skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP here on a different device, a lot of people have been asking about my beef with Youtube, so I'll try and put what I noticed in a timeline.

1. Youtube comes out with the promise of revolutionizing video, I immediately love it because of its idiosyncrasy and unpredictability. Despite low production values, the videos are varied enough that I can always find something interesting and the algorithm is quite good at suggesting things I'll like.
2. Google acquires youtube, whether because of more money or improving the algorithm, the offerings get even better
3. Youtube merges with google+.
4. Youtube hires new management and begins modeling itself after the old cable companies whose lunch it had 'till now been happily eating.
5. Youtube's algorithms progressively play it safer with their recommendations, the youtube personalities I follow either become more mainstream (Joe Rogan) or increasingly complain of being arbitrarily demonetized (Phillip Defranco).
7. Present day

If you use Youtube as a substitute for television, it might not look like a decline. But I find television generally boring, and Youtube seemed to promise a general improvement. With a better algorithm for suggesting videos and a less hostile relationship to creators it still could be, but for years now it's been moving in the opposite direction on both counts.
It's the transcripts they'll recite during the canonization of St. Acton, patron saint of "After I get Mine".
I like the concept. I made something like it for macbooks some time ago at http://nomoremacbook.com/
Oculus Go is pretty fun even though its specs are well below the Quest, so I'd imagine it will be fine. People also have different expectations for different units, e.g. PC rigs vs hand-held gaming units.
Many do and many don't grow profits but rather sustain profits year after year, and they do great.
The IR sensor doubles as a camera, so this capability will be available.
I’m using the Google Authenticator for MFA today, but are soon travelling abroad for a week. Should I loose my phone on the trip, a (single) Yubikey would be my rescue, both regarding AWS and other services supporting Yubikey. Any thoughts?
Zeebe: Flowchart-based microservices orchestrator
So, Who Exactly Are Angel Investors?
We had a different turn of events in our case. Me and my co-founder we were working on the startup, while on our full-time jobs, and we got some grants from governments to allow us to quit and persuit it full time. This was 4 years ago and we are still going strong with sales and grants. Never underestimate the opportunities for free money! Governments, councils, schemes, all have projections, agentas and budgets and if your startup aligns with them you can get 10k to 150k usd just by writing a few proposals..
Thanks all! Looks like it's Chrome (was able to reproduce there). Will fix when I'm not at work. ;)
I did too, and they made verbal promises that they went back on. Next time I'll make sure to ask in an on-the-record communications medium.
Yes, agree that fixed-price deals with publishers / aggregators are tenable. Spotify works for people, for example.

The original argument was essentially that there was a minimum transaction size that was cognitively viable at scale.
> China will not allow a foreign company to compete against its home grown search engines, so why bother?

No. China will let a foreign company compete against its home grown search engines under its own terms. There's no way we'd let a chinese company take over search in the US. Why should they allow an american search engine take over?

> By bowing to Chinese censorship, Google hurts its public image.

Google has bowed down to european and american censorship. What difference does it make if they bow to chinese censorship? You don't seem outraged at google censoring in the US and Europe.

> In short, the people at the top of Google look like fools to me.

Yeah. The multibillionaires look real foolish with their multibillions in the bank. Google execs don't care what employees think. It's not their job. They work for the shareholders, not their employees. Considering how well google's stock have been doing, it doesn't seem like shareholders are too shaken up about google getting back in china.

The faux moralizing is getting ridiculous. Especially when a significant portion of people on HN are demanding more censorship at home.
I get that you were talking about quantity, but the figure of speech which describes millions of people as "nobody" has also a belittling aspect to it. This is the aspect I'm talking about.
Project Campfire: Alt-OS Is Now Dual-Boot on Chromebooks for Windows and Linux
This was all really impressive but I'm bummed they aren't merging the stores / purchases with the addition of the Rift to the mobile app.

I hate that I would have to buy a title twice to play it on either platform (I own both).
A lot of this is the direct result of union busting. Companies hired essentially private militias to come in and bully/repress workers who were attempting to organize. As a result, those workers turned to another group of essentially private militias to help stand up for them.

Not that the criminals did this out of the kindness of their hearts. It turns out that being in charge of the Teamsters Union comes in handy when you're in the business of importing illicit goods.
This story focuses on the Instagram founders. By staying 6 years, they've probably already received all compensation related to the original acquisition, so they're only "saying no" to continued salaries/management-incentives – not "$850M".
I don't think anyone "came around" to that sort of thinking. And Milton Freedman was not prescribing a strategy as much as describing a winning strategy. A strategy that has slowly taken over and beat out those organizations that either don't espouse it or have failed to adopt it.
How about galleries of NASA pics, national parks, and other themes besides art?
No, for EU companies, the GDPR applies to all their users worldwide, not just EU residents.
Yet another white American who thinks that thinks that their personal moral grievances are more important than a billion Chinese people gaining access to Google. This is even worse than men telling women that abortion is evil because at least men can claim to speak for the fetus. I've yet to hear a convincing argument that Dragonfly make the lives of Chinese dissidents any worse, let alone regular residents.
Ironically, in a way similar to most legislation, GDPR will mostly benefit the largest tech companies at the expense of small startups that may eventually compete with them. Google, FB, et al have endless amounts of resources to comply with and litigate legislation like GDPR, whereas it's a substantial cost to smaller companies to do the same.
Yes, there are programmatic ad networks for podcasts. For example: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/08/acast-programmatic-ads/
A company complying with the laws of the country it does business in seems fairly uncontroversial to me, even if you may not agree with those laws.

Do you want your companies to be extensions of US foreign policy?
There are fifty million reasons for why 'Just build a better competing product' may be a less successful solution to this problem.
So what would you propose?
> You still need to grow by more than the dividend or you will erode share price over time

No you don't.

Imagine a company that has a share price of 100$. And this company makes 10$ in profit, per share, and returns that 10$ in profits to shareholders every year in perpetuity.

Thats a 10% rate of return that investors would be happy to accept in perpetuity.

People accept this deal all the time. Usually they are called "bonds" or "loans", and they act as merely an a perpetuity cash payout.
Yeah. It’s a slightly modified transcript of a conversation from the movie Training Day.
I'm pretty sure that my current house, built in the sixties, in the South Bay has a covenant that has all kinds of restrictions, including one on race. (It might have been a covenant on a different house that we bid on, but got rejected.)

It definitely also has a restriction where we are prohibited from replacing our current house with a new one that has a value of less than $10k. :-)

I was told that removing these kind of restrictions from the covenant is a pretty heavy procedure so nobody goes through the trouble of doing so.
I find it hard to imagine podcasting (among other things) not being hit incredibly hard by a recession. Some of the podcasts I listen to get amounts of money on Patreon that boggle the mind a bit, not ones like Chapo Trap House where it's a very large number of people giving a fiver a month but ones with a few hundred averaging over ten dollars a month.

Once you stop looking at that as ten dollars a pop and look at it as 120 a year, when money is tight, a lot of people are gonna struggle to justify it; especially when most things don't really give a whole lot of value in their Patreons.
It would certainly be laudable if they could. The article was fascinating, thanks for answering questions!
oh. thanks. thats great. but...now i have a graphical issue where the command line falls off the screen.
Now that I think about it, it makes sense that you’d be able to squeeze more performance and have reduced throttling with the larger form factor of a headset.

Then they’re able to use cheaper parts and keep the price lower, which is pretty exciting.
> But there's no point in building a three story apartment building in SF, you need to build a 6-10 story building

Strong disagree. I would love the city to be covered in 6 - 10 story apartments at 10.0 FAR with no setbacks, but right now, SF bans apartment construction in 70% of the city, which is largely SFHs currently. Transforming this entire landmass from mostly SFHs to 3 floor 4 - 8 unit buildings would have an enormous impact on the housing crises here.

Additionally, there is a deadzone in building construction between about 6 floors and 12 floors where the costs don't pencil out due to construction costs (changing fromm wooden to steel framing, changes to HVAC, enhanced fire safety requirements etc). The lowest cost buildings to build in cost/unit are "missing middle" housing, of 3 - 6 storeys. Construction costs are ultra high right now (900k+/unit), so building less expensive topoligies is a neccessary part of lowering costs.
In this case it's a bug, as I'm not trying to 'disable' the mouse, but track scrolling and then make the menu 'stick' to the header when the user scrolls down the page. A common design pattern which increases usability quite a bit.
Probably "Эпатаж". There is no good translation, not even for the wikipedia article itself.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0...
The frequent updates are a minor annoyance if you use the gaming computer regularly, but if used infrequently they all happen at once. It makes booting into Windows to play games feel like a chore.

This has been exacerbated for me because initially I only allocated ~20GB for the Windows boot partition, which is plenty for Ubuntu but apparently nowhere near enough for Windows. Even at ~30GB, I have to do things to reduce the amount of space Windows uses (like disable hibernation, manually compact WinSxS, etc) so that those big named updates can complete.

In short: Windows is too high maintenance for infrequent use.
Endurance athletes commonly do workouts around heart rate ranges, sometimes holding a steady rate or sometimes cycling up and down between zones. Heart rates are typically divided into 5 zones based on the athlete's maximum rate. Targeting specific zones for specific amounts of time can be an effective way to boost aerobic or anaerobic capacity.
My point is companies do the minimum required by law to prevent harassment and will often systematically impede the victim in their attempts at recourse.

If that same person was being bullied into unionizing, the company would solve the problem in an hour.
They didn't chose it based on privacy. But they have an expectation of privacy. The post office doesn't read your letters, so why would you expect Facebook to read your messages?

It's difficult to understand for the average person just how much Facebook knows about you and what it can do with that information that isn't in your direct interest. At best they think it's weird how long-lost acquaintances show up as suggested connections, at worst they only notice when Facebook does something directly useful to them.

Sure, you can blame the users, but that's kind of unfair if you consider what kinds of markets WhatsApp already dominated before the acquisition.
Netherlands will require central registration of Airbnb rentals
Interesting:
https://tpo.nl/2018/09/25/kajsa-ollongren-d66-verklaart-oorlog-aan-illegale-verhuurders-airbnb/

This is in line with a blockchain-based proposal that I had sent to the city of Amsterdam in mid 2017, where every residential unit has its own ledger to track how many times it has been let out.

It will be interesting to see if this actually rolls out, and what the impact on Airbnb usage in Amsterdam will be.

(in 2000, I founded Kamernet, which in a sense was a predecessor to Airbnb - albeit local to the Dutch market and not for tourists, and I am intimately familiar with the housing shortage in major Dutch cities. In my view, Airbnb is collapsing under its own success, unfortunately)
Most employees have split loyalties as well: Family members, personal projects, etc., which to varying degrees affect their loyalty to the company. It's how it should be. Neither side is free from conflicting loyalties. Nonetheless even within those constraints, both side can show loyalty if they treat each other with consideration and respect.
Uber Commissions Study to Understand Curbside Productivity
The basically found right person in a database leak (which can be considered open source) and then verified their hypothesis by doing probiv, which is not open source, but is available for anybody with some money for the right person.
Wasn't there a point where WhatsApp cost $1/year or something like that? Or am I thinking of something else? I don't know how long that lasted though.
Most static site generators require authors to learn something like Markdown in order to publish, which is a much bigger hurdle for non-technical people than technical people generally appreciate. Google Docs at least provides a WYSIWYG-ish interface many people will already be familiar with, and those that aren't won't find as forbidding.
Go clear your cookies, history, change your IP, and open Youtube. Take a look at what videos Google is promoting for you, then decide if the the family of Google products is that essential to human life.
This is great if you're at home or there's no IT team like in the article (a dream come true!) but if you're in a more corporate network these kinds of tools will usually ping NSFW servers.

I also prefer namebench (https://github.com/google/namebench) since it runs at the command line.
"Mark Zuckerberg was asked if Instagram could have hit one billion users if it had not been bought by Facebook.

Probably not, he said. At least, not as quickly. [...]

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, had a slightly different answer to that question.

Perhaps. Eventually.

We will never know who was right."

What if, Instagram had merged with Snapchat instead?
Uber Commits $10M to Sustainable Transportation
I really have no idea, it's far too bizarre to fit any kind of obvious explanation. State-sponsored trolling, perhaps.
I feel you with all of the same struggles except my situation is a bit trickier. I like playing with my GF so that means allowing her to watch and hear as I play too. So now, not only am I running cables to another room, I am also connecting steam link to stream the VR instance as well. Getting sound to come through is a hassle sometimes since SteamVR audio settings seems to reset my split audio feeds.

I am looking forward to this but also a much more streamlined future iteration that will still let me take advantage of my PC power.
> “The idea of Cupertino is to have people living here that are educated with degrees. Bringing this in would bring a lot of probably lower income people, and that would definitely bring down our median average household income.”

Doesn't seem covertly racist to me, but maybe I choose not to see it. It's bad enough on its face so no need to add racism really.

A: they don't like poor people

B: they don't want poor people living near them

C: they want to prop up home values and this would limit that

D: they feel comfortable speaking for cupertino as a whole, so probably a long time resident.

Cupertino is overwhelmingly asian, 63% vs 32% in the county. Cupertino is a very wealthy town (rank 11th nationally in its size range). I think it's completely understandable, without introducing race, that anyone in a wealthy town doesn't want poor people bringing down the neighborhood. (Not saying it is or isn't correct or moral.)

Also just want to point out that Cupertino is not urban.
Egypt to introduce VAR for Premier League football matches
Why do any of you care about this?
Which is why the GDPR has a reduced level of obligations for companies under 250 employees (see article 30).
> Fundamental issue is the expectation that all public companies must keep growing and show profits quarter after quarter, year after year. This is obviously unsustainable.

Continuous growth is sustainable at or below world economic growth. It is obviously not sustainable above as eventually you would become the entire economy and thus you would equal world economic growth. However, economics is not zero sum as our economies have pretty continuously grown for centuries and there is no limit on economic growth.
Let me rephrase...you were saying €80k gross (=€40k net) is normal for a developer with 5-10 years experience. I assume that the average person is earning a lot less than a dev with 5-10 years of experience.

And €40k is already not exactly living it large in a city with much lower costs of living, I can't imagine how it would be beyond working-poor for somewhere like Copenhagen. Let alone the much lower amount that the average person in Copenhagen would earn.
They aren't being paid. They are being reimbursed for purchasing items.
This shouldn't be down voted, you are exactly correct. Optical heart rate monitors can do fairly well for casual use as long as the watch band is fairly snug. But all of them whether from Apple, Garmin, or another vendor lose accuracy when they're bouncing around on a sweaty wrist. This is just a fundamental limit of the technology.
The challenge is $1/month is probably too pricey for most of their user base.

I was born and raised in a third world country and 99% of my family and friends still live there. Our GDP per capita is around $1,000 (yearly figure). I know people with children who make no more than $150 per month and cannot afford their own apartment. I know people who make even less. I know people who live in villages and probably have a monthly budget of no more than $80-$100.

Yet I have very rarely met people who somehow aren't spending at least $5 per month on their phone bill (buying minutes).

In fact I was very surprised to find that not only nearly everyone has a mobile phone, BUT phone service was more expensive than they are in the US. For example one hour at an internet cafe will set you back 50 cents. Yet everyone has a mobile phone, about half have a smartphone (granted a cheaper version of Android) and people buy internet connection left and right. In America, you walk into any coffee shop, get a free water, a free internet connection and a Thank You.

I say this to say, that WhatsApp could charge $2 per month and most people will happily pay it.
Will the other tech companies be remembered for never resisting in the first place? IIRC Microsoft and Yahoo we're both like "censorship and tracking? HELL YEAH, where do we sign?" from day one.
For comparison:

https://i.imgur.com/wtEYpW0.png

Src: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/9j4xmg/could_someon...
> This particular commenter? I think they were 14 and just really stupid. So maybe not racist. But having spent enough time talking to adults who also talk like this, if you talk long enough the racist undertones become overtones. It's baked into our society, so though it's completely unacceptable to reveal these racist attitudes, the classist attitudes are slightly more acceptable.

I'm not from America, and my own country is 99.9% white, so this is all foreign and very interesting for me. I'm wondering to what degree racism is about the actual race (physical traits) and to what degree about the socioeconomic traits that correlate with race. For example, I wonder if a typical white racist person would stil prefer a white drug addict or criminal as a neighbor over say someone like president Obama.
A lot of companies will have different payment solutions to deal with fraud and rebill failures. A charge may get rejected by one gateway and then accepted by the second or third.
Spring Framework 5.1 Ships with Java 11 Support
Indeed it is, but each frame presented here shows distortion consistent with being stored on a tape format at some point in time, definitely prior to LD mastering.
Ettus makes very high quality hardware but you pay for it.

Looks like Lime Micro is a partner of Amerisoft, they have an SDR for $300 - https://www.crowdsupply.com/lime-micro/limesdr

The likelihood that it's going to work without substantial tinkering is pretty low.
It's hard to take pride in your company when even the largest shareholders have small percentages.

Your identity is no longer tied to the company and the only thing left is how much profit per share.

It's sort of like a microchasm of socialism or communism. If you own 9% of apple, people don't blame you personally when apple misbehaves.
Google made a joke out of Chrome privacy policy
> What's wrong with tracking raw downloads? This seems like a great way to measure a podcast's success since the number of downloads probably tracks pretty closely to the number of listeners…

I mean, that's one assumption you could make. Another equally-valid assumption is that 50% of downloads are listened to (depending on your definition of "listened to").

The metric is surely different for different shows — I'd hypothesize that most Hardcore History downloads are listened to, but for many shows this is likely guest-dependent.

Without data, we can only guess.
I don’t think it’s more messed up for companies to follow the law of the country they’re operating in. Do you think it’s messed up that foreign companies comply with US laws?
Right. In fact the clean interface, no ads and high reliability and availability were the features that stood out to me.
It totally comes down to the interface.

When people think of computers (or, more broadly, devices), they mainly think of the screen and the inputs. If VR or AR can significantly improve on the experience of using a 2D screen + mouse, keyboard, or swipe/tap gestures, people will migrate to that superior user experience.

There are plenty of other factors at play, but ultimately usability will determine if VR/AR, which are mainly new interfaces for standard computing, become the standard for computer use.
Adtech is still tech, and some of the biggest tech companies, Google and Facebook, are adtech companies. When I said "traditional advertisers" I meant old-school advertisers that were used old-school techniques like consumer surveys, etc.
They’re a direct result of being places where people want to live and can make a lot of money.
If that's your stance, shouldn't it apply to every company[1][2][3] that is already engaging in this? What makes Google a target for litigation here?

edit: Not saying that because other companies do something similar that Google should get carte-blanche, just trying to see what the differentiation is.

1: https://qz.com/990662/microsoft-released-a-new-version-of-wi...

2: https://www.engadget.com/2018/07/18/apple-icloud-data-china-...

3: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-privacy-congress...