skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows 10 1903 has scheduler changes (intra CCX bias?) that seem to offer significant performance uplift in games (10+%)
Cape Town has a few things going for it: fairly good infrastructure, proximity to cable landing stations, and a nuclear power station.
that link is about second hand smoke indoors. I wasn't specific, but I meant outdoors.
> I've been thinking about having a service that lets someone else randomize the location of your phone.

It’s called putting your old phone on eBay and buying a new (to you) one.

It really confuses the Saudi intelligence forces when they find a random dude instead of a Saudi runaway.

What I would like is to take advantage of some European mobile providers that have excellent roaming rates in Canada. Prices so good that a local Canadian could only dream of. I’d have 2 SIMs and put one in an rs232 interface each month that interfaces to a phone in EU so they don’t ban me for not spending enough time in the home country.
Definitely, but the migration and retraining costs are non-trivial, not to mention that US tech is far superior in general.
> You're suggesting interrupting a natural ecosystem that is beyond complex..

No.We did not understand each other. I'm talking about what we will do when we completely destroy this ecosystem. May be it will take about hundred years.

> Suffering is a natural state of existence..

Then why do we worry about animals in zoos? We are part of nature too. Then why do we separate natural and non-natural suffering?

> Nature is continuing to evolve, we're just one point on a long line of changes.

Wild nature has no time for this. Evolution requires millions of years. We will destroy it before anyway. And even if we disappear and let it to evolve farther, then for what? It has produced conscious cpecies already.

> Earth's ecosystem is made up of billions and billions of living things, humans are just one part of it.

Ok. Another point of view: what do you think about the
anthropic principle?

I think you equate humans with animals. But that is absurd, because it is the judgment of man. Animal cannot judge at all.
You separate nature and mankind and then say that it just part of nature. I do'n understand a point.

> I would suggest starting with biology and ecology courses, and some history both geological and human.

I think I studied it at school 30 years ago :). Last years I finished with quantum mechanics and switched to English language (sorry, the hardest subject for me).
Yeah, but you asked "why" about day 1... not the current crop of X570 motherboards.

I think I lost track of the thread though, because you're not necessarily the one who asked "why" about Apple.
Can't the cell towers triangulate the phone location anyway.
Then you have the perfect opener for anyone overhearing by cracking a joke about it.
Database hacker here. I have dreamed of a filesystem fault injection system like this: a fuse filesystem that just passes through to a real filesystem, but also writes a log of syscalls. Then a test mode that can simulate crashes at various points in the log history, with pages (of some size) flushed at random (or other settings) until fsync is issued and completes. This could be used for recovery testing, to looking for missing fsyncs and torn page resilience.
I would wait the month or so for Navi cards to show up and see how they do on thermals and if the application performance is to your liking; Navi is intended for midrange cards(says the PR) but getting similar performance to your 1080 is possible.

AMD's recent releases have a reputation of releasing at "hot/high-power" stock and then doing much better when undervolted. Navi will get the die shrink, so the results for both power and thermals are likely to be even better, but benchmarking needs to be done before we have a full picture of what's changed.
AMD did have a huge amount of catching up to do after Bulldozer. One of the things that has been keeping Intel ahead is their fabrication has been going smoothly, generally ALWAYS ahead of what AMD had available to them. Here's the first article I hit (AMD loses on both idle and load): www.anandtech.com/show/11544/intel-skylake-ep-vs-amd-epyc-7000-cpu-battle-of-the-decade/22

Intel seems to be in a perfect storm, while AMD seems to have all their ducks lined up (architecture, Fabrication Process, clock speeds).

Still, exciting times! Intel has stagnated on quad-core enthusiast CPUs for a decade (Q6600 - 7700k), it's good to finally have some competition again.
>So every IPFS website is going to be https://HASH.ipfs.dweb.link/?

If someone sets up an IPFS DNSLink record for their domain, then it's just accessible directly from their domain. The user goes to https://example.com, and if they have a normal browser, they fetch it as normal, and if they have the ipfs extension, they fetch it over ipfs instead.

(There is also support for https://hash.ipfs.dweb.link/, but as I said, I don't think that's what people should give to users if they can avoid it. Though that does have the nice benefit over dat:// links in that it works for normal browsers even if your web server goes down.)
Easing access to drugs is a bad thing for people struggling with addiction, which has a real societal cost.
The Solution to Free Speech Is Zoning
I've had two melanomas luckily early stage, I will likely get more so I am being checked 4-6 times a year plus doing molesafe.

I'm at Sloan Memorial because I have more than a thousand moles. One thing we are using laser for is called Confocal wich basically allow them to see my cells live without having to do a biopsy.

One of the two melanomas was found that way.

I am always hopeful about new advances but I have learned that this is a long game and hopefully I am around long enough to reap the benefits if it goes seriusly wrong.
Smells a bit similar to the Handmaid's Tale:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale
On habit building- If you're like me and have tried time and time again on enforcing new habits and failed time and time again: try mindfulness. It's easy to not live in the moment, especially so when a tech centered world makes it so easy to live vicariously. It's okay to make lists of things you want to accomplish and do, but it's not okay to do that often and not do what you originally set out to do. It will become cyclic.

Be mindful in the morning and reflect on it before you go to bed. Be in the present and realize you are the one making the decision whenever the situation arises. Taking action or not, be present and mindful of your decision.

I've found simple google calendar reminders put me in the situation where I have to make the decision to take action or not. They don't require any interaction (apple reminders will stay until they're cleared) and they tap me on the wrist and present an option: Run? Write? Work on project?
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167246
I know it's kind of wrong, but I miss being part of a smaller community. I wasn't even one of the really early pioneers, but when I started computing was still small enough that I could find common ground with just about any other programmer I met. Sure we had our specialization and even our disagreements, but there was probably some overlap between what we each knew. We also got the chance to work on some genuinely new things. The early days of SMP or clustering were pretty cool. Nobody really knew all the answers or thought they did. We were all experimenting. Now there are so many programmers doing so many different things that we might have no shared knowledge, and so much of what most people do is reimplementing or papering over the flaws in some previous piece of software, layer upon layer like a giant midden. I'm exaggerating a bit, but it really does feel different in a way that makes me sad.

Since this is phrased as "old guys" I'll also add that I miss working with more women. Remember when I mentioned the early days of SMP? In those days we were still working closely with the people who were figuring out how to physically connect the pieces, keep caches coherent, what kinds of lock instructions (let alone higher-level patterns) would be useful, etc. Hard core stuff, and maybe a third of the people I was working with were women. That's still not a majority, but it's down to less than half that in most teams I've been on for the past decade. Things have gotten worse, and that really makes me sad. In so many ways, I feel this industry has been going backward.
For reference https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20166256 It was flagged by users (but not by me). Probably because of the title.

You can try vouching it or contacting the mods for an official explanation hn@ycombinator.com
Agreed but China was never going to allow them to have independence so it only makes sense to give them an escape route if they so choose to use it.
Hmm 200 lb Sudanese fully armed mercenaries vs 120 lb “people”

First, the “people” are being prosecuted because they have vaginas - they are women.

Second, given the Newtonian consequences of 80lb of fully armed soldier, I think the OPs original sarcasm at their cowardice is not out of place.
Has not been the case for several years now.
This means rclone will stop working. Thanks for the reason to push me to move away from gphotos and gmail...
FB is still only one head of the hydra. Amazon, LinkedIn, Google all profit off of the collection and use of personal data. A massive chunk of Silicon Valley's cash hoards depend on advertising. And when that much money is on the line, regulators tend to take on a 'light touch'.
We do not. See: https://blog.cloudflare.com/unmetered-mitigation/
The nation who allows future North Korean dictators to be educated at their schools? I doubt it.
Downvote posts? Not that I would really personally use that, but it seems the logical next step with the other "powers" unlocked at karma milestones.

My concern with any change made is that it would encourage people to try and get a bunch of karma which could have unforeseen effects on the quality of discussion/submissions. I'm sure you'll be taking that into account for any change made, though.
This stopped being the norm as Cloudflare's footprint grew, and formally stopped with this blog post https://blog.cloudflare.com/unmetered-mitigation/.
What a great post, about something I've been working on almost as long as Avery. I'm sad I missed it the first time it came around.

I was going to write a long response here, but I think I'll save that for a blog post (short summary: I disagree vehemently with what I believe the premise here to be, think that people shouldn't be waiting for the IETF to give them permission to build new network layers, am fairly certain there's no such thing as a "layering violation", and think overlay networks are/will-ultimately make IPv6 irrelevant). So on this thread I'll just pick some nits.

Ethernet networking is not as gross as it's made out here. ARP isn't entirely pointless! For instance, at the ISP I ran tech for in the 1990s, I was able to pretty seamlessly move our "data center" and corporate offices across Chicago without renumbering just by exploiting ARP (I wrote a dumb proxy ARP policy router). We did similar things to route traffic to the particular terminal services customers were dialing into, or to the ISDN router who's PRI happened to service a particular customer. An IP purist would object that we weren't using OSPF the way God intended us to, but it worked and was probably more reliable than the bona fide routing protocols we replaced that with.

This narrative also, I think, gives short shrift to DHCP, which does a lot more than pick IP addresses out for new endpoints, but also pretty much fully configures their IP connection. If you had to tech support 10,000 random customers in the era before DNS servers were transparently assigned at connection, you're not pining for the simple elegance of RARP.

Also: nobody should care about "IGMP-snooping bridges", since IP multicast is and always was hopeless.
I don't see any need to defend myself. My choices are mine and this is my life, that's all the defense I'll ever need. Other people are free to do whatever they want to but to position things as though 'apple or android' are the only choices available to me does simply not seem correct. Yes, I'm sure the percentage of tech people without a smartphone is low but outside the tech scene there are still plenty of people without smartphones.
It sounds like you're saying extreme violence from the local anarcho-capitalist-libertarian business/corporation/cartel is excused and normal because... there are no checks and balances in nation states.. so oh well!
My argument didn't even address costs. Did you mean to respond to another comment?

This does seem to be a topic that is (for whatever reason) very difficult to have a straightforward conversation about.
I agree. I had significant better results in diverse areas as leading teams, cooking and body building after reading books in those areas.
Discussed a bit at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1411359
> windows XP (the most popular OS when Dropbox came out!).

Symlinks actually worked in Dropbox when I used to use it in 2012...
No probably about it.

Since the start of the cold war middle eastern states have balanced/played off against each other between the US (and the west) and Russia (previously USSR) when it comes to weapons and lots of other things.

I mean the Egyptians had soviet supplied fighters flown by actual soviet pilots fighting against the Isreali's in American and French supplied air craft.[1]

The US sold Israel better fighters, the soviets sold their potential enemies better SAM's.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Rimon_20
I gotta say, I feel like I was having a much better time of it when Continuous Delivery was a logical outgrowth of Continuous Integration.

You just keep building farther and farther out from compilation through testing and packaging and installation and deployment. Everyone on the Dev team can keep up with the changes and understands where there code goes and when. That's what I thought DevOps was about.

Now it's a separate division that treats me like a mushroom: kept in the dark and fed bullshit.
The same can be said of Hashistack (Consul, Nomad, Vault). Orders of magnitude simpler with the obvious tradeoff of being less featureful.
As a user of GraphQL with Apollo since a year, I still don’t see how it simplifies app development. Actually, having such a huge dependency in the code feels more like a liability.

Most apps are simple, don’t need to send much data around if you don’t put 3-10 user tracker in, and Rest is just really, really simple for most parts.

In every project I worked so far that used GraphQL, developers tend to not care about backwards compatibility of APIs because having tons of optional properties in query responses doesn’t feel nice.

As always, there are exceptions and if it makes sense, sure, go ahead. But be aware of the dependencies and the magic you get into your project. Oh, and don’t use it for file upload, that’s just painful.
Hiding file systems is both en vogue and maddening for people who actually work with files. Which is everyone, even if they don't know it. The amount of assistance I've had to give even technically-competent users when it comes to even finding where the heck their data even is has skyrocketed over the past couple of years.
The police don't know what they are doing. Trying to break the trust of darkweb users is a fool's errand. The system is built on mistrust. The big selling point of these markets is that you don't have to know anything about your dealer, and they need to know almost nothing about you. So there is no trust system to break.

The other big selling point is that these websites defeat all the violence. There are no turf wars online, at least not physical wars. No dealer can force users to buy from them exclusively. No low-level dealer in a neighborhood must pay homage to a local mob boss. All of that disappears. Any cop that thinks oldschool tactics like spreading distrust within the supply chain to instigate internal mole hunts has watched too many movies. Within Tor it is assumed that everyone is a mole. Each individual protects themselves with the tools available. Every dealer assumes at least some buyers are cops. Every buyer assumes the cops are running sting operations. The market functions nevertheless.
Earlier I think they were just surfacing the same photos in both places without using up storage (that would be a pretty shitty feature). Pointless, perhaps, but harmless, and maybe useful for those who wanted to be able to use driver's more sophisticated organizational capabilities.

As far as the change, I can't imagine it will suddenly start counting against your quota. They're just stopping the behavior of syncing between the two folders.
They seem to be primarily concerned with the free as in beer rather than the free as in speech aspects of open source and in "taking back control" of their software licensing costs. Nothing wrong with that but it doesn't seem like the most important battle in today's world of surveillance capitalism to me.
The legislature isn't fully democratically elected.

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

In fact the pro-Beijing groups have never actually won an election, but always controlled Legco: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-democracy_camp_(Hong_Kon...

(To be fair, similar but less extreme issues exist in the United States where executive and legislative power doesn't cleanly map to votes)
The tone of the repo doesn't really scream propaganda to me. It just looks like a solid list of failures and what people can learn from them.
New Schmidhuber Paper on Minimax Games
I don't see reliable power as a big differentiator since even in the first world your data center anyway needs backup generators; it's just that they would get used much more often.

Generators have several costs.

1. Fixed costs
2. Maintenance costs
3. Operating costs

#2 and #3 are lower for a generator you run 8 hours a year versus 800 hours a year. And you may want added redundancy for your generator capacity if you plan to run off generator power frequently, so #1 can be higher too.

(I broke out maintenance costs from operating costs since there's fixed maintenance costs even if you never run the generator, and there's variable maintenance costs based on the number of hours you run it)

It's been a long time since I've rented coloc space, but at the time, the cost of the power drops to the cage cost more than the space itself. Conditioned reliable power is expensive.
I see a couple ways to become great quickly.

1. Put in an extreme amount of effort to maximize the goodness you create and minimize the amount of bad.

2. Have extreme events impact your life (by no fault of your own) in a short period of time.

3. Change how you measure greatness.

Ten years ago, I could not see myself in the life that I have now. Everyday I accomplish things which would have been impossible for my previous self to do. I quit smoking, drinking, and manage chronic illness. I exercise, garden, clean the house, and play with my dog. I earned the love of my wife and the respect of my friends. I now have a family who loves me and is proud of me and I feel like I actually have options. Every day I do great things, not in comparison to yesterday but certainly compared to my previous self.
See also https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/bzldq4/r_1...

and https://twitter.com/hardmaru/status/1138678311884738560
So if I understand this correctly, you now have to explicitly put photos you obtained outside of your Google devices (and therefore stored in Google Drive) into Google Photos, a service that lets you share / view photos.

This change makes sense to me because it mirrors what I do on my computer, but it seems like a step back from the idea that mobile and desktop/laptop paradigms are supposed to be merging. It seems like that’s what they were trying to do, but it was too confusing so they changed it.
There are no paramilitary/security forces loyal to Hong Kong capable of a coup, right? Just trying to put it in context with contentious protests in other nations.
They are certainly enforcing the laws against selling and purchasing drugs. It is uncharitable but if the state actually cared about people it would treat drug addiction as a health issue. It can be treated, current policy obviously has done nothing to solve the problem in the US. The police are enforcing the supremacy of the state, these people are flaunting the law and must be punished otherwise the government looks weak. Nobody wants to admit defeat because it is admitting they are much less powerful than they want people to believe they are.

All of this is conjecture and would of course be unconscious motivation. People want to think they're the good guy, people justify what they're doing so they can sleep at night.
This is very important -- Chinese people and CCP are separate. Yet years of very successful propaganda have resulted in even fairly well educated Chinese (overseas nevertheless) to treat any criticisms on the party as an attack on all Chinese people.

Although to be fair, criticisms and journalism also rarely make the distinction between "China" and "CCP".
It does nothing for privacy because extensions will still be able to see the requests, they just won't be able to block them.
If you have a macOS device available, you can set the Photos app to download and keep full-quality copies of all photos in your library.
Yes, this is exciting news. I've had melanoma once and one incident of basal cell. I get checked regularly and had three of four biopsies in the third and fourth stages of progression towards melanoma.

Wonder why none of the doctors I've visited have mentioned Molesafe? I'll check it out when I get home.

edit: Because Molesafe is NY/NJ only.
>I believe the point is that sometimes a tyrant is worse than cutting off the head and seeing the hydra.

If the last several dictators ousted from nations in the middle east teaches us anything it's that we do not want the hydra. It cost trillions of dollars and thousands of lives to dump all the crap out of the Iraq vacuum. Egypt was teetering on the edge for quite awhile after the arab spring. Libya is still in ruins. Syria speaks for itself. Afghanistan is slipping back into Taliban control. Every time we touch it it gets worse.

While I think we can all agree that totalitarian rulers are not the global maximum they seem to be a pretty clear local maximum in the middle east. The situations that develop in their absence are so much worse on a "suffering per time" basis that it's basically impossible to justify trying to oust them.
Their website is hosted on CloudFlare:

https://redbot.org/?descend=True&uri=https://www.shiftnrg.or...

They’re using DNSLink so basically what we’re seeing is that using DNS and a major CDN makes your site reliable, which does not seem like a particularly novel advance.
I remember sitting in the sun ten years ago, wondering about all the layers and how there's no need for a MAC address when you have an IP6 address. Then I wondered why it's not like that. So that was a depressing read in the sense that there is no a priori reason it shouldn't be that way. Just hacks after hacks as usual.