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The Radeon 5700 and 5700 XT are supposed to be competitive with the RTX 2060 and RTX 2070 at slightly lower prices. Only reference cards right now, but things might be looking up once OEMs have a chance to put better coolers on instead of AMD's reference blower.

I'm planning to hold out for next gen when they get ray tracing hardware to be a bit more future proof (my GTX 970's not dead yet), but since I'm thinking of trading my Wintendo out for a Mac + eGPU setup it's nice to see that AMD could actually be a good GPU option now.

Those were just announced this week, so keep an eye out for 3rd party benchmarks soon.
The Bitcoin wiki has a number of counter-arguments https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Myths#Bitcoin_mining_is_a_waste_o...

The future for ethereum is proof-of-stake. This project is called Casper and will be in Ethereum 2.0. For Bitcoin most transactions will be off-loaded to layer-2 networks but PoW will remain on the main chain.
As he replies, Erlang is operating at a significantly higher level than that kind of project.

It's well worth learning about how it works, as it's a great fit for some problems.
Why not? Firstly it doesn’t have to be a rule based traditional court. A jury panel of hk citizens could examine evidence and have a vote of conscience. Secondly hk citizens who are reviewing extradition cases could be representatives from the protesters, who have shown their will to fight against oppression.
I don't understand this. Lets say I have a 15gb drive limit and 10gb of photos. After this change, will I have 10GB of photos in Google Photos and 10GB of photos in Google Drive, putting me at 20GB total? Or do the duplicated photos not count towards storage limits?

edit: "If you use Backup & Sync to upload photos and videos to Drive and Photos, it will upload a copy to each service, but it will not take up duplicate storage." I assume this applies here too
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I'd hope who is about to build their business around the service and sign a contract in the name of their business to use it could take some time to read it... if not they shouldn't be signing their company up for it.
Zomato just took the lead in drone delivery in India
- Easy to understand? Yes, I think so. It's very easy to glean what data requirements a component has from its associated GraphQL query.

- Intuitive? Queries and subscriptions, yes. In the same sense that a React component using props is intuitive. Mutations and optimistic updates are maybe marginally less intuitive, but not prohibitively so.

- Faster to implement? Client-side, absolutely, as there's no need to think about how to retrieve data, you just declare what you want, and Apollo fetches what's necessary. It can also keep track of subscriptions / cache invalidation. Server-side, definitely not. The n+1 problem is tougher than with REST + SQL, and it's harder to make single round trips to the DB to fetch nested data.
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I think only takeout does it, unfortunately.
The other minor problem with this approach is it requires a Mac. Is there a decent solution for iOS photo backup to Linux?
It is. https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1138686582859239425
It’s understandable that the benefits don’t immediately seem obvious. We have all been working with REST for such a long time that we forgot what didn’t make sense when we were learning REST.

A good way to think about GraphQL is it’s data centric as opposed to operation centric. The unit you work with is the object instead of the operation.

Object level querying instead of operation level querying

Object level auth instead of operation level auth
Or speed varies and you only think to run it when it's slow.
> the EXIF metadata does not contain the location because Google Photos API strips it out

There's a setting:

"Remove geo location in items shared by link
Affects items shared by link but not by other means"

Edit: I just tried it, I downloaded a photo and double checked, EXIF location data was included.
He also openly ignores requests to testify in front of UK & Canadian parliamentary committees...

Think about that for a minute. Someone who controls 3b people. Runs psychological experiments using AI. Bans accounts of people who violate corporate-created policies that weren't debated or voted on by the public. Violates FCC settlements. And then refuses to be held accountable - or answer questions- from first world, democratic governments.
I understand your point. Our goal was to name it after a person, like "Alfred" the productivity app for Mac (https://www.alfredapp.com), but we found that Lannister would be more appropriate as a reference to wealth management. Hope it does not lead you into thinking about the secondary traits.
Not being sexist here. By girl I literally meant the teenage girl as shown in the video or a teenager generally. I should've said a weak and scared person who's obviously incapable of defending him/herself nor willing to fight back.

From what you said perhaps sadly it does happen in France too.
While I like KeePassXC more, this is even more relevant as KeePassXC is made in C++, while Keepass is made in C#. C++ makes it easier to shoot yourself in the foot.

It hasn't: https://keepassxc.org/docs/#faq-audit
> We already have a tested and working native internet currency: bitcoin.

Bitcoin manages low 6 figure transactions per day, using as much energy as the entire country of New Zealand to do so. That’s far from internet scale (or even “single Raspberry Pi”-scale) and, because it was designed around gold bug economics, the protocol says it can never improve because the whole point was to scale the overhead as a function of network size.

Fundamentally, the reason why none of these have worked comes down to economics: if you’re storing things, you want provable access times and reliability but the costs of doing so in a decentralized system are much higher than in a centralized model because you need more copies to balance out the lack of trust. That also hurts on the other side of this: if you’re considering hosting, you need to charge more to cover your risk of getting involved in legal proceedings and there’s a fairly high threshold where that risk just isn’t worth it.
But this is not how the proposed legislation is written, is it?
Heh! This article is just below an article on spying (“The thing”). Sure made my evening :-)
I haven't ever used GraphQL (so take what I say with a grain of salt b/c i could be incorrect), but what gets me intrigued by it is that it helps your engineering organization scale by decoupling the back end and the front end.

Say, for example, that you have a new UI on your app that requires some data stored on your db.

Without graphql, you:

A) Re-use existing REST endpoints and compose data that you need on the front end (but remember that browsers have a hard limit on the number of concurrent api requests. Not to mention that some requests can't be sent until others have arrived back with resource id's). So depending on what endpoints you currently have, this may not be a good option given the latency cost of composing many HTTP requests to get all the required data.

B) You tell your back end devs to create a brand new route that meets the data requirements of the new UI.

With GraphQL, my understanding is that there is zero back end work. You just tell the GraphQL engine what data you need and it magically arrives into your browser.
Which makes little sense without a reference to the opposite, which was common practice at the time (and even today):

the movie as a commercial product, built to spec, and designed by committee to appeal to the largest market...

So, the auteur is the "director as artist" as opposed to the "director as hired executor of the studio's will".
Yeah, I saw the GDrive integration more like a nice to have. Never really used it, to be honest.

> a- the difference between Google Photos and Google Drive

One is an photo all with storage. The other is a storage service that can also hold photos.

>b- the difference between Google Photos and the folder titled "Google Photos" in Google Drive.

The later was a way to access the photos stored in Google Photos through a filesystem.

>c- whether I'll be able to backup/restore the pictures from my Android phone to Google Drive.

I think you back them up to Google Photos.

>d- whether this affects me at all.

It does if you relied on access to your photos through a gdrive-synced directory on your computer.
That's like saying I shouldn't fight for my rights unless I fight for the rights of every person on planet earth. Where does our obligation to others start and end? No. First and foremost I will fight for my own freedoms.
Interesting. I personally use https://outbankapp.com/en/.

The app is closed-source; everything is locally stored.

It allows me to track my bank accounts, including portfolios, etc. from most German and Dutch banks, credit cards, etc..

Additionally it can track BTC, ETH wallets, connect to Coinbase and a few other exchanges and membership programs.

I would never use a wealth management app requiring manual entry. That`s just slightly better than a spreadsheet. Keep up the work!

Caveat: Only supported in Germany and the Netherlands at the moment (IIRK).

Edit: A similar offering I just remembered: https://www.numbrs.com/en_uk/. Might be some good inspiration as well.
The audience of Harvard Business Review articles are managers, probably ones with some level of self awareness with regard to self improvement, and this article is written to business management as a set of recommendations on how handle stodgy IT departments AND rule breakers.

The article we are commenting on is trying to teach management to identify when things need to move through the entire IT project lifecycle, and when to let them mostly self sustain (except obviously nobody should ever sign up for a single thing no matter what it is, if it supports SSO, until the company connects their identity management to it!!)
We can’t be above nature because we are part of nature. And some things are not fixable at all or even worth fixing without diverting significant resources away from better uses.
When will people realize that best practices aren't created by Facebook.
I don't know enough about those laws to know the legal status of this, but that would definitely be a concern for me too. Also the lion iconography rules out any argument that the name isn't 100% GoT inspired.
To me, the fact that it doesn't provide a fancy GUI on MacOS is a pro not a con. I'd much prefer to browse the snapshots using a normal file browser.

The Time Machine GUI was cool at first. Now it's just obnoxious.
I think we got our site back on the archive by adjusting our robots.txt.
Probably the same as instagram itself: incessant, vapid marketing to teenagers
DevOps = sysadmin who can write simple automation scripts.

Which is a good thing. (Compare SDETs with manual testers for a similar thing in another domain.)

All of which has little to do with Kubernetes.
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You need an account just to generate text?
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Alternative for Feedly?
I know rss readers have been discussed at length on HN but I tried several of them and couldn't find what I was looking for (not for free/cheap anyway).

Here's my problem:

In Feedly's "Today" view I only always get 12 articles per feed. Why can't I see all articles from today or the last 24 hours or something?
I can see more if I refresh the "Today" view, but I don't want to have to keep refreshing. I just want to see everything for today (whatever today means in Feedly).

Any suggestions?

What would also be great is once I finished with "Today" I could see the top X most popular articles from all my older unread articles. That way I read through the latest plus the most popular from last week. And I'm done. 0 inbox.
>It's funny, you never see anyone arguing that Netflix is under some kind of obligation to let everyone watch their programming anonymously for free.

That's because we don't bother talking about it, it just gets done. Why waste time on a trivial situation? Instead, talk about the NYT which is an important cultural institution. Plus I can read a free copy at my local library, or at NYPL, anonymously.
Could playing computer games improve your peripheral vision?
It's interesting to contrast the comments here to the short stream on /r/dropbox: https://www.reddit.com/r/dropbox/comments/bzfwxv/meet_the_ne...

I'm guessing most folks here aren't actually the target market anymore for Dropbox ("teams that use Dropbox as the main workspace" as one commenter phrases it)
“Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.”

We aren’t talking about corporations, but rather publicly traded companies. As the previous article pointed out you do have an obligation to your shareholders, and that obligation is to somehow act in their best interest.

Certainly the stock market price goes down if you aren’t growing. And prices going down means you’re not doing right by your shareholders.

I’m happy to be wrong here (I hope it’s true) but whether law or not it seems to be an immutable force.
>The vast majority of these privacy policies exceed the college reading level. And according to the most recent literacy survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, over half of Americans may struggle to comprehend dense, lengthy texts. That means a significant chunk of the data collection economy is based on consenting to complicated documents that many Americans can’t understand.

How is this different to law itself? If we're going to argue that it's problematic for something as (relatively) inconsequential as privacy policies to be unintelligible, shouldn't we start with something more basic?
Paywall, as happens more and more frequently.
I have recently been wondering if, instead of a company having a privacy policy, they could instead use a privacy license. This way you could easily discern their stance on privacy from the name of the license. Not sure if anything like this exists or if it would be worth looking into.
Not sure about export, but linked recently on HN. (Android app available)

https://bloom.sh
This is precisely why I don't feel bad about asking innocent questions.

If they can't handle basic conversation, it's them.
Sadly Backup and Sync is a buggy mess for me on MacOS. I have one picture apparently that keeps the app spinning and trying to upload but never does. It doesn't fail either. It just keeps spinning.
Of course there is no log for me to see which photo the culprit might be (and hence reencode it or move it out from that photo folder)
No. I’ve successfully used an OSX virtual machine to broker between Apple Photos and other object/file management systems though.
It's a very real problem for many if not most surviving DSL connections. Cable has gotten a bit better in recent years, but 10:1 is still about the best you can normally expect, and 20:1 or 25:1 is still common for some of the higher speed tiers on cable. So ACKs can realistically be expected to take up half of your upstream bandwidth on common connection types. That's far from irrelevant unless you never transmit anything other than ACKs and HTTP GETs.
Ultimately, China owns Hong Kong and will subsume Hong Kong sooner or later. What leverage does HK have besides taking to the streets every few years? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Hong_Kong_protests)
I'm starting a company and writing native clients. There isn't any reason not to. There are lots of cross-platform GUI libraries that are fine for business applications, you get native speed, there are plenty of languages that are both safe and fast. You get full access to the full power of the OS if you need it. I think the current craze of non-native clients is because of web-developers who don't know how to do anything else, so they just mimic a website on desktop.
They've done this for a while. They've even put subreddits (theredpill) as a hate group as well. (Yes, they're a less savory sub.. but an organized group no).

Also a thing to note: They've put pepe as an official hate symbol. (Sigh.. poor pepe)
> Whatever happened to the philosophy of “do one thing and do it well”?

This relies on composability, integrating together several such components into a coherent whole.

Users don't understand composability or want to do it. They want the integration to already exist and just work.
All or nearly all privacy policies are incomprehensible. The main exceptions appear to be European, or non-profit's.

Does this uniform incomprehensibility come from an identifiable root cause, or is it just emergent because of a variety of factors, not all of which afflict every company?
To be fair, the example we're responding to was that asymmetric.

Also for reference, most TCP stacks default to sending one ACK per two packets received.
> altruism doesn't scale

Incentives don't exist on a one dimensional scale from pure greed to pure altruism.

People have lots of contextually dependent reasons for storing or sharing information. Those reasons are dynamic and super diverse.

In your case, why would you need lots of people to seed your 100 GB of personal vacation photos? You can seed them just fine! But don't use bittorrent, use the right tool for the job...

As a matter of fact, for the past 4 years I've been using btsync/resilio/syncthing to backup my personal media across different devices, as well as 70GB of audio projects. It's been working great.

That seems like a relatively small scale. And I'll bet some of those photos would be interesting enough to family and friends that they'd seed them.

From my naive perspective, the information itself is much more raw of a "currency" than any abstract economy built on top of it. Its "value" is determined by its relevance to one or many people, and p2p sharing, I believe, has the ability to accommodate this across many scales.

Why did public trackers fail? It wasn't because people didn't want to seed the content, it's because seeding the content became legally dangerous (and the trackers got shut down). To me, that's not a failure of "altruism", it's a failure caused by greed and an inability of industry to adapt.

And also by the reality that the tools are prototype level. Bittorrent and bitcoin are two incredible examples of applied cryptography and network science. They've showed us what's possible, but they're only the tip of the iceberg.

For many applications, lack of commodification is a feature, not a bug. What's holding us back is that the tools aren't built yet, but that's a work in progress!
Or through their tor service.
I have some questions about this model. Big ask I know but I am wondering if you'd reach out to me to discuss your interpretation of it (contact info in profile). I think there are some missing pieces here, and I'd really like to discuss this issue in depth with someone who understands the tech and the law as I think there may be a startup in some other places this law is applicable.
Incentive structures always tell the tale, and people have a nasty tendency to figure them out quickly, regardless of what their mission statement says on paper.
Hey, you might want to look at NYU ITP. It's courses are at the intersection of Art and Technology and might be in line with what you are looking for. I am currently studying there and would be happy to chat about it. (Also, I am from India and started school here in my 30s)
Get your own NextCloud instance; you'd need to pay for some Linux VPS (<$5/month); installation takes 5 minutes and you have clients for all major desktop/mobile platforms.
While working briefly for a telecom I was involved in a project that was installing point to point microwave transmitters in Africa instead of fiber optic cable because the locals kept cutting the cables hoping to steal the non-existent copper.

Without the logistical infrastructure in place I don't know how you hope to drop a data center in Africa and hope to have costs be anywhere near what they are in the developed world.
They don't affect desktop computers because desktop computers can't do those things. That was kind of my point - a lot of people who weren't introduced to desktop computers first won't really find them to be terribly useful compared to what their phone can do.

My original idea was to write a critique of the article going down each complaint, but I decided against it due to length/time. My thoughts briefly/not-so briefly:

- By the author's definition, an Arduino is an "unequal" device because you can't program it from itself. And yet it's a very popular fully open source embedded computer.

- A smartphone user might consider the fact that their laptop to "not be a real network device" since it can't connect to the Internet outside of WiFi range. The complaint about battery usage applies 100% to any sort of laptop computer - if you leave your IRC client running you will most certainly eventually run out of battery. There are plenty of IRC clients for iOS and Android.

- Centralization was happening without smartphones, because it's a convenience feature for non-technical users. It's fine to criticize someone like me for backing up my photos using iCloud, but it's also important to recognize that before these centralized services existed, non-technical users really didn't have options. And there was plenty of centralization in the years leading up to smartphones: AOL, AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Flickr, Xanga, LiveJournal, etc.

- They have ruined web design, says the author with the webpage from 1995 with a giant obstructing background image.

- If there are no secure smartphones, is a PC with a proprietary BIOS really secure? Is a PC tricking non-technical users to install unsigned code, toolbars, and fake anti-virus programs secure compared to a centralized app store? There is no 100% secure system, is there? It's about mitigating and reducing risk.

The tl;dr of this is that, the real flaw of this article is the author's perspective. I respect the author for holding these idealogical viewpoints, but they'll only hold weight with a tiny, tiny subculture of computing purists. There are 3 billion smartphone users out there, and many of them will never own a computer. Most people never write a line of code. This is all OK.

I'm sure there's some kind of ideological win that refraining from smartphones rewards a person with, but to me it just feels like someone who's not using the new thing because they don't understand it and want to resist change. Like how my grandparents still drive to the bank, walk up to the teller, and withdraw cash from a human. I'm sure it's nice in some ways but it's also a massive waste of time, effort, and resources.
There's an ongoing study whose early results found that even if people read and understood privacy policies (for mobile apps), those policies are incomplete, wrong, or self-contradictory a decent chunk of the time: https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SPW2019/ConPro/papers/okoyo...

It's hard to see privacy policies being written in good faith. In my opinion, they're little more than declarations of "I'm going to do all these sketchy things with your data, and it's your responsibility to protect yourself from me."
I agree. How could a Federal rule supersedes a state law.
If FCC they want the rule that bad the feds need to make it a law. A rule that can be changed by politics is not a law.
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