skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only if those 'western' countries which care so much about the space and environment clean up their mess first. The mess which is many times more than other countries.

I'm not saying that these tests are right but the hypocrisy of these western countries is really baffling at times.
There are some questions we shouldn't ask...
I don't see how it's a good idea to buy air defense from a potential enemy you have... the country NATO was created to defend against...

It will surely protect you against them and not be used to sabotage/spy on you.
More like, we put the facts and knowledge in a central (mysql) db, so that instead of updating them in 300 places (Wikipedia has a lot of languages), you just update them in one place.

And since the data happened to be there anyways, we added an RDF export feature, and threw that into a BlazeGraph DB so that people could do SPARQL queries if they want. The (not really federated) SPARQL queries have basically nothing to do with the central-place-to-store-facts that are used in multiple places, feature, but it was pretty cheap to do once everything was in a central place.
I have an LG 'smart' TV but I just don't use any of the smart functionality. I don't have any problem with it, it just defaults to the HDMI my GoogleTV is on. Sometimes the dog will bump the TV controller (which sits untouched on the coffee table) and it will pop up a menu for a second, but it goes away by itself. I haven't interacted with the TV itself other than to change the picture mode to nighttime in about a year.

So why go to the trouble of not having the smart menu stuff rather than just not using it?
In case anyone reading this is as confused as I was: there is a schism in the cryptocurrency world where two forks of bitcoin, known as BCH and BSV, both still claiming to be bitcoin-but-not-that-other-bitcoin (BTC, the token meant by 99.9% of people who say "bitcoin"), have decided that their pope is the only authentic one.
That is exactly how google wanted it to be. Thy lied made everyone attached to the technology and now milking off it. Moreover I would not like google to invade my privacy if I am paying for it. I am paying and also my privacy is being breached. that doesn't seem fair
With zero sarcasm, yes?
Hey, I'm sorry that it came across that way. Thanks for pointing it out, I now see the lack of clarity. I've updated the copy to better reflect the situation.
Would she also refuse any prize money if she won? Surely she knows roughly the economics of the tournament?
There is no reason whatsoever for Activision to join forces with Epic and let your Call of Duty gun skins cross over to Fortnite. Even if they do, both titans will never in a million years allow an indie shooter to be cross-compatible. It'd be free advertising for the smaller game.

From a competitive standpoint, why would I want Activision's digital locks (you can only import NFT'd content) instead of something like Second Life which is more open?

If Activision really wanted purchases to carry over, they could've made it happen. No NFT needed. An open standard does not imply NFT, and vice versa. The 360 era was probably the peak of the 'gaming interoperability' trend, and it went almost nowhere. Your Xbox gamer picture would show up in some games. Everyone knew it was authentic because MS uses cryptography and doesn't let you sideload third party images. No NFT needed.

Same reason my company doesn't like me displaying awards from my last company. The obstacle is entirely social rather than technical.
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if at the same time NSA had for instance a concurrent program running along with for instance Germany (or any other EU country for that matter) to spy any other european countries, including Danemark.

Bellum omnium contra omnes, "the war of all against all".
That's actually good, I don't want my government to look at my money.
> What I’m saying is that if you’re a VP in charge of cloud strategy, make sure you have a solid DR plan should you intentionally or unintentionally run afoul of that providers rules.

Really all you need is a mediocre Plan A: don't run afoul of the providers' rules. It's not hard. AWS hosts a lot of content that's even more offensive than Parler, the thing that got Parler in trouble was they weren't able or willing to act on Amazon's demand that they promptly remove content that encouraged or incited violence. So if you're running a platform that hosts content like that, or you're breaking the law or generally breaking the pretty straightforward rules, yeah, have a Plan B, C and D ready to go at a moment's notice. Most of us aren't running things that cater to people who are into political violence or other liability-causing activities so it's not a thing we need to spend a lot of time and money planning for.

Only exception to this rule would be GCP or any other company that's widely known for atrocious service and capricious, random bans.
A non profit shouldn't be setup forever. It should have a cushion and other than that it should keep providing enough value to society that people keep contributing. Creating an endowment is saying that even if in the future nobody thinks what they do is valuable and stops donating, they'll still be able to keep going. Why?
Wasn't there also at one point a proposal for a F-35 maintenance facility in Turkey? Having that kind of access to F-35 information and being potentially beholden to a manufacturer of the main threat to the F-35 sounds like a huge intelligence leak just waiting to happen.
What is really disapointing to me it that they don't acknoledge the hurdles that they are still putting in our way.

For .NET developers, WinUI still represents rewriting the UI and for stuff like Viewport3D or HLSL support, the advice is to learn C++, make use of SurfaceImageSource and rewrite the stuff directly in DirectX.

Quite a change for LOB developers, then there are the missing components as well.

For C++ devs, the aging MFC is more productive than dealing with IDL files without any kind of VS tooling support, all components are based on COM (hello boilerplate) and requires manually merging generated files into the project.

They say they are listening to us, however they still fail to deliver what we complain about.

Meanwhile those that can afford it, will just adopt Qt, Delphi, C++ Builder instead.

So expect most people to still ignore these efforts.
Consumers adopt the currency that is most convenient to them. The lack of adoption of bitcoin after 12 years of existence shows quite clearly that bitcoin doesn't have the properties that consumers want in a payments system. Until that changes, bitcoin stands no chance of becoming a medium of exchange. It might continue to be mildly popular as a get-rich-quick-for-free scheme for some time though.
Your claim (as you explain elsewhere) seems to be that because discipline of software engineering exists and is related to computer science (and there is a fuzzy boundary between the two), we cannot think of computer science as a subfield of mathematics.

I honestly don't see how that follows. Does the fact that writing LAPACK required software engineering mean that numerical linear algebra is not a part of mathematics?

My basis for grouping them together is because of the subjects under study and research methods used. You can always claim that two different fields are different, but I think making arguments for some relationship is more useful.
I don't have a big isssue with Wikipedia asking for more donations, even though 99% of the work seems to be volunteered for free.

That said, I think we are all getting tired of 501c3's begging for money when they seem to be doing fantastic on paper.

I once heard that St. Judes Childrens hospital has 20 years of funding in the bank, and that's taking into account of new procedures, and inflation.

Cars for Kids has one house in the Sierra foothills that benefits children. (This was true around 5 years ago when I looked into the nonprofit.)

My point is the charities we all know through endless advertising/begging might not need money.
There are pages of comments here now debating all the intricacies of this situation: Where free speech begins and ends, when firing is justified or not, how and if it's possible to solve the issue with the courts or congress.

The cold reality is that the solution to all of this is very simple:

1. Stop using your real name (and personal information) online.

2. Stop using social media sites (as they revolve around sharing personal information).

In situations when you MUST use real life identity online, only post the most bland, inoffensive things possible. The multitude of protests to this position are irrelevant: anonymity online is not an option, it is a NECESSITY because of the way the Internet works.

Clever people understood this from the beginning: this advice was mainstream Internet 101 in the 90s. But as time went on profit seeking companies brainwashed everyone into a new norm where we all go around with our clothes off and our dicks out. This is not a safe or sustainable situation. The net isn't like real life. It has MEMORY, vast and sticky. It's searchable. On the net, information is a weapon, and if you go around handing out loaded weapons to everyone you meet, eventually bad things will happen.

Reams of digital ink have been spilled in this comment section debating how best to keep people from firing the weapon at you. This misses the point. Stop giving it to them in the first place. If you do, you have no room to complain.
The problem is that most of the money (and developer interest) flowing into this space is driven by speculation on the rate-limiting token. This is clearly unfortunate.

If you look past that, what you have is a highly resilient, replicated, totally-ordered log of data you can use to build other p2p services. For example, you could use Bitcoin transactions to implement an open registry of all Mastodon servers by binding their IPs and public keys to server names in a first-come first-serve basis. This would provide a one-stop-shop for discovering all Mastodon nodes and their public keys.

As another example, you could build a p2p Docker image deployment system by binding a public key to a sequence of transactions that contain the hashes of fixed-sized chunks of the image, as well as a seed IP address. From there, peers with the public key could scan the hash sequence and seed IP address, discover one another, and self-organize into a random flood network to replicate the chunks and reassemble the image. The image author would publish a new series of hashes (or perhaps the Merkle root of a series of hashes if space is a concern) when a new image is published.

Point is, you can do so much more with the tech than what is being hyped.
I want Wikipedia to be "swimming in money" preferably from personal small donations so they won't be pressured to monetize and sacrifice integrity.
Air drops into enemy territory.
Well yes I know that much, but surely having an e-stop pressed will stop the robot from moving, same as any of the other interlocks? And opening/closing a door or the like doesn't seem like something that takes a long time either...
The real solution is to not have an SSH server enabled.

Former home automation software developer speaking here.
The article is about Mexican cartels taking the fight to the police.

As a South African, I worry that our crime levels probably get more attention than they deserve. The are certainly not much more than any other country. Even on platforms like HN, a few people watch a few videos and see a few social media posts. Conclude the country must be rife with violent crime and proceed to happily spread the word, even when no one asked or whether it's relevant to the topic.

South africa is not a police state. Surveillance and obsessing about would-be crimes is not on the agenda. Police respond to crime and act accordingly. Just like everywhere else.
PhotoSync is great. I use it all the time to sync my photos to my Synology NAS. Tons of options and filters to sync only what you need.

- Rename photos when syncing (timestamp based file names)

- Ignore screenshots, WhatsApp and other stuff

- Sync photos or videos only, or both.

- Convert HEIC to JPG etc.

Not affiliated, just a happy user for many years now.
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Ironically SQLite is excellent choice in this situation.
https://www.yogile.com. Hands down the easiest way to store and share photos with family, also doesn't sell your data!
IIRC, NASA was working on something like this. They wanted to enclose a space ship with a bubble of charged particles and then create a strong magnetic field with or through these particles. Anything metallic would have been deflected.
Yes, I also notice the coverage dedicated to women vs men is extremely imbalanced. I know they have a separate team working on the issue and big advert banners about it... but the issue remains: Much more is written about men (living or dead) than women.
One should also mention the anthropic principle in connection with this: the reason we haven't drawn a black ball is because we're here to observe that we still exist. Also of interest is the Fermi paradox: if (relatively high) estimates for the prevalence of extraterrestrial intelligence are correct, why haven't we found anyone? Taken together, it seems very likely that there is in fact a black ball in that urn, and we just happen to be one of the extraordinarily lucky planets that has not yet found it.

Oddly, this is kinda freeing in a nihilistic way. If you know that you and your species are going to die eventually (which you do, the eventual fate of the universe is heat death), you can focus on living for the present instead of brooding on the inevitable death of mankind, and just be grateful that you and your species happen to be alive at this particular time on this particular planet where life is actually a thing.
Learn to write K8s controller (ekspose) to expose your deployment automatically
I’m presuming we are using EU and ”Europe” to mean roughly the same thing in this discussion (France, Germany, and bunch of smaller states nobody remembers the full list of). Tongue in cheek.

It’s not nonsense, it’s the current situation. I am not saying Europe would not have the capability to do the things you said theoretically. Pragmatically there is no such capability at the moment. EU is a trade and subsidies -body at the moment. Security is handled by individual member states and by Nato.

The problem is there is no geopolitcal credible entity called ”Europe” - just a bunch of member states.

To gauge EU:s capability level in security at the moment - take the latest Belorussian stunt. Imagine what the US response would have been if KGB had hijacked a plane flying from Miami to New York.
I see the problem as two distinct functionalities:

- Send the pictures off the mobile device

- Browse the pictures

To send the pictures off the mobile device, I couldn't be happier than with Syncthing - it just works.

For browsing, I just use a file manager at the moment... I guess I like to keep it simple.
Have I run a site comparable to Wikipedia? No. Do I know nothing about that topic? Debatable. Leaving that aside, Wikipedia was live and ticking when it had 1% of today’s coffers, so it’s hard to substantiate why they need money approaching a billion dollars for a non profit running a website all things considered.
Ahhhh good thinking, thanks!
Tldr: PC peaked in 1986 and it's downhill from there.
Can you explain why I need a crypto(tm) Gitcoin and not just a cyber chuck e cheese token? I give cyber-chuck $1 and he gives me 1 cyber token. I can subdivide it 10,000 times and micro-tip any site I want. Why do I need cryptocurrency?

If your argument is that crypto would decentralize it, and guarantee a cap on coin totals, I don't buy it. That's not the reason a site owner wouldn't join a coin plan. "I would love to get paid, but I hate inflation too much to consider your proposal". Fantasy land.
"earmarking" -- I would say this is done a case-by-case basis. When the donation is large enough, anything is possible.
Average consumers want stuff that is objectively worse for them. Touchscreens were an excellent idea for a phone, now they want it everywhere in their cars.

The commercial version of the electric Ford F-150 has a reasonably sized touchscreen in the center of the dashboard. The consumer version has a huge 18 inch touchscreen which sticks up above the top of the dashboard, and looks silly. This replaces the large number of single-purpose knobs and buttons in the commercial version.
Wikidata gets more edits per second right now than the English wikipedia does. If that's not "exploding overnight", I don't know what is. It's just that fewer people are aware of it, because it powers sily things like search engine infoboxes and AI assistants - in addition to fostering unprecedented cooperation among knowledge producers in the Linked Data/Semantic Web ecosystem.
Spot on, and something that can go unsaid is that even unity is a bitter pill to swallow for the indigenous. There is no saving face for politicians so it remains the elephant in the room.

I will say I am glad we are trying though. There is a lot being done, and inclusion of the indigenous history in our cities is a great step. Many things here have been renamed with their old indigenous names, which really drives home the point that it wasn't just barren land prior to settlement.
It's a shame. Crypto programmers are in extremely short supply and are in a situation where they can demand quite the salary.
I am not the original commentator but all the replies to this seem like attacking the individual (for a lack of better term) than providing a counter argument. They clearly state that they have been donating and assume that "their intention is to just increase their coffers with no clear plan on WHAT they are going to use it."

Is that wrong ? Far from reality? Help them (and readers like me) get a clear understanding.

OKAY, it is an ugly accusation considering "don’t know what it takes to run a globally available top site", but why? How much does it cost to run a Wiki like site on that high traffic using some modified form of mediawiki platform?

I am just trying to get a clearer understanding than attacking / siding anyone
It's difficult to compare crime statistics due to the nature of what is criminalized being different, but the numbers for South Africa are stark enough for this to not matter.

Here's a report from the SA police on crime for 2020 - https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/421424/south-afri...

I can see that there were 22k murders on a population of about 60 million.

I couldn't find USA crime statistics for 2020, which has seen a surge of murders; but the 2019 statistics show 19k murders on a population of over 300 million. Even taking the increase into account, that's a factor difference of x4-5.

Here's wikipedia's page on intentional homicide rate by country - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

SA's rate of 36 for 2018 is only surpassed by countries in Central America, like Venezuela and Honduras. The US's rate for 2018 is 5.
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? Team on my previous workplace patched ElasticSearch to add functionality for years. Could thay do it if there were no open source Elastic?
ente.io is way expensive than Google Photos.
If you are up for self hosting, you could get a nas.

Personally I am using synology. I've got a disk setup that tolerates loss of two disks, and I'm doing nightly backups to the cloud.

We have an app on our phones for syncing pictures and video as they are taken. With no loss of quality.
The aim of the home automation software/hardware industry is not make users happy. It is to make profit.

Any user support (extreme example: dealing with user who brick their devices or play with it in unintended way) cuts into profit.
I follow football (soccer) and at least in England, when you join a professional team there is a very heavy emphasis on mandatory media training for the players. Which is why you often see so many dull player interviews, you can literally see them recalling their training and giving stock standard answers to the sort of questions they've been trained to respond to based on the outcome of the game or their performance.

Maybe other sports should take a similar stance.
> Which kinda reminds me of “defund the police” and “ACAB” movements in the US, promoting that all cops are bad and no good person should join police force.

This sounds like a huge mischaracterization of the movements to me. From what I've seen it seems the movement mainly has two goals:
- Demilitarize the police, i.e. don't let them buy toys that are overpowered for the work they're supposed to do.
- Don't make the police do tasks that are better handled by others. Like, don't put all the responsibility of dealing with mentally ill people. Move money from the police to various departments/institutes that can help and treat people with mental illness.

> I don’t think it does any good for future crime rates.

It's much worse to neglect mental health, to remove social security systems, and to let income inequality get out of hand. That's the point of "defund the police". Invest in policies that reduce the need for a militarized police, by treating the illness rather than spending money on dealing with the symptoms.
ente.io is very expensive than Google Photos for storage.
Those should be web apps.
How much comes in via the banner on the site?
Would the government mandate an inane proof of work scheme so that the energy usage goes up YoY every year?
> The WMF also has high-flying, global plans to “become the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge” by 2030. It says it wants to create “knowledge equity”—a world where people everywhere will have as much access to information in their own language as a first-world citizen—and that this will require continuous budget increases.

Godspeed to them in this endeavor. I think this is not the time to become absolute purists in the choice of tech overlords. The tech world is being controlled by less than a handful of trillion-dollar monopolists that crush anything that stands in their way. A few hundred million in this war is a drop in the ocean.

Yes, power corrupts, and money is power. Yes, left to their own devices, people in NGOs will maximize revenues and expand their employee empires - just like those in the for-profit sector. What matters is the strategic goals and their execution by the leadership, and there is nothing - absolutely nothing - to indicate that WMF went astray from its stated mission.

I cannot but feel this is another pissing contest like the open source world experienced, where everybody and their brother started their own distributions/forks to virtue signal their true commitment to the open source goals. This led to a massive fragmentation of the scene, the few companies that tried to use the model, like Redhat and Ubuntu, were exposed as deviationists from the party line; meanwhile big tech ate the world and put every man, woman and child on the planet in invisible jails.
I thought those fees are for FBA. I don't think that service exists else where. Charging more than your competitors is not monopolistic. In fact this sentiment doesn't make any sense: how can they have competitors if they are a monopoly. If amazon made its prices lower than its competitors I'm pretty certain they'd be accused of the same thing.
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Banner with Jimbo's face like in the old days.
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Microsoft has always done this. IE/Edge is there by default, you can't delay forever the machine restart after an update, and they've long since removed the TechNet subscriptions.
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I do wonder what role Wikipolitics plays in the editor bleed.
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I thought I was the only psycho that played Monopoly with ad-hoc negotiations (literally, everything is a negotiation).