skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever since they killed public folder hosting I've mostly stopped using Dropbox and moved to Imgur. I want to be able to drag pictures into a folder and then right click them and get a url to give to people. It was also nice for various types of small files.

I haven't found anything else that has that level of convenience. The windows context menus on right click were very good and now they are gone.
USB Fuzzing: A USB Perspective
Heat pumps are only efficient down to a bit below freezing temperature, so it may make sense for Berkeley, but it gets really expensive if winter temperatures get much colder.
I believe your interpretation is being disingenuous with the data and everything known about how H1Bs are utilized.

You seem to gloss over the fact that tech jobs don’t actually require everyone to hold a specific CS degree (in reality and practice few do if you have the skills). So once you expand your definition of skilled workers to include everyone that could adequately fill such positions, you are looking at a much larger pool of workers than just fresh CS grads. You definitely don’t need a CS degree to be a low level analyst, tester, etc. which has been a pretty popular H1B position. From the linked article, you likely also have adequate coding skills if you come from an engineering, scientific, STEM, or similar background. Then add people from bootcamps that came from outside STEM.

You also ignore that H1Bs are frequently used to replace citizens, their poor working conditions, and lower salaries. You seem to apply to another perpetual myth in economics that companies like to spout about labour shortages and skilled labour shortages. There are few if any economic studies that conclude there are actual widespread shortages of candidates with necessary skills. What you seem to ascribe to is a shortage of workers that are willing to be taken advantage of, work for lower wages, and work in poor conditions.
It's not a problem to be blamed on PGP though. A solution to shield an Average Joe's private life from his internet provider's snooping will always have its own deficiencies, exactly because of its generality.
I switched to OneDrive and it's great. It works everywhere (iOS, Mac, too) and it's a first-class citizen on Windows.

And for the same price as DropBox, I get online Office365, two installable desktop licences of Office, the iOS versions of the office apps, and an Outlook account, in addition to the 1 TB of storage.

It would be really, really hard for DropBox to come up with an application suite and bundle it along with their "folder that syncs." So they scramble and try things like their alternate file manager, that nobody in his right mind would use!
How extensions slurped up browsing histories from 4M users
As I said, I don't really know much about, but this is bullshit.

RSA lacks perfect forward secrecy is same as saying that ECDH lacks perfect forward secrecy. Both is true, and both can be used with ephemeral keys, which provide forward secrecy to both (and therefore must use other way to authenticate). Claiming that it's somehow RSA's problem while willfully pretending that it doesn't concern elliptic curve cryptography is very dishonest.
That's true. Maybe we are going through a transition where we shed some :) There is lots of evidence for it.
Encrypt the file and throw on IPFS?
Framing aircraft travel as a personal moral failure rather than a problem to overcome wrt climate change leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The idea that humans wishing to travel long distances in minimal times are somehow exploitative doesn't sit well, along with the implication that you can do your part by remaining in the section of earth you were born in.

Surely we should be focusing on solving the environmental and economic problems of air travel rather than painting it as a decadent and reckless means of moving around.
A noise two percent of people can hear
nextcloudpi.com can help you do it with ease
I've been using the android client for years
Which you distribute to thousands of people on tens of thousands of devices?
> it seems questionable to me to tax something that could likely have great personal value to someone but not great monetary or utility value to them.

If it doesn't have great monetary value, the taxes won't amount to much. The only thing that makes this case interesting is that the IRS appraisers were completely off the mark, something that will (one hopes) be resolved in court. If they can get the IRS to agree with the the auction houses that the thing is basically worthless, they can keep the hideous thing in their living room forever without paying anything.
There are companies who do this for Ruby on Rails. If someone can’t upgrade, for whatever reason, they can pay a third party for security updates. It works pretty well.
The conservative mark-sweep implementation was the easiest to write: I don't think there is any real GC that is simpler. In the long term, the plan is to add other GCs that are precise and can be used in a real time context.
However, note that such a conservative mark-sweep GC is good enough for many use cases already (look at MicroPython!) and that other GCs will likely cause additional RAM/flash bloat.
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This entire thread is a perfect example of confirmation bias.
I've worked for a major Dropbox competitor for almost a decade. Shenanigans like this don't surprise me.

This happens because product managers, developers, designers, ect, like to get creative. They think that they need to invent something new; AND, we (in the industry) see how a certain group of users is constantly confused by the files and folders concept.

Usually, cooler heads prevail and remind everyone why our customers use our products: They just want basic file synchronization, sharing, and backup. That's it!

Fortunately, in our case, we have very vocal major customers, so it's "easy" for us to plan features and changes that they will like.

That being said: An important subset of users is extremely confused by files and folders. Figuring out a UI that works for everyone, (power users, normal users, and non-savy users,) is a bit of a holy grail, and a very important problem to solve.
>Even the "angry" react (which is mostly an ironic reaction), is missing the context. Are you angry with the commenter? Are you angry about the something the commenter is referencing?

Interestingly on my site we have a total of 31 custom reactions people can use to express their reaction to a piece. The ONLY one people feel the need to qualify is the dislike one, anytime someone uses it they qualify it with 'disliking the content, not the post'.

There's no obvious reason for it though, the dislike is just one among many and it looks the same as all the other reactions, but it's the only one to generate a unique response.
That can get insanely expensive especially wrt bandwidth if you are keeping more than one device synced to it.
Slack Security Incident
Fine sir or madam, I don't care what you think of my virtue or lack thereof. But the health affects are real. Example: I was obese. I largely quit driving, or drastically reduced it. I am no longer obese or overweight; my BMI is 21, down from 33. If you want to live worse because you decided that is "virtue signalling", go ahead and ignore the suggestion. But the benefit will exist whether you believe in it or not.
Here is the link to the report: https://about.gitlab.com/resources/downloads/2019-global-dev...
https://about.gitlab.com/resources/downloads/2019-global-dev...
I have no idea. I imagine there is some degree of sorting and modification of the stones.
Hijacking the comment for better visibility. After getting some backlash, the government has already backed down. They claim that installing the certificate is entirely voluntary.

https://rus.azattyq.org/a/30064788.html

They have been talking about this stuff for some years, though. It will get implemented at some point. I have a feeling it was one of their "test trials": can we boil the frog yet, or do we have to heat the water up a bit more?
It doesn’t make sense to me that Satya Nadella makes 10x less than Sundar Pichai. Last I saw Satya made about 20M and Sundar was making 200M. Given Microsoft performance vs google I don’t get it.
Direct link to the survey results here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-8LLKL2N87/

There's only a tiny link at the bottom of the page for this.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I must say it's very peculiar to me reading the reactions like this one.

> People who can afford their home will not like watching their property values and quality of life decline because a neighbor “rented” its back yard.

Why should neighbors get a say in your legal activities?

>Furthermore, home owners will discover that having people travel alongside their homes to reach the rented studios will be unpleasant and unsafe.

Unpleasant already seems like a stretch, depends on the tenant I suppose, but unsafe is really pushing it. Have you ever lived in an apartment or a multifamily home? It's really not that astounding that you could live in close proximity to another human without it impeding on your quality of life. You don't even share walls in the case of an ADU.

>Will the tenant be allowed to come and go at any hour?

I would certainly hope so, these are human beings not indentured servants

>Will the home owner know that the person creeping alongside their bedroom window at night is the tenant rather than a burglar?

I don't even know what to say. Isn't this the case for any existing neighbor?

>Will the tenant be allowed to park in the homeowner’s driveway, or will they line the front curbs of the house with their car and any visitors’ cars?

This is a fair concern. I imagine you would want this cleared up before signing to continue, probably depends on a case by case basis.
The Rise of the Chinese-American Right
Doing coding challenges is a special skill. To be fast you need to:

- Have all the boilerplate code almost memorized. By that I mean things like parsing a simple file, opening a display, etc..

- Know the relevant techniques, and train. For example, if you are doing a coding competition, dynamic programming algorithms are a classic. If pretty pictures are your goal, fractals and raytracing are a good start. Neither is likely to be of much use for you in the real world.

What coding challenges don't require is the ability to think long term. That code is likely to be thrown away after the challenge is completed. Managing complexity is maybe the most important part of real world programming, and for technical reasons you have very little of it in coding challenges.

As for Bisqwit's videos, they are awesome, and he certainly is very talented. I actually learned a lot from him. However, all his videos are about toy projects, not building complex applications.
BTW, I think this is the reason he is a bus driver. He doesn't enjoy coding in a professional setting, because it is a different kind of work.
Happy that this paper finally made it to arxiv. The biggest reason for writing it was to try and showcase some of the breadth of applications we see for really high quality first class AD support at the language level. There are several communities that need this technology, so it makes sense to try and build one system that can address all of them and share tricks. I'm also hoping this gives people a sense of why our list of feature requirements for this system is so extensive (pervasive custom gradients, higher order AD, mixed mode, ultra fast scalar AD, etc). These days AD is often discussed only in the context of deep learning, but as the frontiers of deep learning are pushed and hybrid models become more and more popular, I'm expecting our focus on generality to pay off here.
You're in for a bad time trying to run Cylance or something similar at home. I generally have a positive opinion of Cylance having run it for 3 years. I think where those types of products shine is in larger environments where the end user is your biggest risk, you have layers of security and it's worthwhile to invest the effort in getting your AV config right.

I would never put that thing on my home machine. I know what I'm doing and I know what's on my own machine. My usage patterns at home are much different than at work so I'm not worried about phishing emails, fileless malware, PDF and .doc exploits or whatever. I'm more concerned about my webcam, known malware, casual drive by stuff, some basic parental controls and something low maintenance that will stay out of the way. I keep my machine patched, installed BitDefender and called it a day.
Would you have taken the same flights if planes were constantly crashing? I know I wouldn't.
I may be one of few that actually do not care about the tabs versus spaces "argument." I meet others that use one or the other, and then realize how insignificant that choice is at the end of the day, especially when most IDEs will manage and convert from one convention to another, with ease.
No. Secure Messengers are designed to be hard to use unsafely. Nobody accidentally sends plaintext to a counterpart with Signal, because there's no feature in Signal that does that.
We personally struggle to just keep Ubuntu updated with LTS releases, let alone managing all the updates to ensure software works on the new packages installed on whatever LTS version.

The issue is that when you have smaller companies with small web development departments you end up with a lot of differents sites/tools made over time. So now when it comes upgrade time you have a large pile of stuff that needs upgrading. One developer making new websites over a few years time isn't that crazy, so unfortunately you end up with a build-up of projects to update.

Yet while having time pressures to update, you also have pressures to continue to work on new things or fixing problems users have reported.

It usually comes down to time/money. Unfortunately dedicating time to updating things is never as high of a priority as making new things, adding new features, or fixing bugs. Because it follows the traditional mindset of it's working, why update it.
You can't download it even if you sign
I filled out the form. I just
got a link to read the report. It's useless
it's probably a bad idea for a lot of reasons, but it's not a "regressive" tax. lower income families tend to have more children, so this tax setup would shift tax burden higher up the income ladder. it would hurt some low income individuals, but it would help low income families as a group.
We have APIs to put content in DOM elements without it being interpreted as html, and we have APIs to build DOM elements without using strings. Given that trusted types don't actually prevent xss from occuring and only make your data flow more explicit, why not just recommend to developers that they use the other APIs, instead of adding this new one?
We use ElasticSearch extensively at our company but we don't use it for full text search (in fact, we don't use its full text capabilities at all) but rather for its ability to match and aggregate large data sets without having to create any indexes at all prior (and it's fast, it still blows my mind a little). This allows us to offer customers a way for them to create arbitrary queries in our own little DSL.
If they only allowed POST, there would be actual good reasons for it.
Dose that city still exist? Would love that experience...
I've been feeling the same as many people in this thread - DropBox keep adding all these weird features I don't want or need (document editor? file manager? notification this and that?) while not doing what I expected (better file masking for sharing, less resources).

I've heard of pCloud and have been considering testing them since /I simply want a folder to sync/. Curious if anyone has tried it before and can compare it directly.
There's an odd bubble on HN where people are so deep into their Linux or Mac universes that they think Microsoft has faded into obscurity, when in fact they're the strongest tech company around.
CA, USA. To be fair it’s not like everyone is smiling all the time! But I genuinely feel that my neighborhood is a great community mostly consisting of interesting and friendly people.
How to make your customer support more human
If this was the case the poster wouldn’t be complaining about the limitation, but celebrating!
An induction-compatible disc that heats up via induction and transfers that heat by conduction to your non-induction-compatible cookware.

Simple, inexpensive, inefficient, and possibly damaging.

https://www.centurylife.org/the-inefficiency-of-induction-co...
Windows Phone - I was hoping that it's gonna stay with Android and iOS and gain more and more power on the mobile market

Twitter competitors - I'm still hoping that one day there will be a nice replacement that doesn't mess with my timeline entries order & no ads (e.g. paid service) - there was couple approaches but none gain enough track.

Mobile Phones - I was totally not interested in mobile phones 20+ years ago and thought that it won't gain enough market (temporary fashion) - I even said to myself that I will not have a mobile phone at all because I don't need it :)

Modern JavaScript frameworks - I was so used to "get sh*t done" while using just raw JavaScript + jQuery + jQuery plugins that I thought that modern frameworks (such as Backbone at the time, Angular, React) will be also a temporary fashion which will end very quickly because it was making web development (in my opinion at the time) a slower process and people will go back to 'classic' webdev anyway soon.
Can you provide link to paper explaining the use of tensor calculus in AlphaZero?
> I see you are focusing too much on your own problem space

I have worked in many problem spaces, and what I have said stands for all of them.

> I agree that 10x engineers can't fill that role since you can't get a steady supply of them.

10x engineers definitely can, just not Lone Ranger style mavericks that poison teams, or "replace teams"

> Then it is better to have an extremely good team build a good solution

I 100% agree. key work in that sentence is team

> However in an environment where you are writing solid libraries which are not meant to break or change much and therefore wont need much maintenance the requirements are very different. Then it is better to have an extremely good team build a good solution once and then ship it and then mostly leave it alone.

Very little code these days is write, compile and ship once. Compilers, runtimes, interpreters, base libraries, kernels, OSes, CPUs, and tooling all change. Unless you are deploying to a main frame that is slated to run for the next 40 years, all of these changes require updates to code, and that isn't even accounting for security issues (how many companies do you think were frantically trying to recompile programs with retpoline mitigations? How many "run once" pieces of software had to be recompiled with updated OpenSSL after Heartbleed?)

> ignoring that some developers can be vastly more productive is therefore counter productive,

So is discounting the harm they can cause, or the opportunity cost of them not lifting up their teammates.
Middle manager A at the IRS F-d up going all out trying to tax this piece of art.

Slightly higher middle manager B cared far less but because A forced his hand he can't say "well upon further consideration we value it at $0" because that would piss of middle manager C who wants to maintain the "image of the IRS" or something like that.

So they reach the "compromise" of "well if you donate it then you don't have to pay" which partially satisfies A, B and C yet is total BS considering that these people (whoever they may be, rich jerks have rights too) have been forced to give up possession of their property because some bureaucrat decided this was worth pursuing.

Typical office politics. You see this pattern all the damn time in big organizations.
It looks it performs way better than msgpack in following benchmarks [0]. However, it's true that it's not very popular - personally, I rarely see any software that utilize CBOR.

[0]: http://tutorials.jenkov.com/ion/ion-performance-benchmarks.h...
I don't think this perception is true anymore - people here are generally pretty aware of MS's overall rise in the cloud space.
Integrating your call center with powerful tools
So, are you telling me that 50% of all strollers in Toronto have dogs in them? You would be lying as much as the op.

People who hate San Franciscio move here to take our money, to complain about us not being boring like Palo Alto or Orange County. They don't contribute anything to our culture, they whine, moan, and think that we owe them something because they make $150k at a lame startup. Whoop de doo.

They make us miserable so that we don't notice their misery. Some aspy techie decides that the city is overwhelming for him, or some brogrammer wants to be able to slee pwith as many sorority girls as possible, then comes to SF and complain, and bitch, and moan, waaah waaah waah.

They always take the tiniest kernel of truth and blow it up beyond proportion. Waaaaah I want more housing, I have a right to cheap housing because I'm wealthy, waaaaaah! "Why won't theuy build skyscrapers in new york? HOW DARE THOSE NIMBIES PRACTICE DIRECT DEMOCRACY WHEN I DON'T AGREE WITH HOW THEY VOTE?!?!?!?!"

Show me 50% of all strollers having dogs in them. Go ahead, I'll wait.
Call center statistics that count
Who bruteforce scrapes the HIBP API across many IP addresses when they could just download the original leaked username & password databases?

Theres even a torrent file of all of them I won't link here...
Do you then remind them that they might need to check their biases?

After all, kids learn all sorts of dubious things from "innocent" Places and well-off kids use things like drugs at a similar rate. They are simply less likely to get caught because they have unsupervised large back yards and things like that.
> Try to write a parser for an arbitrarily complex and nested JSON object without running into runtime errors even after the fourth-or-so revision.

Do you mean parsing the JSON bytes itself into maps and lists and atoms, or turning that into an application-useful object?

If the former, are you claiming that Python's standard json library, libjansson, JSON::XS, etc. have bugs? (I don't know why you would roll your own JSON parser in production code.)

If the latter, how are S-expressions any different?

(And there are non-buggy libraries that do both, e.g., serde.)
You should not using airbnb in your domain name. That is trademark infringement. Also lot of people here are saying that airbnb-mm domain looks fishy. It is not unless they have hacked airbnb itself since it redirects to the airbnb.com domain. Also whois shows the same information.
Hehe, LLVM takes about an hour to compile on my laptop. The compiler itself is not tiny in any way. It really refers to the size of the binaries produced which is usually very small. For example, for WebAssembly, reductions to 3% of the original size are not uncommon.
Angling for loopholes is a highly ingrained part of the sport of racing.
At some point enough money is enough. "Mo' money, mo' problems" said Biggie. And salary isn't the whole point, perhaps he has some really, really nice golden parachute or is hoarding options, I dunno.
Humans may be able to live on Mars within halls of aerogel
I live in Manhattan, and I can't imagine having a kid here. There's barely enough space for my wife and I. Plus the waiting lists, zoning drama, and crazy daycare situations. Plus the whole place is so dirty. A lot of people do it and are perfectly happy with it and it gives the kid more freedom, but I'm definitely moving to the suburbs before starting a family.