skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Searching a digital device and further remote databases it has access to is more akin to going to the persons home and riffling through all their papers and interrogating their friends and family than it is to a traditional customs search.

It's reasonable to search for harmful or illegal materials entering the country. You have a compelling interest in the safety of the citizens and this is likely your one chance to reasonably interdict them before they can cause harm to the citizenry.

No such special circumstance exist for information. Information flows freely and securely over most of the world and interdicting it at the border is laughable. Once you leave behind existing powers and arguments for same you are left making an argument for new powers undreamt of by the founders.

You can argue for example that being able to access all the private words and documents of travelers allows you to make better decisions as far as whom and what ought to be interdicted or examined. This might even be a compelling argument for you. It is however not a continuation of centuries of practice but rather entirely new power that ought to be enumerated in new laws if it is to be granted.

If we insist that we react to the changing landscape provided by technology solely by interpreting what 18th century individuals wrote we ought to interpret very conservatively insofar as grants of government power. If such new powers are needed let the peoples representatives write the required laws.
Haven't had issues with Word on the Mac. Seems very fast on my MBP. However I prefer using Pages, Keynote etc. if I can help it. I don't use Numbers, as I usually prefer Google Sheets for that.
It can; you have to buy the games on Stadia. _Hopefully_, there will be a way to export those licenses out of Stadia.
"in-the-box" unless you're using the "cheaper" licence options. (possibly out of date opinion)
Don't be all negative. At the very least Google would pay engineers like us a decent salary to enhance the technology to keep CPU away from Keyboard/Mouse/Screen. By the time Google is done with this and decommission their service, we would be walking around with the new "Mac 2025" which is scuba diving water proof with CPU and OS hosted on iCloud available for a $1000/year subscription.
I agree, if they had launched a subscription service to a large catalog of games that would have been really something -- like how Netflix created an alternative to the buy/rent single titles model.

I suspect they didn't have enough clout with development studios to create that pricing structure.

As an example, Assassin's Creed: Odyssey is $59.99 on Stadia ($39.99 with subscription for 4K). On Steam it's currently $59.99 too, but at 4K without the extra subscription.

Game distribution is a hyper-competitive market right now, with Epic Games in particular giving away high quality games for free every week on their Steam competitor and paying developers up front to get timed exclusives.

I think Google's going to have to re-visit its pricing and customer acquisition model on this one.
Well pre-Zune (which was pretty mediocre; I got one for free and gave away as a gift) there were lots of other MP3 players. But I agree Apple had the premium offering especially once you got to the click wheel generation. And the music store sealed the deal.
It's been requested and denied. Still quite a few comments on it since I last posted tho. Go vote and get them to have a powermode to enter normal markdown with no WYSIWIG https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/su...
But if they saw it coming, why would they leave earlier? It's easier to just take the money while it's there.
Machine learning on mobile: What can you do with it?
Novel fabrics resist punctures and lacerations from shark bites
Dynamic Email in Gmail Launches on Android and iOS
Not that I disagree... but by comparison, PosgreSQL replication would be a minefield of nuclear bombs without a map.
I'm not sure if this is how you're defining brand, but the real value is in their exclusivity agreements with restaurants and (some) grocers.

This is the reason any restaurant that doesn't just resell soft drinks they bought at the grocery store only sells either Pepsi / Coca-Cola.

It would be really interesting to see what kind of rates major chains/conglomerates (E.g. McDonalds, Subway, 3G, Recipe Unlimited, etc.) get for their soft drinks as these guys are big enough that they can probably push their own soft drinks and really bite into Coca-Cola/Pepsi's turf.
"gaming isn't worth it anyway"

> By 2018, the United States video game industry had matched that of the Unites States film industry on basis of revenue, with both industries having made around US$43 billion that year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_industry
I had completely forgotten about this story.

It was nice to read it once again...
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> As corporate datacenters migrate to the cloud

I don't think this trend is as large as SV web devs think it is, nor do I think the trend will continue indefinitely in that direction. My current corporate masters hate the cloud because they want to be in control of their own data and services. They don't want to twiddle their thumbs when somethings wrong while waiting for BigCorp to get around to fixing it. They really, really don't like paying rent on business essential tooling.

And they've pretty much been proven right in all their concerns so far.
Use these:

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=led+filament&t=ffsb&ia=web
Inbox was good.

And then they killed it for no reason.
I should have said "no benefit to me"

The benefits you cite are not things that matter to me at all. They may matter to others, of course, but I can't speak for others.
> This was not like Theranos where he was straight up lying about a product working

She.
Made me think of: https://youtu.be/2WPta4nioIU?t=73
The last 8 years I lived in Berlin, Germany as I got a job here and I am German. It has been a great time however I plan to leave Berlin and Germany next year to hopefully move to Australia. I really liked the time here in Berlin, however it is getting more and more expensive (especially rent), and more and more crowded. I also really dislike the weather and have the feeling that Germany in general is moving towards a suboptimal direction, therefore I am looking for new inspiration.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18688647
>I think it could work great for a democratic republic with sane corporate tax and safety net policies to more evenly distribute the upside

True. But how would modern medicine have faired?

I think the bigger issue with globalization is that it has a huge environmental impact and makes our species more susceptible to the effects of climate change.

We ought to at least enforce free trade policy better; I can tell you first hand that competing against unregulated competitors in manufacturing is hilariously unfair. If we really cared about the Environment or Human rights we would at least level the playing field in markets we control. It’s cheaper to buy from China largely because of our regulatory environment.
Where's your study? What's wrong with this study? Or is it just that you don't like the findings?
Your phrasing is dismissive but yes having a game not render its own cursor is pretty common and works quite well.
In 20 years it will probably be 3
There are a lot of people that want Google to fail, and will try to manipulate public opinion without any substance to their complaints against Google. You'll see this with Chrome/Chromium as well.
> It always comes down to the other team is bad and immoral or whatever, our team is the best, go chosen sports team, you can do no wrong.

That's a pretty superficial view of things.

There are a lot of very real issues that matter in real life to a lot of people.

To pick an extremely important one from the past: slavery.

One side thought it was ok to enslave other human beings. The other did not.
Ok, well let me know. Google fails far more often than they succeed, and they're out of their depth with this one.
95% political affiliation already off the bat is suspicious. Who measured? How did they measure? Google certainly wouldn't, as asking your employees political affiliation would be illegal.

And not just affiliation, but registration? What about employees in non-US countries? They are registered with a US political party?

If you're going to just make stuff up, why not say 100% at that point?
Serious question. Why is it dodgy?
Look at Zara. Without patents on clothing design, Zara often copies the latest catalogs from luxury designers and gets them to mass markets even before they do. From an operational standpoint its a great company. Thats why its worth billions of dollars and its the greatest retailer in Europe, and probably in the world.
> it’s trendy to hate on SV.

Perhaps, but the vast majority of the hate lands on those companies that are actively screwing over their users, so... I'm happy with vindictive against a billion dollar monolith that I have no hope of ever controlling.
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Same in Austin. Don't go there if you are looking for a walkable place. I can't even take my dog for a walk to a nice place.
Pretty sure routers still have serial interfaces today, for when everything goes to shit.
If anyone is living in or around Brisbane (especially Gold Coast), I'd love to hear your opinion about moving there as a self-employed tech worker / startup founder!
Focus on engagement. Your "product" might be performances, but there are a ton of ways to create a more intimate connection (and gain fans or find revenue streams) beyond those few performances. Simple things like have an Instagram/Twitter/newsletter with pics from practice, new members, challenges, etc. Create a narrative out of the ballet company so that the performances are the payoff for fans. Look at how bigger, more established arts communities handle this, like symphonies.
So, if they get a GDPR request to delete information or a take-down notice from a copyright holder (not necessarily the owner of the repository), will they go there and delete the backup?
What games are you talking about? For example, Natural Selection 2, Counter Strike GO, and Overwatch all do a full simulation of the world on the server, and the server is 100% authoritative. Clients are often running the same simulation locally to predict state despite network latency. Players also can experience packet loss or reconnect at any point and still have full state synchronization.
OnLive was kind of a big deal when it was announced. A lot of poeple used it and tried it. They "gave" some games for you to play for free and test it out. Also, Sony did a few things similar on Playstation but was never a huge success because of the technical implications.
Can you think of any other system like that which allows you to export licenses to games? AFAIK, that's unprecedented in the industry, and explicitly against the contracts I've seen.

Edit: Steam will let you _import_ a CD key, but that's the closest I can think of, and there's no way to export once it's in steam.
That would certainly say a lot about the nature of the fight over school vouchers.
My view of Microsoft, and I'd be interested to hear if it's bullshit from people who have worked there, is there isn't such an entity.

The dev tools and .NET team actually like Linux, the Windows team hate those guys, the Office team hate everyone, the Skype team hate their lives, the Nokia team, well...

Expecting a single determined vision from Microsoft isn't rational. It's multiple business units who don't really coordinate and just happen to share a logo.

Again I've only formed this view from hints and allusions but it seems to explain a lot.
An update on YC China
My pleasure! Two tiny points

1) don’t need to be logged in for the + to work

2) I’ve not seen it increment the clicks by visiting the + stats page, but can’t speak authoritatively on that.
It was actually Heretic, now that I think of it, which had a SLIP networking capability for two-person duels. Those were the days.
I use Linux exclusively and have since 2003. Also, I don't put any of my work in google drive/docs/GSuite for anything. Google simply has enough of my life, I'm not giving them my business data as well.
Yes, you can now add wrappers with Chrome as well.
Was the elite less protected in 17th century?
I'd say those who claim that speech is violence (and therefore merits a violent response) would be a really good example.
I sure hope there'll be a non-VR version as well.
That reference is more applicable when someone (or something) dies.
But we're talking about the county as a whole.
It looks interesting at least, It's hard to tell how gimmicky it will be though. I've felt like a lot of VR experiences I have had felt gimmicky. Some of my best VR experiences have been more in line with games like beat saber rather than story driven games. I'm also the type of person that pretty much exclusively plays story driven games so I want to like those experiences in VR but they just feel kind of off to me and not relaxing.
Evidence of a ‘Fifth Force’ Faces Scrutiny (2016) https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-boson-claim-faces-scrutin...

TL;DR: authors have a long history of discovering new particles at various masses, but these discoveries disappear on later studies with no explanation.
Margins are thin?

"Coca-Cola's latest twelve months Net Income Margin % is 23.1%."

"Coca-Cola's Net Income Margin % for fiscal years ending Dec, 2014 to 2018 averaged 14.3%."

https://finbox.com/KO/explorer/ni_margin
stop reminding me of the betrayal that was the death of google reader
EXACTLY! If hiding it restored the old behavior, almost nobody would be complaining.
I'm not a Google advocate. But Google (well Alphabet) is a public stock - there are many ways to short it.
Google Play music is like this in Android Auto:

https://twitter.com/JasonCWalton/status/1065631146090868736

They've replaced the hamburger menu in the upper left with a "back arrow", which does the same thing as the hamburger menu did, while making even less sense.
Ask HN: How can I find a part-time engineering job?
I'm currently looking for a new job. Right now I work full-time in an office, and I'm hating the lack of time I have.

I can afford my expenses with a part time job since I split my rent with another engineer. I'd love to have some more free time to work on some side projects to eventually run my own business.

So anyone have any recommendations on how to find a part-time engineering job? Remote is preferable but I've never worked remote before so I know that might be hard to find for myself.

I can't seem to find many jobs online that I'd like to work for...would be great to have benefits too, but I know that's rare for part time employees in the US.

(I am in the US by the way)
I agree. It seems perfectly in line to get rid of all the things you actually don't like (but failed to notice in daily life) and replace them with things that make you happy.
Looks like this game's focus is going to be on the player, rather than the game world itself.

Where HL1/2 were focused on making the objects, enemies, and places you interacted with feel like real life. HL:A will be focused on the character you control, giving you complete autonomy with finger capture and motion control.

Valve is pushing forward gaming with Half Life once again
The obvious one that people seem to forget is persistance. The ability to get from 0 to a company that serves a purpose takes a lot of work and grit.

I think that ultimately a true believe that you can do it is what gets you there. A few people are able to believe that of themself, we see it as eragance, but I think that over time we can build our confidante by building bigger and bigger projects successfully. We can then use those past accomplishment as inspiration every time we have dought about where we are going in the future.
Rust macros can do worse things than C macros can. They can execute arbitrary code at compile time.
Hmm, that doesn't seem totally fair - it's 'dd' but with guardrails so that schoolchildren who want to flash raspbian onto an SD card don't accidentally overwrite their boot disk.
Should .Org domain registry belong to a private firm?
A few days ago, the ICA asked ICANN to block sale of the .Org registry to a private firm. ^1

I think it'd be a huge mistake. Hopefully ICA's resistance will make a difference...

1. https://domainnamewire.com/2019/11/15/ica-asks-icann-to-block-org-private-equity-deal-in-damning-letter/
> why not use LED lights?

OP didn't provide details, but sometimes LEDs are a no-go, e.g., RFI from the internal power source in lab environments.
The water screens are actually a pretty old technique that you can do with any traditional light projector (flim or digital). The hard part is making the water sheet.
Repackaging is optional now. A couple of weeks ago I had to return two items and they just emailed me QR codes that I could take to the UPS Store, Whole Foods, or some other nearby business. I just bring the naked item and the QR code, and the store takes care of the rest.
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Indeed. What if I casually discuss a medical condition with my driver? That is protected health information right?

What if my kids who are under 18 are with me? How does that work?

Just seems like a very slippery slope.
nah. MS was dangerous in windows era. And had another go at that with their docx shenanigans.

...but in cloud era their teeth are just as long/short as google/AWS in my opinion. No more win32 .exe home turf advantage.

That said I consider all 3 clouds dangerous in a sense.
I'm hoping someone clever here has read a book about the cartel and can answer this question: The wiki page doesn't go into too much detail, but is there any evidence the primary goal of the cartel was primarily intended to increase energy efficiency, or was it really pure unadulterated greed?

Honestly, were it for the sake of efficiency, I wouldn't mind it. Though the metric of lifetime in hours rather than lumen/watt makes my approval borderline rather than whole-hearted.
right? a much more realistic projection is solidly into the 100s, but if I hadn't self-policed myself down an order of magnitude it would have been even more downvoted or even flagged.

people think of being a climate change denier as binary but the challenge right now is much more one of getting people to grasp the scale than the notion.
Worse than C++?
This is truly a "The Sun"-tier comment. So many things are wrong. The EU did not mandate halogen bulbs, it phased out incandescent bulbs, with many exceptions for situations and use-cases where alternatives are inadequate. You can (and should) buy LEDs which are many times more efficient and cheaper (per hour of life) that incandescent bulbs. Finally, halogen bulbs are not only not "mandated" but actually in the processed of being phased out as well.
> Who their employee's vote for isn't bias

Oh the double speak here! Do you remember the ouster of Brandon Eich from Mozilla? Or the cancel culture plaguing Chick Filet right now? Why not apply that logic to companies led by conservatives?

Can you imagine the triggering on the matter if Google's employees were 95% Republican?

And all my sources are unedited Congressional testimonies. Feel free to source all 4 hours of them off C-SPAN/PBS. Also note that all claims hold: that Google reportedly gets caught with seemingly biased actions, and never denies the actions in testimonies, just maintains it isn't company policy.
Related
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

I would argue that the current economic system does not plan for maximum longevity
of products. Rather it can be more profitable for an manufacturer for planned obsolescence
or simply make products which does not last that long. As long as they do not get caught that is.
I've found myself on the receiving end of this 'obsessive defense' more than once in the past and had to completely halt a conversation in order to firmly but compassionately ask the person if they thought I was disagreeing with them and then show them how through statements we've both made we were in complete agreement.

The tenor of the conversation changed almost instantly. It's forced me to be hyper specific when approaching certain topics, but that hasn't come without it's own uncomfortable externalities of conversation.
Bet this game ends at "Red Letter Day" starting Half-Life 2
Odd, I was able to get a headline only view almost immediately. I believe the display option said something like "most like Google Reader". Titles-only View is what I am using now.
Oh please do. Why don't you start from the laptop or cell phone that you used to post this knee-jerk piece of gibberish?
Because they offer a gratis plugin eco-system over the competition that outweighs the disadvantage of running a memory hungry application.

Other than VSCode, my computers are free from Electron virus.
I don't know why everyone is so pessimistic about Stadia. All my Google+ circles are super excited about it.
Sad thing is how many of us still use Hangouts while we wait for its eventual death to push us to different platforms.
"Planned obsolescence" and "value engineering" have almost the same effect for the customers though. Products are designed to just barely survive the EU's two year mandatory warranty period.
Call me salty but I am not sure I am super interested in half life 1.5 while half life 2 episode 2 has ended on a cliffhanger more than ten years ago.

I am still curious to see how they will handle the character of Alyx, she was little more than an admiration delivery device in half life 2. They will have to do a lot more now that she is the center of the game.
>“Collectively, these findings provide support for an account of moral grandstanding that conceptualises it as a status-seeking behaviour that is driven by status-seeking motives,” and that could explain some of the problems with social discourse, especially on social media, the team writes.

It gives me hope to see researchers starting to tackle this social phenomenon. Now that there is a foothold on some scientific results, maybe we can finally start to take it seriously and influence behavior. IG's experimenting with removing likes seems to be a step in that direction. Hopefully there will be more initiatives like this.
Chiming in as another firefox user to say that I'd try this if my browser were supported.
Can anyone use Plaid and then start connecting to banks? I think the product makes complete sense but it's always a little worrisome that it's seemingly easy for anyone to launch an app that connects to your bank account. From what I know in the US you're not covered by the FDIC by connecting through the API.
My view would be that the problems with it are:

- generally low quality (if you're borrowing another brand's image, you have little incentive to keep it high quality, and high incentive to compete on price as much as possible)

- it's not the most moral thing copying someone else's work
The accusation that Wine devs were looking at the Windows code and it is "illegal" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341022
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned using git-annex (and Git of course) to manage data (full disclosure: I develop an archival management app which keeps its data in git/git-annex repositories). Of the seven key properties, git-annex gives you 1,2,3,4 and supports 5 and 7; 6 depends on how you store things. Git-annex supports identity in the sense that each clone of the repository has a UUID. You can choose to have a central hub if you like but you don't have to (surprise! you don't really need GitHub!). It comes with caveats of course: Binaries can be synced but only textual data is actually versioned, and once you put something in it will always be there unless you use something like git-filter-branch.
Kenya is failing its engineers by hiring Chinese engineers