skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buy a new one, and see how long it lasts by comparison.

https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/mice/mi...

Message us in 18 years.
I ran a pop up shop and totally understand not wanting to deal with cash. It adds overhead (counting, bank runs, accounting entries) and puts you at higher risk for robbery.

But I also use cash for most of my daily purchases, because I don't trust banks to not sell my spending habits.

It's a complicated situation, and for now, requiring cash is a smart move. Most people will default to cards (most places I go buy from, turn on the card reader before even asking if I'm using cash), and we'll probably end up there eventually. Hopefully, not before better consumer privacy regulations.
I am pretty sure that France is mainly exporting electricity produced from nuclear energy (which is better or worst than carbon produced electricity depending on who you ask )
Every? There are are buy-it-for-life producers. Examples, Alden shoes, Snap-on wrenches, Fluke meters. With most Toyotas and Hondas you’ll tire of them before they wear out if keep them minimally maintained. Basic kitchen equipment will not fail over several lifetimes. A moderately priced stainless pan will last. Decent knives will eventually wear away from repeated sharpening but I bet if you bought one today it would be in your estate as long as you don't use it for pry bar or a screw driver
Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from landlords
Does the Nest thermostat product still have an active firmware / hardware / software team?

It feels like various features have been kind of frozen in place for the past few years.
sure, taxis were horrible and expensive. however, they made enough money to sustain themselves with their high prices, low margins, and crummy service. I guess the question is, what would Uber/Lyft have to charge to break even? 10% more? 50% more? What would they have to charge to justify their share price? Do they make sense as businesses?
Is the moon there when nobody looks? (1985) [pdf]
This is why we need to be pushing for devices that use open protocols at the very least. (Ideally they'd be fully open devices.)

It saddens me to see people buy into IoT and not think about the vendor lock-in or data exfiltration. The thing is, there really aren't any alternatives.
They may not want to be a PM, but that is what they have become. It shouldn't be a surprise that they don't get promoted into another role that requires an even higher level of non-PM technical work.

If the "glue" in this scenario actually doesn't want to do the glue work, and wants to get promoted into technical SE roles, the appropriate thing to do would be to "manage upward" and make the organization aware of the need for more PM/Product Lead types of resources, while at the same time ensuring their own technical output is solid. I agree it is absolutely a crappy situation to need that glue work to be done and have no one tasked with doing it, but ignoring a portion of the work that is actually in your job description is counter productive if you want to get to an even more senior role that requires more of that work you haven't been doing.

In short, the fact that someone has to become the glue to begin with means the organization has some structural issues. The path to take raising awareness of that problem, not ignoring a portion of your responsibilities.
Skyscrapers on the royal mile? No. Sky scrapers in shitty nearby suburbs? Absolutely. In London, the whole Isle of Dogs is being slowly eaten up by high rises, and nothing of value will be lost.
I/O 2019 – Your Data Stays on Your Phone: Google Promises a Better AI
Yes. If it were positive and shows them to be the leader, then the market will assign an extra X Billion Dollars to it's MarketCap.

And this is super important when raising the $2B Tesla is seeking.
In the old days the most under appreciated Microsoft division was Microsoft Hardware. Keyboards and mice were top notch.
I scanned this essay for the inevitable "there is more work to be done" line. This time it's "we know our work here is never done, and we want to do more to stay ahead of user expectations."
Not sure about the situation in Czechia but in Spain (where I live) I'd say most of it is caused by the fact that jobs have moved to the big cities to the point where there's nothing left to do in small/mid-sized towns. Personally I blame shopping centres (which have destroyed most small stores in every town they've settled in, and don't require as many active people) and cheap production in Eastern Europe and China (which has destroyed the secondary sector).
This seems to include all of us using them in open-source "hobbyist" environments, like Home Assistant and Node-Red. I'm quite frustrated by this; I'll never buy another Nest product again, and I now regret my purchase of the Nest Thermostat.

All the rest of my IoT stuff is either open-source hardware/software, or at the least local-only with known protocol interfaces. This was the one exception I made for IoT "cloud", giving Google the benefit of the doubt. I regret deeply giving them that benefit now.
Google Says It Has Found Religion on Privacy
$20B valuation for companies without products is a very, very frothy signal.

This kind of thing is waaay beyond what went on during the dot-com bubble, where there was a lot of value being created without any business model either.
Cold comfort for the affected campaign(s) though...
You're absolutely right, but the article cites many examples of tasks that are properly within the PM domain. And for those that aren't, it should be the SE team &/or management dictating that such responsibilities be shared rather than devolve onto a single individual.

A single individual taking it on themselves is self-defeating. It keeps the organization dysfunctional at the same time that the individual is ignoring a significant chunk of assigned duties (coding)
This I/O was all about On-Device ML. As ML chips get more powerful, a lot of these cool features that were only possible on the cloud will be moving to the device, lowering latency and working in poor network conditions. Google's use of Federated Learning is interesting too.
Cozen: A Card Game
Yes absolutely.

Hibernate is a microcosm of Java. If you read the manual things are fine, but it's not designed to be "wingable". It abstracts away enough of the DB that you need to understand the magic or you'll make massive blunders that haunt you later.

Given that maybe 10% of devs read the manual for anything after leaving school there's a lot of Java and Hibernate haters
disabling JS already break half the sites :)
Yeah, I welcome this change. Nest's account management is garbage. It alerts me when a smoke alarm fires, but then it asks me to login, as if I have any idea what the password is.
Clusterless: How Far Out Is AWS Fargate?
Nest screwed the pooch with me before Google bought them by changing their UI and temporarily bricking my thermostat with unwanted firmware updates. (My Nest still works as a dumb thermostat but I'll never let it talk to the Internet again.)

When Google bought them I knew Nest would only get worse, and here we are.
Makes me happy I didn't buy a Google home. What's the guarantee they won't do this for home compatible devices at a later date, to move to another new ecosystem?
> "In other words, spending 1/2 day to a full day (4-8hrs) on this task is roughly 2x-4x the effort..."

My personal rule of thumb is: It either takes 1 minute, 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, or 8 hours. Or obviously longer, but for the back of the envelope type of things these tiers work.

There's no 3 hours or 5 hours. Nothing ever take 3 or 5 hours. Perhaps sometimes 6 but at that point - due to distractions and side fires - it's a full day. Call it 8 and stop kidding yourself.
LDF raised $100MM...Leo didn’t personally donate $100MM.
The Greenback Party
You might like the RASP: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-access_stored-program...
Man, Google is the new Microsoft of the 90s. Fuck them. I have 3 Nest thermostats (bought prior to the Nest acquisition.)
May I suggest DomTerm (https://domterm.org)? It has builtin tabs and tiling, which can dragged and reordered with the mouse. It works very nicely (using the GoldenLayout package).
>The bland and normative tone seems to be accompanied by an injunction to "conform or lose".

presumably if one is seeking advice on how to succeed by conforming, they are already losing
> one very high profile American

Trump has not declared bankruptcy. He has been owner or part-owner of hundreds of companies and a handful have declared bankruptcy.

As terrible (or not) as that is, there's a stark difference between availing yourself of long-standing bankruptcy law and the just-for-you shenanigans pulled by the federal government in 2008.
I see Google API/ecosystem fans often defending or dismissing Google’s pattern of behavior here, using arguments like this:

“Well, sure, they shut down that API I don’t use — big deal; all things come to an end eventually! But, they’d NEVER do that to this API I rely on — that would be so horrible, Google just would not do it!”

I hope we all can acknowledge that this argument is on perpetually eroding ground, at the very least.
Looking forward to when google turns off their corporate headquarters.
No web browser is going to disable JavaScript by default and Google is one of the worst offenders when it comes to User-Agent sniffing (you can experiment with this on your own by setting a custom User-Agent and attempting to use various Google websites).

And even then that's far from enough to stop fingerprinting. Ordering of http headers has been used to fingerprint browsers. The <picture> element can be used to leak browser screen size. CSS can leak information in @media and @support queries by requesting specific images. It's even possible to create "DNS cookies".

More:
http/2 passive fingerprinting: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/multimedia/documents/white-pape...
Fingerprinting servers based on header order: http://www.net-square.com/httprint_paper.html#httpheader
List of CSS Media queries, including vendor specific ones: https://browserleaks.com/css
DNS Cookies Demonstration: http://dnscookie.com/
Would be great, but how could we push it to the average Joe?
I guess all my nest stuff is going ebay... Too bad.
Nest hardware will still work just fine?

I'm not sure where you're drawing the conclusion that the Nest Hello no longer works.
I have not. I didn’t want to put the time into learning the .NET stack and C# because I am from a .NET town and did not want to get stuck here. What're your thoughts on it?
Google plans to build multiple generations of affordable Pixel phones
I had major forearm/hand tendon pain for years, and switching to an ErgoDox EZ cured it. I also switched to a standing desk at the time, which helped.

I've also spent lots of time with an Atreus62 and a Dactyl Manuform, and still use the ErgoDox EZ as my daily driver. It's just so great.
This is more complex than I could have imagined - does anyone know how large multinational software companies handle this? I.e. Google or Facebook?
Awesome launch, congratulations! Looking forward to the day that we can ditch ZenDesk and use a self hosted option.
City streets aren't highways. The white/blue lights are harsh on eyes, make things look bleak, and are actually not better for visibility.
> (Tabs hadn’t been invented yet.)

Wow, so true.
Honestly, I think that IoT manufacturers should be required to provide open APIs. Preventing third-party developers from interfacing with smart devices, especially after they've already been sold to consumers, seems dangerously monopolistic.
It might be some extension you have installed, at least that's what I found searching the cookie name on GitHub: https://github.com/snyderp/web-api-manager/blob/edde693ba53f...
Reverse-Engineering a Mass Surveillance App Used by Police in Xinjiang
Sell to the greater fool?
> " then maybe I could understand why they STILL think we’re lying."

They think that because occasional something that sounds (to them) as being the same simple request does take and hour or two. That's all they remember. That's all they want to remember.

Frankly, short of critical bug fixes, is there ever really a real biz need to deploy such updates almost immediately? Why not say, we expect to have to coded and tested in time for our next scheduled update" or something like that. This way they see the big picture and don't get to know - cause they don't really need to know - the nitty-gritty details.

I'm not against transparency. But the fact is, clients need to be managed, as do their expectations.
openntpd can set the clock on startup, but it requires a non-default `-s` option [0]. In chrony it's optional and controlled by an `initstepslew` parameter [1] which also considers a threshold to determine if the clock needs a large adjustment or if it's fine to just skew it as normal.

0: https://man.openbsd.org/ntpd

1: https://chrony.tuxfamily.org/doc/3.4/chrony.conf.html
What advantage exactly? Yes they can get some data from some cars sometimes. They definitely don't have the infrastructure to manage the terrabytes per hour that the other classical players generate.

They might have an advantage in 15 years, when you don't need a lidar because cameras will be good enough
If we knew Magic was limited to N states, then we can conclude that a program running on the Magic Turing machine will never halt if it has not halted after BB(N) steps.
From personal experience, a pixel 2 is significantly faster and smoother than a pixel 1, and the internet suggests the 670 chip in the 3a is slightly faster for general use than the 835 in the pixel 2, though for gaming its somewhere b/w pixel 1 and 2 as the 670 GPU is b/w the 821 and 835.

So for normal use, its definitely a upgrade to a pixel 1, and a slight upgrade over the pixel 2.
They really really suck! Walking at night is a pain in the eyes for me now.
I see that China also has Google.
> we will now have a crumbled public transit mode left to rebuild.

Thats a huge leap to say that uber/lyft caused our crumbling public transit.
Tesla Plans to Sell Owners Cheaper Car Insurance
I suggest that Google's dependency on knowing everything about you puts them in a completely existential crisis with respect to privacy - your data is in their DNA, there's just too much at stake.

MS and Apple can be far more aggressive in this regard because they simply don't really need your data in the same way to make money.
I find it funny that pointing to this state of affairs in the comments of HN posts about new Google products attracts downvotes like nobody's business.
It seems like I just heard about this company a week or two ago. Did it seem to appear out of nowhere to people more tuned in to the e-currency world?
So they're cooling the Earth to make energy.

You could imagine a dystopian sci-fi novel where "at the end of times" the only source of energy available is this - slowly leech heat out of your planet to make some energy. Decisions, decisions...
This is a worthy video on the subject of Fortnite's successful, and altogether addictive, design:

https://youtu.be/tqG74aI9t3Q
How many things use that API?
I think the nature of the conformity that he's putting forward is problematic, though. I don't agree that there is one right way to act, the one described on his site. There are many styles, but all he offers is conventionality.

In an interview he says: "When I look back on some of the most likable people I’ve met, they were using the same core social skills we all do, but just executing on everything at a more polished, consistent level."

Likableness is not about "polished, consistent" execution of some social techniques. It has to do with authenticity, a sense of humour, intellectual strengths, etc. The idea that the most likeable people are likeable because they are skilled performers sounds like a normalisation of superficial narcissistic behaviour.

It's all a bit humourless and robotic. "Pod person" territory. Social interaction as technical performance is a way of looking at it that most people would find unsettling.
Hey, so how do I graph the temperature of my house at each temperature sensor over time?

I knew how to do that with the Nest API (see e.g. https://github.com/peterot/nest-graph or https://github.com/nbrownus/nestflux ). These data provide some useful information about energy expenditure in the house, a little better than the Nest "schedule" view of daily heating/cooling activity and daily temperature settings.

Will this still be possible with the new indirect Google Assistant API integration they are describing? How?
Public transit isn't run for a profit either, so moving demanding people off of it should actually make it more sustainable. (of course we'd rather have them using it to encourage better city design)

Have Uber/Lyft actually killed transit anywhere? Actually, have they even killed taxi companies? It'd be nice if they had, taxis are horrible, abusive, and not public transit either.
The solution is likely a multi-faceted approach on all levels of society - policy, private enterprises, consumer, personal habits, education, social initiatives etc...

We need to be doing everything, not one or two things.

I think asking the West to change is an impossible task, but putting in place policy to guide decisions and to bring about mass education regarding environment is probably a step in the right direction.
Minimum lot sizes in suburbs contribute to Texas sprawl
So now all Nest accounts have to go through Google. Can’t wait for the first time some Android developer gets their Google account locked and suddenly can’t change the temperature on their HVAC unit.
I just recently used Lyft while visiting Atlanta. I'd never used Lyft or Uber before. The app and service were both fantastic. I hope they keep it up. Awesome service at a reasonable price.
No, I'm saying it has a connotation. In my experience, it is exclusively used by men who DO, demonstrably, have a certain view towards women. I do not like being referred to that way. It has ALWAYS come with other baggage that works its way into the workplace, however politely it is used. The red flag is based on lived experience, not an abstraction.
Another entry for https://killedbygoogle.com/
Oh, right, I understand now, thanks.
And why is it that we all trust Google is unhackable? I won't be shocked if someday a torrent turns up with billions of private Gmail messages and user search history records.
I do. I have a command line nest app that I use to control my temperature.
> At some point there has to be a value in marketing for keeping people happy, right?

Not a lot of value in keeping HN people happy. We're too small of a user niche but too big of complainers.
> Researchers say it may explain why some recent trials of treatments for Alzheimer's disease have been unsuccessful.

> They say treatments may have effectively treated the proteins that cause damage in Alzheimer's disease, but LATE may have continued, masking any improvements to Alzheimer's symptoms.
Incognito Mode Is Coming to Google Maps
No, Binance has been the leading BTC exchange in China for quite a while! Maybe you heard of them because of their Binance Coin announcement. It went pretty far, pretty fast in terms of volume.
I think that the article implies something rare, but subduction zones are quite common throughout the world. It's only that they discovered that this area is a subduction zone.
You're asking the wrong question. The right question is, why is there nothing else but poverty and malnutrition everywhere but in the western world? The answer: because in non-western societies, nobody has any incentive to create a lot of wealth, so they don't.

In other words, the problem is not that there are some people in the western world who are poor and malnourished. The problem is that the western world is the only part of the world that has a significant number of people who are not poor and malnourished. If the rest of the world would stop chasing after leftist chimeras and adopt neoliberal capitalism, they could create a lot of wealth too. The western world is way, way ahead in bringing people out of poverty and malnutrition.
there are lots of people who take Uber/Lyft as second jobs to fill otherwise unproductive evenings.
Warm white LEDs put out a broad spectrum. That's a feature for most illumination use cases, but it's hard to filter out of a telescope.
I don't think you need to increase the heat flow to capture the free energy? If I find a hot bath that is just haphazardly dumping heat into a cold bath, increasing entropy unnecessarily, it's perfectly possible for me to stick a heat engine in between them and capture the free energy from that flow (averting entropy creation) without actually changing the heat flow (joules per second) between the baths.
Some years later: Google shuts down Nest.
Consumption taxes are very difficult to avoid and often very efficient. Especially online.

Income and corporate taxes are so easily manipulated that there's entire industries built around it. Nations should be aiming for efficient taxation sources not ever more complex regulations creating yet another industry sector to simply navigate it.
Same, but the regular WMO without side buttons. Simple, comfortable, and flicking the scrollwheel scrolls perfectly fast with little effort.
Interesting. Binance has been putting a lot of focus on building a platform, with their Labs and Binance Coin. Hopefully those haven't become distractions away from their core offering as an exchange.
Really? Please show me all the wonderful countries built in your leftist image where everyone is rich and nobody has to worry about poverty.
Not unique to this scam, but scammers often log whether or not someone answered and put you on a list for additional attention.

It's like how responding to spammers with "No, thank you!" will actually get you more spam.
Seems like a variant of the “first they came for” argument.
This is orthogonal to google business model, so it will never happen. Specially on Android.

To back this claim: Google always had the open source community give them local data solutions on a silver plate, and they always went out of their way to kill them.

First (most well known) example was granular app permissions, by cyanogenMod. Introduced on android2.0 by the community. Partially added to android 5, or 6!

Second (more relevant to local data) example, every time an app ask for location, Android collect all the GSM towers it can see, plus all the WIFI networks, and send that to google. Who then matches to their own database and gives you a very quick initial position (plus tag your geolocation for ads, of course). For more than 6 years now, mozilla and openstreet and microG project have provided a fully perfect implementation of this very same system, that works 100% in your device, without any external network request at all. six years. What google did? they actually went out of their way to break the implementation! Starting with Android6 you can only use UnifiedNlp backend if you are able (and capable) to root your phone!
Perhaps because such a torrent has not shown up in the last 20 years?
That clothing manufacturer doesn't have a billion daily users who will use them regardless of how evil they are.
If the considerable part of consumers would stop using Google Search, Chrome, Android and other Google products due the privacy concerns, that would be a problem for Google - not an existential crisis, but a problem indeed. But we are nowhere near this imaginary scenario.
"Css-only-chat"

CSS is always CSS. It's CSS on the repo too, but got edited back to "Css" here on the HN title for some reason.
Unlike GTK and QT, Flutter targets mobile and web.
derivative of the shore length of Tasmania

That's a funny joke but it's not something for which any AI could provide a concrete answer. This is due to the fractal nature of coastlines and described as the coastline paradox [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox
Every controversial company seems to have one. For Twitter, it's "we're so sorry, we know we've let the community down, and we promise to do better in the future"