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25,050karma·12,302submissions·September 8, 2017
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2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28956256 (3pts, no discussion).. despite 3 posts, this article hasn't got much traction.…
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In that it's one electron from it (like Silicon)? Magnesium is 2.2x stronger, 1.08x harder, and 2.05x more costly, 0.65x as thermally conductive and, 0.64x as dense. Think I'm missing your…
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I'm not sure how useful this is as is, over the years they've bundled/unbundled terms which this doesn't capture. "(Insecure) Design" @#4 arguably applies to many of the…
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Most of these are opinions, and the list is far far too long (there's 136). Funny that simplicity, excessive decoration and, moderation get mentions, but conciseness does not.
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Might be better to join an existing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28528613 (30pts, 1month old, 17 comments)…
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I'm not sure I understand.. there's an internal search (tabs, history, bookmarks) which sounds like what you're doing - there's no search engine used for this. Or do you mean the …
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"2K resolution is a generic term for display devices or content having horizontal resolution of approximately 2,000 pixels." (...) 1920 × 1080 is the most common 2K resolution"[0]. How…
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It's the perfect setup really, you can turn it off, but if you want it you can type "? <search term>" into the address bar and it'll go to default search - or use one of your…
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Or 4% less (250M planned for 2022, which is apparently 10M short), not a lot to see here.
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This list is.. extensive, including tech darlings (Airbnb, Beats[Apple], Epic Games, Facebook, Lyft, Netflix, PayPal, Razer, Uber, WhatsApp(FB), YouTube(google)) too "big to fail" (3M, Apple…
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Article is from March too. The paper/story about was posted several times 6 months ago (with little traction/comments/votes)
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This page has a little more detail: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/... "If other pages point to your page with descriptive text, …
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BC are QC are.. but they're terrible PII privacy leaks (unprotected legal name/DOB/vaccination record). It violates the health canada privacy act[0]: > "The Act protects an ind…
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I remember this being posted as an Ask/Tell HN message a few weeks back.. although several people suggested at the time he might want to delete, since it could complicate things for him. (Which s…
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He linked to his own essay published by wired.
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Given the URL, it looks like this is a demo of the globe software.. there are a few others in the root.. this one's impressive: https://globe.gl/example/countries-population&…
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The article is vague (no link to docs, no formula, no block diagram), but it seems to say the fundamental process still runs via a pre-shared-secret. That is secret you're trying to secure, and …
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I'm having trouble understanding why you posted this when it's just the mirror of the actual repo on gitlab[0], AND the page is really just config details, not a lot of description.. but the…
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This was posted 7 months ago [0] with a fairly sizable discussion (74 comments) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26203471 …
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Seems unlikely, Databricks used the term in a blog post January/2020[0], while the linked paper suggests it was published January/2021. Edit: Given databricks was involved in this paper, pe…
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data lake = HDFS, GCS, Azure blob, S3, any blob store (backed by blob store, file based) data warehouse = Oracle, SAP, BigQuery etc (backed by database, SQL interface) data lakehouse = Spark, Presto, …
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It sounds like you're asking for [MTA-STS]( https://dmarcian.com/mta-sts/ ) "MTA-STS is an inbound mail protocol designed to add a layer of encryption/security bet…
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Building both uMatrix, and uBlock ( https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock ) can't be easy.. maybe the features some of us enjoy in uMatrix will come across.…
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WebRTC doesn't expose whether it's a cellular connection?
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I think you mean $25/mo for up to 10TB of traffic/50GB of assets, random new account.
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Agreed adds to DNS blackhole
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Light aircraft can only carry up to 19, have unpressurized cabins[0], may have 0-multiple engines, weigh under 10 tons. This really has nothing to do with commercial air travel (except very small sca…
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And the discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27858893
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(Video) would be helpful in the title. 70° off of compost is impressive.
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Seems like you're affiliated with DuckDB? Knowing what paper inspired the software [0], and regularly commenting about it's performance/recommending it [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. Perhaps …
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