skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This specific law may not have a large effect in and of itself, but having something like this out there can set the stage for future change as well. Momentum is very much a thing in politics, so anything that takes steps in the right direction could ultimately contribute to getting that ball rolling
FWIW As a native speaker, I think your English is great, and I have seen native speakers do worse. It’s nothing to take for granite ;)
That would not be possible.
But like... currently you're storing your data in the United States. I would argue that Australia's recent actions is more likely catching up to the status quo of other major nations than anything particularly egregious.

If you have very strong concerns about the government requesting your data, you should look at end-to-end solutions like ProtonMail.
The first statement is true. The second sort of misses the point. "Fiduciary duty" isn't a moral obligation or a social norm, it's a darwinian thing.

Publicly traded companies are controlled by whoever wants to buy them. If a company has assets that could produce a profit of $N, but it's currently not doing so and only making $M (and its share price reflects the lower revenue), it will be in someone's interest to buy the company and rework its priorities so it makes them more money.

So... the grandparent was effectively right. Over time, all public entities will act to maximize profit.
The lack of legitimacy is not an imagined made-up fear of lay non-expert people. It has been in the news that over half of psych papers are not reproducible. Maybe thats why people have a hard time accepting related fields as science. Sure, its always better to counter flawed science with better science. But if half of your accepted papers are not reproducible then it does cast a doubt on whether its a science to begin with.
Significant Others
- The need every child has to connect and be inspired by others.
- Isn’t that why we as humans have prospered because we could actually transfer our learning to the next generation
- What I am planning to build is a movement with the only intention CONNECT
- The problem is that there is too much noise and too little time and what is most difficult for young aspiring individuals is to find the right kind of influence in their lives which shapes them.
- With social media it has become very easy to influence nimble minds and distract them in meaningless pursuits
- How do we channelise all that untapped energy and make a small dent in the universe.
- The whole idea is to give channels of communication to young minds and allow experience to guide them.
- The idea is to give it a light touch. Ask significant individuals audio/video questions.
- For Significant individuals this is a meaningful way to contribute to our society. All it needs is a 30 min window from your 30 day calendar. That is all.

Do share if you like the idea and want to build a Not for Profit platform.

https://mvp-challenge.com/idea/Significant-Others
That depends what for you constitutes quality of life. For me switching energy suppliers saved me money. Becoming vegan introduced habits that are proving to have a positive effect on my health. Cycling to work keeps me doing cardio regularly and it halves my commute time.
Flixify Scam
Not sure whether this is worthy of being put in the Hacker News feed but thought I'd share it anyway. Flixify and Xrpflix that are both owned and run by the same people - is a complete scam! They take money for streaming movies/tv-shows illegally then end up disabling your account for no reason and they're support is a no show too! They just ignore messages they get!

Further more they also have your details which could easily be used for ID theft etc... My advice is to stay well away from them both! Domains they currently use: rolx.com antman.site flixify.com flixify.net flixify.org and possibly others too!
Since I do not trust any cloud service with the master/only copy of my data (and I do not trust my phone -- the origin of my photos -- as a permanent storage device), I developed a tool called Timeliner which downloads all your content from Google Photos and other online services to your own computer: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner

I run this on a cronjob and it adds all my photos to a timeline in conjunction with my tweets and Facebook posts. It's got a few rough edges but should (mostly) work as advertised.

I would love to have help maintaining it, especially now given this announcement (because Timeliner does not require Google Drive).

One major limitation with the Google Photos API is that it's impossible to get the location data from the photos through it. Timeliner tries to compensate for this by allowing you to import your Google Location History, but this is not ideal either. Edited to add (since there are a lot of the same question in the replies): no, the EXIF metadata does not contain the location because Google Photos API strips it out (it leaves most other metadata intact).
Just install this on a windows PC and point it to any folders you either want to upload now, or folders that you want it to watch in the future: https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6193313?co=GENIE.Pl...
Look at the Ryzen 7 3700X and 3800X. They are both 8 core parts with similar clock speeds but one is 65W and one in 105W.
I have my own self-hosted system for archiving photos. It's not as fancy, and smooth as iCloud, but it works with my 28+ megapixel cameras and their massive raw files.

Occasionally a drive will fail and need to be replaced, or a photo will disappear or be corrupted by gnomes, but I don't mind tinkering with it.

My wife, on the other hand, is an iCloud devotee, and has almost 200GB of photos backed up to iCloud. Pretty much every photo she's taken on every one of her iDevices since the iPhone launched. It has never lost a photo. It automatically tags everything. It automatically syncs to her computer and iPad. She can access it from anywhere.

If there was a sane way for me to import and manage 30TB of raw photos in iPhoto, I might follow her lead.
I'm not surprised this is happening. This is partly why I never permitted Google to put my photos in their Google Photos solution. My photos are _files_, with file extensions, taking up varying sizes, belonging inside of folders. Google Photos treated them as higher level items in some SaaS product, like posts on Instagram or something. If you wanted archival -- true archival -- then you shouldn't store your media in Google Photos any more than you should store it on a facebook timeline.
Unlimited version history is still listed on my account. I recall this was grandfathered indefinitely for all existing users. Does anyone know how this fits with the new announcement?

I have only ever used it outside of 30 days, and the "yay! look what we are forcing on you at a large price increase" email is not especially welcome anyway.
That means that the Ryzen part can pull ninety-four more watts- and basically double its TDP and still go under what the i9-9980XE will draw.

There also seem to be some new X570 motherboards that will actually support this level of craziness, too.
Most Jepsen reports seem to find glaring flaws, including subsystems that add complexity while reducing correctness, like the “auto-retry” features here, or novel consensus schemes that just aren’t airtight and therefore technically don’t work.
> Since photos and videos will no longer sync across both products, items copied in Original Quality will count towards your storage quota in both Drive and Photos.

This is absolutely ridiculous, I feel that they should have just continued the idea that photos is a view layer on top of storage. Now I guess I'll just have to give them more money for more storage now that all my photos will double count towards my quota if I choose to use both services.
I don’t know of such a site, but there is one collating information about all the products and services killed by Google. It’s called...Killed by Google! [1]

[1]: https://killedbygoogle.com/
As a lowly help desk technician perusing this thread, you couldn't be any further from the truth. The software devs never open tickets, everyone else does and its for the most banal problems
Maximizing shareholder value is not the same thing as perpetual growth.
No, I am not. Many of these white nationalist types want to send all African Americans to Alaska gulag-style, yet you don't see Trump talking about that, do you? Where's the wall? What happened to Steve Bannon and all the non-mainstream Republicans that were in the white house? Why isn't Trump talking about deporting all Muslims? Moreover, these people also hate Israel because they are anti-Semitic, yet Trump is one of the biggest champions of Israel. You see, I am not talking about alt-lite people like Ben Shaprio, I am talking about the neo-nazi, "Defend Evropa" people who were the main sources of outrage during Charlottesville. These are not Fox news Republicans. These people have no actual power compared to the Koch Brothers and lobbyists who are the actual influencers in the white house.
I posted above, but can elaborate in some more detail here.

I used the new Backup & Sync tool for the first time and had a poor experience.

Context: I have a paid MS OneDrive account but maxed out my storage and was seeking alternatives (specifically ones with easy family sharing). It turned out my wife was already paying for Google One so we just used that. I downloaded Backup & Sync just to transfer my photos from my local PC into Google Photos. Backup & Sync's UI is terribly sluggish on Windows. Clicking the system tray icon renders a blank dialog and then a second or two later the dialog is rendered (Surface Book 1). The UI responsiveness was a turnoff but not my primary concern.

In the sync tool and the Photos webapp preferences there are two checkboxes that affect syncing:

* Backup & Sync client (upon upload to Drive copy photo to Google Photos)
* Google Photos web app (automatically index Drive and copy images to Google Photos)

As an end user I liked the separation of Drive and Photos from the user experience. I do not want to upload photos to Drive and have them sync to Google Photos. And I definitely don't want Google Photos to index all images on my Drive account.

Simply using the Backup & Sync tool forces you to upload photos to Drive and have them sync over to Photos ruining that separation. And unfortunately in a case of bad timing there was some server outage on Google's end that affected the syncing of files from Drive to Photos. My photos successfully uploaded to Drive but did not appear in Google Photos web app, but no error is displayed to the user. I contacted Google One support and they informed me there was a problem they were aware of but also that I had to enable the latter checkbox in Photos webapp (have Google Photos index and parse all of my Drive images). I was incredibly hesitant to check that since I have a massive amount of images (not photos) in my Drive account (paper scans, tons of small icons, etc) and I don't want any of those appearing in Photos. I listened to support regardless, enabled that checkbox, and of course it did not work due to the server outage.
So hours after writing this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20158714 this dropped.

As you can see it was downvoted, and the only comment downvoted in the entire thread so I guess it was most likely done to bury it.

And I must say... at first I was shocked to see it getting buried because I am pretty sure most of HN feels the same way about me in regard to this subject.

But reading the article from the WSJ I'm not surprised at all because apparently there was a good reason to bury it.
If it really is every single time, sure. My point is just that from one data point you can't draw the conclusion that there's something hinky going on. To really determine this you'd need to apply some pretty stringent statistical tests because there is a lot of potential bias that goes into any casual observation of this phenomenon.
The real only way is to maintain what you already have and refuse the urge to raze and rebuild to contemporary taste. Things don't just happen to last, they are actively repaired as needed.
Geekbench just lists the stock speeds for the chip, not the actual speeds used for the benchmark.
I should have made this clearer. This proposal wasn't refused by the protestors, it was refused by the government.
Nasa spacecraft will use fuel that's safer for humans
It isn't valuable because "we" say so (whoever "we" is). One reason it is valuable is because millions of dollars of energy resource is put into it to ensure that it is decentralized
It all depends on how much money your time is worth.

If you have more time than money, look for an open source alternative.

If you have more money than time, iCloud is the answer.
I used syncthing for a while but I found it was murdering my CPU. Didn't bother trying to solve that problem - just uninstalled it since the value it was providing me was less than any troubleshooting effort would have been.
Interestingly a lot of HK people here feel the rest of China is looking down on / showing no respect to us and everything that makes HK different from the mainland.
Cool. Sounds like we're in agreement then. Basically, libraries are less entwined so its easier to add them together or add missing bits yourself.
I think this may be something that needs to be exposed at the application level, e.g., iWork's "Browse All Versions" feature:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205411

I see this in other apps as well; I just checked iA Writer, for instance, and it shows me versions on iOS. (And, of course, if you have Time Machine enabled on your Mac, you can browse versions for everything on that system, but I don't know how that interacts with iCloud: I suspect it's doing local versioning of your cloud drive!)
The computer history museum has the sources for early versions (https://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/early-digital-research...).

According to that page “This material is provided for non-commercial use only.”. The source code archive may be more specific.
Interesting - I haven't seen this before. Thanks, that's awesome.
I give suggestions to my clients, and ask them what they care about testing most, and we... pretty much always agree on what direction the research goes next. FS/disk faults I don't have good tooling for yet, so I'd have to invest some time into developing those tools--makes sense to defer that work. Membership changes are infrequent and surprisingly difficult to write automation for, so I think it makes more sense to focus on the static-cluster case first.
Bookstores used to not be a cushy market, and bookstores generally pay sales taxes and minimum wages, practices that anecdotally are less followed with restaurants.
well it's against the terms of service (though if you have no other ISP options, it's more like terms of slavery)
Wear a mask :)
Single core performance is the only reason I chose Intel this time around.

Even though I do a lot of docker and some rendering and Photoshop - most development tasks, docker builds, and even most Photoshop tasks that aren't GPU accelerated are bottlenecked on single core performance.

Same goes for the overall zippiness of the OS. The most important thing for me is that whatever I am doing this moment is as fast as possible and single core performance still rules since most software still does not take advantage of multiple cores.

For the next home server though, I am definitely planning on a high core count AMD.

I would add though, that all the new processors are getting so fast, that the difference in single core performance is probably not noticeable. Your main issue would be long running single core tasks which are generally more likely to be multithreaded.
I think you're not misunderstanding, it's exactly what the term "Medical Reversal" is trying to capture.
I.e. of course it's only a symptom, but it's something that can be measured to show there's a problem early on.
This can pivot to an app for dating your sister
How hot do you think DTLA gets with regularity? People don't consider LA to have among the best weather in the world because it's hot, they do so because it's temperate. The record temperatures for the hottest months are well up there, but the averages are pretty comfortable. Obviously data centers have different senses of "comfortable temperatures" than humans do, but the challenge is proportionally larger when temperatures are much higher.

That being said, I'm not sure the GP complaint is that significant. Africa is a BIG continent, and data centers locations would obviously be chosen in areas that are relatively more temperate.
I looked up shotgun house. Interesting.

Sidenote: you said your town is about 300 people? What do you do for work there? Or do you work remote?
You can continue to dump your files, including photos, to a Drive folder and have them sync. Google Photos was the service that Drive nagged you with to store you photos in instead of a Google Drive folder.
I do know my way around to figure out most issues when I deal with Linux-based system, but I'm fond of ElementaryOS for the simplicity and the out-of-the-box experience. I still toy with other OSes from time to time, but I need my main computer to be as functional as possible, and ElementaryOS fits that need for me.

I deployed it on an old laptop for my relatives and it's been a worry-free experience since.

I had to deploy some non-free softwares (ex: Spotify, Google Chrome) but since they have their own APT repo they are kept up-to-date with the system updates.
DNA can be used as a stable data storage medium for 10k years. I was actually hoping that was the topic of the article when I clicked it...

https://www.wired.com/story/the-rise-of-dna-data-storage/
This relationship between Hong Kong people and mainland people is quite similar to immigrant issues in the West. Mainland immigrants are perceived to not work, receive free apartments in the world's most expensive city, and have poor judgment in things ranging from politics to obeying the call of nature.
If HN is confused, imagine the people out there
The problem is that some of the people with limited mobility also have limited ability not to chew on the straw (they can't control their jaws well enough). You chew on a plastic straw, that is not an issue. You bit down on steel...

Those people btw are the ones who most need them, because they typically also have too limited mobility to drink from a cup.
How does it currently work if I have sync enabled, then I "delete" a photo in the Google Drive UI? Does it get deleted from Photos too?
That's unsurprising, as both are essentially failed states.
We don't need tokens.

We need P2P stuff that works.

Like https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent and https://github.com/amark/gun

They're both run in production, at scale (millions of users), and do NOT require any tokens.
To clarify, does this automatically fetch updated crypto/stock/etc prices so that I can see my exposure changing over time, or do I have to manually update the amount of money in each holding?
If standing up for human rights is unpatriotic, the problem is with the country and not those who stand.
True, but I'm not a scientist, I'm certainly not claiming that this was done to be scientific (it was done in five minutes, while reading an HN thread), and this isn't worth doing much more than that.
If I care enough, I know how to do it a lot more exhaustively. For example, I'd probably write my own speed test, and host it in a known place. Relying on known tests; even obscure ones, is not something that I'd suggest for someone interested in The Scientific Method.
The results of that Ookla test suggest that there may some "emissions testing" stuff going on.
> acistic totalitarian model every profession has to be absolutely geared toward the benefit of a tiny wealthy minority

There's plenty of self-employed people and small businesses which absolutely do not benefit the "tiny wealthy minority". Event artists count in this area (self-employed ones), it's just that not that many people or companies are willing to pay for art.

> The society that had a major arts Renaissance in the 1960-70s

Can you expand on that? People were buying more paintings back then?
you mean like.. email?
What Congress needs to do about Deepfakes
Have you ever considered that some people are themselves writing tools like Chocolatey that inherently need elevated rights? I am working on a Windows service that needs to be elevated to work. In addition I need to change TPM keys and change registry settings in the machine hive. The SQL Server installation is local and IT will never be bothered with it. Just let me install it.
It was painful to admit as much myself in a counterpoint I wrote to Bruce Schneier:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/06/yet_another_p...
Part of me is glad that the public and governments are finally catching up to what FB has been doing for years now, but I'm worried that we don't have a better platform/solution that fills in the void without the risk of these privacy violations happening again.

Some of the decentralized networks are interesting and seem like a good way forward, but they're still far away from being adopted by non-technical users and masses at large.

This seems like it's not only a technical and UI/UX problem, but one of marketing as well. The advertising-based revenue model has certainly become hostile towards user privacy, and we should rethink that too.

Whatever comes after FB, I hope it addresses all of these issues, for the sake of all of us.
When a person says "we need this infrastructure project" and a project is commissioned, acknowledging the need, it is in my experience that unfortunately that person's job function is rarely placed on hold until the appropriate infrastructure has been made available.

"Who cares about your pie-in-the-sky infrastructure project, my boss continues to measure our real performance with basic accounting, and is expecting to be able to report on growth each quarter, which I can't help without tools" seems to be a bit closer to the argument posed here, IMHO.
Growing up I was taught about the "tank man" and that no one knew what happened after the photo and if he was run over or not ... a partial lie. We know that he was taken away by other civilians and wasn't run over.

I was never taught about the Nanjing massacre or Unit 731 but we spent a lot of time talking about Tiananmen square and Holocaust.

I now know that a lot of my education was biased and I assume other people are completely unaware. Most people I've talked to don't know about the rest of the video which is why I brought it up.
I'll note that FB changed the behavior for number 1 over five years ago - and they only had that policy in the first place since the tech community at the time was slamming them for being a walled garden.

Most people complaining about FB's privacy practices are just on a bandwagon - I've never seen actual evidence of harm from FB's practices re: privacy.
I wonder if they will use this tiny high def LED: https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/optoelect...
I had a lousy experience setting syncthing up for the first time, but then a really pleasant experience using it. I would recommend it as a decent sync option
Without the moon the tilt of the axis of rotation of the Earth to the ecliptic plane would vary a great deal more than it does today, and the axis of rotation would sometimes lie on the ecliptic, which would mean 6-month-long (very hot) days and (very cold) nights.

The moon's orbit acts to keep the Earth's obliquity in a very tight range, between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees (where 0 means perpendicular to the plane of the Earth's orbit).

Keeping that obliquity angle range keeps the seasons roughly what they are, avoids the extremes that come with a 90 degree obliquity, and stabilizes climate. An obliquity angle of zero might work too, but I think life on Earth is much more interesting with seasons than without.
And that is why this change is happening, it's confusing to users. Currently, I want say that if you delete a photo in Drive, it will delete it in Photos too?