skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Collective action problems are an awful mess. By the time it's clear to everyone that a problem exists, few individuals can get results in return for impoverishing and isolating themselves by taking a stand. The few who can are so dependent on the system that they aren't going to do anything without the threat of a guillotine or FBI raid.
Our product occasionally does this at the moment. We've set up asserts in our application to launch a "phone-home" process (on the theory that launching a new process is more likely to succeed than trying to phone home from the borked process). However, the phone-home program uses the same assert library, so the rare assertion failure in the phone-home will launch a new phone-home.
With firefox, you can disable extension auto updates.
> They apply at some other company comparable to Google, uproot their family, move across country, and get a job somewhere else?

Why do they have to uproot their family? Why can't they just work from home? I don't understand why we still insist on making people physically show up for jobs that can be done from home in someone's PJ's.
the ability to print to PDF

All browser have had the ability to do that, for many years now, if you install a PDF printer driver. Adobe was the first with a commercial one, but I'm sure there are free ones now.
I’ve been here only 8 years at this point but I find the Bay Area is what you make of it. If you want to work 12 hour days, go ahead and do that. If you want no friends or hobbies, that can be accommodated. If you want to spend $5k/mo in rent so you can live in the city, knock yourself out and do it, nobody is stopping you. But these are all optional, and avoidable.
I thought I was so clever! But yes I see how it's very different. In general, magic (or using Proxy) scares me, but I'm warming up to the idea here.
Namecheap is just as bad,
check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14139288

I almost has a domain frozen with namecheap after one warning.
If I missed the warning email or checked my email after 24 hours they would have completely suspended my domain. I'm talking about a site with MILLIONS of visitors per month and ten thousands of posts per day, not some small blog.
India’s mystical tea that fetches $1,850/kg
Seems like the consensus is that things have improved drastically since the "quantum" update, although there have been a handful of issues on specific hardware (which may or may not have been fixed in the meantime).

I'd suggest to just try it, it's completely free and pretty straightforward to install after all.
I tried looking for config options but couldn't find any. I am just a version behind. Will resume auto updates when they fix this annoying behaviour.
I don't feel like it is reasonable to draw a direct analogy between Nazis and implementing browser level account logins.
its logical ...
>I've seen plenty of engaging and cool content. I've even become friends with people from the opposite side of the world. Basically a modern kind of pen pal.

I did that before with Facebook, and Twitter, and forums, and WoW, and MSN, and ICQ and IRC and MUDs...literally any form of online interaction. This doesn't set Instagram apart; it happens despite the fact it's a hyper-optimized advertising app.
> Even when you shut your machine down, you still have to pay storage for the machine at $0.10 per GB per month, so I got charged a couple hundred dollars / month just to keep my data around.

Curious how it relates to sticking only a single terabyte SSD in the machine. As a couple hundred dollars per month should relate to a couple terabytes.
So it's cool to have an opinion, as long as you don't make any effort to share it, discuss it, or enact any of the conclusions that may naturally flow from it. Got it. Does that apply to everyone, or only people whose opinions either are now or will some day become unpopular?

If the Eich ordeal is instructive of anything, it's that culturally, we are no longer mature enough to handle any discontent and that meaningful political activity must go back underground.
Antennagate reduXS? If so, what can Apple and iPhone users do about it?
HN, we made Type12 because hiring is broken on so many levels, but – unfortunately – it happens to be one those huge, neglected problems.

The traditional technical interview process is designed to ferret out a candidate's weaknesses whereas the process should be designed to find a candidate's strengths.

No one can possibly master all of the arcana of today's technology landscape, let alone bring that mastery to bear on a problem under pressure and with no tools other than a whiteboard.

Under those circumstances, everyone can make anyone look like an idiot.

We made Type12 to let companies go beyond riddles and brain-teasers when testing candidates but actually putting them in their day-to-day scenarios. How? No better way than simulating their production environment and pair program with them on real-world problems.

While the ability to solve a coding puzzles tells you almost nothing about the skills the candidate has to solve day-to-day challenges, real scenarios and assignments let you simulate your day-1 work experience and are - indeed - good predictors.

In a bit more technical details, for each interview, Type12 creates a new (docker instance under hood) sandbox fully configured with languages (Python, JS, Ruby, Java, Scala, etc) frameworks (Django, Flask, Ruby on Rails, Node, Spring, etc), databases (MongoDB, Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc) and other technologies (Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, etc) of your choice.

Thoughts?
Why do so many people embrace the Pacific Garbage Cleanup nonsense?
These days I prefer the Firefox network inspector to Chrome's. FF's debugger initialises rather slowly IMO, but is otherwise functionally similar.
Show HN: Bambuser – Mobile Live Streaming SaaS
currently one 0 missing in the title (200 000 not 20 000)
Nice to see in these post-trump, post-brexit, rise-of-the-right days, that Godwin's Law still applies. It's prevalence had been questionable of late.
I preferred Flattr's model - you just donated a fixed amount per month, and they divided it by project. But it wasn't indiscriminate - you had to click on a button for each project. Now it seems they use a "smart, privacy-friendly algorithm [which] measures attention on websites", which is a no-go for me.

The problem with indiscriminate is that there are many, many, many OS projects out there. You need some curation, and that opens a can of worms. Maybe they could allow people to share and use lists?
not my experience. yup worked super hard but also partied pretty hard and made lots of lifelong friends. you do that when you have a shared experience.

anyway just saying, i found my first five years to be collegial. i would never ever do it again but i look back with fondness.

of course it only works if you are in an exciting startup or small company. i very very much doubt you are going to forge bonds if your first job is at FAANG and you did not attend shool here.

i cannot believe new grads would come here for the FAANG experience. that does indeed seem awful to me.
Namecheap is just as bad.

I run a forum site with MILLIONS of visitors and about 5,000 TB of traffic per month. Namecheap.com suddenly sent me a link warning that they will suspend my domain completely within 24 hours, if I did not delete two problem images (which were inappropriate/troublesome images but in the context of the forum posts, "a very poor attempt at humor"). I deleted the images and avoided being suspended, but the way they threatened to suspend my domain due to two images was ridiculous. If I missed the warning email or checked my email after 24 hours they would have completely suspended my domain. I'm talking about a site with MILLIONS of visitors per month and ten thousands of posts per day, not some small blog.

They may be suitable for some blog, but I can now say to NEVER use them for any enterprise site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14139288
I lose reception every time I drive under a bridge, for a couple of seconds. It does seem odd they can't do better.
Why I made a text adventure game
but irrational
There are plenty of Windows users on HN actively. Not everybody in tech is an SV webdev.
What’s wrong with planning to live somewhere until you retire, then moving to a lower col, lower taxes area? This is literally what most people do, at least in the US. I don’t know anyone who plans to live here long term. Why is that necessary for a region?
Because selling stuff requires more effort than just "here's my price, pay me".

By doing that, you've put your code into the realm of "commercial software", which engages with companies/corporate use in a whole different modality. If you've never sold software to a business, you will have no idea how much is involved in this side of things.

In addition to being treated differently by your potential customers, you will also earn the hatred and ire of your open-source-loving colleagues. Some bored college kid will see your dual-licensed software as an immoral act, and spend time building a less-awesome and more incomplete "completely free" version, which will then attract dev mindshare and users and eventually ossify into a de facto standard which you will then have to support.

That college kid will one day graduate, and think he can build a business on top of this amazing software he's made that everyone loves and wants to use, and then sit around trying to figure out how to make money from it. He may even consider making a "free-mium" model or an "enterprise" offering on top of the "open core" of his widely adopted OSS.

These will most likely fail, because - again - SELLING THINGS IS HARD.

Then you and this college kid who disrupted your dual-licensed OSS will one day meet at a symposium for "open source sustainability". It will be awkward. Teeth will be gnashed. You will get lectured about not having just used Patreon. Meanwhile the companies that use your and the college kid's OSS continue to hit their quarterly numbers for Wall Street. Executives earn out bonuses. The circle of life continues.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Classic argumentum ad hominem, or in the vulgar, “Playing the man but not the ball.”

If my words are right, they could be written with gold engraving on vellum and scattered from my ivory tower, and they would still be right.

If my words are wrong, it doesn’t matter who I am or where I sit, explain how they are wrong.
If my reading of the explanatory document was correct, the proposed legislation goes beyond telecommunications providers.

Software developers, both within Australia and overseas, can be compelled under threat of 10 years imprisonment, to build and/or insert into their software any mechanism required by the government agencies to enable access to communications.

So, the developers of any secure software would now be under threat of extradition to Australia and jail time unless they compromise their own app.

Unfortunately, in the absence of massive pressure, Labor will do nothing but add a few useless amendments, and pass it.
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/13/8592817/rat-patrol-new-yo...

The guys who do this professionally/successfully in a sparsely populated place with everyone helping and the advantage that rats can't survive outdoors don't think it's possible in cities.

Big problems with poison:
Rats are harder than you think to poison, they're both sceptical of new food and adapted to survive lots of poisons
Evolution will work against you and select rats that don't eat or digest your new poison
You will poison lots of things you don't intend to (wild animals, pets, humans).

You can imagine an IOT solution in 50 years though (coordinating web of mechanical cats/ferrets with amazing smell/sight that just never stop hunting).
News like this, and the "forced" sign-in just illustrates to me how desperate Google has become to "own all your data".

I lost all trust in public cloud after Snowden, but somehow remained convinced that yes, Google reads my email, but that's about it.
I migrated everything but email to a selfhosted solution, and simplified things a lot. Recently i've also migrated mail away from Google.

These past years have sadly proven (to me) i was right. What makes me even more sad is that the common user has very few options to avoid it.
To the best of my knowledge, Apple doesn't track you, neither on Mac OS or iOS, but there's a steep price, one that most consumers are not ready to pay.
Linux may be ready for the desktop, but it's still a long way away from my parents installing it.
And the Dvorak Horowitz unplugged podcast: https://www.dhunplugged.com/
This is a toothless, short-sighted, and self-serving philosophy that does not solve any problem.

I will explain, but first let it be known that I am a scorned Google user. I jumped on board the magic carpet of every Google service as soon as I could and loved it the whole time, but it has become clear to me that Google and my values no longer align. So I'm leaving.

However, telling the workers to "just quit" won't solve anything. In fact, it guarantees that the company will have a higher percentage of people you morally disagree with leading to, by your moral standards and actions, a more evil product.

Additionally, quitting because you disagree with company politics is the least meaningful protest you could levy. Inaction from the sidelines is just as damning as internal complicency. If you want to split moral hairs and feel Superior because you quit, go for it but don't pretend like you're a hero or in any way part of the solution. To be specific, Google won't reverse it's whole company plan and Buck the entire industry trend due to a _temporary_ uptick an employee turnover of a few percentage points (if that).

Change can come from internal activism and external Market pressures. Quitting is neither of those and actively contrary to the former.
A comment in the article has it right -- use SIGSTOP not SIGKILL.

In a tight loop.
Humblebragging: A Distinct – And Ineffective – Self-Presentation Strategy [pdf]
We can examine an alternate universe where iPhones aren’t selling like hotcakes actually.

> With only seven million iPhones sold in China during the second quarter of 2018, Apple's market share in the country dropped by 12.5 percent year on year to 6.7 percent, according to a report by the International Data Corporation (IDC)

Apple have some very particular values in China though, storing iCloud data and encryption keys on state-owned servers. But the trend to decline started a long before that recent Apple decision.
I won't have that!

He wasn't always wrong.
consider all the academic literature on how Western powers are built on slavery and exploitation, how evil the European powers were (colonialism) and how if you are a white American or European, you benefit indirectly from that exploitation though your nationality and heritage. It's true in a technical sense, but it's also something you have no control over. Some people feel guilty about the actions of their cultural forebears, and thus a sense of regret that they exist in comfort because of historical atrocities perpetrated on other people. I can understand how that feeling would be pretty pervasive if you spend a lot of time around these topics in art and social science circles.
It takes a long time to build up IP reputation if you run your own infrastructure. Even today after a year+ on the same IP, DKIM/SPF/DMARC, senderscore of 100 and transactional email only, Yahoo still randomly blacklists us for weeks at a time. Good luck getting in touch with a human to figure out why when you aren't Gmail or another big player in the industry.

Aside from Yahoo though, we generally haven't experienced any blacklisting or deliverability issues. It does require time to setup properly and maintain however, you can't just set it up and forget about it.
They should check in the town hall. :-)
Only for niche problems run into by huge companies and research groups. Most 'normal' problems encountered by 'normal' companies don't need anywhere near that much training.
Then you can change the target (Black Mirror: Metalhead)
I'm guessing the costs around NVIDIA cards is why Google are pushing there own TPU's and building custom chips and hardware?
It feels faster on some sites, a bit slower (but not unbearably so) on others.
this is there in Gboard on android devices too(that have full support for mice). how is this an indicator of possible support?
The decades I was thinking about referred to the business of tobacco companies. I was very much alive while public opinion swang against them, and I recall lively debate about the ethics of working for tobacco companies, the loss of tax revenue from tobacco companies, the ethics of tobacco companies sponsoring sport, and so on.

As for the Nazis, there are some parallels, just as there are for other social problems like racism. But in my initial comment, I preferred to stick to a more direct comparison involving employment with a fantastically profitable and legal company.
"This seems like some kind of weird libertarian fantasy"

It's called the world we live in.

If a company's revenues are in decline, if there have been recent layoffs, well then the writing is on the wall.

A company folding should not come as a surprise to any of the employees unless the are utterly in the dark with respect to product development, revenues etc.

It's not a 'libertarian fantasy' to expect that employees etc. will have some idea of these numbers.

There's not much that can be done about solving the 'insolvency severance' deal. Severance beyond legal requirements is a bonus opportunity, and like all bonuses, it's subject to risk.
Bing is nowhere near "(Just as good as G)". If it was, a lot more people would have already switched. As of now, it's surprisingly behind Google in almost all but the most basic searches.
We might be harder to monetize with ads but are we harder to monetize beyond that? I'm a Firefox user and you'll have to pry ublock from my cold, dead hands but I do pay for a bunch of online services.

I think the main problem with Firefox is the tiny user share, not the composition of said share. We need to make Firefox more mainstream and the problem will solve itself. Unfortunately it's an uphill battle, Firefox is not cool anymore.
This makes me wonder, do garbage collectors properly garbage collect themselves?
Would like to add to your excellent suggestions. When you switch away from Google, set your gmail to forward and delete your email (to your new email address). That way you won't leave any emails on gmail but you can keep it up until you've completely migrated.
Do they wear yellow ribbons?
In this case, I can assure you that iPhone8Plus/iPhoneX and successors camera is freaking awesome. Awesome enough to make me start doing photos for pleasure.
They are an important food source to birds, fish, reptiles and other insects. Getting rid of mosquitoes would be like getting rid of the plankton in the ocean.
Not a violinist but I used to be a professional double bass player and the issues are somewhat similar (actually worse on violin than double bass because the gauge is shorter and therefore the margin for error is less).

Beginners do sometimes stick stickers on the fretboard, however these are generally not encouraged.

Firstly if you're looking at the fingerboard while playing a violin your neck would be in a really bad position, so it would encourage a bad habit. To learn to play in tune, you train your ear (so you know what in tune is) and your proprioception (so you know where your body needs to be in space to make the instrument be in tune).

Secondly, the difference in area between the note being beautifully in tune and sounding awful is really small, so in order for a sticker or visual cue to help your head and the instrument would have to be in exact alignment at all times and even then you may not be able to see. This is made much worse by parallax. When playing the violin even if you are looking at the strings, you are looking down the fingerboard towards the nut rather than across the fingerboard like in the case of a guitar, remember.

Thirdly, if you're looking at your fingers you're not looking at your music (which you need to when you're a beginner) or your conductor or fellow players (as you need to when you're actually performing).
I don't know if that works for reducing your carbon footprint. Children don't add to your personal carbon footprint. They're individuals on their own.

You'd never consider yourself to be part of your parents carbon footprint, in need of "reduction", would you?

In a global sense, sure less population means less carbon footprint, but that isn't the end-goal of civilization. To me, the end goal of civilization is life---human life in all its myriad ways, and to its utmost fulfilment. An earth without humans is a poorer earth.
prbly 99% of ppl saying they're done with Google and Chrome on the comment are posting the same comment from Chrome
>I'd say 95% of people are happy that their accounts are all synchronised and follows them around.

I actually really like this feature and find it really convenient for my usage habits.

I also don't really care that Google is tracking me, I give them my data and in return they provide some really useful services for me. They only thing that bothers me about the privacy issue is the off-chance that an individual will be able to browse my personal data but as long as it's mixed with everything else I don't really care (I understand it's a slippery slope though).

We geeks love to complain about Google invading our privacy yet we eagerly devour their services (search, maps etc...) which are very much as good as they are because of all of the data Google has. If privacy advocates want to keep the moral upper hand they should avoid using Google services altogether (logged-in or not) because at the moment we, the "ignorant masses", are helping Google improve those services with our data.
>They routinely make up any sort of nonsense needed to make the plot move forward. This is quite obvious when the topic is something I know more about than a lay person. For example, in the Revenant, the hero goes swimming for extended periods in an ice-filled river.

Lewis Pugh might demur: https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/lewis-pugh-north-pole-icy-swim
How does it feel holding on to a relic? :D

In a more serious note, are you actually using eudora? If so I'd love to hear if there is a still-maintained version as well as the reasons sticking to it.
To be specific, my words above are:

“If you can’t change your organization, change organizations.”

If the argument is that by staying they can create change, our views are compatible.

If the argument is that “although they may try, they can’t change anything, but they should still stay,” then my argument is that they have chosen to be complicit, and it is appropriate to hold them to account.

Nobody is really telling anyone to quit, but the argument above is that if they don’t quit, they cannot be held accountable. I reject that notion.
Police Officer: You just don't know when to shut up, do you? [Goes and arrests the dude for piracy and rape]
As humans we have reached a point where if we collectively decided to have fewer kids, whole social fabrics will collapse.

Everyone's social security hinges of having just as many people contributing to it today. China had to rid it's one child policy, and Japan is facing a similar problem. How do you support twice as many old people with only half as many working young folk.

I'm migration may be the answer, but if the rise of "nationalist" movements around the world is any indication. Then natives don't quite want immigrants to be that solution.
I tried looking up stuff about windows spying on users, and most of what I'm seeing is useless (debunked articles, generally clickbait stuff). Is there anywhere I could look to read more about this if true?