skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there are social contracts, and if you violate them, there are repercussions.

There are many social contracts tied to the word 'employee'. Expectation of livable vage. Expectation of stability. I liked the way patio11 once explained it (I think, and definitely am paraphrasing): "If you employ people and business is good, you get all of the profits and only owe them their wage. If business is bad, you still owe them their wage."

I am concerned that many companies are trying to weasel out of this unspoken contract. I remember McDonalds document specifying that they assume their employees have second jobs. Or that many game companies fire their QA teams every time a game is shipped.

Like, I get the incentive, I just don't like it.

To be honest, I wouldn't miss Tesla or Space X if it turns out they can't manage their employees.
> The only two successful Google consumer products are gmail and maps.

I dunno, Search seems pretty successful.

> almost everything else they acquired.

Android was neither successful nor much like what became successful when they acquired it.
I had a problem with an old USD10 purhase through their Windows store. They called me back and sorted the problem the same afternoon. Was genuinely impressed, haven't seen anything like that since IBM PC support in the 90ties.
Not to defend google but the problems they are having now to access their own google play are the same problem a scammer would have to go do it.

It does not look like a perfect balance, but they apparently err on the security side.
I went through a similar process the other day with a startup. We did pick GSuite at the end but the questionable decisions made by Google in the last 1-2 years made me want to look into alternatives instead of just choosing the one which would've been a no-brainer choice in the past.
If a government spending is in surplus taxes means retiring money from the economy.
So vitreous fluid is opaque to 1550nm light and will block these new powerful lasers from damaging the retina. What about people that have recently had retinal detachment surgery, and had the vitreous fluid replaced with an oil, is this replacement oil also opaque to 1550nm?
GDPR has extended what misconduct entails. If your company acts ethically regarding the privacy of your users you'll be fine.
Government contractor took off with Philippines passport data
@mindwork DM me if you feel like it be cool to hear what you're working on.
The article shows there are several between Scandinavia and continental Europe for freight use.

I'd guess they're good for carrying things like wood and ore.
Aside from what you say being inconstitutional, how can you not see that no suppression of freedom of speech gives you any real benefits, nothing besides just creating more problems on top of existing ones, no matter what your political cause is?

If you hide people and prevent the people you disagree with from talking - they will just go underground and grow there. The public will just see that you have no real arguments against them (because you would have presented them) - and instead are trying to silence them.

If you want real change, you need to argue with your opponenets, not try to push them into underground.
In India, you can't even get a SIM unless you have local identification.
I'd argue that "generating reports" is quite possibly an anti-feature in an issue tracker. It's a strong indication that whoever is building this thing is on the side of the managers, not the doers.
The linked comment doesn't seem to have any bearing on how long Chromecast Audio is likely to be supported?

Regardless of whether kuschku's accusations are true (there doesn't seem to be much evidence, and even if it were so I'm not sure why Google should be expected to assist Amazon in reverse engineering Chromecast), unlike an Amazon clone the Chromecast Audio is a first-party product. Google may have stopped producing the standalone dongle, but the tech is still used by Google Home and other speakers with integrated Google Cast support, so it's not disappearing anytime soon.
You can get them to fix it in 1 simple step:

1. Stir up enough shit on social media that some higher up at Google basically does ''sudo fix-problem <customer>''.

Of course, then google apologizes and promises to fix things for everyone else but they don't.
I was going to say this but then I realized that what was meant by consumers was of course the people buying the services from the people whose accounts are cancelled. So the argument is that in the credit card world it is harder to cancel the accounts of scammers, and the people who buy from them must suffer more.

Not sure if I agree, and it does seem to me that Google's way is worse because at least there are some legal protections for people (consumers) who are scammed in the credit card way but in Google's way there is no protection of any sort for people whom the system dislikes.
Context: The Philippines' Foreign Secretary nonchalantly tweeted that the contractor for the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) took off with Philippines passport data after its contract with the government ended in conflict. Now the government has lost access to its passport database, and would need to rebuild it from scratch. The problem is that they are all downplaying it and treating the incident as a minor inconvenience rather than a huge catastrophe.
The current rate of electricity use in the western is not viable. The choice is keeping the lifestyle for the next few decades and excepting the fact that future generations are fucked. Reality is that in the next decade or so even if the developed world brings down it's carbon output. The devolping countries which are 80% of the world population will be increasing theirs as they keep developing. Nuclear might be an option for the developed world but unless something drastically changes in world politics the majority of where the carbon use going to come from are not going to have access to it.
And yet you have taken from your limited time writing this message, even though there is no snowball chance of your post changing any law from your keyboard. Can you not see that there are more reasons for public discourse than just directly changing some law?
Employees can also leave at anytime for arbitrary reasons.
> Mastodon has meanwhile managed to either do something right or get lucky wrt the path dependency of building structures where prosocial hosting behavior is convenient

It seems to me that Mastodon gained traction in a way that wasn't much different from email. In both cases there was a communication network which anyone could add a node to pretty easily. Your node could have local moderation policies and you wouldn't have too many issues with getting blocked as long as you acted nice. For both email and Mastodon this enabled a few motivated administrators with some influence to onboard thousands of users quickly, and benefit from a network effect bigger than just their node.

The similarities to email end when you consider _why_ people migrated to the network in question. With Mastodon the waves have been culturally/politically motivated people running away from something (ex-Twitter users fleeing abuse, Japanese loli enthusiasts trying to avoid embarrassment, sex workers seeking an alternative to SESTA/FOSTA regulatory deplatforming). Whereas with email people were running _to_ something - the first free, global communications network of its kind.

It's also interesting to note that email nowadays has lost these advantages (running a server is much tougher now and you can't really pull it off without blessings from Google and others). Sure enough email is now on the decline.
“Lidar sensors could also damage the cameras on other self-driving cars.“ so eventaulally driverless Cars spoil each other camera sensors and can’t recognize pedestrians, traffic signs. How can cameras be immune to high power laser beams?
Commuting by bike everyday has been a huge help for me, feels amazing to move your legs after a day of sitting and forces your mind to focus on something else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
> the 'users who also posted' metric

— Hello, is this the anime channel?

— Yes.

— How do I patch KDE2 under FreeBSD?

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_does_one_patch_KDE2_under_...)
You seem to be misinformed about this because LN is absolutely functional today already. What are you talking about?

Is it not functional in BTCPay server perhaps? Nevertheless, the network itself functions already and functions well. (Adoption will take time to spread, yes.)
Whenever my friends who do play Eve talk about the game, they talk about tactics and strategy and politics (internally in how their corporation should be organized and externally with whom to ally or going to war) and logistics or are theorycrafting ships/fleets. They are not talking about spending more real money to win more.
How to update the firmware on your Zune, without Microsoft, dammit
Ask HN: What do you use for remote configuration on your mobile app?
We've been using remote configuration or a few years in our mobile app. At first we ran a very simple custom implementation, and we later switched to a Saas that seemed to offer a more comprehensive solution. We've had many issues with it: the UI is terrible for large projects, there is no versioning of the configuration, no gestion of merge conflicts (when several devs are editing at the same time). Worse, the behaviour is not deterministic: if some segments overlap (our fault), it will serve either value at random (should not happen).

I was wondering if any of you had found a good solution? What are their pros and cons before we jump into it?
Only slightly. You can simply require that farm subsidies only go to land that is registered, even if the land is not owned by the person getting the subsidy.
and at some point it was even comedy gold when the system would compress them with ... xz! lol
I have one which I use to play my own music — an open source media server plus an Android app which I think I paid for. (See my other comment.)

However, friends have no problem using it with Spotify, the local public broadcast system app, or a local music streaming app.

I think there just aren't enough audiophiles who were aware this existed. Some friends bought them after seeing my setup, but it wasn't advertised, and most products at a similar price sound awful.

(Also, in my experience people aren't really aware just how bad their Bluetooth speaker sounds, as they haven't compared it to even a cheap hifi system. I used to give away 3.5mm to RCA cables so people could connect their TV to external speakers, no-one failed to appreciate the improvement.)
It's already functional and live in production for many business today. It will just keep getting better, e.x. enabling LN payments without an invoice from the person accepting the payment.
Titles, optional brief descriptions, and an absolute minimum of other stuff. Not lots of structured fields. Definitely not custom states and flow-charts. If there's extensively discussion to be had, put that elsewhere. Ideally, e-mail.

I just want a TODO list to glance over occasionally, not a system that can turn into full-time job in its own right.
Breathing a different kind of smoke and hoping it will reduce harm seems a bit bizarre. Smoke particles are dangerous whatever you burned to get them, right?

I guess it wouldn't have the addictive qualities of nicotine, but addiction means people wouldn't switch away in the first place.
You’d have to somehow redirect / spoof DNS responses to Let’s Encrypt to fool them and make it look like you passed the challenge.

Not trivial, but far from impossible for as long as the world maintains that securing the DNS is pointless.
> Eero routers vs Google WiFi or Netgear competitor

Wait, how is Netgear not a company for whom "hardware is their core product"?
This is why it is so much cheaper to live in a roadgoing vehicle than to live in a similarly sized rental room in spite of the hugely lopsided maintenance cost difference between the two options.
Eh, I think I have something interesting to say on this topic. I'm not making a "religious flame war", merely stating that literal and thorough implementations of scriptures cause human suffering. Please see this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18888118
What technical function exactly do you assume such a platform needs from Ethereum, that is not already provided in Bitcoin?
Because it removes degrees of freedom. If there are N ways to achieve goal X, and some of those ways include layoffs, then removing those ways from the space of possible strategies will reduce the probability of companies achieving X.
Your second sentence doesn't wholly align with your first.

Exclusively storing any data set in a single location is a bad idea, yes. But that's not an argument against a centralised register of all land ownership. My property is registered with the Land Registry but I keep a copy of the documents and my solicitor keeps the same in their files.
The attack is based on compromising control of the victim’s domain.

What’s to stop someone in control of a domain putting records up for 10 days? It’d still happen, just be a delay between compromising the domain and getting the cert is all.
You make it sound like this activity happens in a vacuum, just people randomly getting ideas to create censorhip-free alternatives.

These alternatives come up because there are real problems with censorship on existing platforms (or let's say "perceived real by enough people"). If those problems will keep persisting and will get worse - then the alternatives will absolutely thrive. If Patreon and Visa and others will get some sense back - then alternatives will become a passing fad.
Phantasie is fascinating as from my perspective an extraterrestrial alien could not think more differently.

https://de-de.facebook.com/notes/blake-ross/aphantasia-how-i...

If I ask you about the number of windows in your house (or parents/friends house) do you „just know“ the answer or do you imagine with an inner eye to visit each room and count virtually?

Can you imagine, like an inner mirror, the face of your parents or significant other?
There are a dozen services and a hundred run-your-own servers.

People lose detail in older memories; Google Reader did a pretty good job and had few awful problems, so it is remembered fondly. The death notice was a big shock to people who relied on it heavily, so it is remembered vividly.

I set up a Tiny RSS server and have been reasonably content.
Would that really be such a big nuisance? It could even be set up automatically in some wallets.
I assume farm subsidy submissions register where the activity is occurring: Caroline Lucas MP has submitted an amendment to the current Agriculture Bill which would require that

> the land on which any activity is to be undertaken […] and for which the financial assistance is sought is registered with Her Majesty's Land Registry.

So farm subsidy submissions would be cross-referenced with the Land Registry, and any such submissions listing unregistered land would be rejected off-hand.
Get on the level of the ship shipping ships shipping shipping ships: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/23913/is-this-a...
The Natural Law as a Restraint Against Tyranny
Thanks, but I'm not looking forward to the increased mental health bill that this will bring (COBOL polishing I mean)
It's probably not bait. It's easy to intuitively think 64 bits is only double. I do these calculations regularly as security professional (password strength for example) but not everyone does.
Hmm... someone mean could certainly have some fun sending fake emails to other employees.
The subsidy recipient is not necessarily the owner e.g. following mutual agreement a farmer could graze their sheep on the neighbour's land which they don't own (because friendliness or usefulness or family history or specific allowances when the land was sold a hundred years back), and that land could be unregistered.

I expect the idea here is that the subsidy seeker probably has an idea as to whose land it is they're using, and thus could go ping the owner for registration so they can get their subsidies back. This is especially likely if the registration is easy and free: chances are the owner simply has not bothered registering the land because they have no need to and can't be arsed, being asked to by an acquaintance would be sufficient a motivation to eventually check in with the local authorities.
Web Authentication: Why the password will not die out so fast? – HelpDev
In Germany you see things like a single person having to do all jobs at once at a Pizza Hut or only three people working at the same time in a supermarket. A lot of customer-facing businesses are insanely understaffed. If your employer doesn't hire enough coworkers for whatever reason, your life will be miserable.
Also, i don't know who out there is heavily invested in a $35 audio dongle. I love mine, but it still works just as well today as it did yesterday and not being able to order more isn't causing me any anxiety.

It does give me some anxiety. Because there are no and, unless google ships a replacement, probably will never be anything equivalent.

The chromecasts as devices are quite weird. Their usability for most things are just horrible. But they are simple devices. Once you get over the hurdle of how to use it becomes functional. Everything supports it. It took weeks frustration to get my parents to learn the chromecast, and it requires dedication. Now they love it, but apparently now I have to find something entirely different for audio. And I expect there to be a ton of compromises to even get to the clunkyness of the chromecast.

The value of the chromecast is the software support. Something only few could do not because it is hard but because you need the market penetration. And google does have a tight lid on the software integration.

That way they can sell the chromecast with ridiculous margins. Not sure how they reason canning chromecast audio, it's basically free money.
They - or more likely a front company - claims the subsidies.
If a form goes in and the claim looks plausible, subsidies are paid. I strongly suspect title isn't checked.

Interestingly, the UK has a "squatter's rights" law not many people know about. If you fence off some land and use it, it effectively becomes your property after a number of years if no one challenges you.

I've seen people use this to extend their gardens into common land.
On htdp.org: https://htdp.org/2018-01-06/Book/part_prologue.html

"If programming were just about numbers and arithmetic, it would be as boring as mathematics."

What's wrong with this author?
Most of the fees are at the fiat conversion step. Usually they are higher(i.e 10%) than credit card fees. Not to mention the loss due volatility. Cryptocurrencies are not good for payments unless they are pegged to a fiat currency(i.e euro).
RPI is good press for Broadcom. Texas instrument would be BeagleBone/BeagleBoard.
Reference to Mastodon discussion on the article: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/101399355594255147
Identity Theft Protection Services Evolve in Digital Convenience Era
Google kills the Chromecast Audio
Monad I Love You Now Get Out of My Type System
What's more, most smart devices will not last until 2038. Planned obsolescence is a standard feature of smart devices product development plans today, especially since fewer and fewer of them are doing anything without cloud integration. If this trend continues, I would bet a kidney that no smart product launched in 2025, regardless of target audience, will still be operating (and be incapable of receiving updates automatically) in 2035.
Private repositories are now free to use by the way.
I saw that message because I was blocking third party javascript, the site uses resources from mapbox.com
This is acctually probably how they do it.
Ah! Missed that one.
>The current rate of electricity use in the western is not viable.

This simply isn’t true. Nuclear and even hydro are fantastic renewable sources. Wind and large scale solar isn’t bad in many places either. The problem is that environmentalists (and others, especially NIMBYs) strongly oppose most of those options, especially nuclear and hydro.

Any proposed solution that relies on mass lifestyle overhauls is a non-starter, and isn’t even required for renewables to be leveraged properly. At that point it just becomes idealism, and any idealist view of society that requires significant changes in behaviours and motivations, on mass, is really just navel gazing.
The Evolution of Trust (game theory)
The same rich object model that Common Lisp, Dylan, SELF, JavaScript, Smalltalk enjoy while having JIT support.

For example in Smalltalk, you can destroy all JIT assumptions about a given object by sending a become: message.

https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2009/07/miracle-of-become.html
Help! My Boss Is El Chapo
In many areas of embedded, Linux is the default OS choice for a SoC these days. Sometimes Android for things with screen/UI. I expect Linux to be the default for RISC-V SoCs (not microcontrollers) also, even without any RPI involvement.

But the Board Support Packages from typical vendors tend to be as-closed-as-possible, with limited access to documentation, software updates and support for small customers. RPi comes from a different direction, much more open and accessible. So hopefully they will drag/push the vendors to be this type of open from the start in the RISC-V space.
Does this only work in Chrome or is navigating to node 3 always impossible?
Lise Getoor have a nice talk at NIPS in 2017 on a what I think is a formalism, Probabilistic Soft Logic, that her group developed: https://youtu.be/t4k5LKCpboc . Definitely an interesting direction of research.
I have literally hundreds of things that cost $15 to $20, and many of those are over ten years old and still work fine.

Obviously they have a lifespan and the quality of cheap products can be quite poor, so there are items that broke and got thrown away.

But there's nothing that stopped working because the manf told me I couldn't use it any more.
"Just kidding: mathematics is a fascinating subject, but you won’t need much of it for now."
What if the managers are fired too? Should they be kept on just long enough to fire their reports? Is that somehow more humane?

Employment is a business deal. If you consider your relationship with your manager to be personal then you have an unhealthy view of your job.
Good luck taking on a Cambridge college in the courts...
I used to live in Scotland, and when I paid off my mortgage I received "the deeds". I had very little idea what to expect, but it turned out to be a bundle of papers almost three inches thick, detailing every sale since the property had been built in 189x.

Having the paper-records was fascinating, and I seeing the initial owners staying there for 10-20 years, then a few periods where the property changed hands every 1-3 years, for ever increasing sums of money.

At the time I received them I was told "Yeah you don't need these, really, they're registered in the Scottish land registry". But when I came to sell the place - from abroad, no less - the first demand from the solicitors who I'd hired to manage the sale was "Please mail us the deeds".

I was almost tempted to keep them and say "Sorry, they're lost" to see what would happen. But selling a property from a foreign country was enough of a hassle that I didn't go through with it.

I do wish I'd taken photographs though, as the legalese was very nice to read.
> Intel had to have known this and yet designed an architecture with no registers that was almost entirely at the compiler's mercy for throughput.

They repeated this pattern with Itanium/VLIW, but this time the marketing was much better to the point that other vendors all but deprecated their architectures before Itanium was even released.
so maybe we don't need Lidar, because the cameras can see like the human eye in the snow, too. Depth can be given by doing like insects and adding many triangulation points.