skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of companies have probably attempted to achieve Craigslist-levels of simplicity; we never hear about them because they have mostly ended up on the ash heap of failed businesses.

Craigslist won big early on because they took the personals and ads business away from broadsheet newspapers. That's pretty much it; they didn't try to go beyond that, and they're completely justified in not wanting to. Airbnb came in and pretty much took all of CL's short-term rentals business. CL is a small company and Craig Newsom (sp?) probably didn't even care.

He had the advantage of getting there first, and making a ton of money as a result. That is not the case today, so to expect newer companies to follow in CL's footsteps is unrealistic.
I don't use any apps that require the Services Framework. (I really just use my phone for HN, Twitter, messaging, basic browsing and public transport.) I know that this isn't applicable to everyone though.

Actually, since I've ditched WhatsApp a few days ago, I'm running 100% FOSS (sans some proprietary blobs and all the network services) on my phone.
It looks like you are blaming people for standing up for their rights. The reason they still have special status is also because they have not been shy about fighting for their rights in the past, otherwise it would have been taking away a long time ago.
Instead of blaming people for defending their rights (bringing everyone down), perhaps a better avenue would be to stand up with them and also protest and ask for more rights (bringing everyone up).
Out of curiosity, what do you use now?

I just went full Linux and I am looking for a good Cloud storage for my docs and pics.
In fact, Bitcoin's blockchain is not the right data structure for something like this.
Privacy Policies Are an Incomprehensible Disaster
Idea Debt (2016)
The computer that took Nasa to the moon
Their scheme as described in #227 would make sense, if they were designing IPFS as a service for Plan 9.
> So, as AMD’s new 16-core Zen 2 flagship has now been officially launched

Does that mean there's no 16c Threadripper planned?
"> How low of a rate are you willing to accept,

"See my other comment"

Where you never answered.

1/10? 1/100? 1/1000?

Keep in mind that those statistics are very indirect, particularly since once an execution is carried out, no one has any incentive or interest in reexamining the case.
R. Stevie Moore is the greatest musician you’ve never heard of
I agree if it has to be hardware, otherwise you just build software.
It looks like single core performance is still worse than i9 9900K. I wonder how this could look like when overclocked?
Sadly my workflow prioritises fast core over multiple cores - audio production. This workflow cannot be made parallel as one plugin depends on the output of another. If plugins can't keep up with filling the buffer you get stuttering.
Single core limits you how much processing you can have on a single audio track and multiple cores how many tracks of that processing you can get.
It looks like I wouldn't be able to run my chain in realtime on this new AMD even if it had 100 cores.
Damnit :(
Interesting, thanks! From that article, Intel's TDP is roughly equal to the power draw during full load on base frequency. How does AMD define it then?

Also, what about GPUs TDP?
Startup Aims to 3D Print Cheaper, Lighter Rockets
The Gemini ( https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gemini-pda-android-linux-... ) and the Cosmo ( https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cosmo-communicator#/ ) are both nearly (but not quite) there.

I have a Gemini and have been very pleased with it and have supported the Cosmo too because I want to support them. I'm hoping that if they continue to make sales they'll continue to develop newer devices.

These projects aren't quite delivering your complete feature set but they're making the best go of it out of anyone I've seen.
Except I use them hundreds to thousands of times, they carry twice as much and they don't break.
Why? I just wrote that it's obviously better. Just not nearly as much better as people seem to believe.
Well, they're probably a little biased towards using Python, since they have the former BDFL just lying around :)
This is all well and good, but I can't find the answer to the most important question to me: does it have 'ladders?'
Dang. That's the one way I've found to get all my photos syncing to a folder on my desktop. I find it very useful to take a picture on my phone and then have it magically appear in my desktop file system later.

Edit:

> You’ll still be able to use Backup and Sync on Windows or macOS to upload to both services

Wait, I'm confused. The only way I could find to do this before was to enable dumping my photos to Drive and then allow 'Backup and Sync' to sync that folder. I must be missing something.
So to address "confusion" with this, they're going to leave users with two separate copies of all their photos which no longer sync so that when you think you deleted a photo you might find it in your account again somewhere else later...

I don't feel like this is a solution that adequately addresses user confusion, but rather arbitrarily introduces it.
How big is your sync folder? I have around 25GB I'd like to get off Dropbox.
I've substantially de-Googled but there's still the huge issue of mobile operating systems.

If I choose iOS, I get a device that respects my privacy and gives me some degree of control over what apps on my device can do (e.g. GPS permissions are much more useful) but I can't install what I like on my device and I can't globally block ads and trackers.

If I choose Android with Google's apps preinstalled, I give up OS-level privacy and control but I can install what I like, including a device-wide, whitelist-based firewall, with which I can restrict ads and trackers.

If I choose Android without Google's apps, I get a much greater amount of privacy and control over my device but I can't use common applications like my local public transit app.
I was actually just talking to a coworker last week about this, and he told me that modern rootstock almost entirely comes from Grayson County, Texas (a.k.a. the Sherman-Denison MSA, just north of the Dallas area).

Interestingly enough, a few weeks ago I had a Riesling from Washington that had "100% vinifera rootstock" prominently printed on the label. Not every part of the world got hit by phylloxera. I understand that some parts of South America (either Argentina or Chile, I can't remember) were spared as well.
> I miss building my own computer out of TTL chips.

That sounds like an interesting project! Can you expand on it? When was this? How many TTL chips did it take? What other components did you use? What did you do with the end result?
I use KyPass on iOS and I am happy with it. I think it is 6$ on the app store.
I read this article a couple of years ago (via HN) and didn't think much of it at the time. Since then, this "binders of lore" concept popped back in my mind a number of times, and actually pushed me to take some of those jumps.

So I'm reposting, for the benefit of people who missed it last time. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11027684
The Apple ecosystem welcomes you with open arms.

I store every photo and video I’ve ever taken [hundreds of GBs, first photos are from my teens in high school circa 1997] in Apple Photos; highly recommend it. Yes, you pay a bit for the storage. Yes, it’s a closed ecosystem. Yes, I also backup my originals to Backblaze. But deprecation, ever, is highly unlikely while the UX is top notch. More good things coming for photos in iOS 13!
Right, so CULT is maybe not the redundant one. Maybe the uops.info guys should use CULT, I dunno. Also, if it's for fun, anything goes, of course. I just feel sometimes like there is a lot of division of effort: it would be nice to have a standard single data source for instruction performance attributes.

I am surprised I never ran across this before, because when I found uops.info, I was like "finally, this stuff is online and linkable" - but maybe that already happened earlier with ASMGrid?

Anyways, I can run this on SKL, SKX, CNL for you.
Given that Erlang is sufficiently different from anything else I've seen, it doesn't surprise me that trying to be productive in Erlang before you knew it well enough was suboptimal experience. I like it, and more specifically Elixir, quite a bit, but the learning curve was steep.
Behind the Lines
What is the Apple support life cycles for OS X? Last I remember it they didn't support much beyond the current version and previous.
... every single time.
Kowloon south of Boundary street was also ceded in perpetuity to the UK in 1860. Kowloon north of boundary street was leased for 99 years in 1898. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_Street
I may be misunderstanding the issue you're pointing out here... but I note that while the paper/sentence talks about "authorization" you're talking about centralized "authentication."

As an authorization system Zanzibar focuses on: can agent A (identified through some means) perform action X on object Y. It isn't about deciding whether an arbitrary actor is agent A but proscribing what actions agent A can perform against the universe of all possible objects (which likewise are referenced abstractly and not stored within the system itself).

The knowledge that A could do X on Y is information that might be disclosed (and thus entails some privacy risk)... but inherently doesn't reveal: anything about the identity of A; whether A has ever done X; or what Y's contents are or what it represents.

On the other hand, perhaps you mean that because membership in sets of users is also stored within it (via a sort of "is member of" permission) you can use that to de-anonymize who a given actor is. This might work but it assumes you can uniquely derive which agent from a set of abstract agents represents that individual and that you extrinsically something about the person being the only person in this specific set of sets.
Something like 4 in 10 americans can't come up with $400 without selling something or going into debt, and a credit card is something everyone should have as it's more secure than debit and interest free if you don't spend more than you have and pay it off right away.
From my understanding it's an error from a Swiss data center that Chinese telecom is constantly exploiting, so blaming the Swiss telecom is blaming the victim for letting their guard down.
The lack of Time Machine backup into iCloud is just baffling to me. That 2TB package has lots of room for backup. If they're worried about eating too much into shared space then let me pay for a time machine partition.
Is there a site where people can bet when do Google shutdown products? I'm curious what's the o/u on Stadia right now
Our IT security department was incentivized to deny everything from new tools to new internal applications.

We had an outside firm making security decisions and if there were any security issues it would end up being on them. So as long as they did not allow us to release any products and or install any software they could not be held responsible.

I made friends with a lower level contractor who told me off the record to use my judgement on what to install to get the job done, because the security department would never approve anything new unless directly instructed to by the CEO.

Fast forward three months, there was a major security flaw on our website (also built with outsourced labor) which allowed anyone to access private data without a login.

A few of us had reported to the security department that the code running the website was so poorly written that the odds of being insecure were close to 100 percent. We suggested upgrading the website and rewriting the code, and management was on board with this but security department refused to allow us to use any new frameworks since they were not approved. Of course in a matter of a few months the site was hacked and millions were spent as a result.

I quit this job after we were unable to release several products after a year even though we jumped through every hoop we needed to. That department killed all innovation.
Case-by-case basis is a slippery slope to unchecked power. Let’s also not pretend that China hasn’t fabricated charges against those it doesn’t like (e.g. Ai Weiwei’s “tax fraud”).

Lastly, as sad as it is freedom has a price (not just in the military sense as often echoed stateside). Sometimes that price is death without what everyone would called justice (which in this case is extradition). Abraham Lincoln’s words, you will have situations where people will be “sacrifices on the altar of freedom.”
Ask HN: How Do I Thrive Working with a “Hands-On” Founder?
I just started work as interim CMO on very exciting new marketplace project. The founder and I get along great. He has no ego, 20 years of domain experience, and works with a small team that has been by his side for more than a decade. He defies all the stereotypes, except one--he's extremely hands-on. Too much so.

While the founder isn't your "typical" control freak, or a micromanager, per se, but he wants to do everything himself.

It's been great in many ways. Today I refreshed my knowledge of PPC ad buying as we reviewed our paused campaign with another consultant. Last week we set up our CRM from scratch. I know I'm adding tremendous value, and I feel appreciated every day.

While today was great, we also spent the better part of an hour fine-tuning a single email to cold leads. And on today's PPC call, our founder went down the rabbit hole trying to tweak the copy in a single Google ad. Successful campaigns run and optimize dozens or hundreds of variations.

I admire and appreciate our CEOs commitment to getting things right. He's excited to learn, and I'm learning along with him. I am also afraid his time and my own aren't being put to their best use. Tasks take 5x longer than they otherwise might.

I've worked with many (many) startups where VC's set unhealthy growth targets, and everyone runs themselves into the ground. Now we're self-funded, and time pressure seems to be a thing of the past. After building the platform for the past three years, we signed up our first user this week.

No one is cracking the whip, and I admire and vibe with our CEO. I also notice myself getting impatient with the glacial pace.

Am I crazy to look sideways at such a chill situation? How can I guide our hands-on CEO to move little faster, or let go of individual tasks sooner?

If you have strategies to make this partnership thrive, I'd love to hear your best tips.
So... Can we get Picasa back?
Why do you figure? If it's part of the protocol, wouldn't clients use it?
That seems like a fair trade off.
I don't think not using their products is a solution. Even if you don't use facebook, your friends and colleagues have your name and phone number on their phone, and your friends upload photos with your face in them. You may also share the wifi with family members so facebook knows where you are indirectly.

As we are all parts of the society that we can't escape from, regulation matters a lot to everybody who may or may not use facebook products.
I was going to point out that you're missing (or intentionally ignoring) the very next piece in that debate series[1] linked at the bottom of your link, which takes the view that this requirement doesn't exist. But it's not a very good-quality piece, which is presumably a function of the article format (short-form debate aimed at unsophisticated readers).

The flipside of that is that I don't think your original linked piece makes much of a case at all either.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...
The President was mighty sympathetic with the plight of those Charlottesville white nationalists, by his own admission. He views them as his supporters, his base, his constituency. To believe that their ethos has no influence on the administration strains credulity.
Because Intel and Apples CPU business is larger than a generation of competitors CPU's that finally provide competition?
There are many different standards available. They are useful for petrochemical engineers, but not generally for laypeople. If you want to make an environmentally friendly choice, the safest bet is always going to be bring your own dishes.
Hehe, if you think this is nuts, come to pharma. We can't do jack shit with our machines. If you so much as change the time on your machine, that is a 'data integrity breach', and if your actions are determined to be malicious it can result in a firing.
If you are up to self-hosting, Nextcloud has this feature as well :)
IPFS is a victim of the great plague of modern software development: over-engineering. They've spent far too much time coding and far too little time thinking of ways to avoid coding by simplifying their algorithms and protocols and most importantly by carefully defining and scoping their problem.

The massive amount of cryptocurrency funny money they raised makes this problem worse, not better. Lots of money leads to too many cooks in the kitchen. Large organizations require immense discipline to avoid scope creep and runaway complexity growth. They need someone to say "no!" 95% of the time and relentlessly exterminate features and not allow things to be released unless they are ready and actually solve a problem.

Most large organizations don't have this, which is why most "enterprise" software is a mass of twine and chewing gum. In the case of enterprise over-engineered bloatware you usually have some corporate requirement forcing its use. No corporate requirement forces IPFS or any of Protocol Labs' other sprawling mega-projects to be used, so nobody is going to use them.
I built some open source tools to accomplish everything that this article tries to achieve. It's totally possible and borderline-easy to use IPFS to create uncensorable websites:

Check it out. Make up your own opinion:

http://troutsblog.com
> How does 16 core Ryzen 9 3950X have the same TDP as 12 core Ryzen 9 3900X (105W)?

Binning? There's variation in yields, the better parts might get classified as 3950X, the lesser ones get 4 cores disabled and a 3900X branding.
> You can't un-execute someone.

You also can't un-imprison someone. Sure, you can release him, but he'll never get those years back; his relationships will never be the same again; the trauma of imprisonment will never leave him.

I think the thing which needs to be done is to fix the judicial system: if we can't rely on it to correctly impose death, then we can't rely on it to correctly impose imprisonment. Maybe we need to incentivise prosecutors differently; maybe we need to conduct investigations differently; maybe we need to adjust the jury system.

Some people are against capital punishment in any case even if it is 100% painless and the judicial process is completely correct. I don't really have anything to say to them: it's obvious to me that there are certain crimes which absolutely merit that punishment and that to refrain from killing the guilty in that case is a profound injustice.
Per TFA, while the initial 'seed' of the error originated in Switzerland, China Telecomm magnified and exacerbated it.
While IANAL, I'm not sure keeping email in a US company causes it to have privacy. For example, law enforcement in the US can subpoena email contents older than 180 days. No warrant required.

Google's transparency report shows they've shared a lot of data. Google's support site has details on the process.

Both Google and Fastmail have access to email. The encryption circumvention doesn't matter to Fastmail because they already complied with law enforcement just like Google does.

I'd be curious if someone has details or an argument different from this.
How do you think your average Chinese in the neighbouring regions perceive these protest? Do you think they are sympathetic to your cause?
Huawei cancels laptop launch because of US trade blacklist
I have used a phone=>Photos=>Drive=>computer setup for several less technical people to have their photos sync from their phones to computers automatically so they can use local apps to browse and edit them.

I guess I'll have to migrate them to some other scheme...
Keep Unions Out of Grad School
"For comparison, here are the scores for some classic texts. Only Immanuel Kant’s famously difficult “Critique of Pure Reason” registers a more challenging readability score than Facebook’s privacy policy. (To calculate their reading time, I measured the first chapter of each text.) "

I'm feeling an interesting mix of laughter and sadness. How can you not laugh at the ridiculousness of a privacy policy being less legible than "Criqiue of Pure Reason"? How can you not feel a tinge of sadness at the state of the world when this is not only acceptable, but expected?

Yet, it doesn't surprise me that privacy policies are generally hot garbage. And that's sad too.
This is perhaps the most poignant comment in the article:

"CERN has enjoyed special conditions for the use of Microsoft products for the last 20 years, by virtue of its status as an “academic institution”. However, recently, the company has decided to revoke CERN’s academic status, a measure that took effect at the end of the previous contract in March 2019, replaced by a new contract based on user numbers, increasing the license costs by more than a factor of ten."
The source mentions that this benchmark was of an early sample unit -- with a base clock of 3.9GHz and a boost clock of 4.29GHz. The final production unit is specified at base 3.5GHz and boost of 4.7GHz. I'd expect if it can sustain that boost clock with any longevity that it might come notably closer to the i9-9900k in performance.
I used to run CP/M on an Apple ][e with a Zilog Z80 card.¹

I learned pascal on it (Turbo pascal) and C as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-80_SoftCard
I've recently (in the last fortnight) started getting voicemails from local numbers, but in either Cantonese or Mandarin. I wish I understood the message; it might make it less unsettling in light of this story.
Places in Europe Offering Shelter from the Crowds
It was a Swiss company making a config error on their side, how is this incompetence on the Chinese end?

One thing you could criticize them for is that they're one of the few larger ones that still don't use MANRS, which is most likely since they use BGP spoofing domestically for censorship.
The new law does that, the prior/current law does that. The new law REDUCES the number of codified crimes you can be extradited for, from over 45 down to 37.

What is accurate?

Yes, perhaps mainland China could exert influence over the independent court or counsel and create bargaining chips.

Yes, perhaps many of the protestors don't know the existing and proposed flowchart of how deportations work. Perhaps many do and feel compelled to broadcast their ideological stance.

This is primarily an ideological issue, this is more about the principle itself. The people of Hong Kong want the representatives that they are skeptical of already to know that merely creating the avenue for deportation to China is an ideological line not to cross.
It used to be, but that makes a little less sense nowadays with the extremely bursty power usage of modern CPUs.
That Apple have married themselves to Thunderbolt (co-developed by Apple and Intel) may have had something to do with it. Previously Thunderbolt was not well supported on AMD platforms, as I understand it. This appears to be changing though.
That’s a strong assertion to make without backing it up with anything
And if you don't want to self-host Dropbox does this out of the box.
So you think AMD cpus weren't competitive until now?
This seems to be the one guy on the planet who surpasses Trump in his ability to get into the news every 2 days. No tweeting required even. How are his staff not just jumping out of windows? I mean it's been one article after the other for 3 years now. Almost impressed by the endurance.