forgot to link your citation.
What are the best alternatives to Dropbox?

Is google drive better?
I don't think that's really a given: The product of our past evolution doesn't necessarily represent our current needs and interests. More muscle mass is costly to maintain, which could have been unwanted in food scarce environments; living long lives might be evolutionary irrelevant past reproduction age...

Think about teeth for an obvious example: The body is able to grow them, and some animals do it constantly - yet losing our adult teeth (due to aging, accidents or whatever else) does not cause us to grow new ones. It would be hard to dispute that growing a replacement tooth would be beneficial to a person in our current context and lifestyle, but evolution has not reached that conclusion.

Edit: Replying also to your second phrase (the message I'd be giving to my potential children) - I don't really see why, if current research points to minimal to no dangers for short term use (about as harmful as light alcohol consumption), I should be treating it as such a big deal. If anything, I think it would be a positive lesson that they should make adult choices for themselves by taking appropriate steps to be informed about the pros and cons of it.
You maybe eat a credit card every week
I still can't get over Dropbox's ugly color scheme and aesthetic.
I have designed one for 500 dashboard users and various other requirements. My advise would be to get a cheap SQL compliant database that does not require a lot of maintenance (if you can afford buy a cloud one). Then for the analysis part the quickest thing to do is use Jupyter + SQLAlchemy. You can also use a dashboarding tool, there are many, to connect to the database, but I think with Jupyter you can ask more interesting questions that require more blending or transformations. That's it, you'll grow from here in the coming months and years, but if you over engineer analytics at the beginning you'll most likely get tired of it and stop doing it at some point.
Can elaborate more on the practical benefits of encrypted memory? Presumably this is mainly good for multi-user systems? On the average single-user system it seems that if you can already read memory there are 1000 other possible exploits that are cheaper / easier to perform (ie. keylog, screen capture, etc).
link is not working..
I lean heavily towards giving people the freedom to do what they want, but in 'private' and without burdening public life of others. If people want to light up or shoot up, so be it. But I think a community must have ways to discourage or push people out of the public sphere who practice unwelcome and unsocial behavior. The gov't fully feeding, clothing, and sheltering large groups of addicts is impractical and unviable in most/all places.
> Dropping support for file systems outside ext4.

Out of curiosity, why does Dropbox even need to care what the filesystem is?
One example: Made comments as a young man on subjects, now don't agree with them. Or they can cost me the job.

Insulted Putin, or China, or MBS and now I need to go to their country
It was originally published in the The Seattle Post-Intelligencer in a series of articles about Gates leaving Microsoft. The email itself was discovered in a trove of internal email messages Microsoft had to turn over as evidence during an anti-trust suit.

https://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an...
So we can relax for three years before we have to do anything?
Science Uprising
Generating Diverse High-Fidelity Images with VQ-VAE-2
No amount of individual behavioral changes are going to cut it. The entire economy needs to be transformed. Does anyone seriously believe the people who control the economy will just let this happen?
Greek research team has created the world’s fastest RAM
Hey now, you managed to be the first state to pass ranked-choice voting for state and federal elections back in 2016; here in Massachusetts we're jealous that we only might manage to bring it up for a vote or ballot initiative this year. :)
If someone could give some more information, I'm very interested in this. I always assumed this was taking place, but I'd love to hear from someone involved or with knowledge of that industry. Who do ISPs sell it to? What type of money is involved?
It's kind of amusing you spend a lot of time trying to define the work precise. =) I understand what you mean though.

Have you ever considered that part of this is hoping that interviewees will ask questions seeking more precision? A lot of times on the job, you don't get such precision. There are unknowns you have to answer for yourself, and sometimes the right questions are more important than the technical approach.
"I don't understand how these people sit down to dinner with their kids," Anderson said, "because they're not stupid people."

I have a hard enough time teaching my kids about the seasons and polar bears when many of these things won't exist by the time they're teenagers.
> and she is not seen as smart by a large portion of the public.

Seems like there is a lot of that going around.
+2.5C increase will render earth uninhabitable? Or will it upset insurance coverage of high dollar coast lines?
I think talking about Earth history is misleading or trying to distract from the problem.

Sure Earth climate was worst 4,5 billions years ago, however Earth capacity to support the life of billions human is and will be severely impacted, and this is was matter for us, mere mortals.
I think his four years is too fast but I also don't think we can totally destroy the planet (aside from nuclear destruction). We know too much and have too much technology. Some (small?) fragment of civilization will survive while the earth recovers. For example, methane has a half life of seven years so it will take some time.

The more immediate threat seems to be around food and water. The Ogallala Aquifer is drying up quickly and we will have a new Dust Bowl.[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/08/vanishin...] Considering how much food for the US and the world comes from here there is going to be massive starvation. It just seems like this planet can only infinitely support around 4B people. We have too many now but population is slowly starting to tilt back.

We also need to understand that constant growth is toxic. Both for our planet in population and as a driver for business and profits. I think this planet will be quite different as automation continues to accelerate and as we start using all of our resources in a sustainable and non-destructive way. I am very curious to see how this plays out over my lifetime.
> Because the vast majority of the earths history has been without ice on the poles.

Yeah but the majority of human history has been with ice on the poles.

We might have to reorganize a lot of things (agricultural practices, national borders, location of cities, ...) if that changes.
This will fail. Drop.io (acquired by Facebook) was the model they should have pursued. I need an environment to share info with clients and this isn't that.
It isn't hard to imagine that the recent occurrence of mysterious illnesses at US and Canadian embassies (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17891427) may be related to this. Perhaps they are activating or experimenting with some new type of device. Given that the Theremin type of device confounded detection for years we probably won't actually know for a while.
I thought that it did now. For example this PR: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/pull/3020

Edit: Also, see this PR: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/pull/371
that is the name of their company blog i think...
The social cancer of your former governor and your reputation among the uneducated for being the Alabama of New England is a good thing in the long term.

One of the nice things about Maine is that it's a fairly progressive state with very tolerant people but without the cultural tendency for busybody and authoritarian tendencies that make the southern half of New England pretty crappy and expensive for the middle class. If you lose that reputation you will be inundated (more so than you currently are) with upper-middle class Massholes fleeing the cost of living they voted into existence and they will repeat their pattern of behavior in your state.

I say this as a Masshole who's lived in all but two of the New England states. You are far better off having people from elsewhere think you are all backwards hicks and being wrong than not thinking that and being right. Let them come, spend their money vacationing, admire the scenery, express disdain for the "backwards" locals and leave. Do not be a place people want to move to, it will not be good for you. Just ask Colorado if you don't believe me.

That said you people need to learn to drive with some urgency, especially on the state highways.

Edit: Why is this flagged? Are my observations of the social/political situation in New England that inconvenient?
I highly recommend the book The Equations of Life: How Physics Shapes Evolution[0] . While we don't have a clear understanding of what other types of life are possible, we can look at the empirical evidence of all the conditions on Earth where life has failed to succeed (temperature limits, water viscosity, etc) and the convergence of where it has, combined with fundamental constraints of elements in the period table, the universal laws of physics, the most common distributions of elements around stars, etc, to at least make reasonable claims that dramatically different forms of life, while not impossible, are much less likely than the forms we have here.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Equations-Life-Physics-Shapes-Evoluti...
Been using BitWarden since I stopped using LastPass (lost my 10 year old vault) anybody know of any good reviews of all the different types of password managers that go into the security flaws / considerations?
Straightening out chiropractic’s claim as a treatment for autism