skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh didn’t realize YouTube annotations was killed off.

Gotta say, most annoying thing to me was discontinuing support for the Nexus 6p after only 2 years. Made me switch to iPhone for ever.
There's also a well-documented culture within Google that it's an attractive resume-builder to launch new products, but nobody wants to maintain a product.
Search was curated a long time ago, friend. Now is the time for a true search contender, imo.
They have projects based on this as well. One of the prominent ones was the Sep 11 Archive. https://archive.org/details/911
And ranked. Plus, "Most people only look at the first page, or first few pages of results, so it doesn't really matter, does it?"
It's interesting to see the responses to this article and contrast with the responses to the article regarding Facebook's possible 5B fine. I don't know the motivation behind this decision but I can't help but see the two sides of the same coin.

If we decide as a society that third-party apps misusing the platform in a way that hurts the users or otherwise looks bad to the outside world is the platform's fault, even if this was done with the user's consent (which the app that harvested data for Cambridge Analytica had) and furthermore decide that such conduct deserves a disproportionate fine (which 5B is, given that much larger breaches without any consent have generally gone unpunished) because the platform as a whole is owned by a large successful company, we cannot also expect large tech companies to keep supporting open platforms that allow third-parties to thrive. The economic benefits of giving control to the user are fairly marginal and theoretical, while the risks are extremely large and potentially existential.

I'm not intimately familiar with this particular API, but it's almost certain that it can be abused by third party apps in a way that makes look Google bad. Platform openness has its advocates and detractors at every company. In light of what's going on, it would be hard for the advocates to win any argument.
Yet another reason why we need protocols and not APIs.
I’d long been thinking about it, but this shutdown is what triggered me completely moving away from Google.
How many different words are there for “man”?
American artists disappearing for throwing ink on a painting? No? 1M Uighurs in "re-education camps"? Our Supreme Court said warrantless wireltapping Snowden unveiled was, in fact, illegal?

You'd have to be as dumb as a fucking post to think America was as bad as China.
> Who’s behind it

> Google.org, Google’s philanthropic wing, is getting the project off the ground (pardon the pun) with a $1.7 million grant; it was selected through the Google AI Impact Challenge.

Well kudos to Google.org for this. This is such a basic and potentially impactful dataset. In addition to providing scientific data, I can imagine all kinds of neat interactive 3D globe visualizations to help people “see” the pollution volumes.
In Estonian e-voting they allowed to change the vote later or re-vote offline. So that if someone sold their vote or was forced to vote, they can later change their mind.

But such scheme is still vulnerable: for example, imagine if a large state-owned or having close ties with government company forces their employees to vote online under supervision. If the employees are not very good with computers or don't own one, they cannot change their vote online later, and employer can set their shifts to a voting day so that they cannot visit the polling station.
I don’t understand why there aren’t isn’t strict enforcement of laws about headlights yet. Do the police and politicians not see the danger themselves in the rear view mirror when they drive on the road?
"low self-esteem, eating disorders and an increase in problematic sexual activity" <- by adding eating disorders they basically saying it's girls (young boys with eating disorders to improve body shape are statistical error), this implies that girls want to look like pornstars which is false since none of them look up to pornstars but they do look up to and follow thousands of girls on instagram etc with fake happy lives and slimming filters etc
Let's Get Going with Org-Mode
Async and Await in Loops
> why couldn't they raise another round of funding?

Isn't an IPO just that? A better round of funding that also provides liquidity to shareholders?
The author merely repeats the current costs of renewable energy. He makes no argument that would support the statement that "they were never mean to sustain society." That's a huge leap.

A good book on this subject (despite several errors and gaps in honesty) is The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels.

While I agree that fossil fuels will and probably should rule the roost for quite a while, it's a bit extreme to suggest that we will never develop a cheaper, non-polluting form of energy. Tesla (Nikolai) thought we would.
I would bet there are many people with very extensive porn collections. The more specialized, the more likely they would create a library.
So... The functionality exists and is currently in testing, it's only just become stable enough that we're hearing about it, and they're notifying developers targeting the current service as far ahead of time as possible? I mean, it won't do anything for stuff that's too crappy to take software updates, but that's an entirely different matter.

Edit: Finally went and read the announcement. They're really not giving people much time, are they? Nevermind, three months is pretty bad.
A bigger question is, "How can humans survive transiting the Van Allen belts?" NASA didn't answer this for Apollo and still hasn't answered it for any forthcoming moon mission with people aboard.
> all of them cause more problem than they solve

I know what you mean. But have you tried flutter? Try it and you might change your opinion just like me.
If you're using node, try https://knexjs.org/. The API is very similar.
Just an aside I was never able to successfully register my gmail account to work with Inbox. Even with the invite there was something wrong I could never get past. Google does big things, but "making stuff work" just isn't one of them afaict.
You could technically migrate your VirtualBox VMs to Hyper-V.
That's a great point.

If I understand correctly schemer could agree to pay for votes, but had no way to verify the ballot was indeed cast for that candidate. With this system they could first verify the vote before paying. It's made possible by the information which is used to verify the vote. It's supposed to be kept secret by the vote, but could be shared with the schemer in order to get paid. This would make vote-buying schemes much more manageable.

However, there seems to be considerable risk to the voter. What's to prevent the schemer from not paying up? The vote is already cast, and what can the voter do? Sue the schemer? For not paying for a bought vote?
Unfortunately for Google, NVIDIA's offerings are very strong, and TPUs are a pain the rear to use and require TensorFlow, which in itself is a pain to use, making it doubly painful, to the extent that using their offering requires a significant degree of desperation or not knowing any better.
Honestly, this is so Google. They consistently abandon products and leave their customers hanging. I’ll never buy another product from them.

This is a huge win for Amazon. Ring will get more customers and Nest will be abandoned.
It can, if you theme it that way.
What conditions? When would you ever want white?

And the point of specific warm LEDs is avoiding higher frequencies. It's not the same as mixing light from red and green LEDs.
I think that many people naturally expect Google to work like a lot of other companies, which are focused on satisfying individual customers.

Google, though, is unusual that most of their users are not Google customers. They are the product. So Google's relationship to most individuals is statistical, not personal. If they care about me as an individual, I have never seen the slightest sign of it.

I also think that a lot of things at Google get started and killed not on the business merits, but due to shifting internal politics. Most of my Google friends have left, so I don't have recent examples, but from what I hear Google Plus is a fine example of something launched because a powerful executive got excited. As the political winds shifted, though, it got neglected, and then eventually killed.

Another interesting example for me is Google Reader. I liked the product, but was never clear to me why they built it. They ignored it for a long time and then shot it in the head. Giving it away crushed the market for commercial RSS readers. Once they stopped, that market came back, proving that Google could have had a successful commercial product if they had bothered to run it like a real business.

So no, I don't think we expect them to continue all things indefinitely. But I would love to see a more clear logic for what they will continue to support, because from my perspective it's erratic. I would be very unlikely to build a company that depended on Google; despite having used them for 20 years, I still don't think I can predict their business strategy. In contrast, I've been using Amazon for a similar period, and I have a pretty good idea of what they'll do. I'm not worried they'll EOL the AWS services I use, for example.
> What Google is doing?

Google Doodles.

edit: by that I mean using many tools to project an image of clean smart friendliness.
The pole head needs to be swapped out, since the LED is integral to the fixture, not a swappable lamp. This requires boom trucks/lifts and that work cannot be performed hot, so shutdowns need to occur. There are thousands of lights.

A union journeyman costs ~$65/hr in Detroit

A 50/50 split between labor and materials isn't unusual for electrical work
There are some in this very comment page who are taking Google's side. They are getting severely downvoted, but still.
Nobody should be using a tool that doesn't make money for google without too many indirections.
You came up with Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto in 2000. Sixteen years later, do you feel they have stayed true?

They’ve done about as well as an organization of their size can do. It’s tough to be that big and not make a few mistakes. The issues become very complex.

Helping China censor people is complex? In what way? Selling out Americans without telling them is complex? How so?

Sounds like "Don't be evil" was a joke from the beginning and the photo of Buchheit holding an assault rifle doesn't do much to dispel that notion.
Like... a war with robots where man covers the sky in clouds to cut off their power supply so the robots take the humans for a power supply and simulate 1990s to keep them distracted, while remaining free humans dig into the earth?
They've been around for 3 years+. Welcome to the world of Crypto.
Regarding the Deplatforming of John de Goes
Whether or not a person voted in a given election is already public knowledge. How does this scheme give an attacker any more information than that?

If you're willing to assume the attacker is into the voting booth, you're no worse off with this.
At least one local store chain has a own-brand LED bulb, where the name of the store is printed on the bulb, and they advertise a 10-year warranty.

I've gone in and returned probably a dozen such bulbs without any receipt, just saying "hey, these are your bulbs, you say 10 year warranty, this is broken and they only came to the market 5 years ago".

Of course this only works now in the early days. If the date of manufacture was printed along with the store name, it'd be problem solved forever.
I was taken aback by this one as well. Basically this is an ineffectual attempt at preventing giving away their AI advantage by letting others use their proprietary models (and thus, indirectly, the gigantic dataset that make those models so good) as a "teacher" for their own models, using the fairly standard model refinement techniques popularized by their own Geoff Hinton. Keeping the cards close to their vest, as it were.

See e.g. https://www.quora.com/What-is-hiybbprqag for an example where Microsoft trained their ranker on Google's long tail and substantially reduced the relevance gap on the cheap, and in a way that makes it impossible for Google to trivially regain the advantage. People misinterpreted this as "Microsoft is copying the results", but that's not what it was. Google was unwillingly teaching Bing how to rank. Google responded with personalized search.

I don't think they can realistically prevent this, though. And it's not going to be anywhere near as traceable as "hiybbprqag" was.
Ha! Glad to see Peewee mentioned. In two bullet points: predictable apis, compostable pieces...or, learn once, apply anywhere. Or jOOQ but python. Take your pick!

If code is your thing, Peewee has quite a few examples:

https://github.com/coleifer/peewee/tree/master/examples
Nice job. Think about adding a place where you can select the words you want to practice. Or a word cloud with the words available to practice.

Also, the hardest part about using a site like this is using it on a regular basis. Think about gamefying the site so the user feels a need to continue.

It's hard to suggest improvements unless you use the site on a regular basis so you make sure you ask your users how to improve it since they are the ones that would know best.
“I’m a Works with Nest developer.” Not anymore you’re not.
For one thing you can't pass parameters into signal handlers, so the only way to set a flag for your main app is a global variable.
I think Tesla is a very good EV. Quite possibly the best EV on the market. But it's pretty pathetic as a car, especially as a car at the price they ask for it.
Smarking (YC W15) Is Hiring a Customer Service Manager
> 16MB of RAM would have been laughable in a workstation in 1999 as well.

It wasn't state of the art but I was in high school and still earning free beer by raiding older machines and upgrading friends and families computers to 16MB of RAM. I know it was 1999 and onwards because installing napster was part of a typical job. Not the most affluent crowd though.
I love this xkcd but it's hard to see the compounding or exponential savings the arises
The cheap one supports add-on sensors, it just doesn't include any.
I bet the folks at Arduino and Puri.sm would say it is.
Can I retroactively vote against those supervisors?
Part 2 https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/05/08/distributed-consensus-re...
The Patriot Act kyc reporting requirements would have nothing to do with the delay. The reporting requirement is simply that. It isn't a wait and see to confirm it's ok. You just report the transaction after the fact.

It's all about the float.

The federal deposit rate for banks is 2.35% right now. That's $64 to the bank for every million dollars every day it is deposited at the fed.

Now imagine a large bank like chase is dealing with billions of dollars a day in transfers. Hold it several days when you receive a transfer and hold it several days before sending a transfer and you are making literally millions of dollars every month just for dragging your feet on transfers.
The most surprising thing about this is how many HN readers/commenters are actually seeking help at a brick and mortar store full of "geniuses".
I think private torrent trackers are your best bet when looking for this kind of obscure content.
Ok, more like “That remotely controlled car with integrated taxi service you bought?”

Well, now it’s “Just a car”
If you want to view their header image at larger size but right-clicking doesn't give you the option to "Open image in new tab", the direct link is below. Not a big deal, but it might save a few clicks for some:

https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-cloudblog-publish/origin...
Are you also opposed to efforts to get more female developers?
Reporting the number of miles driven and the number of disengagements is required by law in CA. It is not voluntary.

The reason some larger companies don't have reports is because they either didn't do autonomous testing in CA (many test in AZ) or that they do not consider their tests "autonomous" ( level 4 or above). This is the case for Tesla autopilot.
> You'd need a CPA to figure out your annual property tax, and the exemptions would make tax evasion much easier

If you own a a second residence, are a landlord, are a large business or own an ultra-high value home, you probably need a CPA (or would be fine with this level of mechanical complexity).

Yes, complexity makes evasion easier. But that still beats the status quo where everyone is underpaying. Given how concentrated homeownership is in California, at least by value, it wouldn't be difficult to prioritise prosecution to yield a good bang for buck.
Interesting, even as an English language model, inputting prefixes of other languages shows that the model has picked up a surprising amount of foreign language structure.
Faster CPython
nah, just xlib events being printed to tty
Apart from the well thought out and "proper arguments" like "You don't know what queries it does underneath...". Its usually the "insane-funny-sub-language" you have to learn to work the said ORM which only works for 50% of the queries before you really have to get weird with it.

My not correct and sub optimal solution over the years is to have some sort of "god-class" that has a big collection of sql-related queries with some query-reuse(error checking etc) like "student_insert_update(namedList,namedValues)"

or "student_get_all_subjects(student_id,semester)"

I know its not perfect :/
How about millions (with an s) of black Americans in jail? How about having the highest incarceration rate of any country? Where’s Snowden now?

No idea what you’re referencing with the ink thing btw
We did just clarify this in the spec: https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/commit/49bcb4fddb8.... Hopefully that, plus the tests we'll add in https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=960375 will help other vendors align their behavior with developer expectations.
It's a fantasy to think Uber is a "platform." It's a relatively simple app that anyone could copy and several have.

Uber has no proprietary technology, no network effect, and no route to profitability. Is Silicon Valley so enamored of ordering cabs by pressing buttons rather than speaking into a phone that they really believe this company has value? It's nuts.
Ohhhh the turbo button. I remember that from our first 486DX2. The case had an oddly satisfying neon green segmented LCD display for CPU frequency that would drop from 50 to 25 if you disengaged the switch. Why anyone would ever willingly do so is still beyond me.
And healthy behaviors like eating fruits and vegetables.
What is it? The page just says "Desktop Automation framework" and then lists a bunch of commands and switches.

Perhaps 2-3 paragraphs describing what it does?
The mechanism for voter verification is based on homomorphic encryption. Numberphile made a video on this topic recently, with a few basic explainers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYRTvoZ3Rho
It could be argued that all of Tor is a CIA honeypot. After all, they paid to develop it.
I’m not sure how sample size one beats sample size one.

Did you interview all gmail users to ask them if they would miss those features if they weren’t there?
Google Discontinues ‘Works with Nest‘
Its going to happen. Right now China is on the brink of some massive starvation due to their hog epidemic. [1] Pork is their largest meat consumed. When they've slaughtered 90% of their herd, the price of pork will go through the roof across the globe. This will increase the cost of all agricultural goods.

When food becomes expensive for China what will their newly affluent middle-class do? What will the poorer people do?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823238
I just got the battery replaced on my 6P for around $115 after almost 3 years of extensively using it and it performs like a brand new device now. I also like the Oreo more than Pie OS which my wife uses on her Pixel. So I just want to get through a couple of more years on 6P before I buy a new device. 6P has been the best $500 purchase for me so far.
It also is context.
Damn that's a lot of enterprise level words and acronyms to just "store some data". Lol not saying you wrong... just don't like this part of our industry. Is it too late to go back to Turbo Pascal (record-files) ? :)
Because they can ask to verify.
Hill Climb Racing Hack – 100% Working Hack with Proof
Who voted is public record (depending on your state [1]), so the numbers should add up.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/us/politics/apps-public-v...
That's true partially. At least you have to segment extremely wealthy individuals from high-middle class individuals who don't care too much about this. Again this also anecdotal, but most people I know simply want a good quality of life at a reasonable cost.

At a certain point that stops being feasible if the cost of living keeps increasing and additionally you're taxed at the highest rates.

Also from an economic perspective, people will move close to where the jobs are. You hear a lot about startups hiring in the Bay Area but almost never hear the big incumbent businesses expanding there. Quite the opposite.

As with any macro-economic trend, it would pass years until you see the effects of these things, but I do believe that this doesn't play well for California's economy in the long-term.

Fortunately for California, there is more than Bay Area, so it's also possible that this is just a phenomenon applicable to the economic behavior and impact of the tech industry and tech employees.
Google Announces HTTPS://Dart.dev/
I always thought someone would make a device that can suck heat out of the air to make electricity.

(Kind of like a heat pump, only that it could completely power itself from the heat in the air instead of needing to consume electricity.)
What does "people being in control of their own stuff" even mean? Right now, people are in control and they choose to use software that is convenient for them, which happens to upload their data to the cloud. How do you force people to use software that doesn't do this?

It's also unclear whether in practice people being in control over their devices better protects the users - back when that was the case, malware was a bigger problem than it is now.
And apparently Hacker News wants that protocol signature in SHOUTY CAPS. Nice.
Trump tariff increase, trade war will sucker punch China economy
>A couple of years ago, when the dart team failed at getting their runtime embedded into the browsers, they started searching for a problem to solve.

I thought that flutter was started outside of Google.
You mean the airline that went through bankruptcy in an industry with lots of bankruptcies?
Gundam
"Don't we simply"
"How hard can it be"
But Hibernate will add extra complexity by it self. You can make mistakes in de mapping, then it adds multiple caches and you might use Spring and use the open-in-view filter...
I am not stating that Hibernate (or JPA for that matter) is bad but it totally depends on what you are developing. Simple solutions can use Hibernate for more complex stuff you might not.
Using JPA can also make your application independent from a specific database. But if you want to use advanced database features and have chosen a specific database you can not always use JPA.
I've been working with it for about 6 months, and TS a couple years before that. Dart is missing some things, but it's alright. The standard lib is great.
Its already here. Look at all the proactive “banning” of the voices on the other side.
Do you usually just use Uber? I’m surprised you haven’t signed up for Lyft for this long. Pretty commonplace to bump price estimates against each other. I also prefer Lyft over Uber too though.