skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're really interested in owning your own content, it's never been easier to spin up a site. What all these Twitter clones appear to actually be is political statements against the social media machine that miss the point entirely. I can talk to myself anywhere I want for free, what I really want to own is my audience. And that's a much harder problem to solve.
I've had similar issues when operating my business. The bottom line is your company is only as strong as your vendors. If you pick weak vendors then your business is harmed as a result. If you find that you have a weak vendor then you must dump that vendor immediately and replace them with someone who is a strong vendor. Period.
'0.1% of a billion is still a considerable amount' is a very important observation, and one my colleagues at Google (before I left) rarely seemed to grasp. People think they can get away with a lot of cutting corners or lack of rigor in their engineering and design when mistakes can impact millions of people... our industry really isn't prepared for deploying products at this scale.
I’m not surprised TWD was fairly innovative for its time and also came close to the peak popularity of the series it was also likely the cheapest license they could get since IIRC they licensed the comic not the series from AMC.

Game of Thrones and the marvel and DC licensed games couldn’t have been cheap to license and they “upped” their game with getting bigger and bigger voice actors and for GoT they licensed the likeness of quite a few of the main cast of GoT so HBO and the actors had kept most of the revenue I presume.

Also as their biggest games weren’t something you would let children play i wonder how many parents assumed that shit I’m not letting my kid play this and the adults weren’t really interested in the franchise.

Most licensed games are a pretty big flop only the really good ones make it because they are a good game and not because of the license.
Comic book and movie games have always had a horrible stigma with being poor games and in all honest the staleness of the TTG formula didn’t really help at that point.
There is this thing called lobbying. The fact that the government mandates something does not automatically mean that it is good. It could be but it does not have to be.
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>ending support for 32 bit apps
>deprecating openGL

My opinion on APIs have gone from new and bleeding edge to 'support it till the sun burns out'. Computers and meant to work. on linux or mac, no executable over 5 years old seems to work. But if download a .exe from the early 90's on a PC, it often just works.

In 100 years, the windows API and .exe are going to be the lingua franca of programs. there are many indications this is happening, valve baking WINE into steam, the fragmented package managers on linux, and no common runtime environment taking off.
Google can't put you into an internment camp, strip you of all human rights, effectively torture and or oppress your family and everyone you know, as China is doing to 13 million Muslims in Xinjiang.

The difference between what a private sector corporation in the US can do to you, and what the Chinese Government can do to you in China, could hardly be greater. It's an absurdity to pretend they're comparable things.
https://archive.is/H6Azs

don't take that article's word for it. hear it from the horse's mouth.
The sarcasm is noted, but don't ignore the fact that an increasingly powerful collection of voices view China as safe and the US as an oligarchy bordering on fascism. While I personally don't agree, if we ignore those voices, they'll keep getting louder until it's all anyone hears.
Under certain circumstances, you can continue under your employer's plan for a certain period of time at more than two times the cost.

Of course, you now how have the problem of paying more than double in premiums alone without an income.
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game industry workers don't have the same bargaining power that people in other industries have.

> "Cash Up Front" ... or immediate stock ownership to offset your personal risk

so a grant with no vesting schedule? please enlighten us as to what employers are actually giving out such favorable deals.
The other three points don't strike me as significant evidence (1 cites "several colleagues" any of whom could have been the one, 3 strikes me as indeterminate between someone being vague about attribution and your reading, 4 seems like guilty until proven innocent), but 2 is interesting. There is some gap between approving of the paper being pulled, and advocating it, but the comment makes the story more plausible.

I am inclined to believe that Wilkinson is either making a bald-faced lie or telling the truth. I don't have grounds to accuse her of a direct lie, so I lean towards telling the truth. Because revoking acceptance is serious, I do not think it makes sense to suggest it was just a misunderstanding.

Analogy: I'm invited to a party, and the host discusses inviting someone I'm not on great terms with. I'm noncommittal. They might guess that they should not invite that person to make me happy, because that's a relatively small step. However, it's unlikely they'll invite that person and then assault them on my behalf, because that would be an extreme measure--merely being noncommittal wouldn't suggest that.

I think revoking acceptance is less severe than assaulting someone, but much much more severe than failing to invite them to a party. I believe a journal editor would only revoke an acceptance either 1) in the face of direct requests that they do so, or 2) as their own decision based on what they thought was necessary.
That is not at all my understanding. If you don't have sync enabled, nothing automatically enables sync. You have to go through a large confirmation dialog (with an "undo" button) to enable sync.
I am also on namecheap and this freaks me out. can you provide more info?
Unfortunately, Maripan is about porting iOS apps to the Mac, not the other way around. Apple's work on Marzipan isn't really an indication they're planning to do the inverse and bring Mac apps to iOS or do anything at all re: mouse. (Though maybe better mouse support will get back-ported into UIKit for iOS as a result of them having to do it for macOS? We can cross our fingers!)
Why have game industry workers not unionized? If now isn’t the time, I don’t know when is.

EDIT: I stand corrected.
The model is exactly as you say. The whole idea is to be sort of like Wordpress.com. Pay for hosting if you want it, but if you just want to participate in a social layer on top of your own RSS feed, all of the social features are free and you just import an RSS feed.

If you leave micro.blog hosting, you can just submit your new RSS feed wherever you're hosting the same content and it'll be pretty seamless, I think.

Curation and diversity, in this post, feel like expressing the same problem in some ways-- too few people with insufficient diversity are currently using the service. Curation _may_ fail at scale the way they are doing it, but we don't know that. And if the diversity isn't there to curate, I'm not surprised curation hasn't surfaced diversity. But micro.blog is super young. Maybe it'll be a useful social place, maybe not. For me, it's a pretty good blog host right now.
I’ve published apps on the Play Store. There seem to be multiple people who rip off these apps, stuff them with adware and who knows what else, and upload them to dubious third-party stores. As far as I can tell (but I admit I haven’t investigated deeply) this mostly originates in Russia and China. So China is very relevant to me as an app developer, and to my users, as a significant threat.
That is not the case anymore. We would still allow you to continue to purchase just registrar.
I have a 4 and 6 year old. The 6 year old is in immersion Spanish, but will definitely try this for the 4 year old! Thanks!
Suggesting RxJS in this context IMO is like when someone suggests doing `const $ = sel => [...document.querySelectorAll(sel)];` as helpful syntax sugar for the 20-lines of JS project but they get shut down because it's no React.
+1 dropped facebook native app for their web version. Never looked back.

I think the answer is some apps are better on web, others on native.

Videos / Music / Games / Email / Messaging are better native. For actual reading of content (HN / Reddit / Twitter / Facebook ...etc) I find better on the web.
Yeah my account was signed in and syncing when, prior to the update, I explicitly turned off sync so that was alarming to me. I immediately turned off syncing and now I can't trust Google to obey my settings anymore. They randomly turn on syncing when I use Google voice assistant on my Android phone.
This is tangential do the OP but what would it take to send external input to a completion script?

The idea would be to have a different interface to do the auto-completion.

I'm thinking of creating a visual UI through service discovery and providing an easy shortcut sheet to various points of a system.
It's almost a certainty that they will continue down the slippery slope and start syncing data automatically in a future update. That sort of change has happened several times, so there is precedent.
So far no issues for me upgrading. Just missing dark mode for Chrome.

I did run `brew doctor && brew prune`
Yes, this is something that can be fixed by law. At least my native country Finland has a sort of public bankruptcy insurance (“palkkaturva”) that extends automatically to all employees.

In the event of a bankruptcy leaving you with unpaid wages, you file an application with the same office that handles unemployment benefits, and they will recompensate you. C-level managers are exempt.
Free and open*

*conditions apply: everything you say and do is tracked by a multitude of companies and poorly secured.
Yes.

Doing something bad openly is better than doing it, but trying to hide the fact that you do it, while pretending in public to be innocent or worse, encouraging condemnation of others who do the same thing openly.
I can't help but wonder if the 'free email' thing hurts the company more than it helps.

A couple of years ago my parents wanted to trial individual email for their very small business (just a few employees). Google had recently removed the free tier from Google Apps, and Zoho was the only company we could find that offered a similar service. I set it up and they used it for ~6 months with quite a few issues in that time, whether service outages or (more commonly) emails not being delivered due to Zoho's spam filter or the recipient's spam filter giving false positives. Customer support was near enough to useless.

So when we decided that it was worth upgrading to a paid plan we didn't stay with Zoho, due to the poor experience. If Zoho charged just a dollar or two for accounts it may help reduce all the problems they have with spammers abusing the service and the flow-on effects that has on their customer support.
My favorite and only example I've read about is Patagonia. They started by making rock climbing gear but when they saw how much harm their gear was doing to these mountains, they completely stopped making and selling their best product and started selling another product that was better.

I'm a small business owner but when I realized some of the harm I was doing, I stopped selling certain products as well. It's meant saying no to a pretty penny and I definitely wonder if I'm crazy a lot.
No. It's obscuring the content or meaning and it's not controlling a space station:

§97.113 Prohibited transmissions.
(a) no amateur shall transmit
(4) Music using a phone emission except as specifically provided elsewhere in this section; communications intended to facilitate a criminal act; messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning, except as otherwise provided herein; obscene or indecent words or language; or false or deceptive messages, signals or identification.

(§97.207 outlines the space station exception)
I would guess Apple works closely with China and provides special software releases for Chinese devices, probably with spyware embedded.
This thread got progressively more accurate and more depressing at additional comment
Wow, nightmare.
I use two profiles for that.
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Even just forwarding an email or direct messaging "hey, [edge case person who seems reliable in not bothering people in cases where it's not warranted] is having trouble with this service." is usually enough.

I get that time outside work belong to the employee but people who can be even the slightest bit flexible with that have an inherent extra value.
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> I'm not sure what your point is.

In a scenario where templates, exceptions, and virtual functions are trouble waiting to happen, why even leave those temptations on the table?

> Have you ever worked in Japan, which is the case I explicitly called out?

Not asian--just think pulling the status and competence of foreign developers is kind of snobby and beside the point.

I like most of your comments, so trying not to be a dick about it. Last comment just rubbed me the wrong way is all.
I have been using AS since the first beta came out and every release it is just getting worst and slow on 16GB RAM.

While Xcode on the other hand 3-4 years ago it was liked developed by interns. But Xcode 9-10 has been very fast and less buggy on my 16GB.

Developing for Android is not fun anymore for me. It is getting bloated.
Amazingly, ambien has had a similar effect for a small group of patients, returning them to consciousness for hours at a time after months or years of coma

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/magazine/can-ambien-wake-...
New AI System Detects Dementia with Over 90% Accuracy
Use checkboxes?
Handshake.org is trying to solve this problem for good by decentralizing DNS at the root TLD level. I'd look into this if you want to make sure no one takes down your domain ever again.

Disclosure: we're building a registrar on top of Handshake. We can also help you claim "zoho" on Handshake for free if you're interested.
I see a few startup related books titled "Traction" on Amazon. Can you link / clarify which author? Thanks!
Australia pushes for spyware on phones
Are CPG the source of "muscle memory", ie reflexive actions? So much of physical training is to achieve the vaunted muscle memory as it allows unconscious (ie faster) reaction times.
Bob's browsing history is synced, but to Alice's history

I agree with you that this would upset Alice when she wants to check her personal browsing history. But isn't that the innate consequence of sharing your own computer with other persons? It is the same as Alice lending her MacBook to Bob without logging out herself first. Can't Alice simply log out her Chrome before giving to Bob?

Bob logging in to Gmail on Alice's computer will log out of Alice on Chrome, and log in to Bob

Why should Gmail (or any Google service) be so special? If Bob log in to his Outlook account, shouldn't the same treatment happen (which clearly indicate a persona switch)? It is clear that Google is using its monopoly power between Google services and Chrome to reinforce the bond between "average users" and itself. Imagine if Chrome dwindles at ~10% market share instead. Do you ever think the Chrome team would have done this feature?
Don't think that's true, watchstanding positions are amongst the most mind numbing jobs that actually require your full attention. I stood watch in the Navy as officer of the deck in port, and I can truly say that 6 hour shift was torture for the mind, much worse than coding 6 hours.
In fact it is true. Even the liberal media outlets openly acknowledge this is the case, they're not hiding their bias in any manner, they're openly "resisting." The well-known Pew study in the first year of his administration showed that the negative media coverage was 3x that vs the Obama Admin. The positive coverage was 1/5 that of what the Obama Admin saw. It has only gotten worse since then.

"News Coverage Of Trump More Negative Than For Other Presidents"

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/02/555092743/study-news-coverage...

MSNBC, CBS News, NBC News, ABC News, CNN, NY Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, NPR, all talk-show hosts, nearly all journalists (roughly 9 out of 10 vote Democrat to begin with), nearly all celebrities, essentially all of Hollywood - these groups are all as close to universally against Trump as you can get. It's not subtle, it's nearly all-encompassing. Estimating that 90% of media is stacked against the Trump Administration is an understatement.
Again, I haven't heard of this place before, but from the article, it appears like they offer that through control of domain names?

Certainly there's an argument about the manually-curated feed, but don't know if that's what you're talking about?
It's worth keeping a sense of perspective, but, at the same time, I don't think pointing out X is unambiguously more oppressive than Y does anything to address the original assertion that X is oppressive. That'd be like responding to someone claiming that Seattle is rainy by lecturing them about Bangladesh's climate.
Are you sure, such thing as "high-assurance AI/ML" doesn't exist? Are you an expert in AI, with many years of experience building products with AI technology?
I work at Google, but all statements/opinions are my own.

My understanding is that there were two changes:

1. General responsibility for authenticating to Google services has been moved to Chrome, and being logged into Google is equivalent to being logged into Chrome. If sync is set up, logging back into Google also fixes your sync session, if it was broken (common — the warning in the toolbar is easy to ignore).

2. Sync has been separated from login as a Chrome feature, so that you can log into Google services without syncing Chrome’s data.

Confusion between being logged into Google (the Chrome new tab page looks a heck of a lot like the Google home page) and being logged into Chrome was a real problem. I’m not suggesting that this is the right solution… or the wrong one; this is weird territory.

It raises a question for both users and browser vendors: What does it mean to be logged into a web browser?
You have a few options. Here they are in descending order of preference

* Hope your employer is compassionate and keeps you on their plan. I have no data on this, but anecdotally it is surprisingly common. Companies can be heartless when dealing with large groups of employees, but it is much harder to rip away Karen from accounting's health insurance as she is going through chemo.

* Hope your spouse (or parents if you are young enough) has insurance and they can add you to their plan.

* Buy in to your current insurance plan through various government programs (COBRA is one program that a lot of other comments are mentioning) . I don't have all the details on how this changed after Obamacare, but there were generally limits on how long you could do this and the costs were much higher than what your plan previously cost you and your employer.

* Buy a new insurance plan on the open market. This would have been obscenely expensive for someone with cancer before Obamacare's preexisting condition protections, but even with those reforms it still is a huge expense.

* Pay for your medical care out of pocket, which in the case of cancer will almost certainly result in you going bankrupt. Depending on where you get your statistics, there is something like 500,000 - 1 million bankruptcies in the US a year that are related to medical expenses.
I’m thinking beyond software engineers. I’m thinking about people who don’t have pricing power for their labor and are not at all in a position to negotiate. They have to rely on government to help them with unequal balance in power when it comes to pricing for their labor.
The Affordable Care Act did stop the practice of refusing coverage for preexisting conditions. So you can get insurance. The cost is high getting it on your own, not due to the condition, but because the employer isn't subsidizing it.

See https://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/about-the-aca/pre-existing-co...
Good script.

I have this touchpoint problem too. Since I hate those red eraser nubs anyways, I actually disable them entirely at the xinput level. This breaks the physical right mouse button. (because Linux, ofc) but fortunately the touchpad driver replaces it.

Better overall experience without any chance of pausing as the driver bounces back.
You go bankrupt and die.
That 0.1% doesn't take into account hours spent using the actual app. Power users tend to spend all day in a browser whereas a typical grandma might look at it for 15 minutes and close it. Meanwhile people who have multiple Google accounts and who spend literally all day in the browser are the ones that get the short end of the stick? That makes zero sense and it's why people are starting to hate Google just like any other corporation that makes decisions by committee. There should have been a product owner on the browser team that said "No this is a browser. Not an extension of GSuite."

The total indifference to people's valid use cases is what really grinds my gears.

Chrome is still the only browser that ruins my UX by putting a profile picker into the title bar. A place it has no business being. I literally made a patch and compiled my own version of Chromium for a while to get rid of it. https://github.com/hparadiz/chromium-disable-profile-button-...

I'm so tired of the arrogance. Chrome used to be a beautiful simplistic browser. Now it's just bloat. I'm done. Get off my computer. You guys had your chance and blew it.
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When Do We Have Empathy for the Mentally Ill?
In the absence of someone coming forth with an accusation, you have to dredge up dirt. That's what "trying to tie Torvalds to sexual harassment" means, and he does have a poor attack surface for that sort of thing. So it seems like a reasonable remark just to point that out; it's not the devoted father defense.
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> The answer is 2018 is...well, kind of like replacing the engine mid-flight. An entire tumor-like system has grown around various market incentives and it can't just be 'removed' without putting the host at serious risk.

Sure it can; the ACA marketplaces were the first step. If they hadn't been systematically undermined, the next step after they were established and stable would be shifting tax incentives to avoid favouring employer-based insurance, and the final step would be removing employer mandates and maintaining the individual mandate.

The problem is that it's not a cancer, it's an active parasite that protects itself against the host.
Ask HN: What's the business and finance model behind new retail stores?
Say I have an idea for a great new bricks and mortar retail store.

What does that cost? It can't be cheap to do properly - to fit out a beautifully designed space - minimum $50K to $100K?

Say you had an idea for retail that was going to cost $250,000 to create the retail environment..... what are the options to finance that - are there angels who specialise in retail or do you just have to have a house and get a second mortgage?

Where do people get the money to do that? There's so much retail out there but not alot of that side of business gets discussed.
Yes, but as I said, most people probably do consider it a single gateway to all of their Google services, browser included.

The big difference is that your Chrome account is your Google account, unlike any of the other sites you mention.
My AS + Emulator running together is sitting at 3GB RAM. Definitely doesn't need 16GB+
Watched this earlier, a bit creepy. I wonder how it will play out in the next 10-15 years with China's expansion into Africa.