skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They do get sued pretty much every day, though this sort of thing is not specifically the reason.
How much would you need per month to live very comfy? In a beachside place?
Not positing this as your position, but we can’t base the rightness of such an action in a vacuum that only considers the interests of one party and ignore the interests of everyone else. In weighing the relative rights of individuals and society, the relative rights of the deceased’s relatives are less important than the victims relatives in knowing the truth about their loss, and societies interests in identifying murderers, whether alive or dead.
This seems worse in almost every respect than a hydrodynamic stormwater separator. With the latter, you pop open a manhole cover and suck out the goo with a vacuum truck. With a net, you have to somehow pick it up without spilling the contents. Then you hope you can empty it without destroying it or you replace it. This sounds much harder.

Oh, and hydrodynamic separators claim to catch oils, too.
>I really don't understand why the process has been designed to assume the copyright claimant is in the right from the get-go when it's the claimants that abuse the system.

If Youtube didn't allow claimants (who couldn't care less about "fair use" of their IP) vast and arbitrary power even to the point of abuse without consequence, those claimants would turn around and sue them into oblivion the way Viacom nearly did.

The system is doing precisely what it's intended to, which is to pay the Danegeld (of user content) to major media companies and not only keep Youtube alive, but make it attractive as a platform for officially licensed content.
Yes, that's true, but considering that many of the loans were interest only or very long term, the driver did not sink much into the principal. It's kind of weird that the author is so critical of these types of loans when they are very beneficial if the asset value dropped a lot, since now the lender is stuck holding the bag.
Advanced bidet models also include heated air drying.
> “Despite the fact that Donald Trump insults my country every day, here we receive the entire international community, beginning with Americans, with open arms and hearts,” Villareal said. [..] Unlike the United States, Mexico hasn’t traditionally had many immigrants. Less than 1 percent of the population is foreign-born.

13.7% in the US are foreign-born - making US arms more than ten times as open to the international community as Mexico's. It's easy to be welcoming to foreigners when their numbers are a rounding error compared to the total population.
100%. I’ve also been using HA for a while now and have been very impressed. Tons of integrations including a number of z-wave and WiFi thermostats — so you don’t have to bother with this Nest / Google nonsense if you don’t want to.

As HA approaches version 1.0, I hope more people will jump onboard.
I find myself somewhat reluctantly agreeing. While I think the SOLID principles and similar things are helpful tools for thinking, I think they should in general take a back seat to the simple principle of Less Code. I’ve seen so many over-complicated code nightmares that were created in the name of “separation of concerns”, or some such, that my spine tingles anytime someone starts talking about some abstract design principles.
And ZFS+ECC is better than ZFS without ECC.
"The company has 100+ employees, hundreds of customers, and more than 15,000 end users. I spent almost four months as CEO. Prior to this role, my “operating experience” consisted of working as a waitress during college. My entire professional career has been in finance, where I have worked in small, flat organizations with a project-driven, deal team-oriented model. In short, I had no idea what to expect, and I learned a lot, quickly."

Why on earth was this person in any way shape or form the person to step in?

Once of the C-level people should have, or someone in the VC's network.

"In the CEO role it quickly becomes obvious that empathy and compassion are far more valuable than financial acumen. "

Yes, but understanding the product, customers, operational details, and knowing where to direct the system is probably more important than 'empathy and compassion'.

"It’s easier to be a board member than a CEO"

Who doesn't already know this?

My crusty comments aside, it's a good read.
Oddly, Buzzfeed News also does some pretty in-depth reporting too. They were Pulitzer finalists (i.e. , runners up) in 2018 for reporting on Russian assassinations in the US and UK, and in 2017 for something about trade agreements(?).
> In the end we're workers, just like minimum wage workers.

As a former long-time wage worker, you are wrong.

There was no HR department at the restaurant where a coworker and I had to step in to get another adult employee to stop hitting on (read: sexually harassing) an underaged server after the general manger told us “boys will be boys”. There were no benefits for the sous-chef (my boss) whose Marine wife had excruciating pain from nerve damage in her hand. When one of your coworkers walks outside and starts vomiting and you can’t tell if it’s because he’s drunk or having withdrawals and you’re told that this means your shift isn’t ending and that you’ll have to stay at least another six hours and you can’t come in tomorrow because they don’t want to pay overtime then a day at your job will be like a day for a typical wage worker. A bad healthcare system, poor negotiation skills and severance packages do not make your experience anything like that of a wage slave.
We might have to contemplate that we need to change our roads if we want automomous cars.

We have lanes for carpooling - why not lanes for autonomous vehicles? The road surface could have special markers to centre the vehicle, and to position it in the correct lane for a certain destination. This could be a single lane in a highway, with shorter distances between cars (relying on the quicker reaction speeds of computers and the modern, well-maintained brakes of the cars themselves), allowing humans to overtake and recognise them easily.

Then we need a standard method of communication between vehicles - braking, movement etc. - rather than relying on cameras and radar.

Remove as many variables as possible and the task becomes much easier.

Heck, we'll need a new method of charging road users for road use, without gas taxes, so we might as well introduce a standardised road pricing scheme as well (that takes into account vehicle size, weight, time, and location to calculate the price/km - and can communicate that to the end-user to allow them to optimise their travel).
The Talking Statues of Rome
Splitting the store into smaller tasks is better. It forces you to plan and communicate your progress. It allows for adjustments in both requirements and estimation. In many business cases, this approach is better. The senior developer should outperform multiple juniors anyway, in most cases, it is seniors that carry progress.

Toxic companies will twist a good process and make it horrible. It is not Agile or Scrum to blame.
The issue isn't the personal financial cost - the whole point is (if it's an exotic trip) that it's a paid perk, for people who enjoy it, and a (non-monetary but real) cost to those who don't (and who'd probably just prefer a bonus to having their company buy them an expensive trip they don't want).

And yes, boring but neutral (non-exotic, non-expensive) locations seem like a reasonable ideal for a business trip - that's essentially what I'm advocating. They can also be unfamiliar to all, if you think that helps - it doesn't have to be the Bahamas to not be somebody's home turf.

But there are, as I've explained, good reasons for it to be something other than the (expensive, particular-lifestyle-centric) glamor most tech companies push - larger reasons than the neutral ground piece. It alienates more than it includes, and burns money (sure not yours, but you'd rather your company be prudent, or at least let you spend money on things you want) and carbon to boot.

Also, I'm not vilifying all exotic travel - just the habit of entangling it with work, as it becomes a heavily asymmetric perk and a significant cultural filter/selector (for a certain sort of "living life" crowd - again, not bad people, but not the only sort of people in the world). I'm all for places giving vacation time, and paying well enough for employees to pursue their interests, be that the Bahamas or rare book collection or anything in between.
I would say the statistics would probably support your comment (besides the binary "nobody" and "only"), despite its obvious sarcasm. But that wasn't really my point. I had no intent to criticize certain classes. My point was that software people should get over the exceptionalism.
> It says exactly what I said

No, you said pilots asked questions and were shushed.

You're being dishonest.
This only applies if you happen to live at a gas station.
I had good experiences with it while traveling in china. Other people in my group bought local data sims which were 100 times cheaper than the $10/gb that google fi charges but everything they wanted to use (google search, google maps, facebook) were still blocked by the Great Firewall. Google Fi has built in vpn and didn't have that problem.
"We're banning you for demanding a refund for items not delivered" seems like a great way to attract regulatory scrutiny:

>By law, a seller should ship your order within the time stated in its ads or over the phone. If the seller doesn’t promise a time, you can expect it to ship your order within 30 days... If the seller is unable to ship within the promised time, it must notify you, give a revised shipping date and give you the chance to cancel for a full refund or accept the new shipping date.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0221-billed-merchandis...
Skimmed through the article - not much of interest or new in it

Mediocre quality phones - check

Company known for poor customer support - check

What did you expect? Get a better phone from a better company and move on.
Edit: and some of their phones are made by Huawei - yuck.
It’s Google. I don’t know what was expected, but as soon as anything is Google, customer support is not one of them.
This is the difference between Google and Amazon.

People have lots of criticism of Amazon, some I even agree with, but working here[0] one of my favorite little cultural things is that customers can and do email Jeff when stupid things happen. And Jeff reads them. Every now and then he'll forward one of them to a senior VP with a simple "?" added to it.[1]

That question mark indicates two things: that you have 24 hours to explain how this terrible customer experience happened, and that not long afterwards you'd better have a plan for how it isn't possible for this kind of problem to happen again. A lot of incredible changes have been made based on those question marks.

Google does not have such a customer-obsessed culture. So bad things like this happen and then nothing seems to change. Next week, it will happen again. Because (in my view) Google is an ideas-first culture, not a customer-first culture. Those ideas have rocketed them to success but I wonder if it can sustain them indefinitely.

[0](All my views are obviously my own and don't reflect speaking on behalf of the company)

[1]https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/customer-service-jeff-bez...
Had a similar experience with Google Apps - Google's customer support process is inept by design, which is the primary reason Google doesn't get my money anymore.
He is an Android Developer. Getting banned could have career-disrupting or even career-ending repercussions for him. It is not exactly comparable to quitting a video game.
I live in a Ting fiber city, and having them as my home ISP has been the most amazing telecom experience ever. They’re the best.
https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

"AI risk is string theory for computer programmers. It's fun to think about, interesting, and completely inaccessible to experiment given our current technology. You can build crystal palaces of thought, working from first principles, then climb up inside them and pull the ladder up behind you.

People who can reach preposterous conclusions from a long chain of abstract reasoning, and feel confident in their truth, are the wrong people to be running a culture."
Yeah full autonomy that matches or exceeds human driving is a loooong way away for sure. Closing the gap is not just about sensing the environment, but also understanding it. That's (probably) a Hard AI problem.

Why is no one looking at retrofitting existing roads with markers that the car can use to follow? I've read suggestions of using magnetic markers which would have the added benefit of working through snow.

Roads get new lines marked all the time, seems like embedding a magnetic marker at the same time would be quite feasible. This would basically be a tram line on every street.

Who cares if the car needs to hand off to the human in the event of road works or missing markers? Those are fairly rare events on my commute at least.
Is fixing Wordpress really bottom-tier programming jobs? I know people who do that as freelance consultants, and they have a lot of freedom in their lives. Compare that to some enterprise developers who get hired right out of the university to build exactly what they are told, when they are told for long hours until they turn 36 and get replaced.

I mean, the latter requires a higher education, which is something that doesn’t exactly rain on people below the middle class, it also pays better and the problems are more interesting, but I know which of the two I’d personally prefer.
which is better, because regular DMCA claims comes with a legal repercussion risk - you cannot file a false DMCA claim without punishment from the law.

But youtube contentID claim is not DMCA, and has no punishment attached for a wrong claim.
My wife and I talked when I went remote. We agreed that if I am working, I'm not "home" even though I'm physically at the house. She is a homemaker and for a while we did homeschooling with the kids. They learned too that I'm simply not available during working hours, unless I let them know otherwise (lunch or whatnot). My family has been very supportive.
I've enjoyed it, but none of my SMS messages ever seem to be delivered while I'm overseas. I just fell back on over the top services and didn't worry about it, thought it was happening to everyone on those networks.

Now I'm dreading a support call...
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Thank you for being the net on the outlets of our drainage pipes! Subtle & not unnoticed work.
Thank you so much. Very nice collection of information.
I would consider that to be a good thing. Every business who uses Google services should stop doing it right away.
I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human than someone who doesn't believe anything.

David St. Hubbins
You’re so, so close but maybe having not lived it you can’t quite get there. The difference is not a difference of ability. It’s situation. Did you have to work full time all the way through school? I did. Did you have no support whatsoever from your parents and have to manage to pay rent, hold down a job, and take classes full time? My wife did it. She was on her own at the age of 17, no support. Put herself through school. It has nothing to do with tilting test scores. What people need is material support and frankly, for most working class kids, the only thing that will reliably solve their problems is free education and free room and board while they’re in school. That’s what leveling the field would look like. And that’s not even starting to consider students with small children.
Amazon support has never been anything less than stellar for me.

Edit: Someone downvotes my experience? Wut?
I’m 39. My “progress” has mainly to be find an employer that treats me like a respected expert and not a code slinging drone. I’ve got some pay raises along the way but nothing earth shattering and would probably seem low to the typical HN person from the Bay Area.

The next step in my career long term is indie hacker type projects that will bring in supplemental income, and will be a lot of fun to make.

I also have some open source ideas I want to explore, but I don’t have too much time. But there are some interesting technologies I want to help advance because I believe in them. The primary purpose there is more ethical than money making.
His use of loops just seems like an implementation of breaking a problem down into smaller components. If I wanted to learn to learn a difficult skill, such as writing a decent novel, I'd break it down as follows:

1) Research what skills I'll need to develop. At my current stage of learning I don't know what I don't know.

2) Figure out a path to start developing skills. This might be writing a small story every single day while also reading books/guides on how to develop as a writer. I'm still writing daily.

3) As I'm becoming mor comfortable writing anything I now need to develop skills on writing specific things. How do I flesh out a character, how do I describe settings, etc. I'm still writing daily.

4) Once I've figured out individual building blocks I'd then teach myself how to construct them together. What elements do stories contain? How do I flow between small sections to weave a larger tale? I'm still writing daily.

I'm sure as I become a more knowledgeable and skilled writer I'd identify other areas I need to work on, skills to develop, etc. It all comes down to identify small blocks and build from there.
the could make the phone an actual computer. that can download and run apps from where-ever. many of us are starving for that.
Having been through several Jeff escalations on the seller side of things, the reality is very different from the romanticized version in the public mind.

Maybe it worked that way a decade ago when the volume was lower. Now sending a Jeff message just goes to a specialized team that's only slightly more competent than whoever would otherwise handle the issue. Have had several times where no resolution was given at all.
Because they were more like chauffeur services, which existed even before taxis.

If those were not regulated, neither should Uber.

Taxis are hailed from the street, everyone is isn't.

Even before Uber you could call limo firms, that actually just used regular cars, and have them drive you, and those were not regulated either.
Splitting things is not inherently bad.

Doing so in an attempt to commodify its application is not inherently bad.

Doing so in an attempt to commodify its application is definitely bad for developers' careers.
Start building iPhone apps? It’s not as if there aren’t any alternatives.
> Google does not have such a customer-obsessed culture

Simply because Google has never considered its users "customers" in the first place
Probably FreeDOS with third-party GUI's or desktop distros like N2K-OS:

http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

https://www.bttr-software.de/freesoft/desktops.htm

https://sourceforge.net/projects/n2kos/
It's the difference between "taxis" and "taxi medallions".
But the EU does. Yet Trump's steel tariffs hit EU countries too.
Not when they are spending RMB. Since the RMB isn’t fully convertible, this is a hard barrier for many.
The only benefit I can think of is that it is probably easier to retrofit onto existing installations.
They can't, but they can sure make your life miserable if you depend on any Google service.
It depends on what Trump does. He may start opening up other avenues for America to get the same trade we had with China. For example, we might get friendlier with Mexico or Vietnam. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48273550
I don't think this is how you measure clock frequencies.

Don't assume each iteration will take once cycle, and divide the time by the number of iterations.

Instead, you measure the time it takes for several loops that are likely to have prime ratios in terms of execution time, and then you figure out the common denominator, which is your clock frequency.

So you never have to do something ugly like:

#ifdef __aarch64__
frequency *= 2; // Many ARM processors need 2 cycles per iteration due to lack or flag renaming and fusion
#endif
Uber is a scam.

Suckering poor, economics-ignorant schmoes into providing a transport service that costs them more than it pays them, and suckering dumb investors into paying the company's expenses, while the Uber administration creams off the cash.

It's a non-viable business idea. There will be lots of drivers and investors burned as the Uber insiders disappear with the cash.
That’s sort of a bad argument though isn’t it? There’s a reason why those governments no longer exist. FYI, a fall towards authoritarianism being a key factor to an ultimate collapse.

Being authoritarian from the beginning just makes you start that much closer to edge.
How much do those cost though?
The devaluation of the profession happened a few decades ago, otherwise most of us wouldn't have been able to join the industry. Especially in the last decade most people in the industry have been cheering on the abstraction of what you do from what you make. At some point someone is going to call the bluff. I think people who join the industry now can do very well. And they probably see it more as a profession than most of the industry with all their social conventions. Then we can go back to the profession being valued for what it actually delivers.
Except, as people already mentioned, by completely blocking your account.
Thats a funny way to look at it - if anything a sysadmin is more of a line worker (I do both dev and sysadmin so I'm not particularly invested in either), with enough software you could be replaced by BA's coming up with architecture requirements and a system like docker...

Just a perspective thing I wonder
There’s a great recording by James Earl Jones.

https://youtu.be/51rYn4bDdaY
Some are working on this. Check out https://theray.org.
US-China trade war: Moving to Vietnam to avoid sanctions
Parent didn’t mention anything about the aspect being binary. You can inside trade in the USA, and unless you are a member of Congress, the SEC will likely go after you (eventually). So people don’t do it with anywhere near as much impunity as it is done in China.
the article even shows that the taxi driver was taking the car loan as well...
I’m sorry, call me paranoid or easily duped by bad press, but there is just no way. I understand that you can get more got your money there, but I’ll take my chances here. America needs work, don’t get me wrong, but no thanks.
You can't rely on what other cars are telling you because a bad actor could create a device that sends out false information that leads to crashes (send out "I'm now accelerating from 50mph to 60mph" then brake immediately, or even just not accelerate and continue to go 50mph). You could of course solve this by verifying all the information sent by cars, but then you have negated any benefits because you have to be able to detect anything they could send in a message.
>Why is China so likely to bug the phone but the NSA isn't?

Nowhere did I touch on the probability of the NSA bugging anything. Nor did I state it was likely that the Chinese would have placed a backdoor in the Nexus 6P. On the contrary, I think you misread my comment.
https://youtu.be/-BmbHgxIVpw
Well, not only in China, but pretty much every other country where demand for Gaps is not an issue, and it was from day one for them as an Android vendor.

It was the one and only Chinese brand with whom Google made a Nexus phone in the past — at least in part to lessen their enthusiasm in throwing out Google market in Western countries
I think we're saying the same thing. My added point is just that leadership needs to set this example.