skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. If you are talking about those three Slicers (User, Product, Year) in the Slicer & Charts screenshot, they are dynamic in a way that the values displayed are queried from the database but I don't think they do the same thing as jsonform.
> benchmarks show that AMD is much better at their chips running closer to TDP than Intel chips are, so the gap is probably actually wider

AMD gives their TDP with enabled turbo (similar to real usage), Intel gives TDP at rest / no turbo enabled.

There is still some variance from both between given and real TDP, but the core of the difference is well assumed, and dates back to almost a dozen CPU generations back when Intel already had to guzzle power like crazy to superclock their chips in the vague hope that they could compete with AMD's products of the time (and then they never reverted it once they took the lead back with the core architecture)

It's kind of similar to the whole "Intel wants comparison dont with SMT off", due to the last 15 years being theirs, the whole thing is biased toward Intel, ... yet they still massively lose those comparison.
I've consulted for a big bank which blocks most file sharing sites and also blocks you from attaching scripts, server logs, etc to emails.

Luckily, S3 is not blocked. I set up a bucket and have them upload to the bucket, which I then download on my own computer. Mission accomplished.

Just getting free Windows applications procured and installed on the company laptop takes several layers of approval, emails back and forth, etc. Also the lovely forced password resets every 2 months.

This is true for the banks I've worked with/at. Security systems actively block you from the tools you need to do your job, let alone get the job done in an efficient manner.
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I call BS. Every situation you mentioned exists because people passively accept the situation. Simply demanding a method to communicate other than Facebook can remedy the situation.

I'd love to see a list of companies that require a Facebook account. Not ask for Facebook account, require Facebook account.

"You may have relatives abroad you can only talk to through Facebook or WhatsApp" They can't pick up the phone?

Side note: I've never had a Facebook account.
(disclaimer: I worked at Meteor/Apollo for about 5 years)

I love the callout to how this is continuing the vision for improving application development started with Meteor -- it really does feel that way to me. Apollo, supported by GraphQL is IMO really delivering on the vision of making a lot of aspects of client-rendered app development much more straightforward than they have been in the past.
> The BBC has an unusually readable privacy policy. It’s written in short, declarative sentences, using plain language.

This is good to know. Startups often adapt language for their own privacy policies from those of big companies (on the assumption that such policies are good/vetted).

Hopefully founders who read this article will turn to the BBC's policy when figuring out how to fashion their own.
Some people, when faced with a problem, think: I know, I'll use distributed systems!

Now they have a new career.
I'm not sure I really follow your reasoning in any of those, sorry. What I will say is: I firmly believe the dead do not care that they're dead, are explicitly not suffering, and that we're all going to die.

The suffering associated with death is the suffering associated with the survivors and the suffering in being told you're going to die.
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That looks great! I’d like to have support for iCloud. Have you tried it already? Alternatively, I’d consider adding it as data source myself.
Gah, yes, I hate this. We are discussing workarounds (other than associating with your Google Location History) here: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner/issues/38

Google Photos API bug report (not that it'll do anything): https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/80379228
Seems logical (if depressing) to me: companies that do less work to customize their product to their target customers will find it easier to get big in the first place. Companies that care about craftsmanship above all else have to deal with being small. The violinmaker down the street from me does excellent work but he's never going to be as big as Toyota.

Companies like Dropbox tend to make the bulk of their money by selling to other businesses, as well, which by definition is the set of customers who care more about volume and price than craftsmanship.

Pretend you're a Dropbox salesperson, and your job is to go to other companies to sell them on enterprise Dropbox. How many times do you think you're going to hear someone challenge you on what version of Python the Mac client uses? It just doesn't happen.

There's many small ("indie") companies that make great Mac software, and do it by being Mac-only. That means they'll never be huge, but it also means they're never going to have a second-rate Mac client.
Fibridge – Access files in the user's browser externally over HTTP
>One major limitation with the Google Photos API is that it's impossible to get the location data from the photos through it.

Isn't this embedded with the photo itself, the EXIF data? Or is that what the Google API strips out of the photo?

Also: Thanks for the link to timeliner, looks useful.
If the domain has dropped how are they going to find the content?
I guess they really want you to use Google Takeout instead of accessing the files directly :/

I guess it was nice while it worked, but this is another nail in my Google account coffin.
Both cases are handled by a punishment modal that assumes humans have free will. I wish we lived in a society that handled these cases with a rehabilitation modal and understanding free will is an illusion by determinism & how the brain functions.
Location metadata is stripped from EXIF when downloaded through Google Photos API.

Only alternative I can figure is to scrape the actual Google Photos web app.
Weird question, maybe a coincidence, but does anyone know why most of the signs are blue? Is that significant at all?
Some AMD boards already support TB. Gigabyte for example sells an add-on card for some of their motherboards that adds TB3. https://www.gigabyte.com/mb/thunderbolt3/overview
It is kinda relevant since there's at least 17 google services biting the dust this year.
That data is highly disputed. The question had a significantly lower response rate, and living could mean on a couch etc.
How does the Apple Ecosystem allow me to backup photos from iCloud photo storage to my Synology NAS?

Because Drive integration for Photos allowed me to do exactly that. Last I checked iCloud will lock down all my photos onto a platform that's not even accessible on Linux.
I haven't (I don't use iCloud) - go for it! Would love to see more data sources. See https://github.com/mholt/timeliner/issues/18
Migrating from LoopBack 3 to LoopBack 4
I guess you're doing it the way liyanage prefers. Dropbox, on the other hand, follows symlinks: https://aurelio.net/articles/dropbox-symlinks.html
This is accurate, several "95W" TDP intel chips will happily guzzle upwards of 200W+ for sustained periods (providing they don't down clock due to heating)
A shocking number of dumb devices play music, including most dumbphones.

Not the parent, but in my personal case I only listen to music in my car, and have my MP3 library synced to a device in my car. It doesn't cost me data and works in the middle of nowhere.
OpenStreetMap actually seems quite excellent from a quick check. I've only glanced at it every now and then during the last few years (I used to contribute a bit back in around 2012) but now it actually seems awfully attractive compared to Google's/Apple's offerings - with all the annotations/coloring it actually looks like a real map!
But those independent tests are inevitable and probably right at or right after launch. Does AMD stand to gain anything by falsifying test results that are (relatively) easy to fact check independently?

I mean, no one should lose their minds over it right now or anything, but it seems impressive. I certainly don't see an upside to giving bogus stats right now.
Why not walking downtown?

Last time I was in Chicago I was approached by a hustler almost immediately after I got out of the parking garage. He gave me the typical spiel about his family being down the block and he was out of money. Not out of the ordinary for Chicago.

We engaged in small talk for a minute. After I put a $5 in his hand, he began to break down and explain that I was the "first white person" to talk to him all day. He went on to imply that "white people" are afraid of him (he's black). At the end of our exchange, he asked me for a hug and I reciprocated. He told me he'd pray for me and I wished him well.

Maybe it was all bullshit, but it brightened my entire day.
I always find this paradox as interesting as sad.

It's crab mentality [1] and you're right, it's extremely sad. We see it absolutely everywhere. So many people who (for example) hate the rich rather than loving the poor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
We're supporting 2 crypto (BTC and ETH) and 12 fiat currencies at the moment. And their prices get updated every time you open the app. If you have created several currencies, you'll see the total balance of your portfolio get updated.
Today is a very good day to observe it growing if you have BTC or ETH :)
Regarding stocks and other funds, we're not supporting them yet, but it's certainly on our roadmap.
>The fact that you can't avoid them? I can (at least hypothetically) avoid Google. Maybe not really practical, but at least in theory.

>How are you going to avoid your ISP? Might as well decide not to purchase electricity from the local utility...

You can avoid any particular ISP as well. You have to use an ISP, but you also have to use an OS and a Browser. And the companies that dominate the OS and Browser markets are actually recording and selling your data.
It wouldn't be as hard as you're implying.

The rate of suicide is much higher in prison than out, and is also higher after release for people who have served their prison sentence.

And that's without an impending death sentence - just a regular prison term.

I can't imagine it'd be that different because they were incarcerated incorrectly.
Intel fixes severe NUC firmware, web console vulnerabilities
I hear this every day on HN and i'm with you, but I still appreciate how much Google have given us with Android/Gmail/Search etc over the years
I don't know, I think consumer macs (non-pro) could easily go arm sooner than that.

Or who knows, maybe they'll just wait for risc-v to to mature to make any sort of switch.
No battery issues with google filesync on my mac. I do wish however that they'd spend some time improving it. Sometimes files never leave the cache which end up taking up a lot of space.

Solution of course is to just use rclone and mount Google drive directly.

For the price Google beats everyone.
Yeah, their FAQ just says: "To download all your items from Google Photos, you can use the Download your data page."

This feels pretty gross to me. I can understand them wanting to make the separation clearer, but they should have had a sync solution in place first.
What I don't understand is that Lyft is suing the city of SF.

It literally should just take the Ford GoBike stations, and convert them into bike parking for only their brand of "dockless" bikes. Even if they don't have exclusivity over dockless bikes, having a monopoly over dedicated parking spots would make their brand of dockless bikes way more convenient.

Instead, scooters have taken over the city instead.
That’s only for deletion, not when you accidentally overwrite something. Or a file got overwritten by something else or got corrupted etc.
I get what you're saying, but I still disagree.

NAT doesn't help privacy either. There are a million plus one ways to fingerprint or track a web browser without knowing anything about the end user's IP. A modern browser presents a ton of surface area. It's also quite easy to track by externally visible IP or IP prefix (e.g. /24 or /64 in IPv6) if you make certain nearly-always-valid assumptions about the timing and sequential nature of user behavior.

I think a lot of people just don't grasp how easy tracking actually is. Think of how obscure and sophisticated hardware-level attacks have become: Spectre, RAMBleed, etc. Now imagine the surface area presented by a browser. It can and does get that clever.

The only way to really prevent tracking is to use a sandboxed browser with strong anti-tracking features and redirect your traffic... or use a P2P decentralized system!

If we didn't have NAT, we'd probably have much more privacy-respecting P2P alternatives to the centralized web and we'd also have easy to use P2P systems for anonymizing requests by bouncing them off other peers. In other words without NAT our privacy tech would be better.

I'll be more accurate than saying NAT is Satan. NAT is a massive piece of technical debt. It's a "simple" hack that breaks something fundamental about the Internet, namely namespace unity. That in turn makes a ton of other stuff exponentially more difficult.
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The US has been installing backdoors in network hardware for its own exploitation for years. No ones privacy has been respected by the NSA. The behavior of both sides is reprehensible, but this is absolutely not a case of mean ol China hurting us innocent westerners. Note that England and Australia are collaborators on the NSA’s attempts at total surveillance of the global web.
OneDrive does a perfectly acceptable job of this.
I'm considering Librem One, I hope their cloud storage is picture-friendly, and easy to backup.
Why? Threadripper is for workstations, Ryzen for consumers. Core count does not have anything with that. There was 8 core Ryzen along with 8 core Threadripper in the past.
I wouldn't be so sure that they're a completely disjointed set. Many who attended the vigil this year were quite young, for example, while many older people were on the streets as well today.
I've opened plenty of tickets as a developer, mostly the tickets are IT's garbage software or horrible network setups preventing me from doing my work.
Radiohead sells recordings to public after hacker threatens to leak them
With Google Maps I find myself switching between map/satellite annoyingly often. With OSM I don't feel the need at all, from a quick test at least.
> We heard feedback that users were confused by the connection between Photos and Drive.

...

> Currently, G Suite users can choose to sync Photos to Drive. This means that when they upload a file to Photos, it’s automatically uploaded to the Google Photos folder in Drive. Once these changes go into effect, this folder will stop receiving updates. It won’t go away; it will just stop syncing with Photos.

How does this solution solve the problem stated above!? Have they done any actual user research on this? Surely there is a better UX to solve for this rather than just totally severing the connection between Photos and Drive. I am glad to hear that my photos won't be lost in this.

I'm sure a vast majority of Google Photos users are mobile only, and so this change will be more or less invisible. But, jeez. You'd think this whole issue could be resolved with a single helpful tooltip...
> The kicker is that OneDrive costs $99 as part of Office 365 Home, and gives you + 5 family members each 1TB storage, GBs of Outlook storage, the desktop Office apps for all devices including Android (they run really well on Android-enabled Chromebooks)

For those who haven't looked at Office 365 in a while, it should be noted that Office 365 Personal was upgraded a few months ago. It used to be that Personal was for 1 person, with at most 1 Mac, 1 PC, and one mobile device. If you wanted to put the Office applications on more devices than that, you needed Home.

They removed that limit a few months ago. Now Personal lets you install on an unlimited number of computers and mobile devices, with the only limit being at most 5 can be signed in at the same time.

So now it essentially is if you have more than one person in your household who would like an Office 365 account, get Home. That covers 6 people, each of whom gets 1 TB of OneDrive, and can be signed in on up to 5 devices simultaneously. If it is just you, get Personal, which is $30/year less.

I've not figured out if it is possible to buy additional OneDrive storage if you need more than the 1 TB that is included.
>It's not obvious to me why in Africa these costs would be higher than in Europe, but apparently there's some reason.

Physical security and security of investment (via security of government, infrastructure, judicial systems, pipeline of educated and skilled workers) is worth a lot.
>I have in-laws that live in Nazi Germany. I have a German visa, and need to travel to Nazi Germany for work sometimes.

Does that put it in better context? I don't believe the comparison to Nazi Germany is that unjustified. You already know what the right thing to do is, you're just not considering it an option.
The U.S. is still using many pesticides that are banned in other countries
Adobe fixes critical security flaws in Flash, ColdFusion, Campaign
But why not just use Ubuntu? I dont know why so many people decided that wasn't enough of an out of the box experience. All ElementaryOS really is Ubuntu Pantheon edition. That's what bothers me about this superficial branding.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but how will photos taken on my phone, and uploaded to Google Photos, be synced to Google Drive now? Backup and Sync seems to only deal with files on a Mac/Windows (yikes) client syncing to Drive/Photos, not the other way around?
I find myself drawn to these new chips and news, but you're absolutely right - we need to be skeptical here. But I really want to believe. Either way, I wont be ordering until I see a lot of real 3rd party benchmarks.
> It took Intel almost a decade to roll out Core and in that time AMD failed to capture the market despite making tremendous gains and legitimizing itself.

And by AMD failed you mean Intel used illegal means to stop them from it, right ?

The US, Japanese and Korean fair trade comission equivalent all either blamed Intel or fined them. The EU was still too young in that area to be in time but in 2009 they gave one of their biggest fine ever at 1.45 billions € to Intel for what they did, along with an approriate "oh and if you do it again we won't be late, and won't be so nice".

Calling it "AMD failed to capture the market" is technically true, but that's one funny point of view.
Can we switch the URL to https://www.blog.google/products/photos/simplifying-google-p... since that's the announcement for the consumer side of Drive/Photos?

(Disclosure: I work for Google, but commenting here isn't my job)
In the most recent generations, Radeon has run hotter than nVidia cards for similar performance. Seems to be true of the Radeon VII as well [0].

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/11/18194190/amds-radeon-vii-...
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Ah, I was looking at this the other way around, as a lot of people would say that Antifa protesters do in fact have some influence over the Democratic party.
The target audience for this are likely to use off-the-shelf solutions as much as possible. Apps like Adobe Spark make that clear; while Illustrator and InDesign are superior choices for the professional, IG is all about speed and frequency of posting.

So Adobe Spark lets you grab pre-made, somewhat professional looking templates abd make basic edits to colors and typography. It's a much faster and less rigorous workflow than what a designer would go through to create pro content for IG/Twitter.
Drive does seem to run into their own API limits which is kinda dumb for a product targeting business use.
I'd be really interested in hearing of HN moderators have observed that kind of thing. It definitely feels like it from time to time, but it could also just be that the topics are inherently polarizing, so only the loudest voices on each side come out.
After a couple of years of massive frustration with the entire direction of the "devops" segment, I think I'm resolved to get out of it and either move further up back to ordinary application development or further down into the actual kernel, preferably working on FreeBSD or some other OS that's more sane and focused than Linux.

Kubernetes represents the complete "operationalization" of the devops space. As companies have built out "devops" teams, they've mostly re-used their existing ops people, plus some stragglers from the dev side. These are the people you hear talking about how great Kubernetes is, because for them, they see it as "run a Helm chart and all done!". Which makes sense, since they were, not too long ago, the same guys fired up about all the super-neato buttons to click in the Control Panel. 90% of "devops" people at non-FAANG companies are operations people who just think of it as a new name for their old job.

Among this set, there's no recognition of the massive needless complexity that permeates all the way through Kubernetes, no recognition of the tried-and-tested toolkit thrown away and left behind, no recognition of the fact that we're working so hard to get things that we've had as built-in pieces of any decent server OS for decades. No recognition that Kubernetes exists so it can serve as Google's wedge in the Rent-Your-Server-From-Me Wars, and no awareness that just in general, there's no reason it should be this hard.

Of course, to them, it's not hard. They have an interface with buttons, they can run `helm install`, they get pretty graphs via their "service mesh". That's what I mean by "operationalized"; Kuberenetes is meant to be consumed, not configured. You don't ask how or why. You run the Minikube VM image locally and you rent GKE or EKS and go on your merry way. The intricacies are for the geniuses who've blursed us with this death trap to worry about! Worst-case, you use something like kops. Start asking questions or putting pieces together beyond this, and you're starting to sound like you don't have very much of that much-coveted "devops mindset" anymore.

"What happens if there's a security issue?" Oh, silly, security issues are a thing of the past in the day and age where we blindly `FROM crazy-joes-used-mongodb-emporium:latest-built-2-years-ago`. Containers don't need updates, you goose. They're beautiful, blubber-powered magic, and the Great Googly Kubernetes in the sky is managing "all that" for us. Right on.

I'm picking on Kubernetes specifically here because it's the epitome of all this, but really everything in "devops" world has become this way, and combined with the head-over-heels "omg get us into the cloud right now" mentality that's overtaking virtually every company, it's a bad scene.

Systems have gotten so much more convoluted and so much dumber over the last 5 years. The industry has a lot to be embarrassed about right now.
It's not only about privacy policies. Terms of service and other contracts which people use are equally incomprehensible and full of legalese.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Killer_App
Sorry pal but you are falling into the fallacy that technology will save Africa
For all the gnashing of teeth on this thread, I think the bigger point is being missed:

Most of the Dropbox post is pitching for collaboration. They have probably recognized that catering to teams has much better revenue growth than mere individual users.
Amazon to Donate $3M for Affordable Housing Near HQ2
Very interesting to see that this was up-voted (+8) during the hours where only the east coast was online but now that the west coast (the other timezone with a bunch of HN users) is online it is down-voted.

I guess the national news only covered the "we got'em boys" official statements.