skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly feel this is a bad direction for Dropbox. Many companies have tried to integrate tools together. It's always half-baked simply because those tools aren't designed to be integrated. I find it kind of odd Dropbox would be bragging about a dropdown menu to create a Google doc. Surely if that's important to me I get Google drive - the integration will be better because the same company makes the different tools and you can actually stay within the eco-system. If Dropbox are planning to compete with this it's very difficult to see how they win over Google.

The integration with Google makes sense because they already own the tools that you're moving between. It seems really funky to have Dropbox crash that party. If you're trying to integrate with tools outside of the Google eco-system maybe dropbox atleast tries to allow it, I just can't see how it'd be anything other than clunky though.

Personally what I value is just basic cloud storage with a decent automatic sync. Obviously storage has turned into a commodity and dropbox are trying to compete on a new level, it just seems boggling to me that this is the direction they've taken.
I like Dropbox again lately.

They added smart sync and 1TB extra to “plus” accounts, which is nice after their pathetic use of Finder integration + OS notifications to nag users to upgrade to the next paid tier (on a paid account!). It’s what they should have done in the first place.
Not sure you probably store encrypted data and delete decryption key if you want to discard. Now unused blobs will probably fade away with time. Not sure if it works this way.
Links in README of the go repo are broken, is rust your primary language?
Can someone summarise the changes in a couple of sentences? I haven't got a clue what the differences are after sepdning a couple of minutes on the site.

Thank you
Your first paragraph almost perfectly described the science fiction novel Blindsight by Peter Watts.
It looks like Dropbox is completely focused on the business market and not improving the consumer experience anymore. I've stuck with them for years because of the linux support, but am probably going to jump ship soon. My main complaint is the lack of a way to build a shared photo library with my spouse. Both Google and Apple support this.
Maybe, "empower your staff as they each prove competence", instead?
Similarly, from USGS:

Erin A. McCullough and Nedal Nassar, "Assessment of critical minerals: Updated application of an early-warning screening methodology", https://doi.org/10.1007/s13563-017-0119-6

Increasing reliance on non-renewable mineral resources reinforces the need for identifying potential supply constraints before they occur. The US National Science and Technology Council recently released a report that outlines a methodology for screening potentially critical minerals based on three indicators: supply risk (R), production growth (G), and market dynamics (M). This early-warning screening was initially applied to 78 minerals across the years 1996 to 2013 and identified a subset of minerals as “potentially critical” based on the geometric average of these indicators—designated as criticality potential (C)....

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70191019

And:

Critical mineral resources of the United States—Economic and environmental geology and prospects for future supply

Which addresses antimony, barite (barium), beryllium, cobalt, fluorine, gallium, germanium and indium, graphite, lithium, manganese, niobium and tantalum, platinum-group elements, rare-earth elements, rhenium, selenium, tellurium, tin, titanium, vanadium, zirconium and hafnium.

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70191019

(148 MB PDF)
Seconded on snowplow. Piwik/Matomo are showing their age, you don't really control your data with Adobe/GA/MixP/etc, and building from scratch seems easy... til it's not. Either use snowplow as is, or at least learn from it to see how they solved issues so you can avoid some basic mistakes (their data QA on input from the trackers, for example, is very well handled).
I think it's entirely sensible in this day and age to avoid electronic products from China, Russia or the US.

Back to Nokia, I guess.
Thanks for your excellent work!
There is a cure for companies with your attitude, it's called competition, resulting from letting those "other" people to join/create your competitors that then in due time push you out of your markets.
Fun fact: Maryland's transit agency recently moved to diesel technology for its next generation of commuter train locomotives. The railroads in this area were first electrified more than a century ago, and most of the last several generations of locomotives were electric. But the overhead catenary is in bad shape, and some lines have stops that haven't been electrified. Maryland apparently believes that, over the 20-30 year service life of these locomotives, the infrastructure is likely to deteriorate further (to 19th century levels), instead of improve, such that diesel is the smarter option.
I really don't get why they are throwing away a nice, clean, smooth interface to embrace a new big "touchy" UI even on the browser and the desktop.
I understand it's important to implement a native App for smartphones and tablets, but I do not like at all the trend to transform the desktop UI with big buttons, huge padding everywhere etc. (GMail style).
Consistency and compliance costs be damned; I am pleased that localities are taking this matter seriously.

The status quo lack for user data protection is appalling.
CCP planned in term of decades and were more far sighted than western politicians. This changed with the rise of Xi Jing Ping who is a short sighted petty autocrat but unfortunately extremely good at political maneuvering to concentrate power in his hands and undoing what little checks were instituted by Deng Xiaoping.

I had high hopes for China's future back when I lived there but that is no longer the case with the current government.
It's amazing to me how most of these predictions refrain from calling out the single largest polluters in the world, China, from changing their behavior or doing anything substantial. In particular, this paragraph at the end:

> In Chicago Thursday, he prosecuted a moral argument that implicates university administrators who refuse to divest from fossil fuels, journalists who fail to fact-check false statements made by political candidates, and executives of fossil fuel companies who continue to pursue activities that are exacerbating climate change—especially those who mislead the public about those effects.

Really? Can you, as a man of science stand behind such vitriol as an outburst for what is arguably at best a theory with a lot of room for error? Specifically:

> "The chance that there will be any permanent ice left in the Arctic after 2022 is essentially zero," Anderson said

Based on WHAT? This man is making a claim for the complete wipe out of roughly seven million cubic miles of ice in the next three years? Even if one were to be charitable and entertain a massive error margin on this claim, based on data about the polar cycles it seems extremely unlikely. This is nothing but an attempt to use "Science" to create panic.

I strongly agree that we need to do more on the environment, but there's got to be a better answer than killing off a major chunk of the commercial markets and industry that have contributed to the single most prosperous period in human history. Can scientists please not make recommendations on policy? I'd love to hear scientific solutions . . just the other day, there was a discussion here on HN about using energy from a nuclear reactor to recycle atmospheric carbons. Practical or not, i'd love to see us innovate our way out of this hole while continuing to be reasonably responsible with our environmental decisions.
Great content for the Emoji Movie sequel :)
One country. Two systems.

The _system_ in Hong Kong is very different.

It isn't uncommon to have such internal differences. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is likewise a single sovereign entity, often abbreviated as just "the UK" but for example abortion is _a crime_ in Northern Ireland, whereas it's offered as a normal part of the NHS on the mainland. Likewise Scotland has separate laws even though there's no discernible border, no more than a small street sign saying "You are now entering Scotland".
This issue boils down to "absolute links don't work". See here: https://discuss.ipfs.io/t/how-do-absolute-links-work/5267/3.

> So, there’s some good news: we will be moving to putting the CID/IPNS-key/HASH in a subdomain by default (so every site gets its own origin). That is, websites will be hosted from https://HASH.ipfs.dweb.link/... instead of https://ipfs.io/ipfs/HASH/.... The nice side effect is that absolute links will “just work”.

So every IPFS website is going to be https://HASH.ipfs.dweb.link/? I like that I can stick with the familiar dat://kickscondor.com. And it works today.
Facebook lets deepfake Zuckerberg video stay on Instagram
While I love KeePassXC this is just a minor bug fix release.
Did Manga Shape How the World Sees Japan?
The ideal IT team is one that proactively learns the needs of others in the business and works with them to solve problems. It's no wonder that so many companies end up with shadow IT when so many IT teams are just people who tell you "no" whenever you ask for something. Doing it right is harder in the near-term, but much easier in the long-term as you're not putting out so many fires or going to "disciplinary council" meetings.
Let's be honest here for a moment. Look at the monsters like drug dealers. Everyone knows for a fact they are doing it. I'm talking crime boss types, not some thug on a street corner. Guys like Pablo Escobar. Colombia could have gotten him far sooner. Nothing like a few tier-one operators with knowledge of his comings and goings and they could take care of it. This is not extra-judicial in my mind. The state can sanction the taking of life without a court hearing for absolutely evil people. People like Pablo Escobar, and there are many like him just south of the US. They pay off the police to look the other way. Ditto judges. They terrorise their local authorities. Sanctioning the removal of these thugs is warranted.
Yup, same here. Switched to pCloud which seems nice enough so far though rudimentary.
I entered "BETA - ACCESS" and recevied an error saying I had entered the "wrong code".
That's a good question, and worth pondering outside the context of the state's monopoly on violence. Would the average person prefer Ted Bundy kill them immediately or lock them in his basement for 20 years?

This entire comment chain seems to be conflating two common arguments:

1) If it's wrong to kill an innocent man, it's also wrong to imprison that same man; you can call one more unjust than the other, but (as the argument goes) you can't say that one is justified while the other is not.

2) Our society has gotten too used to locking people up in metal cages for several decades; there are many arguments in favor of moving back to flogging[1][2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Defense-Flogging-Peter-Moskos/dp/0465...

[2] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/justice
Would you consider solving an algebraic expression that was a string as a word problem - ie

“$x * (5/25) + 10 * $y”

Of course it involved variable substitution, converting it to rpn, and then using the “Shunting Yard Algorithm”. I’ve had to do that twice. The second time I was maintaining a proprietary compiler/VM/IDE written in C++ for Windows CE. Yes, that was a dark time in my life.
On top of that I would say that many specialized analytics systems are SQL-based, so even if you start out with a normal RDMBS you can upgrade to something that is super-efficient for your workload.
Interesting speculation, but wrong since the new Bay Wheels pricing page shows monthly and annual memberships are still available.
"Enterprise" features including half baked slack integrations, and web shortcuts like it's 1999
Same here cancelled after they dropped ZFS support.
Realistically, companies keep making older generation tape drives for a long time, for example, HP LTO-5 drives are still widely available from normal vendors like Newegg. And except for one discontinuity that's pretty clearly due to the change from metal particulate to BaFe, which is at the heart of this patent dispute, LTO offers two generation back read capability, and one generation back write capability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open#Compatibility
...the Maldives are under water, and half of Florida doesn't exist any more. Oh, wait, that's not the case.

Assuming that assertion is true, though, 4 or 5 years is not enough time for anything to realistically be done.

I assert that in 20 years we'll still not see the supposed effects though.
Db2 12 for Z/OS Catalog Tables
So being alive is a privilege that can be taken away?
"Heck, what's stopping us from classifying ocean currents as a sentient lifeform?"

Section 6 of "Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity": https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf In the context of the rest of the paper, of course.
The loss of sea ice is stoking US heat waves: https://phys.org/news/2019-06-loss-arctic-sea-ice-stokes.htm...

Intense heat is also predicted for Europe this summer: https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/accuweather-2019...

James Anderson, the scientist from the article, also has linked ozone depletion with climate change: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-ozone-prob...
I left DropBox the minute I read they hired war criminal Condoleezza Rice.
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System cost $199 when it launched back in 1991. Plus the additional costs of the games.
> But testing me with FizzBuzz without looking at my CV at all is putting you into "garbage employer" category and I wouldn't want to waste time with you.

This would concern me that you don't validate your input. Just because the contract says something doesn't mean that's what you are getting. Trust, but verify. I trust that your CV is accurate, so I'm giving you a test that won't take up too much of either of our time to verify that you can code. Why? Because I've seen enough CVs better than yours where people can't do FizzBuzz.

Not wanting to FizzBuzz is also concerning because if it's a proven method of validation, why spend extra time and resources on something more that will only tell you the same thing?

So, to me at least, your antagonism here is really you wanting to waste resources and/or not validate input. Neither are good signs.

> Did you get 5th grader questions on your university exams as well?

If a 5th grader question is good enough to answer something, why bother with a 3-hour exam?
>If you skipped FizzBuzz and went with another programming exercise, e.g. giving some simple dynamic programming or reordering lists etc., would FizzBuzz actually be useful at all?

Both types of problems require a person be comfortable with arrays and iteration. It wouldn't be fair to give either of them to someone who can't get a simple for-loop right.
I found this article quite interesting, it's about implementing an analytics system at stackoverflow: https://jasonpunyon.com/blog/2015/02/12/providence-failure-i...
How to Tell If You've Got Pre-Burnout
No need for third-party tools on Windows (at least in Windows 10)
I am mildly curious if the recent publication of Mark Levin's "Unfreedom of the Press" has any bearing on the changes happening at NYT.
See also African Twilight, a book/documentary/exhibit bu two collaborators who’ve been traveling in Africa for decades. They are documenting the traditional ceremonies which are disappearing in modernity.

https://carolbeckwith-angelafisher.com/african-twilight-exhi...
>I’m convinced that the government doesn’t believe citizens are any more loyal or hard to bribe than other people

Seriously? While they have to plan for an inside threat, do you really think that they don't view their own citizens as being more reliable than foreign nationals?
We got to this ecological thinking not by random chance. Think of DDT or of nuclear tests that polluted the biosphere until a degree that traces were found in children's milk teeth close to the test areas.

Will climate change be the end of humanity? Likely it won't. Probably some areas will even become usable for farming that previously weren't. But the homes of significant populations will become inhospitable, leading to them wanting to leave those places. This can and will cause tremendous wars of fighting about resources. Think of the war in Syria, here droughts have contributed to destabilizing the country.
The problem with predictions like this is that this prediction will look silly in 4 years when the Earth has not ended, similar to how
wild predictions in the past have not borne fruit.

I understand their desire to sensationalize, but people like AOC make the same predictions, and she is not seen as smart by a large portion of the public.

I think if we just stick with the experimental science research, the general public will find more confidence in the sciences.
Not "the poles". He was talking about the Arctic ocean, not Antarctica. Very different.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_sea_ice_decline
No company of any size - even with as few as 10 developers needs cowboy coders. Someone has to maintain your code, we have a CI/CD process that means you don’t just push your code to production from the IDE for a minor code fix, etc.
Ask HN: Most used ML algorithms for sport event result predictions?
What are some of the most used machine learning algorithms for predicting the outcome of sport (soccer) events? What statistical/probabilistic models are they based on?
>I’m convinced that the government doesn’t believe citizens are any more loyal or hard to bribe than other people, but insisting on citizenship would make it easier to charge us with particular crimes if the need arose

Hm.. I definitely feel it's easier to mitigate some risk by using US citizens. One of the goals is to limit possibility of foreign interference via these citizens. By using your own people, you can track their interactions with foreign entities via their trips outside of the US and their self documented contacts with foreign nationals. It'd be a lot harder to track these things when you hire someone from a different country because you're not going to have as meticulous records and all their friends and family are liable to be foreign nationals.
I just wanted to point out that there's a mistake on your website.
You write snowboarding is better than skiing. This is clearly false.
Yes! Yes, we're finally in the news for something good, not something our social cancer of a former governor did!
Others have called out the extremity of this position, so I'll leave that alone, but do consider the practical/technical limitations here. Whenever there's a call with more than one or two speakers with a going video feed, the quality of the stream degrades precipitously. Depending on the quality of the teleconferencing software, either the whole call will become entirely unworkable and audio will get mangled, or the video streams will degrade into mush anyway.

Because of this, unless I'm expecting to be the primary presenter in a meeting or unless it's a 1:1, I'll usually "mute" the video feed. If I don't start video-muted, I'll frequently do it mid-call as people complain about lag, choppy audio, or inability to make out the primary presenter's screen. There's no reason to put the extra technical tax on the call just so people can see what I look like when I'm staring at a screen.

Please consider this as an alternative motivation, rather than assuming that anyone who isn't making themselves visible is slacking off.
Has any internet provider sold data previously?

They sell ip address, websites visited, and home address?
Have you tried https://twitter.com/textfiles/ ?
Competition between carriers has partly driven the widespread availability of coverage. Several carriers compete on the basis of their coverage. A government-funded entity seems highly unlikely to provide optimal coverage, or to do so in a cost-efficient manner.
Well yeah that’s the kind of person working in my industry.
Did you switch to another hosted paid hosted service or are you hosting on your own?
Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit
The key part from the article:

"The level of carbon now in the atmosphere hasn’t been seen in 12 million years".

What was the Earth like 13 million years ago? Or 130 million years? A snapshot in time does little to provide actual context.
I hate it when I find traces of environmental group in my cereal.
You are correct, you do get the "can this person actually write _any_ code" info. More than that I think you get the "is this person good at writing trivial code".
I'm not sure the groups of people that "write good production quality code" and "write trivial interview code" intersect all that well.

Worse it would push for people that _excel_ at writing trivial interview code, which in my experience is inversely proportional to how much they are going to contribute to the success of the company. Though this is admittedly anecdotal.

Worse still you're going to be sending a signal to the interviewee that you are a kind of company that values trivial code. It's an interview both ways, the company gets evaluated too. The better the dev, the more offers they have so they might just not pick you based on stuff like this. They'll just get a _gut feeling_ that it's not a place they're going to like - that kind of thing.

As an interviewer, I personally don't think it's worth that bit of information, both in a game theory best outcome sense and just as a basic human decency.
From the early '90s.

I miss the simplicity of a 320x200x256 screen. Want to access the pixel at (0, 0)? $A000:0000.

I miss FIDONet.

I miss the big GOPHER network.

I miss the the variety of monthly ANSi packs.

I miss ACiD.

I miss the wonder and amazement of the demo scene.

I miss the community feel.
One example off the top of my head: It used to be (may still be) the case that you needed admin rights to install and run the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Sure, you might not need this to do your job, but IT is not really in a position to decide that. It could be that WSL greatly increases your productivity.
A deepfake video of Mark Zuckerberg presents a new challenge for Facebook – CNN
There's little chance of transitioning our energy system in time, so let's start considering how to cool our planet. Can we block or reflect sunlight? That seems the brightest future, cooling the planet artificially while decarbonizing and capturing the carbon already released.
Totally agree. The first thing I found myself doing was staring at the silly animation on the top left for a minute, what a waste of time.

EDIT: Oh god the front page is just as much of an acid trip now.
So don't publish it.
Please keep both versions up to date! Once you get the attention of recruiter (using your one-page Resume) then they usually ask for more information - longer CV, skills matrix, etc.

I invested some time to shorten my resume to exactly one page and now I get a bit irritated when people ask me for a longer version.
You ever sit there wanting to strike up a conversation with a random stranger, and have no idea where to begin?

I think that has more to do with the observed self-imposed isolation than is given credit in the article.
KeePassXC still lacks in-memory protection, so I stay with KeePass, with all its .NET troubles.
The Swift++ Programming Language
GPS Tracking for Vehicles and Motorcycles
Brands work on a number of levels. For fashion you would have the designer stuff, then the expensive mall stuff then a cheaper garment but which only features a huge logo. It's aspirational for many. The brand becomes more important than the quality. Thus it's about the spectacle rather than reality, hence why people may label all of it as bull.

Its why there are so many counterfeit stuff for fashion and accessories. My analysis doesn't work for IT or electron ics on the whole though. Except perhaps headphones?