skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My understanding (and experience as a contractor) is that for the service provider the benefit is being able to control the what and how of the work. This is better for the client as well especially if there is asymmetric knowledge as is often the case in tech.

However, if your are working full time and end up being made to follow the client's schedule, don't get to address technical debt, have useless meetings etc. then you might be considered an employee anyway. Which I can't understand why you _wouldn't_ want that, because it could mean overtime pay for all those crunch times that result from bad management.

So independent contractor is probably best for a tech worker if you're able to set boundaries and have autonomy, but not at all if having to work overtime and not take vacations.
But why can't you also legislate that micropayment processors cannot discriminate?
I sometimes creep above the 1000 mark as well. At 250 right now. I recommend the tabstats extension; it'll especially help when you discover that you've opened the same url in 12 tabs, which is easy to do when the tab count gets that high.

I also recommend periodically declaring tab bankruptcy. It feels so light and clean! For a little while, at least.
> Tough to be a space faring startup without a billionaire sponsor bankrolling you as a passion project.

I thought Allen still left quite a bit of money for his space projects?

This most likely was just a rational business choice based on their research and market testing. The parent company Vulcan Inc is still likely to continue.
That’s fair point. I can only speak for people I know. Facebook has become less for sharing with friends but more about messenger and events
As someone who is not an at-will employee, being a non-American who lives somewhere with at least vaguely sensible labour laws, I'm very glad to have some security of employment provided for by law, which I would not get as a freelancer or contractor.
Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren (not exactly a conservative Trump supporter) seems to think that antitrust regulators do indeed have a legitimate role to play:

Warren would appoint regulators who would reverse some of the biggest tech mergers that have taken place in recent years. That would mean the reversal of Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods and Zappos, Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram, and Google’s acquisition of Waze, Nest, and DoubleClick.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/8/18256192/el...
There are debates to be had at the borders, but FAANG are clearly on the wrong side of it.
Huawei Stops Smartphone Production Lines After Blacklisting, Report Claims
I suppose like flipping a number of heads in a row to get a coin "ready for tails".
This is not a matter of people getting the wrong skills, or being bad at those skills, or anything to do with choices. If 200,000 kids go to university to get a particular degree and 4 years later enter a market recruiting 180,000 graduates with that degree then there's a problem, yet no individual made the wrong decision. The problem is about predicting the future job market, attrition rates at universities, and the over-supply of graduates as a whole. It's not simply people doing the wrong degrees.

Putting all the blame on individuals for making bad choices shows a distinct problem of your understanding of the issue.
I was excited to follow the original scaled composite work with Burt and spaceship one (winning the X Prize) but time has passed and stage reusability appears to be a better long term solution than a carrier solution. I think space ship 2 will meet a similar fate against blue origins approach with new Shepard and of SpaceX decides to sell space tourist spots in dragon 2. You need to try different approaches to find what works and the industry should be thankful for these experiments!
Convince me that removing all doors from toilets doesn't harm you when you use it?

data about you is private. The same as your business behind the bathroom door is private. Revealing it creates the "same" harm.
> "Fascinating ideas. They might be right. But try getting elected by promising a shrinking economy."

It sounds like the problem is democracy. What we need is a BDFL.
LinkedIn once asked if I wanted to see what contacts I knew in the network. I clicked ok to connect to my email, and it immediately sent an email to everyone in my email history. It pretended to be written by me, saying I wanted to reconnect. It sent it to everyone - every old landlord, ever ex, every business contact, everyone. It was literally identity theft. That's a dark pattern.
Anti-Patterns
Yes, Google's crawler already calculates page speed yet they've observed that few popular sites are fast. Another aspect of AMP and NSM that I didn't mention is that they are binary; this prevents sites from adding just a little more bloat and then just a a little more after that until they're quite slow.
Like I said, the specifics are certainly open to ridicule. But I don't think you can dismiss the idea that we need to find a way to live without economic growth. I think we still have room for some growth, but not for long. If we keep to the status quo, waste heat from energy production alone will grow to disastrous levels within a few centuries.
I see a conversational, transactional OS leading the way to the next generation of UIs. No more cockpits. Not sure Apple has laid any groundwork for that. Amazon is positioned.
There were multiple potential solutions to drug use/crime. The chosen solution was the one that took away the freedom of millions of POC without actually solving the problem. And when it failed, they just doubled down even harder, because of course it didn't actually fail.
If you want to try it, you need to:

1. Enable developer mode in Windows 10

2. Download the msix package from the artifacts page of the latest build in Azure pipelines

3. Extract the msix, with 7-zip for instance.

4. The directory which contains the application manifest should be moved to a suitable location.

5. Run in Powershell: Add-Appxpackage -Path <path>\App manifest.xml -Register

Windows Terminal appears in your start menu.
You make a good point. Antitrust actions should be a function of both behavior and size. IMO, actions of ISPs have been more nefarious than FANG,

https://www.freepress.net/our-response/expert-analysis/expla...

https://potsandpansbyccg.com/2019/02/13/isps-are-violating-t...
Facebook knows everything - and they use that. That lack of social trust is about them not playing fair. You did everything right, and you trusted your friends. It's Facebook that broke your social trust.
Interesting. If we could love the now, today, we might not have need for hopes and dreams of spaceflight.
The clip was bad, but some equipment came with screws instead. I wonder what the deal was with the clip. It certainly wasn't the only connector with clips. There was some SCSI generations with spring clips and the later, smaller VESA DFP had them.
I suspect that Apple is planning to move to wireless charging; instead of replacing Lightning with USB-C, it will just ship a phone with no physical ports whatsoever.
If you explain why, you give the actual abusers clues as to how to avoid detection. It's common place behaviour for companies to _not_ reveal details.
And Google would allow their employees to build IP for a particular political campaign? That is, they would waive their rights to the IP produced by their employees for the specific benefit of a particular candidate? That seems unlikely.
There was a time where people willingly consented to being sold as slaves. Did they truly understand? Or was the circumstances "forced" upon it due to having no other options?

If you had to consent for the use of an incredibly popular app, is it really understanding? Or is it capitulation disguised?
If everyone on this planet can live forever before we have an escape plan, it'll become crowded really fast, so you might want to master that space exploring thingy first.
Hahaha, will take care to remove all spurious public pages.
Err, is there another reason for chrome to exist? Google is no philanthropist.
Microsoft specifically targeted Netscape, and there was documentation that that was the goal in the form of emails and the like.

Chrome wasn't seemingly to target anyone. Google generally makes more money if people use the internet more, so spending to make browsers better has some obvious benefits.
Which raises deep suspicions about the political motivations of this "investigation".

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.

Can anyone really say that Google's practices are more anti-competitive than, say, the dominant players in broadband or health insurance or wireless telecom or household appliances?
I wonder how the SWE’s and other senior people in this thread feel about working for a company that many now consider scum. All their excuses and retorts can honestly take a hike: It is my honest opinion that if you still work for Google you’re selling us all out.

Googler here, I understand why you may think Google is evil now and I'm not going to say they are a perfect company. But I think you should consider that it is a large company working on many different products. Not everyone is working on Ads or various "evil" things. Many of us work on things that people like and improve our lives.

If parts of the company is doing bad things, it doesn't make all of us sell outs in my opinion. Just like how every American that pays taxes isn't a sell out for all the bad things the US might do.
IIRC teenage drinking and violent crime plummeted among high school boys after original World of Warcraft release.

I think there were articles in the year following, at least in scandinavia, about it.
I remember that as well. Whoever the clip proponent was should have served some appropriate penance :)

Also, "vampire taps", WTF????[1] That was a hot mess.

[1] Sad memories of coiling AUI cables and inserting properly spaced AUI vampire taps because MGMT wouldn't splurge for a proper ethernet switch.
A neutral net is pretty meaningless if it’s just a handful of walled gardens you can access
Really? I mean, pick one of a hundred. They are deprecating APIs that would block the interception and are ignoring community pushback.

But since you asked...

https://bgr.com/2019/05/31/google-chrome-update-ad-blockers-...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evy53j/google-struggles-t...

https://9to5google.com/2019/05/29/chrome-ad-blocking-enterpr...

But I mean, that was a 2 second search. Citations are indeed hard to come by...
If this is a solution to robocalls and spam, that's just plain f*ing stupid. The worst case scenario of getting a spam call is you get annoyed and hang up. Compare that to handing over your contacts, call logs, text messages to a third party app just so that you can avoid picking up a call. Jesus Christ.

If you hate spam calls that much, it's very easy to not pick up a call from an unknown caller. I can come up with a dozen ideas just off hand that could potentially solve this spam issue far more elegantly. It's baffling that even this is up for debate and that there are people who would defend an app like this. This is not a philosophical or technical problem, this is not like spam emails, this is simply not a difficult problem to solve.
Whether it's Iraq and Afghanistan, Kim and Kanye, or the latest school shooting--talking heads are a pestilence.

Cable news will probably die with the boomers anyway, but even so, props and gratitude to the NYT.
I have a lot of sympathy for the signers of this letter. As Havoc Pennington (team lead of the GNOME 2 project) liked to point out, every option you provide to users has a cost to the developers in terms of testing and maintenance. Maybe a better way for the letter signers to communicate their position would be to simply say "We don't support nonstandard GNOME themes". Certainly, they're within their rights to say this, and you're within your rights to not use their apps if you don't like it.

Another thing Havoc Pennington liked to talk about in developing GNOME 2 was 'crack'. These were things in GNOME 1 that were bad for the community, but that a lot of users were addicted to. Like, for instance, an overabundance of user settings.

By all accounts, it's hard to write a GUI app for the Linux desktop, in part because of the huge variety of distros and desktops, and apparently even themes within a single desktop. And as a user, my biggest complaint about desktop Linux is the relative paucity of high-quality applications. (Yes, I know there are many high-quality desktop Linux applications. But there aren't as many as on Windows or MacOS.) I can't help but wonder if most of the community wouldn't be better off if a single distro, hopefully with a single desktop and a single theme, decisively 'won' and claimed a dominant usage share of the Linux desktop. Then third-party developers would be incentivized to just develop for that distro, which might make the lives of both users and developers better in the long run.

And of course, since it's open source, if 'the one true distro' went off the rails eventually, someone else could fork it and become the new 'one true distro', with relatively little danger of vendor lock-in.
The Z3 Theorem Prover
The world's population is still growing, economy must grow or there is less of everything for everyone.
Is there any response that would satisfy you?
As far as I understand, the penalty for not paying taxes is incarceration or heavy fines.

The penalty for not working for Google is effectively having to find work somewhere else. Not exactly oranges to oranges.

I appreciate that you may be working on things that improve people’s lives. How is that work funded? What would happen to those projects when they are deemed not profitable enough or endanger the evil stuff?

I didn’t write that post lightly, but with a heavy heart and a bitter taste in my mouth from a former #1 fan.
To compete with Microsoft, who used to try to leverage their power in similar ways.
I loved purism. Got their laptops. But the OS and most software (and i am sure this social network too) is a fly-by-night operation. At best!

The laptops too, in a way. They are nice but for the price should have been nicer (e.g. no USB C charging or monitor out, etc, for a machine more expensive than a maxed out mac or HP). Everything they do just scream "we slapped those things together. Now pay us".

Now they are riding the waves of the librem5 hype... and i am sure they will deliver just because the competition on mobile phones is abysmal.
"In America ... I find it a drag that almost none are open past 10 or 11pm"

I used to live in Atlanta and there was a 24-hour Kroger right across the street from my townhome. One night at 2am, I bought a gas grill at that Kroger on a whim. Good times.

Now I live in Silicon Valley and there are quite a few 24-hour grocery stores according to google map.
I think this is more about making it easier to run the Unity editor headless in a docker container than it is about making lives easier for those extreme few who actually want to use the editor within Linux. Linux users often choose Linux because it is open. The Unity editor is definitely not open.

That's an educated guess, not something I know for a fact, and it makes sense given what I know about how the tool has evolved.

Unity has been able to produce games that run on Linux for a long, long time, so Linux is making some headway, you're right.
Eric Schmidt literally went out of his way to organize the Clinton IT infrastructure on ridiculously good terms.

https://qz.com/823922/eric-schmidt-played-a-crucial-role-in-...

The idea that he utilized Google resources to do the same for Obama while he had more direct influence over Google isn't a crazy idea.
Really interesting stuff, I live in Malaysia now and will have to keep this in mind if I decide to get involved in the tech scene here.
Narita airport to use facial recognition in boarding from 2020
Buying competition = removing competition

Removing competition is literally the most anticompetitive thing you can do. Like definitionally.

That’s why all major (edit: US) acquisitions take months to years to get approval from the SEC.
Well said, Facebook.

People are uploading thing to the internet for the sole purpose of having as many people as possible see it. That’s the entire goal of the exercise.

It’s baffling that those same people would then turn around and behave as though they are surprised that people can see those things.
For a while, I was pretty sold on anarcho-primitivism as a concept (Derrick Jensen is a prominent figure in that sphere), but it is pretty deluded to think that quality of life would increase and life would be cushy and comfortable.
You conveniently ignore the "political impact against one candidate" bit.

So your statement only makes sense if you assume that all journalists are trying to influence politics to the benefit of their preferred candidate in their reporting.
Yes. When I'm done with JSON-specific operations, I'd like to use traditional libraries to do non-JSON-specific things, and I would like to avoid having explicit conversion to Maps and Lists.
Good reason for about 5-10% of the internet users with adblockers to switch to Firefox. Which kind of hurts the monopoly argument. Not that I support google being more and more monopolistic these days.

I still don’t think the browser market is a good example right now.

There’s far better examples than this.
> If you see something illegal, please report it to the relevant authorities, as they are best equipped to handle illegal content.

Fantastic, more negative externalizes.

It's like advertising a free hazmat dump, then disclaiming any responsibility for the inevitable cleanup. Just freeride on taxpayer-funded "authorities".

This isn't free speech, it's just disgusting and reprehensible.
I wonder if they would be able to carry out another massacre but this time successfully prevent the world from ever knowing.
Doesn’t seem fair, the way you’re describing companies that operate like Uber/Lyft/etc...

Drivers opt-in on their own accord and it requires zero skill whatsoever. You can work whenever you want for as long or as little as you’d like.

How is this somehow unethical or immoral? You used the word wrong.

These people are not employees, they’re temporary/ephemeral contractors. If you work for an hour a month - you’re not my employee - and I’m not going to give you health insurance.
> And why are companies like DigitalOcean and Sentry sponsoring a game engine?

We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Many companies like DO and Sentry have programs for open-source and/or non-profit companies where they provide free or discounted services in exchange for some exposure.
> you can't use Unity without logging in

You definitely can, but it requires working with a sales rep to buy named or floating licenses that are served up by a locally run license server. I would be surprised if they did this for single quantity license purchases, though.

Additionally, after subscribing for two years, you can stop subscribing at any time and continue to use the latest version of the editor at the time your subscription expires, perpetually, as in "perpetual license that you own." This was announced at the same time they announced the switch from perpetual licensing to subscription licenses, if I remember correctly.
Indeed. Many people fail to grasp that in the grand scheme of things, this is unlikely to change anything. Google has always been at the center of the tech industry. Some of its services are not only important to the public and vital for the U.S. economy, but also very critical to national security as well. Rest assured that efforts will be spent to ensure Google will continue to remain at this position in the foreseeable future. Actions like these are more likely to serve as a way to calm down the public aka damage control.
Playing hardball is itself not an antitrust violation. Doing it to maintain monopoly power is. (Under section 2 of the Sherman Act.)
http://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2015/10/29/can-a-mans-testostero...
Meaning if that’s what the military actually admits to...
Wireless charging is highly inefficient and wastes energy, so I hope it won’t become a widely adopted standard.

Otherwise imagine that waste multiplied by millions.

And if that is the only way to charge then I’d have to carry the base station wherever I go, it’s quite bulky.

And you’d still need a data port so I doubt apple will remove the ability to charge via a cable.
This is probably worth it's own post, it would be very interesting to see more detail. I'm also probably certain that this is also not exclusive to DO.
LibVMI: Simplified Virtual Machine Introspection
It's great for laundering money. It's where a huge portion of it's value has come from :(
The micro SCSI clips worked well.
Perhaps you know this already, but they would be outcompeted very quickly and disappear (like the shakers). It’s like how paying extra taxes voluntarily isn’t a substitute for wanting increased taxation.
The percentage of Uber drivers that work for an hour a month is close to zero. Obviously those people should not get health insurance.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/362307/where-did... has some examples, including a case where a letter ending "your obedient servant" got a reply from "your humble servant." It's a style, a formal way of showing respect through humility, not meant to be taken literally.
Aren't we past the point of having too much? Making plastic single use goods obsolete and reducing all the Amazon purchases that get used once if ever would reduce total output. More focus could be put on quality (I know this can't be defined) products, rather that just driving blind consumerism.
This is a bold take!

Google's close ties with the Obama administration makes the Trump administration suspicious!
data could be wireless so a waterproof dustproof design is possible (look at the watch)

But you’re right: wireless charging is too inefficient and thus slow, so I also doubt they’ll really go there.
They have the ability to sell floating licenses, but you must work with a sales rep to get them, and purchase through one of their resellers, if I recall.

I do not know if they roll their own license server or if they can use commercial license servers that may already be in place in an organization.
I think they should be using the phrase "data-oriented" as in:
http://www.dataorienteddesign.com/dodmain/

But maybe they have reasons for using data driven. Its heavily based around entity component systems.
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I though a business arrangement was meant to be optional and mutually beneficial.
No, because if you really wanted that you’d already have done it.
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-kills-airpower/
That's what Ted Kaczynski tried before he got driven out of his cabin in the woods.
A normal human brain has thirteen thousand times as many synapses as AMD's Epyc has transistors, each capable of far more complex behavior than a single transistor. It's going to be a while.
The shakers died out because they were celibate.
Do you have some specific doubts about the design or is this based purely on the lack of good looking examples?

Anyway they plan to back a few showcase games so they are headed in that direction, this is one of them:

https://github.com/khskarl/evoli

I'm not so deterred by the lack of examples but I do have doubts about the design and how complex it seems. Maybe that pays off with bigger projects, we shall see.
If they get near me or my family, our aura will wreck those cables, no matter how old or new they are.
Google is not a monopoly in terms of consumer choice (we can choose any one of mostly identical search engines), but it is in terms of market share ala internet explorer. It is in a perfect situation to leverage this to force arbitrary policies that mostly benefit it, like amp.