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Log4j: China pulls support from Alibaba for not reporting to government first(scmp.com)
15 points by kevcampb 5y ago|2 comments
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Covid-19: Gitlab deletes fake Hong Kong contact-tracing app after police request(hongkongfp.com)
4 points by kevcampb 5y ago|1 comments
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by kevcampb 5y ago
"If their degree cost them $60,000 to obtain, it would take them four years to recoup their education costs ($60,000 net cost / $15,000 earnings premium)." They completely omit the time spent getting the degree and associated
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Hong Kong Wikipedia editors take precautions amid fears(hongkongfp.com)
5 points by kevcampb 5y ago|0 comments
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by kevcampb 6y ago
The Scunthorpe Problem https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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by kevcampb 6y ago
It's strange in that my floor number changes depending on what language you are using. For systems that parse addresses into a structured format it's a real problem, as they need to ensure they are rendered into the original langu
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by kevcampb 6y ago
A fun one to add. In Hong Kong, old walk-up buildings often have different floor numbers in English than they do in Chinese. For example, 2/F in English may be 三楼 (third floor) in Chinese.
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Mobile Giant Xiaomi Recording Millions of People’s ‘Private’ Web and Phone Use(forbes.com)
4 points by kevcampb 6y ago|1 comments
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Tesla drops a bunch of new Autopilot data, 3B miles and more(electrek.co)
1 points by kevcampb 6y ago|0 comments
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by kevcampb 7y ago
It's still possible to do live upgrades without microservices
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by kevcampb 7y ago
This isn’t new. The US ending of the big blue was switched to a happy one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Blue#Original_and_alte...
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by kevcampb 7y ago
It's not "photo taken" https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/12/02/china-tightens-cybersp... A China Unicom customer service representative told AFP that the December 1 “portrait matching” requiremen
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China tightens cyberspace controls by introducing face scans for phone users(hongkongfp.com)
1 points by kevcampb 7y ago|0 comments
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by kevcampb 7y ago
Jupytext works as an extension in Jupyter. Your work is saved as py automatically whenever you work on the notebook. So it's not a conversion at commit time, unlike say nbstripout
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by kevcampb 7y ago
Or just use jupytext and only commit the .py files. Works for us. Commits just look like normal python code, with a few comment markers for cells
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Safari in iOS Sends Some Safe Browsing Data to Tencent(engadget.com)
6 points by kevcampb 7y ago|0 comments
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by kevcampb 7y ago
"Due to copyright and other legal issues, this South Park episode cannot be viewed in your Country" So yes, banned in China (Hong Kong)
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by kevcampb 7y ago
'jobs for the boys' is a well known phrase for a reason. It's rarely used in a positive way
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by kevcampb 7y ago
By degraded performance they mean, it's broken but we don't want to admit to breaking SLAs
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by kevcampb 7y ago
If I am another company competing against Apple and paying my share of taxes, then yes.
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by kevcampb 7y ago
Amazon, Google, seem far far worse. I wasn't intending for my post to me representative, just that the CF outage is recent and affects me more personally than the others atm. Also, I had zero expectation my comment would actually be re
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by kevcampb 7y ago
Thanks for the acknowledgement. Appreciate it's hard, false positives etc. Glad you see our PoV.
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by kevcampb 7y ago
Let me quote from the previous HN discussion ”"”sauldcosta 4 days ago [-] We use downdetector.com because status pages tend to take up to an hour or so to update, if they ever do. reply jgrahamc 4 days ago [-] 1042 UTC First alert of g
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by kevcampb 7y ago
The recent outage was very very delayed. I stand by my comment. Also don't get me wrong, you do a great service. It's just a pet peeve that it seems invariably status pages are a lie.
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by kevcampb 7y ago
If it's any consolation, their status board has actually been reporting errors (hi cloudflare)
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Etcher 1.4.4 Ignores Privacy Setting(github.com)
2 points by kevcampb 7y ago|0 comments
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by kevcampb 7y ago
They've probably modelled the failure rate for the first one you bought.
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by kevcampb 8y ago
"Just avoid holding it in that way"
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by kevcampb 8y ago
Is machine learning really to blame for the reproducibility crisis? I'm not in academia, but it seemed to me that the problem was entirely present without machine learning being involed. For example, Amgen reporting that of landmark ca
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by kevcampb 8y ago
City full of tech companies working on facial recognition, bans facial recognition being used on it's residents

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