skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no debate, Guns are legal in this country. We must be able to defend ourselves from all threats both foreign and domestic, having access to the same level that our military employs.

Guns do not kill people. Unstable disturbed people kill people. It is not the tool used to cause death, it's the person that wields it. We still haven't solved a core problem of our species, but we have invented easier ways to kill each other.

Stop blaming the Guns, bombs, swords, sticks and stones. start looking at the real problem.
I uploaded full seasons of a very old 90s cartoon and my account is disabled. I cannot even purchase YouTube TV to try it out.

Of course, reaching out to support is moot - their RoboSupport sucks. I will never purchase a Google product if I can help it and will steer clear of them in any team setting where I can affect the decision.
The usual tribal conflict pattern is to seize territory as a hunting ground. Note that for nomadic tribes, there is no village and therefore no fixed location to raid.

E.g. the Comanches had a longstanding war* with the Apaches not because they wanted to seize each other's grain stores, but rather because they wanted control of the best buffalo hunting grounds.

* Not a war in the sense that we'd call it today. There were e.g. no organized charges, battle lines etc. Maybe "long slow series of irregular cavalry skirmishes" is more accurate than "war."
C being a "compiled language" refers to a cluster of concepts which goes perhaps something like this:

* The semantics is simple. For instance, local variables vaporize when a block terminates; compiling a lexical scope in C means not even having to know what "closure" means, and thus not having to deal with a whole class of code generation problems like treating optimizing trivial closures, and non-escaping ones.

* A correct binary call to a C function can be generated if we just parse and analyze a simple prototype declaration. Very little information is needed to generate the calls to functions in a separately compiled file.

* The declaration of any complete data type specifies how it is laid out in memory and accessed.

* In general, anything which would make compiling difficult is either off limits to the programmer entirely, or "undefined behavior". For instance, functions aren't objects and cannot be manipulated at run time in any portable way. There are almost no introspective features whatsoever. A C interpreter can easily have all sorts of introspection features as extensions, but those are kept out of the language because they would interfere with the concept of it being a "compiled language".

* The type system is static and supports type erasure: most C implementations throw away all type info (except as part of "debug info") when translating C programs. No requirement in the standard requires any type info to be retained. Even though anything can be interpreted, static typing with erasure tends to make languages geared toward compiling.
It's post-processing, not the quality of the sensor, photo from iPhone have warmer color balance.

If you compare the right eyebrow, you will see that [1] have more details, than [2]
What aspect of it is not high performance?
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My audio jack is neither core nor I need a dongle after it's removal. On the go I've got BeatsX, at the desk, I use good headphones which are connected via USB.
The Pixel is so solid, and still plenty fast enough for me that I honestly can't imagine upgrading until there's something I need that doesn't support it.
I notice on the tech spec's page that the Mini also has bluetooth [0]. Would love to know if this means all connected homes will play (the same) audio via bluetooth.

[0] https://store.google.com/product/google_home_mini_specs
That's because there was some sweet spot under that figure. Bigger, lower tech transistors lead to a more expensive chip because it was too big, and smaller higher tech transistors lead to bigger costs because few companies could make them.

Unfortunately, that is all history. Current top of line fabrication processes cost more per area than their ancestors.
Forgive my ignorance, but when I was introduced to the Chromebook concept a few years ago, it was basically supposed to be a cheaper "thin" (not physically necessarily but spec-wise) computer mostly running web apps. Now they're instead high-end laptops. Are they no longer about running mostly web apps, or what? What changed in the last couple of years? Why is this hardware needed? I don't get it.
Ethernet makes less sense on a mobile device, because you don’t carry routers on your body, and the standard was no where near as old. Again, removing because there was a better alternative. Adaptors are not a better alternative. Bluetooth is not a better alternative.
"Go Transparent w/ Google" should be their tag-line. The other commenter on this thread was right about the 'The Circle' comparison.
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The phone is just storing song fingerprints, probably no more than a few megs for every song ever recorded. It would be great to extract the data and release it for public use.
But who are the majority of users here?

If all the developers betrayed by latest Apple's MBP lineup migrate to a new platform, suddenly 'majority' starts to care about number of cores and upgradable memory. But that is not likely to happen, given the dumbed-down specs and OS.
That was fun.
> The software stack running on it is second to none.

Can you elaborate on that? I thought ChromeOS was just a stripped down Linux with just enough to run Chrome and whatever other Google stuff they have on it.
This makes me feel weird knowing that I practice a polyphasic sleep pattern for such a long time now.
I have a tendency to be over impulsive, in where I get personally emotional over customer emails sent to me, and then I work my ass off to fix the bugs, reports, complaints etc reported in the mails..

Then I figure out that I can't fix everyone's problems by fixing bugs only, get emotional, write a weird and over-emotional post, and just leave lots of customers behind at the end of the process.

It's still a small-scale issue if you ask me, as it is mostly personal, but it's an issue for sure.
Is this just speculation or is there evidence for this?
Ask HN: Once you've found your passion, how do you monetize it?
How does one turn his found passion into a profitable and scalable business?
Come to think of it, that's a pretty good Kickstarter idea.

Usb-C to 3.5mm jack, where it isn't a dongle, but rather built into the cable itself.
The floppy disk stopped being good at moving files between computers and making backups because single files of popular types regularly exceeded its capacity at the time it stopped being a standard feature. Modems and CD drives had fallen into disuse in favor of alternatives by the time they started getting left out.

The analog headphone jack still does as good a job of connecting headphones, speakers and such in a practical sense as it always did. Perhaps even better since cars have aux in ports most of the time now[0]. It hasn't fallen into disuse either. While bluetooth headphones exist and enjoy some popularity, most people I know own, and regularly use wired headphones.

I don't think the analogy holds. The headphone jack is still as useful and popular with consumers as it ever was.

[0] Yes, they also usually have bluetooth, but getting a car and a phone to pair, and getting the right phone to be paired at the right time isn't always a good UX.
Good points. I had assumed base storage would be 32GB for all time, that recent phones would use the same processor, and that LGs OLED investments had trickled down to their own devices. Times, they are a changing.
Exactly. I have small kids. I love taking pictures of my kids, but I hate having to choose between being in the moment and taking pictures. This thing is amazing to me.

The only thing is that I would probably only use it if I expected there to be something capturable, like Christmas morning or a first day on the school bus or some special outing at a Playground or Disney or something. I'm not sure it's worth it for just those occasions. If something spontaneously adorable happens, it probably will be in a drawer and out of battery. But I'm sorely tempted. Hanging it on the Christmas tree might be amazing.
I'm disappointed that the 16GB models aren't ready and that they didn't announce (or open up any additional documentation) about crosvm or Project Termina.

They didn't even highlight that this is the first Chromebook to have a non-Chromebook keyboard... The keyboard looks aimed directly at developers.

I really hope the Chromium wiki releases some new documentation soon.

(If anyone has gleaned more details about Termina from Chromium git logs or has other speculation, I'd love to know /read more about it. Thanks)
> It also doesn’t use any kind of network connection, so it’s not broadcasting the stuff it captures anywhere.

> Plus, it’ll alert you when its lens is blocked via intelligent notifications to your phone.

One of these statements is inaccurate.

(Comment edited to be more easily demonstrable.)
I think the reason why things like this piss people like us off is because this product isn't targeted at us.

"Normal" people don't care what is in a device as long as they can justify the cost with the perceived value they see in the device.

For them the sticker saying "i7" on the laptop makes it a "top-of-the-line" laptop and justifies the cost as they expect to pay more for "top-of-the-line".
yeah. but you can fill out a form and get a mac.
The Pixel is by no means a bad phone, it's just been an exercise in disappointment the whole way. So I'm not actively planning to switch phones, I'm just lamenting that I don't get the same utility out of the Pixel that I was getting out of my Nexus 5. Also being on Project Fi locks me into a certain set of phones, switching would be an expensive endeavor.
> SiteStacks can find the technology used at any domain

I punched in a URL of a website I built, it didn't have data, went out to get some, then reported back that it couldn't.

Meanwhile https://builtwith.com/reservations.camprrm.com worked.
I witnessed my girlfriend's Nexus 6p support experience with Google and it was not pretty. I would never buy a Google phone after that. The phone, just barely out of warranty, goes into a bootloop and becomes a paperweight. Google helpfully shrugs the problem off on Huawei, and Huawei will of course not support the product since it's out of warranty. There is no repair option.

I tried Android early on, had similarly unacceptable support experiences, and whenever I'm tempted to dip my toes back in the water I'm reminded of how bad things are with cases like this. In the case of the Nexus 6p it's Google's flagship product and it's a worthless paperweight 13 months after purchase.
Crouton experience is very bad. so many bugs.
This is such a ridiculous impasse. Why don't the authorities do what most sensible countries do i.e. build multi-storied apartments with decent public transportation? Yes I know in the US that equates to the ghetto/projects/low income housing (which is a mindset that needs to change).

As far as the bay area goes this is possible since most residents are foreigners or 1st and 2nd generation Americans who are probably more open to the idea of living in a skyscraper.
How likely/easy would it be to add "know nothing" mirrors of these encrypted repositories? Say that I trust the keybase app (or something that speaks its protocols) possibly indefinitely, but maybe I'm not keen on a single cloud storage backend and want additional secure backup options. (Maybe I'm even unconvinced about the long term guarantee of keybase's storage space offerings due to possibly changing cost/business model factors, as others have pointed out here.)

It would be nice if I could have an encrypted copy in S3 or Dropbox or somewhere, that presumably maybe git couldn't directly make use of, and would be encrypted and those services couldn't touch either, but that the app could still push/pull changes to.

Certainly, I'd still have an unencrypted view of the contents in any local clones of the repository I may have in the case that I couldn't access keybase storage, but it still seems like there may be useful cases where an encrypted backup is somewhere else in the cloud as well, as a safe failover just in case.
I know someone who slept like that for over 10 years before I convinced them to get the mask and now they thank me and cant sleep without it
I am not an audio engineer but I own BeatsX and use them across four devices without even thinking about it.
The first thing I thought was that this was a civilian body cam.

Coincidentally, the police in my current hometown are also trying out a Google product for their body cams.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-jersey-city-using-cell-p...
> The probability that the difference between these two groups is by chance is less than 5%.

That's a common misunderstanding of the p-value, but that's not what it means. (It means: assuming there is no difference, the probability that we'd nevertheless see a difference as big as we are seeing or even bigger is less than 5%).
Feeling important has little to do with wanting things.

Poor people want be rich and have a Mansion not because the think they are important enough to have a Mansion, but because being able to afford a Mansion is better than not being able to afford a Mansion.
When will google learn. I don't want a search button in place of caps lock.

idiots.
15FPS? Why on earth make that design decision? Isn't 30FPS nowadays considered substandard?
You mean the feature clearly listed on their privacy dashboard that can be disabled and have it's history wiped with two clicks? That you opt'd into when activating the Android phone and turning on Google Now?
> I don't think the consumer cares about such duplication

Aside from cost, more devices that need to be charged creates more overhead.
The image is just one reason why compiling an SBCL executable results in such a large file. It has state as well...or so I've read.
Understood, but just for perspective, we humans now have devices that seamlessly translate (more or less) foreign languages right to your ears. That's magical, sci-fi stuff. To nitpick it just because it's not readily available to all 7B+ people in the world is a tad harsh, though I know that wasn't your intention.
in my experiences as a user of and developer for speech recognition systems, I have concluded that the best any machine translation system is going to be able to do is translate really basic, imperative communications.

e.g, "Don't eat that!"
"We are friendly, don't shoot"
"There is food in the kitchen"
"Where is the nearest bathroom?"...That will all work relatively well.

Punishing others with Vogon poetry in their own native tongue... never gonna happen.
> It's amusing to see how privacy oriented HN is yet these devices are so popular here - they're an unaudited vector into your most private moments.

HN is an echo chamber where it's not even worth talking about trade-offs when it comes to privacy, all I ever get from it is downvotes.
> There have been instances in the past where Google has locked the account of a user

This happened to me recently (though I think for security concerns, not TOS violations), and was quite distressing. What steps can be taken to avoid this?
This article seems unthoughtful to me. Perhaps the actual research was more enlightening, but this barely even qualified as a teaser.
> It just seems too sloppy

citation needed.
Bank robbery is not a capital crime either but cops shoot as soon as they see an armed gang. Isn't this a good comparison?
It's not one large textarea. There is a textarea which is 1x1 and right next to the cursor. I have no idea what they are for.

Just open the dev tools and have some fun. You'll learn a lot.
Also the Polaroid Cube, MeCam, Narrative, etc. There seems to be no shortage of small consumer-oriented camera gadgets.
I don't really see what is the point - no new use cases, so why the power? Does Google do it only to have a premium product in the portfolio, or are they trying to access new market segment? And if it's supposed to be more universal/pro machine, why only 2 usb ports? Connectivity is the key.
Well, at least they are now trying to point out products that weren't built for data mining.

I'm excited what the second one will be.
"I'm sure you can put up with this massive inconvenience for a job and workflow I have no understanding of or context for but sure do have an opinion on"

Found the SWE!
Is your phone getting super hot while wireless charging?
No headphone jack, twice as much as my nexus 5x. You lost me and my family as a customer for both phones and service.
Are you accusing Google of just outright lying? One product says you don't need a network connection, the other heavily relied on a network connection.
My cursory search indicates that Android Studio doesn't run natively on Chromebooks yet (well, not without faffing around with crouton, anyway).

Seems like a huge missed opportunity for Google. They could pitch these as the standard Android/ChromeOS development platforms. Heck, they even run Android apps themselves, so you already get "emulation" for free.

I believe that lots of people would pay not to have to faff around with drivers on Windows, or udev on Linux, or the maintenance overhead of either to be able to develop apps. That is a lot of devices sold right there.
It transfers files to your phone via Wifi. So technically it does have connection to the outside world.
It doesn't. It might support bluetooth headphones, as the tech specs indicate that it does have Bluetooth and WiFi, but the only physical port, sadly, is Micro-USB, which is weird to me that it isn't USB-C.

I keep hoping that one of these magic boxes we keep seeing is going to be implemented with an optical port so that I'll have a viable replacement for my Sonos, but I guess I'm back to waiting for Sonos to integrate Google Home or Alexa or whatever they plan to integrate for me to get everything tied in.

Edit: I guess if I'd checked my email a little bit earlier, I might have noticed that they apparently just started preorders for the Sonos One with Alexa integrated.

http://www.sonos.com/en-us/shop/one.html
Enhancing focus by using OrgMode as an exocortex
Is there is a docking station that allows me to drive 4K monitor(s) from it? THat would be amazing.
I'm in the same boat, working from home to no one else's schedule, but probably with a worse habit of body. I have no idea when I might last have slept for more than seven hours, and I very rarely nap. I'm considering acquiring a 'real job' again, but I'm probably not willing to ever compromise my sleep habits for an employer. I don't think anyone else should either, but I suspect that's not likely to be a popular opinion.
Seems like.
Question about GitHub and source code
What is the best way to correlate error logs and source code?

We have all source code managed by GitHub. We have exception logs that specify the line number of the offending code and the file name as well. Now we have to manually go to the source file and the line number after looking at the exception logs. Is there any tool that we can use to examine the exception logs and also the corresponding source code?
You may be able to hear, but how does it help you speak back to them in a different language?
just to clarify:
1. Do you need a private git repository?
2. Is everything really encrypted?
3. If everything is encrypted how can i access it through Git Desktop?
It's possible that by 'any kind of network connection' they meant cell and wifi, excluding Bluetooth or wifi directly to you phone.
What's the URL? We can report back exactly why it was picked up.

Even if we're wrong, it's exactly this kind of feedback loop that's built into the product and ultimately helps make the data better for everyone else.
If you purchased the device from Google, and they locked you out, couldn't you sue them in small claims court? That would at least force them to respond, and if they don't they would get a default judgement against them.

If it is possible / likely that a court would hear the case, would your only option then be to sue for monetary damages, or could you sue for them to perform an action (such as reinstating your account)?
>"The SMC is actually kind of nice to have since it means that the actual boot sector is more sandboxed."

Can you elaborate on this? How does the boot sector sandboxing work exactly?
Chopping down or burning a bunch of forest hardly seems like it's going to make Brazil rich.

Some of the worlds major economic success stories are countries with few natural resources, Taiwan being a common example. At the same time, there are a number of countries heavily exploiting their resources, yet seemingly without alleviating their poverty.

There are plenty of places trying to re-forest, which also suggests that you might get stuck with the long term cost of trying to undo the damage done.
Previously everything of mine went through Google. Email, phone, phone number, search, etc. I've migrated everything away (except Google Voice) for this very reason.

My life would have came to a grinding halt if they banned me, and I couldn't even email them about it.
>It also doesn’t use any kind of network connection,

Bluetooth is not normally considered a network connection.

(I work at Google, but have nothing to do with Clips)
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I don't understand why it's not possible to run a Docker image that has the whole development environment, without turning on developer mode.

ChromeOS doesn't want to expose these syscalls to ChromeOS apps? I can understand wanting to sandbox the actual OS environment, but a Docker container should be totally isolated from that?
For me it's not time yet because it's a clunky and annoying process to switch bluetooth earbuds from my phone to my laptop and back, at least compared to the simplicity of unplugging something. This is something I do multiple times a day.

Apple is the only company that has figured out how to make it easy, but it requires a iphone/macbook of course.
The consumer likely "agreed" to this treatment in the TOS/EULA.
Buy two pairs :)
How big are these thumbs supposed to be? Because the screen on this thing looks like a postage stamp in the middle of a football field.
For all you wondering who the target market is or how people would trust google's camera in everyday life, think outside of the hn bubble. Wouldn't you're grandma or mom like to capture moments like these? They don't have to remember to take pictures, they don't need to sort through photos, etc.
Well I can tell you why I'm okay with it. Google says (and i've somewhat validated) that data isn't sent to their servers until you say the "keyword". And they do allow you to view and delete any previously sent speech from your account, and I do trust them about that as the backlash from not actually deleting it when they said they would could be pretty bad (and they could be in some pretty deep legal trouble as well).

And if the worry is that they can update it to be "always recording and uploading", they (or another adversary) can already do that with the other phones, laptops, and other devices in the house (most likely more easily).

It's a tradeoff, but it's one that I and my family are comfortable making. Just like how you can choose to not go outside and keep your privacy that way, I find the benefits and usefulness of these products are worth the loss in privacy for me. And that loss in privacy is controllable by me (they can be turned off, unplugged, or shut down whenever I want).

That being said, things like the home-automation are as local as possible. Everything is run via local-network-only systems (zwave, wifi, bluetooth, zigbee), and then "external" systems are added on (like the google home). So i'm not trusting quite as much as people assume I am to some other company, and there are things I will not trust to 3rd parties (like i'm still not comfortable putting surveillance camera footage on anything I don't own myself).