skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This often goes missed when gun owners are criticised for saying that guns are useful in a revolt. The point isn't to win against a tyrannical government, it's to force said regime's hand into a position where they either give up or commit an atrocity that hastens their demise and weakens their mandate.

Vietnam and Iraq are two standout examples of weapons being useful to resist a powerful occupier. They never actually defeated the US, they were just a huge pain in the ass until the US finally gave up and left.
I tend to think like this too. If the change is small/easy evolution probably tried it already. A standard guess for a "downside" would be increased energy expenditure (but only a guess). Also, Klotho seems to decline with age, and old people are not as well optimized by evolution, since they don't procreate (directly).
It was Underground Gamer. The quality of the collection was astonishing, many games were impossible to get or purchase anywhere else due to abandonment. And everything just disappeared overnight.

People still have all this on their drives. I'm sure the community can be revived someday.
What changed was the environmentalism movement, usually symbolized by the crying Indian commercial.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CryingIndian

>>>> My guess is it will take another generation for people there to appreciate how blessed they are to live in such surroundings but by then it will unfortunately be too late.

This in the parent comment is strange. It wasn't too late everywhere else, and it obviously won't be too late in Vietnam either. A clean environment is a luxury you can afford when you're rich. Poor places are dirty, but it's not like they can't be cleaned.
Well, I think it is wrong to rely on any company’s products and always have plan B options. I just switched to using G Suite for maintaining my collection of research material, emails, online storage, and most importantly using cloud search to find things quickly. This is convenient but I could adapt in a day if they shut down all these services. I use my own domain, keep google Takeout backups, and could get by nicely using spotlight on a Mac to search all my old research PDFs and notes.

Compute platforms are a different story: if we as developers keep our cloud based systems ‘portable’ we miss value of specific AWS/GCP/Azure services and APIs. So, I would argue that it is very important for Google to provide better support and stability for GCP and everything else really is much less important.

EDIT: I forgot to add: I have purchased about $300 in google play movies and books, so I would be annoyed if for some reason those stopped being available.
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That's the most frustrating part of depression- You can have a nice protective mindset and habits carefully constructed and working great and then depression comes along and throws it all into darkness. You really have to work to keep pushing ahead and through it. I literally visualize putting one foot in front of the other to get through the hardest days.
Can't say for sure since I'm not in this field, but some reddit research led to this:

>Whether acute klotho elevation represents a strategy that can rapidly enhance cognition, motor functions, and/or induce brain resilience is a gap in our knowledge of its therapeutic potential. Here we show that αKL-F, a fragment of the α-klotho protein similar to its secreted form, can acutely improve cognitive and motor functions following peripheral administration. It does so despite apparent impermeability to the blood-brain barrier in young, aging, and hSYN transgenic mice. Further investigation of αKL-F-mediated molecular mechanisms revealed activation of glutamatergic signaling and enhancement of synaptic plasticity.

https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(17)309...

So the research around klotho may produce something which doesn't actually need to cross the BBB as a retail drug, but on a simultaneous front, we have gene manipulation via CRISPR that would also increase klotho production.
Google's two (maybe three) core Google-branded products to non-tech people are Search, Gmail and maybe Chrome. I don't think non-techies could even tell you what some of the other products are or did. I would also wager most people outside of tech don't realize YouTube is owned by Google.

Tech people pay a lot of attention to this stuff, but casual user's don't notice or don't care.
Quoting the legend of said picture in the article:

"""Note that this chart does not show the spectral properties of the cones themselves (but they look similar). It represents the CIE 1931 colour space, which, simply put, corresponds to the signals after they have been processed by the brain."""
Previous discussion from almost exactly three years ago [1]. From my comment that time [2] here is the link to archive.org's copy of Sutherland's FLEET project [3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11425533

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11426825

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20120227072220/http://fleet.cs.b...
Linkers exist too.
As Western countries are all slowly drifting towards what amounts to government-sanctionned censorship by ISPs - especially after the adoption by the EU Parliement of the copyright directive, but it's just one more step in the general movement towards controlling who can publish what on the web -, we need more initiatives that bypass those ISPs, which are currently in the Western world the only ones capable of enforcing censorship.

I'm no expert on this and the ways of achieving it, but as a citizen I feel more and more concerned about this - in particular as my (French) government seems eager to move in the not-right direction.
regularly doesn't mean yearly, but 10 year interval is okeyish for slow infrastructure upgrade.
You are correct but there are also plenty of case studies in automobile-dependent cities that went all-in on transit, but that was usually due to a crushing and unbearable level of crowding thats simply not legal in any US city.
There isn't a single new Google product that I'm excited about. Even if there was, at this point I would be apprehensive at best given their track record of abandonment. It seems to be that they've forgotten how to innovate compared to their competitors. Facebook, despite their controversies, bought Instagram and managed to recapture the young market with new features and improvements. Amazon has been making strides with AWS and its Prime ecosystem. Google has been... Making more redundant messaging apps?
That exercise (especially endurance sports) is as effective as your typical SSRI is known for decades. The problem is getting a depressed person to exercise five days a week and holding up to that schedule for months and years.
this is another concern I would have. The complete inability to get ahold of a real person when dealing with google support is just silly.
I'd say they run it like a marketplace. If a product isn't generating revenue, it gets axed. Which, given the size of Google is probably about the only way to run things. Hierarchies don't scale indefinitely. How many companies have we seen collapse due to an inability to react to ever changing market demands? Besides having an oracle for a CEO, I'd say running your company as a bunch of autonomous business units is probably the only solution.
It's not just Asia. Africa and Latin America are much the same. Curiously, Rwanda is a notable exception* - their authoritarian leader decided to spend a lot of manpower to keep everything clean, and I think there are also heavy fines for littering and dumping garbage.

* notable because usually the correlation is with income/culture, but Rwanda is not rich nor much different culturally from neighbouring trash-inundated countries.
Most of the languages are constantly changing but the JavaScript world is way faster than anybody else moves.

Although might be over-hyped, I personally believe it's more a good thing which moves the community even the industry forward. React was kind of enlightened the functional and reactive patterns to the mainstream developer community.

In contrast, most of the back-end communities still struggle with data synchronization between microservices, while all modern front-end frameworks are able to update all of the view or other read models almost magically.

If anyone wants a more specific example, I think it's quite shocking to me that there are only very few back-end architectures knows clearly how to design a whole large scale architecture push WebSocket notification for a given user -- just like typical google suite stuff. WebSocket has been there for years, there are so few people know how to develop and operate a stateful service... unbelievable.

I agree with that shipping business functionality is the most important value in technology. However, I feel most of the back-end communities worries about the problems they are encountering too much. And they don't really care about the art of the programming itself, yet advanced architectures indeed require language or platform level construct, for example, immutable data structures are much easier to be concurrent safe, or just the computation should be pure to be safely rescheduled on other core or machine, etc.

In the front-end world, I think for example React and Mobx which I'm using are pretty much taking care of most of the accidental complexity of software development. In the back-end world, I can imagine something similar to a full-blown framework like Rails but built on top of something like Orleans or Lasplang would help us get rid of all the accidental complexity, and just expressing the domain itself instead. We're still too far from there.

A quote from SICP lecture:
https://youtu.be/2Op3QLzMgSY?list=PLE18841CABEA24090&t=81

"And the Egyptian who did that, geometry really was the use of surveying instruments. Now the reason that we think about computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that Egyptian thought geometry
was about surveying instruments."
Yes, you're right. To answer the question: if you would ask me 'would you leave your company for a 20% raise with the same hours' than my answer would be 'probably not'. I've had numerous jobs before this one, this is the first job that I like going to, even after a couple of years in. I make a decent amount, have nice collegues, no office politics and every day is a new challenge (in a good way). Having the peace of mind of a fulfilling job is worth a lot more than 20% in my opinion.

Maybe I'll switch in a couple of years for a real C-level job, but right now I don't see myself going anywhere.
Funding is month-to-month, essentially. Not sure how long they'll last. But I agree, its very low.
These new mind enhancing drugs need not go down the path of adderall or other ADHD drugs. From my understanding those are based on amphetamine salts, with a host of well known societal issues like you mentioned.

Maybe they would follow the route of birth control instead. Initially seen as a moral repugnancy by many, but eventually accepted pretty much universally. It alters the body in significant ways achieving the desired effect as well as a few other hard to quantify ones.

We should be cautious of bad side effects, but they are not a given.
>Slightly off topic, but I'm convinced we'll also eventually have a lot of robust data that shows that alcohol, even in minor but regular amounts (2-3 drinks most days of the week, say) has large negative effects on mood/energy that build up over time.

Do you remember any particular studies that show this? Would love to read more on this topic.
> Damaging? Its very clear the damage is done.

In the HN community certainly, but also for consumers?
(disclaimer: I used to work on EHRs, hence the name...)

This article is melodramatic and terrible, and I feel sorry for anyone who gets their opinion on EHRs from it. It reads like some kind of expose, like it's uncovering some disturbing truths and showing the reader that our system is totally broken, or something. Not true at all, it's just that some people have bad experiences that get sensationalized and put into an attention-grabbing news piece. And then people read it and only hear about the bad stuff.

As someone who's worked in EHRs, I can tell you we're a lot better off with EHRs than ever before (particularly compared to hospitals that used to put everything on paper, in a freaking file cabinet...) and we're just improving with time. Granted, bad EHR software does exist out there, but as a whole we make patient care significantly better.

I put some real examples below. I think we have tons of anecdotal evidence pointing to the positive impact of EHRs, but I'll admit we don't have many statistics either (good or bad). I think you basically have to work in the EHR/healthcare space to see the positive impacts for yourself, but I hope this post helps people see the good things we do, too.

+ Catching medication administration and other procedural errors that would lead to patient harm and death

+ Allowing patient info to be accessible at other hospitals, when it's needed to adequately care for a patient (real example that has happened countless times: patient comes into the ER unconscious, but has a nametag; nurse uses it to look up the pt in the system, but he's never been to that hospital before. No problem; nurse requests his record from the hospital he has been to, and gets his whole history, allergies, etc so they can better determine a cause and what treatment is OK for the patient)

+ Allowing anonymized patient data to be used for population health and other research; a doctor used this to catch the Flint, MI water crisis

+ Nurses/docs can just look up patient info in one system instead of searching through an ever-growing file cabinet, or having to go get their paper record from another department, etc. It's just all in one place. Hospital admins can more easily run anonymized reports/statistics on their patients, departments, etc. to see how everything's going.

+ EHRs are able to suggest tests or screens for the patient depending on their symptoms and their whole medical history (which, again, is all in one place). In some cases, this is just a nice reminder for the provider, but in other cases can indicate something deeper is going on with the patient that really needs to be tested.

+ Sending prescriptions to pharmacies is often automatic instead of needing a call, which essentially removes another point of failure. Sending information about specimens, like blood tests or scans, can also be automatic depending on the EHR.

+ Patients may have a patient portal with the EHR that gives them a view of their past history/visits and provides an easy way to request prescription refills, schedule appointments (no call required!), and receive test results.
TLDR:

- “Chef will move all of our product software development to an open source model with 100% of our product code available and licensed under Apache 2.0”

- “Chef will produce a new distribution (release), Chef Enterprise Automation Stack, built for commercial users with new terms and conditions of use.”
So, after pirate sites we will have to see pirate ISPs too.
I don't want to take a drug to improve my performance while having to monitor for side effects, deal with withdrawal and worry about potential and unknown long term damage.

In particular I don't want to feel like I would have to take a drug just to keep up with everyone else who is on gear. That's how it seems to be in professional sports, but that's a niche. Brain drugs would be attractive to a large part of society.
The problem is that the damage is cumulative. Each step may have little collateral damage but each is a step in the same direction where your reputation becomes bad.
Would we be able to interpret those colours? How will our brain handle and interpret them? It might be like having to learn to see all over again.

It's certainly a cool idea, though. And you don't have to stop at four. Don't butterflies have 6 different cones or something?
Either a UV laser/lamp, or you need a broadband light source, like sunlight, and a filter/monochromator of some kind (either using a prism or a diffraction grating, or a bandpass filter). You could find something that only reflected UV, yes, but only if you had a source that emitted UV in the first place. Odds are most people don't want UV emitters in a screen they look at 6 hours a day.

The point is that you need a source which contains the wavelength of interest. Monitor leds are red/green/blue and don't emit violet photons. 405nm is usually somewhat visible, if a bit blurry. Blue leds are usually Gallium Nitride based which produces more like 450nm.

Look up the photopic and spectroscopic response:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminosity_function

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photopic_vision

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotopic_vision
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I'm round-numbering. Median individual income in the US is a bit over $30k, adding $12k to that is roughly a third.

And your claim, which is nonsense, is that the VAT will eat 100% of that $12k.
You can completely disable them for all websites, and allow notifications for some websites.

I disabled them and never see them anymore.
Thank you that was very interesting !
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rapid reproduction/death (mutation) rate would be evolutionary advantageous, or at least a requirement, no?
Not to, from :-)
The Nexus line did exactly what it was supposed to do. It was meant to push an idealistic vision of what Android phones were supposed to be onto the market at a (too) competitive price point to force other Android manufacturers to follow suit.

A few years down the line, consumers have flocked to Android in large numbers, so now it's time to appease other phone manufacturers and guard the bottom line by discontinuing the Nexus line which ran at a loss.
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I am curious what you are on.
>> Most prompts are dismissed, while almost 19% of prompts caused users to leave the site immediately after being confronted with them.

Finally! Some numbers from a respectable source showing that most pop-us are bad for user engagement.
I was going to make a comment about how Google's approach to service deprecation contrasts with Microsoft's, but then I spot-checked my assumptions and realized that MS has discontinued over 50% of the Office ecosystem of apps over the years.

So I think I need to instead ask a question: Is Google's deprecation strategy actually unusual for a company with a wide ecosystem of offerings?
Once (and if) you exhaust all options mentioned by HNers, trying emailing Jeff Bezos and write a proper explanation with kind of tldr; in the first para.

I know it sounds stupid but it worked for me. I had a $$$ of affiliate payment pending with them and the CS staff dilly-dallied the payment - to my Indian account - for more than 10 months. I emailed, Jeff intervened, deputed his secretary on my case. He, in turn, got me in touch with India manager.
The Indian manager bent over backwards and was extremely apologetic for the trouble I had to face and sent the amount quickly. He ended the last call saying for any kind of trouble with Amazon I can contact him.
That's exactly why trains are not as successful as cars.
When Ireland Had Two Time Zones
Yes, Google will be fine because they have an insanely favorable business model. However, if you can’t get the early adopters to use your products the late adopters never will. Why? Because the tech savvy early adopters are the ones who figure out new user interfaces and use cases, and transfer that knowledge to the less capable. They show them examples of why to use something and help when they run in to problems. I’m still helping people use Google search and Gmail.

There is nothing wrong with a company testing and shutting down new products. There is a problem when you say this is Google _______ or Facebook _______ and your customers think it is on the same level as your first tier apps. Amazon does it all the time and most users never know it was an Amazon product. Most users don’t even know Instagram is owned by Facebook.

Consider the exhaustive work Microsoft has done for decades to make things backwards compatible, often at the cost of their current product. No one would expect that from Google. They expect things to be killed off arbitrarily when the product isn’t popular enough.

There are options:

Sell the product to another company

Publish the source code with an open license

Or never stamp your name on the product in the first place
It reverts wholly to China, and becomes a Chinese city like any other. No more separate economic system, political system, currency, immigration, press, etc.

But China is basically pre-empting that by gradually tightening the screws already. One of the factors (together with massive inequality and diminishing economic opportunities) leading to the 2014 umbrella protests.
That's not enough for the stack traces. A crash in Go is way more informative than failing an assert in C. Whether the extra memory is worth it is a separate questions.
What about aubergine?
I've seen some sites that do long tasks use them to alert you when the task is finished, so you can do something else while waiting and not miss when it finishes.
But one commenter is right, the phone doesn't have a bright source in front of it, meanwhile the second camera has.

And it is very suspicious to be prerecorded, as there should be shadows in the room at least the recorded's shadow should be shown as well
I was really disappointed when they were shutting down Wave. It seemed so innovative and even today there is no powerful Wiki-Messenger-Docs that is even close to it. I virtually stopped using Google because of privacy concerns but Wave was so unique, I might not have never considered to leave, who knows...

About Inbox I don't really care but obviously the UX was amazingly intuitive.
Yup. Have you also observed that the HN community has a vegan/vegetarian-bias?

People here jump to prompt criticism and ad hominem when there is a pro-meat submission. And right now that Burger King vegan burger loaded with questionable ingredients is being lauded as the greatest achievement in nutrition.
It doesn't destroy the water, but it does destroy the flow. More hydroelectric power generation upstream means less use of the river downstream, because it's been pacified into a long pond. This is an area of serious contention in many places, particularly where rivers cross national boundaries.

> wasted like normal

But the river flow is not normally wasted. Everyone along a river uses it. In particular, if you're willing to assume (correctly) that generating hydroelectric power in Idaho drains gravitational potential energy out of the river -- in Idaho -- then it immediately follows that the people downstream won't be able to generate hydroelectric power from the river, because the energy was all drained out in Idaho. Which is what I said in the first place.
Right, they just let it wither. If you have a google apps domain, you run months to years behind getting new features compared to their free offerings.

Then there's Google glass...when was the last update for that?

Paid has not meant any kind 9f safety net from Google's mercurial attitudes.