skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found the attempted humorous article "Here are the subjects our [science] reporters enjoy covering the least" to be very revealing of typical reporter attitudes

> How could [discovering exoplanet] not be dramatic? If you're an actual f$@!%%# astronomer, that's how. Because then you'd feel compelled to drone on for page after page of details on the different telescopes you used, and the software pipelines the data went through, and how everything was normalized to... Exoplanets, which are BRAND NEW WORLDS UNKNOWN TO US get announced with excessive details on Monte Carlo sampling and Markov chains. I would not have thought it possible to suck the life out of stories like these, but the people who have chosen to make this their life's work manage.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/here-are-the-subject...

In other words: "Why do these eggheads spend so much time worrying about whether the things they think they know are actually true when they could be talking about how it makes them feel?"
> and some judges will interpret the court's responsibility to ensure both biological parents are supporting the child to mean the sperm donor (a.k.a: the father) does have responsibilities to the child.

Then how do anonymous sperm donations work? Is it purely the anonymity that allows it? I would think a court could easily just order a sperm bank to openit's records to get child support then.

> Consider this case from california [1]. now ask: would an famous individual selling sperm at a premium establish presumption of parenthood?

That seems somewhat specific to the situation, where the sperm donation only happened that way because of a vasectomy, and the father was present at birth and acted as a parent. That's a far cry from contractual release of liability ahead of time.

That said, I do agree that future legal precedents can give cause, but likely to the same degree as any sperm donor. Then again, in reality someone famous (and likely wealthy) selling their own sperm is more likely to be a target, so interesting precedents might be set...
Sounds like Bloomberg painted the theory they wanted to paint, and were not particularly subtle about covering there tracks. Assuming what this dude says is true, this is going to be very bad and very, very expensive for them.
To me the article reads like it's a purely software solution, thus my confusion, but that might be misinterpretation.
What's with the notch? I don't follow smartphones very closely, is a notch something we want and is worth copying Apple?
Dividing by 0
Chicago has a CLT building - the new flagship McDonald's restaurant is CLT and steel.

Additionally, a CLT office building has been approved in Chicago and will be the largest CLT building in the United States when finished.
Unfortunately, we're all doomed to seek workarounds for the time being. A "zone-friendly workspace" is an abstract concept that will show in productivity over long time. An open office is cheap right now, and will be cheaper as headcount increases. Then you have conflicting individual interests - programmers may dislike open floors, but sales people (apparently) love them, the bosses love them, and even among programmers there's always this likable extrovert who likes open floors and is vocal about it, ruining any chance of collective action.

(It also seems people dislike open floor plans for different reasons. You don't like sounds. I don't mind sounds, I don't like feeling the presence of other people around me all the time.)
You would recognize what looks like an extra resistor?
Have seen very little discussion or interest in this year's economics prize compared to previous years'. Wonder why that is.
So the phone costs $1000 plus another $129 for AppleCare?

Bring back the Nexus line :(
Who knows... but it is funny that healthy skepticism can transform into this kind of acceptance. First disbelief, then, well ok, maybe but if it is, it’s probably not the suspected entity, but an altogether different entity... it’s like multiplying probabilities but thinking it increases likelihood.
Matt Cohler should probably be on the list. $2b+ for sure, especially with Benchmark's 30% cut on fund profits and being one of the GPs in the fund that had Uber.
Honestly this is my biggest fear adopting any new google product

They keep abandoning it !
I can absolutely refuse to hire an employee because I don't like the college they went to or any business in their employment history. I don't know where you're getting the idea that employers can't use prior employment history to make hiring decisions.
Google made [non-Android] tablets in the past?
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Thanks! Hope you enjoyed it :D
Private company shares can pay dividends though.
I really wish Google would sell a good value (Nexus level prices) phone again, so I can own a phone with stock Android. You can get good hardware for half the price of Google's pixel phones; the downside is the crappy Android versions on them.

(thanks for the suggestions on close-to-stock-Android hardware)
Are there any other sources with these allegations or is it just Bloomberg?
Despite the comments here, there's more evidence that that story was not made up, with real names this time at least.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-09/new-evide...

I'm not saying it is true, but of course all parties involved will deny everything, imagine how much it would hurt them if they acknowledged they have been hacked.
Entering the next phase of Project Valhalla
I always get mad when people talk about "superfoods" and think that everything with Quinoa is good for you.
Has Google fixed the Bluetooth disconnecting bug in ChromeOS yet? If so I'm tempted...
And please no pictures of generic couplers marked in small text as "illustrations" like last time.
Out of curiosity where are you living where the public school are so bad the only alternative is 300k+? I live in a larger midwestern city and the public schools are decent. Some students will go to Harvard, most go to a respected state school, some don't go to college
Anecdotal evidence, but I personally know quite a few people with mental health issues who’ve found psychiatrists very helpful. I don’t know anyone who has received significant help with mental health from a tech startup. Startups are great, but they aren’t the answer to everything.
Amazing to see privacy not mentioned at all.
It's an excellent point. As for housing, where does the extra wealth go? Nowhere. No one benefits when you lock up land that can't be used by anyone. Now you might argue that existing land owners benefit: but they actually don't. Because they're not moving and selling, they haven't realized any gain at all. If they sold but stay in the same area, there's no gain. And in states without the reprehensible prop 13, those in expensive housing will pay even higher property taxes.

We could literally print nearly free wealth, inflation free, if we just opened up land for development. It's a win win win.
Don't trust people in suits.
I asked them once, and they seemed pretty adamant about not hosting content. Then again, with the IPFS gateway they just added, you can pretty easily do that.
What context are you using the word ‘pin’ here? I’m having some trouble follow your comment as ‘pin’ doenst line up with anything I’d contextually assume you to be referring to.
Oh definitely. I wasn't very clear; I meant if things come to pass. As a present-day employer, I would have no qualms hiring a former Google employee. But I won't hire a former Palantir employee (in the current market where I have many options).
> What I don't understand is how Google's employees deal with the cognitive dissonance.

There are so many Google employees that I won’t expect them to all agree on these things. There are probably enough number of Chinese employees who would want to make such a product
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As someone who's not a developer but still occasionally looks through these "build an app" tutorials, password/authentication portions always worry me. I wish I could know that best-practices were shown as far as storing/encrypting user data/passwords.
Only if you've memorized how to type it. If you have to Google it beforehand, it serves as cheap signaling at best and an environmental transgression at worst.
> Isn't the incentive here to choose the most buzzwordy and low-barrier-to-entry technologies, and spend just enough time/effort to get the students through an interview so the bootcamp can get paid?

This reminds me of some recent comments about the iPhone XS performance for the Speedometer 2.0 JavaScript benchmark [1]. The comment was something like "Apple just optimized their processor to beat benchmarks." In reality, the benchmark uses the TodoMVC project to run through dozens of real-world JavaScript frameworks. So even if Apple was just optimizing for some benchmarks, they've also improved the performance of real-world applications that use React and Ember.js.

Lambda School might be teaching some "buzzwordy" programming languages and frameworks, and the students might learn just enough to pass technical coding interviews and get a job, and they might have just enough experience to start contributing code and working on features that bring in more paying customers (or raise more VC funding), and they can ramp up quickly enough to not get fired. And those customers/VCs give money to the company, so the company can pay the employee, who gives some of the money to Lambda. This seems like a good "benchmark" to optimize for.

[1] https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1043277162676072449?lang=en
Not a ton. But the idea here is you use javascript to call an API for your dynamic content. This way your javascript/css/images are all setup on a CDN that you don't have to manage.
Uhh, is it just me or did Google just take Apple's tablet and phone lines and do straight up copies of both? Because the Pixel 3 looks awfully like the iPhone X and the Pixel Slate has some similarity to the iPad Pro. I know companies copy each other, but this is quite literally notch for notch.
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After bad experiences with hardware reliably and support on the Nexus 5 and Nexus 6p, I will not be buying another piece of Google hardware.

Although, I must say, the vanilla Android software experience is top notch. I'd just rather install / customize it on more reliable hardware with better support (my op5t has been amazing!)
Pixel Slate hands-on: Google’s 2-in-1 takes on the Surface
I own a Nexus 10 and it's still good.
With Chrome 70, hundreds of popular websites are about to break
Companies don't want to train: they want Instant Workers. Often they want combinations of skills that are unlikely to be had by any one individual. They want version X of the database, vendor Y of the IDE, vendor Z of the network, etc. Shopping the world increases the chances of fitting their desired skill combo via shere probability; it has almost nothing to do with training. Think about it.
It's a ChromeOS device - most of them had at least 4 years of support.
I don't understand it either. It was a really weird design choice facilitated by Apple. My assumption is that Google doesn't want to be seen as a non-innovator by not having a notch in their phones.

If someone else can provide a more plausible reason, I'm all ears =D
Maybe less mercury, but by definition the fatty acid composition that makes fish healthy should be much inferior since algae are lacking from the food chain.
A Nexus level priced value product running stock Android would cannibalize Pixel sales. Google made the Pixel a premium product specifically for those who care about stock Android. People who buy value phones don't care about stock Android.
I have no doubt that a certain portion of workers benefitted from the new policy while some portion of workers did not. It is too early for anyone to judge the policy without the numbers being published from Amazon. My issue with the article is that it presents a single story of a person who was hurt by the policy and extrapolate that to be the overall tone at Amazon. This article relies on sensational and emotional aspects of one story, rather than facts and statistics.
Yes, the Nexus 7 back in... 2010 or so

Was very good, I wish mine still worked, unfortunately it mysteriously stopped charging one day
This is super cool, but I'm not convinced that "sonic boom" is really the right term for it.
We host landing and marketing pages and such on netlify, linking off to the app on a subdomain. It's really convenient.
I just got next year's fees: premiums are $911.86 per month for family of three. More than the principal and interest on my house...
I have the 250 ohm impedance versions, they work really well for office-like situations and I used them extensively in college for studying, sometimes not even listening to anything.

However they really don't do a thing when on a plane or in a place with a lot of low frequency noise as passive noise cancellation doesn't work well for that. I ended up buying a cheap pair of active noise cancelling bluetooth headphones for traveling (which are pretty terrible at blocking voices/footsteps).
Google has piles of cash, and does not need Wall St.'s money.

What it needs is ad publishers' money. As long as it has a wide reach, the money will flow. Having a bad public image would only reduce this flow, if anything.

I think that the Google's most potent fear is that ad budgets of companies will decrease, or re-structure and go to other channels, and the source of 99% of Google's income will start to dry up. They have no replacement for it, and try to hedge against its loss incessantly and desperately (and without much success).
California Breaks the Internet
We're talking about different things, the 'intent' I'm talking about, and is the subject matter of this thread, was what was the real reason behind dropping out of the contract bidding. Google gave multiple reasons for it.

Of course they wanted to win the Pentagon contract, and there's nothing wrong with that, if it is just providing G-Suite, uncustomized, or lightly customized GCP computing facilities, the same as any other Enterprise organization could purchase. What Googlers objected to in Project Maven wasn't working with the Pentagon at all, but specifically helping them to design AI imaging stuff. Sell them Google Docs or Google Compute Engine? Sure.

Some people in this thread have suggested Google dropped out because they couldn't meet specifications to get certifications, that's the cynical interpretation. The non-cynical interpretation is that the contract would require them to do things their employees object to, and make them look like hypocrites given their "AI principles" document. The idea that someone would drop a $10 billion contract bid purely over getting some bureaucratic certification doesn't make sense, because for a $10 billion contract (likely the low end giving DoD budgets), you'll spend $1 billion CAPEX if you need to get it, or more likely, go through providing the documentation and audits needed (besides, I highly doubt the competitors on the contract have anything approaching Google data center security levels)
Rewrite Calculus: How Uber Decided to Rewrite Their Driver App
It's tech fashion - like bellbottoms.

I used to think people were crazy when they complained about this potential future, but it's here.

Perhaps, like when Apple "invented" the modern smartphone form factor a decade ago, it's the best usable form factor that everyone else recognizes and emulates (though the Oppo Find X seems to have a notch free version...)
Try the Nokia phones by HMD, they're almost stock Android (only diff is you can't remove some Nokia apps without root)
I use Netlify for all my static sites and it's been amazing. All I have to do is push and they take care of everything else, I can't understate how much I love the product. If you want to check out a live deployment, my website https://www.stavros.io/ is on Netlify.

I especially like how they provide forms, lambdas and very easy testing by just pushing to another git branch. I don't see why anyone would use Github/Gitlab pages when Netlify exists.
Taking the writer's statements as truth, 6 out of 17 sources for the original Bloomberg story were government. Presuming the information was classified, each one of those individuals is risking losing their job and going to prison for talking about it.

What kind of conclusions the writers made from talking to the other 11 sources, what seniority they had, or even what companies they were from besides 3 from Apple, are anyone's guess.

I always am suspect when a government official or employee releases classified information. In some cases extreme moral outrage seems very plausible (Manning, Snowden.) The information is so startling the leaker decides they can handle spending much of the rest of their life in prison. In a much larger number of cases it is for political reasons (Libby, countless other stories where the source is never identified.) Many times, however, I suspect, the information is made up and then no laws have been broken, as far as I understand it.
Facebook unveils Portal, a video chat camera
My big question about the Slate is its ergonomics (with keyboard) relative to a regular laptop/Chromebook. It looks to be somewhat better ("snaps in place") and the keyboard is approximately "normal." But there's still something folded behind the tablet/screen in the photo.

My issue with all these combo devices is that they're not as good for using a laptop in all sorts of random locations and positions--which pretty much describes how I use them at events and otherwise traveling. Some are better than others but I've yet to have anyone tell me that they're just as good as a laptop for using on your lap--which is sort a dealbreaker for me.

As I understand it, Google was also rumored to be announcing a more conventional PixelBook upgrade at this event but that didn't happen.
Geez I think I just found a broken link - his link under the family section for his daughter Heidi links to http://summonedcreature.com which is a comic illustrated by his daughter Geneva instead. Geneva's own link is broken.

Time to write an email to webmaster@wall.org! It's like I'm back in 1994!
Android One phones are pretty close to stock.

https://www.android.com/one/
Though most impressive was the dim light photo on the Pixel 3 compared to the latest from Apple.
HN's ideal economist is Piketty: politically contentious and somewhat against the grain -- because, of course, software developers are good at everything, and non-economists chiding the economists must be right. (I'm surprised HN doesn't feature Steve Keen constantly)

Romer's work could be politically contentious if it wasn't so abstract and embedded in a history of technical economic ideas about development that way back when (in the Solow era) echoed the basic insights and biases of micro 101. Of course, HN (and everyone else) wants to have its own ideas about development and hamper on how "unrealistic" micro 101 is -- so development theory is never discussed.

Then there's charter cities, which is like Urbit for non-nerds.
Not so easy with those powerful texting thumbs
Evidently it is something "we" want. I personally think it looks awful. Just compare the Pixel 3 and the Pixel 3 XL on the techspecs page. I think the normal top looks much better.

https://store.google.com/product/pixel_3_specs
They mentioned Titan security a few times.
After 40 years, Voyager 2 is finally reaching the edge of the heliopause
I've seen several comments regarding whether or not Apple, Amazon etc. would deny the hacking if its true and if that is fraud or not. I work at Amazon now and previously was in the Navy, holding a TS/SCI. My firm belief is if such a hack happened, it would not be disclosed to anyone without a clearance, and the organizations that are denying it have no knowledge that it occurred. Furthermore if there truly was a compromise by a foreign nation it would be classified as a national security threat and subsequently classified and kept from public knowledge. Anyone who disclosed the truth would be at risk of loosing their clearance, job, and could end up getting the snowden treatment.
ChromeOS, yes, but pixelbook or the new slate run sub 5W fanless CPUs. It's a pretty steep price for the hardware that they ship.
Not true. You have Android apps and GNU/Linux on device.
Cantor's Original Proof Had No Diagonals
The Story of How I Dealt with the Accumulated Stress and Depression This Summer
Depends on how much a year your losing in tax and how often you need it might be cheaper to self insure, much more so if your a higher rate taxpayer.

I certainly got no value from BUPA when I had major transplant operation - just a £500 tax bill.
This is an interesting point because it reminds me of something much older. Monasteries now (and I assume historically too) had a business to cover their expenses. The monks are supposed to work enough at the business to keep it going in addition to maintaining the monastery and doing everything else they do.
TL;DR:

The potsherds yielded proteins from numerous plants—barley, wheat, peas and bitter vetch—as well as the blood and milk of several species of animal, including cows, sheep and goats.

The milk offered even more insight, as the researchers could distinguish whey from other parts of the liquid—and in one jar they found only whey, indicating the ancient Anatolians were actively transforming the milk into something like cheese or yogurt.
The $599 Slate model has an Intel Celeron SoC. :( You need to spend $799 for m3 SoC base model.
> Our president has already been attacking China with rhetoric and trade sanctions, and this story is meant to turn public opinion broadly against China.

Ah yes, Bloomberg, well-known for protectionist rhetoric and support for Trump.

> top universities are 10x more competitive (or more) than top US universities.
A citation would be very helpful here. And no, number of paper's published isn

> This is foolhardy, because China is led by a group of highly rational people whose policy responses to the administration's trade threats have been masterful and precise, and have conveyed with no uncertainty that China will not be bullied.

Citation also needed. They're so rational, they just detained the president of Interpol, have committed mass internment of Muslim citizens, and can't go six months without trying to ram NATO ships in international waters.

> but China has likely weaponized many aspects of US infrastructure via these sorts of supply chain attacks

Wait, what? So doesn't that mean the hawks were right to be suspicious? And that this really should be a national security concern? "This is all just a pretense to make people afraid of the PRC! By the way, you should be afraid of the PRC."
Meet the JavaScript pattern of the year or how to handle async like a boss
How to store a GPS coordinate in one byte or less
The Android One phones (https://www.android.com/one/) are running stock Android and provide 2 years of Android OS updates and 3 year of security updates.
Yeti – Alternative app to control Broadlink
It seems mechanically challenging for wolves and chihuahuas to create offspring.
"Winter is coming".

For a more recent warning, see https://medium.com/@jason/this-is-your-captain-speaking-im-t...
This reminds me of Limor Freid's (ladyada) Media-Sensitive Glasses: http://www.ladyada.net/media/pub/thesis.pdf