skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel for Mac "Professionals". Sad they just got straddled with the horrendous over priced and under performing ____ platform.

Funny, but by making the name of the platform a blank, this applies just as much to 2005 as it does to 2019.

http://lowendmac.com/2015/remembering-the-final-powerpc-macs...
This seems like massive spin. Their primary argument doesn’t wash. As far as I understand it the web request API will still exist and still allow extension developers to view all request data. They just won’t be able to block the request and change it (I.e block content from loading)
Looks like we won't have to wait too long to find out!

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/12/fortnite-maker-epic-acquir...
Fwiw, the sanctions the US imposes on other countries often are brutal to their innocent population. One thing we could do is provide asylum for persecuted people, but appearently we don't do that anymore (and never have done it in great quantity).
The problem is when product managers use language that is understandable to most people but leaves a lot of loopholes and results in lawsuits.

Writing legal documents is a lot like writing code— you are trying to leave no room for ambiguity (or bugs), need to cover all the edge cases, and the code is inevitably at least as complex as the domain in which it operates.
It's crude to try to compare how awful one murder is to another, but it does feel in some ways worse if the murder of an innocent person is funded by taxpayer money and performed by people claiming to have the legitimate authority to govern me.
I tried to convey something similar and simple [1] I think

[1] - https://tinyvpn.org/help/#privacy
Given that it's AMD, shouldn't that be "it's fabless"?

It's "fabless fab!"
Can you summarize Wisconsin politics, I don't know anything about it.
Built http://www.privacyparrot.com which uses ML to simplify privacy policies back in 2011 and it continues to grow in usage.

Thank you HN community for the feedback back then
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3222334
As a technology, properly-implemented self-signed certs are totally fine. The problem is that k8s does not have the features necessary to use self-signed certs securely. Instead, it expects you to create your own CA (or CAs: you can use separate ones for different kinds of communication if you want extra bulkheads) and then to share out your private CA's cert to all the k8s components. This achieves your goal of cutting out MITM attacks via unscrupulous commercial CAs while also making it possible to trust families of certs for a given purpose, rather than having to whitelist every single consumer's private key.
Taking control of what?

It's a simplistic view. Not that it's necessarily wrong, but in some cases you may gain control of your software but lose control over your time (lower productivity) or income. It's a blanket judgment to say everyone would gain from switching to libre alternatives.

I don't have an opinion about the choice they made. I only believe it doesn't work for every user out there. For example personally I'd rather let MS control the software and pay them market price for it, than take on the burden of trying to control everything (impossible).
Also different than selling them like 10Bil in arms. Europe, for example, has not invaded SA, but is not buddy buddy with MBS.

Also, it's clear that sanctions are a much more powerful weapon than invasion. Western sanctions (or embargo) on SA oil would certainly put them in a tight(er) spot.

No excuses!!!
It looks like the latest AMD cards are a bit more power hungry than NVidia counterparts. On performance, the Radeon VII seems to be closely aligned to the RTX 2080 (not TI). The RX 5700 XT is around the RTX 2070, and the RX 5700 is above the RTX 2060. Depending on your workload, and if it can leverage the AMD targets, it could be good to great. If you don't actually care about RTX features (and the slow framerates that comes with it), then you're better off with AMD for the price difference, even considering the extra power needs.
For anybody who's confused, just use one drive to sync all photos from your phone to PC. It works exactly as you expect. It copies the actual image files and let's you clear space on your phone later.
Iraq and Libya, both of which seemed moderate compared to SA (Saddam less so then Qaddafi). Neither Iraq nor Libya have, to my knowledge, ever been used as an argument for why "we" have to unconditionally support SA, though. Neither of them have been an ally before "spreading democracy", so they don't make good analogies either imho.

Also, "unwavering ally" and "we'll remove their state and let the country fall into civil war" aren't the only options on the table.
I'm basically saying, there's no evidence for free will and the evidence that exists shows free will cannot exist. It intrigues me how people understand we had no choice in the life we're born into but people like to assume contrary for what comes after. I think a lot of that has to do with socially conditioning and religion. I'm not necessarily sure why people downvote my comments on this topic and when it brings an issue with the justice system that maybe should be considered. Since, I think the system is failing people because of an antiquated belief in making everyone think they're responsible and thus be punished.
To which one’s defense should be, “I did not do this, my corporation did. Arrest it.”
First, I find that internships are great for this. You can bring someone in for a summer. If they show drive then we really try and get them converted to full time upon graduation. Second, I'm going to turn it around on you and ask "What are you doing to foster drive in your employees?". Drive is not just a static attribute. It must be fostered, encouraged and demonstrated as necessary. If your employees do not show drive, you may be unintentionally killing it.
He forgot the cardinal rule of hiring a hitman... don’t. Your probability of talking to the police or a buffoon who will get you caught is close to 100%. Actual hit men work for established criminal organizations, and don’t look on Craigslist for freelance gigs.
Good point, never even thought about that! I'll update it with an appropriate license. Thanks for pointing that out.
I used to be a Dropbox fan: it was the first program installed on a new machine, and I recommend it to friends and family.

However, I never converted to a paying user. That seems to be contradictory and maybe another data point of how hard could be growing a global user base.

I live in Argentina. Here any subscription in USD should be considered carefully. Each time that I evaluated to become a paying Dropbox customer, I decided that the cost/value equation didn't work for me:

- Photos: Google Photos works very well on mobile, and they give you unlimited space (if you are willing to sacrifice picture quality).

- Files: I end using iCloud or Drive for the occasional file sharing in the cloud. When I evaluated subscribing to Dropbox for my father -which is also an Office user- the Microsoft Office365 (that includes OneDrive) was much more convenient.

- Backup: A huge chunk of my work files are in Drive (because of GSuite for companies), or in Github. The rest (like iPhone Backup) is by default upload to iCloud.

- Mobile Apps: Before iCloud, many apps included the option to sync with Dropbox (and they created an API for that). But after the iCloud improvements, now that option is missing from most of the iOS apps.

- Paper: it's a great idea, and for a moment I imagined that Dropbox was going to compete with design sharing tools (like InVision). But when I tried Paper, it wasn't enough to do the switch.

I hope that Dropbox is able to find a good product strategy because I used to love their product. This announcement and my personal experience make me think that they are facing a turning point.
Exactly - it's like "flexible" docking. You have to dock it in areas, but there's some grace if there's no stations left. Seems like the best of both worlds from my perspective.
"Facebook Is Looking for Employees With National Security Clearances"
"October 16, 2017, 4:00 AM EDT Updated on October 16, 2017, 12:23 PM EDT"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-16/facebook-...
It is wonderful. Each crack in a behemoth’s process is a point of leverage for a startup. We will outcompete by being better.
As much as I've defended this change, I agree with you. The only justification I could see is that it might require an extra permission in an extension's manifest, but even that I'm not sure of.

If this is part of a longer-term plan to deprecate webRequest and completely remove that ability, then they should say so now.
> And like most other people in the US I have cable option, DSL option, several cell providers, and a couple satellite options.

According to the FCC and many lobbyists, sure. That doesn't match what I see reported in the media though, and it certainly hasn't been my personal experience.

I have only once had what I considered to be a real choice, but that required living in a major city. Even then, the choice was between overpaying (imo) for 50/50 versus paying even more for 25/5, which is hardly comparable.

> I can theoretically avoid Comcast way easier.

Perhaps if it's only Comcast that's doing it. But if all the major companies are doing it, it won't be realistic to avoid them all - you have to buy from someone. The (approximate) equivalent to FOSS here would be a community mesh network, and I don't think anyone is arguing that those are viable.
>> 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.

Thanks for pointing this out.

> 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.

Here's my secret hope that articles like this will force the opinion - and courts - to realize that these documents are worthless and shouldn't protect any company that abuses customer data from lawsuits.

Also for us Europeans I still look forward to seing consumer protection agencies here finally getting annoyed and starting to use their new GDPR claws.
I assume you're only using Mac devices though right?
I remember back in the 90's, when Intel was going to introduce a unique identifier in their processors that could be used for authentication purposes, it caused a huge uproar and Intel backed down. [0]

Having a hardware embedded unique ID that can be (is) used for tracking a known persons location at all times is probably the most intrusive privacy violation we've ever had. That we willingly carry these things around and naively throw the repercussions out the window is the result of the death by a thousand cuts.

We've long lost the war on privacy.

[0] https://www.wired.com/1999/01/intel-on-privacy-whoops/
Assuming the second drive is always connected to the machine & on, why are you opting for that nightly sync vs. mirroring the two disks in raid1?
Significant Pattern Mining for Time Series
How do we know it wasn’t a Chinese agent inside a Swiss company making the “error”?
Couldn’t help but laugh reading some of the comments here saying they “don’t get it” or “why doesn’t it have X feature only a developer or small business would care about?”

Every wannabe influencer on instagram (literally millions of people globally) is going to want one of these—-especially given the design aesthetic that hits the target market right between the eyes. We’re talking about 17 yr old kids here, not enterprise customers. The lower the friction and the more simple it is, the better.

This is going to take off like crazy and I’m both jealous I didn’t make it first and also sad that I’m not an investor.
Most of HK water comes from China
I didn't write anything of the sort by you referring to unfixable.
I don't - I'm not a drug user, but I have a lot of political ideologies that agree with Ross, and I certainly don't believe he deserves what happened to him.
Ya cool, a small mobile chip. Meanwhile AMD is releasing a 128 thread EPYC later this year. No yield problems here.

What's your point again?
This is exactly what I do. I have an old headless Mac mini that has a 2 TB drive and syncs all photos via iCloud/Photos, then a time machine backup of that volume.

I can take a picture on any device, or copy in a picture or video, or import from my camera SD card on any device, and within a few minutes I have at least 2 backup copies available.

I just wish Nikon, Canon, Sony, or anyone really would be able to integrate a DSLR/mirrorless camera into Dropbox or iCloud Photos so I could take out the manual import process :P
Question: why is Taiwan okay with being involved in this bill? It seems strange since this bill is so much more beneficial to China than to Taiwan, and since if/when Taiwan returns to the fold it will likely be subjected to these same tactics. From the BBC:

>The [bill] came after a 19-year-old Hong Kong man allegedly murdered his 20-year-old pregnant girlfriend while they were holidaying in Taiwan together in February last year. The man fled to Hong Kong and could not be extradited to Taiwan because the two do not have an extradition treaty. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-48615161
Really? What law is being enforced by these actions? This is just a domestic PsyOps operation; I see no adherence to the rule of law here.
>The fact that world still works with this situation

Depends upon what you mean by works? We have clear favoritism, nepotism, racism, sexism, etc. in how the existing system works. It isn't complete anarchy, but by that standard the most kafka-esque regimes still work.

I think we have massive room for improvements in both laws and contracts.
ArXiv vs. SnarXiv (2010)
I have not had time to go through it all in careful detail but what I have read so far has helped frame this exact topic I have been struggling with as well. So thank you very much for this!
Please don't. Imagine if Swift had had internet comments on his pamphlet.
Huh? That not everyone agrees doesn't mean nobody believed her. The highest-voted reply complains about censorship. The second-highest talks about the police acting in self-defense. The third-highest fantasizes about shooting ... someone (I initially interpreted it to mean the police, but maybe they actually want to shoot the protesters?)
The benefits of experience: Popper has been on the cryptocurrency beat for a long time and has a good idea what he's talking about. (His Bitcoin book, _Digital Gold_, also won't make you want to throw it against the wall.)
You obviously haven’t lived in ancient Babylonia.

(Pro tip: different cultures have done things differently across time and space!)
That means it's a local, Mac-only feature. I like having access to old versions in the cloud, partially because my other computer is a desktop PC.
Facebook does have the opposite ability though - they could make one appear to be whoever they want. If they were inclined to use their data and technology maliciously, against an individual, I think it's likely they could ruin that life pretty quickly.
Then don't make the place inaccessible. If you're warning people about a threat, you need to show them where the threat is, not hide it.
the most obvious example of harm is probably the opiod epidemic, and the deaths resulting from overdose. of course shutting down the silk road and sending addicts into the streets or to jail is probably exacerbating the risks and is certainly no solution.
It's a one party state whose entire raison d'être is to be economically competitive, so I wouldn't worry.
Will probably pull the trigger on a Radeon VII myself, only because of the better Linux drivers, and possibility of hackintosh usage. At least for my current system, I did a mid-cycle upgrade for the GPU (GTX 1080) and added NVME a couple years ago. Still running 4790K on 32gb ram, and does great for most stuff, but not so much for encoding or dev work (couple dbs and services in background).
With Tutanota, encrypted emails sent outside of Tutanota are sent as links which the user clicks to read and reply to your email, keeping your messages off Gmail or any other insecure email server.
Even if free will is an illusion (and I'm not sure how to assign meaning to this statement), how does that change anything? If a murderer had no choice but to murder, then the prosecutor had no choice but to prosecute, the jury had to find guilty, and the executioner had to execute.
I believe you are conflating Nitric Oxide (NO) with Nitric Oxide Radicals (NO•). While Nitric Oxide isn't stable in the presence of Oxygen, Nitric Oxide Radicals will react with pretty much any species they come into contact with. From the viewpoint of an organism, they are more useful as a weapon than as any sort of controlled energy source.
Project Galileo: five years of protecting the vulnerable online
"but it has turned large swaths of Mexico, particularly, into war zones"

Legalizing drugs will not fix the problem. The cartels run the government now. Do you actually think they will just pick up their things and go home? The violence will continue and they will move onto the next, illegal, lucrative product to sell.

The US in the 1930s had the same problem. It was only stopped by stamping out corruption and outright the murdering of criminals. I don't see Mexico having even a small handle on corruption in the next 50 years.

The Opioid crisis is going on right now..and this is with legal drugs. Drug companies are being sued for millions and millions of dollars.

From one side, I'm told legal adults should be able to do what they want with their bodies. From the other, when bad things happen..like addiction, I'm told it's the fault of the company that made and sold the drugs. This doesn't make any real sense if we are trying to legalize drugs. It will only increase costs as the result of liability insurance and other risks that are now involved.

Legalizing MJ in California is turning into a failure. The problem is that companies that sell legal drugs need to pay taxes and go through many more regulations than the guy down the street selling it. The end result is higher costs for legal drugs.

Legal drug companies selling MJ are being put out of business because the black market is thriving as a result of lower costs and better availability (which will always happen with black markets). The legal market is only helping the black market because there are many people that are using MJ now that otherwise wouldn't have when it was illegal.

When the legalization of MJ was proposed, the proponents (including many people here on HN) said that there would be no black market after it was legalized. This never made sense to me and now I'm being proven correct. The black market is not only there, it's thriving.
I think there are three factors:

1) How much damage a brain can take before it's incapable of experiencing.

2) How fast a brain can have an experience.

3) How long it would take for a supersonic shotgun slug to reach point 1.

I'm extremely skeptical that point 2 is fast enough to meet the deadline imposed by point 3. I suppose I can't say it's impossible, but it seems very unlikely.

For that matter though, let's suppose point 2 is fast enough to meet the deadline. We don't actually know if that is a more unpleasant death experience than being hanged or decapitated. We can speculate about which experience is the worst, but none of the dead can actually report back to us with real data. My personal suspicion is that decapitation is the most unpleasant, since there is a strong possibility you will be conscious long enough to experience your situation, and that experience will be truly unpleasant. But who knows.
CouchDB is a document store style database. GraphQL is more focused on the API layer (how do I query any underlying data sources for exactly the data I need) instead of tying you into one particular database. So, in theory, some of your GraphQL objects might live in CouchDB but others might live in PostgreSQL or a file store.
A liberal constitutional democracy does not have any more ability to make you disappear than Facebook does.

And repressive governments already use Facebook to disappear their people:

>The Facebook posts were not from everyday internet users. Instead, they were from Myanmar military personnel who turned the social network into a tool for ethnic cleansing, according to former military officials, researchers and civilian officials in the country.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

So, the notion that it's somehow "safer" for Facebook to engage in omnipresent surveillance doesn't prove true.
They've not had the IPC of Intel for Sometime (I haven't owned an AMD CPU since the Athlon days, even though I was a fan of AMD as they were better value than Intel).

Where AMD does compete is thread-count. A higher number of slower cores did feel a few niches. Except... Many software vendors charge per core (a Windows Server License is limited to 16 cores), so fewer, faster-cores work out better value for most business users. Plus, power usage is a huge issue in data centres, again favouring Intel.

The biggest problem right now is virtual machines can't move (live migrate) from Intel to AMD hardware (and vice versa) without having to be restarted. So AMD is only really a viable option for new clusters, but I would think Intel is still nervous.
>want to do something, anything

Culture could be changed from the expectation that most encounters with a doctor result in an action. The problem is visiting a doctor costs hundreds of dollars for a short amount of time. It doesn't matter if you have insurance or free universal health care, it still costs hundreds of dollars regardless of the layers of abstraction you put on top of the billing.

I personally wish encounters with doctors resulted in more tests or other data gathering (and hopefully that data made available de-identified for analysis)
A kernel context switch. Neither do the ones described here.
The ROI of Writing
The argument was not self-contradictory. I did not say that Troy was infallible, I specifically said that anybody, not just Troy, could make the mistakes you listed. That was to demonstrate the fallacy in your argument that he should give up HIBP because he might make mistakes.

Contrary to what you say, Troy has detailed his verification process. There also is an opt out form on the site which will allow you remove your email from the current dumps and future ones.

Troy is talking about somebody acquiring HIBP. This implies he is not necessarily looking to give it away for free. There are already paid aspects of HIBP.

I would have no issue with it going to Mozilla.

I can't tell if you're joking by suggesting he give it to a government or by comparing him to Zuck.

I guess we're at least agreed on Mozilla, who he is already talking to.
My solution to that very problem is to just use a third party app to sync to my NAS. I can't use Time Machine since my Macbook Pro doesn't have my full library downloaded to it (when will Apple ever start with 512 GB SSDs in their laptops...).

I have iCloud Photos and pay for it, but I want to make sure I have a local backup too so I use NextCloud to sync to my NAS (which is running a NextCloud instance). You could also use the Plex app, or there's things like Resilio Sync that can auto-upload photos.

I'm not aware of an open source solution for auto-upload other than NextCloud (and possibly OwnCloud, but I don't use it), but I wouldn't be surprised if there was one somewhere or an app that did auto-backup to SMB/CIFS/WevDAV/whatever