skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand what the web world considers to be rapid technology change. All of the products and frameworks that these developers are using feel like a marginally better side step from the bare bones approach for small ventures. I understand if you are a giant tech company why you might adopt one of these technologies, but I have no idea why the common developers would be interested in expanding their knowledge in this direction.

I would rather go in depth, strengthen your core, learn about different paradigms, algorithms and structures. Why are you going into frameworks and technologies that your employer is not forcing you to adopt? It is an incredible effort to understand a technology and its specifics. What is the value in this, it will be obsolete in a few years at best and odds are that you will never use it again.

If large portion of your knowledge is frequently invalidated, how do you people not burn out 5 years into your careers?
It was a pain to get gitlab in 5 years ago after a "controversial" deletion, so it wasn't available for simple undeletion. Domain specific knowledge has it notouriously hard with wikilawyers who, at large, seemingly stopped adding new things to their world view 15 years ago.

Then it becomes a game of jumping through hoops and hoping you end up with a kind wiki-landlord or knowing a friendly wikipedia admin.

Doing the latter by anouncing your concern on social media and hoping a sympathetic admin picks it up, might be the easiest on human time and resources, just let them copy your reasonably well sourced article draft from your personal space and see what happens.
"Hundreds" of contractors fired, and "about 20" part and full time positions created.
That's to build things owned by Google, OP wants to build something on the side that's not owned by Google.
I wish they'd say what "Stocks" means. Is it the entire market? On which exchanges?

This is a relevant read: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/survivorshipbias.asp
> USB also had the advantage of Intel pushing it, resulting in almost every PC with an Intel CPU (large majority) having USB ports.

In the mid to late 1990s, USB was scarce. It didn't take off until after Apple replaced its ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) port with USB in the first iMacs. Once that happened, manufacturers flooded the market with consumer products (e.g. CDRW drives) and PC makers followed suit. Up to that point PC makers had standardized on the serial port.

I don't have contemporaneous links at the moment but the second paragraph of a relatively recent (2015) article summarizes:

> But Apple shocked the computing world when it swept its old connectors away with the original 1998 iMac. The bulbous computer adopted a then-struggling standard developed by Intel called USB (Universal Serial Bus). In a hint of what was to become the company’s ability to make or break certain technologies, USB would go on to live up to its “universal” descriptor and become the most prevalent connectivity standard in the world. The solid-and-hollow stacked rectangles of its “A” connector now appear in everything from alarm clocks to airplanes. [0]

[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/3044088/apple-and-usb-a-history-...
They're owned by Daimer and BMW, so the cost of the cars isn't as big a factor.

Also, for long-running services, the initial costs aren't that important anyway if the cars are more durable. In Germany, almost all cabs used to be Mercedes. (I remember the whole cinema laughing in Collateral when the Jamie Foxx character presented his business outline for his luxury cab service)
You've made some very good points and better explained what I really want. I also will admit that using existing tools to create VLANs to "quarantine" the devices is an option. That said (and you touched on this) the average consumer is not prepared to deal with any of that, maybe that will change but as of today it's not easy or even possible with most consumer-grade hardware.

As for Z-wave/Zigbee, I could be missing a potential security hole but personally I am less concerned with my Z*-devices being hacked and more concerned with IP-devices being hacked and being able to talk to other IP-based devices on my network.

For example, it would suck to have someone be able to hack my door or lights but it wouldn't be the end of the world AND it requires physical access/proximity. This is quite different from someone on the other side of the globe being able to hack a device, hack other devices on my network (non-IoT), and then do something malicious (ransomware, identity theft, etc).
>What Google-specific support do you have for this, than post-hoc rationalizations based on her firing?

That's not post-hoc rationalization. That's the stated reason. That's also clearly the reason if you take an inventory of the facts on hand.

>Every indication I've seen has told me that Google has developed a very unique corporate culture

Yes, "unique" just like every snowflake is unique. And "Unique corporate culture" doesn't mean you can do whatever you want, as James Damore found out. And yes, her actions (not anybody elses) led to her termination, as would have been the case in every other company.

>I can definitely see your position (which approximately seems to be: a worker's primary moral obligation is to serve his employers to their satisfaction during his employment. Assertion of his own rights on work time with work resources is a severe moral violation as it puts the workers' interest above the employers'.)

That's not my position and I don't appreciate this distortion.

And no, she's not a moral arbiter of Google. She doesn't have the right to assert her interpretation of law and morality on the entire corporation. Maybe she thinks she was doing a moral action (though I would argue her action is narcissim and attention-seeking), but Google employs tens of thousands of people across the world, with different religions and politics and beliefs. You don't get to co-opt internal tools to advocate for Jesus Christ as your saviour (and what could be more moral than saving people from eternal damnation) just because you think that's the moral action.

>I'd say she is oppressed, just in a different, less-severe way than black people during the Jim Crow era.

Talk about an understatement of the century. She's as much oppressed as a grounded teenager, which, you're right, on the oppression scale is "less-severe way than black people during the Jim Crow era".
Pro-legalization activists always over-claim marijuana's safety which has led to the claimed safety entering pop culture and becoming widely believed. The truth is that there is little solid research into the question.
How Is Java Doing
Strategy to Improve Service Uptime
If those jobs existed then workers would already have found them.
What you, as a google employee, want and don't want with regards to the company email (NOT yours - theirs) is of no concern. You'll get what the company decides you'll get and you'd better pretend to like it!
A Closer Look at Dark Souls' Most Difficult Player-Created Challenges
Gray area smay area... quote from a shoe brand:

"Just do it!"
> They were brought there by their parents that purposely broke immigration laws.

Yes, they crossed the border illegally, in order to apply for asylum, because they would have been automatically rejected otherwise.

Think though, for a moment, how desperate someone must be, to give up their home, travel thousands of miles (not in an airplane) and put their lives in danger, just for the chance for asylum in the USA.

> They possibly even did it with the idea of appealing to emotion of US citizens to get away with it.

Yes, because parents of children often sacrifice their children's health and livelihood just to make a point. Or as a media stunt.

If you don't care about these people, if you feel no sympathy at all, that's fine (well... it's not fine, but it is besides the point). But such cynicism as to their own motives is not accurate.
Rails works really well for single engineer projects. It’s just not the hotness of the moment.

It’s pretty cringeworthy to see someone parroting the “use boring technology” line, then immediately running off and making an SPA for something that...let’s be real...could probably be done in a week or two by a single developer with a Rails install and little else.
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 97
A better idea would be to quit linking health insurance to employment. Ban employer-provided health insurance and let everyone buy their own (reasonably regulated) health insurance as individuals.

The link between employment and health insurance is, from my perspective as an external observer, America’s worst idea.
How the high cost of Internet access can be reduced across Africa
I have had several legitimate apps asking for accessibility permissions. I guess it comes down to the fact that permissions are not fine grained and specific enough. Same on android and iOS.
Vox is replacing contractors with employees, that seems to be the direct intent.
There is already a big market called China that entirely use alternative solution. I guess those company in China will be more than happy to take over once Google leave.
My understanding is that the only reason for example literals can be passed without borrows is because in fact they are Copy
The solution is to have a pairing mode that allows the device to be paired with a control device (e.g. your phone) via wireless while you're in the same room as it. That would only have to be done once when it's installed and require pressing a physical button on the device while being in wireless range so that nobody can hack it remotely.
From the source:
"The Silicon Six and their $100 billion global tax gap, which examines the tax conduct of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google and Microsoft over the last decade."

One third of their companies are not based in Silicon Valley.
A little off topic, but Ron Paul spoke of these unintended consequences regarding US foreign policy:
https://www.antiwar.com/paul/paul55.html
> If you look at existing hunter gatherer societies, the actual time that is required to be invested in subsistence is much less than the 40 hour weeks of today's society.

40 hours of work provides much more than subsistence, even at sub-minimum-wage income levels in the US.[0]

The vast majority of people earning an income in the US earn greater than the minimum wage. Only 2.1% of hourly workers earn at or below the minimum wage in 2018, and it's been trending downward for decades.[1]

Both a hunter-gatherer society and modern capitalist society offer opportunities for luxury[2] beyond subsistence. These are different. A value judgment between the two would be just that, and I don't want to fight about any differences among the things that you and I value.

EDIT : updated BLS link to latest, and reference to 2018, instead of 2017.

[0] Personal experience. I have lived at $10K/yr within the last decade in the US. My sister has, too. Note, this would be a full time $5/hr.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage

[2] See my comment sibling to yours for this non-standard use. I don't have a better word. Here, I mean "luxury" as "beyond subsistence".
I think game/app developers getting children hooked on gambling through lootboxes is evil, and that's out in the open. Luckily governments are starting to crack down on it.
I don't know about "worst," but it's up there.
All of whom are connected and changing together now.

Also; hard-wired by who or what other than volume of use?
Interesting that for the 2007 financial crisis, you only had to wait until early 2012 to make up your loses.

Even for the crash of the early 1930's, after 8 years you were back to where you were.
Thanks, I was also quite puzzled
Funny enough I just got an email from YoutubeTV last week basically saying the following:

Effective immediately and without warning, YoutubeTV will not have a dedicated channel for Seattle Sounders games (the whole reason I got YoutubeTV was because they were advertising they would do that) and all the previous Sounders games you’ve recorded are now gone effectively immediately (even though, once again, they sold me on their “infinite DVR capacity” that lasts for two years).

Great customer service :-/
A lot of contractors with a few employees, raising unemployment.
These jobs do exist, their simply done by ‘contractors’. When every stripper is classified as a contractor, if they state says they must use employees then the strip joint is going to close or swap paper work. That’s the only option, they can simply drop all contractors without any other change.
How would the sudoers file help here?
Let’s wait for evidence on “better.” I wonder what kinds of demands will be placed on employees who know that their 20 positions have 200 former freelancers able and willing to do their job.
Is there ever a situation where its preferable to have shitty jobs (shitty meaning no healthcare and no minimum wage protections in this example) regardless of the number?
> Coining “surveillance capitalism” as a pejorative term to describe the success of this model is ridiculous.

How is it ridiculous? The business model is entirely the monetization of data obtained through surveillance and spying (I define "spying" as surveillance that is taking place without the target's informed consent). "Surveillance capitalism" seems a perfectly apt description of this.
The very leftmost column of the table has the heading 'S&P 500 (includes dividends)', so I assume that's the meaning of 'stocks' in the other columns. If not, that would be very misleading.
Also from Vancouver. I thought the service was quite successful here and didn’t see this coming.
Wow, just when I thought the average HN reader could not get any more out of touch with the general population....

Here's some data that backs up my point. Sorry if this doesn't match your anecdotes from your bubbles.

https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/24/smartphones-72percent-of-peo...

https://www.comscore.com/ita/Public-Relations/Blog/Number-of...
Professional musician here with 30 years' experience.

I recommend my friend David Newman's YouTube channel as a great first start to learning music theory basics and training your ear. His music theory and ear training songs are ingenious.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHJPt4PanqqHQcuUif88o0Q

Once your ability to read music is trained up to a basic level, I also recommend listening to classical music while reading the full orchestral scores. This can vastly improve your skill levels with reading music. Scores are available for free online from IMSLP, and in print at very affordable prices from Dover Publications and others.
He knows the CIA did something illegal, but is protecting them. If a mafia member shoots an innocent man, and a judge says "I feel bad for the guy, but the mafia is good for this city, so no can do; yunz are screwed!" it's fairly obvious what's happening.

He's preventing criminals from feeling the consequences of the law because of perceived value.
Indeed! Someone should make a browser API that lets services direct the user agent to set domain-scoped key value pairs that are passed back to the service on subsequent requests. That would let the client automatically prove that they're authenticated while maintaining the server-side statelessness.
The Metaphysics of Good and Evil
The EU "cookie" law does not mention cookies, and is equally applicable to all forms client side tracking.

Most websites made it about cookies, but it does not contain that language.
Until these Vc funded delivery services go belly up because the business model isn’t sustainable without subsidized prices. Then restaurants that got rid of their restaurants will have no business at all.
Admittedly, I haven't used TOR in a long time, but last time I used it, it didn't work well for video, and I assumed most people using VPN's do it to hide their porn habits.

I used to use a VPN to hide my browsing activity from my ISP (Comcast), but now I have an ISP that I trust more, so pretty much only use VPN on public Wifi to help protect my traffic.
What's with the rewards on that?

> Whoever conveys the said slave to me, in Albemarle, shall have 40 s. reward, if taken up within the county, 4 l. if elsewhere within the colony, and 10 l. if in any other colony ...

Is that "s" for small, "l" for large? small/large what?
> The public can change the composition of the Congress

In theory. In practice, Congress members are not selected by a public electorate, but rather by careful gerrymandering practices paid for by corporate interests designed to benefit themselves financially. In the USA, you have no choice of your elected leaders.
Not true. People have been migrating from place to place for all of recorded history. Cultural homogeneity is nothing more than a "good ole days" fallacy; it's never really been a thing anywhere, except in the most remote parts of the world.
Just a nit - it's regardless not irregardless.
I'd like to think the journalists at Vox are able to express their views without interference from ownership or business administrators. In which case, it's not surprising that there are contradictions.
Being a whistleblower is not a crime. Whistleblowing is regulated by law. Government agencies have internal processes for people who want to blow the whistle on conduct they may deem illegal or unethical, and it is perfectly safe to do so. Edward Snowden did not go through the proper channels. If he had, doing so would not have led to his prosecution. He broke into computer systems he did not have the right to access, copied information, fled the United States, and illegally released the information he stole about government programs that were in no way illegal, or unconstitutional. Snowden broke the Espionage Act of 1917, and deserves due process.
To understand some of the reasoning of what is open and isn't you can look at the different versions of their IPR, testing and use policies. There used to be 'profiles' but they were merged into one version: 3.0 IPR version 4 allowed anyone to use the specs and develop product 'based' on Zigbee and didn't protect anyone from IP enforcement from the many patent holders. This caused a lot of issues around 'interoperability' and end user adoption. "It says Zigbee but it doesn't work with other 'Zigbee' devices." IPR version 5 moved to improve interoperability and enable members to increase development by increasing protections. It granted RANDZ between all members. It improved interoperability by only allowing the use of the name and logo if the device was certified by an approved test house. This did increase deployments and reduced interop issues. Now there is IPR version 6, which allows for the growth of other protocols, providing the IP protection developers, manufacturers and retails want and could enable further industry consolidation - which is good for the end consumer. The average Joe and Jane just want stuff that works without having to be a technical expert. Any open source move is probably about getting more developers exposed and involved to help grow the base both creators - and consumers.
I think the author is using Silicon Valley as a tech coverall. Which is silly, but doesn’t ruin the point IMO
Uh, yeah. When I was younger I got to choose between working as a contractor with no health care or not working, and I happily chose working as a contractor. Once I found something better, I voted with my feet and went there, but I don't appreciate legislatures "looking out for me" by reducing my options.
Ah okay, no worries
You mean ride hailing?
DNSSEC doesn't protect your bank account. Your bank uses TLS to establish connections with you, and TLS is authenticated, and does not rely on the DNS when establishing connections.

DNSSEC is in fact controlled by world governments, who have de facto authority over the most important TLDs. When a CA misbehaves, Google and Mozilla can revoke them, as they've done with some of the largest and most popular CAs. You can't revoke .COM or .IO.
Here's the link to the draft:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Apache_Arrow

And some possible additional sources:

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/09/24/dr...

* https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180906005114/en

* https://thesiliconreview.com/2016/02/apache-arrow-is-the-new...
> I'm right now waiting for an IARC approval for a small HTML+Typescript that took me 6h

Why do you want IARC and not patching approval for that? Unless your intent is to make money from it in the future, there's really no need to engage in the IARC process.

Patching approval is painless, and the easiest process for something that you want to be considered to exist outside of Google (its owned by you in your personal capacity, but google maintains copyright to your while-employed-by-google contributions), and doesn't require IARC or any approval other than a quick self-approval process for the first few commits. Then it requires nothing.
“Art is what you can get away with.” - Andy Warhol
And that link was the result of government wage and price controls during WW2.
But improving employment for those that remain. There's something to be said for lower levels of stable employment relative to higher levels of unstable.

For example unstable employees would struggle to buy a house, car, and lack things like health insurance.
Maybe stay away from that vitamin E acetate.
Vox has a union. Without freelance, the workers have more leverage over their employer.
Isn't this what ACA does? Employers just happen to offer health insurance as a benefit, but I'm not sure why it needs to be banned.
struck his girlfriends

Multiple girlfriends? Repeatedly?

I'm aware of 2 incidents involving Linda King. With other incidents (involving which girlfriends) are you referring to?

I won't defend his behavior - but please, let's be accurate here.
Came here wondering about the same thing. I read him in high school but not sure I'd read him now in my fifties. Same with Salinger. I guess I'll check out one of his books and give it a try but wondering if there are any older Bukowski fans here to comment.
Huh, maybe his intro-level materials are far different, then. I'm not going to die on the hill that there's any connection; I don't even know whether he claims there is. But it at least seems that this specific stuff (at least in the early chapters I've read) is both more fundamental and more grounded in math (very basic math in this case) than the other intro theory stuff I've seen.
Typically there's a seed dining that your start with. Harvard undergrads, Stanford Greek society, etc.
Netflix-like training for your team
I wonder if it will be allowed (or nudged) to gradually crumble?

I use the i.reddit.com mobile site occasionally; it’s not great, but better than the new Reddit’s mobile site, and it keeps my consumption of Reddit down. I’ve been noticing some odd rendering issues recently that occasionally make the site unusable. I’d initially blamed iOS 13 (I first noticed it soon after the upgrade) but as it’s the only site I have such issues with, I now wonder if it’s specific to i.reddit.com.

Maybe it’s a coincidence; maybe (channelling Hanlon’s razor) it’s just random bugs in a low priority part of Reddit; or maybe it’s the start of a deliberate but gradual attritional strategy to make the old sites unusable?
It explicitly _doesn't_ target cookies, it explicitly targets any and all stored information that can be resolved to "a specific person", which simply includes things like session and tracking cookies.
Poorly crafted legislation primarily driven by unions that want new members = more union dues and designed to punish gig economy companies like Uber and Lyft, is now coming back to destroy the same people it was meant to protect. CA continues to show that it is the most business hostile state as it attempts to legislate every business into extinction. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind!!
You can also use mobile wrapper apps, such as Friendly for iOS[1] or Simple on Android[2].

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/friendly-for-facebook/id400169...

[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.creativetr...