skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Rising cost of labor also hurts growth directly, especially when its due to government intervention and not voluntary free-market forces.

Fine by me. A nation that does not have either strong (and not hindered by law) unions or a minimum wage to support the most vulnerable (your mention of which in the context of your comment comes across as libertarian concern trolling) does not deserve to "grow".

>Raising minimum wage increases the cost of labor, which will reduce hiring and trigger layoffs.

My solution to this is simple - abolish the wage. But I'm interested to hear to what extent this is true where minimum wages have increased so far, and whether it must necessarily happen. Taking the argument to its extreme, we ought not to pay anyone at all, since any amount >0 is a rising cost of labour and since growth is important, we out to minimize the cost of labour to zero or even lower.

I'm thankful for the fact that the eight hour work day and humane conditions, thanks to the socialists and social democrats of the 19th and 20th c. have prevailed over your "voluntary free market forces".
Yep. a few years ago I signed up for a promo where if I spent a certain amount in the app store, I'd get a free chromecast. Never got it. No recourse available. At all. It's really strange that this level of "service" is acceptable.
Wow, I read about that like seven years ago and it was somewhat laughable. Now I feel terrible for them.
Setting aside the fact that most people would look unfavorably on yet another box in their homes, how does any of this help you avoid the blocking and tracking of the ISP?

Your ISP will still know what you are doing, and will have the ability to block you from doing it should the need arise.

I also feel like people are proposing solutions based on technologies as they stand today. Chosen solutions to the decentralization issue need to consider realistic future cases. Just as a quick thought experiment, what happens in the near future, say, 3 to 5 years out, when a huge chunk of people are using 5g technologies as their primary connections? AT&T, or sprint, or verizon, or what have you will still get all of your traffic information in this, very plausible, future case. "It's encrypted." or "It's going through a relay." Is just not a sufficient response to privacy if you wish to have privacy from AT&T. I mean, think about it, chances are, the relay will be using AT&T too.

Which brings me to the big problem with solutions like these, ie - inevitable recentralization. Google, or Facebook, (and now because of how this new decentralization idea works, even AT&T), are in an almost unassailable position to act as the "switchboard" for all of this non-indexed data. Need to know where your aunt, who just moved, is on this new decentralized network? Are you going to ask google? or "WeAreDecentralizationIdealists.com"? Oh, you're going to ask your own node? Sorry, her new information has not propagated to your node yet. Check back tomorrow. Oh forget it, just call your aunt and ask her to give you the new information so you can input it manually.

No, she will need to be registered somewhere to seamlessly communicate changes to her node's connection information. And that "somewhere" will likely be a BigCo.

If we want to replace the behemoths, we need to come up with solutions that are just as easy to use, (easier actually), and avoid any possible blocking or tracking. That requires some very creative people to think radically. Easily blockable in home network nodes I think, are not only not really solving the problems, but are also doomed to failure usability-wise when compared with google or facebook.
This has been my experience as well. Last year I went on a trip through Morocco and the UK. Never worried about my usage despite using services like Spotify and Google Maps. Got a bill that I would expect with traveling within the States.

My normal day-to-day has me on WiFi the majority of the time so my phone bill usually comes out to about $36 a month.

Edit: For the curious, I've been using Fi with a Pixel 2 since the phone was released.
Your cellphone camera lens likely doesn’t have the requisite light-gathering capacity to burn out the CMOS image sensor in your phone. CCDs (commonly used in DSLR/M43 cameras) are far more sensitive, as I understand it.
I agree. I also think we have no idea what hardware manufacturers do, or what is happening with the main cables that the 5 eyes is tapping into. Or what types of high level subpoenas and so-on have been served to Google, that they have acquiesced.

It really is a ticking time bomb.
>"Securities and Exchange Commission 93.58% Furloughed, 6.42% Exempt"

>"Environmental Protection Agency 94.19% Furloughed, 5.81% Exempt"

I see now why the Republicans are in no great hurry
>> He also co-wrote the report that stated that Sadam Hussein had WMDs, and helped send America to war.

It's not an ad-hominem to suggest that an author's previous record on accuracy can be a guide to his present credibility.
It’s because people will figure out that they don’t need voice services st all...
Delta9 THC, CBD, and CBN – legitimate medicine or not
Not disagreeing but I usually recommend that people read http://www.phpthewrongway.com/ afterwards to get a more pragmatic viewpoint.
Nice work! You'd think the Hollywood elites and silicon valley stars would make donations to all these poor people.
I believe they support Linux as a first-class citizen, even with removing Allegro! I've had VERY good luck with Factorio running through Steam, on Debian Linux (both 8 and 9). I have also ran it on Mac OSX and Windows 7 without any issue.

That game is so rock-solid as far as stability/system support that I would literally buy it again out of general principal =)
If you use large amounts of mobile data, their plans very quickly become obnoxious (throttled after 15GB) and expensive ($80 plus taxes/fees).

Compare that with T-Mobile, who offers $70 a month (including taxes/fees) with throttling at 50GB and 20GB of hotspot data for $15/mo more, or even AT&T or Verizon, and it's more expensive for less service.
> "A few minor technical problems"

If they're literally unable to use a service because of a glitch, it's not a "minor technical problem".
- Editor integration. VS Code integration is easiest nowadays I guess.

Most programmers hate leaving their editors and dealing with text entry boxes on browsers.

In my projects, we have a wiki and a knowledge_base.md Guess which one I put random tips.

- Separating data entry from data organization.

This is the fatal mistake every web site does, confusing data entry with organization. Data entry should be free, organization should come later. That's a key reason Excel is so popular, you are free to write to any cell. None of the draconian things of forms where you are forced to think in preset boxes.

(somewhat related: compare this with the lambda/kappa architecture and event sourcing vs relational databases)
In a heterogenous environment this is not necessarily true; a radar with a powerful transmitter could damage a radar with a very sensitive receiver, particularly at close ranges.

There are military jamming devices that can quite handily permanently damage radars not designed to distinguish it.
Are you high my friend on cola? Zero has aspartan and other artificial sweetness that triggers your insulin response, and this is the main issue with obesity, don't know about calories in cola per say but insulin makes you eat more and more... healthy and cola in the same sentence.. damm.
VIPER architecture implementation for iOS projects
To be fair if I was in their shoes and had the cash cow that is Steam, I probably wouldn't care too much about maintaining franchises either. Games are expensive to build and profit isn't guaranteed; a distribution platform that is being used by everybody has much better economics.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18885082
so you can't just drive your own car? That's exactly what Uber is about.
Also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18885082
K&R is a remarkably good and concise introduction to C.

I think that C is actually good, and that C++ is a Scooby-Doo sandwich of fail. But this is an opinion concerning a particular domain (low-level programming) that doesn't carry over to anywhere else.
Pre-Google-Fi and into Google Fi, I considered the various "un-appeal-able" account scenarios with Google products, including how they sometimes tied back to loss of access to other Google products including one's Gmail account and basically any access to the baseline Google account at all.

When I signed up for my first Android phone, I created a new Gmail address for it.

When I decided to give Fi a ago -- and get a discount on a Nexus 5x -- I looked at how Fi commandeered any already-connected Google Voice number -- in a one-way process, by the way -- and used a Gmail account that did not have Google Voice set up. And kept my other number active on another carrier, by the way -- I wasn't porting it.

Fi can be pretty good, when it works. Google account management, on the other hand, remains a minefield of irreversible pitfalls.

I might suggest to Google, that they try re-introducing some orthogonality into their accounting structures. But, I'm tired of suggesting things to Google; they've had more than enough time to get -- or buy -- a clue.
Same thing happened to me! I got it fixed by submitting a BBB complaint.
It seems like people really enjoy them around Denver. It’s become a common sight to see a pair of people paused on a street corner, looking at their phones in unison.

I have also wondered about the practice of leaving the scooter simply just anywhere after a ride is done. They are left on sidewalks, and gutters, in driveways, and are often plainly in others’ way. How does this not constitute littering or obstruction of a public walkway?
This needs true-color rendering with colored lighting at the very least. It's not fun when everything is grey/brown pixel smudge.
One thing I can suggest; if you're deep into google products, you should be paying the $5/month for a G-Suite account with your own domain. You get access to better business-class support. Fi is now also supported on G-Suite accounts.

It's a no-brainer. It sucks that their personal account support is so bad, but there is a solution.
It's all good until you have to deal with Google support
> paying for sex is illegal in most places regardless of consent

Surprisingly, it isn't in most places: criminalising it is the "Nordic model" and not widespread. It's things around prostitution that are criminalised (advertising, running a brothel, pimping etc)
Wonder if you could knock out speed cameras and red light cameras with this in a way which wouldn't be noticed.

Good to know they claim you can do it with a laser that's not dangerous to the human eye.
> My hypothesis is there's most forward-looking of those songs talk about the wonders of love, and the past-looking songs talk about how shitty the relationship was and how they're glad it's over.

Really? I'd guess that most past-looking songs take a more mournful angle than an angry one (especially in the past century, what with the various wars), although that could just have to do with my sampling bias.
> Most importantly, why would users care about decentralized vs centralized?

Probably few, except those actively searching for it. And, especially with decentralisation, the inevitable outcome of being too popular is that it starts to become centralised again, to make things easier.

Besides that, I thought for a moment about Apple's tech. If you and a friend have an iPhone and you're both trying to connect to the same network (and have each other in your contacts, I think), iOS will allow you to automatically share the credentials and connect the other phone too.

I reckon that you'd see a lot of value in that kind of device integration, which is essentially peer-to-peer.
> You don't tell an alcoholic it's simple not to be an alcoholic, "Just stop drinking!" or to a drug addict, "Just stop taking drugs!". It's simple for you, but it's not simple for them. That's what makes them an alcoholic and not you.

I think this is the point though. You don't tell an alcoholic "just have a couple drinks not the whole bottle," you help them stop drinking completely because they can't handle moderation. It's not simple for an alcoholic to stop drinking, but it's doable in a way that just cutting back (the alcohol equivalent of "eat less and move more") is not.

Obviously, a person will eventually need to eat or will simply starve to death, but I think the point above is that fasting as a way of breaking the cycle is underexplored.
Truth. This stuff needs to be EASY. If I'm capable of setting up but too lazy, my mom stands zero chance.
Silicon is transparent above 1.1um this laser is at 1.5um, so perhaps the infrared cut filter that sits above the sensor was damaged. Perhaps Sony is using a absorptive IR filter and it was damaged by heat, if it was reflective filter i doubt it could be damaged.
Thanks for the info.

> Majority usage outside the USA violate ToS.

Bummer.
I would disagree about fireable. Do the majority of countries in Europe consider this a grave sin? I think people should be fired if something bad comes as a result, but I don't think we should prejudge the possibility ahead of time. It comes across as puritanical.
> I'm considering buying an HDMI->DVI/Audio adapter and just using a standard Chrome Cast.

I did exactly this about 6 years ago, worked fine. Shame to cast all those video bits through your wifi contention just to throw them away at the adapter, though.
My point is that, taken together, the effects of many of California's policy decisions (which includes tax [which exacerbates people's displeasure with other policies, when they don't go well], which has been bad for a lot longer than just the decade you show) are compounding.

Cost of living is a huge one, but a large part of urban California's cost of living has to do with consumer and [metropolitan] housing policy. It is exceedingly difficult to get anything built in major Californian cities, and once you do have it, the conditions for keeping it are onerous. The various committees and authorities in the state seem to regularly produce unjust outcomes (even from reasonable policies) and don't seem to care when they do.

I think people are broadly willing to pay higher state and local taxes *as long as the services they receive function well, and the outcomes are reasonable.
How to produce music that sounds like Justice [video]
> I can't actually load a webpage on their '2G' service anytime I travel to europe

Remember when web pages were measured in kilobytes? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Tangentially related, I don't get why there isn't more talk about Congress overriding Trump's veto to reopen the government. Both parties seem to want it, you would think a 2/3 supermajority in both houses would be attainable.
Water absorbs that wavelength if memory serves me well, so it's more like boil than fry -- kind of like what happens in a microwave oven. But the energy levels involved are so small it shouldn't be a concern.
Wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft saw how much money Google saves by not having support, and decided to follow their lead.

They used to have decent support.
I cannot find a supporting data source for Dept of Defense having 460,168 employees furloughed in January 2019.
Ah, good point. That’s really strange.
Improbable urges Unity to unsuspend their license, rectify farcical situation
> healthy and cola in the same sentence.. damm

You're misquoting me - I said 'healthier'.

For people who are basically addicted to sweet soft drinks, I think Zero is a healthier alternative and I think it's great that Coca-Cola developed it and is rebranding to it. I think it'll help a lot of people.
Line Mode – Revisiting the first universally accessible web browser (2013)
Bing is totally behind, agreed. I probably shouldn't have included the part that maybe Google had the issue and fixed it because I actually don't believe that, and it detracts from the point. I totally agree Google has the absolute high ground here. Which, I won't lie, made me suspicious; particularly with Microsoft doing well in the press recently and Google, well, not.

I'm biased because I generally like Microsoft better than Google, but this whole thing begs the question: why was this directed to the media before Microsoft? Both could've been made aware. Plenty of disclosure-like articles are written with the claim "at press time, the <problem> is no longer showing" and they're no less impactful. With child pornography, of all things, why the hell is Tech Crunch pushing this story so quickly that they had to issue a warning to not look up the links because you could be liable? Like, Microsoft is going to be rightfully shamed either way, ya really need to maximize the shock value with that extra bit? At the cost of leaving active child pornography in the open. Come on.
No, that shouldn't not be the support path to escalation because you know someone well connected at Google and/or cause an outrage.

It's not that hard, invest in customer service, understand that not everything can be handled by an algorithm and you won't have these classes of issues. Is it expensive? Sure. At some point though you're going to need some system that allows human intervention when things have gone off the rails.
Geo ip doesn't have that accuracy, right? Google use GPS.

https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2453995?hl=en
"Device location:
Depending on a user's location settings, we may be able to use a precise location for advertising, based on one of these sources of location data:

GPS: Accuracy varies depending on GPS signal and connection.
Wi-Fi: Accuracy should be similar to the access range of a typical Wi-Fi router.
Bluetooth: If Bluetooth and/or Bluetooth scanning are enabled on a device, a publicly broadcast Bluetooth signal can provide an accurate indication of location
Google's cell ID (cell tower) location database: Used in the absence of Wi-Fi or GPS. Accuracy is dependent on how many cell towers are located within an area and available data, and some devices don't support cell ID location."
Just my luck, I start seeing all the horror stories after I've just signed up for this. Pucker intensifies...
I've been a Fi customer for two years. Sometimes it 'just works' when you travel internationally, which is magical. Most times however it just ok. It was dismal in Pakistan last year. In Netherlands it's barely ok. I'm ditching it in a few days since the Dutch have better, cheaper carriers.
I actually narrowed it down a bit further and reached out to someone internally that can help me work through this. thanks!
Oh I see, that makes sense. I wonder if any automotive radars are that powerful.
ESR paints himself as a big bully here too. If that is how he interacts with other people, then it helps me to understand why he dropped out of school and never really had a traditional job. (Note: I had to find that info on Wikipedia because I have never heard of this guy; ironic considering he touted starting the open-source movement and likened himself to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds).

I am very very thankful that our industry has evolved beyond this type of character.
Are you familiar with the design of the Google systems WRT securing this data? Based on the revelations Snowden was able to do, and a similar level of familiarity with Google's security measures, it sounds like Google even has the NSA beat as far as keeping data secure. In short: Even the people doing OS and hardware level maintenance of the machines in question don't have access to this data.

But I'm on the outside looking in, someone with more hands on can probably provide more details.
In Mumbai right now. Full LTE. I did a speed test today for fun and got 25mbps down and 5 up.

Last night on the way to some mall we took a route though some sort of jungle dairy farm. Both of the locals had no signal when about half way through traffic stopped ( except for the masses of motor bikes, they just keep comming ). I was the only one able to pull it Google maps and check how far up thr road the traffic was.

Maybe Mumbai is set up better for Fi? What parts were you in ?

Also. The main post here should be about Google payments, not Fi.
It's a common Korean name.
The cause of migration (if it is a fact and not random coincidence) is the result of many different long term things. Changes as fast back as 1990 might be the cause of the current migration. It sometimes takes that long for things to work through the system.
Widevine DRM (L3) Vulnerability: Who is affected and how to mitigate?
Aren't the optical paths highly selective for direction, time, and wavelength? Let's assume coincident-wavelength for our worst case. At any given point in time, it's as if each car has a laser pointer aiming a single dot somewhere, and that single dot is also the only point it's receiving light from (in stark contrast to a camera, which is gathering light from its entire field of view). Even if the LIDARs can see each other, there's no 0-attenuation path from the output of one to the input of another unless a pair of LIDARs have chosen, out of their entire FOV, to aim directly at each other.

So, if we define "traversal time" as the time required for the dot of car A to sweep the aperture of car B, in each traversal time there's 1 chance in N^4 of perfect alignment, where N is the ratio of dot size to the full FOV. Maybe it happens once in a blue moon, but if the sensor can withstand full illumination for more than one traversal time, you would start having to compound 1/N^4 events in order to fry a sensor. I wouldn't count on it.

Well, I wouldn't count on that particular mechanism, at least. I'm sure there will be cases where a coating degrades and lets broad-band sunlight in, or a sensor parks on the sun, etc. Sensors will get fried, but not because the engineers making them were too stupid to consider interference.
That "catch" is such a big difference in practice that it makes TMO a totally different (worse) thing.
A credit card pushing post veiled as a Google Fi review. Awesome.

My wife still loves Fi, and I love having a Fi data sim.
Its not particularly hard to back up your google data. The hard part is switching emails when the old one gets suddenly taken from you.
Self-driving cars use cameras too!
Lawsuit aims to end SEC “gag orders” against startups who have settled charges
California is losing lower income population(sub $55k) but it's being replaced at higher rates with higher income($200k+ income). For the economy of California, tax policy is a net benefit as higher income people generate more tax revenue and require less government aid. You could argue it has a negative social aspect as it pushes out lower-income families.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/the-conversatio...
T-Mobile's throttling does a great job of highlighting how bloated a lot of modern websites have gotten.

The last time I tried using it overseas, text-heavy sites like HN loaded almost as fast as normal. Reddit was mostly usable, but certain subreddits were painfully slow due to image-heavy custom styles. But try to load an article from a typical news website, and the connection would time out before it managed to render anything.
Just to clarify, that "Ok, Google" feature requires a Google Assistant device like a Home Mini (or your phone) as the Chromecast Audio has no microphone.