skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're subject to the US government sure, in the same way that Huawei is subject to the Chinese government, which is why the US is so nervous about allowing it's equipment into their critical network infrastructure. It doesn't even matter if Huawei doesn't want to do it, if the Chinese government says jump they will ask how high, as with Google in this case. As with any company issued a lawful instruction by their government, for which there is no clear legal challenge.

Bear in mind the US and China are currently engaged in an espionage war[1]. The US has an active network of informants in the Chinese government, while the Chinese are actively conducting espionage and counter-espionage in the US including stealing commercial secrets and suborning US intelligence operatives to undermine the CIA's Chinese network. Google and Huawei are being caught in a crush between the spy war and the trade war.

EU companies are no different. If Google was a German company and Germany decided to impose trade sanctions on a non-EU country, they would have to comply.

[1]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48319058
It's worth noting that the described flow could've been fully automated from within the Excel itself, with just a few macros and formulas. I've created a spreadsheet doing very similar thing (grabbing the exchange rate from net and generating invoice) like a decade ago, so it's not even something new. The main issue people have with Excel is the same as with vim, majority of users just don't use it properly and know only the most basic functionality - which results in them doing a lot of repetitive things manually. I don't mind using tools like keikai, they're one approach to solve the problem, but perhaps companies could also try to send their employees on a proper Excel course first.
English translation by bing translator.

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Scumbags peddling BS social apps we don't need.
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From a practical standpoint exactly what does Google collect from one’s browsing activity when they use Chrome? Not sure I’ve ever seen the technical analysis of what kinds of exposure users have.
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It's just their Chromium shell, and not using their own rendering engine. (In case anyone was wondering if this was about EdgeHTML being ported.)
Or at least without USB-C: at least then I can use the same headphones on my laptop, iPad Pro, and phone.
That only works if everyone in the world agrees to the same blacklist, else it's just an opinion of a few people.
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It's the law of diminishing return. We went from "absolute shitty" screens to "very good" screens in 40 years, and from then we went from "very good" to "very good but slightly better if you squint your eyes really hard" in 10 years.

It's the same for most consumer tech, and is very noticeable on phones/tablets/laptops. The only thing we can improve on is shaving of .25mm every gen and calling it a revolution. Or adding machine learning + a 8k screen to our smartphones to explain why you need to spend 1000$+ on a 10 core cpu and 8gb of ram.

The complexity skyrockets, the price doubles but the user experience barely changes, and sometimes it's not even a positive change. Because at the end of the day the vast majority of people just want a basic camera, spotify, netflix and google maps.
> helps web developers who want to test their sites in Edge

I am a bit biased after your comment. Microsoft Edge is going to have Blink as an underlying rendering engine, the same as in Chromium, Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi etc. etc. You have pointed out that it might "help web developers", then could you explain me how there might be some difference (even negligible) in rendering between those browsers since they all run on the same technology? It's not Trident nor EdgeHTML anymore, there won't be any star-slash-backslash, -ms prefixes, filter() nor other hacks [0] that we had to use for IE. It does not look like Microsoft is going to fork Blink anytime soon, because it will be quite the same thing as they would stay and continue development on EdgeHTML engine.

I don't see any advantage of having Edge on macOS, FreeBSD, Linux, etc. for web developers. However, in case of end-users the cross-platform browser have more sense, especially when they got used to specific features and ecosystem. Lack of macOS browser might lead to churn or a problem with adoption to it.

[0]: http://browserhacks.com/
100% serious, I still maintain this is the most sensible explanation for the Voynich manuscript https://www.xkcd.com/593/, though now I'm starting to consider that hyper_reality's explanation is even better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19962448.

(TL;DR: xkcd - D&D book; hyper_reality - scamming someone rich.)
Depends which versions we're talking about and if with "Borland C++" you mean the Borland C++ or the later C++ Builder.

I'm going to guess the former.

I have actually both BC5 (the last version that was released as "Borland C++" with the IDE going back to Win3.x times) and VC6 installed and have used older versions of VC sporadically.

Visual C++ pre-VC6 was indeed clunky although i'm not sure about why as i haven't used it much, but i remember it not feeling very polished. However with VC6 Microsoft pretty much made the C++ IDE and is why even today most C++ IDEs (e.g. KDevelop, Anjuta, Code::Blocks, CodeLite, etc), many IDEs in general and even some code editors have the same basic UI layout and features. VC6 is a standard and really the only thing you may miss is tabs in the editor (but there is an addon that adds exactly that).

BC5 is a nice IDE and actually, unlike VC6 (or any later version, including VS2019) is a really Iintegrated DE - the compiler is part of the IDE (you can even compile some code just by opening a text editor window and start typing code in, no need to save a file or anything, the compiler picks the source code from the editor's memory). It is also very extensible, using a C-like scripting language with dynamic typing that can access most of the IDE's features and (AFAIK, never tried it) you can write DLLs to extend the language's functionality. Personally i've only used it to modify some shortcuts from their Brief-like defaults to Windows-like defaults (e.g. Ctrl+S for save instead of -IIRC- Ctrl+K Ctrl+S...). The node-based project management also looks powerful, especially since i think you can extend it, but TBH i didn't use it much again. UI-wise it is an evolution of the original Turbo Pascal for Windows IDE they introduced with TPW 1.0 which itself was a sort of GUI evolution of their classic Turbo Vision-based IDEs introduced in TP6.

TBH i do not find either of those to be too clunkier compared to the other, but i find VC6 to have some of an edge UX-wise. Previous VC versions probably will be worse though.

Now if we're talking about C++ Builder, then yes, even BCB1 blows both of these out of the water.
I tried searching the blog post or this thread for use cases, but didn't find even a mention; it seems that people use these NATs with something like 4 to 16 TB capacities at home; but I can't imagine a non-professional reason to store so much data.

Personally, if I wanted to store valuable stuff locally, like photos, I'm guessing 250gb of space would be enough for a lifetime.

So what do people use these huge personal storage systems for?
Along those same lines.. They’re saying the comp is within 10% of SF based salaries.. if you don’t include the options or RSUs.

So one of the biggest factors for Bay Area comp isn’t factored in to their equation? Neat trick.
The "average joe" shouldn't be doing this.
"Republicans voted against teaching what's actually basic numerals (when coded as foreign) and Democrats voted against what's actually big bang theory (when coded as religious)".

Not surprised about the prejudices shown, but as a "ha ha gottem" this is quite childish.
Wait so what exactly is it?

Components of different types, corresponding to rows of different schemas? Where first column says the type? Or is it one sheet per type of object?

And then you import them? And have a page with a bunch of components with data from the sheet?
Since you liked Rush, you should check out the documentary Senna about the great F1 racer Ayrton Senna (widely considered the best F1 driver ever).
Saying goodbye to App Review Times
Because the corporate media typically talks about human rights abuses in Venezuela only.
You mean like the free booze we get at company events?
While all true it doesn't change the risk (on either side).
Thanks, i didn't knew about that :-).
The Custer Wolf
This war on Huawei is not about F/OSS but about depending on US suppliers. Intel and AMD have to stop supplying processors to Huawei and there are no viable F/OSS processors. Qualcomm will stop supplying SoCs. What does the US think this will achieve? What exactly does the US want Huawei to actually do to get rid of these bans? Do they think it will really hurt Huawei so much that they will give in to US pressure? I don't think so. What will happen is that Huawei and China in general will look to even more get rid of US dependencies. They will double down on efforts to make their own processors. They will get rid of Google and Microsoft proprietary software and if there is a proprietary chinese alternative then that would be also on the table. ARM is looking even more enticing now for notebooks. And once Huawei has replaced Intel/AMD, others will do so too.

Huawei will hurt in the immediate future but after a few years they might come out even stronger and the losers will be the US companies because their government created an artificial situation that forces non-US companies to really look into alternatives.
Creating and using a custom Linux kernel on Guix System
I mean, the real answer is probably that the rules were developed in the context of a patriarchal culture. But they're hardly alone; many countries have historically practiced agnatic primogeniture which works quite similarly.
Yes. We can make one in 30 minutes with https://qbix.com/platform .
But what is the goal of this? I want to understand since it sounds like you need real PROFILES for reusable personal data.
My setup, which I need to finish, is an old laptop.

You can get a SATA hard drive adapter for the optical slot on many laptops. So you can put in two 2TB hard drives. My laptop only has USB 2.0, so that's a downside. But you have a built-in UPS (the battery), and my battery is a OEM high-capacity one which still works OK.

So the only new parts are the adapter (< $10 USD) and the SATA 2.5in hard drives. Just be aware of the height restrictions, some internal hard drive cavities on laptops can only take the 7mm or 9.5mm high drives, and not the 15mm drives that can be used on a NUC.

My old laptop is a quad-core AMD (which is OK-ish) and has 8GB of RAM, so it will be running some other stuff as well.
This contains some falsehoods, e.g.

(A⇔B⇔C)

is not the same as

((A⇔B)∧(B⇔C))

and the former doesn't imply

(A⇔C)

either, but the latter does.
I really loved the Windows phone live tiles and the new windows start menu. Large tiles, demarcated with bold aolid colors, separated with proper whitespace.

That would be a good design for a Tesla in car screen. Large bold touch targets.
>My understanding is that they don't have the manufacturing capacity to ship this many processors, even if data centre operators wanted to buy them.

That is the current situation as they Fabbed on 14nm with Global Foundry, together with their GPU and APU. So AMD is completing against itself on capacity. Once they moved off GF to TSMC with 7nm Zen 2, things should [1] hopefully be a lot better.

[1] That is assuming the yields are good, and I/O chip's production will not let down by who ever is fabbing it. Current guess it would still be Global Foundry for IO.
As the father of 5 I can say that many things would have been easier if I had been able to take a long paternity leave when the kids were born. The first year is an exhausting one and having two of you around to share the work and be moral support would have made it all much easier.

It would be better in all kinds of ways, more equitable, better for the mother and child, better for the company, if the father got just as much time off as the mother.
Security considerations have absolutely nothing to do with the Huawei ban. The US has provided no evidence, and has refused the offer by Huawei to collaborate in any investigation.

This is part of the trade war, and the fact that the US is openly lying about the motives of the ban shows how risky the position of US customers have become: there is absolutely no recourse.

And even if the security claims were true (they are not), so what? Why I, an European customer, must be affected by security concerns of a far away country? Why is Huawei in a position to be forced to let down its customers?

Non-US companies must rethink the way they rely on an increasingly isolated and belicose US.
>In most cases it is quite clear which post is sponsored and which isn't.

It depends on where you set your bar. For some individuals (probably the bulk of Fyre Fest attendees) this is going to require explicit text.
On Windows (and corporate environment) one reason is that it is easier to manage. Comes with Windows, updates via Windows update and Microsoft provides support (for those with agreements).
> if you're a mission- or social impact-oriented organization

But are you? The "make a better world" phrase is frequently - especially in this industry - abused to try to sell the most bullshit or even socially negative jobs to people.
> US companies have now been shown for what they really are: an extension of the US government.

Not just with US companies. ZTE, Huawei and others are extensions of the Chinese government, Gazprom and the Kreml are interchangeable and the IMF is finance weaponized by the Western economies as a whole.

> Caveat emptor: using US technology has big risks.

Using and especially depending on any technology from a foreign power, especially one that may turn to an adverse power or outright enemy, is a risk. The Western countries have all, over the last decades, shifted most of their production to China - and now are surprised that China has them by the balls, literally, as many countries don't even have people with the skillset required for low level manufacturing.
These layers of abstraction are nice but they seem to ignore the fact you still have to manage the systems underneath and the networking around it.

At some point folks need to realize they arent google and they really dont need to abstract the development layer because they dont have a team of google SRE to manage what their pods / containers / mesh runs on
Huawei's vulnerability to US microchip ban
Unless you work at some established company that is or is about to go public options and RSUs may as well be worthless.
Yeah it is. It is a bit complex, but it has a spec that should allow for independent implementations (AFAIK KDE has its own, for example).
Just to add my own observations (Ubuntu Disco, FF 66) - it's also solid red for me in Firefox, but if I download it I can see the Android image in the preview in Gnome's file browser. If I open it up in Ubuntu / Gnome's "Image Viewer" application it's solid red, but works fine in Shotwell.

It's also solid red in GIMP 2.10, which surprised me.
Well speaking for me personally, Firefox runs terribly on my Macbook and it would be nice to have an alternative to Chrome.
Stonewall riots 50 years later: 'We were fighting and it was for our lives'
I think Facebook is in a tough spot.

Unlike news providers (who write the stories, and pay the writers) Facebook is giving it's customers a platform to speak from. If they muzzle the story providers, they are muzzling their own customers.

I agree Facebook is part of the puzzle, but it probably has to be approached from a different angle.
Is my train of thought wrong?

If the job hasn't changed and each of the two people can still do what's required of them equally well, why should one earn less than the other? The man shouldn't be earning more because he's got more years at the job. He should have been promoted in to a higher paying and more responsible role. That's what experience should count towards. If he hasn't been promoted and he's still doing the same work then there's no reason for him to be earning more than the woman.

People should be paid for doing a particular job, not for being more experienced, or older, or 'better'. Promote the people who are better and more experienced.

This is the beauty of the Basecamp pay model. What the job pays increases even when someone isn't doing it, so when they come back to work they'll be on the higher salary because the market values that job more.
> You may also no longer have access to the proprietary Google applications and services such as Gmail and Google Play

Hmmm. These are among applications that I just can't seem to remove from my Sony Xperia. Perhaps, I should have a look at one of these Huawei spyware free phones :-)
I don't know why you were down-voted. Practically every company does 1 these days.

I'd have more respect for a company that says "we pay everyone at least 40k" and doesn't outsource the janitor.
"Aversion" is such a strong word... I mean, yes, I try to avoid Google due to privacy concerns. That means no more Chrome, no Google-Search-as-default and not logging in via Google.

OTOH, you're totally right about striking a balance: If I'm sitting at work, looking something up and DuckDuckGo doesn't yield the expected results I'm quick to prepend a "!g" - which gets me the desired information in about 90% of the cases. Or if I plan a trip in advance I use Google Maps so I can get a good estimate of the travel time for a specific time of day.

Also: My SO and I have a shared Google Calendar, which I sync to my device via DAV.

I just stopped indiscriminately streaming all my personal information to Google, instead I gained some more control about what data the company gets.
A corporation is the prostitute of its controlling government. Similarly, corporate staff are the prostitutes of their corporation. Therefore, why not encourage these corporations to destroy each other?
Still not buying it. I don't trust Microsoft at all with privacy especially with what they did to Windows 10.

Telemetry & spying is everywhere with everything that they build now even in their calculator[0][1].

I would stick to Ungoogled/Chromium, Safari or Firefox thanks.

[0] https://git.io/fj4Wl

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues/148
Why Business Leaders Need to Keep Up with Technology
When you're in the stock market for the capital gains then you only need to hope for a quantitative easing windfall. The idea behind QE is to drive yields of the most popular investments down and therefore make other investments like small businesses more profitable which didn't really work out and is actually backfiring.
Weird. I have a Pixel 3 XL, running Android P. I can see the Android logo in Firefox, but not in Chrome or Google Photos.

I tried setting the flag (chrome ://flags/#force-color-profile) and choosing P3, but I still see just a red square in Chrome.

EDIT: muro's tip (open in photos (menu -> device folders)) worked. Not sure why opening the same image from the Photos home screen doesn't work.
What about prior generations that had “duck and cover” exercises during school, as kids? I’m a millennial but never was exposed to this level of disaster planning as a kid, if duck and cover can be called that, more like preparation for dying.
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And you might want to still use it in x years time after Google decides to kill-off Sheets. You must be very wary when building anything on a Google service.
The man just died.

No one is perfect, but let's celebrate his life for now, shall we?

If you have a bone to pick, come back later?
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin
this is not my experience, firefox quantum has been always faster and reliable than Chrome on MBP.
It’s Time to Hold American Elites Accountable for Their Abuses
> US companies have now been shown for what they really are: an extension of the US government.

Interesting. Isn't that exactly what the US is blaming Huawei for?
Probably in large parts movies and TV shows, both ripped from bought discs and acquired from other sources.
Sony has been known for quite some time to publish helpful guides to install AOSP on XPeria phones [0].

[0] https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/guides/aosp-...
People are using these gimmicky car displays on the tiny instrument cluster for changing lanes? I sure as fuck hope not. That just seems like extra data from their vision systems, which is also why cars randomly disappear in it or swerve wildly.

No, the Tesla implementation of this is lazy. Every other car with lane assist has a warning light in the corresponding side view mirror. This forces the user to look into the mirror, which also means a failure of the system to detect an obstacle is not a big deal.
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19967190
Kind of surprising, an attack on Hollywood from The Atlantic. (They tend to be sympathetic to left-side politics.)

I guess it's mostly just the picture that depicts Hollywood. The text is as expected.
If you see all influencers as "elite" then that's your personal perception. They're just different types of users. To me, the influencer with 50 followers is less elite than the casual user who has thousands of followers just by sharing photos intended for friends and family.
>using US technology has big risks

Using technology that might do something you don't want for any reason (government, company decisioms) and that includes any government involvement.... US, China... anyone.

Here we have an article about FOSS and folks still play these weird games where they only mention a specific government.
Oh wow, that's really rough:

"Monique Goyens – director-general of BEUC, which is also known as The European Consumer Association – is blunter. 'We were blackmailed,' she says. [...]

Facebook’s chief lobbyist, Richard Allan – another member of the expert group – said [...] to another group member: 'He threatened that if we did not stop talking about competition tools, Facebook would stop its support for journalistic and academic projects.'"
Try GrapheneOS (https://grapheneos.org)

Support for Pixel 3a and 3a XL will be added soon.
until recently mine was a $70 i5 compaq elite (w/ssd and ram and vidya). And yes, I do drive a 25 year old $1000 car on the daily (only upgrade was a tow hitch), jealous?
The point is that we have allowed US companies to have absolute control of the technology stack. There is no competition (at most between US companies).

There are several ways to mitigate this:

- Open Source. Android itself falls into this category, and it can not be taken away. This is the best way, but let's be realistic here: it is not for everybody.

- Multiple suppliers, from multiple countries, so that we have real competition.
How do you power the harddrives? Are there power adapters with sata power connectors?
EdgeHTML is being killed on Windows as well. Chromium with Microsoft chrome is their new default browser.
Google Likely to Make a U-Turn in Huawei Ban, the Latter Declines Any Charity
EdgeHTML isn't getting ported. It's dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdgeHTML
But it is... You're conflating two different things: the legal position accepted by the government and the reality. I don't think PRISM was legal, in my opinion, you can have an opposing view. People write opinions on lawfulness of all kinds of topics prior to making legal arguments regarding. And many do think it is unconstitutional / illegal [0] [1].

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/04/20/public_advocate_fbi...

[1] https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/privacy-and-surv...

Just because it was never settled that way doesn't change the history of it.