skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recall reading that BGP leaks are common but most ISPs take steps from propagating them within a few seconds to minutes. The two hours is the incompetence I think he is referring to.
There are some libraries that hell with that, namely prisma, hasura and postgraphile.
> However, most people don’t think this through, especially if they want to buy, in which case ~10% of your home value is spent on the transaction

This is really not true, at least not in high-demand areas. First of all the seller pays the fees typically, and they are much lower. Redfin for example costs you 1% in the Bay Area. If your agent is telling you it will be 10% then you’re being taken for a ride.
>, why would you need lots of people to seed your 100 GB of personal vacation photos?

I think you're missing some context for the motivation of Filecoin. One of the elevator pitches is that it can disrupt cloud storage like Amazon S3.[1][2]

People do put personal files (e.g. via a cloud backup service) on cloud storage like AWS S3. Instead of a paying a centralized Amazon, Filecoin claims they have a way for money to go to the decentralized owners of harddrives.

Therefore, if "backing up my personal vacation photos" to Amazon S3 is a use case, that means the decentralized peers hosting my uninteresting personal files is also supposed to be possible.

>But don't use bittorrent, use the right tool for the job...

Yes, exactly. That's what my reply to gp was explaining: his suggestion of webtorrent/bittorrent/gun is a protocol that solves a different problem than the one Filecoin tries to solve.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=filecoin+amazon+aws+s3

[2] deep link of Juan Benet of Filecoin mentioning the centralized cloud services: https://youtu.be/6h2WNxEV8q4?t=482
Data says big agriculture has more lobbyist money in US Congress than the team behind the Kinder Egg. The FDA is a revolving door. Dangerous toys get banned because they're easy, usually seasonal and low market-penetration targets for politicians campaigning on protecting the children.
The UK should have given the people of Hong Kong full citizenship before handing control back to China. It's a disgrace that we allow China to mistreat the people of a former British territory.
"Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoirs of Academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian, fills that gap."

https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/rockets_people_vol1_deta...
This article is a fantastic example of an editorial slant that provides zero evidence to back up their position. You can write the exact same article in reverse and have no idea whether the regulations are warranted or not. If you want to write a good article, provide the rationale for the ban and let the people decide whether one side is too lax or the other is too stringent. What's the evidence? Where's the science? I can't logically come to a conclusion based on what you've written. There's a big difference between a ban on 72, 17, and 11 chemicals alone, so why not pit the EU vs the rest of the world?

I could write the following article: "EU continues to allow use of banned artificial sweeteners in food products" but that wouldn't give you any information on whether sodium cyclamate is worth banning.
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Yes! Getting and transforming your data these days is easy and cheap to store. Use existing tooling for that (e.g. Snowplow, etc.) The hard part is producing actionable analysis.
I did a similar, deeper review of less policies for my course work in Privacy Protection and Freedom of Information with some of the same conclusions around length & required reading level. It's worse than this though; Orgs like Facebook have dozens of documents that deal with what data they collect and how they will use it. Even identifying what comprises their "privacy policy" is a huge task.

Another massive issue: unilateral, largely uncommunicated changes. Stack Exchange used to have a very handy regular (read: legalese) policy and a parallel "plain language" version that I can't find anymore. They still have a relatively decent policy but that's only because the average quality is so low.

for context I was using Canada's The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Alberta's PIPA which is a scope similar to GDPR in many ways. PIPEDA is an interesting document; it's based on a set of expectations or statements that are decidedly "non legal" in nature which makes it very different from most laws
Key quote from the article:

> These are documents created by lawyers, for lawyers. They were never created as a consumer tool

They are generally treated as the responsibility of the legal team, so they are written as legal documents. Companies treat them as a way to pro-actively defend against lawsuits (much like the Terms of Service), and not as a way to inform or educate users.

The reason why many readable privacy policies come from Europe is because GDPR makes it literally a legal requirement that they are written "using clear and plain language." Source: GDPR Article 12 https://gdpr-info.eu/art-12-gdpr/
And it will be a Nokia 3310 that still works and has 30% battery life remaining.
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But is there a new service to sync your photos (outside of Drive)?
My issues with it are 1) I already see enough dumb queries (and queries in indefinitely-long loops...) from backend devs, how will the frontend devs have a prayer of writing performant queries with so much distance from the underlying datastore(s)?, and 2) exposing a highly flexible query language to the frontend, given the variety and complexity of GraphQL libraries and the complexity of implementing GraphQL server-side if you don't just use something that does it automagically for you, sets off my spidey-sense "there will be bad security problems here, sooner or later, guaranteed" warnings.
Well, all the rigid policies like no dropbox or no FTP or no whatever, also arise from serious concerns. I just wanted to point out another seemingly innocuous one. Most of our equipment is not internet connected, and we need to manually change the time for daylight savings or other corrections. We have a company policy and procedure to do that periodically so that our audit trails are accurate. Sometimes folks get busy and the shop floor guys take matters into their own hands.
Two thoughts come to my mind.

One, this article and the project it covers will be good negotiating leverage against Microsoft's fee increases. I wouldn't be surprised if they end up winning back lower license fees and sticking with MS in the long run.

Two, what a boneheaded move on Microsoft's part, PR-wise. CERN is an internationally-respected research institution which is widely admired by the kinds of people who make purchasing decisions. Why poke the bear, especially when business is going so well?
That sounds like market forces at work honestly. Doctor wants to skimp on internet needs better technical staff to determine the cause of any technical issues or charge customers more for the better care that comes with better internet.
You could use input types and reduce the boilerplate to a single parameter, which you then send as an object in the request variables?
No it's not true. I think if you called multiplication a sorting algorithm it would be really dishonest.
The forever tombstone was destroyed when the universe was flattened.
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>This looks like a good way to spark real-life violence in what is otherwise a remarkably safe way to exchange drugs.

It seems the entire drug war has managed to spark almost incomprehensible levels of violence. There's some in the US and Canada, to be sure, but it has turned large swaths of Mexico, particularly, into war zones.

There needs to be a change in thinking. Cracking down on dark net drug sales is nothing but the expansion of a failing war.
Government said it would fight at 'all cost'. And we the people are the cost.

BTW, I put my bet on that PBSC member Han Zheng, who is in charge of Hong Kong affairs, would be scolded for mismanagement of on-going situation some day near future.
> "Since I do not trust any cloud service with the master/only copy"

All photos still exist in the cloud, backed up on a hard drive. Multiple copies are unlikely to fail at the same time.
it makes sense when the goal is not to protect people but to enforce the law for the law's sake
My guess would be RAID 1?
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All I want from Dropbox is a $5/mo plan. $12/mo for 2 TB, maybe 100mb of which I'll ever use, is just too much. $12/mo pays for a whole ec2 instances to host your own on
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12884393 is a better past discussion with 29 comments.
5.) Currency war featuring declining FX reserves and RMB devaluation.

6.) Economic war evidenced by domestic economic slowdown across most sectors, most recently autos.

7.) Influence war whereby increasing numbers of Asian and African countries are questioning China investment and loan agreements.

That said, displacing China's preeminent role as the world's manufacturer and low cost supplier (still) for many products doesn't disappear overnight. They have plenty of standing and resources to wait out the remainder of Trump's administration and - they hope - to encounter China friendly leadership post-Trump.
The implicit message is that there are 5 about companies in the world who need Kubernetes' (and friends) inherent complexity. If your company is not named "Amazon", "Google", "Facebook", or "Netflix", it's probably not one of them.
That's false, otherwise any activity which has a chance for an innocent person to die would be a violation of the social contract to that dead person regardless of the benefits to the public.
Isn't Thunderbolt superseded by USB 4 now (or whatever they'll call it)?
When did they ever claim to you that subscribing meant you wouldn't see ads anymore?

You know that if you subscribe to the print version it has ads in it too, right?
It’s weird because at least in my area, a triplex is $100,000 more expensive than the single family homes, despite being of similar square footage and quality.
Can you share anything on (1)
AMD having one good generation doesn’t mean anything when Apple signs multi-year deals. They aren’t HP/Dell/Lenovo who will just contract Foxconn to make a bunch of different boards with standard chipsets to satisfy consumer demand, instead focusing on a tightly integrated platform that they won’t throw away willy-nilly.

If AMD can keep it up this time (or Intel keeps flopping) then it may very well happen down the road. Until then, the age old investor relations statement rings true: “past performance is no guarantee of future results.”

Note: I have a Ryzen 5 1600 in my gaming rig and a Ryzen 5 2600 in the wife’s, I love these chips - but I also see the reality of Apple’s ecosystem is all.
I use Google Photos because I can't share iCloud photo albums with non-Apple users. The same is true for many other Apple services.
I think it's a great idea for somebody that already runs their own VPS for their own homepage etc. Once you install NextCloud, you can continue by installing ActivityPub-based decentralized apps, replace most cloud offerings, and be happy about it ;-) I did that; arguably I am not a dentist but if some friend asked me to, I'd have done that for them.
Pretty absurd that your alumni communication is through facebook and only facebook, and they don't maintain actual contact info. Email is still the standard for my hs and uni alumni spam and I reckon it always will be, since it's pretty impossible to find people on facebook with common names unless you have mutual friends.
I'm not sure I communicated that clearly -- I meant that people at NOT Google just upgraded the job title. There's no question that some extremely qualified people work on the Kubernetes platform itself.

The issue is that they've thrust it upon the rest of us lowly mortals as a general toolkit, when it's only potentially-appropriate for companies at Google scale, in terms of both traffic and talent.
I think "designed to last for 10,000 years" and "moving parts" are largely mutually exclusive.
The Ryzens have an absurdly long branch prediction history that make them much better at repetitive tasks than random real-world workflows. I wonder how much this is effectively "gaming" the Geekbench suite.

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-microbenchmarks-rememb...
Wanna guess how much first ever 60 MHz Pentium chip cost in 1993? How about first 90 MHz Pentium in 1994? First Pentium II in 1997? Price of fastest Athlon K7 in August 1999? All more than $750 despite 20 years of inflation.
For such a small scale, you can use a simple event tracking schema from your client-side and server-side code and have a simple stream processor to join these events and then save it to a simple event table in a SQL database. The DB tech you choose should be something suitable for OLAP workloads. For your scale, PostgreSQL or MySQL would just work fine.
When your data grows you can look at more distributed systems like Vertica or Memsql or Clickhouse etc.

In this architecture, most of your brain cycles will go into designing the queries for generating aggregates at regular intervals from the raw events table and storing in various aggregate tables. You must be familiar with facts and dimensions tables as understood in data warehouse context.
>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.

I am. And like most other people in the US I have cable option, DSL option, several cell providers, and a couple satellite options. So, yes you are embellishing when you say "Might as well decide not to purchase electricity from the local utility..."

>But again, at least theoretically you can avoid them.

I can theoretically avoid Comcast way easier. To avoid Windows, I'd have to quit my job because I use Windows only software. Chrome to Firefox is easier than getting rid of Windows, but would be worse than going from cable to DSL. And besides, Firefox spies on their users as well (or at least tried to at one point).
Even people who like paying for news usually only pay for one subscription
I move my photos to linux then back them up to several places. One day I’ll publish my scripts, but they aren’t strictly necessary. Gthumb, exiftool, and ffmpeg will get you far.
Yep, I mention that - of the reporters/organizations that need to be called out on this, the NYT is low on my list.

In general though, I disagree that reporters lacking control over the platforms they use means that they're immune from this type of criticism. News organizations are a part of this conversation whether they like it or not, and there are no resolutions (legal or technical) that won't affect news sites. It's irresponsible for a reporter to ignore that.

When people call out the hypocrisy in articles like this, they're not blaming the reporter for their employer's data policies, they're blaming them for ignoring that those data policies exist.

It doesn't mean the reporter's points aren't valid, it does mean there's a dimension of the story they're ignoring, either through ignorance or through choice.
I agree with you, I don't see how Intel will cool a 3D chip unless the bottom package is extremely simple. Even then, it looks like that design would be more expensive than the multilayer mini-board + ball grid array AMD explained in their presentation.

In both this case and their delays in getting to 10nm due to wanting larger dies, it really feels like Intel's management is letting better be the enemy of good whereas AMD is making smarter choices about where to compromise.

By the time Intel releases their awesome 10nm 3D chiplet stack, AMD will likely have moved onto 5nm compute chiplets with a 7nm IO chiplet. It's not clear to me how Intel will catch up in the next 5 years or so.
Still not good enough: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/seco...
And the oldest in the US is growing on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

http://www.themothervine.com
No TB3 though.
It's not too hard to find something on Weibo, e.g. this post in support of the police [1] where the highest-upvoted comment at 281 votes condemns the police violence [2].

[1] https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4382509644815287 面对困难，香港警察从不畏惧，坚决捍卫法律尊严！@香港警察

[2] 拿枪射无辜民众及记者，一群警察围殴女孩，拿胡椒喷雾射向老人及外国游客，这样就是维护法治吗
I don't think most users want to spend any time understanding privacy policies. If you made people take a quiz showing the understand what they're getting into (like when getting a driver's license), user signups would go down dramatically.

Plus this would probably be considered free labor and/or discrimination, like some people complain about captchas.
What would be needed to support some of the small retro z80 platforms out there?

I can't even begin to list them all - most basically tie the z80 to some static RAM, maybe a pia or similar; I know one out there uses an ATMEGA32 to act as RAM/ROM - plus there's ones that use SD cards for storage.

I'm not really into the retro z80 scene yet, but I'm gathering parts...
Not quite. Apps have always been held to accounting for the amount of battery and clockcycles they use. The only change here is that a notification is now required for an app to deploy a persistent service. If you request the absolute lowest priority for your notification, your app winds up in the list of apps which are "running" in the background (mainly because the stuff way down at the bottom is too easily missed). If you don't request the lowest priority notification, then your notification text says whatever you'd like it to say and your app doesn't feature in the default notification.

...and there are plenty of good reasons to explicitly register as a foreground service.

I agree with you that someone's bound to crank out a GPL-compatible lib for interfacing with FCM sooner or later.
They wouldn't even know how to install our stuff.
I wouldn't be so sure:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20166237

Intel opened Thunderbolt up for non-Intel platforms awhile ago, and we're already seeing motherboards that offer it for Ryzen.
Voting shares are real ownership.
Awesome, thanks for the context. That's really interesting.
Yes and no. Yes, if the attacker controls the DNS, he can return his own server's IP, and your browser will connect to the attacker's server showing the original name in the url bar. Fortunately TLS should save you because the attacker should not have a valid certificate (but it would save you also with OTP). If you disregard the TLS/HTTPS warning, then Webauthn breaks.
It never ceases to amaze me how people who are opposed to government surveillance by accountable liberal constitutional democracies are OK with surveillance by unaccountable private interests who lie all the time and do harm in order to make money.
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I like graphql as technology - I find it just a better way than REST for building services, and I like that it's just json - simple easy to debug text responses. I like that there are companies investing in this technology.

But, I don't see how you build a VC funded business out of this - countless examples of infra companies trying to build a business out of OSS technology and they always struggle to get paid because they provide so much value for free.

Docker Inc's struggles come to mind here...
Theremin playing a theremin
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Organically labeled food not only use pesticides but use older pesticides that are more toxic and less effective so they must be used in larger quantities.
Without smart phones and social media this could easily be 1989 all over again.

I'm not a huge fan of social media, but its ability to hold governments accountable is one of the truly transformative aspects of it.

I wish we could distill that aspect off it and discard the rest.
Daily reminder that goroutines don't require a context switch.
This is a good thing.

I've had an ongoing support ticket with Google One for the last six weeks about syncing. The entire process is just broken.

I have a normal-ish workflow; take photos with my camera, process on my MBP and export to a folder that Google Backup and Sync is meant to sync with Photos.

What actually happens is some files sync and others don't, GBaS then informs me "15 files couldn't be added to Photos, they are in your Google Drive taking up 45mb" and gives me a list of files. No info on what went wrong, no error, no clue. Then I'm left to manually pick up what's left. But the problem isn't with 'my' stuff, I send the photos to Google and they're meant to organise them. That all works, the problem lies between Photos and Drive.

It's frustrating because individually, both are fine. I'd go as far to say as Photos is great. But give me a tool dedicated to photos please Google.
Fun fact: EC2/AWS created by a team out of Cape Town.
> but it has turned large swaths of Mexico, particularly, into war zones

Yes, from time to time. At this point some Mexican states and areas have it institutionalized so much that there isn't a war anymore. There is only danger when two competing powers are in the same area.

Mexico's southern border with Guatemala has an influx of migrants because of Guatemala's now organized drug violence.
Pretty disingenuous. People can change. AND we dont have a timeline. Facebook kept pushing more and more info public, in an attempt to make facebook more useful. ( http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/ ) Then they saw they went too far and quietly scaled it back. Four years later they got burned by mistakes they already knew they made and had already started taking action on.

There's multiple issues at foot: when he knew, how he reacted, and why he didn't disclose. He could have absolutely found out, ordered changes, and tried to keep it quiet, and later learned what a mistake it was to keep quiet.
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"However making democratic decisions, where everyone has one vote (?)"

you are right this could be a disaster... what are the options to to moderate this?

many cloud providers provide services that could be relevant here... to specify a few:
- https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/
- https://cloud.google.com/vision/
- https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/services/cognitive-service...
- companies that provide "moderation-as-a-service"

im doing this project as a hobby. no particular lofty goals for this project than "to work". my plan is to learn as i go along... but im expecting difficulty in the project (given i should only be spending hobby-time on it).

the success of this project would be great... but ultimately, this is not my goal. i do not plan for big deep investment in this project... purely for fun and education... im hoping there are others out there that could learn from this project too.

i will try to incorporate your feedback into this project. i think i need to document the project further before i can identify anywhere i should improve.
> Tell me more about Switzerland's scorched earth policy

Self-sabotage, mostly through destruction of critical transport infrastructure as front advances.

The only thing I can come with HK, it is it being played in Lamma channel, if it can be blocked by scuttled ships.

If HK want to go that way, it will not win much things other than time. If PLA will really launch an operation, it only has to turn off water pumps, and wait.
Only a fool would think that was an example of the ad hominem fallacy.