skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most 'meat' in 2040 will not come from dead animals
I kept seeing somewhere for a while that Ohio based grape varieties are used for the root stock now used, but I can't find this anywhere now. Perhaps it isn't accurate.
HN like other social online spaces is not neutral or free from influence. For example I would imagine upvotes are trivial to astroturf.

A quick search:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=purchase+upvotes+hackernews&ia=soc...
Oh, yes, Dropbox links. I started telling my coworkers that if they share a file via dropbox, I will not even try to open it. The experience is so abysmal (the wait, then their ridiculous interface that turns a PDF into a buggy JavaScript application), that I don't even try to click on those links anymore.
ironically given the article title, this is basically the definition of a good monarchy..
I might not be fully understanding your point but I would disagree with the idea that just because many companies have tried to integrate tools together and failed that it must point to some inherent flaw in the idea itself. Instead it should just point to inherent difficulties in executing the idea.

All of our tools having silos of data and only having difficult to implement one-to-one integrations seems broken- it does not feel like it has to be this way as part of the nature of the software.

Here are two reasons we have not yet seen this executed well:

1) If you're Atlassian or Microsoft it's likely perceived that it's not in the best interest of your business model to spend a non-trivial amount of resources on deep integrations with 100's of popular 3rd-party apps but instead it's much easier to see how it is in their best interest to just clone those popular apps and deeply integrate them into your suite. This way they keep users using their software and are able to charge for the new app (or eventually charge more for the suite).

2) So then there's space left for a software solution to enter the market that does world-class deep integrations with the 100's of popular SaaS api's and a great UI/UX that makes working across all of these apps intuitive- potentially an entirely new level of usability in modern productivity workflows. But as a startup idea this actually does tend to fail and I think it's primarily because it's a non-trivial engineering problem to build these integrations and a startup, with scarce engineering resources, is forced to choose ~1-3 integrations to start with as their initial customer-facing version. This then results in a product that is not compelling and just seems like yet another one-to-one integration solution.

It seems that if a new level of software interoperability enabling a new level of user experience is to happen the startup would have to be very well funded with a decent "stealth mode" runway. Or a large software company would have to throw a decent chunk of resources at the idea (not PM's convincing the business case for an integration piecemeal).

And then there's one other way this could happen:

If you look at Android and iOS you see that they already have thousands of productivity apps integrating deeply with their native API's. And already this has enabled things like iOS Actions Extension API where you can send something like a pdf to any app you have installed that registers its ability to handle pdf's. On Android features like Slices allow an app developer to put a "slice" of their UI into other apps based on the intent or action happening on the other app. I can see a future where Apple and Google increasingly push their mobile operating systems to the desktop-size screen and the productivity user base. While it may seem unlikely now it may be that iOS and Android are best positioned to introduce a new level of software interoperability to the modern enterprise productivity market in the form of a better desktop experience.
They are completely outsourced and offshored. Only a few competent people are left.
Honestly I wonder about that myself, but I don't know if it has ever been challenged.

But I have no doubts that they do considering how often I see someone I recently gave my number to suddenly show as as a recommended friend on Facebook (who I do not allow that access)
I’d love to use Smugmug but their video support was pretty bad the last two times I tried using it. Google and Apple photos seem to be the only photo and video platforms that actually work.
I still don't understand why a robust review process cannot prevent China from capturing anyone passing through Hong Kong. What about letting protesters to form a committee to decide how can be extradited?
I don't need 2TB either, but I do need a cross-platform solution where the incentives of the company are aligned more or less with mine in providing the service.

iCloud will always primarily be about Apple devices, which I like well enough and have several of, but maybe won't always. Microsoft's offering will probably be the same from the PC side of things. Google will offer me the world for free but data mine the hell out of it.

Dropbox seems to really care about cross-platform experience. Except in rare cases, it just works. It's just folders from my POV. And so... I pay them about $100 a year and they provide this service. Seems to have worked out pretty well for me.
Comments like yours imply that no one cannot exist on the internet without sharing stuff with some company, so it doesn’t really matter which one you choose.

Of course it matters. And of course one should remain vigilant to monitor the company of choice for changes in strategy or the like that might affect privacy claims.

I don’t inherently trust Apple more than Google, but I do trust (begrudgingly) that Apple’s current business model aligns their interests on privacy better with mine.
I'm one of those assholes that makes security policy. I deal with the same requests. The problem is, I write up a proposal identifying the risks associated with the exemption, along with minimum and recommended compensating controls. This then gets discussed among IT Management, where it is usually decided it's too much overhead, and to just deny the request or if the user can scream loud enough, allow it outright and get some director to sign something. The third oft-used response is ignore the problem and hope the user finds their own work around so we can get back to the 13 projects we're somehow expected to complete this quarter.
The creators of Black Mirror want you to stop worrying
Google's is much worse for any significant number of files. It burns a bunch of CPU/battery like you described for Dropbox, but it also freezes eventually and has to be force-killed. I gave up trying to sync my former Dropbox files to Drive.
China is the one pushing the law. Influencing and eroding the HK political system to make it so they have more say over what HK people can say and do.

They've been slowly taking freedoms away from HK since the Xi Jinping got into office and declared himself President for life.
> Beijing is breaking that agreement.

You forgot China having to approve candidates in Hong Kong elections: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-32397179
You'd be better off shaking your fist at a blank monitor.

Laws like this are more dangerous than draconian internet legislation or companies doing un-ethical internet things.

These laws make people feel good and feel they've made progress when in reality they've done nothing - the illusion of progress to make one feel good is more damning than doing what these laws were explicitly intended to "prevent".
“Queen of the Internet” Mary Meeker's 2019 Internet Trends Report
How is this being reported in mainland China?

If it starts to spark copycat riots there things could escalate.
Bacterial Complexity Revises Ideas About ‘Which Came First?’
> Why start with the only sector that isn't routinely harvesting and selling user data?

If they aren't doing anything wrong with the data, then what's the issue? They won't have to change any business practices.
It means your old. :P
> For the Hong Kong protesters to be successful perhaps they have to "export" their values and demands to be applicable for the rest of China

Not necessarily. Beijing is violating an agreement lodged with the UN.

The protesters just need to get the population in a G7 country pissed off enough to turn this bill into an international issue, thereby increasing the cost of its introduction to Beijing.
A pathway that converts A to universal O type blood
I think this comparison is pretty good: the author's problem with absolute URIs is essentially the same as using `file://` URIs and accessing the site from different directories (although `file://` doesn't have the chicken-and-egg problem of pages trying to link to their own hash; IMHO that would be worse than relative links anyway, even if it were possible).

Still, I think that the author's criticism is valid, since the IPFS project does seem to encourage the view that it's suitable for Web hosting, rather than just "a nice consequence". The author's struggle with IPNS, and recommendation that it be de-emphasised in the docs, is in line with my own experience.
Lego Struggles to Find a Plant-Based Plastic That Clicks
> gee I really wish I could just open up this presentation in Dropbox directly into my Zoom meeting.

Do you ever right-click a file on your desktop and expect to be able to do an “Open With” action to open it in a Zoom meeting?

Dropbox is trying to recreate/recapitulate that functionality—the functionality of OS file-explorer GUIs, and how they act as a launchpad for feeding files to third-party intent providers.
What do you mean that doesn’t exist?

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...
I worked at a very bad company, where IT was aggressively incompetent, and mean about it. At best they were negligent, at worst they actively interfered with anyone who they thought was a threat, which included anyone who was more intelligent than them, which was virtually everyone since the company was full of senior EE/ME/RF/CS folks.

And I mean incompetent-- our network would go do down for hours, every day, and the problem lasted almost a year. It got so bad our "source control" became yelling "Whose got the latest main.cs?!" and walking it over with a USB key.

I realized we needed to disintermediate the IT group, and my boss was supportive. I ended up establishing our own, parallel IT department with a business cable line, some routers, and NAS devices. I outsourced any task to any cloud service (this was over a decade or so ago when that was somewhat unusual) — eventually hiring our own IT person even. People would ask for access to our network because it was more reliable :-)

Then things got vicious. They actively interfered with our group, trying to get us fired (they had some success with this previously). They were able to get our IT guy fired. Things just went on that way for years. They'd find some way to make trouble, and then we'd route around it. Once they even took my computer for two days, denied they had it, then returned it but locked me out of it. I was certain this was part of some scheme to get me fired, so I turned the computer off, zeroed the hard drive, and req'd a MacBook to work on.

They all eventually got fired when someone took note of their gross incompetence. One of their replacements was eventually fired for embezzling, proving that despite thinking we had the worst IT department anyone could imagine-- we really didn't.
Seriously, replace it with stgh. which is unfriendly to advertisment, yet still enables a freemium web experience.

Ipfs with filecoin sounds resonable at first sight.
It has some tough competition, e.g. RealPlayer.
They also just put the price up of the plus plan $20 a year. I already pay for iCloud so I don't know why I'm still a customer really. Laziness I suppose. I trust Apple with my data a lot more also.
I was in chicago last week riding the L to the airport. One of the doors broke, and a maintenance worker came on to tell everyone to use the other door.

There were 10 more stops to the airport.

At every one someone tried to exit using the broken door. At first it was funny because they not only didn't hear the worker explain it, but also didn't notice the 5 people at the last stop who just did the same thing.

I started telling people as I saw them try to approach the door, but the look on everyones face was "who is this creep trying to talk to me right now".
afaik several of the Dat folks worked on Bittorrent implementations beforehand so it's possible they were thinking...something?
I am curious to know what is the monetary total cost of the switch. Anyone having done the switch able to share numbers?
I've created some much internal hate trying to use their paper and the search function there that I'm not trying dropbox ever again I think.
Woaw, nice subject ! Always wanted to digg into signals and antenas, but not being from electrical background it was always kind of difficult to follow along. Can't wait to hear from your cast ^_^
Those organisations live off the existence of such "hate groups", so I wouldn't trust their data.
As always, deeply insightful and merciless. :)
And what if two companies standardized methods are incompatible?
> have no sympathy for those in Hong Kong who have more rights and a better standard of living than they do.

I always find this paradox as interesting as sad.

This Lose/Win mentality evolved as a solution to small community of humans with limited resources. In that situation, how to split the insufficient resources is the main problem. The more others get, the less is left for me.

In current modern society, the more education and resources has the people around me the more they produce and I can benefit from it.

Or brain did not evolve to our modern world, I guess. Helping people to think Win/Win would be a great paradigm shift moving into the future of our society.
Thanks for the feedback. Reading the post again, I realize that what I wrote didn't actually match up with what I meant. I meant more that the reason frameworks are often bad is because "Frameworks are more likely to not handle all use cases" AND "The effort required to patch a framework to accommodate the functionality you want is often higher than the effort to put all the libraries together yourself" (because of complecting).

Or worded another way, "Frameworks are more likely to not handle all use cases [that are within their scope]." Certainly a single library is not going to handle all the needs of your app, but it will hopefully handle the things it's intended to handle without too much need for modifying its behavior. e.g. if I need to use websockets, I can just use Sente without bending over backwards to make Sente work for my particular use case.

That's not very clear from what I've written though, so I'll update the article.
> It seems like the easiest way to write code that works with either floats or doubles.

You never really need to do that. In the rare cases you need to, once every five years or so, it is trivial to change your code.
Do you have a dumb phone recommendation, or would any do just fine? I've been seriously considering making the switch to a dumb phone that could just cover calls/texts/work emails.
Right. If you're assuming written language will have entirely changed, barring some earth-wide catastrophe we can (likely) assume a future civilization will understand the IDEA of radiation - making the actual danger and representation of radiation the most important element to communicate.
This has been the largest personal growth I've experienced in my lifetime and it has been a direct result of living a city that is walkable.

Before moving to San Francisco I hated talking to strangers and I would rarely engage in more than a few words with anyone on the street or in stores. Now I find myself cherishing small moments of conversation that occur in Ubers, on the MUNI, at communal tables in restaurants and in random interactions on the street, even with the homeless who I try my best to not ignore and treat like real people.

I can't believe the difference it has made in my mood, my feelings about this city and my general mood. Like so many things in life it's hard to know what exactly caused the shift in my behavior but it's brought me an incredible amount of happiness and deepened my appreciation of where I live.
Oh heh, I knew about the constitution thing but I thought it only applied to the Maine gubernatorial elections, not for state-level legislative office as well. At least it still applies for the congressional delegation, I suppose. :P
Deep sea vents are not dependant on the photosyntheic carbon cycle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_vent#The_Deep_Hot...

Other extremophiles and archea exist and have been observed in deep caves and rocks. Life really does find a way!
> I said requiring this type of data before taking action fulfills the function of protecting and perpetuating sexism

How do you take action to fix something if you don't even know if/why/how it's broken ? It's pure madness to pass feel good equality of outcome laws and never checking on the data to see if it has a positive effect or not.
over a decade later, Google still has nothing comparable to Sharepoint. Everything is slow and bloated web apps preventing users from finding / reading / editing documents that should be synced locally.
I think the FBI numbers are more reliable, though not perfect, and they show a 17% increase but that figure also includes anti-white violence. So there is s rise but not to the degree claimed by those other orgs.

I think the FBI is neutral whereas other sources tend to have biases so they’d require additional scrutiny.
Have a look at Nextcloud. It is a FOSS alternative that works just like Dropbox without all that bloat. It works surprisingly well on most platforms and is nicely customizeable:
https://nextcloud.com/

There are several providers that setup an instance for you with an admin login. I cannot stress enough how happy I am with that solution.
My previous experience with Google Drive was that it would chew up CPU and memory a lot more than I liked.

I've been pretty happy with iCloud Drive since I switched to it. Works seamlessly and effortlessly on my Mac and iPhone, affordable pricing fo storage which can be shared with family, and also solves my photo storage needs with Apple Photos. The only drawback is the lack of shared folders, but they just announced that is coming soon.
I feel you. The whole setup is dysfunctional by design.
For the last 6 months or so I've been tracking my time with org-mode in Emacs, and I typically get about 4-5 hours of productive time a day. The rest is taken up by meetings, e-mails, chat, coffee breaks, and task switching overhead.

The time tracking is just for me, I don't share my logs with anyone else. So far I believe it's kept me focused on achieving specific work goals and not getting distracted, leading to more concrete achievements I can cite in my annual performance review.
this would be great..
and/or also leverage the modern VM extensions for a cheap 'realish mode' hypervisor system.
As Protesters Fill Hong Kong’s Streets, Businesses Are Alarmed, Too
“I came from Italy, and know exactly what mafia extortion looks like,” he says. “Yelp was manipulating reviews and hoping I would pay a protection fee. I didn’t come to America and work for 25 years to be extorted by some idiot in Silicon Valley.”

I love this paragraph so much!
The UI is, at least on Windows, using PyQt, and thus, Python, too. You can find the dlls in DropBox' installation directory.
"Somebody made that place super dangerous to get into. There must be something really valuable in there!"
Testim.io Raises $10M After 700 Percent Market Growth
LKML bcachefs status update (it's done cooking; let's get this sucker merged)
>... I would be significantly slower living my life.

Is that a bad thing?
Yeah, I agree.

I just want to read about programming/tech industry related stuff. You can't fucking go anywhere on the internet without being blasted by politics and the retarded commentary around it.
iCloud doesnt offer file history though. Once you accidentally delete a file, it’s gone.
Massacre. It wasn't just a protest. Hundreds were gunned down and their bodies squished by tanks.
Since the domain was unknown to me, and there was suddenly two stories from them on the front page, I was a bit skeptical that this was some low-quality publisher.

But "eLife was founded in 2011 by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust ", so they seem legit.
Funny enough we actually started prototyping with Erlang for subsequent project (which was cancelled before it went far). Unfortunately I don't know enough to know what's special about the Erlang scheduler (if anything), but as I understand the Erlang concurrency model, it's mostly about not sharing memory (forces explicit communication). That's obviously going to eliminate a host of bugs, but it would have been way too expensive for the mentioned firmware.

Once we got started with Erlang I was pretty turned off. The pretty examples you see in tutorials aren't what you'll be using. Instead it's framework upon framework, far from elegance IMO. I was happy to not have to deal with that again. Today I'd probably choose Rust for the same task (static types FTW).

(EDIT: typos)
Hmm, it is made by a Chinese company. That gives me pause.
I believe you're spot-on that culturally that would not be acceptable in the US.

I can guarantee you that if this were to be attempted in SF, they would have to have the drugs administered by medical staff. They couldn't just hand heroin and crack to the patients.

I'm not sure about the logistics, but don't think they're that complicated. Getting into those programs is tied to quite stringent conditions. Like a certain age barrier and a number of attempts to go clean. I'd wager that there's more prescribed Ritalin resold on the black market than heroin obtained through those programs.

In one sense I believe it was fundamentally successul: It turned the drug from having a "hero image" in the 70s and 80s into a complete loser drug.

Harm reduction is one of the pillars in treatment of addiction, which now is widely and generally accepted. Proven by two referendums in which the public had a say on the issue. And harm reduction is unarguably a good thing, when it comes to addiction.
Onedrive at least works great in my experiences. I bave a dropbox account, but my uni supplied me with a huge onedrive allotment. I sync every user file on my computer and I can access it anywhere with an internet connection. The msoffice integrations are great too, and ms office online is pretty feature rich.

Dropbox had a great idea, but it's not hard for a large company to copy it like microsoft did. Apple just does a lot of things half assed if it's not a priority to them. Nothing stopping iCloud from being better than dropbox in a couple years if apple one day decided they gave a damn about it.
I think, increasingly these days, those who are in the wrong (like the picket-line crossing author) know that they're wrong and wallow in it like pigs in... mud. You can't convince folks like that, and it's disingenuous of them to demand that you waste your time trying to do so.
Email is not something private by design. At least Google is a competent company when it comes to provide such services.