skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm happy and yet disappointed to see I'm not the only one this works for.

Video bufferring frequently? Start a speedtest, problem (temporarily) solved!
> This changed with the rise of Xi Jing Ping

To expand, Xi is a leader for life [1]. China is best modelled as a large, wealthy dictatorship which will act to keep its narrow leadership in power. This is very different from the long-term planning which characterised its growth when it was capable of peaceful transitions of power.

Pushing this legislation (or kidnapping bookstore owners publicising corruption amongst Beijing’s elite [2]), for China, is stupid. It stokes a vocal, organised opposition to Beijing. It also makes clean integration in ‘47 less likely. (The fraction of Hong Kong residents identifying as Chinese versus Hong Kongese has plummeted in the last few years [3].) From the perspective or keeping Xi in power, however, the ham-fistedness makes sense.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43361276

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway_Bay_Books_disappear...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-anniversary-idUS...
Without giving away any spoilers, this idea was touched on in Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem (later on in trilogy) as a way to memorialize humanity to other civilizations in the future.
99% of client-side rendered pages would provide a superior user experience with server-side render.

If you're loading a single page and then unloading it that's right. If you're interacting with a page it's often a lot faster to make a small request to fetch new data and just update the part of the DOM that needs to change rather than unloading everything, fetching the new page and all the associated resources that aren't cached, parsing the new page, and repainting everything.

SSR is what the web was designed for after all.

That's plain wrong. Using a browser to launch an application was one the use cases in Tim Berners-Lee's original memo about the web in 1989 - "If one sacrifices portability, it is possible so make following a link fire up a special application, so that diagnostic programs, for example, could be linked directly into the maintenance guide." (https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html). There's no suggestion that the user would have to leave their browser when they clicked such a link.

Fast forward 10 years from Tim's proposal and Microsoft added XMLHttpRequest (via ActiveX) for fetching fragments of data to IE5 in 1999. We've had 20 years, which is 2/3 of the time the web has existed, of client-side applications. You may well have a preference for server-side rendering but you don't get to claim the web was designed for server-side as a fact. It's not true.
Since no one is answering the question, this talk by Sonos engineers at AWS re:Invent 2015 is really good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-70wNNrxf6Q
We used to this, does not seem to work at all these days anymore
You could always use pass-tomb, which is an extension that stores the entire tree encrypted.

https://github.com/roddhjav/pass-tomb#readme
I am able to sort by latest modification date (not sure if thats what you meant).
I don't think you being transgender relates at all to what the parent post was saying. No one wants to watch someone shoot up heroin on the sidewalk (and potentially step on a dirty needle). No one wants to second hand smoke crack. It's a public safety issue to move some of these activities out of public spaces.

I'm not even commenting on whether these things should be legal in private, but there are very good reasons they shouldn't be allowed in public.
i forgot to mention one of the machines is windows and I didn't want to go down the cygwin rabbit hole. It is windows 10 though so perhaps I could use WSL.
> Given that Linux users probably represent the long tail of Dropbox customers ...

You also need to account for network effects. Every startup I have been at in the last decade went like this:

The engineers are using Linux, so for everyone to collaborate, a solution that works on Linux too is needed. That is a list of one - Dropbox, and they got their business accounts, and professional accounts.

Now Dropbox is dropped, or on the way out in all those places. Their lack of multi-account support (and I don't mean the nonsense they do pseudo merging accounts) also made it a huge pain anyway.
Shoes (2018)
I'm with you. Though, while I've often wanted to do it but I don't avoid it purely due to my awkwardness; I also avoid it because I don't want to be "that person" and bother someone just minding their own business.

Not that any of this is wrong. I'm just explaining my fear in these situations. Awkwardness I can fight through, but fear of awkwardness combined with fear of actually bothering someone.. it just combines to make me think it's not worth doing.
> Can you empower individual... is there essentially a tor mode there?

Not at the moment really. There is a tracking bug for it[1] (which includes the idea of supporting .onion homeservers). The main issue I found when digging into it is that Twisted doesn't appear to have a way to set a SOCKS proxy for requests (there are several open bug reports about it) -- meaning that you couldn't get the hidden homeserver to proxy all their connections through Tor nor could you get the other servers to use Tor to contact the hidden homeserver.

But I am hoping this could be done eventually.

[1]: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5152
I setup two-way sync of the database with my android phone using syncthing - works flawlessly.
That’s a bit harsh. While I understand not wanting to perform a new OS update (at least not immediately) or not being able to (they deprecate old hardware too) I do understand that it’s a matter of resources and that most people are going to be on a handful of your most recent releases, so it makes sense to spend your time on those.

At the same time (most) people don’t actively seek to disable updates for things until something goes wrong. If your app is working on my current OS and filesystem it’s incumbent upon you to recognize that and not automatically push out an update that breaks that.

For something as relatively simple as Dropbox’s original functionality (all files from folder x are synced to their server and every other machine on your account) it also seems like a relatively reasonable ask for them to version things and continue to support that functionality for quite a long time.
First, as always you get better by practicing.
Second, you don't need to be witty or spontaneous at all. You can think of a nice thing beforehand ( * ) and just use it when there is an opportunity. You can also make sure that the possible downside is low by e.g. talking when it is clear that you don't have to spend half an hour sitting next to another in, then, awkward silence. Some sort of reason for initiating a conversation also helps, in my opinion, so that talking about something doesn't come as much as a surprise (e.g. talking about some thing in view or an event that just happened).

Simple example: "Your groceries look a lot healthier than mine" in the queue at the super market started nice conversations for me.

It was clear that we'd just have stand next to each other for two minutes if the other didn't want to engage in conversation. It was a sort of compliment (you are shopping better things that I do) and it had a at least some sort of reason (there are real goods on the conveyor belt and they differ in healthiness).

Oh and really: limiting the risk by choosing temporary situations really helps to avoid the fear of having to spend time in awkward silence if the attempt at chatting fails.

( * ) Just anything can work here: "And I wondered whether I should bring an umbrella today" to someone actually having one; "Looks interesting" to your neighbour at a street performance; ...
As someone living there right now the article really doesn't properly cover the discontent in the city.

There is an overwhelming sense that Seattle has done too much to encourage homelessness (particularly with the expansion of policies like this one). "Tent City" has spread so far that it's getting into the suburbs and from a residents perspective it's getting far worse not better. I have routinely seen people shooting up and smoking glass pipes (not marijuana) in broad daylight in the Downtown and Pioneer Square areas. There's shouting, theft, property crime at all hours of the night near my apartment (Though strangely compared to SF I know very few people who have had their cars broken into).

Regardless of the tone of this article, Seattle is not a model to follow, it's a cautionary tale.
The explanation of the asm! macro is great, I’ve always been a little confused by it.

It does make me thinking about how this could be useful in the context of Futures and async/await.
Agreed. The beauty of Dropbox used to be their utter invisibility. They just seamlessly synced my files in the background. If they're now going to insist on being "in my face," I'll take my business elsewhere. And whichever Dropbox vice president tried to make his bones with this project can pound sand.
The Functional Programmer's Toolkit – Scott Wlaschin
I tried to port libp2p to c++. Each time, I got discouraged by so many sub projects linked together. I really don’t like the way they organize code.
> Crash reports often include memory dumps. Firefox automatically reports these to Mozilla

Of the process in question, not the entire system. A Firefox crash dump can potentially still include credentials and private keys, of course.
NYC has the highest Gini co-efficient in the United States..close to 0.5%.
No one cares about you being trans. It has nothing to do with this thread. Anyone with half a reasonable IQ does not want drug addicts in public view shooting up.
Less than that actually if it's personal (O365 Personal 1TB, Home up to 5 I think), or a little more for business and get OneDrive+SharePoint and hosted Exchange email. Works nicely on Windows 10, a little less so on older versions, and probably a lot less well on *nix which is relevant since a lot of folks on this thread are concerned about the loss of ZFS support. Not sure how it is on OS X but hopefully decent.
In general we hire folks who've already been peak career (think like MS premier field engineers for 15+ years), give them an amorphous organization to work with, and treat them like adults. People lift each other up and successes are celebrated. It's not really a place where folks want to be "senior executive vice president" type title BS. Comp is based on a cut of revenue which encourages teamwork like nothing else (every customer's problem affects you).

It's unique .. and not for most people probably.
At a wine seminar I attended a few years ago we primarily had wine from Bethlehem and the general Palestine region. The importer told us that the wine culture there is some thousand years old (which of course it is, at least there is a tradition to turn water to wine ;-)); but he also said that some grape farmers are growing grapes [again] that are as genetically close to the grapes from said water-to-wine era as possible.

(I would love to give a citation, but couldn't find one within 2 minutes - so take this as hear-say; though the importer, which is a good friend of a good friend, seemed to be not the kind of person to make this up)
> (there is no FFI/C lib Ic an bind my Rust app to)

Language choices in both have set off my "this is doomed to obscurity" alarm bells for precisely that reason. You don't write the reference implementation for a new Internet protocol—especially the core library for it, and especially a very complex one—in a language that can't easily be included in most other languages. So, probably C.

Dat in particular seems great but ain't no way I'm relying on a large JS project for anything I don't absolutely have to, on my own time, especially if it deals with my files.
Yeah... theramin's bug. This is a great story! What a brilliant example of passively powered electronics from 75 years ago. Now it's all the rage to build this king of functionality into passive sensors, etc.
ISP will argue it is not a discount it's a promotion. They are two different things under the law
They probably think of it in terms of control. One of their big upsells is controlling access to shares. They don't see it as a problem that you have to save it to the device then share from that because it's not for you from their perspective. It's for people sending project assets to collaborators.
Originally I thought the requirement that we be citizens was naïve because, whether the odds were better or worse, there obviously have been cases where US citizens showed no loyalty to the country. But further thought convinced me that, assuming they get physical custody of the culprit, it’s much easier to charge citizens with crimes than foreign nationals, and it’s generally easier to get other countries to cooperate to turn over physical custody of a US citizen than foreign nationals.

Obviously, there are exceptions to this. The US has a much better chance of getting Assange than Snowden right now. But I believe, in general, the requirement isn’t about avoiding a security breach, but instead about punishing the culprits after the breach is discovered.
Again, that's still not the latest version of recaptcha, which never prompts users for photos.
>with a crazy number of interconnected feedback loops

source
Land of the fr...pay through your nose and still get screwed.
> incredibly valuable asset

Is it though?
> without typing master password using -pw-enc command line argument

Process command lines are world-readable on various operating systems, so passing passwords over them is generally not a good idea.
We used to build guns out of Lego which eventually over the years led to our invention of custom Lego crossbows using rubber bands to sling projectiles. Our competition quickly devolved from who could shoot the farthest to who could hit moving targets (each other, cats, etc). After being hit a few times from each other's weapons, we quickly learned it's not fun to be on the receiving end, even if it was just a few grams of plastic.
Their keyword is unwelcomed behavior, there was no mention of identity. Unless you're behavior is out of control, this doesn't apply.
> In what way did they fail?

One example: Declared themselves to be an experienced Pythonista of N+ years. Couldn't write a `for i in range(100)` loop in Python without hints. They probably could've done it in a different language, but I didn't want to have anything to someone who misrepresents experience in their CV. It's fine to say you don't know it and instead show me that you can learn it.
"Over 60% of animals have gone extinct since the 70s"
Citations?
phone is basically a choice between google (any android phone unless you jailbreak and de-goog it, which is a PITA) and apple. Who is less offensive surveilling you? Can you really predict that will still be true in 5 years?
Renewable Energy Costs Take Another Tumble. Fossil Fuels Look Pricier Than Ever
there was a post on here a few months ago detailing something very similar, but for video, not audio. I can't recall the name unfortunately.

edit

found it

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19529921
> each planet as a specific combination of chemistry composition

But with any combination you try in the laboratory you get a very similar brown goo with a similar chemical composition. There are few atoms that are common and like to stick together to form molecules, so you get mostly some molecules with C, O, N, S, P, and H. Carbon atoms are happy to form long molecules. If you add a lot of Nitrogen atoms in a molecule, it is usually a good explosive and will react spontaneously (at low concentrations it only self destruct, it is difficult to get high concentrations and get an explosion). If you add a lot of Oxygen atoms two of them may decide to pick a Carbon atom and go away, something like

molecule --> CO2 + smaller molecule

So after a while you get brown goo a mix of molecules with more Carbons and a few of the other atoms. If you start with different mixes and different energy sources, you get a similar composition. There is some mix of molecules that are the result of random chemistry.

In this mix you get the building blocks of a lot of important current biological molecules, IIRC you get all the building blocks of RNA. RNA is a weird kind of molecule because they can induce reactions in other molecules and they can sorta self replicate like DNA. So one of the hypothesis is that the first life like thing has/was a bunch of RNA.

Life on Earth needed like 1 billon year to appear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life#Origin . So for an undirected a
experiment you need 1E9 years x 5E14 m^2, instead of a graduate student that has only 4 years x 1m^2 x 1m if s/he is running the experiment in a giant reactor instead of a beaker. That is a difference of more than 23 magnitudes orders.

For a directed experiment, nobody really knows. Perhaps the firs step is to get a lucky RNA of length 20 and you must try the 4^20 combinations until you get a crappy first version of a self reproductive RNA, that is not very good and only can make a good copy per year. Can you call it alive? Is this really the first step? Perhaps its length is 40, that needs exponential more combinations. The initial RNA had probably more than 4 bases, so the search space is even bigger and more difficult to estimate.

Perhaps the first step is to create small soap-like balls and put them near something like a thermal vent that release H2? Perhaps the first "life" form use some sulfur compound to get energy? Nobody is sure.
Integration Approaches for Micro Front Ends
Considering those hundreds of millions are also the ones most adverse to reducing their output (since it’s slowly taking them out of abject poverty and starvation), there is a good case for respecting their wishes and see where they take us. As you say, “we” have less to lose than “them”, after all; and we’ve already spent so many centuries already dictating them what to do, that it would probably be a bad time to double down on this sort of thing.
I hadn't heard of that book before. Thank you.
So you’re saying we shouldn’t charge people for drug possession or drug use? There’s going to be drug use in the streets and the nasty secondary stuff like needles or human waste.

Or have certain areas where police don’t arrest people like the wire? I think we will have homeless camps we can’t get rid of.

If you’re going to decriminalize something you need to provide services or incentives to get people to stop using drugs.

If you’re shooting up on your porch, outside, at work in your car, someone where in public it should be a crime. The drug shouldn’t be illegal but the act should be illegal in public.
So, it appears that Dropbox is letting feature creep turn a perfectly good product which I would have paid for forever, into one I need to leave. What is the best alternative? Just looking for automatic syncing and backup, and the historical versions available from the server is nice also. Suggestions? Simpler is better.
Looks centrally located to the African continent, Europe and the Middle East. Makes sense to me.
It's great that a single person is able to create a custom operating system.

Sure it's mostly just Xubuntu, a retheme/reskin of XFCE, with some personal touches in environment, bundled applications - but clearly there's been time and effort spent on configuring it well, to keep everything simple to use, with a feel-good presentation. I can see value in that.

The project also has wholesome and healthy goals, of being able to run on old computers/laptops, while respecting the users' privacy. There are certainly other "OSes" with similar goals, but I'd say, it's a positive contribution.
The situation is a lot more complicated than you make it seem. We barely have any idea how inner politics work in China, since little information leaks out unlike in most other nations. I don't think you can make a definitive statement on a leader whose name you haven't spelt correctly.
I always get scared when I read “meet the new xxxxx”. Usually either the UI has been reshuffled or features have been dropped. It’s really rare that things get better with such an announcement.
Ugh, I wish we had. Until we stuff through a (state) constitutional amendment,

>"The bill does not allow ranked-choice voting to be used for general and special elections for the offices of Governor, State Senator, or State Representative unless there is an amendment to the Constitution of Maine, Article IV, Part First, Section 5, Article IV, Part Second, Sections 4 and 5 and Article V, Part First, Section 3 that authorizes the Legislature, by proper enactment, to determine the method by which the Governor and members of the State Senate and House of Representatives are elected is ratified."[0]

It's like we've got a bunch of TODOs spread all over our legislation.

[0] http://legislature.maine.gov/lawlibrary/ranked-choice-voting...
Women Coders in Finance IT Say They're Given the Worst Jobs
Gotta keep your oversized engineering team busy.

Same thing with airbnb, uber, &c. They constantly release side projects that are forgotten after a month and never used, even internally. Fonts, CSS frameworks, &c.
Some network gear has this as a feature.
There has always been a market for mass-market doomsday prediction material; whether religious or secular.

A population bomb leading to famine has never been the result of prolonged scientific discussion, just one guy's theories (published in book form, which is subject to editorial review but not peer review), and saying "this is a prediction that someone made that was false" is true but unhelpful. Anyone can make a prediction, and a lot of dumb stuff gets published. Never made it meaningful or true.

My father, before he succumbed to dementia, had this belief that if it's been published, it must be true. He'd read the weirdest stuff and ultimately decided that nothing is true; when really, it's because he was overly credulous at first, and in rejecting truth as a concept, he went too far the other way.

I feel like that's a lot more common than we realize; the error is not in believing in a consensus reality, it's in believing in something that wasn't very good to begin with (a book about worldwide famine, the handful of "global cooling" articles in the 70s -- not even a book! just a handful of magazine articles!! why would ANYONE put stock in that??), and deciding that, because that was wrong, nothing is knowable.
Billion Random Numbers in a Blink of an Eye (CPU, GPU)
This is the 2nd part of the Micro Frontends[0] article that was posted yesterday

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20148308
How to Build Command Line Interfaces in Python with Argparse
And far more often than we like to admit, making a decision is more important than making the best decision.

And when wrong decisions are being made too often, formal structure helps to hold leaders accountable for their decisions.
Not to be too crazy but, geothermal scares the hell out of me. How many works of fiction involve something like tapping Yellowstone Calderra and bye bye life as we know it when it is weakened too much and kaboom!

Mind you it is survival/disaster 'porn' but Bobby Akart has a book series where exactly this happens. Some joint government-private entity power plant drills into the calderra, and like some companies are known to do cuts corners and drills much deeper than all the experts recommended, it compromises everything just enough that Yellowstone starts erupting.

Sure, there are safe places/ways to do this (hello Iceland) but something about it just seems crazy. Nuclear, sure it's something you can easily control the reaction and with a proper setup can even safely 'shut down' but drilling holes relatively deep into the earth to take advantage of geothermal heat, eeesh that (mostly irrationally) bugs me a lot.