skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using LineageOS and other custom ROMs isn't straightforward even for technical people. And Google is actively making the experience worse in the name of "security". Installing a custom ROM introduces an artificial delay while your phone displays a FUD screen telling you that your phone can't be trusted.

They are not lying, of course. A well-known advertising company known for its engine[1] has installed a rootkit on it. Of course, this warning is about rootkits Google doesn't trust (either).

If security was the objective, Google could easily improve it without compromising freedom. Let people choose who they trust.[2] Encrypt the OS so attackers can't modify it. Or not telling attackers that there's an unlocked backdoor they can use.

[1] Missing: 
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[2] Technically, Android supports enrolling your own key. But that's optional for device makers and I haven't found any useful documentation. You also still get a warning on boot, this one is yellow.

[3] Replacing it is easy to detect unless you somehow manage to replicate the phone state as it was. Part of that state could even be a kind of reverse password that the phone uses to authenticate itself to it's owner.
> >Unique? No. Distinct in character, yes.

> So not unique. But actually unique?

I don't know what you think "distinct" means but it's obviously different from the sense I'm using.

> Had you used those examples in your original post, then it would have had less of that implication.

I've had several threads about this. Sorry I don't replicated every aspect of the entire conversation for your convenience. Most folks aren't bringing the "aren't you a japanophile insulting my gloriously progressive culture" angle to the table, so I haven't felt the need to specifically defend against that ridiculous argument in every post.

> If you weren't implying that the west has a "love and expectation of violent solutions" while the rest of the world does not, or that the west has more of a "love and expectation of violent solutions" than the rest of the world, then just say so.

Perhaps being less defensive would be more productive in the future. Sadly, I'm taking your offer to ignore you from here on out. Thanks for reminding me why this place is such a waste of time.
Highlights:

- aarch64 support

- faster JSON decoding

- more stdlib modules are cffi-based

- Python 3.6 support no longer marked “beta”
Ah makes sense. Just checked mine and it's 3360 lux, so yours is 3x stronger.

I checked daylight, sunlight is 100,000 lux, and shade on a day with clear sky is 20,000. Our indoor lighting is way off!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B072Q42GXQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_.Fl...
What is the difference with Ordering::Relaxed?
Your comment reminds me of the fisherman and the business man:

> There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Brazilian village.
As he sat, he saw a Brazilian fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore having caught quite few big fish.
The businessman was impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it take you to catch so many fish?”
The fisherman replied, “Oh, just a short while.”
“Then why don’t you stay longer at sea and catch even more?” The businessman was astonished.
“This is enough to feed my whole family,” the fisherman said.
The businessman then asked, “So, what do you do for the rest of the day?”
The fisherman replied, “Well, I usually wake up early in the morning, go out to sea and catch a few fish, then go back and play with my kids. In the afternoon, I take a nap with my wife, and evening comes, I join my buddies in the village for a drink — we play guitar, sing and dance throughout the night.”
The businessman offered a suggestion to the fisherman.
“I am a PhD in business management. I could help you to become a more successful person. From now on, you should spend more time at sea and try to catch as many fish as possible. When you have saved enough money, you could buy a bigger boat and catch even more fish. Soon you will be able to afford to buy more boats, set up your own company, your own production plant for canned food and distribution network. By then, you will have moved out of this village and to Sao Paulo, where you can set up HQ to manage your other branches.”
The fisherman continues, “And after that?”
The businessman laughs heartily, “After that, you can live like a king in your own house, and when the time is right, you can go public and float your shares in the Stock Exchange, and you will be rich.”
The fisherman asks, “And after that?”
The businessman says, “After that, you can finally retire, you can move to a house by the fishing village, wake up early in the morning, catch a few fish, then return home to play with kids, have a nice afternoon nap with your wife, and when evening comes, you can join your buddies for a drink, play the guitar, sing and dance throughout the night!”
The fisherman was puzzled, “Isn’t that what I am doing now?”
Making the case for investing in SWE growth
Tiny comment: I think the sentence "However, in practice the overhead needed to correctly avoid locks is greater than just using a mutex." should be part of footnote 1, not the main text.
Ask HN: How do you find a startup partner?
I'd like to make a startup within the next few years. Having someone else to work with in getting the company going would be incredibly helpful, especially since I don't have any cash to actually pay an employee. It's rare to find wildly optimistic people with the risk tolerance to start a company, the drive to make something new, and the technical skills needed to actually execute. How do you find people like that?
I was with you until the Catalonia freedom part. Even that unrecognized referendum did not show support for succession AFAIK.
The collapse of Dyson's electric car dream
Ask HN: Is AMP Dead?
Just from checking the Google News or the discover feature on Android it seems like lots of publishers are included without an amp version of their websites. Which in the beginning was not the case.

I know that as a web standard it received a lot of criticism from HN and other communities. But is there any major benefit of basically maintaining two templates for websites? Could Google drop it at some point in the future?
I worked at Uber from 2014-2018.

Can confirm this. It was a very poorly managed org because it was extremely grassroots driven—leadership was underempowered to say no to front line teams or hold groups accountable.

The overlaps and poorly considered projects described above are not an exaggeration. Many of them were designed for building the lead engineer's open source brand, not for company needs. Half of the projects described above have since been canceled.

Google:

- Hyperbahn

- Cherami

- Schemaless

- Peloton

- uDeploy

- m3db

- piper

- XYS

Contrary to their glossy open source and tech blog presentations, these projects were highly contentious internally and widely viewed as inferior to industry counterparts. Each of these projects had 5-20 engineers working on them for over a year; many of them are being EOLed or phased out currently. And this is just the list that I can publicly talk about. This development came at extraordinary cost for the org and, in the case of the people who were laid off, cost to people's careers.
Arm-chair speculating here...

I think as long as the VC investment keeps growing the layoffs won't matter much.

If the layoffs continue and VC investments steadies or declines, I don't think it takes many months until there's suddenly more supply than demand, and companies start being more selective about who they hire, and offered salaries stop increasing (and maybe even decline).

Think about it. Uber is the biggest IPO by far. They're laying off only 1000 people. Even if they're all in The Bay, and even if all the other recent IPOs go through similar (but proportional) layoffs -- you're talking about maybe 5000 layoffs max. That's a lot.

Bay Area investment in 2018 was $27.5B [1]. Nationally, since 2007 (and I pick that since it's the last peak), VC investment has increased by 11.13% per year.

If the Bay Area gets an extra ~$3B next year in VC money, that could absorb the 5000 layoffs pretty easily.

Obviously there could be any other exogenous shock that causes even more layoffs. Obviously VC investment could fall off a cliff. Obviously I can't predict the future.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-08/ventur...
Building a decentralized revolution at scale / Devcon5
All property is a monopoly. Is it slavery that I can't grow some crops on your lawn.
Sorry about that. There must’ve been a brief blip during a moment of intense load or a redeploy. Is it working for you now?
> Non-finance people seem to think the stock market only exists for investing, which isn’t true at all. In fact outside of an IPO you are not investing into a company, but just trading a piece of a pie that already existed. The stock market has always been primarily about trading, and informational arbitrage is simply more efficient when you have computers calculating it

Baloney. Corporations compensate employees, management and executives in stock. Furthermore, they may use their stock as debt collateral, or flat-out purchase investments [e.g. startups or other companies] completely or partially with stock. For example Facebook purchased Whatsapp with $12 billion of Facebook shares, $3 billion RSUs, and $4 billion in cash [1].

Moral of the story: The higher your stock price, the lower your cost of capital.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WhatsApp#Facebook_subsidiary_(...
Retail was doing this back in the 1990s. "Parking lot counting"
So are the unit economics any different for DoorDash, which has raised a ton (from SoftBank, no less) at a $12B valuation?
Quitting Juul may be harder than quitting cigarettes
I think that memes are actually driving a lot of human activity.

When you read about how selfish genes work, and then relate that to what is happening with certain "meme" concepts in the world, it makes sense to me.

The Extended Phenotype is really hard to grok, but I still love that book. I'm not sure I've ever been able to apply the idea.

I completely ignored any of his God bothering stuff - to me it seemed he was pushing his own religion (note: religions are a type of meme too).
This was under consideration at one time by the Seattle build team and was a recurring point of discussion during infra summits. Unclear if we actually broke ground.
FB Google Easter Egg
> But I also must admit, with a heavy heart, that we must undertake the effort, in order to ameliorate our legal vulnerability against what a customer might do with a modified product.

Wait, wait? Is there actually precedence for this? Sure seems obvious to me that once the product has been modified by someone other than the manufacturer, it's no longer the same product. If the NOS in my car explodes when I'm racing Vin Diesel, I can't think a judge would hold Ford liable.
For those who have pricey prescriptions, look into pharmacy coupon databases like GoodRX. Some drugs are 95% cheaper with these private coupons (pharmacies do not advertise them), and sometimes cheaper than buying them through your insurance.
Have you considered whether doing this might be...wrong?

Presumably those campsites are permitted by some government agency (NPS, BLM, the state of Hawaii, etc.), and presumably that agency designed permitting system with the assumption that people with limited time and attention would be vying for the permits by having to visit the site themselves to get one.

This encodes a particular definition of fairness: that those who register early, or are very motivated, or simply those with a lot of free time to refresh the site, will get permits.

I can also whip up a quick script to replace refreshing an unprotected HTTP API with a notification email. Does that make me more deserving of the camping spot?
Staying up-to-date with the changes to the core of React is definitely possible without CatchUp. It's how the community is using it (patterns, best practices, etc) and the open-source library changes that are hard to keep up with especially because there are so many sources where you need to check (twitter/newsletters/youtube/medium/etc)
At just ~$7,000 per campus for an after school program that likely requires staffing, some equipment, software, etc. I don't see it as a ridiculous thing for them to justify. It provides a community like any other sports program would, at a significantly lower cost, and to a completely different audience, who wasn't participating in the other extracurricular offerings.
You are confusing speculation with growth investment. They are not the same.
The US Gov't has tried to apply CFAA to someone they claimed was breaking a website's TOS[0]. The EFF filed an amicus brief in support of the defendant about this[1]. Who knows what the TOS is for grabbing coupons?

Sure, the judge who heard this case said this would be an "overly broad" interpretation of the law at the time, but the question has come up in subsequent criminal cases as well. I'd feel better if that was actually codified and not left up for interpretation by other judges or courts.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Drew#Indictme...

1 - https://www.eff.org/cases/united-states-v-drew
There are companies[0] that provide realtime (I think) satellite imagery apis. One use case I saw was stock traders tracking parking lots of large retailers to gain early insights into sales metrics.

[0]: http://www.digitalglobe.com/products/satellite-imagery
I would think that 3% is because there are other viable alternatives. Personally, I've paid for Pixelmator and Acorn on macOS because my needs are more about cropping, adding text, file format, levels, or color space changes--those apps seemed to pop up quickly and had features like hardware acceleration before Photoshop because they leaned on Apple's APIs. My industry is still heavily invested in Photoshop, so I'm already familiar with it and I don't have much of a need for digital painting.

For digital painting I usually suggest people check out something like Krita or Affinity (they are already aware of Photoshop). I just don't have much firsthand experience with them since I felt like my needs were met with other software.

Sidenote: After actually downloading Krita it is more Photoshop-like than expected. I'll check it out as a replacement for myself. There's also been a huge, but very rare, need for Photoshop at my job (we use Linux) which has always been a problem (usually in modifying textures where Nuke isn't a good fit). The current plan was to try and find a CS6 license and either dual-boot Windows or use WINE or to buy Elements. Gimp was always too much to ask of them. I'll see if Krita fits that need.
No. It's simple matching. And only [0-9a-z] and spaces allowed.
Awesome write-up and this post resonated with me as I have run saas companies in the past and while revenue was great it became a lot emailing customers, marketing, sales etc. I now am working on https://mattebot.co where I am following the "Make it 'better” rather than “bigger”' motto.'
> One of the problems cited: the temperature/CO2 graph probably came from an antarctic ice core sample ... and temperature leading/lagging there is different than in non-polar locations.

Specifically, he points out that CO2 lags temperature by hundreds of years in the southern hemisphere, but that temperature lags CO2 by again hundreds of years in the northern hemisphere.

CO2 is claimed to have accelerated natural warming through a feedback loop - until it didn't, and temperatures began drifting down again.

That's fair enough. That's reasonably nuanced. I'm missing the extent to which this feedback loop actually made an impact though, because clearly it can't be the dominant driver or ultimate control lever. Otherwise, we'd have had a runaway greenhouse already.

> Nobody is saying AGW is going to kill off all life.

One might get that impression from the media narrative though.

> But in the short term we humans are going to have to deal with the consequences: displacement of millions of people through crop failures and loss of coast, disruption of economic systems, and more civil unrest.

I don't think that's such a big deal, all things concerned. Sometimes, people have to move. Sometimes, crops fail. Sometimes, coasts move. Sometimes, there's civil unrest. Telling people in China or Brazil that they'll have to cut down on their emissions is going to cause civil unrest. "Vote for me, I'll make you poorer" is not a winning political provision.

> The US military is gaming out these scenarios because they believe the science, not because they are pinko tree huggers who hate freedom.

They're also gaming out scenarios of mass epidemics, or political secession. What do you expect them to do?
Hypothetical (impossibly efficient) desalinator for consideration, turns 101L seawater into 100L potable water and 1L brine effluent. If you diluted the brine with another 100L of seawater, the diluted effluent would have twice the salinity of natural seawater. Dilute that 1L of effluent with 1000L and it would still be 10% above background (3.8% salinity, rather than 3.5%), which I think would affect sea life in the discharge area. Would have to dilute it with 10,000 litres to get it back down to 1% of background level (3.53% instead of 3.5%). I'm sure some saltwater aquarium people would have comments here :)

More mixing and dilution will happen after discharge, which would likely make it not a big deal for moving brine source. But a land based desalinator would need a very detailed impact assessment to prove it wouldn't have an impact on marine life at the discharge site
DoorDash opens a shared kitchen in Redwood City
There are actuall 0 direct conflict Minecraft games. Tons of them.

One of the more interested and open designs is the "Race For The Wool" concept where elaborately constructed obstacle courses are replicated in parallel in a void world and teams navigate their own miniature world using any means necessary to recover several colored wool blocks hidden on the map. Sometimes there even is direct player conflict when the two courses are open, allowing arrow and TNT cannon fire across the gap at one another.
Surely the people that voted for him are responsible?
> their own key-value store

It seems like everyone does that.

and it makes sense cause if given any chance to do it I'd jump on it immediately.
>I don't really consider sandbox Minecraft a game any more than building something out of Legos or a stick fort in the woods is a game. Is it fun? Yes! Is it creative? Yes! Is it a game? I would say no.

The definition of a game isn't easy. Academics have struggled with it for a while now.

Some people would call Minecraft a game. While other people would say it's more a system for developing your own games.
"...studies which point out some interesting large scale trends. One that private pharma R&D is getting less efficient, creating fewer and fewer drugs per billion dollars"

All the more reason for the State to involve itself here by bringing to an end such an expensive,'inefficient' (or more likely self-serving, profit-driven) system. As I've said above, it's the job of Government to protect its citizens from such abuse and in this matter it's high time it started.
Don't they lose the incentives/benefits if they don't hire to target, though?
Yes, I stated this already:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21249017
It's not any individual site's view that matters to me. It's the view of the courts that's the most concerning/pressing.
Imagine a piece of software that had fully recouped it's R&D budget, had minimal support costs, and was sold for a modest profit suddenly went up 100x in price.
No, because if you were to do that you preclude me from using my lawn.

It is intellectual slavery that you are telling me I can’t copy your book that i bought from you on my lawn, even though you are not affected.
Well the Next acquisition brought back Jobs
That's nothing.

The most extreme such example is that everything that Barbara McClintock published for decades about jumping genes was questioned because it seemed like an impossible result. It got so bad that she stopped even trying to submit papers for publication anywhere after 1953. Then in the 1960s and 1970s the mechanics of transposons was discovered and she became hailed as a pioneer and was awarded the Nobel.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock for more.
510 recently stopped working :/
Why does the time frame make a difference?
IF there was a large gap between 15 yrs ago and 'recently', I think it sounds like someone just bought the name to brand generic clamps.
Show HN: borgmatic – simple, configuration-driven backup software for servers
fm.ly (or "family") was also a bit ahead of its time in 2002:

https://web.archive.org/web/20020815000000*/FM.ly
1) that is the very definition of hyperbole. Exaggeration for effect.

2) I'm not the one making the claim that a revolutionary technology that will save millions of lives is just around the corner.

Will progress be made? Probably. Will an army of driverless cars be safer than the same number of humans driving in X years? Thats a bold statement that requires an explanation beyond "Because technology progesses."

I think the comparison to fusion is quite adept at this point. We can re-evaluate in 20-30 years.
Let's let all the companies in this space finish their work. Once they do, we can look at the data and decide what should be allowed on the roads.

I just hope that, if the time comes, the decision is based on comparative improvement, instead of hysterics about whether self driving cars will ever kill anyone ever.
Which union if you don't me asking?

How do you find the service/them generally?
> It's arguably the most valuable battleground in logistics - developing a "last mile" delivery network at scale.

But it's also hard to get the prices up enough without people just getting off their lazy asses and buying food.

source: price goes up I get up off my lazy ass.
Sleep Deprivation in NBA Players
the only way the PLA could do that "in a few hours" is with nukes

No, they could obliterate HK with conventional artillery. But that would be a huge mistake, to say the least.
You accused someone of "trying to rewrite history", when what they said was factually correct.

It's also been established that Apple tried to work with Adobe on addressing the issues it saw with Flash but was rebuffed.

The issue of Apple forbidding non-native code is one I disagreed with but has many layers and complexities. It's not nearly as simple as your implication that Jobs seemingly woke up one day and decided to kill Flash for no good reason.

> rant about flash while not once mentioning the shortcomings of his own objective-c authoring environments and the many good things about flash that lead to the enormous community it had

I'm just going to re-phrase what the poster above said - Why is it on Apple to evangelize Adobe's software (and criticize it's own)? That just doesn't make any sense.
3-5 emails a day is nothing special. Recruiters spam your inbox and phone no matter where you live.
Would be much better to reverse it. Anything given to China is also put in the public domain. Keeps things a bit more fair and makes people think twice about giving something up.
That's probably what he did though. I like Puppeteer more than Selenium FWIW, especially because Node.js allows you to prototype a lot quicker than other languages imo.
AWS' Sponsorship of the Rust Project