skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how is this even hard to understand?

I think you need more practical life experience to understand why you are wrong.

> You are 40, now exonerated. You have no friends, no skills, no job, no money. You are a failure. It's unfixable. You are likely to commit suicide.

That was me at 40. I didn't go to prison. I got sick. Lost everything and had to start over. And 15 years later life is okay.

Friend mentioned his college professor. He fled the Nazi's and went to Argentina. And then had to flee again to the US. Each time he started over with _nothing_.
I can choose not to buy magnets and chocolate eggs.

I can’t choose not to buy poison in the US (“organic” foodstuff is an expensive bandaid)
Fund managers are overwhelmed by data, & they're turning to an unlikely source
what in the goddamned hell are you talking about
Thanks for the support. Outbank looks like a great app. With Lannister we would like to make sure that the data is not available to a third party by focusing on security and making the code auditable by anyone. This leads to less features or integrations being supported but it also provides a more secure environment. Nevertheless we will work hard to add more features that make managing your personal finance and wealth easier.
To my understanding this is already available at many public libraries.
Does anyone know if Photos is actually profitable for Google or is it just a loss leader to get people on the Google platform? It's really hard to understand how they can support a service that allows unlimited photo uploads. Makes me wonder if they will need to charge for it someday in the future.
Is this actually true, though?

To figure that out, you'd need to do a speed test to the target host, then do another one while simultaneously running Speedtest.

Your Internet speed is also affected by the peering agreements your ISP has, i.e. how "well connected" it is to the ISP of your target host. Speedtest targets (and Fast.com) are pretty well-connected; i.e. they have a lot of peers, so you can get to them in relatively few hops. Many times, they're even run by your ISP, so the number of hops is minimal.

I've noticed there's a big difference in both bandwidth and latency based on the network my requests actually go out on (from my university Internet connection). For some reason, the Univ. of Cal. Network > Commercial ISP > Internet2. (Not sure why Internet2 sucks so much, but it seems really slow for some reason.)
> This just seems like they are trying to do too much. I can’t see the strategy...

I work at a place with enterprise O365. When you've got things like Teams, well, you might argue that Teams isn't as good as Slack, you think Dropbox is a bit better than OneDrive, and so on, but it's really hard to argue paying for all those things is worth it when you've got something that e.g. lets you record your Teams meeting, run it through voice recognition, and turn it into a OneNote transcript to sit alongside your repo of project docs for the same meeting.

Sometimes well-integrated solutions are more than the sum of their parts, and that's the problem Dropbox is facing.
How many of those which occur after a jury trial have "collapsed into execution of political enemies and the establishment of a totalitarian state"?
> Is it really an unreasonable ask of a reporter who is focused on privacy to also be willing to research the practices of the website that hosts them?

While not mentioned in the article's text, the New York Times does feature as a data point: https://i.imgur.com/uaOqPod.png

And the article ends with the NYT's own message: "Like other media companies, The Times collects data on its visitors when they read stories like this one. For more detail please see our privacy policy and our publisher's description of The Times's practices and continued steps to increase transparency and protections."
The author should visit the trailer parks of central Florida.

My grandparents sold a beautiful home in Wisconsin to move into a dilapidated retirement community run by a tyranical HOA. They are too proud to admit it, but it has financially ruined them and my family is now having to adjust our budgets in order to plan on supporting them once their finances run dry.

It is no ones fault but their own, but unfortunately they are old and mentally incapable of making informed financial decisions, while legally being entirely in control of their finances.

My grandmother also has severe dementia and an active drivers license, but that is an entirely seperate conversation.
Creating an AI can be five times worse for the planet than a car
Software is probably the worst example of something long lasting. You need the entire environment that it's designed to run in for it to be useful at all. Even trying to run software from 30 years ago is only easy where we've intentionally preserved or recreated the tools to run it, eg emulators or virtual machines.
if you could park them on the road it wouldn't take space on the sidewalk. I do not want these docks, nobody using scooters or bikes want these docks.
Not GDPR-compliant, nor would I personally consider it anywhere near complete.

What information do you have about me? Can I see a copy of it?

Why do you have it? What are you using it for?

How long are you keeping it?

How are you keeping it secure? (As far as I can tell, GDPR does not actually require you to answer how, only that you do it.)

As an alternative, my preferred privacy policy:

"We do not collect your personal information."
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Symlinks in general suck on OSX. Try symlinking a file from an NFS mount onto your desktop and see if you get a thumbnail for it in Finder. In Finder, you won't. Now you might think, "well that's NFS, it's probably not thumbnailing those files because the latency exceeds some timeout." That's what I thought. However if you add that same directory containing such symlinks to your dock, you will see thumbnails for symlinked files when previewing that directory from the dock. If MacOS can thumbnail those symlinks when previewing the directory from the dock, then why can't Finder thumbnail those same symlinks?

(Also in third party Finder alternatives, like Commander One, you will typically get thumbnails for symlinks.)
Creative Commons like modular privacy policies could be a solution:
https://www.achtungtechnik.de/english/2018/GDPR-statement-li...
"As far as can be determined from the available evidence, no one died that night in Tiananmen Square." But hundreds of people did die elsewhere in Beijing. https://archives.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananm...
The nice thing about the queue is that you can do fanout (eg multiple SQS subscribers to the SNS topic or similar) and have multiple parallel ingestors or change out the backend consumer/db injector without the producers knowing anything about it.

You also get HA for free; your solution depends on local node disk persistence.
They could have at least kept the option for people who want this feature, and turned off Cloud sync by default. Just removing the whole feature seems excessive.
A very similar story where I work except an additional addendum of a migration to DocumentDB.
As someone with a lack of a formal cognitive science background which (I think) would've forced me to read through and trace a lot of this from the beginning - I've often times wondered "where" a certain paper, set of experiments, or even an entire understanding/perspective fits into the broader picture. Especially given how many of these developments seem to invalidate or shift previous theories and experiments. This is immensely helpful in that regard!
I'm talking about public transport.
Mark owns less than 30% of Facebook.
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Perhaps you haven't looked? Try cloning a git repo, or unpacking a tarball with many files (doesn't matter if it's inside Dropbox or not) and observe the CPU usage of the Dropbox process.

I checked right now and the Dropbox process on my machine has consumed a total of 39 minutes CPU time. That's 39 minutes of full-scale CPU usage. Even their "web helper" process (whatever that is) consumed two minutes and 41 seconds.
I doubt gamers will be a big market for that chip. You don't get a whole lot of increased capability / FPS with a high end chip compared to a mid range chip when the GPU is generally the limiter. But I do think they are going to sell a ton of 3600-3800 chips.
And honestly, Indiana Jones style traps would never survive 10 years of deferred maintenance, much less 10,000 years. Even simple traps like weak floors over spike filled pits would tend to rot and collapse over the years, especially if you need to build it lightly enough that a single person can trigger it unknowingly.

The only Egyptian tombs that survived to the modern era were the ones so well hidden that nobody had managed to stumble across them.
climate change? I thought it was global warming...
There are oodles of managed nextcloud providers too, their pricing generally matches up favorably with standalone VPS pricing: https://nextcloud.com/providers/
You can't always just "layer economics" on top. Sometimes the problem is economical.

Consider what it would take to replace DNS with a distributed system. In a global namespace, names have value. You can't just operate on first-come first-served - there needs to be a system that ensures that names go to whoever wants it most. In other words, the challenge to be solved there isn't the technical one of having a DHT - that's a mostly solved problem - it's how the hell to make the names cost money, and who the money goes to. (And if you don't think the names should cost money, how do you propose allocation should work?)
No, not happy now. Your technical skills may be off the charts, and your criticism of fizzbuzz may be completely valid, but I don't want people with that kind of attitude anywhere near my team.

There's going to be stuff that isn't done the way you want, in the company policies, in the code base, in the architecture, in the way the team works. If you're going to respond in an I'm-above-this, salt-the-earth kind of way when that happens, then no, I don't want to hire you. Go destroy some other workplace.

As I said, this is orthogonal to whether your criticism of the use of fizzbuzz is valid. Your response may make you feel better, but it's showing me a lot about who you are, and it's not improving your hireability.

If I were asked fizzbuzz in an interview, I think I'd say something like "I'll answer that. But I expect the rest of the interview to be at a considerably deeper level."
In my city there are a couple notable examples: the four square house, the bungalow, the craftsman, the row house, and older victorian houses. They were extremely popular because you could order the entire house from sears mail order (for ~$2000 back then, equivalent to only around $50k today!). The victorian houses were more custom crafted and ornate, although a lot of the others are dressed up with victorian trimmings and multiple different paints.
https://onlykey.io/ I assume you mean this - it looks great!
While I agree with you assessment about western nations doing very similar monitoring techniques. It still doesn't excuse China. They all should be held accountable. In fact the focus on China should be used as an opportunity to bring it to light again. People seem to have forgotten. But we shouldn't ignore it because everyone else does it.
Copyright is for non-commercial use, IIRC. If you’re not selling anything, it doesn’t apply. Not sure if that’s the case here.
Thank you, the enterprise commitments explanation makes a lot of sense. Did that enterprise bet make business sense at the time, or were decisions biased by the traditional businesses and leadership (despite IBM having already shaken up industry with the PC)?
Exactly, a lot of the other replies to my comments did't quite get what I was getting at. DFINITY section is more what I would expect to see, and it's puzzling why IPFS is staffed the way the way it is.
I've observed this effect as well. For example, on wifi at a conference hotel, connections to everything else would significantly improve for a while if I ran Fast.com's speed test in the background. I used this trick throughout the week and it was very reliable.
Actually it's confirmed that some of the X570 motherboards will have TB3.
Agreed on all fronts.

> These are documents created by lawyers, for lawyers.

Except they bind normal consumers, not lawyers.

This is the law's version of the old softare forum 'RTFM' dismissal when people asked technical questions.

It is not acceptable to have a privacy policy intended for ordinary people if it's not also intended to be understood by ordinary people. If a normal consumer needs to consult a lawyer before they sign up for Facebook, something has gone horribly wrong.
"Richard Downing, who oversees the computer crime section of the Justice Department, said he and his colleagues have focused on techniques that create distrust on the sites by encouraging users to believe that sellers and site administrators have already been compromised and are feeding information to law enforcement."

This looks like a good way to spark real-life violence in what is otherwise a remarkably safe way to exchange drugs. In addition, reputation and trust are everything in dark net markets, and reputation is the only thing preventing vendors from selling fake or adulterated drugs.

I can't see any way that the police intentionally spreading misinformation is a good thing, on a practical or philosophical level.
Krisp’s noise cancelling gets official release
Fair enough but two sovereign countries aren’t expected to agree on everything. Variance is expected. What’s the data say in the pesticides?
Extract, Shoehorn, and Load: Data doesn't always fit nicely into a new home
How can you trust your computer? What if your hard drive fails? How would you recover your photos then?
> You can avoid any particular ISP as well.

I take it you aren't from the US? When I said "Might as well decide not to purchase electricity from the local utility...", I wasn't embellishing.

> the companies that dominate the OS and Browser markets are actually recording and selling your data

But again, at least theoretically you can avoid them. For example, you can use Firefox (or hypothetically even Konqueror) and Linux (or FreeBSD, etc). Similar to avoiding Google though, this might not be feasible in practice.
>The imbalance between voluntary cancellations and government regulations creates a bias toward pesticide use in the United States based on economic factors, rather than health and environmental risks

Litigation risk is an economic representation of future health and environmental risks. That's the American way - market pressure is the preferred method of regulation.
The rate is sufficiently low enough if it is lower than the collateral damage caused by not executing exceptionally bad people.
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That Canadian man smuggled 200 kilos(440 pounds) of meth into China. If he did that in Singapore or Japan, he would get death penalty too.
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> ..people at non-FAANG companies are operations people who just think of it as a new name for their old job. Among this set, there's no recognition of the massive needless complexity that permeates all the way through Kubernetes.

Kubernetes was born out of ideas from Google's own internal systems. I think this discounts the complexity of operational platforms at the large companies. Companies where they build operational APIs straight into their services. It may not be the right tool for every job, but being so overly dismissive of complex operations platforms comes off as extremely pretentious.
I can't name a hard figure, because it's a relative figure. The rate is sufficiently low enough if it is lower than the rate of innocent deaths caused by not executing exceptionally bad people.
Obviously it's so you don't end up like the Lannisters, broke and indebted to the Iron Bank :)
If you're talking about 10,000 years in the future it may not matter so much since the radioactivity would be much less after so many half lives.
This actually sounds like an interesting deal, as it would make figuring out what a company does with your data easier to understand, but I'm fearful of 2 main things:
1. It's still a battle to explain to non-technically minded people whether an image is Creative Commons or free use or to get them to understand that there are different kinds of CC.
2. It will mean there is less to read through, but many companies will still fit blocks together (ie. General Use+Advertising Third Party+Server Backup in Other Country) or resort to using a license that is more general than they need, but definitely includes the things they want to do.

It's a _really_ cool idea though, and I'm curious whether anyone has ever tried anything like it before.
Are there options for recalling the legislature or triggering new elections, similar to a British vote of no-confidence?
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> is analogous to unix shell scripts piping data between processes

Conceptually yes, but technically, multimedia frameworks don’t have much in common with unix shell pipes.

Pipes don’t care about latency, their only goal is throughput. For realtime multimedia, latency matters a lot.

Processes with pipes have very simple data flow topology. In multimedia it’s normal to have wide branches, or even cycles in the data flow graph. E.g. you can connect delay effect to the output of a mixer, and connect output of the delay back into one of the inputs of the mixer.

Bytes in the pipes don’t have timestamps, multimedia buffers do, failing to maintain synchronization across the graph is unacceptable.

I’m not saying multimedia frameworks don’t use multiple cores, they do. But due to the above issues, multithreading is often more limited compared to multiple processes reading/writing pipes.
For anyone wondering what this does:
You can click on "create a doodle" to be presented with a blank canvas.

In there, you'll be able to freely draw something, which will then be rigged and animated automatically - there's even different skeletons available, but I've yet to see much of a difference, except for the type of animation.

If anyone has more time to play around with it, and finds out what the purpose of this is (there doesn't have to be one, it's neat honestly) then feel free to tell me :)

Edit:
nevermind, this time, when opening I was placed into a queue, and submitted my doodle (which will probably be shown to other participants).

You are shown a wireframe-landscape populated with all kinds of doodles, made by other people (attention, due to the human nature, some of these might be slightly NSFW).
I can't really investigate this any further, since it kills my Laptop performance-wise, but it's an interesting little thing.
That the legibility of the law could and should be improved is a fair point. That said, humanity isn't incapable of concurrency - there's no reason to have to wait for the law before tackling privacy policies, which while a lesser issue, are also easier to change.
Lawyers are awful.
Possibly edgy opinion:

Load balancing should be a solved problem already. Swarm and Kubernetes should be using dead simple off-the-shelf software for ingress and load balancing. Any competitor should be able to use the same solutions. To put it another way, this shouldn't be a differentiator.

The problem is that the functionality in tools like nginx are still tied to static network architectures that evolve slowly, and don't take advantage of things like diurnal variability in workloads.
You are ignoring that there are services in Africa focused on the African market. These services could greatly benefit from hosting in a data center and serving their customers from the same continent without having to hop to the EU and back. Granted, depending on where you are (equatorial coast vs. southern) then you may end up hopping anyways because there isn't much (any?) direct usable fiber across the continent.
I had just stumbled on Timeliner a couple days ago. Looks awesome. I've been thinking a lot lately about a) how to take control of ones data without getting overwhelmed with server configuration, backups, file formats, mobile apps etc etc and b) how to summarize a life's worth of data in a way that will be digestible by descendants 100 years from now who will never have the time to trawl through all the data available from their ancestors. Great to see others thinking about the same problems.
Rule of law and the independence of the judiciary.

Mainland China has no independent juridical system. Only reason to establish business there is if your business does something in China and you have to be there. You never use it as financial or business center for the operations in elsewhere.

The success of Hong Kong and Singapore is based on good legal framework. They are ranked among the best judicial systems in Asia. Businesses feels safe run business from there. Abu Dhabi financial center decided to emulate them. They created fully independent common law framework to adjudicate civil and commercial disputes.

It's possible that China decides to get rid of the law, but it will eventually bite them back financially.
There will almost certainly be a UX impact in the form of performance though - the whole point of micro-frontends as I can see it is that it allows you to have different infra&dependencies in different parts of the UI. The only reason you'd want to do this is because you don't want to share the same infra&dependencies across the UI which inevitably leads to duplication of frontend infra.

e.g. if my whole app is React based, why do I need micro-frontends?, using them seems needlessly complex. It only seems relevant if for example I have a product where team A has a legacy jquery UI, team B wants to add a part of the UI built in Vue, and team C wants to build out some features using React - but in that case the user is now having to download 3x the JS infra code that they did before because none of the teams can agree on a shared stack.

Also this pattern would seem to make composability of the UI much more rigid and inflexible. In the IG example you mentioned, lets say stories and feed got built out using separate stacks with separate codebases and infra. Now lets say we want to add a saved stories unit to the profile page, or add some recent stories as a new unit in feed (real examples - I used to work at IG :)) If we were on a common stack like React, I could just re-use the React story reel component from the stories tray and drop it into the Profile page (& maybe tweak a few props). With a micro-frontend, I'd have to create a content area for the other team to put thier story unit, agree on what the expected interactions between the profile & story unit were going to be, agree on a contract etc. wait for the other team to adapt the story reel so it was usable in the new context, make sure they deploy the new version of thier story unit...

The only situation I can see a micro-frontend being beneficial is as a stopgap pattern while migrating legacy apps - it certainly doesn't seem like an ideal end-state to me.