skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We ended up with two solutions: for family, we now upload photos to Smugmug with a password-protected gallery. The simplest plan is good enough for us and is ~50 per year.

For file sync, we switched to Resilio Sync. I had used Resilio Sync before for moving large files. It's not perfect, but gets the job done and is very fast. We use two encrypted-only peers: our NUC that acts as our home NAS, plus a Hetzner server with 200GB storage (for 15 Euro per month), which is easy to scale up if we need more storage. So, there are two always-available peers.

We back up everything with restic and Arq on macOS to the NAS and to Backblaze B2. But we were already doing that when we used Dropbox.

The new setup also simplifies things a bit: before we needed Dropbox + Boxcryptor to encrypt data on Dropbox, but now untrusted nodes just use Resilio's encrypted-only peer functionality.

I did briefly consider NextCloud, but support for end-to-end encryption does not seem to be mature yet.
They leave cellphones in lockers because they have cameras. There are corporations that have similar places. I’m sure Apple doesn’t allow cellphones in certain rooms with prototypes.
Do we know what other countries do in such cases? The US has consistently addressed possible terrorists with black sites or drone strikes (executions). So is it beyond the realm of possibility that at least parts of undercover spy networks are dealt with in similar ways? And is there any expectation that a newspaper would be able to exercise the right to free speech and report on this given that a gag order is enough to prevent any such attempts under the threat of prison time (possibly in one of those black sites)?

Countries (especially superpowers) have been known to remove any semblance of due process, freedom, and security in the name of... freedom and security. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act

P.S. I expect downvotes for my comment. I don't expect any will be accompanied by any attempts at a counter-argument. And my comment is not about whatabboutism, just that you can't single out someone unless they are actually singular in their actions.
There's a ridiculous amout of unnecessary dancing monkey Javascript on this page.
Fair use does not give you the right to wholesale scrape content that is otherwise under copyright with a non-CC/open license, which is effectively what the Internet Archive does. (To be clear, I approve of IA's mission but it's in a legal grey area.)

robots.txt has never had much of a legal meaning. Respecting it was mostly a defense along the lines of "You only have to ask, even retrospectively, and we won't copy your content." As a practical matter, very few are going to sue a non-profit to take down content when they pretty much only have to send an email, (almost) no questions asked.
Steven Fry in an episode of his funny informative show QI incorrectly called Cruithne Earth's second moon. It's not; it orbits the sun, not the Earth. I don't think it's ever directly sunward or starward from us, but always either in front of us, behind us, or on the other side of the sun.
Another wild prediction. This person's wild claim is that if go on with the current path the ocean's will rise 7 meters and there will be worse storms. You can visit http://www.floodmap.net/ and see how 7 meters is nothing, even discounting that we can adapt and protect against flooding. Worse storms are bad, but if the alternative is "World War II-style transformation of industry", what alternative is that? How can the world say to 5 billion people "sorry, you have to stop your industrialisation now, there may be storms in the US".
I've never thought about this but a cow is so much better than a city!
It's not a dead horse! 99.999999% of all Flutter tutorial content is on Medium, it seems!

Medium is NOT our community info-repository, but rather the Facebook of blogging, centralizing content further.

Until such a point that the international programming community ceases to centralize ALL INFO EVER on Medium.com we should beat this non-dead horse for all it's worth!
Because wifi is ubiquitous and everyone has an old cell phone laying around. If you need something the size of a credit card, who the hell are you? Who are you spying on that notices a pocket sized device hidden in a room? You can probably afford to build your own hardware.

Almost everyone that needs to bug a room is either 1. Catching their partner in an act of infidelity or 2. A professional with money to spend, and isn't spying on a nation state.
Melting polar ice caps (not antarctic, polar) does not affect sea levels because it's floating ice.
ISP are becoming annoying middle man who want to make money from any data they can get their hands on. What eventually needs to be done is we classify ISPs as utility. Example - your water supplier doesn't make a big deal if you use more water because you have a swimming pool but you ISP does and I find that very weird.
My current principal investigator has a 40-odd page CV. They’ve been doing research since the mid-70s: hundreds of invited talks, papers, posters, book chapters, awards, etc. take up a lot of space.
Drop.io domain is for sale? Did FB close it down when they purchased it?
How this is worse than US extraditions / kidnapping of foreign nationals abroad? Never mind Assange there are plenty of people arrested outside of US and moved to US prison.
1. We don’t have to suffer. We also don’t have to hand over 100 billion $ to the govt because they want it. Many of us may not even be around in 50 years. It is essentially paying for the next generation and also agreeing to pushing them into debt.

Millennials will then be blamed not unlike baby boomers are blamed by millennials for ‘messing up the next generation future’. Where in fact, it’s agreeing to unrealistic long term plans like this and signing carte blanche whenever the state decides that we need to shell out without them being accountable.

2. I disagree that we will need to have service jobs. Or that people need to travel to be ‘around other people’ who want them around.

Having said that, we do need public transport. We don’t need to lump affordable housing with public transport costs. Just like part of the gas tax was set aside to train prisoners to make them employable. It’s necessary but what’s with the shifty shenanigans?

The public are lured into supporting housing and affordable housing imagining that it benefits them but that’s a marginal side effect. The real purpose of random and especially questionable rezoning to keep building is to create a stream of income through property taxes. Ditto with job creation. Jobs have an inflationary effect.

An unemployed person in the rural area can still have avocado toast if he has a garden. He doesn’t need $10.00 to buy an avocado toast. However he can’t participate in the same economy as a 6 figure earning Silicon Valley resident of CA. However do note that all of them will be paying the same tax for public transport. As will their children over 50 years.

3. Sure. I will vote as inspired by my line.

4. I disagree. I literally don’t know any affordable city that is high density. If you include Mumbai’s slums or Hong Kong’s coffin apartments or NYC rent controlled and subsidized projects, I reject them. It’s not affordable. The cost of expensive living morphs from currency to something else that can be quantified in currency terms. There is a cost to cramming people in resource restricted areas which is also a fixed land area.

5. It’s such a general statement to say ‘ we need people to cooperate for a greater good’. It’s a feel good statement that means nothing unless we get down to specifics.

The US is a better place to live in than most parts of the world. We don’t have tribal wars or bloody religious uprisings or bomb threats everyday. I disagree with you. I don’t know what cooperation you are talking about in ‘other parts of the world’.

Admittedly there are other parts of the world where people cooperate and set aside individualism, but I am willing to bet that they are low density population areas where people have enough space. Cooperation thrives when everyone has the opportunity to make things work for everyone without just one group shouldering the burden. It is another way to make sure everyone carries equal responsibility. Cooperation is NOT co dependency.
These experiments tend to work at reducing secondary crimes etc.

However, they also are usually unpopular at the same time, leading to a backlash and a drug clampdown again. It's the drug policy circle of life.
I was only aware of Keepass itself.
What are the differences between KeypassXC, KeepassX and Keepass?
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Page won't load at all for me in Firefox 67.

edit: Took 93 seconds to load a couple of the gifs which seems to have blocked rendering of the entire page. <sigh>
Yes, it is true. It is confirmed by pro-China lawyer in HK local newspaper. The prosecution of Huawei CFO make China targeting foreign nationals in Hong Kong for revenge.

Moreover, the issue is not only about politics, but also economic. The most concern is about how China could use this to threaten any person including foreign nationals in Hong Kong. Have a business disputed with some Chinese business while in Hong Kong? Then, you could be extradited to China any time soon. It is not safe to do business in Hong Kong anymore. If this bill is passed, then it is expected Hong Kong would be completely replaced by Singapore within some time of period for foreign companies in Hong Kong to leave.
I'm not GP, but there are plenty of examples of doomsday prophets predicting the tribulation, or the rapture, or some other form of the end of the world.
I built a web analytics system from scratch for my current employer. I give the same advice to anyone that asks.
Lost all faith in Stellar after they screwed up their database and wouldn’t let me reset my password. In email they admitted their mistake but couldn’t do anything. I wouldn’t trust this
Yes!!! You could build nice software in DOS with this.
Agreed. There is a perceived risk with the F500 so they may spend more to do something than is required because they feel they have recourse with the big shops. There are some good teams of folks out there, but there are also some shops that are happy to send a dozen folks @250-300/hr that generate process maps in visio and power point slides instead of delivering/implementing a project. I have seen these big shops deliver in a timely manner and I have seen boondoggles that waste millions. I don't think they are by default "bad", I just think they are not necessarily the right choice in some circumstances, and the right option is to hire the boutique niche firm that specializes in what they need. This lack of awareness is exactly what the article brings to light. CIO shoots down VP who needs timely solution for long protracted big rock implementation.
Why say anything at all, when it's obvious that no one is going to do anything in four years?
Also, I would wonder how smart Harvard scientists are, really. After all, they built a $10 billion campus that has an effective lifespan of 5 years?
Totally agree that it will be a hardship. However the following things are all true: (a) There is a chance that "carbon taxes" will lead to just as much practical hardship on the poor, (b) There is no guarantee that these carbon taxes will work, (c) There is no guarantee that the poles will even melt.

The layers of uncertainty are piled so high, that a rational response is "wait and see". I do recognize however this approach is negative to grant funding, so these 'scientist' lapse into apocalyptic fire-and-brimstone talk to rouse the faithful.
Until such a time that I don't find ALL programming info on Medium.com or it's subsites I will continue to decry this increasing centralization of content.

The web is our tool for liberation and this is a subversion of the very principles that the web was founded upon.
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We kinda had 10 years back in the 80s. Just saying.
What are the chances that China will extend their Firewall over Hong Kong as well as a result?

I presume business wise it'd be a bad idea.
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> falsified by a full investigation

Unless it's a term I'm not aware of, a full investigation is still limited to human actors and limits.
What troubles? I recently started to use it, and so far I did not encounter any troubles. For me the killer feature of KeePass is that it allows me to safely use it without typing master password using -pw-enc command line argument. I hated to type my password every day over and over again with 1Password. Especially because I understand that it's very weak protection if someone already break in my computer.
I'm not categorically against government-run solutions. But the cellular market isn't so obviously broken that a government-run system has any hope of being better. U.S. market concentration in cellular is less than for shipping, ecommerce, and soft drinks, and a lot less than for mobile operating systems, search, or social media. Verizon and AT&T's combined market share of about 68% is about the same as Apple and Samsung's combined share of the U.S. smart phone market.
My office uses Dropbox Business extensively, and I'm not excited by any kind of "new" Dropbox. Businesses need to trust in the stability of their tools, and this signals to me the exact opposite of stability. I haven't got any clue how this could interfere with the workflows we've already established. Major product changes like this give me anxiety.
How would that even work? My Flickr account has pictures of probably 10s of thousands of people with various degrees of identifiability. If someone really wants their photo deleted and they ask me nicely, I might very well do so. But I'm not going to delete my photos from public-facing sites just because there are people in them.
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> Personally what I value is just basic cloud storage with a decent automatic sync.

Similarly. That was the biggest appeal to me back when I first discovered them and they were giving out bonus space for their free plan depending on the number of people that any one user referred. On top of this shift, didn't Dropbox just limit the number of computers one could have their data synchronized between? These moves seem bad overall.
Water companies do charge different rates depending on type of usage. Look up your local company's page to see the commercial rate. It could be higher or lower. They all seem to have different priorities based on a quick search of different cities.
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Interesting, is it possible to use hight levels of carbon dioxide detected during exoplanets spectroscopy in order to decide where to point big radio telescopes, so that there could be radio signals of intelligent life from other dying worlds?
Speaking as an analytics architect ...

You'll be a lot better off spending your mental energy thinking about the outcomes you want to achieve (user engagement, upselling, growth, etc) and the types of analysis you'll need to understand what changes you need to make to produce those outcomes. Protip: this is actually really hard, and people underestimate it by orders of magnitude. A blog post by Roger Peng (with indirect commentary from John Tukey) ... https://simplystatistics.org/2019/04/17/tukey-design-thinkin...

One other immediate tip is to start thinking about correlating your telemetry with user surveys - again, strongly focusing on outcomes and the controllable aspects of those outcomes.

Don't let the data lead the discuisson; decide on the question you're asking, and the implications of all of the possible answers to that question (clearly yes, clearly no, mixed, etc) before you ask it.

Then engineer the lightest weight system possible to ingest, process, store, analyze, and visualize that data.

For me, that would just be:

1. Log data in whatever logging tool you like. Persist the raw stuff forever in a cheap data lake.
2. Batch at some fixed interval into a staging area of a relational DB.
3. Transform it with stored procedures for now (while you figure out what the right transforms are) into a flat fact table.
4. Visualize in Superset or PowerBI or even plain old Excel.

Once you've got the patterns of analysis at least fundamentally right you can consider stream processing (Flink or Kafka Streams are fine) to replace 2 and 3.
I can't support Ethereum as it uses proof-of-work, and while it is a different implementation than Bitcoin, proof-of-work is inherently energy-intensive / environmentally problematic.

If blockchain technology were to become popular and widely used by ordinary people, its already worrying environmental impact would skyrocket, assuming the technology is capable of scaling at all. We need to bring the energy consumption of blockchain technology down to a manageable level, and that means abandoning proof-of-work as far as I can tell.
Where I live, we have summer water restrictions. We also have a 12-month running average of usage on our bill, and whatever portion of our expected usage we exceed, we pay extra on.
Another interesting Thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_(assembly)
If they aren’t going to charge you for drugs surely they could arrest you for public intoxicating or disorderly conduct. Drunk people get arrested frequently. Put them in the drunk tank, sober them up, suggest or provide rehab options, and let them out with a small cash fine. If they want to get into some kind of treatment or non-profit home waive the fine.

The goal is to provide incentives to get sober but not ruin someone’s job prospects forever for being addicted.
I really love Dropbox Paper, so I get part of the collaboration story.

What I don't like is that it's so hard to share a file, or to send an image in a chat -- all paths lead to dropbox links instead. When I get a Dropbox link on mobile chat now, I know it's going to take nearly a minute to see the content. Why?
Yeah, I was imagining that on an even wider array of cars though, imagine the resolution and constant pollution monitoring we could get if the same sensors were on 1-10% of cars?
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This seems like a good thread to ask: Does anyone know any good economics book focusing on regional differences in inflation, and the effects of that on economic growth in each region? I'm specifically interested in cases where the regions all share a common currency.

I remember reading a book about this many years ago (Bastiat maybe?) which I'm pretty sure was French, since it focused on differences between the metropole and the colonies, but I'm hoping to find something a little more modern. I would be interested in a book from any time period, however, so please respond if you know of one.
I use docked, manual bikes in the city of Vancouver. It costs less than the bike storage fees in my building for unlimited one hour trips (and for longer trips you just dock and undock again.) So I sold my bike long ago and just keep using the bike share system. It's faster than a taxi to get around downtown. Pretty useless in the winter though with all the rain.
That was... really interesting to read with a early 2000's mindset (seeing the date of the article)
This is about Windows desktop development. I need admin rights to install sql server, I need them to customize my machine so it’s similar to our target environment. I need to change user permissions all the time yo see how things behave under different conditions . There is a ton more I could walk you through and have done multiple times. Comments like yours come repeatedly from people who don’t know about the work we do. I have offered them to demonstrate doing our job without admin rights but so far nobody has even tried. They just keep sending the same email about not needing admin rights which has repeatedly been showed to not work.
My point is that if cameras are not outlawed, then you can be photographed in public by accident, just because you happened to walk into a shot or happened to be in the background when some tourists wanted to photograph something. There's a difference between you can't photograph me while I'm in public and you can't harass me. Its not the act of walking in the same direction and in close proximity to the person that makes following them in public stalking, so you don't need to ban public photography of other people in order to prevent them form being surveilled, recorded and stalked.

I guess that I find the idea that you should expect privacy when in a public space kind of strange (its right there in the word: public), but that doesn't mean that I think its ok for someone to follow you around recording you (but not because of the actual act of being recorded, but rather because of the targeted nature).

Similarly, I think passive recording (ie non-targeted surveillance) of public spaces should be allowed in and of itself, but that its the use that dictates whether its abusive or not (ie if its done so that people can be identified, then that seems similar to me to following someone around, but if its done for the backdrop of a movie or art project, or its done to study foot traffic on a street.. basically there are many reasons which aren't abusive).
This comment is off topic, but off topic in a particular, illuminating way.

4chan doesn't allow criticizing Russia, which if true, is of interest because 4chan is one of those places that trolls have been able to get their racist and fascist memes out in the public view, and into mainstream discourse. 4chan is also been accused of being Russian-influenced. Deleting posts criticizing Russia would seem to be more evidence of that influence.

Reddit doesn't allow criticizing "the west" is not relevant. It's vague in a weird way, and not even equivalent. "The west" isn't well defined: western hemisphere, NATO members, western Europe + USA and Commonwealth nations, what? This is vague enough that I'm sure you could look and find examples of unfairly downvoted reddit posts and comments.

But so what? Reddit is not 4chan. This is classic Russian-style "whataboutism" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism). Like I wrote above, that's of interest because if some 4chan moderator is deleting Russia-related comments/whatever, then someone using a Russian-style attack on criticism of that would seem to be part of the 4chan problem.
Your feedback resonates with me when I think about my experience with nearly every new software I come across. If it isn’t a monthly subscription (or the yearly option where I am ‘saving’ money) being shoved down my throat, more than likely I am being propositioned to pay for features that I simply don’t care about.

One example, Airtable, has paid plans. In order to get the feature I want, I need to upgrade to the second paid plan for $24 per month. I don’t care about the additional collaboration features. I don’t care about having 10gb or whatever for attachments. So tired of this pricing scheme.
I miss being able to buy a complete 3rd party component for $400 that came with great docs and tech support.

Yeah, there are some excellent, well documented OSS libraries out there, but they are the minority and there's no one who feels obligated to help you if you need a small improvement or moderate bug, cause no one took money from you.

Imho, the trade-off isn't worth it (free but self serve support) for professional development.
maybe I didn't choose the best example but they don't throttle your water supplies.
(Without detracting from the fun anecdote, I think we're firmly astray from the original question or the further questions down-thread. The latter was about interview questions versus real-world problems. And no, I wasn't talking about algebraic expressions; I was talking about word games or puzzles, as given in interview questions.)
I attempted to upgrade to business and found their support so awful I took them and the team elsewhere... I hope their support has improved recently