skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The shortest on my list is GC, which they removed after a short 4 years of deprecation. I'm short on examples of things that were deprecated one year and then removed the next couple years. If you have some?

They could remove Perl/Python/Ruby this year, having only deprecated them last year. Historically they're not inclined to do so, but I'd expect those to be left deprecated until some event permitted their removal to be more convenient (like "new architecture added", which would force a global recompile, at which point lots of deprecated things can go away more smoothly — OpenSSL, OpenGL, P/P/R, etc.)
> but they are still coupled too tightly to sanely distribute and use separately without a fork.

That's not true, forking becomes necessary when what you actually want is a different implementation fulfilling the same dbus interface.

If you just wanted intact systemd-logind and none of the rest, you could fairly trivially build systemd from source and package just logind and libsystemd and get on with your life. Maybe you'd have to carry some patches to inhibit some things like cgroups meddling in the systemd way, but that's no different than what say Debian does for practically every upstream tarball it packages.

Those projects have in a very real sense forked the components for the purposes of modifying their implementations in ways too substantial for some small packaging-time patches to cover.

I'd argue that it actually speaks to the modularity and organization of systemd's code that forking was a more attractive option for these folks than starting over with just the dbus interface in hand.
Or you can actually visualize and quantify impact of aggregates of meaningful features within networks using the methodology described in NetDissect or in TCAV. But of course, that casts doubt into a lot of claimed mechanisms and tons of ML research as I have found out.
There is this add-on for Firefox that allows you to toggle js on and off and remembers your setting per domain https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/disable-javas...

It improves the user experience by a lot on Techcrunch, medium and a bunch of other news sites.
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Global warming has begun to make Norway warmer and wetter
Don't they?

https://youtu.be/iWKFPTgkpXo

That's a 90 foot wave in a wave tank basically coming from math
I don’t personally like “whole system” backup services like Backblaze Backup and Crashplan. They end up backing up too much system cruft that I don’t care about. And it’s not like they create a beautiful bootable image or anything, right? Also watch for the “unlimited” plans. If historical deletions are important to you, these aren’t a fit. Files you delete on your system eventually get deleted in backups, too.

I find that most data is better kept elsewhere (bookmarks in browser sync tools, email and contacts with email provider, personal documents in cloud providers, multimedia - yes, copied to multiple external drives or a NAS, S3 - maybe write a script and schedule it).

I used Arq Backup for about a year and while I liked the idea, the UI is absolutely awful and the restores were painfully slow. It’s way too hard to control the backup behavior to do what you want. I didn’t feel like I could trust that the data was going to be reliably restored.

For system migrations, I just use target disk mode to go from old Mac to new with the migration assistant, which is also stupidly fast between Thunderbolt 3 SSD Macs if you’re using a proper cable (300MB/second for me). Very nice for when you want to satisfy your new computer excitement.

I feel that time machine has the same utility, or to provide backups to non-technical users who either refuse the cloud or don’t know how to work a file manager (or both).

This could be a pain but depending on your needs: an often forgotten option to look into is Blu-ray Discs. They could be a nice option especially for redundant long term storage and the price per gigabyte is very low.
blokada didn't even let me go there, thanks for telling what I'm 'missin'
Occupational licensing is bad for economy and people generally https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_licensing#Evidenc...
Dude. It's a novel. A 40-year-old novel.
I have a storage box on Hetzner ( https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box ), and I use rclone every day to one-way sync the backup folders.

I have also used Backblaze before, works the same way with rclone.
What product have RH killed after acquisition?
Do what you enjoy.

It's a lot like music or dating. You have your own style. Stick to it, experiment with it. Yours might be working on the greatest and latest. Mine is fast iterations. Someone else might love clean code. Someone might love having completely bug-free code.

Don't convince others, just find the right 'band' for your style.
Azure cannot be at 12B per quarter, it'd be larger than AWS. I still don't understand the numbers. :)
^ this.

P.S. I work at Google and internally sheets is used thoroughly to survey large numbers of employees and it can view large sheets for a lot of people in "read-only" mode pretty well.
Wow, thanks for the refresher that ethics != laws. I had accidentally completely forgotten that.

Now, back to the point. Nobody has made an ethical argument that Mozilla shouldn’t be pushing an extension that is a fork with a license preferable to them.
You have the stable release of Fedora CoreOS now.
wet markets? overcrowded cities? hukou preventing internal economic migrant from healthcare access?
One good thing with the Apple driver is that I don’t get kernel panics any longer, something that was a recurring problem with the one FTDI provided.
To quote the document, KPIs "will be deprecated as alternatives become available". For VFS, no alternative is available, so it's intentionally not deprecated.
I agree but I also want to point out that they do have subscriptions. My mom is a subscriber just to get access to the real-time family trees.

I presume most people are not returning though.
Will this meme please die.

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-q1-2020-earnings-reven...

Office is not counted in cloud. It’s counted in “Productivity and Business Processes”.
Planes do have standards
DNA tests are a relatively new part of Ancestry’s business. I don’t have info about what percentage of their revenue they make up, but it’s certainly not a foregone conclusion that their the most important part of their revenue model. The other (and older) part of their business is subscriptions to their genealogy database and related software.
How does one apply the “--reset-variation-state” flag on a chromebook?
Yes, Swatch.
I work in infection control in a hospital. I did this work during all but SARS. So far I'd say H1N1 was the biggest since we had many cases in all parts of the world. Sure, access to news is different these days, but we don't get the same hysteria as we did during H1N1.
> Two new hospitals, with 2,600 beds in total, were completed in 10 days, built by more than 2,000 migrant workers

China.
I totally agree with your analysis. All the options only work if you have the right constraints and prerequisites.
Option three can be a valid use-case if you already have multiple (stateless) replications of your application running in parallel. For instance in a typical microservice architecture this is usually the case. A restart of one of the replications should then not impact the SLA.
In a real-life scenario it could of course be a bit more complicated. If all the replications where started at roughly the same time, the expiration could still result in an outage.

The next blog post has more restricted prerequisites (HikariCP as connection pool, which only supports JDBC), but solves the problem more gracefully. I hope I can finish this blog post soon.

A repository with the example code is already existing. If you are interested, here is the link: https://github.com/usr42/spring-vault-database-rotate
On your second question - as an enterprise software developer and hobbyist game developer of ~8 years, I'd say they're complex in different ways...

ERP software is mostly a giant CRUD app/database, with APIs, reporting functionality, and a ton of relatively simple code for automating the system/business processes attached to it. These parts taken alone are usually fairly simple, however the complexity really stems from the enormous scale, interfacing elements, moving requirements, and mutability of everything. It’s easy to knock SAP, but it’s difficult to keep software nice when you're dealing with these attributes.

As for game development, I tend to find it more computationally complex, but that can depend on the game and tools you use. By computationally complex, I mean the code itself is generally more complicated. However, what’s easier in game development is the amount of control over things you have. In comparison, you largely dictate how much mutability your game will end up dealing with, the data it will use, and how large the game will be. Players aren’t going to be dictating this. Not to say game development is easy, but it’s easy to make slick software when you have complete control over the nature of things.

So in short, ERP software is complex (and crappy) mostly due to the enormous scale and the complicated nature surrounding the software - whereas games are complex in regards to the nature of software itself.
They have subscriptions. It's not just about the one-offs since your family tree expands all the time and in order to access that you need to keep paying.
The last two things don't have anything to do with SAP whatsoever. Just saying.
If you click those scammy ads to see if they're a scam, Facebooks AI will see you are interested in them, and show you more scammy ads.
Is that actually a scam? It sounds like a contracting agency.
A REAL ID is simply a verifiable ID. The trusted traveler programs verify your ID, but also do a deep background check to determine if you are trustworthy to transit the border without inspection. I expect they may be looking up people’s driving records to look for DUI’s, hit-and-runs, etc.
> Scientists also developed a way of "carbon dating" mutations. They showed that more than a fifth of them occurred years or even decades before a cancer is found.

> He added: "Unlocking these patterns means it should now be possible to develop new diagnostic tests, that pick up signs of cancer much earlier."

The journalist probably pressed this last point, because it can't possibly be true in a practical sense. Even if you can detect these changes early on in cells, we can't possibly test every cell in the body for mutations on e.g. a yearly basis, right?
Office 365 is not counted in cloud revenue.

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-q1-2020-earnings-reven...
The cost of China's public health cover-up
Interesting idea, but realised that I can't use undo/redo after pressing Tab (at least on FireFox); it immediately made the experience awkward and more complicated.
Democracy is broken. A civic hacker revolution could fix it
I dislike the idea of backing up my data on other people's computers and disk drives. And paying for all that internet bandwidth is another negative.

So I have several USB3 external hard drives which I backup to in rotation, more or less the same sequence as we used to do with LTO tapes. On Apple Macs I use TimeMachine and on the Linux servers some custom scripts which basically achieve the same result.

Of course, the backup scripts exclude temporary and other non-essential files. The other key factor is to monitor drive errors and being aware of the MTBF of disk drives and replace them before they become unreliable.
12 years have passed. Glad that you woke up.
Also, use this[1]!

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Customer for many years. Great plugin!
This is sort of a strange argument. If your argument is that we need to factor in prior knowledge, naturally I will ask: how MUCH prior knowledge?

* do i need to factor in experience with VMs?

* do i need to factor in OS and networking theory learnt in college?

* do i need to factor in high school algebra?

* do i need to factor in learning the english language?

Of course you need to factor in learning k8s. Before, it was learning VM's+ {ansible, chef, salt}, before that it was prob something else.
I work for a digital services agency currently working with several provincial governments, and have some perspective on this. I call it "the IBM hangover".

At some point, someone gives IBM or various consultants millions of dollars to implement some IBM software--Powerbuilder, Java, Domino, etc.--which they do, following RUP, which means a pile of UML docs on top of it. It actually works, the gov't says "great, we can stop funding ongoing dev for a couple decades."

Two decades later, CGI has taken over the IBM project for half the maintenance fees because they know how to do RUP, and thus meet the piles of NFRs IBM left behind (such as "all metadata changes must be auditable", meaning all UML diagrams must have a documented review/approval chain separate from source control").

I sat in a meeting where a stakeholder showed us the report generation page, and said "if we click on this link, it crashes the server, and we have to open a ticket to restart it".

Software does rot, and gov't procurement processes and requirements are those left behind by IBM to prevent smaller, "agile" agencies from doing meaningful work. To my mind, there are two flaws here: one is letting IBM in, in the first place, to set the ongoing standard; two is refusing to acknowledge that every organization needs an organic software dev capability that can use outsourcing as a resource multiplier, not as an IT replacement.
For the target CPA products (which is now the major driver), CPC depends on conversions volume generated by ads. So Google won't make more money even if some changes lead to more clicks but not conversions since the actual bid on clicks will be generally lower on low value clicks.
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Wouldn't Kotlin for JS be that?
What a breathtakingly ignorant anti-Chinese comment.
Sacrifice my ass. Their incompetence led to a province and its people being hung out to dry.

They let this problem get out of hand—and now the people there suffer.

How?

They ignored the doctors who attempted to report the problem on New Year’s day.

They (the CCP) take no precautionary measures until their political regime is threatened.

So many things done wrong—including maintaining wet market controls up a few years after H1N1.
Feels like the story of Dying Light
What I really look forward with BECs (although simple atomic interferometers based on ultracold atoms would do, too) is super-sensitive magnetic field detection.

One can detect magnetic fields from a shielded laptop, even many meters away, and figure out what's happening inside (e.g. leaking secrets etc).

I think, not a terribly difficult experiment, but nobody has performed it: need ultracool physicists and hackers in one lab room
Just dropping a link here, anyone who is concerned about the coronavirus and has opinions about it should imo read the daily situation reports from the WHO: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...

In 5 minutes a day you will have a better informed perspective than what any news sites provide, my own alarm has lessened considerably after reading these.
I need to hear an episode of the podcast “The Dollop” on this one
USBDriverKit is the new way to do that.
State governments have no duty to enforce Federal laws.
When the dust settles from this event I suspect one positive will be that China will throw technology at the problem of more rapidly detecting viral outbreaks and more quickly locking down the affected areas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tbVRC_oOTU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSLy3mtpq2Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lFwAp8f5kU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2otD8mmZsyA
Ask HN: Where would I get data/APIs?
Let's say I want certain kinds of data - traffic, GIS, jobs, income levels in an area, crop prices, etc.

Are there marketplaces for this? Is there a way for me to know if a startup has data for sale? I know a lot of people talk about selling data but what's the best approach to buying data?
Not all kext functionality is deprecated (yet), only things that have userland replacements. Filesystems are not deprecated.
What i don’t understand is what makes this particular type of virus potentialy more dangerous / likely to mutate into something dangerous, than any other flu ?

We don’t see this level of alarmism very often, and yet there are wordlwide epidemics of flus and other type of virus every year...
Feels like some version of Pandora's Box/life (or non-life, in this case) will find a way. We haven't wiped out Polio yet. Actually, there are more coronavirus cases than polio.
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This is worth a separate post, as there's a lot to unpack here.
Most likely, the Federal government sticking to its deadline on barring acceptance of non-REAL licenses for air travel ...
In many communities, the problem with double-blind peer review is that it's pretty clear who the authors are, based on the exact line of research, writing style, et cetera. And in many cases, you can also guess who the reviewer is with some confidence. This means that double-blind is a nice feature for the "big guys" who dominate their communities to show how objectively strong their research is, although in fact oftentimes their friends review their work and know exactly who the authors are. Open peer reviews would at least make sure that there is some degree of accountability.
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undergrads don't bring in grant money, but do cost time (teaching). From a university 'business' point of view, they are a net loss.

Grants are a big thing in academia.
Nah, my browser tells me it's insecure.
If you actually mean now, VirtualBox still works. If you want a Hypervisor.framework based system, I think Veertu used to have an app on the App Store.
That's the joke. (Made more obvious by the fact that the 737 MAX controversy was over a software issue.)
Hart contracts, not smart contracts
>This is the same Facebook that inflated view numbers?

You can't inflate conversions. View numbers are not that important if you're getting real sales results. Facebook is much better bang for buck in general. We run the same ads on both platforms all the time and it's not even close.
Democratizing Idea
I agree. I work in healthcare and HIPAA rules dictate some sort of Anti-Virus solution for all computers (stupid rule!). My employer chose Sophos, which uses several extensions, and my system is definitely more unstable and less performant because of it. Hopefully forcing vendors to use the proper APIs and preventing them from monkeying around with the kernel will improve my experience.
There are plenty of comparables in the public markets of similar companies (SaaS companies with high growth rates at the expense of profitability), including Smartsheet in particular being in practically the same market. It's pretty easy to estimate the range of valuations at which Asana would trade, and ensure that is well above the employee strike price.
Merely formatting a drive as NTFS only requires a user space program to write to /dev/rdiskN. Only mounting the formatted drive as a file system requires a kext.
For things vaguely like this, the places I've worked had contacts within the company helping us to varying degrees. Apply was not one of these companies, and unless there's money or contracts are being signed, getting that contact is a challenge.
For me, Docker is important because it lets me use Kubernetes. That's what I really want to use. If Docker used chroot instead of their own thing, I would be fine as well.
I can understand someone doing electrical work without license, but unhooking a toilet or laying tiles? It's obvious that these laws were lobbied to protect job for those that got license, not because these require skill or much of knowledge.
I don't know, I was just taking the poster's claims at face value.

There are self-hosted alternatives to Google Docs, like OwnCloud with Etherpad.
Ha, this has been going on for years. Companies such as full contact built most of their data set on this. This was/ possibly still is available with Facebook as well.
New Dubai Rules for Driverless Cars (Middle East AI News)
Do you really think licenses would have prevented the 737 Max catastrophes?
Care to tell me one single speech to text product that had at least a horrible 50% accuracy for Romanian 20 years ago? Because today I can dictate my messages to Google - that, plus the occasional correction, is faster than typing.
Not drawing conclusions. That's why I said "yet".

Spec, hardware encoders and maybe even software encoder improvements will likely make it practical.
This is very weird (the seminar thing). In my university the professors would be extremely happy to see a talk where undergraduates could and do attend.
There's more to refactoring than just code; when systems are this legacy and cruft-ridden the whole thing needs to be looked at from first principles and an actual workflow designed based on what's possible today or seemingly within grasp.

Only with a clear idea of what things should look like can the new structure be built, tested, (and while testing) training written and validated, and then a rollout planned (which is it's own whole other project).
Is this a move to kill any Hackintosh attempt?
Maybe. I just wanted to point out that there's Mill as a build tool for Scala: https://github.com/lihaoyi/mill

(by the Scala.js maintainer Li Haoyi)
Richemont owns a lot of the luxury brands.
The idea that the government was listening to everything on the internet was considered a baseless conspiracy theory before the Snowden leaks.
That's exactly what I did when I had performance problems. I also had some processing that happened whenever someone submitted a form. I found that I hit a performance limit when many people tried to submit the form in a short period of time.

I eventually found that if I changed how the spreadsheet was structured, a lot of problems were drastically reduced. I forget the details, but I think I switched to having one sheet that just collects form submissions and does nothing else, then another sheet that uses Javascript to pull data off the first and do the computations. That way processing was moved offline from form submission.

But the general point is, you can't just write a spreadsheet, collect thousands of form submissions, and have no issues. You can't just assume "Google scales everything". N people interacting with N (or 2N or 3N if you share with a few) spreadsheets is an embarrassingly parallel problem. N people interacting with 1 spreadsheet is not.
Agree that markets selling live animals should be banned or at least monitored more strictly. Do not think the other two points are relevant. Regarding cities, if you look at Chinese society and economy, urbanization is a very positive force that contributed hugely to people's wellbeing, including health. Also BTW Chinese cities are probably the safest cities in the world. Regarding hukou, it limits access to education and house/car buying, much more than healthcare access. Actually a lot of rural residents routines go to big cities to get healthcare service.
Correction: China makes a show out of sacrificing a province to demonstrate to the world that no, they really are being serious about it this time, honest!
This psychotic article is so biased and misrepresentative it's borderline criminal.
Techcrunch breaks navigation for me on iOS/Chrome. Cant go back without longpressing back and choose referring page from history. Gonna check that plugin. Thanks.
Adding UAS (Drones) to the Investigative Toolbox
What bothers me most about this is the statement: "including several who had past criminal convictions". The whole reason to put people in jail is to punish them. After they did their time the original crime should not be held against them. Not so in the usa where it's once a thief always a thief.