skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both parties are to blame.

The Swiss company is to blame for making the mistake.

China telecom is to blame for not putting in place basic safeguards to prevent this.

Typos happen, everyone makes mistakes. Luckily internet routing has a system to prevent mistakes from spreading across the internet.

China is messing up this error protection system that everyone else is using by not participating.

You can't stop people from making mistakes, but hopefully you can get the people who are supposed to be preventing the mistakes to do their job.
At what piont do you see issues? I'm on the free tier and only have about 3GB of files and have never noticed any CPU usages issues with Dropbox on my Mac
I'm confused, we'll have a separate Photos folder somewhere?

That won't sync? I thought just photos on Drive wouldn't sync.
Or if you'd prefer to host your own media, SyncThing!

https://syncthing.net/
Aside from the ethnography you lay out, do you think FB/Zuck should enjoy zero liability for all privacy issues that transpire now or in the future?

>it turns out Coca Cola knew its products could lead to obesity. Of course they did, and no reasonable person thought it didn’t.

https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2005/02/15/51...
Interpreting Hip-Hop for the Deaf (2017)
Yes, that's a big target as well. Food containers are a more accessible problem for most people, but we are working with organizations that lobby for improved fishing regulations.

One of the things we do is monthly beach cleanups. While we're cleaning a beach, we'll section off an area and carefully count and categorize the trash we find in that area (such as fishing nets). We share the info with organizations like our local university and department of fisheries and oceans, so that they'll have recent evidence that they can use when asking for regulatory changes.
Watch the video, your points are addressed.
Anyone looking for alternatives- I've been using Flickr pro and loving it. It's cheap, no longer requires a yahoo auth, and works really well.

I initially resisted when they changed their pricing scheme and set up my own "self hosted" solution. After about 5 months of this I decided I missed Flickr and that it was worth the 60$ a year or whatever(I honestly don't know).

Not affiliated in any way but I do hope they get more customers and stick around, it's a good service.
related: list of cognitive architectures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_architecture
Probably depends what tests they pay for.
I have heard about this book "Notes on the synthesis of form", will check it out.
Firstly, the proposed law in question affects mainland Chinese people just as much as local HK people (in fact, it affects everyone who steps foot in Hong Kong).

Secondly, what do you think all those Tiananmen Square vigils held in HK every single year for the past 30 years were for?
Even if the magnification of the error was entirely do to incompetence on the part of China Telecom (vs malice/espionage), any data mis-routed must be treated as if it were fully logged and analyzed by China's security services for military, industrial, and political advantage.

Another massive security hole from dealing with China.

They are taking advantage of open western societies to strategically run rings around them.
Most of the things I've made are not public-facing. I just try to keep things simple. My sites generally require page loads more than the average single page application, but they have the advantage of loading faster and working in nearly any browser, even super old ones.
Yes, I understand that. And I know that I might be spreading FUD here (which I wanna avoid).

However I'm concerned that the Australian government (given their recent authoritarian actions) might be a little too quick to request my data from FastMail.
Single-core performance > Multi-core performance for most workloads. Maybe in 10 years it will be the opposite.
It's both a strength and weakness. For innovation, U.S. was among the strongest in the world during Strategic Computing Initiative where DARPA funded all kinds of industry work. Led to many innovations of today. Then, the weakness comes in with them caring only about profit (security is cost center), short term gains tied to executives' bonuses, and so on. That's when state involvement can help. We did have that under the TCSEC with DOD making security standards, incentivizing private sector to build them, and evaluating their security. Multiple agencies also offer security advice and testing. The middle ground looks to be regulations ensuring the basics are in place on top of continual improvement.

If China wants a model, the TCSEC is a decent start at one. It was made for military requirements, though. Like MLS. The next approach should focus on commercial needs. Also, both TCSEC and Common Criteria were paper heavy with long evaluations after product development was done. The next should focus on actual code with reviewers getting into the process early on, reviewing deliverable by deliverable, so they have better insight into what's going on with faster time to market. Lots of room for improvement over the current model.

TCSEC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computer_System_Evalua...

Example of what industry was doing under TCSEC

https://csrc.nist.gov/csrc/media/publications/conference-pap...

Modern example from that lineage:

https://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/papers_ps/nizza.pdf
In that case, Intel should be in big trouble, because the advertised TDP seems to be less than half the power required to reach the chips' advertised performance:

> In this case, for the new 9th Generation Core processors, Intel has set the PL2 value to 210W. This is essentially the power required to hit the peak turbo on all cores, such as 4.7 GHz on the eight-core Core i9-9900K. So users can completely forget the 95W TDP when it comes to cooling.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/13400/intel-9th-gen-core-i9-9...

In other words

1) Intel's advertised "TDP" = true? (they don't use the same original meaning of the "Total Design Power" anymore)

2) Intel's advertised peak performance = true (with caveats such as all the mitigations required for the CPU flaws, which lower performance)

3) Intel's advertised peak performance at advertised TDP = BIG FAT LIE
Dropbox is valued at 9 BILLION dollars. With that valuation, they can't just be a file sync app, they are required to have some kind of "take over the world" roadmap.
I would have been excited if these were open integration points; instead it's just allowing you to connect your various walled gardens together :(
Avoid unproductive meetings and feedback sessions
Off topic, but Pink Floyd's 'Animals' record is a retelling of Animal Farm applied to 1970s Great Britain. Great record.
Pretty sure Intel simply doesn't do bespoke parts (especially relatively low margin ones) so AMD is pretty much the only option.

After dropping Gen 7's PPC, both the PS4 and the XB1 were customised AMD APU, and there's no great architectural rival.
Customers abandoned the taxi industry because their dispatchers sucked, and drivers would refuse fares that begine or end in a location they personally preferred not to serve. This is "the dispatcher problem" I mentioned above.
I see they are going the Photos for the Mac and iCloud Drive route. Meh. It makes sense but it was a feature for Google Drive. Now it just seems like an annoyance for people to try to deduplicate their Photos.
I've used Dropbox since the beginning, and Nextcloud for the last few years. Nextcloud client seems to use %10 of the memory of Dropbox on my machines. I'm now in the process of switching to SyncThing. The advantage of Syncthing over Nextcloud, is you can used it centralized or decentralized (without a server), I dont need to manage SSL certs and I dont have to poke holes in my firewall. Syncthing client also uses very little memory (a bit more then Nextcloud, but hey Syncthing is both a client and a server). Each of these services have their own strengths, so it depends on the features you want.
What I really don't understand is, why I still cant put a dropbox paper document in a folder with my files on dropbox?
Given our ability to exist in just one universe, the choice is not an alternate history versus present reality. It makes your framing odd. If you take the wrongful conviction as an axiom, the choice between death penalty and life imprisonment seems like an infinitely better improvement. If you can solve wrongful conviction (a separate issue that is much wider ranging that just the death penalty, given being barred from many lines of work and loss of one's right to vote after felony convictions, among other things) then that would obviously be better.
Not as good as Apple Photos unfortunately (for photos and video), and I say this as a proponent of SyncThing [1]. On device facial recognition, album sharing and syncing, etc.

Most people’s time is worth paying for something that just works.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20160755
Until Intel releases their 3D chiplet technology, is it even possible for them to compete on price with Zen 2?

The yields for their high-end multicore packages must be abysmal compared to the 7nm TSMC chiplets AMD is packing together.
Hi there! There's work to do on both, and I encourage you to contribute to core if you like! We could really use performance improvements on the checkers--Knossos and set-full are great, but much more expensive than they need to be. It'd be nice to have a robust mechanism for adjusting CLOCK_MONOTONIC & friends. I don't have a good way to inject filesystem level faults, like simulated node crashes where non-fsynced data is lost. jepsen.control is plagued by what I think are race conditions in Jsch, which I've never had the chance to dig in and fix.

Writing tests is also great! Pick a system you like and dive in. There's a full tutorial (https://github.com/jepsen-io/jepsen/tree/master/doc/tutorial) that walks you through designing and running a test from scratch.
This is great, I've been evaluating CockroachDB for a high-write data situation, and TiDB came up as an alternative. CRDB having a Jepsen test and TiDB not having one made the decision pretty favored to CRDB. Looks like I can really give both a look now.
Arguably self signed certs eliminates possible state funded middle man attacks making it more secure
No, on its own these things aren’t a solution, but collectively we are able to add to pressures on businesses to adapt their behaviours.
A new Threadripper has been confirmed for late 2019.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd/3rd-gen-ryzen-threadripper-2019...
When I was at school I was told that all we had was this one photo and we didn't know what happened to him. I assume other people were told the same thing.

It turns out that there was a video that shows him being taken away by other civilians the whole time.
You can give monetary compensation (like that's gonna fix it all, but that's another debate) to a living person.
It’s still terrible. Actually Google Drive (or Backup & Sync) client hasn’t improved one bit in the last 4 years. The only update we saw was “material design” revamp that was about it. It still spends 15 minutes “preparing for sync” every time I restart and consumes considerable CPU while doing that too.
> Figure 4. A mobile phone (Samsung Note II) is placed 30 cm from a target laptop.

Less impressive than 6 feet, but still impressive.
Side Note: The owner of this website is an EXCELLENT designer, even though it appears they do it casually
Was going to use Dropbox pro as my photo handling solution but they don't support NFS!? I keep all of my photos on a NAS by my router. I'm sure there is some way around it but Flickr's auto uploader works fine with my NFS set up. This is related to the post I just made in the google photos post.
What a bizarre thing to say? The reason their market _share_ went down is because Google owns Chrome and Android, and incredibly successfully marketed (and still markets) those where it has to, and simply gets free users hand over fist where it doesn't.

When something like Chrome happens (and it happened big, you may remember the global advertisement campaign they ran. How much do you think that cost them?), even if you were to increase your number of daily/weekly/monthly active users, you'd STILL lose market share because Google can literally throw hundreds of millions of dollars at the market and cause your market share to go down simply because they win more new users than you. And there have been a LOT of new users since 2011. It's easy to forget how few people were persistently online back then, and how different sites were. IE9 had just been released. We were still making sites that had to support IE6.

If you don't like what FF has become over the last 8 years, that's fair enough, but calling that the reason why their share is so low is just blatantly ignoring the actual history of the web.
I see a lot of these articles about Facebook and privacy lately, but I'm still wondering what, precisely, Facebook is doing that people object to and what kinds of changes would satisfy those who are upset.

Near as I can tell, this is about data in Facebook's databases finding its way to other organizations without the users' knowledge or consent. But the way this happens is pretty benign:

1. User installs Facebook app, and that app phones home with info about user's friends (who did not consent to this). This is what happened in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. People started asking why apps are allowed to see info about the user's friends (who did not install the app). But to a programmer, the answer is obvious: it's the "app inherits owner's permissions" model that's been part of the Unix tradition for decades. Anyway, Facebook has since changed this behavior.

2. User adds some bots as friends (maybe because their profile photo is of a cute girl), and the bots phone home with public info about user's friends. This is an entirely predictable consequence of the "friends of friends" permission model. Facebook users can set "friends only" permissions to prevent this, but most don't bother.

Is it one of these two vectors that's getting people upset, or something else that I'm missing? Keep in mind that advertisers never get to see people's private info. They just make an ad and say something like "show this to people aged 18-25 who are into video games."
Right now photos sync with google drive. "Once these changes go into effect, this folder will stop receiving updates. It won’t go away; it will just stop syncing with Photos."

Really hope they give users a proper heads up and opt out button like "hey your photos are about to be duplicated do you want to keep the old copies?"
Biggest Google Photos API (replacing this for backup use cases) complaint is that geotags are stripped.
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A bit late to the party, but just FYI, this research uses Legion, a next-generation runtime system we're developing for distributed task execution [1]. Part of the subtext of this paper is that Legion is just much, much more efficient than TensorFlow's execution engine....

[1]: https://legion.stanford.edu/
Thank you! We also have a public roadmap here: https://github.com/orgs/lannister-capital/projects/1 any suggestions or ideas for future development are very welcome!
Then don't link to slow pages. Stop pretending to be the internet.
There are lots of situations where you have no choice but use Facebook. Some schools, for example, communicate through Facebook groups. Your church might do the same thing. You may have relatives abroad you can only talk to through Facebook or WhatsApp, because that's all they know how to use. Your landlord or employer might demand to see your Facebook profile as a condition of getting a lease or a job.

The stance of "just opt out of stuff you don't like" bakes in a lot of assumptions about your position in the world, and trivializes real criticisms of Facebook by people who do not have the same choices you enjoy.
It's not defined on systems unless a document spells it out. However, the actual behavior can be deduced to be harmless from black-box testing. compiler source code and generate object code.
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Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!'
We have no idea of knowing, but from what I've heard, they are simply not aware. Almost anything with the phrase "Hong Kong" was censored inside mainland China today.
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Tinfoil hat time: on HN posts critical of world powers (not just nation states, but incl. tech giants) seem to get brigaided.

But then again, social media brigaiding in the interest of shaping public opinion is very widespread, even lucrative business.
They are scam calls targeting Chinese immigrants essentially saying "your visa has been revoked and you need to pay $$$ to avoid imprisonment". They are in Mandarin to target those who don't speak English and therefore can't ask local authorities for help.
I don't think Apple will adopt AMD cpus, I think they will leapfrog to ARM in 10 years.
> no reasonable person thought it didn’t

What's a reasonable person? Plenty of "reasonable" people drink Coke every day because the system indoctrinates otherwise rational people into believing that sugar isn't a poison comparable to alcohol. One of my friends, who is an attorney, still thinks that snack foods devoid of fat but loaded with sugar are somehow healthier. Speculating how a rational person would respond ideally isn't very useful in this situation because most people, including those who are well educated, are influenced heavily by their environment and, more specifically, peers and authority.

When you have Zuckerberg and journalists touting the end of privacy as being a good thing(there are plenty of articles and quotes from 10 years ago reflecting this sentiment), as well as surveillance gradually integrating into people's lives through convenience, you bet that most people are going to shrug their shoulders at privacy. Does the fact that people comply with invasion of privacy mean that the issue doesn't matter? Maybe it does if you don't think that the behavior of the masses can be manufactured.

I do agree with you that the current media outrage against social media, Silicon Valley, etc., is essentially the same kind of consent-manufacturing as when they were telling us that privacy is gone and that we should accept Facebook as the lesser evil because it "makes us more connected". I happen to agree with the current manufactured outrage, but I don't agree with the intent behind it. (which I suspect has to do with the old-guard media finally realizing that it's dying and it doesn't like the fact that social media has taken their audience and, hence, their money)
Yes it did until Intel redifined it for their chips to be able to show lower number then real power draw in their marketing material.
Is there a better free alternative or should I just pay for iCloud?
Sounds like it won't automatically sync to Drive so you might have to manually share the photo to Drive. Sounds like it adds a button press to your use case but then you can delete the photo from the phone without deleting it everywhere.
Mozilla might be as good as it gets?

That being said, even the other tech giants aren't nearly as bad as Facebook. It just seems to be cultural there at this point.
Vim and NeoVim Vulnerable to High-Severity Security Bug
I haven't tried this, but you could probably getting syncing to work with Dropbox. Everytime I install Dropbox on my phone, I get asked if I'd like to sync my photos, and Dropbox pan-device syncing has always been pretty seamless for me.
I understand your intention, but you have a bit of an uphill battle. Users have to trust you on many levels:

1) The app running on your phone is powered by the software on github.

2) This will not change.

The only way I would use an app like this would be if it were offered by a financial institution that holds my assets. If your app caused me to lose money, I would be SOL. If their's did, they would be required to answer for it.
Yup, back then my way around corporate locked down Windows machines was to only get permission to install VMware Workstation or Virtualbox.

Then fullscreen Ubuntu in a VM from then on. Slower but no restrictions. Even better when Workstation supported multiple screens.
For the life of me, I haven't been able to take Peter seriously. Perhaps his long standing position at the Daily Express and Daily Mail has something to do with that...
Please don't post snark that's completely irrelevant to the article.
As the school becomes more selective due to a larger applicant pool, the degree becomes more prestigious and valuable, because it signals the school takes the very best applicants and therefore has the very best students in the ranks.

School shouldn't be job training only. I majored in a stem field and my favorite classes where the ones where I dove into classical literature, believe it or not. Sure, the degree got me my job, but it also exposed me to the liberal arts in a way that would have been impossible if I tried to study it on my own, because it actively challenged me to step into another field for a minute and reach out to unfamiliar sources to build understanding. There's value in being a well rounded, educated citizen, in my book. The academies of ancient Greece weren't training better farmers or builders, they were training better thinkers and therefore better citizens. That's what modern colleges try to do when they make you take liberal arts classes for an engineering degree. And a chemist who's taken time to learn to read, study, and write well is going to be a better professional chemist than someone who's just done grunt work in the lab and slogged through the chem series, because not only has that better scientist also done that, they've polished their intangibles through liberal arts classes.
Not disagreeing, but just want to note that there's a huge difference between the people doing the June 4 vigils (patriotic, love China, older age, want a democratic united China) and the people doing the current protest (young, unpatriotic, hate China, want independence).
I'm not sure I understand the terminology. If "medical reversal" means -- apologies if I misunderstood -- "stopping a medical treatment which hasn't been shown to be helpful, or one that is not backed by evidence", why is the reversal itself the problem?

Shouldn't the focus be on applying treatments backed by robust evidence in the first place, rather than on medical reversals? Of course the two are connected, but the wording seems odd. Medical reversals seem to be a symptom of the problem, not the root cause.

Of course, I might be misunderstanding the terminology.

edit: I've read the abstract and it seems I am indeed misunderstanding the definition, but for the life of me I cannot understand what "medical reversal" means in layman words.
This is good to know. Are there any reputable benchmarks that show those advantages? Something like FLOPS/watt on some LAPACK or Tensorflow test, or amount of joules to compile the Linux kernel, or anything of this sort?
Yes, of course. You can also give monetary compensation to a dead person's family. Whether either option actually makes things right is debatable.
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