skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. I was a bit flippant. But a software developer at Google is likely to be making six figures, and is likely to be able to find another job within a few months.

"I have to do something immoral or I won't be able to feed my family" is not a position they're likely to be in.
I can't read his mind so I don't know if you're right... but it sure feels that way.
They could file the suit and then drop it last second. Most large companies have several lawyers on staff, so it's not really any additional cost.
A transaction on bitcoin cash costs 1 to 2 sat, which is less than 0.01 penny.

It is true that the cost can vary greatly (which sucks, please tell me of a crypto coin that is 1:1 with dollars), but you can adjust the price in real time and since you are selling a digital product even in an extreme situation you are not going to lose money (remember the transaction fee is pretty much going to be 1-2 sat always).
HackRF comes to mind. You can occasionally find good deals on Ettus gear on eBay/forums/etc.
Well of course. The old school business class is being outdone by them.

The east coast media elites are now focusing on west coast rabble rousers.

I'm not saying it isn't entirely deserved. But they're not doing anything catalogs, grocery stores, and others haven't been doing for years.

West coast tech has the visiblity, the public is growing mistrustful, and are easier to vilify to people that don't realize the cell phone providers have been tracking their locations for decades (used to work for one of the top 3 in network ops, oh yeah, they could find you within a block back in the 90s). Or that Sears has profiles on their customers dating back quite a while.
Wow, I hadn't thought of that. Its a complete coincidence, actually!
> Not that obviously since you are sharing all your dns requests with them, it's terrible for privacy... :'(

Right. I'm not defending this service in any way, but couldn't you say the same about Quad9 or Cloudflare?
IIRC, in LTE the devices verify the identity of the towers with a signature check now too.
Especially when they grew up in a tiny town with population 300 before attending a nearby military academy. This guy's background was very obscure.
Not many disagree with that. The question is whether it should be enforced by politics or if people/companies can be allowed to make the decisions themselves.
I stopped reading at that point. The article is bad enough, but this unnecessary statement makes the author look really bad.
Chinese government is not this monolith entity with a single will.

All major firms operating in China will have to have some sort of government connections who champion for them, otherwise its competitors will use their influence in government branches to put on more scrutiny on them, creating a competitive advantage.

At its core, this is not that different from major US firms having to have allies in media and Washington to avoid being heavily scrutinized. Although how the connections are established and how the influence is carried out might be new to US companies. Google will have to learn and compete at a disadvantage in the meantime.
Though Uber did add pay with Venmo, which is owned by Braintree/PayPal.
> Why not?

Because it's important ( national security level important ).

> Korea and China dominate the manufacturing part, why should search be any different?

Korea and China dominate the manufacturing part of search? What does that even mean?
Ah right, "following the laws", because discussions of morality can be reduced to whether it "follows the law" or not? No, that's absurd. Google is objectively abetting an authoritarian regime and providing it with extremely useful tools to maintain and strengthen totalitarian control over 1.4 billion people, and this is wrong.
Not really. Picked it up as a child, loved programming and tinkering. Had to choose between computer science and medicine. There are actually lots of things in common, debugging complex systems, building a mental model, abstraction, looking up solutions based on certain hints. Orthopedics is a highly technical field, working with implants, computer surgery, imaging and such so its very useful. Programming trains your problem solving abilities.
I really believe everybody should have the opportunity to learn to code.
Would it change if there was a button at the bottom of the article, that you could click for an instant refund, no questions asked?

Honestly it almost seems to be worth trying, the potential upshot is _huge_.
To be honest, I think that's just on you for allocating too little space. 20 GB is listed as the bare minimum for a windows 10 64 bit install [0], and only 10 GB extra for apps & updates isn't much.

[0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-specifica...
No WTO is about trade and it is fairly silent on investment. See https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/invest_e/invest_info_e.... "As an agreement that is based on existing GATT disciplines on trade in goods, the Agreement is not concerned with the regulation of foreign investment. The disciplines of the TRIMs Agreement focus on investment measures that infringe GATT Articles III and XI, in other words, that discriminate between imported and exported products and/or create import or export restrictions."
Sadly the Quest is not powerful enough to run regular Rift titles without heavy optimizations. They even mentioned that for "Superhot" it took multiple weeks for porting it to the Quest.
GridBagLayout I actually grew to love, it has perfect control of GUI elements imo. The implementation is nasty, but I miss it still.
The difference is that after the Russian interference thing, politicians realized all of this Internet stuff they didn't understand can cost them re-election.
Come on dang, this is incredibly tame due to things posted on other threads constantly. Why call this particular rant out specifically?
IP theft is a long-term risk, while cheap labor and access to the Chinese market are short term benefits.

Company executives may have short term incentives, and little interest in the long term health of their organizations.

Company executives have to compete with executives willing to compromise their company's long term health in the short term.
> Another way of looking at it, perhaps, is that Chinese, Japanese, and Indians have become "white", at least within Silicon Valley, even though the latter actually have brown skin. But doesn't that dilute the meaning of "white" so much that it basically becomes meaningless, and that we should just call it classism rather than racism?

This is actually really interesting because in America the boundaries of who is "white" and who is not has constantly shifted from a social standpoint.

There was time that Italians, Jews and Irish were not considered white (as in Anglo-Saxon or Nordic white) but this obviously isn't the case today.

South East Asians will probably never be considered "white" socially because of skin tone and cultural differences, but I'd argue it might be more important to be considered "not-black" or "not-Hispanic" than anything in America.
30 GB seems painfully small for gaming now that gaming companies are releasing games that by themselves are 20+ GB.
I really like SQL Server. Since they shipped SQL 2000 it's been my favorite database system, but lack of linux support was always a drag - great to see that its now also running and supported on Linux!
Haven't looked at either in a while, but you might look into Flattr and Brave browser
The anology kind of breaks down when both browsers are free open source.
My Samsung TV wants to send home info about everything I watch.
> First, get rid of the `etag`, `expires`, and `last-modified` headers and go with expiration caching only. Increase the `max-age` from one day (86400) to one year (31536000).

Since it's a statically generated website, I'd favor never expiring the cache, and using cache-busting hashes instead. That way the cache is only emptied when the file actually changes.
Currently there is no special support for metaprogramming, but maybe we could borrow some ideas from Terra in a future version...
What are laws besides a culture's values written down in the form of rules?

I'm only being mildly pedantic here. Obviously, there are some silly laws that don't work here; I'm talking about the large obvious ones that everyone knows about.
If that's true, it says to me that governments should put a blanket block on doing certain types of business with that specific country. Such a block should apply to all companies equally. It doesn't require them to be more involved in decisions from within the companies.
Is Bonsai Kitten what the "campus lore" was about?
In my experience, with something that extreme %99.999 of people prefer Obama over the white drug addict. But racism is on a spectrum, it's not a yes/no thing. Most of the existing racism is far more subtle, like fears over foreigners, or the different and the new. The full-on give-me-white-drug-addict-over Obama is usually only constrained to the super rare neo-Nazi breed of racism.

Different cultures are also quite shocking. So even if that new family that moved in makes just as much money, has just as much education, but cooks different foods that smell funny to you, or talks in different ways, or puts on different displays, that can greatly impact acceptance.

I mean, I can't say that I don't have some racist attitudes, because over my life time I've discovered that some things that I thought were perfectly reasonable non-racial preferences end up getting really intertwined. Especially because I grew up in a very white area, with almost no history of the racial prejudices that affect parts of the US, I didn't understand how racism played out until I was in an area with more diversity, and it was a learning process to even spot it, or figure out what was insulting or derogatory, since I had so little experience with it. But because so much of the racism is not the neo-Nazi type, is more subtle and probably less conscious, it's important to not be too moralizing about it, because moralizing just entrenches it. Instead of beating someone up over it, it's far better to show how the attitude has negative effects, and how there can be positive effects from not having that attitude.

Of course, when people are speaking in codes, like they do in these meetings about "preserving neighborhood character," all that goes out the window. The article goes through lots of great examples of how even in the past, the racism was perpetuated with the cover of other excuses.
Femtocells operate legally, might be worth looking into what bands it uses.
I talked to a network engineer at AWS a while back about it and he said it was one of their biggest profit centers with around a 90% margin.
In my experience, big companies have restrictions around moonlighting when your startup directly competes with their services/products, and assert ownership over things you work on using the company's resources, ie company computers/internet/time. So if your startup is not directly competing, and you're doing it on your own time/computer/internet, you should be good.
> The challenge is $1/month is probably too pricey for most of their user base.

The only reason WhatsApp exists is that international carriers were charging higher fees for text messaging while offering lower data rates, creating an arbitrage opportunity. WhatsApp never took off in the U.S. because U.S. carriers were ahead of the curve in shifting to free texting (thanks to the iPhone popularizing unlimited consumer data plans). So yes, this puts a hard ceiling on what WhatsApp could charge.

And that makes them feigning they thought they could justify a $19B valuation without increasing monetization all the more ridiculous. Of course they knew what would happen. That's why the deal was "if you monetize we vest all our stock and leave and cry out loud all the way to the bank," not "you can't monetize."
In addition to the specifically anti-union views mentioned in other posts, I think the biggest problem in the US is simply an apathy towards the goals/purpose of a Union, caused by sociopolitical views. If I was to tell someone that I’m dealing with poor working conditions at a Job, almost nobody I know would suggest that I organize with other workers to demand improvements. They would tell me to find a new job, or if the issues were egregious enough, sue.

There is a general sentiment in the US that bettering one’s situation comes not from improving the situation, but by changing it. If you’re work conditions are terrible, find a new job. If your whole industry is terrible, learn new skills and move to a new industry. If you don’t want to be an exploited worker, become management. I think this is due to the strong expectation of the self-regulation of employment in a free market. But the cost and risk of changing your situation, combined with industries management collectively working together, and the near monopolistic size of some companies, makes such self-regulation unlikely in many industries/fields.

This is part of an even larger social class issues where the goal for most people isn’t to improve the conditions for their class, but to get them selves into a higher-class. This ends up pitting everyone against each other in a way that makes organization and collective bargaining very difficult.

“… the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires” -- Ronald Wright/John Steinbeck
>Do you want your companies to be extensions of US foreign policy?

I'd rather have companies be extensions of US policy, than make US policy themselves.
If you absolutely require lower wages to make a profit (your business plan has already failed, but let's go with it):

Go to any one of a number of other countries that don't expect you to partner with a communist dictatorship and give up IP in order to have goods produced there? Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Mexico, India?

It seems like a pretty obvious "AVOID" signal for me, but I'm not running a multinational that's cut corners to keep profit margins high while exporting all of the manufacturing work.
The above may sound like an Ubiquiti ad, but I've tested a few top specs routers about 2 years ago and settled with unifi for my home installation. I needed a good coverage and reliability for my home automation, e.g. when I switch lights on/off I want a consistent few milliseconds latency.
This is anecdotal.

Out of my 356 contacts only 46 are on Telegram and among them 11 were seen recently (let's assume they still have the app). In last few weeks only 8 of them replied to my messages or read them so I'd say only 8 are actively using it (I checked with the remaining :P).

On Signal, there are just 13 and only 3 replied to me in last few weeks. All of those 3 were coerced by me into installing it on their phones after I deleted my WhatsApp account recently. So basically none of my contacts was actively using Signal (the remaining 10 didn't even receive the messages).

No one was on Matrix/Riot and no one installed it even after my repeated evangelistic encouragements and promise of full time tech support. Can't blame them as I myself find it difficult to use the service/app for any non-Slack/non-IRC kinda usage i.e person to person messaging.

One day I checked just for testing and more people are on https://hike.in than on Telegram from my contact book. That was surprising. Didn't try any further and uninstalled it.

Almost everyone was on WhatsApp and almost everyone was on Fb Messenger too when I used them.

My contact book is very generic - obviously not the very tech savvy specific circle but a decent mix professions and backgrounds. Also, I have keep my contact book regularly trimmed and limited otherwise it would have been a lot more than 356.

So, if I have to choose WhatsApp's replacement based on this criteria then there's really no other choice sadly :( Though I do have some hopes from Acton's $50 million.

PS. I had checked one day and around 20 are on Apple devices (shows iMessage option for them but a lot of them might be on macOS) and except 3-4 of them none use iMessage at all.
I have heard for years people criticizing the payments industry as a low margin commodity biz. What has changed? Or they just got it wrong?
Why would absence of racism against Asians be equivalent to absence of racism against blacks?
> Does this mean somebody has taken the photos and transferred them to tape, and that is what we're seeing here?

More accurately: Photograph -> Videotape -> Edited Videotape -> Laserdisc

> If this _was_ done for archival purposes, what is the likelihood of the original negatives still surviving?

I'm not sure. I hope they do! 35mm resolves to much greater than HD even on cheap/common film stock.

> At which stage was the text box added in?

Definitely once the footage was on videotape and before being stored on a second "edited" videotape since the box is partially distorted in the image I linked to above.
The French organization Framasoft has been maintaining a database of Google alternatives for several years at https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/list/
ConwayMatrix (Generative music using game of life)
IMO it's mostly about class, but it seems like it's mostly about race because there is a correlation between class and race (at least, if you count Asians as white, which is nonsensical, but what many people seem to want to do these days). The neighborhood I live in is right next to an extremely poor neighborhood (both are mixed race, but majority white). Most of my neighbors are a lot more comfortable with the middle class black/asian/latino people in our neighborhood than they are with the poor white people in the neighborhood next door.
>Curious who you're referring to as "this particular commenter"? The quote in question was from a Cupertino resident at a recent city council meeting, and he's a 60 year old white man.

Oops. By "this particular commenter" I meant the Cupertino resident. I (think?) I had heard about that comment or a similar one on a podcast (Gimme Shelter) that interviewed the Cupertino mayor the day after all that debacle, and I thought the mayor said that the commenter was 14 and that his mom had asked for permission for him to show slides. I hope I didn't completely misremember that.

60 years old? Then yeah, probably intentional dog whistle. I'd give the ignorance of youth a bit more of a pass.
Yeah, that's why this is almost unbelievable. What a day. Thanks for the reverse birthday present
Wow, time flies. I still remember installing version 6.0 like 20 years ago or so for the first time. The client tools, like Enterprise Manager, were much better then, faster, more slick.
Can you elaborate? Is concrete regularly stolen from beaches?
Wait a minute... FB had exactly the same business model in 2014 like today. Of course they understand the mechanics of that business model already back then. Shouldn’t they have known better?
Nope, archive.org is a whole different organization. Also note that the "Wayback Machine" is only one project at the Internet Archive. They also have 78 RPM records, video games, tons of books, CD's, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_Internet_Archive%27s_... You can donate at https://archive.org/donate

Edit: Archive Team is also a separate group.
> There was time that Italians, Jews and Irish were not considered white (as in Anglo-Saxon or Nordic white) but this obviously isn't the case today.

No, people who care about whiteness still exclude Jews.
I mean article content, not just the first line or the title.
This way articles are cached in case of downtime.
My 7yo daughter and I have the Oculus Go headsets and are able to find quite a few fun multiplayer games- This new headset will at minimum support the Go library.

Maybe around 5% of games have multiplayer support, so out of the 200 or so decent games for the Go around 10 are multiplayer.
Best free Music player app with radio Streaming
One of the FEW downsides for smaller installations, is them not selling a Cloud Key, Gateway, and Switch in a single box.
> "Four floors and corner stores" on every block of the Sunset would make a significant dent in San Francisco's housing crisis.

It would significantly increase the number of fairly well off people currently living in the Bay Area outside of SF could live in SF proper, but it probably wouldn't (without some kind of non-market price controls) do anything about the crisis in SF (and SF is such a small part of the Bay, in terms of total numbers, that the knock-on effects in surrounding communities probably wouldn't do much to affordability in the Bay Area peripheries, either.
> Sooner than people think, virtually all home and outpatient diagnostics will be performed by consumer devices such as the Apple Watch, mobile phones, fitness trackers, etc.

Well I do think 'not very soon' - because I only know a handful of people (all doing computery things) with an Apple Watch or FitBit/Android thingy, and even of those fond of tech it's only a minority.

I cannot even fathom how long it would take to have this data even be acknowledged or just being able to be interchanged with German doctors and hospitals.
"It's ludicrous to think good ideas only come from North America and white males."

Sure, not what gp said, but agreed.

"but if you want to elevate those that don't come from privileged backgrounds"

Just some unsolicited feedback, the original race/gender quote from the article and this statement leads me to interpret that you either value equality of outcome (EG: all of these startups should have proportional distributions of gender and race in all positions) over technological advancements, or that you suspect the organization is biased to some detrimental degree.

This feedback isn't meant to insinuate that you actually believe either, just that it was my interpretation from the seemingly out of context nod to race/genders of the startup founders.

For example, if you'd have included a quote along the lines of "The startups announced by BEV so far are all above 6' tall". The statement would seem to insinuate that there's either something wrong with being 6' tall (analogous to something wrong with being white/male), or that the organization seems to unfairly favor tall people.
Unrelated, but I really like the background/font color contrast on the site. Makes for very easy reading to my eye.
Chiming in to say no problems here on my Windows PCs. I do see where you might bump into these troubles, though.

Installing Nvidia drivers will usually set the default sound device to HDMI for your main display instead of restoring the previous default. So, it's possible to end up juggling 3-5 audio outputs after a driver update - on board, on board headphones, Vive USB, Vive HDMI, and main monitor HDMI.

I run a little Powershell script after those updates that returns everything to my settings and disable all the telemetry services/tasks, but there are a bunch of free utilities that makes audio device switching easy - Ear Trumpet, Audio Switcher, and a few others.

Also, for whatever reason, sometimes Steam just needs to be relaunched for SteamVR to work properly after a Stream client update. Very rarely I'll need to reboot for things to work properly (if the base stations don't wake up).

Finally, I strongly recommend uninstalling the advanced open VR program that's often recommended in old tips and tricks sites (it's very outdated and known to cause problems now) and run a round of "verify game integrity" on SteamVR and all Valve VR entries (from inside Stream library, right click menu).

Oh, and finally, finally, laptops/pre-built PCs will usually have some driver updater/maintenance utility adding a layer of annoyances on top of all this.

I love my Vive, but I have to admit that there can be some annoyances. OTOH, I had just as many issues with the GearVR (an Oculus product) and solutions basically boiled down to hoping it would be addressed in an update or allowing 7 constantly running background processes.
> you can't easily do that for the multitude of components that make up pi hole

What? The entirety of the project is open source. In fact it's easier to look at the source code that makes up PiHole because it's all in one spot in Github.