skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unplugged. I feel like I still haven’t gotten a clear answer on whether there should be a limit on Google’s ability to control information on its platform and what that limit should be. Can Google route emails from its competitor’s recruiters to my spam folder? Can they choose not to do business with me if I contact their employees? What if I email the wrong politicians?

Have we really reached the point where asking where the line is after the president is banned is seen as rhetorical? How can we make good decisions if we can’t have these discussions? It feels like we are working off a “common sense” that is shared only by those who consume political theater. I’m not sympathetic—-I don’t even know the story—-but I see what I perceive to be a lack of deliberation.
The problem is that the act of computation is generating heat, so you can't just insulate your superconducting CPU, you need a way to dissipate the heat it must generate (this applies to all irreversible computations). This is difficult, because the only way to dissipate heat in space is radiation (with conduction usually acting as a middleman), which is constrained by the surface area of your radiator.

So no, it probably wouldn't be any easier in space.
I agree-as far as I know, the BBB had something like 8 PWM channels. I'm not saying you need all of them, but at least 4 seems somewhat reasonable.
Or that there simply is no need for that high a bandwidth. Netflix, e.g., uses fancy compression algorithms and you can almost watch their HD offerings with ~3mbps. They do recommend 5mbps and 25mbps for their 4k content.

I so wished, I could get here a 6mbps connection for half the price of my current 65mps line.
This is like trying to control your children! Of course its impossible, whether they're "superintelligent" or not.
Password manager use while applying an indirect name for the entry isn't a bad idea, especially if it's your main PM since you can obfuscate it among the other entries.

It sucks that people are learning the hard way of their incredibly secure but unrecoverable methods. It's also a shame that there are probably countless instances of this and so a considerable amount of bitcoin is just totally lost and out of circulation, permanently.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_sorting is a well known algo for this

You could avoid the noDep / coreDep checks by using this
The idea somehow we can limit governments' use of such technologies is an illusion, governments are such organization where they would seek to monitor and contain 'hostile' actions by its own nature. The only thing we can do is develop better decwntralized, secure technologies. Politics alone can stop securiry cameras being installed, but what about other more obscure methods? only technology can defeat technology.
Here are some satellite photos of 380 new detention centers or re-education/work camps: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/24/china-has-buil...

It might be possible that they are all empty, but that seems unlikely given the other reporting on the topic from various sources.
> Dropbox is a feature not a product.

I don't think so. It's a product which enables a lot of useful features on a variety of devices, including Linux desktops.

No competitors of Dropbox enables the same functionality under Linux. This is why I use, and will continue to use it. Yes, iCloud just works and Google Drive works well enough, but none of them works on Linux. Nextcloud doesn't create too many problems but needs your own infra to run.

Dropbox allows me to do a lot of things and they're currently irreplaceable for me. That's not because I can't replace them (would take half a day at most) but, their service worth the money they want.
SSL-certificates issued by Cloudflare are not revokable
NYC to terminate Trump contracts after Capitol insurrection
Flo, a period-tracking app, settles charges of misleading users on privacy
What are the chances of lawsuits in the near future?

Not my area of expertise by a long shot, but Qualcomm and Apple are not strangers in court and acquiring a slew of ex-Apple CPU engineers is probably like trowing gas on that fire.
Should this actually be part of an MD’s job?
The developer experience on my Mac is IMO vastly superior to that on my Windows machine with WSL because of the complication of configuring IntelliJ products to use environments in WSL. When I use VSCode, the experience is about the same in both machines.
My first reaction was oh great a private comment reply so no one can see who wrote that comment and is only visible to the original poster. I think it’s an incredibly nuanced subject why people downvote. On sites like stack overflow or quora where there is more structure around answers and questions a cookie-cutter type response as to why somethings are downvoted may be a good approach but not on hacker news type sites. It would be a great idea to create a tool that allows others to leave a private reply anonymously so one can learn at least what others are thinking when they downvote even if one does not agree with the provided reply.

The anonymous reply could be visible to everyone also as long as it remains anonymous I think is the key.

In fact it could even improve the community if serial downvoters are required to leave replies instead of downvoting an unpopular comment to the abyss.
There's no requirement for the over-the-air television networks to air Presidential addresses. They usually do, but there have been some notable cases where they have declined. I think FOX (not Fox News, FOX the broadcast channel) skipped out on at least one George W. Bush address and one Obama address.
what? what parts of queer theory deal with normalizing pedophilia?

any sane individual studying queer theory is still going to understand the relationship between consent & age, and how pedophilia is a mental illness and not a sexual orientation specifically because it violates the ability of younger individuals to give consent
Airbnb to block, cancel DC bookings ahead of inauguration
In other words, it will be featured in thousands of conspiracy theorist grifter youtube videos as "proof" within hours.
Turns out, you can fly if you have proof of a positive test in the past: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/testing-...
I'd add lack of flexibility as a huge downside for me. No way to sync external drives to Dropbox, even though their common 2TB plan is way bigger than most laptops' builtin storage. And no way to sync any files on your primary drive outside of the main ~/Dropbox folder. I always want to sync certain configuration settings so that if I use the same apps on multiple computers, or get a new computer, everything just works the same way. Syncing symlinks used to be a decent workaround for this even though it was never officially recommended, but they killed that ability and never replaced it with any other solutions.

Now I've switched to iCloud, where I can more easily back up my full machine, and which syncs my Documents folder by default which is where a lot of Mac apps have started putting some configuration files. It's also a better replacement for Google Photos which is shutting down its free storage soon.

It always felt like Dropbox was too eager to play "me too" with all the other cloud service offerings, and not only did they not particularly succeed at that, but they kind of gave up on their own core competency to do it.
>Do you have any kind of meaningful social connections outside of work?

No, but that's been the status quo so I was a child.

Wouldn't having a social circle that cause more problems though? Suicide's main issue is the distress it causes for social connections. No circle, no problems.
Those puts are now deep OTM... Wow GME is up 70% today
The other strategy that is ultra-efficient is to stop using the net to sell hoards of useless crap that will break the day after the warranty expires and cannot be repaired.

That would save money on the computing power as well as the mining, transportation of raw materials, refining, transportation of refined materials, manufacturing, transportation of finished goods and the whole retail chain.

Unless we achieve room-temperature semiconducting processors, this will only benefit data centres, most of whose power is used to sell stuff. Does anyone actually think that the savings will be passed on to the consumer or that business won't immediately eat up the savings by using eighty times more processing power?

Hey, now we can do eighty times more marketing for the same price!
Why would that be the weirdest possible outcome? This provides a demonstration of intelligence, intent and understanding that starting with objective, science-based fundamentals which can be deduced (set theory) and observed (elements) seems like an _awesome_ wide net to cast if you're trying to communicate.

It's not like they could compress a JPG and beam it over here in a way that wouldn't look like garbage.
This is not an amusing situation for me please don't come here to laugh about it and stir up trouble
It is unknown what lies in our future. Yes, really.

That modern people seem to have great difficulty realizing that they cannot see the future with 20/20 vision may contribute to our potential inability to manoeuver our society back to something more sane.

And if you think that all that's bad in the world is due to the presidency of Donald Trump, you may not have been listening very carefully to the complaints of people during the BLM movement, or been following the utter destruction in countries like Syria that result from our under-reported foreign policy adventures.
I remember when this article came up a long time ago. We had just set up an in-house Kubernetes cluster running on AWS.

We were attempting to run Cassandra on top of it and let's just say the majority of our time for a few months was spent fine tuning the setup (iirc this was early days StatefulSets). In the end we gave up and went to EC2 for Cassandra.

Persistent volumes have come a long way, and container technology in general has rapidly evolved. I have yet to try any databases on K8s in a production environment since that attempt, but I don't believe that it's as bad as it was back then.

Many people are scared of it, one of the biggest reasons usually given is that containers are meant to be ephemeral. While containers allow for applications to be ephemeral, and quite frankly makes it a lot easier, I don't believe that they're meant to be ephemeral. At the end of the day, containers are just somewhat isolated processes. Processes don't need to be ephemeral, and often aren't. With the right setup, databases can be run from containers, and I believe the rapid evolution of container technology has allowed for this to be possible today.
I wouldn't call a mob that attempted to overthrow a democratic election by taking over our nation's capitol building -- a group that included, in part, terrorists with flex cuffs and guns and bombs and what was essentially napalm -- "uncouth." These are folks who we now know had advanced planning and in some cases wrote about their intent to kill specific individuals. And at least one officer died.

If they had advanced just a few minutes earlier, according to the timelines that have been put out, they would have gotten to members of Congress. A Republican member of Congress said that one of his fellow freshmen members voted against accepting election results because he was afraid people would kill his family. A Democratic member of Congress said that some GOP members have broken down in tears and are afraid for their lives if they vote for this impeachment.

If you want to argue about slippery slope, fine. But to characterize this attack on our nation as simply people being "uncouth" is absurd.
Dumb terminals everywhere. A huge upgrade of high-speed infrastructure across the US since everyone will need high throughput and low latency. Subscriptions will arise first, as people fucking love predictable monthly revenue - and by people I mean vulture capitalists, and to a lesser degree, risk-averse entrepreneurs (which is almost an oxymoron...), both of whom you can see I hold in low regard. Get ready for a "$39.99 mo. Office Productivity / Streaming / Web browsing" package", a "$59.99 PrO gAmEr package", and God knows what other kinds of disgusting segmentation.

Someone, somewhere, will adopt a Ting-type model where you pay for your compute per cycle, or per trillion cycles or whatever, with a small connection fee per month. It'll be broken down into some kind of easy-to-understand gibberish bullshit for the normies.

In short, it'll create another circle of Hell for everyone - at least initially.
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A lot of language features have been added over the years so you'll be missing out on some great stuff.

Also some libraries changed around a bit during the transition to .net core, so some the code in your book may not compile.

Finally, if it's a book about web dev (asp.net) or something similar (mobile dev, game dev), that stuff has changed a lot over the past ten years.

You're probably best of ditching the books and hitting up some tutorials or checking with your local library. My public library gives us access to safari books online which has a large selection of technical books.
Very good point about the pricing. Looking at their income statement [1] DropBox is not a very efficient company:

Cost Of Revenues: $413.7M (22%) in software companies this includes Operations and customer care. There are spending as much as video sharing sites or video conferencing app.

R&D Expenses: $727.8M (39%). This is an insanely high number for a company that is not a startup. The average for bigger companies is below 20%.

If their growth doesn't recover, which will be difficult, they are going to be a prime target for acquisition from Private equity. PE will slash the expenses significantly and run them for a profit for 5-10 years.

[1] https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/DBX/income-statement
There are people out there vulnerable to the BS due to ignorance that could be shown how to apply skepticism, or taught more about science/history, but the bullshit is just as prominent and available, or more so. Your peers may be the right combination of smart and knowledgeable to be immune, but it's best not to assume that it's harmless in general to broadcast ancient aliens style junk.
The handling of Brexit was another affront to the EU parliament: they negotiated so long, that the parliament couldn't vote on it. It has now been ratified by the member states, and the parliament only gets to vote after the fact.

Did you now, that the MEPs didn't get to read the contracts for the vaccines the EU bought?

Taking notes from Merkel btw. is not something I see as a good thing. Her flip-flop on nuclear power, the messed up renewable energy transition, the complete and utter failure in digitalization all around, especially schools, cum-cum and cum-ex, her running every single election on asymmetric demobilisation ... I'm not a fan.
That's actually a great way of thinking! I'll try to do that more often, thanks
If anyone is looking for an alternative to Flo, as of iOS 13 the built-in Health app has similar functionality:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210407
This is similar to my own journey from software engineer to manager and back "down" to engineer again, with similar results.

I'm much happier as an individual contributor than I was as a manager.
I am slightly disappointed to see that the logo of this project is a bird, and not a lake-dwelling creature. You know, the Locha Mesh Monster.
I don't remember ever seeing WRT54G above $80, and I bought both of mine for $69 and $59 I think. What time period are referring to ?
1. Of course,but they are a big deal and will be used against you in the future when you least expect it because a politician decides to not like you any longer.

2. Falun Gong is indeed a cult, but dangerous compared to the CCP? I don't think so.

3. The Chinese government is not a traditional fascist state in that they more or less allow capitalism on the small to medium scale to thrive as long as it doesn't stir the pot. However it is a totalitarian state where it is not okay to think freely or express your thoughts unless you like dark rooms and beatings.
No. But every second site linked here has Google Analytics embedded which is a product for the same purpose and for which equivalent evidence exists as you have presented. I'm not saying Google Analytics does anything nefarious but neither have you shown any evidence that Yandex Counter does.
Both evernote and dropbox started making the free service worse by limiting how many devices you could connect. Dropbox also dropped support for xfs filesystems on Linux (which they later brought back, but not after infuriating Linux users). That's when I stopped using both. I then moved to Google Drive (which is half the price of Dropbox), and moved to using markdown note apps sync with Google Drive (which is free!)

I don't think there's a single example of a company where >90% of their userbase if free, and they succeed after making the free user experience worse.
They're thinking in terms of money (or reducing costs), but the other view is that they're making the experience for >90% of customers worse.

What dropbox seems to forger is that many of their enterprise contracts happened precisely because the decision makers used dropbox personally, and liked it. By screwing over your free customers, you are actually only hurting future sales.
From a previous post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25636482): the source of the ransomware that runs on the device:
https://github.com/vxunderground/MalwareSourceCode/tree/main...

Interesting.
I know this can all be circumvented by changing the age connected to one's account, but I genuinely would be fairly concerned if this applies to existing accounts. I'll speak with my youngest brother and ask him of his account has been restricted. If so... there needs to be an override of some sort. Blanket bans based on age are not the smart way of going about solving the problems TikTok faces. I don't have a better solution, but I know this one makes me mildly uneasy.

For context, I'm a professional content creator whose main platform and audience is TikTok. I'm a legal adult now, but wasn't when I started. There are a lot of mature 15 year olds using TikTok responsibly and creating great content--they shouldn't need to lie about their age to continue doing that.
Office 365 with MS Teams seems to have reached feature parity with Dropbox and slack in one nice suite of products that just work together seamlessly. You hit on an important insight, with O365 you can edit your documents right from the cloud and cross platform integration is tight with OneDrive and MS Teams.

What does everything think?
only kind of hardware where this seems to be commonplace is 3d printers. super modular in general, you can usually just swap in hardware from one machine to the next, unless it's a super commercial grade machine. I get the principle doesn't transfer as well to other devices in all cases, but I wish more stuff was like that
Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital Renounces His Support for Donald Trump
The future of social is ephemeral by default, P2P, and algorithmically-mediated
I would say 90% of their customers don’t want to be hacking their router, and 90% of those that do don’t really know what they’re doing.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25762383.
> Dropbox is a feature not a product.

When you are against FAANG every product is just a feature.
M1 with Rosetta emulation is still faster or comparable to top Windows laptops, with room to run for M2.
I'm not sure we have that title at my company. Our senior program technical leads might fit there. Theres really no set criteria - it's just if the people above you think you deserve it (kind of like any position). I do remember HR put out some example competencies. The only one I remember around that level was that a person could demonstrate that level of knowledge by having a book professionally published on a pertainate technology. Needless to say, there are very few people at my company in that level.
The greyed out text color of your comment proves you are right!
The server can MITM the public keys, providing you with a key from the server instead of the key from your conversation partner.

It very much does matter if the server is malicious.
But the dropbox "app" doesn't even really do that much, it's just a clone of a native file explorer, but worse.
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System76 is the best linux-first manufacturer I've found.

Second best is Dell[0], I have used two generations of their Ubuntu-oriented XPS 13 or Precision laptops. They're fantastic.

[0] - https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/overview/cp/linuxsystem...
Free digital signature tool that works without any file upload to ensure privacy
Don't forget about thermal radiation.
> something designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink

The title was designed to make me click on it. Even the author admitted the title is misleading just to create attention.

I flagged it. You can vouch for it if you feel differently.

> Blog writers don't owe HN readers anything specific, nor are they beholden to them to give them the titles/content they like

Even the readers of HN do not owe the blog writers anything, nor are they beholden to them to give them the votes/comments they like.
Seems like it would be much harder to keep a stacked CPU superconducting as heat dissipation would be more difficult.
That's only one way of looking at containers. Another way is to see them as a modularization tool since they abstract most of the machine away while being much lighter weight than a VM.

I've recently been looking into containerizing my personal server. I use the cheapest VM on AWS (I work on Azure now, but vendor lock in is real). Adding another VM would double my costs, but with containers I would more isolation and can upgrade sites I run on this server independently.

I usually use sqlite, but I can see why containers would be nice for similar reasons. Even if you aren't resource constrained with VMs, running a DB via containers might be nice to ensure a consistent dev setup even if you don't use containers in prod.
I don't think it's common, no. In the 1980s I think it happened more often (because they had a lot of assets that weren't reflected in the valuation maybe?).

But in Qualcomm's case they were arguably undervalued because of ongoing regulation/lawsuits regarding their licensing practices. IIRC they had shipped their Amberwing Centriq CPU but the reception was kinda lukewarm.

AWS ended up introducing Graviton not long after - presumably AWS wouldn't have sourced Centriq if they had their own designs in the works.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Centriq
This is a good idea. Large, and small, groups of individuals do influence massive organizations like Google. Lobbyists do it on behalf of groups, taking advantage of their personal connections to get access to decision makers. Public action orgs like Sleeping Giants use collective shaming to influence decision makers. Activists of all stripes use protest and direct action to create change.

You don't have to rely on existing assumptions about unions, or customers vs user, or many other concerns I see raised in other replies. The fundamental thing you're trying to do is influence decision makers and a large group of people is certainly one way to do that.

The effectiveness of such a group will come down to factors such as how well you manage message, what access you can get, and what degree (and from how many angles) you can apply pressure and persuasion.

If nothing else starting a place where Google users can collect, vote on, and discuss their top priorities could form the basis of discovering how large a group you can attract, where the passion exists, and what resources you can muster toward the effort.
PIA used to be my go-to, but I immediately ceased using PIA after the 2019 acquisition by Kape Technologies, which has a rather foul track record.