skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IPFS is an independent protocol from Filecoin. It is not a cryptocoin in and of itself. It is an alternative addressing system for content on the web. The idea is that files are organized by their contents (using a cryptographic hash of those contents) rather than by IP address. You can pin content with your own independently run IPFS node using any tech stack of your choosing. You can spin up a website powered by IPFS today and many people are already doing that.

https://ipfs.io/images/ipfs-applications-diagram.png for some examples of applications using IPFS. Visit https://ipfs.io/ for more info.
This is pretty funny, buried in the middle of the article:

> Option 2 – Server-Side Tracking
An Illustrated Cross Section of Hong Kong’s Infamous Kowloon Walled City (2014)
I'm not sure why exactly you would presume that? If you need to "prove you couldn't know," that happens in court, after you are charged with the very serious crimes and have all electronics you own confiscated.

edit: As to your second paragraph, I'm not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure that would technically be felony destruction of evidence (odds of prosecution being another question entirely).
The dog thing works for me! Uhoh, I'm being told to stop slacking off on Hacker News and give treats. XD
I think it has a rule, that prohibits 3rd party browser engines. :/
It's deception to an utter randomer, as well as to yourself.

You really need to be careful with lying to yourself like that. Being a whole integrated person who doesn't have to remember who he is and what lies he's told comes in handy.
Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess(2009)
Yes

From 2017,

https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2017/10/why-we-used-pony-to-wr...
Yeah, this. A couple years back I shifted my diet around to be more sustainable. I still eat meat, but stick to chicken and pork, and more occasionally rather than every meal. I use sous vide to batch cook and freeze stuff like chicken plus a curry base. Then per meal I can just thaw a portion and spend less than 10 minutes combining it with some fresh produce and final seasoning in a skillet. I costed out one of the thai curries I do this way out of curiosity the other day. Even using some more pricey seasonings like thai basil, kaffir lime leaves, lemon grass, and decent produce it still comes out below $2 per serving. Id say at this point I'm about 3/4ths of the way to the quality I get at local restaurants.

A basic rice, beans, and green veg meal comes out to less than $0.50, and that's including some pork sausage to flavor the beans. I do gumbo occasionally and it's at about the same price.

If you have the time/space/ability to cook, you can eat quite well shockingly cheap, even in places with relatively high cost of living.

For me the key was to just ban myself from takeout, period, for about a year. It worked. My cooking is good enough now I prefer it to takeout, whereas when I was in my 20s I was a pretty typical tech bro that ate out every single meal.
I believe Oculus' TOS also "requires" you to be 13 or older. Stares at VR Chat
> In late January I decided to help an elderly friend with a data migration at home. He had just bought a new iMac and needed to transfer the data from his old one to his new one. Apple offers free data transfers, but my friend didn’t want to leave both of his machines with Apple for 3 to 5 days in order for them to do it. About 2 weeks later I was approached by my boss. Someone told him that I had helped a friend with his computer. I told him that yes I had in fact helped a friend with a data transfer (something Apple does for free) and that I had helped him on my own time.

The following is a fiction that is also the same story as above:

In late January an elderly gentleman, whom I'd helped many times during my long tenure at the Apple Store, came in to buy a new iMac. As I was ringing up his purchase, he inquired about how to migrate his data. I informed him that Apple would be happy to do it for free but it would take 3 to 5 business days, I then offered to come by his house and perform the migration for a modest fee. A few weeks later the elderly gentleman came into the Apple Store asking for me because he was having issues locating some of his files, he spoke with my manager and explained the situation. Later my manager approached me about the issue, I confirmed that I had been moonlighting and had solicited my services while on the clock at the Apple Store.
This looks really cool. One question I have is about how much the synthetic data can protect privacy. For example, my company has geospatial event data from our customers. We're very protective of customer identities, and wouldn't want to expose which cities our customers are in. If a model trained on our database notices that the "longitude" column marginal distribution has a spike around (just as an example) -71 degrees (longitude of Boston, where we're located), then presumably the synthetic data would also include a bunch of longitudes near -71 degrees? But there aren't that many cities at longitude -71 degrees, so even the marginal distribution of the synthetic longitudes would reveal something private about our data.

Second question is whether y'all support geospatial data? Both in the sense of "the topology of latitudes and longitudes is not a plane" and "can the model be trained on databases which encode geometries as a single column?"
Still not sure how that ties into Firefox having worse security. User agent spoofing is a privacy item and a positive privacy item.
I read the constant mentions of "for free" to point out that Apple was not losing any money from his helping out the neighbor. If Apple did charge for the data transfer service and he did it for free, then I could see Apple getting upset. Then again, maybe Apple offers data transfer for free as a loss leader to get the person in so they can charge them for some other service or product.
> overpaid CEO

Overpaid relative to what? Other CEOs of similar sized non-profits? Do you have evidence to support that claim?
Mutation Testing: A Tale of Two Suites
You're absolutely right! But hey, I appreciate that at least they cite their sources!
It goes way back. He didn't want an App store. They had to prove publishers would pay an unconscionable 30% before he allowed it.

He didn't want anybody to be able to open a Mac and add memory, or a network card, or anything. Macs had Torx screws, back when nobody had Torx screwdrivers, and they needed have an unusually long shaft, or extension.
I am a shy and quiet person. But, once in a while I get an alter ego, it’s vague, it doesn’t have a name but it’s my disinhibited persona. Acts completely unlike the shy me but is not too crazy or obnoxious to make me feel uncomfortable afterwards. Im thinking of it as a ‘mode’ i enter and exit from.
I use it when I need to perform in front of a public.
We would still have an Apple phone, but it would have a cord. It would be a really nice cord, but subject to fraying every year.
Mind Is Your Asset
Could they not have written a clause into the acquisition that stipulated this? I agree with you, I just don't know if this is completely impossible. If a founder was truly serious about something like this (and if they had the leverage etc) they could probably make it happen.
What makes you think that is true?
FL fired their data analytics because they were too accurate. [1]
Hospitals are sending their data directly to the white house bypassing the CDC. [2]
The excess deaths far exceed the official covid deaths numbers we're being told. [3]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/06/14/876584284/fired-florida-data-...

[2] https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/white-house-hospitals-...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/12/us/covid-deat...
> ... but he doesn't have a Facebook account,...

Not that he knows. https://theconversation.com/shadow-profiles-facebook-knows-a...
That sounds like an illegal eviction to me. Even in the event of a court-ordered eviction, the landlord is required to give you access to your possessions.
This looks like the perfect tool for my company, thanks for sharing!
I actually know someone who does this. Real weirdo, but then what other kind of person is there who’s so afraid of not having enough millions they feel the need to uproot their life every 6 months.
Champions League semi-final: Marquinhos header puts PSG in front
Soldering the memory modules is just gangsta. There is no reason to do it.

The fact Samsung does it too is because they want to profit as much as Apple. It is not better for the consumer.
Isn't it cool how you can dust off your old Nintendo Entertainment Systems and give your kids a blast from the past? Share your childhood with them?

Well, that's a things from the past with hardware it seems. Effective obsolescence through corporate policy.
https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/129400382869048524...
Get a second email -- potentially at your own domain so you are never again locked to any particular service -- and use it in conjunction with gmail. Sign up any new accounts to your new email, and slowly migrate others as you see fit. After a year or two, your gmail will only receive spam, and anything important will be in your new account.
California sues Cisco for discrimination against employee because of caste
Indeed. But many experiments are more cruel to sentient beings than, say, getting shot by a hunter. I'd much prefer to be summarily executed than to end up in Mengele's lab. Both are wrong, but one is worse.
it really seems a little willfully naive. if it's not in a contract, obviously any promise facebook makes is going to be on an "isn't inconvenient to do" basis
I'm not an apple fan and never owned an apple laptop but, even with other brands unless you buy their enterprise models (e.g. dell latitude, lenovo thinkpad) with the appropriate warranty you won't get same day hardware support in most of Europe.

And even with onsite support with Dell I had a case when the battery died completely and the laptop could only work when plugged in, they did show up at the office, they checked it out diagnosed that the battery is dead (no kidding), and came back 2 days later with a new battery.
One downside here is that SARs are taxed as ordinary income. This means you might end up paying 30-50% taxes instead of the 15-20% long term capital gains rate you'd pay on ISOs, RSUs, or selling shares from exercised NSOs.
And I'm not even sure it strongly contradicts the (largely) Libertarian beliefs here on HN. For example, it appeals to economics over morality: "Forget Morality, Contemporary Capitalism Is Bad Economics"
If you have time in the covid pandemic SIP era, go back and watch the episodes, it was a running gag that he would do something extremely human, downright emotional, and not realize it. Couple of examples off the top of my head: "The ensigns of command", final scene, where Data says goodbye to Gosheven; "Data's Day", where he proclaims that if he had 'gut feelings' he would be suspicious of the 'vulcan ambassador'; "In theory" where Data 'learns' some "toxic male" emotional behaviour by consuming media.
This isn't really a 1 Euro house:

- Envisage a restructuring and re-evaluation project within 365 days of purchase.

- Support notarial fees for registration and volture.

- Once all permits are granted, works must start within a maximum of 2 months.

- To guarantee the faireness of the purchase by the buyer, the municipality asks to enter into a surety policy of 5 thousand euros lasting for three years that is then refunded.
I disagree. Again encryption is not the same as not having access at all to the data. If centralized services offer the concept of having access control mechanisms available and we trust them to delete the files, then why not have those same types of mechanisms in place for a decentralized network? Asking people to delete their keys is user hostile and will likely lead to people just not using the service.
G Suite works extremely well with Google Cloud at least.

So much so that we don't bother with Okta there. The Okta logins are the G Suite emails anyway.
I think you're onto something.

Developers look at their freshly written code, marvel at how succinct it is and then pat themselves on the back for being so clever. "It's just one line and I read it. Boom! Readable!". A few months later, another developer comes to look at the code and has to spend 10x more time parsing each character in that statement before they can even understand the logic behind it.

Brevity might be a kind of "vanity metric" when it comes readability.
If you click the ellipsis (...) above the subscribe button there's an option to "open transcript" which pops up in the top right corner. You can copy-paste the whole thing into notepad or whatever.
Incredible. I deleted my facebook account earlier this year, and I've been looking to get a VR headset. This sort of forces me into the Vive camp, I suppose.
In defense of weight-sharing for neural architecture search
Not sure, does facebook just assume that everyone connecting from behind a NAT is the same person?

That seems like it could go poorly, like if one person in a household had been buying a secret birthday present or an engagement ring or researching divorce lawyers and then the targeted ads were associated to everyone in the house.
> Malwarebytes […] installs with root privileges, runs on boot and cannot be ever closed, despite the fact that it is only an on-demand scanner. I've written to them to request an explanation, and did not get any response.

Because they try to up-sell you their paid option, which scans automatically for you, with a 30-day trial.
I'm able to play Half Life: Alyx natively on Linux with my Valve Index, as well as other games running through Proton. Not only does Valve support Linux natively; they've been funding development on GFX drivers and things like DXVK. Unfortunately OpenHMD (which would let you use the headset completely decoupled from Steam) doesn't support the Index yet, but it has been worked on and it looks like it just needs someone to finish up that work. Not that you necessarily care about Linux support, but it gives you an idea of how they feel about their products and their community.

The headset itself is expensive but it's the best consumer headset in existence right now. I can play for hours (depending on the game) without feeling like I need to stop. There's no single thing that's dramatically better than other headsets, but just about everything about it is at least somewhat better. Comfort, tracking, visuals, adjustability, and so on.

Anyway, Valve is just night-and-day different from Facebook. In fact they're the ones maintaining support for the Rift on Steam, not the other way around. Valve wants VR to be an open platform, and Facebook wants it to be a part of Facebook, entirely owned and controlled by them.
It's a factor of how quickly they can replace drives and how well redundant data is spread between disparate systems. IIRC, they make sure data is dispersed not only at the chunk and drive level, but the system and rack level (and maybe datacenter level? not sure).

At that point, if there's not contingency redundancy built in (See below), it's really a matter of how long it takes to replace a drive (in both identifying the problem, physically replacing the hardware, and replicating data to it). There's a lot of (fairly simple) math involved in running down those numbers, but based on the percentage of drives that fail in a quarter, I think it would take both a spectacular run of bad luck combined with negligence on their part in making sure redundancy levels are kept over a longer period to actually have problems.

> Is there not the danger that the quality drops drastically to the point that one would need an unreasonable number of copies?

I think the very simple way to look at this is that space capacity and automatic redundancy checking can account for a lot of bad drives. E.g. if a drive has 100 chunks of data all copied to 100-200 other drives and systems (such that there are three copies of any chunk), that the data exists three places, and if that drive dies and the system detects those 100 chunks are now only exist in two places, it can immediately locate 100 locations that have capacity to receive a chunk and start replicating data to keep the level of redundancy they need. Even if there was a very large set of bad drives, they would have to all go bad in a very short time frame, short enough that the couldn't be physically swapped out and data couldn't be copied across the network, for it to cause a problem.

At least that's how a system like this could be developed, and my understanding is that Backblaze's system works like this to some degree.
It doesn't have to be a 3rd party. It could be Edge itself.
Can I say that this post feels hypocritical, a lot?

It seems to me that the person writing this post has always known about the bad behaviors from Apple, and always looked the other way.

Now Apple fired him and he's now complaining because he's not in the "cool kids" club.

To that guy I say: you went with the bully for the last 13 years, you kinda deserve all of this.
It’s a bit like in gmail, where you can add a + and it allows you to spot spam mail. So, if someone calls you John+firstjob, you know where they’ve known you.
https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=189711&curpost...
Why would it have that rule?
Co-Author here. We wanted to have full control over our db/sql and think it's also easier to read this way (instead of using an ORM). Similar libs got posted recently, quma will provide you with namespaces, supports dynamic SQL (conditional WHERE), has a connection pool and generally makes it nice to work with.

It's also battle tested, we're using quma since 2 years in production (pyramid app) with ~350 sql files and are quite happy.

Would be cool if someone plays around with it. Questions welcome.
Yeah, I was trying to use "conspiracy theory" in the most neutral way possible. It's an interesting theory, I'd like to see more reporting on it.

He's certainly outspoken and active, which doesn't make him wrong by any stretch; in fact, it probably means he's one of the most informed on these matters (which of course doesn't mean unbiased).

Thanks for the links!
I even let Edge be the default browser.

That way, whenever an app opens a link, it opens in a browser I don't use, and it can't read any important information or browser fingerprint that matters.

I am still using Firefox for my browsing needs.

EDIT: It's more about my browsing habits: Now this browser has been opened. I can close it before the page loads and before I have read anything I really don't care about.
Think of it as a process, with no real end in sight. Unlikely you will all of a sudden wake up one day with that blend of excitement and joy you see in children. But it possible to move closer to experiencing that more consistently by rewiring your life and habits like you said. Hope your journey brings what you are looking for.

I think most people realize that living longer will bring a whole host of issues that are hard to put into perspective today. But I also think that for most people, there is a bias against living longer because they think it will be filled of boredom and impaired mental and physical functioning, which I don't think will necessarily be the case.
Pretty cool.

Instead of elastic search you could also use SQLite5 with its full text search support.
Scammers have made that useless. They have you buy the product, then reimburse you for it... if you review it well. Free product for you, five star verified review for them.
Sounds like you simply went too hard on yourself. It's easy to do.
>You don't look for that <i> Verified purchase </i> text ?

If you're not being sarcastic...

Those "Verified Purchase" reviews can also be faked by manufacturers/sellers reimbursing the credit-card payment of the Amazon shopper.

Example:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nicolenguyen/her-amazon...
The day in the life of AI "Meh, close enough. Nobody will notice."
Yes, Ziggy Stardust

David Bowie needed this persona to perform, he was otherwise an introvert and shy.

“As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn’t really have the nerve to sing my songs onstage and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn’t have to actually go through the humiliation of going onstage and being myself. I continued designing characters with their own complete personalities and environments. I put them into interviews with me! Rather than be me — which must be incredibly boring to anyone — I’d take Ziggy in, or Aladdin Sane or The Thin White Duke. It was a very strange thing to do.”
The most annoying part to me is that the only reason Facebook should have had any interest in Oculus (apart from the money of course) is to create a VR/AR social network. Yet here we are 6 years later and no Metaverse.
Are taxes only for things that are bad for the rest of us?

Perhaps the core question is, "do billionaires owe a larger portion of their success to society at large than regular people do?"
They just want to squeeze as much data as they can out of you. The ultimate goal is to stand as a proxy between you and the real world. I'm not saying this is what they are trying to build with AR and VR, but that's not too far fetched either.

Just imagine eye tracking tech in VR headsets. What a trove of data for advertisers! Did the user see may ad? For how long? Etc.

I hadn't imagined that before writing this, but they could do the exact same thing in the real world with AR. Did you spend some time looking at that car? You are interested in cars. Spending some time in the garden? Watching birds? Running? Etc. What's better than an always-on, always-ouside device which you use as a proxy to see things, and request information? MITM TLS (which Google technically does with Chrome) becomes useless if you just have access to the eyes.
You can't, because you can continue to use your device without a Facebook account for two years... which just so happens to be the statutory warranty period in the EU.
Thanks for all the thought you put into this post.

While I think some of your points have value, I'm not sure this is best time/place to have this discussion. Perhaps /r/rust or a blog post might allow you to have the discussion you are hoping for.
There's also the problem that for most people in developed countries, you don't actually need to take a conscious life to sustain your life. It's a luxury, like wearing fur.
You can diversify by investing in public markets, where you have actual liquidity. I've made more off of the Facebook stock I bought after the IPO than I have from any of the startups I worked for. One did have a "successful" exit, meaning the returns were positive, though nothing to write home about. I would've been better investing that money into Apple or AMD. All the people complaining about their worthless stock options need to realize that generally, the investors all got screwed, too.
>I’m curious, do you mind being more specific about what “realistically and appropriately” means in this context? Exactly how did the media miscommunicate the severity of COVID

They should emphasize on recovery rate and the fact that for vast majority of people it will be either asymptomatic or only mild symptoms.

But instead the government and media treat it like it's a black plaque.

Learn from Sweden, they never lockdown. Their school, bar and businesses stay open, life pretty much normal.

>Influenza killed just over 34,000 Americans last year. We are currently sitting at 170,000 deaths, and could see 300-400k dead by the end of this year. That’s roughly 10x what we see in a typical flu season. It’s unarguably the worst public health crisis in 100 years. What about this shouldn’t have people concerns

Sure its 10x but its still only 0.05% of the population and highly skewed toward the elderly where any small diseases or complication can kill them anyway.

If covid is as deadly as anthrax or ebola than that is really when people should be concerned.