skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This could actually be a boon for China. Now they have to start developing their phones completely in-house. On the longer term that could be the end for American tech.

If one thing the last 50 years has taught us is that whatever the US can do an Asian competitor can do as well.
I don't know who Sam's friends are or how that could possibly be relevant here.

If dahinds is your friend and I misread friendly banter as aggression, that's...far from what I was expecting to hear. But in that case your comments should include enough information to make it clear that they aren't the egregious violations of the site guidelines that they sounded like.

I don't want to ban you; I'd much rather persuade you to use HN in the spirit that it's intended. You've also posted some great comments, so that shouldn't be hard.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Lol yeah the developers build the thing and the business people run the business
A Paper and a Wager
Could be money laundering. Or tax evasion of transfer taxes and/or capital gains taxes.
Let me try (it's a long one)

Software is a new form of literacy. Literacy makes all the difference - you don't hire illiterates to run companies, they might be clever, politically astute, but the decisions they make will be wrong from the important perspective of "does this make sense in a literate world".

Imagine you were hiring people for a trading company in the 16th Century. If the top people could not read or write, would you expect that trading company to perform as well as a competitor that had hired its board, its execs, as those who were able to red and write. Who expected to read the ships manifest?

Companies that ignore the developers are companies that are ignoring what literate people think is sensible. Now sometimes that will be the "right" thing to do, but increasingly *when illiterates and literates clash over policy, the literate side is more likely to be the right one to take"

Just my 2 cents
Even if we pop it back up to $70k--still too close if you ask me. Shit happens. Most people would be better off economizing on the house a little, and locking those savings in, rather than micro-managing nickel-and-dime expenses.

What the lenders will do is neither here nor there--given that most will do just about anything for a short-term buck. We all saw how that movie ends back in 2008. I just happened to see it over and over again.

What is so objectionable about telling people to give themselves a little more wiggle-room?
For Chinese market, Huawei don't have anything to worry about. It is likely gain more "Chinese" market share from this.

For the rest of the world, it would be completely different story. It is hard to imagine Huawei won't loss huge market share from the EU and rest of the world without Google's Play Store.
I think the distinction needs to be made between native development, which is much more performant, with far less dependencies, than web-based development - which requires a great deal of runway before it can be launched.

Removing compilers from the base OS install package has been detrimental to application development, and has created a bias towards web-based tools, for the reasons you state.
I'm a developer and low-level manager, and wouldn't expect to have much input in this kind of decision. Especially in a behemoth like Sony. This is C-level-executive decision making territory.

I might have something to say about the idea from a technical perspective, if asked, and if that aspect of the platform were my purview, and I suspect they discussed it with plenty of knowledgeable people at some level.

I'm sure some people who were developing their in-house cloud solution feel like they've been blindsided, but if they'd succeeded, they wouldn't be in this position. The article says they've been struggling with it. They likely had a chance and missed benchmarks one time too many.

They're likely better off using a major cloud provider anyway. They've already solved the big problems.
Sure and vice versa for us about Europe. Either way Mexico is much more worse off than the other two entities.
Got some examples?
A year or two ago a new technology of producing sound at a distance with two laser beams slightly detuned from each other. The beat frequency generated became a baseband sound at the intersection of the two beams. I can imagine something like this might be involved in these incidents.
Add country to the equation, and you can easily add another 20-50 years into the already 20+ you mention.

Take India, for example.

-- The infrastructure is poor.

-- Drivers ignore rules to suit their convenience.

-- A lot of people depend on driving for their livelihood. Union minister, Nitin Gadkari, has already made it clear that they will not let tech that affects the livelihood of so many people come in and take jobs. Most governments that rely on the vote bank of poorer sections of the society will not dare to move against this mandate.

-- The preferred and most popular mode of transportation is still two-wheelers. I don't see anyone building self-driving two bikes. That rules out almost half of the Indian population's transportation

I don't think India will be ready for another 50 years to have fully self-driving vehicles.
I have to confess, I have never been able to figure out what the Open Closed principle means. I've never seen an explanation that made sense. Extension vs modification? What's the difference? Is it just a very confusing way of trying to express the idea of encapsulation?

I guess I am plagued by the knowledge that I have virtually never been able to predict accurately what "extensions" will want to be done to my code in advance. So much so that I consider attempting to do it now a fairly pernicious form of over-engineering.
Absolutely yes, because I don't drive like a stupid idiot—and if I ever did I'm not going to deny responsibility.

However I don't see why having a camera pointed at my face necessarily means that Tesla have to willingly provide information to insurance companies. As long as it is only available to law enforcement after being granted a court order, I'm fine with that.

(Note: I do not live in the USA. I trust the law enforcement in my country. My answer would be very different if I were in the US resident. I've heard enough about law enforcement in the US to know that I'd never live there, and if I did, I wouldn't ever trust the police.)
I'm still confused, a century is 100 years right? 1960 + 100 = 2060. Am I missing something?
Everything is a meme to the plebs these days. Simplify everything for the small brains.
If we are rethinking the timetable of the self-driving car, is it safe to rethink the whole future path of transportation? Do cars have to be it?
I hadn’t realized earlier that you’re the founder of Write.as. I completely get the cost factors for small, bootstrapped platforms and also how larger players can have loss leaders in their offerings. Pricing is experimental, in my view. A seller ought to try different pricing to capture more income from different segments of users who have different valuations and needs (this may not be very easy to do).

In the case of Write.as, I see some points that seem weird to me.

One is the character limit in the pricing tables. I don’t know if anyone is going to look at that and decide which option to go for. The 100000 character limit in the lowest tier would probably be around 15000 words or so. That’s a very high limit for most blog posts, and is in the long form article territory. So I don’t think that anyone looking only at character count for a blog would need anything more.

The other part is not having a price tier between $12 a year and $60 a year. That’s a big gap if you’re focusing on personal blogs.

Lastly, on the point of the gym membership comparison, I’ve heard this logic of commitment being tied to loss aversion. But I’ve practically seen it work badly (not as expected at all), and resulting in more loss aversion that prevents people from signing up for anything with a larger commitment next time. That’s just been my observation.
> so we would need 1-2 guys extra which is more expensive than the windows licenses for 1200 employees.

As someone who supports both Windows and Linux laptops, if you switched to Linux your support staff would eventually halve. The control you have over Linux is so tight, its relative immunity viruses, to staff playing with it and adverse Microsoft "upgrades" so good that support literally drops to whatever it takes to keep the hardware going. Or to put it another way: if you need to re-image a Linux laptop, it's because the disk drive broke.

Mind you, it takes a while to get to that point. And you need someone with real Linux expertise. Real Linux expertise unfortunately means when a problem arises gets to the point you would give up and re-image Windows, instead with Linux you haul out the source, and find the root cause. But if you can do that you will be able to drive the software defect rate to near zero.

Or to put it another way again: Windows licences are the price to pay if you don't / can't pay for that sort of expertise, so you are trapped into paying to do it for you. Unfortunately Microsoft is a monopoly, so you end up paying a fair bit more. I'll grant you small enterprises don't have much choice. But I'd expect someone with 1200 employees does have the choice.
Huawei ban to affect other countries
Does this also apply to the common complaints against the 1%?

Just be happy that they have a ton of money even though you don’t?
I can't speak for Georgia, but my monthly expenses at UMich were less than $1k, and I graduated less than 5 years ago.
> Do you complain that a skilled chemical engineer gave up his career and turned to moving little green pieces of paper around to make his fortune, because society rewards certain types of paper pushing orders of magnitude more than it rewards inventiveness, skill, and hard work?

The 'moving little green pieces of paper around' is called allocating capital, and it's as important a driver of productivity in the economy as chemical engineering. He was highly rewarded because he used capital effectively.
A disengagement doesn't necessarily mean that the car would have crashed. There are amusing disengagement stories such as a cyclist doing a track stand, causing the car to get stuck.[1] Many disengagements are false positives. Think of how often you've had to do the equivalent to human drivers by telling them to slow down or watch out. For me it's certainly more often than every 11,000 miles.

Given that humans aren't great drivers, you'd think that after 10 million miles Waymo would be at fault for some crashes. But only one of Waymo's crashes was even partially their fault. One of their cars was moving at 2mph to get around some sandbags in the road and hit a muni bus that was trying to squeeze by at 15mph.[2] Waymo has since tweaked their software to account for aggressive bus drivers. That's over 10 million miles and only one collision that was even partially their fault. That sounds pretty safe to me.

And regarding weather: Though their pilot program is in Phoenix, Waymo doesn't just drive in places with nice weather. They've been testing in Michigan for the past 2 winters.

1. https://forums.roadbikereview.com/general-cycling-discussion...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waymo#Crashes
How does it work with time zones in a remote company? Is everyone allowed to live anywhere they want? Do they usually restrict the time zone the employees live in?
If the author were a man, you would not bring gender into the discussion. Also, by bringing gender into the discussion, you've only managed to expose your own biases, not the others'.
Yeah I mean the amount of homicides just related to drug cartels in Mexico is approximately the same humber of total homicides in the US. This, despite Mexico having a bit more than 1/3 of the US population. Not to mention the issues with the economy.
I think plenty of people wanted to be in tech for more money in the past too. And there were those people who were just happy to be able to play with computers and happily surprised to be paid well for it. It's not a new thing.
> Honestly, I think we're still 20+ years away.

It is hard to be so pessimistic when you see cars driving autonomously daily.

> How exactly does an autonomous car deal with that aspect of human nature?

Aren’t we already collecting lots of data about this?
When it comes to consulting firms, some advertisers aren’t convinced
Seems like we have forgotten all about Snowden.
posts like this are proof this site is no longer worth visiting
So has the US.
Yep. As another old-timer, pretty much the only principles I have seen that consistently pay off are KISS and YAGNI. And the problem is nearly all of this SOLID type stuff is directly contrary to that.
You might be interested in Biosphere 2 [1], a 3 acre hermetically sealed dome stucture designed to house about 8 people with an ecosystem to provide them with everything they need to survive.

They didn't quite get oxygen and food production to the required level, but if you add another acre or so it should work. With renewed interest in moon and mars colonies somebody is bound to revive that line of research.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
China on the other hand has horrible traffic problems and no where to build new roads in its most dense cities. They also have an autocratic government that can say “no more manual driven cars on or inside the 4th ring road” to optimize road usage.
> Maybe for a doctor, sure - but for teachers who are going to come out making 30k - it seems that education prices should be tied to future earning potential somehow.

The real problem is that people are completely price insensitive when it comes to their education. I would prefer us to move to an equity model, personally. One where education is free, but the university takes a small cut of your future earnings. This way everyone's incentives are properly aligned.
He's been an organist for many years and he has a rather large pipe organ installed in his house, he even travelled to Europe to visit some organ makers before setting on an American organ maker. If you search "Knuth organ" on Youtube, you can find various interviews where he talks about it. You can see the specs of the organ here: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html
Fact?

Huawei is #2 or #1 by unit shipment. That doesn't immediately make them a "leading" Premium Smartphone maker. I could sell 200M of $200 Phones and 10M of $700 Phones. Would that make them leading? Would that make them premium?
> I know you are one of those.

One of what?

White collar crime is still crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation

And that's before we get into tricks like funding SCO to attack Linux and such.

The whole schtick of acting as if Microsoft is lily white because Bill Gates gives away some percentage of his loot and Nadella is better able to do PR than Ballmer has to end.

Anyway, I think we've seen the whole repertoire by now, whataboutism, name calling, strawmen, I'm out of here.
Somehow you'd think it would also benefit participants if it was also reliable and fulfilled end user's requirements. It is not theoretically impossible to have wireless headphones with low enough latency for gaming.
> We will finally be able to buy google-free android devices from a major vendor

What I read apps remain supported, but (security) updates to the firmware will stop. So Google continues to sell user data and the NSA has even easier access.
Why the down votes? I am trying to learn, just like the grandparent poster. Parent seems to be giving information that I was seeking as well. Is the parent’s post wrong or what?
Anyone who has even a minor interest in resisting the unfair, uncompetitive playing field big tech has created for itself, should install ad-blockers. Everywhere. And get everyone they know to as well.
Convincingly told. Sounds perfectly plausible to me.
Currently it uses the alignment of the headers as the default. It's only when a field exceeds the size of the header when the output is misaligned. The next record returns to the default alignment though.

I was thinking about adding a 'trim' command that would trim long fields to fit into the default field size.
Because wealth is power. Wealth is influence. If you control the means of production you have a disproportionately large voice not in government but in society. Not everyone has Jeff Bezos' pen that can in one fell swoop dramatically alter the livelihoods of millions or bring cities and counties to their knees grovelling at his feet.

Irrespective of total overall wealth, the distribution of wealth is an indicator of who decides the future of the society in which that wealth exists. Today, 90% of Americans have as much wealth as the 1% at the top, which means 1% of people wield half of the influence of money in society, and money has an obscenely powerful influence on society.

Its why we get tax cuts and deficits. Why we don't have socialized medicine. Why our labor protections are lacking, why workers get so little mandatory paid time off. Its why stress is up, why working hours are up, why debt is up. Why housing is more expensive - the poor don't use housing as an investment the way the rich do, in the absence of floods of capital floating around for the exclusive purposes of making more money there is a much smaller market for domineering real estate markets so much that you buy out the local government to prevent building to drive up your property values.
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Yeah, that's the point. There is no recorded detail. Existing remnants are highly eroded. Just seeing all those buildings in context is wonderful.
Who drives 11000 miles in a month?
This is fantastic. I'm a sucker for history from the "as lived" point of view - and there is little more "as lived" than the streets and houses and apartment blocks. (The posh floors were ground floors - the poor has to schlepp up all those stairs)

And Circus Maximus ... it could seat 1/4 Million people !! Holy Moly - that's bigger than stadiums today. (different Health and Safety rules I know) but still ... that's insane.
Thank you for the fair response.
This. And I am surprised at the amount of downvote and I quote "an assertion that is a fairly well-known fact."
Movies from 1972 vs 1996? I'll take the ecological classic that is a bit more in line with the OC's post.

Silent Running was very much an ecological and social statement about humanity and the Earth. I cried when Lewie was gone, and felt bad for Dewey.
The people most fixated on redistributing wealth seem to often have only a glancing familiarity with how it is produced.

Great wealth isn't accumulated by stealing from the working class, by and large it is accumulated by making the working class better off.
The commentary about PresenceLearning on Glassdoor sounds about right. They even mention the interm CEO (favorably, fwiw).

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/PresenceLearning-Reviews-E...

Crunchbase could be out of date, or maybe one of the cofounders stepped up.
This comment crosses into nationalistic and political flamewar and that is not ok here.

No (I sense I need to add), I'm not defending concentration camps, just defending HN against burning itself to a crisp. If you want to participate on HN, please contribute to thoughtful conversation. "Concentration camps [...] give me a break" does not qualify.

Moreover, we've had to warn you about this exact thing before. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the spirit of this site more to heart? Our hope is not to be one more place on the internet where people bring bags of clubs to bash each other with.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19955289 and marked it off-topic.
Some people point out that Google's usual response to chargebacks is to retaliate and ban the account from using their services. However, I think that if enough people fought, and the chargeback rate reached some critical level, they would have to answer to Visa and Mastercard and be forced to make a change.
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This has a few interesting potential repercussions that nobody is talking about. Since this is a lose-lose situation for both, here are a some possible outcomes:
a) Google moves enough play services code into AOSP to make AOSP more functional than it is now.
b) Webapps become more of a thing
c) Play services become "downloadable" when you visit google.com
d) Play services become standardised and/or federated
That number might possibly grossed up to include the gift tax he's got to pay. That being said it's still an astonishing amount of debt.
Manually processing DMCA takedown requests would be a huge hassle, but this is still on Google - even without the DMCA and just with regular IP law they would still have a system like this if for no other reason than to appease the companies they want on Play Movies / Youtube rentals. They have deals with the MPAA / mafia that certainly include draconian contentID as a prerequisite of you being able to "rent" movies on Youtube.

And Youtube has had for years Netflix-styled stars in its eyes. They want to be cozy with big media and trudging all over their individual creators is business as usual if it gets them favorable deals with the "big boys".
Nice of him, but college should just be free. Charity cannot build a decent society, only a determined society can... one that prevents the creation of billionaires in the first place.

If the dominant ladder to the middle class will place those who take it in indentured servitude, you're not building a great society.
Then, for a small subset of data, I manually verified that all results were correct.

Where’s your test suite man? :)
I honestly don't understand the point you're trying to make. As far as I can tell you are saying that people that can code are fundamentally superior to everyone else, to the point where everyone else is useless not only to corporations but society?
Hollywood started on the west coast because it was reasonably out of reach from the copyright and patent claims of the east coast. That's what allowed to a creative industry to start and strive.

Don't be surprised if the next cultural hub happens somewhere far from US IP's clutches.

The guy from this tweet concludes "Not only should you ensure you have complete rights to the music you are using for your videos, but also ensure that you ask about any samples that have been used. Otherwise you could end up in this situation (And you wouldn't want that)"

Creators simply do not have time for this shit. Hell, it requires a specialized lawyer team. Either have a simple process for them to handle that or you will see them fleeing from US-hosted servers.