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Ask HN: Self-hosted photos with import functionality
Hi HN, can anyone recommend a good self-hosted photo solution that supports importing from Google Photos, Microsoft, and iCloud?
Good take.

One thing that can enhance browsing is to look up key terms and concepts if they are not hyperlinked.

I recently donated to Wikipedia. They deserve it.
That comment about the new "Apple Polishing Cloth" is hilarious. 20$ for a piece of cloth...

Glad the battery is easier to replace, though (speaking from experience!)
That's one option. The other is to regard the initial statement (that "We all know the government can’t hold on to keys") is false. Pick a test you believe to distinguish between the two. Say, whether the access keys for at least one database in a country that has >100 has leaked. Then google to see whether you can find such a leak.
https://xkcd.com/2501/

Fractions are badly understood by quite a lot of people [1], even for an operation as simple as "inverse", and especially if they had to learn one time that x^-1 = 1/x to pass a quiz.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28935891
Sucks that this is now the gold standard whereas for laptops sold a decade ago you didn't even need to open up the chassis or use a screwdriver to replace the battery.
Billionaire Reid Hoffman apologizes for disinformation in Alabama Senate race
There is the podcast version as well which you can listen to on the go or while having your morning coffee. I'm glad it's not shorter. :)
This is a potentially fascinating find - that intravenous injection, rather than intramuscular injection as indicated, may be the likely cause behind pericarditis and myocarditis.

I think understanding the science of this, and an aspiration protocol would go a long way towards reducing side effects.
How I Do My Computing
Hi! Thanks for the constructive question. I agree with you that it's nuanced, and also I'm sad that it's getting polarized/simplified in some venues.

I don't think we have gotten an institute stance on very much relating to E2EE. Our community advisory board (composed of integrity workers) is the moral core of the organization. So far, when we say "the institute has a stance on X", that has meant "the advisory board signs off on X, and that X represents a good faith consensus view of workers in the industry".

We don't yet has a doc that lays out why we think integrity and privacy can coexist nicely. Speaking only for myself, I think the answer lies in careful design. As an example, you could see, via research and experimentation on FB Messenger, that messages that are forwarded in chains of > N are just empirically overwhelmingly likely to be bad faith, spammy, etc. You could then take that finding to WhatsApp, Signal, etc, and then bake in changes to the UX that make it slightly more annoying to forward messages if they've been on a reshare chain of N/M. That kind of stuff.

There's also some consideration to group size -- if a group is 5000 people large on, say, Telegram, it might be encrypted, but it's no longer really private. Maybe it should be treated differently? Unclear, let's think and research about it.

I think a rough consensus we might move towards is treating messaging differently than broadcast, and also treating broadcast features inside of messaging apps differently than straight up messaging themselves.

But again, those are just some of my more idle thoughts. There are members and fellows who are better experts on this particular subject than I am.

Does that make sense? Is that helpful?
I stand with my position. My laptop has Ubuntu 20.04 installed. I plugged a mouse. To set its speed, I simply press super and type "mouse", click on the mouse settings that appears; there is a slider to set its speed.

Considering this is from GNOME I don't believe the procedure is different in most popular linux distros.

And here is the TOP google result I search "linux how to set mouse speed": https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/mouse-sensitivity...
Whoah! That's fantastic news for the customers and the environment! I was thinking of skipping this model, but now I'm sure I'll buy it.
>Matrix displays don't drive LEDs in parallel

Many of them do, especially the outdoor single color ones, where 1 led per pixel isn't bright enough.

>Holiday lights generally aren't in parallel

Granted, "holiday lights" is a broad category, but there are many that are obviously in parallel. Two 1.5 volt batteries couldn't power many LEDs in a serial string. And many of the AC strings are parallel strings of serial connected LEDS as well. Like: https://midimagic.sgc-hosting.com/chrsleds.htm
You must have never done desktop support. It doesn't matter who or what is really at fault, the Normal User Chain Of Responsibility starts with the person who set it up if there is one, then "the computer." If something breaks on Linux, it's the fault of whoever told/helped them to switch.

It's nice to think it doesn't matter, but the competition is the OS everyone writes a driver for and has a support line to fix when it breaks. The problem isn't Linux in a triage sense, but it is in the end user placing blame sense.
FCC kicks Chinese Telecom out of US markets
How long did it take you? What level of expertise do you have in terms of disassembly / electronics in general? Did you read this quote from the article:

"Even better, it appears the battery isn’t trapped under the logic board. That could mean battery swaps without removing all the brains first—a procedure we’ve been dreaming about for a while."

That...seems like a pretty big improvement?
I suspect most profiles are either toy projects people desperate to get into the industry wrote or prolific open source developers who are only a fit for a handful of roles at a big company (think Linus or Guido) and will continue doing essentially the same work, but for a patron. A handful of companies develop in the open (Gitlab), and some roles work on public SDKs.

My profile is a grab bag of forks for PRs and library side projects people might (and have!) found useful.
Pants 2.8 supports PEP 517: Build Python native extensions with ease
Lisp code is much terser than prose.
'Bitcoin isn't any worse than other financial assets' doesn't give anyone a reason to use Bitcoin. As you point out, it appears to struggle with many of the same issues as other assets, with a bunch of extra baggage on top of it.
Well, it's explained here for Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/10/25/microsoft...
Yeah, the respeaker ones i have looked at - but at $25+ they still feel very expensive to me. Are they that complicated/expensive to make?
I second Cascadia Code.

And, maybe I missed it, but there's no light mode or ability to change weights. Some weights are highly legible in light mode, but then illegible in dark mode—and vice versa.
According to https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/, $1,009.75 in 1969 is equivalent to $7,547.26 in 2021.
My guess for the cost of recording two studio songs these days would be about an order of magnitude higher than that. (If you tell me it costs ~$40k to record a studio song, I would not be even slightly surprised.)
Are we talking about Windows 98?
Sure you can. Did you watch "Queen's Gambit"?

I consider it cheating to recess for the day, then have your team game out all the alternatives for you. It's supposed to be you against your opponent, period.

I don't think bridge would really work if you allowed open communication. I take it you've never played?
I use neomutt and not Thunderbird, but goobook might work[1].

[1]: https://gitlab.com/goobook/goobook
I think I was on KDE and tried to change my mouse speed and couldn't find a slider to save my life.

It was just one example though.

I tried to install a NVIDIA driver for example on Linux Mint and it wouldn't work until I edited some file to use a different kernel module that would start earlier. Spent ages trying to debug it. On Windows the driver gets installed automatically and if I want to update it I just launch the Geforce Experience and hit one button.
I guess "pull tabs" makes it slightly different...
Especially since for anyone reading the article it's clear why she's (rightfully) annoyed.

> She has only a handful of collars left. "I really am desperate," she says. "That's the most scary thing in my life right now — is not finding anybody that can make those collars."

Naomi does a lot of interesting work and is snubbed quite a lot. She made it quite public that this was happening and yet NPR still snubbed her.
Yep. I think carbon capture machines and any technologies that are downstream would essentially run all out when energy is plentiful and super cheap, and shut off when wind/solar drop off.

For the past century, supply matches the demand. In the near future, demand will match the supply (more or less based off of economics).
>Plenty of thoughtful people who have actually looked through the evidence and data walked away from the 2020 election believing it was rigged. Just because its a "conspiracy" doesn't mean it is wrong.

Whether or not an election is rigged is irrelevant. You basically cant ever accuse an election having been rigged.

The appearance is what matters. When Detroit locked the doors, ejected republican challengers for various reasons above and beyond 'not wearing a mask' and then boarded up the windows. Then had a huge swing of 100% biden votes which officially was 'corrected'. Then you had counties which impossibly flipped to democrat.

It doesn't matter one way or the other. Trump is out and that's probably a good thing, but the appearance is that something bad happened.

What's important is how many states very quickly updated their election rules afterwards. That's almost over half of states updated and actions speak louder than words. That's a pretty significant reality the republicans thought something bad happened.

From Biden's own mouth, 'most popular president in history'
https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/uploads/securityprod...

From this map, you can clearly see that Microsoft uses nation-state and country interchangeably
> yet Naomi seems to expect NPR to act as Martha's personal insurer and care advocate.

No. She expects a reputable news outlet to fact check their own story, especially since they covered most of the same information the Wired article did 4 years ago - which, naturally, mentioned Wu.
Nah, the streets are 100% safe and this is Arcadia. Forget it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpeQMinhj1M

It feels pretty futuristic to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8C8fLMoTqE

And Yeah, drug users are gentlemen and their bad image is undeserved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3cimtfC9Ag
Just get the damn vaccine.
Knew this would use Discourse before clicking. To a first approximation I think every official language web forum I've visited in recent years has been. And it works well too!
It’s likely that proving this to you to get your donation (and that of similar people) will cost more than it will bring in.
That sound interesting, can you give some/one example?
Great, AWS is gonna have a bunch of Operational Relay Boxes which GCHQ would use to siphon & store personal data. One good reason to block AWS at the IP level, although that would break using the Internet, since so many sites rely on AWS. I can see the cleverness of that tactic: people can't so easily block AWS as it makes using the Internet painful or outright impossible.
Your response is very emotional. I didn't think that the facts in the arguments you replied to were disingenuous or schizophrenic.

Headlines often are fear-mongering. Politicians are not always following the science. There's a lot of research and data to look at, and not all pointing consistently in the same direction as some might believe. Things like mask effectiveness compared to ventilation and isolation, the fatalities concentrated in obese and aged populations, breakthrough infections, and even the danger that the vaccines are exerting evolutionary pressure towards changes outside the targeted spike portion of the virus, which worst case would mean we get to do this again.

Even the 90% number you mentioned involves quite a bit of uncertainty, given that we are probably already there (based on the study showing 83% in May, before additional vaccinations and all the people exposed during the entire delta wave).

The idea that populations can mask and vaccinate to stop this does not appear to be working out (breakthrough infections). It appears this will end up like the other existing common cold coronaviruses, where children of the future catch it and shake it off no big deal then have antibodies, annoying many and killing a few. The experts predicted just that as a likely outcome at the beginning of the pandemic.

The current U.S. death toll from covid amounts to 1 out of every 492 people, overwhelmingly the old and unhealthy. That doesn't strike me as a lot, certainly not worth the significant and still ongoing disruptions to economies and peoples lives. Worldwide this is comparable to the per-capita 1968 Hong Kong flu death toll. These things happen. We are better than ever at keeping unhealthy and old people alive, until something unusual comes along.

In fact our whole complex modern world - hospitals, factories, shipping, mass media, bureaucracy, many individuals, etc - doesn't seem to cope well with the out of the ordinary. In many ways we have grown complacent. Nature reminds us that she's in charge.

I know that some people feel different about that 1 in 492 number. I understand that opinions vary. In a democracy we should respect each other and work it out, not shout others down as some kind of heretics.
> Only a single chapter of the dissertation is devoted to REST itself; much of the word count is spent on a taxonomy of alternative architectural styles…

Ah, how science used to be done (actually by 2000 this was rare too).

If you look up the original (computer) mouse paper you’ll see that the mouse was just invented on the fly bc they were trying to see if a trackball or pen digitizer (light pen — hold up to the CRT) was the better pointimg device. But an n of two was too small so they made a couple of others (I liked the broomstick hanging under the table) and the mouse was a throwaway example that actually turned out to be the best.

I asked Engelbart about this once and he said this was in fact the case. He invented quite a few unusual input devices.

(Perhaps cursor keys were in there too? I can’t remember)
Thunderbird is basically the only email client that works the way I expect an email client to work, but it has some real warts that I wish they'd fix. They're not flashy UI things though, they're stuff around how it handles very large imap folders.

If you have hundreds of thousands of emails within reach of thunderbird it will by default download all of them. Try to index all of them. And it will devour your CPU and disk space and RAM to do it. Every time I set it up again for the first time it's a race to turn off the excessive indexing before it irreversably decides to chew up gigs of my disk and permanently be stuck using at least 2-3GB of RAM when loaded. And it's really hard to find all the indexing options.
Why are so many people trying to "solve" messaging? It's not a problem for 99.999% people in the world. They use SMS/Whatsapp/Telegram/Messenger. It works splendidly. We are happy. Please stop expending effort on this useless endeavour. Do something else.
This is an interesting response for me, the FCC seems to be able to act boldly and unilaterally when it is a surveillance issue but they can't go after spam callers? I'm trying to figure out if this is a foreign policy move by the state department using the FCC as proxy, or an FCC move trying to show itself not to be a powerless agency.
The thing I'd like to understand about carbon capture is that, I would assume that once the process is scaled and costs come down that most of the cost would come from the energy to run the process.

But then, of course, the energy to run that process needs to come from a renewable, non-carbon emitting source, or else the whole thing is moot. So my question is that if we had all this renewable energy to run carbon capture systems, wouldn't it just make more sense to have this renewable energy put to use to offset fossil fuels in the first place?
I wouldn't call an article prefaced with

> I want to make one thing crystal clear - Windows, in some regards, is even worse than Linux and it has its own share of critical problems. Off the top of my head I want to name the following quite devastating issues with Windows: <long list of issues>

"a complete debunk". Both OSs have their issues. For many people, the Windows issues are worse than the issues they have with Linux.
Is the hard disk / SSD / NVMe still soldered to the board?
This needs a [2018]
Thunderbird 91.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28151942 - Aug 2021 (258 comments)
Advertising is like pay to play, while ads don't work all that well for the most part if everyone stopped paying for them save for one person, they'd be the only thing we`d ever see. So basically people pay for ads to stop anyone else from having a monopoly , that's why you see YouTube had those ExpressVPN and SquareSpace ads en masse, you inject a lot of money for one year on a single platform and have a mini monopoly(only way for ads to work).

What bearing does this have on the attention economy ? Well its like anything with perfect competition , gotta keep playing despite diminishing returns otherwise someone will have a monopoly on the market if you stop.

Hence why Lord Theil said competition is for losers!
Well said. I agree with everything you said. Anomalies in play should be super easy to detect both during bidding and the play. It is just a matter of collecting the data and running it. They are already trying to do this with poker sites. They are trying to detect people running solvers to determine the right frequency of bluffing. If people start getting too close to exactly 37% across X hands, they are obviously using some kind of solver and data tracker. That makes it easy to ban these players and confiscate their winnings as ill-gotten gains.
The Danger of Losing Yourself
FWIW, Braille doesn’t have a super high literacy rate among the blind. It depends on the age, education history, economic status, etc.
Thunderbird does not have beautiful UI, and is not as “geeky” as some terminal-based email clients. Still it is one of the standard email clients which sysadmins try to teach users to use, but I have the feeling that it is the old people who stick to Thunderbird.
U.S. issues its first passport with 'X' gender marker
And the Wired article is the first result on Google for "martha iron lung parts".

Even more, Martha herself commented on her video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VKZTmTP7oY&lc=UgyYG8WsY8fN4...
Hack is open source.

My understanding from a talk back in 2014, is hack was developed because of frustrations with PHP evolution. Honestly I think it may have lit a fire under the PHP developers because php7 had significant speed improvements[4].

Talk:

"Facebook recently introduced and open-sourced Hack (https://code.facebook.com/posts/264544830379293/hack-a-new-p...), a gradually-typed programming language for HHVM that interoperates seamlessly with PHP. Hack builds the bridge between the dynamically and statically-typed worlds – providing code correctness while maintaining a fast feedback loop. Facebook is committed to working with the community to improve and refine the Hack language, to help interested developers convert to Hack (https://code.facebook.com/posts/264544830379293/hack-a-new-p...), and to narrow the HHVM compatibility gap with PHP5 and popular frameworks."

https://www.meetup.com/bostonphp/events/184609542/

Slidedeck on Hack (https://github.com/gabelevi/Boston-PHP-Meetup-Examples/blob/...)

[4] PHPs response to hack, phpng (php7):
https://www.sitepoint.com/php-fights-hhvm-zephir-phpng/

https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/73888
I've always wondered why more crypto projects aren't using Erlang seeing as it's so good at distributed systems
I fear 2016 MBP was Jony Ive unimpeded by practical concerns.
Wait until you hear the downsides of petroleum processing, distribution, and consumption!
Fair point. I think I am using "web" interchangeably with "internet".
And in the same vein they also have no obligation to solve her problems for her just because they choose to write a story on her.
"Using a protocol you don't understand without a tool that implements it is a bad idea"

Listen, I get it, we all want to hate on NIH and cutting-edge stuff, but what you've said is not an objection. GraphQL is a complicated protocol, but it offers a very clean interface between clients & servers, and when you put in a strong implementation you can generically access data that before you needed to specifically access.

I don't even know what else to say. There's a time cost and risk of every single thing you'll implement, you haven't given any insights into what tips GraphQL into a superbly expensive and risky area... Especially because Hasura is completely free and open-source...
wow this is amazing. i directly work in automotive and we use super expensive stuff which does exactly this (for 500k) lol
Pachyderm (YC W15) is hiring Go engineers to build the data foundation for MLOps
It will be exciting when proper reviews are out.

Intel is claiming performance at 65W comparable to 10th gen Intel using 250W, up to 19% performance per core, and efficiently improved multi-thread performance using the efficiency cores.

But... we will have to wait for reviews. CPUs officially available to buy November 4th.
You have a strange idea of what talking normally is. Fears, concerns, having different priorities, working under their own deadlines, and so on are all normal for other people.
It’s not significantly terser than other languages, which don’t feature this enormous asymmetry.
I like NPR as much as the next person, but it is often used as a propaganda tool, so I think it's valid to question the underlying reasons behind publishing stories and the slants they take.

And yeah, it sounds like NPR should have picked up on the maker community here. Articles which precede this one by years bring up Naomi Wu. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/iron-lung-maker-community

Given this, I think it's fair for Ms. Wu to have a hot take on this.

Highly recommend reading Propaganda by Ed Bernays. I saw it recommended on HN years ago, so I bought and read it -- it really helped make me a smarter consumer of news.
> I quite literally never said that.

Demonstrating the validity of your theory.

The human mind (and therefore, significant portions of itself) is fairly easily programmable, and while this programming does not work with super high precision, in the aggregate it works wonderfully.
Claims from Linux Mint's website - https://linuxmint.com/:

"The latest version of the friendly operating system is here. Install it on your computer today!"

"It is designed to work 'out of the box'"

"Most of our users come from Windows and they never look back."

"It's very easy to use. It features an intuitive desktop and adopts KISS principles. Anyone can rapidly feel at home and use Linux Mint. User experience, workflow and comfort is key."

Sounds like a beginner's distro to me. I always thought they were trying to go after a more beginner audience also as they pre-install all the proprietary codecs and a large collection of software that you'd most likely want to use out of the box as a beginner (not stripped down like you say).

Good luck if you want to use Google with autocomplete as your default search engine on the preinstalled Firefox though.