skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't reduce the validity of averros comment.

Rayiner may be factually correct, but his comment normalized the great injustice of the situation.

Kid gets caught with a little pot at a parade, and the cops slam his ass to the ground and book him.

Google screws millions and millions daily, and they get a letter.

Lawyers are experts in law... not so much with justice.
Or maybe there's an expectation that a phone explicitly recommended by Google Fi would actually work outside the US. That clearly left a worse taste in the author's mouth than anything else with the device.
Japanese also don't consider housing to be equity or investment, it depreciates in value every year. A house is just a house not something to speculate on or store money in. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-economy-land/japan-...
Serious question-- which of your rights are endangered? (Citations, please)
... because one comment on social media becomes a just characterization of all members of a class?
How is this at the top of HN? There's a lot to argue against Google and Android, but this is just inane. Complaining about the _splash screen_ of a phone? This is clickbait for /r/apple at best...
If you are seeing ads for stuff you already purchased, it could be that the ad network tracked that you have viewed the item but didn't properly track the purchase.

The tracking isn't perfect and not every targeted ad you see is intentional.
It’s amazing that this even needs to be published — no study is needed to prove the laws of supply and demand that have been known and obvious for centuries.
I know how easily internet comments land on sensitive feelings—it happens to me every day—but this reply breaks the site guidelines. It takes the thread in an off-topic, unsubstantive direction, and it doesn't do what we ask here: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) Even though it felt like geocar was lecturing you, the stronger plausible and good-faith interpretation was to assume otherwise. In that case the discussion could have continued to exchange substantive information and readers could have learned more.

Strangely enough a similar thing happened in an unrelated thread yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20062560.
It actually has quite a few performance tweaks that make traditional engines powerful.

For starters:

- A 12x10 Mailbox board representation.

- Killer move heuristic.

- QSearch.

- Null move pruning.

- Move sorting based on captures and positioning.

- MTD-bi search.

- Mate testing based on king capture.

- Transposition tables.

The Chess Programming Wiki is a great place to learn more about all of these though.
Interesting idea. FYI, the layout of your home page breaks if your browser default font size isn't 16px, leaving most of the important text unreadable.
It’s like these examples of security automation are designed to have the exact opposite effect as chaos engineering.
It is becoming an arms race. Colleges in the USA build these things to attract potential students. If one colleges has them and the nearby comparable college doesn't then the one without looks worse in comparison.
Is there a solution to this "problem" that doesn't involve taking the hard-earned wealth away from people 55 and older who carefully planned and saved so they can enjoy themselves?
Who are the ad networks paying $20-$30 CPM for tech ?
If you want a rational discussion, it helps to state your beliefs in a way that can be discussed usefully. For example, saying “unchecked illegal immigration” is a non-working policy makes quite a few assumptions. Are many of LA’s homeless illegal immigrants? Does homelessness have anything to do with immigration, legal or otherwise? If so, what? In what respect is illegal immigration “unchecked”? [0]

For that matter, why do free food, etc incentivize homelessness?

Do you want a rational discussion in which your own assumptions might be challenged or do you just consider anyone who disagrees to be irrational?

[0] Estimates of the recent net illegal immigration rate vary from negative to positive but quite low. Illegal immigration may or may not be “unchecked”, but the rate seems quite low.
That is cool! I've thought about making a rust version of Sunfish, and I didn't even know this existed!
When buying phones for the USA, buy a phone for the USA. Buying grey market/used phones intended for other markets will cause problems. Not to mention those grey market phones are often stolen and black listed elsewhere.

If you want it to "just work" like an iphone, you'll likely be happiest to get a Pixel.

Especially with google fi, get a USA phone. Then your phone will work in most foreign markets... including Canada.
> Obviously a blockchain cannot magically make people do things they don't otherwise want to do.

So, what's the point, really, especially if talk about "Distributed trust" if blockchain provides nothing to ensure that trust?

> But what a blockchain can do is model parts as tokens that can only exist once on the chain, associate data like provenance documents with each token, then model sales as transfers of the token... a way that you don't have to trust any single entity

So, the details and provenance magically appear on the blockchain. Who verifies them? Who makes sure they are complete? Let me guess, some centralised/external entity?

So, there's some part associated with a token. What's to stop me from associating the same part with a different token? Or with 100 tokens? I'm guessing there is some centralised agency that verifies that a part is associated with a token through the part's serial number and that: a) no other token is associated with the same number and b) the seller associates serial numbers, and not some random numbers with the token?

I'm not even going into such things as "seller A sold part B to buyer C, received the money and never sent the part", let's start with documents, parts, tokens and associations.
> This whole plane sounds like any ugly hack. They slapped very different engines on an existing airframe. Then, when it inevitability exhibited undesirable behaviour, they tried to paper over the cracks. Then they hid this information from their customers, regulatory agencies and the pilots.

Don’t forget, the system they used to paper over the cracks had a single point of failure.
> democratically based on utility to the public

Ok, so I want to live in the center of the city, because there the walking distance is shorter.

John wants to do the same thing, but he gets assigned a tiny plot somewhere miles outside the center.

How will you make value judgements about people in this manner? You cannot assign randomly either, as everyone will hate the place they live.
Current owners of scarce real estate wouldn't lose money if zoning laws were changed to allow more density. The land they own would actually become more valuable, as it could now have more units than before. Allowing more productive use of the underlying land is actually good for both the sellers and buyers of housing.
The only age requirement that would affect "millennials" is the constitutionally-defined minimum age for the President, which is 35.
Of those that can AFFORD to live in London? Seems unlikely.
Really? It sounded worse to me. Very artificial / codec-y.
I use so many apps in the Google ecosystem like Gmail and chrome and they simply work better on Android. I still can't get push notifications in the browser on iOS. Now Google has brought the Chromebook into play and it's rocking. I can see how if you have been using Apple for a long time and then you switch to something foreign to you then of course it's going to be awkward at first. That's perfectly normal but this article is just silly.
Tokyo proves you need tremendous investment in infrastructure, not just unleashing developers to build without restriction.
Translation: "80% of officers never wrote a single thing that we could paint in a negative light."
Not mentioned in the article, but also significant is that in the last decade or so, commercial property developers have been required to provide housing too.

We can see many successful examples of mixed-use buildings in predominantly commercial districts such as Shinjuku and Roppongi.
Considering the subject access request will have to be processed by somebody watching the video with you in it, I can't imagine a nefarious use for making a subject access request.
> What Japan’s inexpensive homes and its alternative policy approach prove is that the housing shortage in British cities is not inevitable. Housing does not have to be expensive in prosperous cities. The housing shortage is something we have chosen to experience and can choose to change if we want to.

Written for Britain, but this could be applied universally.
i was an iphone 4-7 user and switched to pixel 2 and now im on pixel 3. I've enjoyed my pixel device a lot. my setup experience was nice and the transfer of data from my iPhone 7 to my pixel 2 was very smooth. one thing i should note however is my day job is being a pm for my company's android & ios teams. So i've had a lot of experience with an array of android devices that has made my experience pretty seamless.
The sad thing is that we'll probably see this plane fly again by the end of the year, because the millions of dollars in retrofits will still be cheaper than having to scrap all existing planes.

We have no idea what other potentially lethal corners have been cut. What if they go back into service, after several months of retrofitting all of them at Boeing maintenance hangers, and then the following year there are two more deadly crashes from some other overlooked hack.

Really, these planes need to be scrapped. The engines, equipment, seats, etc can all be stripped and used in other planes, but the air frames will need to be recycled and this line of planes should end here.

Even if it doesn't (probably won't), I highly doubt we'll see another generation of 737s. They did survive the rudder problems way back from the... 80s? or 90s? .. So their reputation might recover, but they still can't make the types of planes airlines want and keep that name/certification.
This very nearly almost made me aroused. What a wonderful idea.
Administrative mitigation like pilots are usually the least preferential ways of mitigating hazards. Humans are often the least consistent, most fallible part of a system. If there were engineering solutions available I would hope Boeing would implement them.
There is some serious truth in this article.

Karma/Likes are like tiny happy pills. Psychologists will be studying this for decades to come.
No, not really. People who own their homes have a vested interest in prices rising, people who live in government-mandated affordable housing have no particular stake one way or the other, and people who rent at market rates often have low visibility into the fact that their rates are the result of a housing shortage and prefer to blame landlords for renting at prices the market will bear.
The whole point is that it's not a FT job.

It is a full-time job in that the so-called "core" drivers drive for Uber full-time. There are a lot of part-time employees too, and they're just as deserving of minimum wage, social security contributions, workers comp insurance, unemployment insurance, health insurance, and the whole host of other benefits that come with being classed as not-a-contractor.

It's perfectly valid for people to drive when they need extra income

There've been part-time jobs with flexible schedules since before Boober was even a glimmer in Kalanick's horny eyes. The difference is that when you work as a part-timer for a real company you are subject to things like minimum wage. Driving for Uber is nowhere near as profitable as their marketing is claiming. For instance:

https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/243102-uber-fined-20-mill...

Across all of those cities less than 30% of the drivers are making what Uber claims they can make. That's before the usury that Uber engages in (20% APR on a new car lone? for fucks sake).
I have a friend who is an advisor at a Big 10 school. While going through the old papers in her office she found the budget of the school from the late 90s. The school's expenses have doubled in that time. Part of it is certainly the amenities arm race. However, the amount of money they get from the state has only gone up by 50%.
I don't think that at least at this point they will be able to (and will want to check everybody thoroughly) prove that you have more than you stated.

Also, if you grew up dreaming and not planning to visit/move right now, they ask about last 5 years. So, a lot of these will expire.
Wow. Cool system.
Well the other issue is the system used that bad sensor data to automatically correct the pilots with no indication of why or how to even turn it off. The pilots knew the system was wrong and couldn't force the place to correct.
I ranted about this concept recently when I went to buy my family a house. I can't believe it exists somewhere.
I’m curious how you fit in to the various risk pools. COBRA appears to be the actual (pre subsidy) cost plus 2%.

The subsidy is the fact that employer contributions to health insurance are not taxed. Here’s an estimate that this costs about $280 billion/year. This is more than Elizabeth Warren’s tax!

https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-does-tax-e...
Seems like Android truly replaced Symbian, Google is the new Nokia! :D
Open source isn’t particularly about making money. The making money is orthogonal and potentially harder if the source is available with a permissive license. Free software is about freedom of the user to make copies and distribute the source code and again money is orthogonal.

But I think in practice both open source and free software are hard to monitise. Often the open source software is a marketing platform for a managed service ala “we made it were the experts let us host it for you”
Lithobraking is always an option.
>>Google’s ties to the Obama administration were deep.

>Which raises deep suspicions about the political motivations of this "investigation".

So, if a company was in bed with politician X, and get investigated under a future (opposition) politician Y, it's the ...political motivations of the investigation that you're concerned about?

That sounds totally backwards...

>Anti-trust is about companies using their market power to exclude rivals, raise prices, and hurt consumers. It's not about consumers overwhelmingly choosing a product because they like it more.

Well, Google uses its power over search results to do all of the above.
that sounds like an awful experience. All i can say is i did not experience any of this when i moved from an iphone 7 to pixel 2. I was actually impressed how much data transferred over and felt like it took less than 20min for everything to be done
We need you to stop posting flamewar comments to Hacker News if you don't want us to ban you again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Thrill of Defeat (2015)
> In all of the conversations that I've seen lately about how technology affects us and how to rethink the world we want, I haven't seen much discussion of software's crushing cost. Who's working on interesting/out there stuff in the area of making serious software cheaper today?

I'm not aware of the author's lately conversations, but I would say that high-level languages and full-fledged frameworks are here to enable developers to make software more quickly and at a lower cost.

However, it's not strictly free. If a company can develop a Web app quickly thanks to the Django framework (for example) and Python, then it is because other people worked very hard to make Django and Python. But, the work only happened once, and it is now reusable by thousands of companies/developers.

Maybe that free software is a high factor towards "software's crushing cost".
I just did some quick math[0].

At that 75k loan, 8% interest, and 100k salary, if you pay 10% of your salary it takes you 11.5 years to pay off (and you pay almost 40k in interest >50% of principal).

Same numbers, but a 100k loan that goes to 20.25 years to pay off and you pay >100k in interest.

Though to be fair, if we put in the average student loan ($29800) and the average US household income (60309) we bring it down to 6.33 years and ~8k in interest (28% of principal). But it is unlikely that many college graduates are making the median household income as a fresh graduate. If we go to 40k/yr salary then it jumps to 11.5 years and 15k in interest (53%).

This also doesn't take into account that most of these loans are variable interest rates. Considering that, these numbers would put us on the lower side (of someone starting with an 8% interest rate).

Edit: spelling

[0] https://www.bankrate.com/loans/student-loans/how-long-to-pay...
SpaceX says 60 Starlink satellites will grow harder to see
This smells an awful lot like classism to me, and so do a lot of the comments. It's gross that people would be okay with and even supportive of monitoring poor/blue collar work environments but suddenly educated wealthy people are being treated the same as poor people and it's a big problem.
It’s still Android, just minus the Google stuff (no Play Services, all open source minus binary drivers, etc). I’ve used both AT&T and Sprint in the US and have had no problems at all. People who want the Google stuff can still flash Play Services before the first boot if they want and that works good too.

The device list covers lots of stuff you can buy cheaply used (upgrade a Galaxy S4 to Android 9, for instance) as well as high-end new devices: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
It's unclear what you're trying to say.
In practice what happens is the availability of exploitable labor creates incentive for abusive employers (and others in power in the society) to maintain poor conditions among their potential labor pool.

In many (both historical and ongoing) cases the societal abuses this goes with are quite horrific, and the large-scale power imbalances are extreme.

Removing abusive employment relations at a society-wide scale is a strong first step towards helping people out of the kind of desperate situations where such arrangements would seem better than alternatives.

The abstract libertarian fantasy-land where every “consensual” “contract” is mutually beneficial sounds nice if you don’t bother learning the details of specific past and present legal and social systems. In reality these abusive social relations are a nightmare, doing irreparable damage to countless people’s lives.
It's still surveillance, which is the point. Making a broad statement about surveillance is ridiculous, particularly when it is made in the same breath as a statement about advertising (which is a much less nuanced situation).
There are standards for how many independent inputs are needed based on the criticality of the system. It's not just a guess as to how many are sufficient. That's why the categorization of MCAS correctly ('catastrophic' vs. 'hazardous' is important)
Would you please not take HN threads further into flamewar or ideological battle? It's not what this site is for, and we ban accounts that do it repeatedly. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and using HN as intended, we'd be grateful.
There are lots of ways to do it, but yes, whatever you do, you have to make that value judgment. I have trouble believing that the value judgment "Your parents were richer than John's parents" is anywhere near the top of the list of reasonable approaches. (I have real trouble believing that the value judgment "Your grandparents shared a race with the politically powerful, who refused to sell to John's grandparents" or "Your great-grandparents shot John's great-grandparents in the face" are anywhere except right at the bottom.)
> Why did they create SSPL when AGPL already existed?

Because they were already using the AGPL, and it did precisely Nothing to stop Amazon from turning into a massive free-rider who undermined the very ability of the project to fund continued development of the project Amazon was free-riding on.
I have that exact phone, the Moto G6, I love it, about one third the price of an iPhone. I turned off the sound on the intro, I only turn the thing off and on every few weeks anyway. The security updates install when you let them.
I doubt there's anything you can do on the iPhone that you can't do on this.
Pretty much as dx87 said. Honestly I know it’s not racism, but it feels so close for some reason and it might just because China is 99% single race and has been invaded and discriminated against so many times. The devil is in the subtleties. Please educate me if you wish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_same-sex_marriage_i...

Guess which party was in favor of it, and which was against it. This happened recently, within your living memory.
Heh.. I'm glad they resolved the issue quickly but this seems like bad security design, whenever a camera is associated with a new account they should have totally new encryption keys so the old account is locked out regardless of leftover information hanging out in Alexa. Not great to hear from a company with thousands+ of cameras streaming 24/7.
This is not nearly as important as you might think. That's because lithium is only a very small part of the cost of a lithium-ion battery. Most of it is production expenses. These have been dropping steadily (the price of li-ion batteries went down 35% in the last year alone) due to improved design, more efficient manufacturing technologies, and economies of scale.
Feynman said it was the weather.

They probably had to stay together for the same reason gas stations cluster around one intersection.
Actually, I am migrating to Android from Nokia, but the Maemo/Meego branch (pure Linux) and it is really polished!

My N9, a super slow phone from 2011 feels in some ways better than the Pixel 2 which I find sad.

The UI design is top notch and blends so well with the curved AMOLED screen.

Also, the device is capable of standing by on airplane mode for several days with its always on screen elegantly showing the time and calendar events. My Pixel 2 drains battery pretty fast in the same conditions.

I cannot possibly understand how Google is not capable of providing users with a better experience despite so many years of work, resources and hardware improvements vs Nokia.
I really hate this trope that is wheeled out about Japanese accomodation; the flats that people talk about would be considered too small to live in by western standards. Most of them seem to be made of horrendous cheap plastic prefab; you get a corridor with a kitchen in it, a mezzanine to sleep on above said corridor that is too small to sit upright, a 7'x'7 living area and a bathroom (including toilet) that is about 2ft x 2ft.

For this delight there are people being charged $1000 per month or more in rent.

Add in the fact that Japanese have an extremely different relationship to property culterally (and due to earth quake fears) means propeerties are often knocked down and rebuilt (the article notes this - 600000 new homes for an ageing population seems like most of those are going to immigrants).

A lot of people in Europe prefer the shared living, and it is better use of resources - you only need one bathroom/one living room per 3 people and those can be MUCH nicer than these micro appartments.

London and the west also have different cultural values about building high rise property and overlooking neighbours. It's fine that Japan doesn't mind a sky scraper being built overshadowing their homes but for Londoners or elsewhere this is simply unacceptable to suggest we can change our whole culture to Japanese values and magically solve housing problems.
I wonder how trivial now it would be for some secret gov org to get a live feed of so many areas if they were so inclined.