skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's some famous HN quote when Dropbox launched about how it would could be implemented "quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs and blah blah blah..."

Actually back then Dropbox was pretty neat an there was no way my dad could implement that himself, and even for us nerds, it would be a major hassle to set up and keep running... so Dropbox had real and obvious value.

My point replying here was that now, under some circumstances anyway (see below), it now really is quite trivial for regular people not willing to expend any^W much effort at all to set it up and keep it running. (It is less than one minute of one-step installing and then configuring Syncthing.)

However the thing I missed, as pointed out in some of these comments, is that not everybody has a machine at home that is on all the time.

I do, and I set up an iMac for my dad and sister etc and told them to just leave it on all the time and just let the screen sleep after an hour.

I think a lot of people do that, and I think it is a good idea in general, but if you don't want to do that, then yeah in that scenario Dropbox still does have some value.
Well done! It would be interesting to look at the angle and length of the shadow of one of those towers to estimate the time of day the picture has been taken and verify the hypothesis that the picture has been taken around 09:44UTC
Free. Just like public broadcasting system is free and when watching Sesame Street an ad for The Wire (Or whatever came up) will not happen.
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Slightly tangential but it's good description about the problems that Javascript still faces today.
"author of the post in question"

God, what a horrible typo :)
I think humans are a lot more robust than commonly assumed. Most of us do not break due to their mere experiences as long as their fundamental needs (food, being loved, goals and so on) are fulfilled. Once these needs are not fulfilled they may be more vulnerable though.
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Syncthing is only for the sync component of Dropbox. If you have an always on node for syncthing and miss the web UI component of Dropbox along with the shared links and full text search, I've built Filestash: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash
The problem here is that the leave is unpaid.

I've been informed recently that the employer in Germany has to compensate for the leave and will be reimbursed later. This sounds too good to be true though.
Edit: upvoted for the point that it is open source.

I never cared about Reader.

For me it was 5 or 10 or even more different other things like

- Killing xmpp through extend, embrace extinguish

- Creating Google+ without making it open

- Killing Google+

- ReCaptcha v2 and v3

- Constantly pushing the boundaries for tracking, now also buying credit card logs

- etc etc
This is conflating different issues.

Schools do have a duty of care and safety. They already do make a lot of efforts to know where their pupils are at all times, especially for younger children (obviously).

This is completely different from preventing children from having secrets and from affording them privacy.

I wish we could have a mature discussion on this and avoid hysterical terms and comparisons.
Usually in neural networks, each neuron has their own weights with different values that will be tuned during training.

Shared weight here means that every neuron in the network shares the exact same weight value.
This video by the onion, about the prison economy, is a favorite of mine: https://youtu.be/K2IYIJc1f00

In all seriousness, complementary currencies are a huge topic of interest for me. Value exchange takes many forms when money is unavailable. Cash is distilled power, but other forms of power and exchange will always exist.
I was born shortly before the Romanian revolution and I still learned English by watching Cartoon Network. I never had to really study English since.
Also relevant: https://theintercept.com/2019/01/10/amazon-ring-security-cam...
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> For startups, the main cost of GDPR isn't fines, it's attempting to be compliant.

Yes, and all those pesky regulations around accounting and money-laundering and gambling are a terrible cost that all honest companies have to bear!

> Tech companies create wealth. They make things people want.

Yes, and if only slavery was still legal, lots of cotton plantations could be creating a lot of wealth and a lot of things that people want!

> Preventing companies from existing doesn't help others

Preventing certain companies from existing helps us humans in society, because we think our society would be worse off if companies could own slaves, pollute the environment as they pleased, laundered all the money they wanted, skipped paying all their taxes, or collected way too much personal data that it is a threat to individual privacy.

Yes, the sum of all regulations that apply to anyone wanting to start a company is large and growing larger all the time, but the alternative is worse, which is why we put up with it.
Completely wrong, everything targeted at children (for decades) is regulated. If your kid is watching Sesame Street on PBS and an ad for The Sopranos appears - that does not happen for a reason.

Uploading cartoon nursery rhymes and having an ad for drug trafficking come up is idiotic.
It's ironic that you mention TF2 as a good example as it is the very first example of the opposite in the linked article.

Fortnite, besides having their own issues, also have the issue of "secondary whale-chasers" which is all those youtube videos proclaiming that they found a hack to enable a bunch of skins or similar for free. This means installing (what I assume to be) bitcoin-miners on each twelve year old's machine. You'd think that wouldn't be possible on a machine used by a twelve year old but Epic is extra helpful in that it basically requires its game launcher to be run as admin (because of its frequent updates to Fortnite that requires admin rights). So I assume most parents make their kid's account admin out of convenience.
Excerpt:

"GAP8 is uniquely optimized to execute a large spectrum of image and audio algorithms including convolutional neural network (CNN), with extreme energy efficiency, thanks to an integrated 8-core computational cluster combined with a convolution hardware accelerator.

Vector units, intrinsics and proprietary instruction set extensions help the 8 cluster cores execute faster than traditional parallel processor architecture without writing a single line of assembly code.

Fully programmable, RISC-V based PULP parallel architecture enables to cope with the rapidly evolving state-of-the-art in machine learning algorithms."

PULP FAQ:
https://pulp-platform.org/faq.html
lifebit.ai (not self-funded but really great place to work)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tiffanyyoung1/2018/11/27/15-mac...
This is a big issue these days.

Parents should be able to consent on behalf of their children and retraction should come from parents as well.

This used to be considered common sense but not anymore.
Courts have this rigid rule that whitness must be given in court even if it had been given before, possibly in retrial, too.
I think it's fine taking this as a constraint problem. It just means, you know beforehand that there is a solution. Also, if the underlying problem is in P, chances are the SAT instance is not that hard.

Also: have you looked at the poly-algorithm for 4-coloring? I rather write the SAT instance by hand...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovbF0D2wySI

People don't wanna be fcked.
Cell tower is rather trilateration, right?
> homoiconicity, meaning code can be represented as a data structure inside the same language

> generating strings and passing them into eval like for example in Python

Python has become a pinata for language enthusiasts? Python lets you pin a decorator on a function, get the AST (a data structure AFAIK), manipulate it in a sane fashion in Python, compile it, return the result. No string munching eval require

I'm all for Lisp but this just isn't convincing
PULP – Parallel Ultra Low Power RISC-V (Open Hardware, ETH Zurich)
I am not sure what the colour has to do with keeping it clean, or are you talking about perceived dirtiness? I think you can see dirt or whatever more on white cars. As to keeping it clean: whatever method you do, works independently of the colour of your car. Is this incorrect? If so, let me know. I do not know much about cars, nor about cleaning them. I would assume that the cleaning method's effectiveness is not dependent on the colour. Is it? If it is effective, both your black and your white car would look clean (less dirty, etc.). If this is not the case, please let me know!
Sorry, I'm confused where you stand on the issue - do you agree that we are originally physiologically frugivorous? It's possible to get all necessary nutrition through fruits, leaves (greens), nuts/seeds (and may have once required the addition of insects for which we can now supplement) but it's very time consuming and tedious to do so. And in fact, I don't believe we are well adapted to eating animals.
so what is new in that
There is this thing called "regional prices" in online freelance labor marker, which one could discuss is unfair to ie. workers from eastern Europe who earn less that their western counterparts for the same job.
Sorry to say, but it looks deprecated already. ES6, pure components, redux(without hooks), etc.. It's sad, but JS community is just moving too fast. We build things for today, not tomorrow..
Okay, let's say there is enough data and you are absolutely correct. How does that invalidate the "Even if it did, the trade-offs are worth it." response?

The US-EU funding disparity was always there, in my book this leads to less people copying ethically dubious startup patterns from their US counterparts. If GDPR is the sole reason for the decline... doesn't the benefit of the population, of quite a few countries, outweigh the impact on a few startup folks and their investors?
At this point there’s no way you aren’t pulling my leg. The research paper showed that increasing the amount of floors increases the price per floor. Are you saying that these towers control demand? So if they lower the amount of floors then suddenly demand is going down because they are cheaper?

Also I do hope you know the context of my posts relate to the UK market?
> Because they don't understand the local market, period.

Uber couldn't iterate the platform and technology according to local market requirements and conditions, engineering is one of the reason for failure. They then tried with money and didn't work either. It's a combination of business and technology platform due to which Uber failed.

If you prefer to live in a bubble its fine, there is no better engineering talent anywhere in this world except Uber. But ground truths are already there in the markets from which they retreated.

Gojek opened centers in India because it's cheaper than Singapore.

Grab costs in Singapore and Malaysia is higher too compared to India.

So like any other USA firm which has opened centre in India to save costs, they did too.
Musk has a point. Just whipping up your own acronyms and terminology in highly technical field will get out of hand easily and screw up the communication.

Many big tech companies, newspapers etc. have their own terminology databases and language planning efforts to keep communication internally and externally coherent.
This is not a "solution", this is at best a workaround. Moving around important system files and replacing them with symlinks means you are changing your system and everything in it just because one small program that doesn't want to play by the rules can do what it wants.

The real solution is to use other software than Dropbox, that plays by the rules and cares about its users.
You are right. Ephemerality and velocity is what influence the current state of social. With forums you had a community (often local) with a common (usually offline) interest. You had permanent topics and memorable members. I frequent subreddits which grew from 10k to 200k and 100k to 1M subscribers and I haven't memorized a single username. Maybe a creative troll or two but even they eventually gave up. Maybe all this is caused by a rapid growth and a lot of new people still figuring the things out.
No. Problem is with jira and agile.

Majority of managers will always be mediocre. But previously, managers without tool just let the developers do the job. Nowdays, mediocre managers have industry standard tool to make everyone life terrible and destroy the product by accumulating bad decisions founded on jira/agile metrics.

Also, jira and agile gives management ability to be extremely shorter oriented in their reasoning - that is major factor changing dynamic in the team.
> A competitor who finds a way to deal with copyright better, has a sane advertising policy that doesn't randomly demonetizes people, with a patreon system built in, and has a modern UI (YouTube has a lot of room for improvement) it could possibly compete with YouTube.

A competitor that grows to the size of YouTube will face all the same pressures from publishers, legislators, advertisers, and malicious actors, and will almost certainly turn into something that looks a hell of a lot like YouTube does today.

Oh, and since it'll be advertising-supported (Nobody will want to pay $10/month for a significantly-worse to slightly-better YouTube alternative), it'll also be bending over backwards to make advertisers happy... Gosh, I wonder what the likely outcome of that is going to be.

Can you even imagine pitching this to a VC?

"We're going to build a YouTube alternative that doesn't suck, that will piss off major content owners[1], and will be a haven for bad actors. We're going to be amazing, give us money!"

[1] Who will sue us for every cent that we have ever, or will ever own.
Well, there's at least two other competitors - Vimeo and Dailymotion - but neither has the fame or reach. And Peertube exists, but is comparatively tiny.

A big clue exists when we look at the most viewed (and presumably most lucrative) youtube videos. What do they all have in common? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-viewed_YouTube_vi...
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JSC is barely ever mentioned in the v8 team. They gave up wanting to be benchmark kings in the interest of having decent performance in Android markets (low-end and high).

Comments around cheating are likely aimed at OEMS who ship Chrome derived browsers and spin up the clock frequency when they detect certain benchmarks are running. These look great in online reviews.
> Cutting investment by 50% means that instead of getting a Dropbox and a Spotify, you'll only get a Dropbox. That missing upside is bad for the economy.

No no, if investment money disappears from tech, that means you get Dropbox and something else that isn't a tech company. The investment money doesn't just disappear into thin air, it gets invested into something else, a different kind of company, a different sector, some place that isn't dependent on privacy-violating ad-tech bullshit and selling user behaviours to make money.

And as a result, society is better off.
...if there's a reasonable suspicion. Not all the time for all the people walking past a certain location.
> Do webdevs really check for Chrome AND Firefox compatibility? The devs I know consider the job done as long as their site works with Chrome.

That would technically only make them Chrome-devs.
It is, however, important to take note of how this robustness varies with age, just what proportion of people "most" counts as, and whether the most absolute category of humans "breaking" is most appropriate when we take into account the massive variation of mental states, disorders and the entire field of media effects and child psychology.
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What's the payment app with the best buyer and seller protection feature?
Hey, awesome, dude! Been looking for something just like this, and will definitely try it.

The only thing that bugs me about my Syncthing setup is that it's annoying to find a file in one of my sync'd folders from my phone (which is iOS, so no Syncthing client).

I don't do that much, but every once in a while you really want to — and in modern times, we mainly want to find files via searching for file content.

This looks great, and I will definitely try it tonight!
GPS is passive and NFC is very short range. I think it'd be easier to track people by bluetooth or wifi MAC.
When I was 9 I had an absolutely awful teacher (to the extent she'd refuse kids using the bathroom to the point where they'd pee themselves (it was the 80's)), I told my mum about it and her response was "If you need to go ask, if she says no, go anyway and I'll deal with the fallout".

It was my first lesson in dealing with unjust authority and that most authority relies on the principle that most people under it will do as they say most of the time.

A useful lesson and after that I saw asking to use the bathroom as a courtesy because I was going either way.
If you read the paper I linked to, it says that the money is likely going to the US and other places outside of the EU. Capital can cross borders effortlessly.
The practical significance of SAT is that almost all modern verification techniques are based on SAT solvers.

The algorithm he describes is not very interesting because it doesn't even implement unit-propagation. The idea with unit propagation is that if my current assignment has set a variable A=True and I also have a clause (~A + B) then B must be true for the instance to be satisfiable. Unit propagation is about propagating such implied constraints. If he'd implemented unit propagation along with his brute force search he'd have ended up with what is called the DPLL algorithm for SAT.

Modern SAT solvers are actually even smarter and have two important improvements over DPLL: (i) Conflict-Driven Clause Learning (CDCL) which introduced a very cool technique called non-chronological backtracking, and (ii) 2-literal watching which is an extremely clever data structure for efficient unit propagation. Both of these ideas are generalizable to many other versions of constraint solving (e.g. sudoko, router search, etc.) so they are well worth learning.

CDCL was introduced by this paper: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=244560 while 2-literal watching is from the Chaff solver: https://www.princeton.edu/~chaff/publication/DAC2001v56.pdf.
You are turning his argument about things being forbidden by the GDPR being in majority eroding to privacy into something about IP addresses, it's not a fair simplification. That actually doesn't help anyone in this conversation to decide if the privacy gains provided by GDPR are worth it or not.
> Later in 2018 I linked to a draft whitepaper that showed a decline in funding for EU startups.

Correlation is not causation. That the GDPR caused this decline is a pretty hefty claim for which you have offered zero evidence.
Does windows not have something like the setuid bit on Unix? I guess even if it did expecting parents to know about that is probably asking a bit much.
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It very may well be regulated, sure, but what is completely wrong exactly? Parents are responsible for their children! Is this incorrect? We can go back to how parents blame everyone but themselves when their kid steals their credit card to buy, say, loot boxes.
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Huh?

>> Why did New Guineans wind up technologically primitive,
> That's a direct quote where he says flat-out what he believes.

That's a question not a statement.
The number of comments shows nobody cares.
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As a comparison, humans can't control stomach rumbling sounds, and can't stop blinking for an extended period.
One question: During the time which Facebook Messenger and Google Hangout are both using XMPP, is it possible for a Google Hangout user to send message to a Facebook Messenger user via Google Hangout client?
This article talks about a UK Newspaper's campaign to get law changed in the UK to protect women and children from abusive men. This is important and they probably have a good point: far too many women are killed by partners and ex partners; far too many children are killed by parents and step parents.

One of the examples they're using is the Victoria Haigh case.

She alleged that her ex-partner was sexually abusing their child. The family courts (who only need to find this proved on the balance of probabilities) couldn't say that he had done so, and found in fact that he hadn't done so and that the allegations were malicious. She didn't stop making the allegations and the father had to go to court, repeatedly, to have the court orders enforced. This ended up with her being jailed for ignoring the court orders and continuing to make contact with the child.

Haigh was using a McKenzie Friend. These people are not qualified nor registered and often don't have any insurance. They're meant to be an actual friend who sits with you in the court room, handing you the papers and just being there. They must not provide legal advice and they usually don't get to address the court. Because of the lack of legal aid in English Family Courts we're seeing more people using McKenzie Friends, and because of a variety of campaigning groups (covering the wide range of MRAs, extremist Christians, etc) we're seeing a lot of McKenzie Friends who are ideologically driven. Haigh's McKenzie friend was also jailed for interfering with the court orders.

The article briefly mentions the Hampstead satanic abuse allegations. This is a conspiracy theory / hoax that says ritual satanic sexual abuse of children is common. It has caused immense harm. https://hoaxteadresearch.wordpress.com/ http://barristerblogger.com/2015/03/24/the-hampstead-so-call...

It's really worrying that the newspaper is using this example to support their case, because there are plenty of others that don't involve abusive women.
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Well, they cannot differentiate on price within the EU. So they have to offer the same prices in Spain, France, Germany, Poland, etc... that's simply the law here. They can still offer different prices in markets outside the EU, though.
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Not true. The Big Mac is mostly sourced regionally. So the raw material prices also vary and factor in labor cost.
http://www.indiandefencereview.com/spotlights/op-topac-the-k...

Read about: "Pakistan's Aims and Plans"
This also does not work, because many programs refuse to follow symlinks for their configs (e.g. pulseaudio)

Also, you might want to avoid using suckless software: https://twitter.com/kuschku/status/1156488420413362177
There are other threads about it. Plus, it happened to me - so the most likely explanation from my end is that it happens in 100% of cases ;).

http://www.google.com/search?q=mail+stuck+in+outbox+gmail

A single quora answer alone has 20k views. Do you think that's a normal number of views on a quora answer? How many views do you think that quora answer should have for you to think it's a problem? 200k? 2m? 20m? 200m? 2b?

(A single quora answer does not represent everyone who has a problem. Maybe 0.01% of people with a specific problem will end up reading a specific quora answer. So I think that 20k represents 200 million users, or more than 10% of Gmail's userbase. While we're just throwing around made up numbers. Maybe it's 100% of installed gmail for android apps with that problem. (Since not every gmail user uses android, uses the android app, and uses it to send mail.)

Anyway I think up to 100% of the android app users could be affected.

Still, you answered the question: perhaps the development team doesn't feel that 20,000 reports is a priority. Maybe the salt and pepper manufacturer doesn't care that every one of their pepper shakers doesn't let peppers out. 20,000 complaints just don't matter.

Important people use iPhone anyway.