skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DO NOT use google photos. it is complete and utter trash.

there is no way to download all your photos once they are "backed up" to google.

if they called it "transfer to google" that would be fine, but using the terminology "back up" which implies an ability to "restore" is a class-action in the waiting. the app actively deletes the photos from your phone, puts them into their cloud app, and then you are forced to interface with the cloud app to actually do anything with them.

i have years of my life "backed up" into google photos and no way to download them to a computer for printing, editing, sorting, etc, except one by one!

the only pseudo-official way to get all of them was via drive, and it already fails for large collections (i haven't read why they are discontinuing it but maybe something related).

are you kidding me? thanks google.
> More specific benchmarks, such as compiling a standard set of real software packages, can give a clearer picture of performance for those more specific use cases.

Is there a good place to go for this? I've tried to find software development focused benchmarks before, but I've come up mostly empty.
The Silk Road was bad because it circumvented the law and the ability of law enforcement to enforce the law. The law is an important thing in a democracy. The rule of law protects us, from each other and from the government. The way to change laws is through your representatives in the government, not go do your own thing. If you do go do your own thing and the law catches up to you, that is a consequence of your actions.

It would be hypocritical to be upset at politicians like our president and congress for breaking laws, but then to cheer on Ross for his breaking of the law. Justice isn't a pick and choose kind of thing.
The Location of Plates in a Book
> With GraphQL, my understanding is that there is zero back end work. You just tell the GraphQL engine what data you need and it magically arrives into your browser.

It doesn‘t quite work like that. Someone still has to implement the backend (resolvers). If you want to request dogs from your backend someone still has to implement the dogs query, but (and I think that‘s one of the greatest things about GQL) as soon as it is implemented, you can introspect your backend and see exactly which properties a dog can have. So you know whether the dog object has a name property, or an isHungry property and so on. So now you can specifically ask for a dog and its name if that‘s all your view needs. Another view might only need the breed, so that‘s what you query for...view specific queries.
There is a delicate game being played.

If you are friendly with SA you can put pressure on them to improve. If you declare them an evil enemy would the outcome be better?

There is a path to walk and it is not easy to find the right one when you have to deal with reality not just idealism. The natural resources in the middle east are important to the world and it is not so simple as an 'us vs. them' because there are many entirely separate interests in the region and we play them off each other.

Maybe it would be better to do a Star Trek style prime directive of completely cutting off countries until they have a certain level of social development, but you would have to come to terms with knowing bad things were happening and actively deciding to do nothing.
It's Aaron Swartz, not Schwartz. If you're going to wave a bloody shirt, spell the name on it correctly. And I don't think he or his family would appreciate the comparison you're making. Swartz was ultimately prosecuted for actions which, right or wrong, were done selflessly, without remuneration, and in pursuit of a principle. Ulbricht made a fortune facilitating drug sales.
I agree with the sentiment that dropbox is doing too many things that don't make the most sense but sometimes the company doesn't have a choice but to try new things to extend the userbase into different markets because that's what VCs are demanding and expecting them to do. VCs want a 10x return and not a 2x return on a lifestyle business.
Thank you! Clojure is a natural fit for Jepsen: it has access to broad library support (key for testing lots of different databases), makes data manipulation easy (simplifies writing checkers), and has a good concurrency story (important for a concurrent testing system). It's got reasonable performance and a very expressive language core.
However we have to define it so that it can be an issue we can actually address.
If you have a group of developers, it would probably be a decent idea to have at least one sysadmin dedicated to developer services. It would go a long way to make build deploys go a lot more smoothly.
Ask HN: Have there been any advances in Mixture of Expert Models?
Since Google published their outrageously large network paper with the featured mixture of experts technique, has there been any other work in the area? I feel that this particular line of research could be super compelling for businesses and individuals alike.
The default search engine on Safari was switched to DuckDuckGo, for this reason, wasn't it?
Anybody want to suggest other possibilities?
https://www.chriswrites.com/share-icloud-photos-non-apple-de... (How to Share your iCloud Photos with non-Apple Devices)

I share my Apple Photo albums with android users without issue. I hope this was helpful despite your snark. I’m just trying to help.
> Is that unusual for a superpower?

China is a regional power, not a superpower. (Its long-range force projection capabilities are limited.)

China’s battles are all closer to home and more existential than America’s. (At least right now.) There is also the policy entrenchment that comes with Xi being a dictator.
it's not a webpage. It's an application that happens to run on browser platform.

If you downloaded a regular software and the exe file was 5MB that would be considered small nowadays, yet if a web application fetches that in JS it's considered large.

(sidenote: not defending the gifs they're just idiotic)
There is a log: https://support.google.com/drive/forum/AAAAOxCWsTo-pyqVwGqJj...
Hetzner provides nextcloud storage for €3. I have used their storage boxes before and they were good.
> Dark web markets are viewed as one of the crucial sources of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids.

[citation needed]

I strongly doubt this claim. Dark net markets are a fraction of all drug sales.
as a transgender woman I'm very consciously aware that I am considered by many the dregs of society -- worse than the drug addicts shitting on your streets. this is not a rational belief and it's not going away.

it's this fundamental lack of perspective that leads to y'all blithely supporting policy that will end with egregious human rights violations.

everything that sucks in our society is a result of how we've designed it. come to reality. your ideologies kill people.

it really sucks that "tech" has been fully subsumed by capital -- many of the visionaries that made the endless wealth fountain possible shared a vision of an equitable future that brought a better world and it was rooted in anticapitalist, social justice oriented philosophy. that feels so dead, these days.
https://github.com/nexB/scancode-toolkit/
My first job was programming a Sony SMC-70 Z-80 based computer that ran CP/M using the BDS C compiler. (BDS stands for Brain Damaged Software. It was an integer-only version of C.) The SMC-70 was connected to a Sony Laser Videodisc player. It controlled the videodisc over an RS-232 connection and put the video out from the videodisc into an overlay circuit that allowed use to overlay computer graphics onto the video. We used this to create interactive training programs for the US Air Force.
MDacne: Using mobile machine learning to offer customized skin care
3 Alternatives to Rubber Duck Debugging
An eloquent display of Whataboutism, to be sure.

Both are implicated, both are guilty. I fear there's little choice for the average citizen besides picking a side and living in relative obscurity.
It's called the Innovator's Dilemma.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
Well, I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree here. I think your reasoning is... flawed, to say the least. We're not going to see eye to eye on this, so let's call it a day.
What are you talking about? Your arguments are all over the place.

How exactly would legalization hurt Mexico? Look at Portugal to see how we should all move towards dealing with drugs and addiction as a health problem instead of a criminal problem.

The violence in the 1930s WAS caused by the prohibition, sure it had lasting effects but ending prohibition was still the right move.

Can you cite the rise of black market marijuana in California? The market is doing well and bringing in good tax revenue in every state I've read about.

As for the opioid crisis, the issue wasn't that people one day decided they wanted to get hooked on them. The issue was they had pain or were recovering from a surgery and were being prescribed highly addictive medication that was being pushed by pharmaceutical companies without proper warning or care. Marijuana could have been given in these cases and it without the same problems of addiction.
Nobody is dropping dead from fruit, so it's not the lethal dose that matters - it's the potential for bioaccumulation and the impacts of chronic exposure.
Spain’s soccer league fined for app that listened for illegal broadcasts in bars
Whether or not they are incomprehensible, I worry more that most of them seem to boil down to:

"We can do whatever we want with any data we have about you. Your only alternative is to not use our services and not use any other business or organization that uses our services."

Any privacy policy that has the usual clause saying, "We can change this policy at any time by posting an update to our website," is saying essentially the above.

I suppose it would help if they were forced simply to put their policy in those terms - then more people might push back against it.
Review of the Online Learning and Artificial Intelligence Education Market
For what it's worth, Microsoft now has their own apps integrated with Windows 10 that make it a breeze to sync photos from your phone to your computer. Check out the "Your Phone Companion" app (on iOS and Android).
Kubernetes does use dead simple off-the-shelf software for ingress and load balancing. That software though, unfortunately, has a lot of knobs, and what "Ingress" and "Service" resources do is make sure those knobs are turned to the right settings.

The nginx ingress controller for example, under the hood, just generates and applies a big ol' nginx config! You can extract it and view it yourself, or extend it with a Lua script if you want to be fancy and do some FFI inline with processing the request, etc.
The cynic in me wants to switch that saying around.
I think it's a telling statistic that since the handover, Hong Kong has gone from 18% of China's GDP to 3%. Granted, some of that may be the mainland playing games with GDP numbers, but HK isn't quite the same indispensable a golden-goose anymore.

[0] https://www.vox.com/2014/9/28/6857567/hong-kong-used-to-be-1...
I know this reason is often cited as why Apple are the privacy-focused company, but I guess its interesting that Google seem to be focussing more on products lately as well (in comparison to earlier, not in comparison to data-collection). They have their own phone line, tablets, smart speakers (data collection king), headphones etc. So if Google made something out of that market then I guess this distinction could over time diminish?
There is a little confusion whether it is 40 lanes or feels like 40 lanes. PCIe is a serial interface so they only need an additional wire per lane, per direction. So it is feasible as CPUs generally have spare pins.

As DDR5 is coming out next year, that will mean a new socket, limiting the upgrade path for the CPU, RAM & Motherboard. Although, 16 cores ~4.5ghz shouldn't be a problem for the near future (maybe 5 years even). Same goes with the PCIe bandwidth.

Edit: Just done some checking, I appears the 3950X has 24 PCIe lanes (16+4+4), but they are twice as fast, so not far behind the current 2nd generation ThreadRipper!
I think it's a great name!
It is recognizable and well-associated with what you're building, even if the name-story accuracy isn't 100% - I think that would be serious nitpicking and you can always rename it something else later when the cost / benefit makes sense.
You just need to estimate to level of sanctions so that the monarchy will still be able to stay in power, without risking an Islamic revolution.
I was a dev in the 90s and the start of the 2000s and always had admin rights. I dont need it any more. If you really had an edge case that requires admin rights I'm surprised. If you really need SQL server on your workstation you should think about using a different database. If your company says you have to use SQL server and you have to have it on your workstation and you need to reinstall it regularly and you're obviously screwed you go up the management chain with your unsolvable problem that breaks their policy. Is very unusual now - most people just moan they want admin rights when they can live perfectly fine without it.
Actually I only just looked in on this thread. Whatever you saw was users, not mods.

Pro-PRC? Have a look at the hostile media effect: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....

Also https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hong%20kong%22%20points%3E3...
A lot of the early European settlers in the US were fleeing religious persecution. But I suppose it wasn’t the USA then...
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel01.html
Without knowing anything about what I'm saying, I think parents complaint is that Jupiter notebook extension don't work in labs, and that the labs extension system does not allow for as much customisation, leaving parent to stick to the notebook server.
> Beijing is violating an agreement lodged with the UN.

Oh how I wish this mattered, but the UN has time and time again proven itself to be the world's most expensive essay-writing club and little more. What exactly are they going to do?
Intel does semi-customized parts, but mostly at the other end of the spectrum for cloud vendors.
I had the same inclination as you. Dropbox was cooking my 2015 Macbook Pro. What I can tell you might reduce research time.

Google Drive has no differential sync. Any changes you make re-upload the whole file. This is a hard no for me. Also Google.

I moved to Sync[0]. The pricing tier was more what I wanted (500GB). They support symlinks, differential syncing, selective sync as well as a 'Vault' for storing files in the cloud but not on your machine. I think it's end-to-end encrypted as well, not going to commit to saying anything specific in that regard. The Mac app is also a lot better, I find it spinning up a lot less for me and its a lot lighter in general. To be fair though, even with iCloud I get my fans whirring up when I start uploading lots of changes.

I've also heard good things about pCloud[1] but I don't see any reason to change my workflow now after have to already change it.

[0] - https://www.sync.com/
[1] - https://www.pcloud.com/
When they claimed it was necessary to support the service. It’s absolutely not. Newspaper ads are not targeted.

Anyway ads in any form still produce perverse incentives for a supposedly journalistic entity—I don’t know how anyone can read a newspaper that takes ad money and consider it unbiased.
Do tell the ways in which the Silk Road reduced violence for any of the people living under the influence of the cartels and corruption.

It arguably increased demand and supply for people who are curious to try such things but "don't have a connection".

Street level deals? Violence went down, sure.

But equating the Silk Road to "saving lives and reducing violence" is a martyrdom that, frankly, it doesn't deserve.
>You can't lecture other countries about freedom while supporting this regime.

Or generally doing any number of the malicious and horrendous things we do here in the U.S.
the small screen or the big one? how is the battery like?
> Edit 2017-08-16: It turns out that nothing in this section requires IPv6. It would work fine with IPv4 and NAT, even roaming across multiple NATs.

That's not quite fair. IPv4 and NAT require maintaining a lot of state at critical intermediate routers. I'm sure we've all experienced (perhaps regularly) a NAT'ing router losing state because of a reboot, state tables overflowing, or similar hiccups.

The one absolutely redeeming quality of IPv6 is that with 128 bits routing can be kept much more hierarchical and stateless. Fragmentation will occur and is occurring because we now apply trust metrics to IP addresses (thanks, spammers!) so there's value in owning transferable subnets, but I think IANA and major ISPs can keep the fragmentation process slow enough that hardware/software capabilities can stay apace, preserving a largely stateless, hierarchical routing infrastructure.

That doesn't solve the mobility problem, but it does provide significant benefits to mobility solutions. Don't underestimate the cost of NAT'ing in terms of systems complexity. NAT'ing isn't the type of layer, like ethernet MAC addressing, that we'll always be stuck with.

It's also worth pointing out that some of the [now] unnecessary complexity of IPv6 will fall away over time. IPv6 will get simpler as time progresses, as it already has.
I don’t have a use case for cloning a git repo to Dropbox
No, I said nothing about not arresting anyone. I am saying that we cannot pretend that cops will quietly and politely lock up drunk people for the night while they sober up. Arrest and detention is not as portrayed in countless sitcoms.

But I would say that cops should not be arresting people simply for being drunk in their own homes, or in the very businesses that intoxicated them. Arrest people who are violent, not simply anyone who is drunk.
Elfeed!
Jason also frequents here under the same username.
Bird Is Acquiring Scoot, Expanding Scooter Rental Network
The title is a bit of a misphrasing, cannibalism didn't give anybody resistance, it just killed everyone that didn't have it.
> It also only applies to G Suite users (read: paying subscribers).

Another commenter [1] pointed out that there's a separate announcement for non-business users: https://www.blog.google/products/photos/simplifying-google-p...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20166736
This is like saying that Hitler may knew about the Holocaust.
The astonishing thing to me is that due to oil money and the Saudi royal family, the US and UK have gone all-in with their support of the Saudi regime. When in fact the situation for womens' rights, while for from ideal, is significantly better in Iran.

Historical reasons about the Iranian revolution, cia supporting coups, etc.
You write a new standard to unify the existing two standards
Broadly speaking, the law in question is Title 21 Chapter 13 of the US Code. Buying and selling controlled substances without appropriate authorization is illegal. Disruption of illegal activities by law enforcement is generally legal, provided no other laws are broken in the process.

Now, whether buying and selling these substances should be illegal is another question. But it's definitely not obvious that law enforcement is outside its typical role here.
Fortnite maker Epic acquires social video app Houseparty
Nothing says human safety like a technology that can make a species extinct. The motivations for elimination mosquitoes is noble, but I'm not comfortable about where this technology will go afterwards.
As someone who works on low-level CPU performance code, everyone I work with "knows" that Bulldozer was a performance dud for most use cases.

This article about Zen starts with an overview of why Bulldozer failed to deliver: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/03/amds-moment-of-zen-f...
> This is not extra-judicial in my mind. The state can sanction the taking of life without a court hearing for absolutely evil people.

It’s literally and definitionally extra-judicial. You can maybe say that thing is ok for some reason but I don’t see how that thing can be “not that thing”.
there are many different types of benchmarks with many different CPUs/GPUs compared here: https://openbenchmarking.org/tests/pts

for a more specific example, linux kernel compilation benchmarks: https://openbenchmarking.org/showdown/pts/build-linux-kernel
This might also have the inverse effect. Some websites already do what they can to ensure that the web admins don't have access to communications between the seller and the buyer. Increased paranoia results in more safety guides and increased attention to detail by those who do not want to be prosecuted.
how is the battery like?
Have you looked at clojure.spec? (https://clojure.org/guides/spec#_generators)
in Uganda they grow avocado's, but lack the cold chain distribution network to sell into the international market.

Let's do 5 Whys with this? Basically, that means the industry can't reliably truck or otherwise ship refrigerated produce to the ports of Mombasa and Dar es Salaam. Why? I'm going to guess that the road infrastructure is too poor to support refrigerated trucks. Why?
>The assertion was that Apple does not have any computers for professionals that need a powerful machine, but not as powerful as a Mac Pro.

No, my assertion is that Apple does not offer a competitively priced mid-to-high end machine suitable for professional use.

The iMac will be acceptable for some users, but not for others, because it's one-size-fits-all. In most pro audio applications, the fan noise under load is simply intolerable - you can't trick it out with Noctua fans, you can't hide the hot bits behind an acoustic partition, you're just stuck with a couple of noisy blower fans in the middle of your working environment. Lots of other pro users have similar niche needs.

The lack of maintainability is a serious issue for pro users. If something goes wrong in your iMac, you can't just order a replacement part and get back in business by tomorrow morning. A repair that would take ten minutes on a commodity box is often a lengthy process requiring specialist tools on an iMac. That's tolerable if you can afford to have a spare machine on standby, it's tolerable if you can afford to just run down to the Apple store and buy a new one, but it's a dealbreaker if (like most creative professionals) you're struggling to keep the lights on. By contrast, the last mixing console I bought was supplied with a full set of schematics; it can be completely torn down with nothing more than a PH2 screwdriver and all the PCBs and internal connectors are clearly labelled.

Apple are presenting their users with the choice between an extremely expensive and blatantly over-engineered "pro" machine, or an all-in-one that wasn't really designed for professional use in any meaningful way. There's a gaping hole in the middle of their product lineup that ignores a very large proportion of actual creative professionals.
These things never fail to get the same reaction from me: I get immediately excited, thinking that we've cured cancer, and then a bit depressed because this thing is probably a really long way away.

I don't work in the medical industry, but to those that do, do these headlines irritate you?
Agreed. Just about every “foiled terror plot” in the 00’s were people coerced into the action and provided instructions if not materials for carrying it out by the FBI.
As well as on the ITAR list.