skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can use the app without location sharing enabled but it's unclear if they use the geolocation of your photos. Afaik an app has access the most recent taken photos, that might have changed with iOS 15.

I thought I read an article how Facebook is analysing dust on the camera lens to correlate photos, not in the product by Facebook research team. Can't find it. Apparently it's possible to identify fingerprints on photos https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339501227_Analysis_...
Looking over the resources, it doesn't seem worthwhile.

The difficult part is not learning how to code, or work with SQL. The hard part is learning the platform and tooling you need to operate at scale. The ecosystem is full of tools that are great for certain workloads, but terrible for others.

Your best bet is to start by getting an overview of the tools available for your team. If you're using AWS, GCP, or Azure, they each have data engineer-oriented certifications. So take a look at what tools those certification courses cover and start there.

If you are not in a cloud environment, take a look at Apache Airflow, Beam, Storm, or Hadoop. Most of the tooling provided by the big cloud providers is either a rip off of one these products, or is merely a hosted version (i.e, GCP Cloud Composer is managed Airflow).
> Why don’t you take 2 minutes and push them to the side of the sidewalk if you care so much about ADA access? You can fix the problem you are encountering, and the people you want to protect CANT. You are choosing to make the problem worse for them? Why?

Uh... I said out of the way. I push them onto the easement required by the city which is grass from the curb to the sidewalk.

There is no way that this is in any way "worse." Especially due to the fact that they are usually in the way via being not parallel.
I'm not sure this qualifies as expansive exactly.
Interview with Sebastian Ramirez: FastAPI Creator
Not active, but actively contained.
The problem with "open source intelligence" is that there is too much of it from every side. Fact checkers are already working overtime debunking all the Tweets showing footage from previous wars or even video games (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/02/21/fac...).

The author is also majorly discounting the role of intelligence services in debunking Putin's false flag operations. Weeks worth of updates on Russia's exact plans and motivations haven't come from TikTok but rather the US government and its allies. There is no substitute for spies and satellites.
Yh there was an ARMA 3 gameplay video making the rounds on twitter this morning that hoodwinked a lot of people.

https://twitter.com/schoolboyefr/status/1496827604422348807
What makes a bestselling textbook?
Ask HN: Are there cloud providers or SaaS products with useful status pages?
The reputation for most cloud provider's status pages is comically bad in that they often don't indicate an outage until it is already widespread and known by its users.

This made me wonder if anyone has experienced a provider or SaaS whose status page is trustworthy or otherwise useful in some other way.
"The Russian invasion of Ukraine will be the first war to fully play out on social media. There will be no possibility of controlling the information."

I disagree with this statement. The Chinese government has taken a controlling stake in Bytedance [1], which is the subsidiary that owns TikTok. It could perhaps, then be possible, that China would "alter" the algorithm of TikTok users worldwide to sway public opinion? Push certain videos that fit a given narrative, and hide others that don't?

Tiktok collects and shares your data more than any other social media app, and it is unclear where it goes [2]. This could become a dangerous tool.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/08/17/chinese...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/08/tiktok-shares-your-data-more...
Knee jerk reactions are common in the stock market. "Maybe it won't be as bad as we thought it would be 24 hours ago"
sorry you are right, that’s what I meant
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People don't understand why semiconductor argon, and neon can't be substituted by argon, and neon used in welding.

It's very hard to purify noble gasses, as they are almost completely chemically inert, and chemistry needed to make, say, same argon, to form compounds with anything else is something needing very special equipment, and know how.

Welding grade argon is dirt cheap, 99.999% argon is very expensive, and 99.999999% argon is many times as expensive as welding gas.

It's much worse with neon.
Yes, but to my knowledge nobody has found a trusted solution.

My guess is the best we can do is keychains of trust and the reputation that comes with them. Trustless authentication seems very difficult indeed.
Annexation of Goa [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Goa

edit: my bad, I missed the "unwilling nation" part of the parent content
Where you are from is no excuse for what you wrote.
Yeah, it looks more in line with the recent/current discussions on how the ISS' end-of-life should be handled than a threat to make it fall, he seems upset by the recent decisions because it would break cooperation, and cooperation is indeed needed for the ISS at any time.
> Unlike in the Iraq War, where the only cameras were controlled by a handful of journalists and the US military

It was an interesting read, but the guy is about 10 years too late. Social media today is most definitely controlled by a few news companies and the state ( military/admin/etc ). Especially when it comes to important news events.

> The Pentagon learned a lesson from that conflict, which was: Control the information and imagery at all costs. And they applied that lesson in the Iraq War.

As if the pentagon didn't know before the vietnam war to control the information and imagery at all costs. Of course they did. They controlled all the information. It was the state that decided to end the war. Not journalists. Not the people.

> And with social media, artificial intelligence and Internet-enabled crowd-sourcing, the intelligence will belong to the global public. And that changes everything.

The state curated, censored and controlled social media changes everything? Don't think so.
Well, I'll be frank: between nuclear holocaust and Ukraine going back to 1989, I pick the latter. Sucks to be Ukrainian right now, I know, but this is the time to be smart: France was overrun in a month too, and looked pretty pacific under occupation for a pretty long time, but eventually...
This takes too many design cues from so-called "modern" web and mobile apps. What's with the lack of scrollbars in all the windows/dialogs? I can't tell that content has been truncated when a dialog opens up with the overflow ending on whitespace between two elements. There's also no fade or shadows, so everything is just suddenly cropped where a window ends. It's not even clear which elements have their own viewports and which are scrolled together (so I missed extra elements in the settings toolbar/toolbox on the left). All the windows open up very small (too small to fit their content) even though there's room for bigger.

(All tested on the online demo here: https://web.dahliaos.io/#/ )
This reminds me of https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf
I was/am pro-energy transition.

But it's obvious that it was too fast too soon. Capability should have been built up before decommissioning.
Glad you're geographically in a position where you can help. You should start a gofundme or something on here so that people can send you money to help the people you encounter.
(2015) unless there's something new here

Lots of previous somewhat recent discussion:

2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23623470

7 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9416993
Yes, see https://contentauthenticity.org/
That's a change since Max originally wrote the OP.
That's also a change since Max originally wrote the OP.
Winter for gerbils and plants.
Scaling out a _service_ that uses data managed by ZFS is where NFS helps you. You simply mount the same ZFS storage in multiple hosts via NFS.

If you meant scaling ZFS itself such that the shared storage is resilient to a full host failure, I’m afraid ZFS is not your best bet. ZFS scales vertically very nicely. Heck, I have a single host with 2 X 100G NICs and 4 x 40G NICS fronting 1.2 PB of ZFS managed disks. If that host goes down, say from a motherboard failure, all 1.2 PB becomes inaccessible until I can hook up the JBODs to a different host physically.
I don't think adding the tag of "evil" in front of corporation is necessary or helpful. Corporations are selfish and aggressive enough already. Nothing about China's geopolitical plotting is anymore evil than the US or Russia, regardless of what ideological non-sense you use to justify any corner.
Pressurized gas can act like a liquid. And at sea level, thick atmosphere would certainly be pressurized.

smaller lungs aren't relevant to the issue that comes up regarding extremely large dinosaurs.

Because it's not an issue of lung capacity, or oxygen supply per liter of blood.

We're not talking about animals that are comparable to modern day elephants.

Have you seen the size comparisons of dreadnoughtus to blue whales? They are enormous. The physics start to come into question. Just the sheer weight of skin and muscle hanging on bone. Even if the bones are hallow and even if the muscle is somehow more efficient due to increased oxygen in the blood.

Like a whale plopped on dry land, they'd collapse under their own weight standing up. Much less, hunting, mating, and fighting.

furthermore the thick atmosphere theory helps solve another tricky mystery which is the, Mesozoic Paleoclimate Paradox

During the Mesozoic era a remarkably homogeneous flora of tropical and temperate plant species covered the Earth. Plants such as ferns, laurels, palm trees, and Magnolia that could not withstand freezing, thrived at 70 degrees north and south latitude. Many of the same plants that existed near the equator were also thriving at the Polar Regions of the Earth.

For decades paleoclimatologists have tried to explain the Mesozoic paleoclimate paradox. If they matched the vegetation of the lower and middle latitudes then their climate models were too cold at the higher latitudes. If they matched the warm temperatures of the Polar Regions then their models projected an unrealistic hot sauna for the rest of the planet that again conflicts with the geological evidence.

The reason their climate software models fail to match the Mesozoic climate is because perhaps the paleoclimatologists make the incorrect assumption that the Mesozoic atmosphere was the same thickness as the present. As stated earlier, the variation of temperatures around a planet whether it is day or night or according to latitude, is a function of the thickness of a planet’s atmosphere. Planets or moons with no atmosphere will have the most extreme difference in temperatures, planets such as the present day Earth and Mars that have relatively thin atmosphere will still have these differenced in temperatures but much less extreme, while extreme thick atmosphere planets such as Venus and the Mesozoic Earth show almost no temperature difference at all according to latitude.
and more importantly, the willingness to sacrifice millions of their own people if they need to. They have done it before, and if needed, I have no doubt they will do it again.
A reliance on a fuel type we are already trying to get rid of, this will hasten that.
CIA Director Bill Burns predicted exactly this back in 2008 when George Bush declared Ukraine would eventually join NATO.
https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/what-is-ipfs/#what-is-ipfs

> That last point is actually where IPFS gets its full name: the InterPlanetary File System. We're striving to build a system that works across places as disconnected or as far apart as planets. While that's an idealistic goal, it keeps us working and thinking hard, and almost everything we create in pursuit of that goal is also useful here at home.
He also said that he wanted to negotiate a peace agreement which excludes NATO from Ukraine. Why not take that statement at face value too?
You mean realist. A country’s sovereignty matters only as much as it’s ability to defend it (or the willingness of someone else to do so out of their own interests).

My own country only exists because India wanted to get back at Pakistan and helped us in our independence war. If they hadn’t, we’d still be part of Pakistan—which would be what it would be.
That link being public is another change since Max originally wrote the OP.
Probably because if they're not ready, the United States may take military action or economic retailion. Probably they're playing it extra safe and would rather not put their bigger long term goals at any unnecessary risk.
Sounds like a useful idiot to me.

Russia has been dislocating extremely threatening weaponry right on NATO doorstep and treating it as its holy right, for a long time. The Kaliningrad region is Europe’s most militarised area, with SAM and tactical ballistic weaponry extending over most of Poland and the Baltic’s, quite possibly most of Europe in fact. Russian nuke-capable bombers graze NATO airspaces on an almost daily rate.

But Ukraine thinks about joining NATO and Russia has no choice but carve out some of its territory? And it’s the west’s fault?

In a 19th century Polish book (very racist by modern standards) by Nobel prize winning author Sienkiewicz, “In the desert and in the jungle”, an indigenous man Kali is being “enlightened” about Christianity. When asked to provide an example of a bad deed, he says “when someone take cow from Kali”. Asked for a good deed, he volunteers: “when Kali take cow”.

Basically, you don’t need to understand more about morality to understand Putin’s idea of statehood and leadership.
Something like that is on the list to implement.
Did it at the K-T boundary?
By “we” I assume you mean the USA. Which is a net exporter of oil and the largest oil producer as of 2021. It also receives almost no imports from Russia, and will increase exports to EU at current high prices. Russian oil restriction plays to US energy strengths but the US won’t move unilaterally without EU support due to their dependence.
Lots of Russian companies are nominally headquartered in Prague. Reveal Sound is another example off the top of my head. There are certain advantages for companies that want to do business internationally.
There is no way that hundreds of Russian soldiers posted TikToks on the same morning revealing their locations and movements.

This is coordinated propaganda. It's meant to both misdirect from actual large-scale Russian movements and to lower Ukrainian morale: "Look how easy and fun it is for us to invade you".
IIRC, that was more from the fact that coconut oil has zero linolenic acid, which is an essential metabolite. Coconut oil is still a huge calorie source for livestock, just that it's also mixed with soybean oil.

Basically, any combination of coconut oil in your diet that isn't 100% coconut oil will lead to calorie gain.
Yes, they're mostly Russian. But legal status matters in that Russia can't shut them down...
Where is the "servlet" implementation on this?

Can "servlets" access the same memory directly/atomically at the same time across many cores without locking?
Many reasons here are a few, some of which I mentioned at least once above:

* Cloudflare can handle a DDoS. Your home router can't.

* The application can't automatically open a port without something like UPnP, which isn't widely deployed enough to rely on.

* Your IP stays private.

* You don't need to use things like DynDNS to keep your DNS records in sync with the IP your ISP gives you.
The other three reactors there were operational until 2000.
Ukraine should have kept their nukes or joined Nato or Russia.
This is just more can kicking. It will be bad when they finally pull back, but they are also waiting for the best context to pull back. Inflation will continue to shoot up, the pressure for the Fed to finally act will build.
It occurs to me this is the sort of problem the satellite internet constellations could help solve.

The issue of authenticity is getting some third party to attest that video happened at a particular date and time - at least part of that solution could be getting the various low orbit constellations to provide a simple timestamping service for hashes. Since the orbits are known, and position can be triangulated, any 3 satellites signatures would at least prove you transmitted a particular hash for attestation at a given date and time.

This obviously doesn't help with someone traveling there and sending junk, or using local repeaters to send junk, but it ups the difficulty level a notch.
> C++ was discussed as having too many undesirable characteristics.

C++ allowed the Serenity OS people to produce an entire OS with a GUI stack able to play Diablo and their own web browser in something like two years. It's depressing to think where we could be today in terms of OS if the Linux and GNU people weren't as insistent on their hate of C++
> I don't know what more you could be looking for as to what "rows read" means than `innodb_rows_read`

On the contrary, this is completely unclear because the mysql manual doesn't even give a clear explanation at all!! it only says "The number of rows read from InnoDB tables." https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/server-status-variab...

Let's say my db has a primary and 3 replicas. I insert one row. Does planetscale count this as 1 row written? 4 rows written?

Let's say my rows are small and there are 200 per DB page. I do a single-row select by primary key. This reads the page (you physically can't read just one "row" at the i/o level). Is this 1 row read or 200?

My read query triggers an internal temp table. Is the number of rows read based on only on the real tables, or also add in "reads" from the temp table? What if the temp table spills over to disk for a filesort?

I alter a table with 100 million rows. Is this 100 million rows read + 100 million rows written? or 0? something else? while this is happening, do my ongoing writes to the table count double for the shadow table?

Does planetscale even know the answers to these questions or are they just going by innodb status variables? do they actually have any innodb developers on staff or are they externalizing 100% of their actual "database" development to Oracle? (despite their blog post using wording like "we continue to build the best database on the planet"??)
He's saying he can tell you yes or no within 15 seconds if a rehire was on the table.
Russia is the one threatening nuclear war here.

That’s on Russia, no one else.
The author doesn't care what Ukrainians want, and neither does Russia or the United States for that matter. He's a political realist. I think the author would say that you have the right to self-determination if you actually possess the political capital to have the right to begin with. It is obvious that the Ukrainians do not (whereas the Poles, French, Germans, etc. do).
> Property taxes in general are a complete sham, what other item do you continually need to pay for after you own it?

A sham? Unless you argue that most people are buying property under false pretenses, especially given the public nature of property taxes, the expectation would be that those purchasing land do so understanding the existence of on-going financial duties.

As to why land is potentially materially different from other assets:

1. Land is only yours while some party will coerce all other parties to respect your claim. The cost of that infrastructure is on-going.

2. Most land might accrue some small value because of the actions of the land owner, but mostly accrues in value because of externalities from the action of others. Taxing those externalities so that the commons benefits rather than the individual seems at least equally as just as the current model where the wealth generated by collective action is overwhelmingly privatized. Reasonable arguments can be made for deferring that tax until sale or equivalent, rather than on a continuous basis.

3. In terms of being inexorably linked to specific governments, land is much more akin to citizenship and / or residency than fungible widgets. Citizenship and residence also frequently incurs ongoing tax duties.

4. Other scarce asset classes have been controlled in the past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102
While I think you're right that China has the power to shift the information dominance through TikTok I don't think it changes the author's main thesis about OSINT. There are other platforms. If information starts getting censored then people will jump to other platforms to share it.

There is definitely a dangerous tool here too because there already has been a lot of fake images and videos appearing. It's unclear who is posting these but it certainty generates a lot of noise for OSINT. While the former situations had low noise but high bias in the current situation we may just have so much noise that it is impossible to figure out what is real or not. Though I think it still changes things since military analysts have better tools and know corroborating information to sort through this noise more easily. But fake news travels faster than truth.
> I only see downsides to the invasion and no upside from the perspective of Russia.

Not everything comes down to dollars and cents. The Russian president spelled out in his speech that he believes that Ukraine has always been a region of Russia, and never an independent state, and therefore he believes it has no right to an independent existence. The motivations are mostly in historical terms, even if there are economic gains for Russia in the end.

Also, an authoritarian state like Russia using its military might to shut down a nascent democracy like Ukraine is a pretty powerful narrative for the pre-emininence of the former type of government over the latter. There has been quite a bit of solidarity on this subject between authoritarian governments like Russia and China in recent years.
Western Sahara has a population similar to Huntsville Alabama's metro region, so I guess you are right, but I hope you also see why that situation is very different from this one.

As for Tibet, repeating an earlier comment:

Tibet was under control of the Qing Dynasty (i.e. China) until its end in 1912.
From 1912-1950, Tibet (due to its remoteness) acted as an de facto independent region, despite Western legal precedent stating it was still under the control of Beijing.

When attempting to get de jure independence from China in 1951, China asserted control over the region.

So sort of, but not really.
While the ability of the internet to debunk falseflag operations is great, I feel like this is overstating it's usefulness for tracking the chaos of actual war. Most of the civilian videos I've seen so far seem to be more visually exciting shots of distant explosions in urban areas over any attempt to focus on what is shooting or is getting shot at.

Contrary to public belief, knowing an artillery shell landed somewhere near a preschool/hospital/whatever ranks pretty low in actual tactical significance.