skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OS has awesome geofences APIs on the device, accessible through Play services. Though if you are geofencing for say 1000 devices, first you have to manage the geofences on the device (download them to device, get callback events, then send them to server using say Firebase). And then secondly, if devices have different hardware, OS version and Play services versions, then the geofencing service reliability might vary. Our implementation ingests locations to server, and all geofences are done on the server. This provides a more consistent experience. Does this answer your question?
Regardless, I’d rather have it run on a Pi. I don’t think of ARM as a mobile platform (at all).
Complete and utter madness. I think they're simply doing this to be contrarian.
A nitpick: Tutanota does not use PGP.
Internet Society told to halt controversial org sale by its own advisory council
I wish this comment of yours was higher up-thread. I started writing a rebuttal, but then realized my rebuttal was turning into the same argument you're making.

More income just increases consumption. People feel they need to "keep up with the Joneses". If everyone in your neighborhood is a two-income household, and yours is too, you're not going to spend like you're a one-income household.

If anything, the key chart in the thread might suggest the opposite: that people are actually better off, or at least basically the same. If we account for a wage gap and assume two-income households (heterosexual households... yes, this is all very hand-wavy), then those four categories of things "only" cost 26.5 weeks of a two-income salary. And if the people buying all this stuff are getting more than they would have (maybe not twice as much, but at least more) in 1985, then perhaps this is ok. The only thing that gives me pause is the increasing costs of healthcare, and perhaps college. I really don't think households are getting more for that money now than they were in 1985 (especially with healthcare costs, which look to have ballooned 7x or 8x in that time).

It is a shame that it's starting to feel mandatory for a married couple to both work in order to be "successful". Honestly, I think the rise of the two-income household has been a net negative for society... and I mean this in a gender-neutral way; it'd be so much better if both men and women could take long stretches (years) of time off work while their partner wins the bread.

I will note, as a sort of weak counterpoint to what you said: the bulk of the cost increases in that chart are college and healthcare, by far. Yes, the cost of transportation and housing have increased, but nowhere near to the same degree. You can (correctly) argue that people are buying more (and better) cars than they used to, and are buying more house than they used to, but the increases in college and healthcare costs easily dominate that chart.

(Also, how is the cost of food not being considered at all?!)
Very interesting concept for a game, enjoying it.
> If children benefit from sleeping longer, so should adults.

People at different ages require different amounts of sleep in order to be healthy. Adults require less than children [0].

Also, one of the big problems for teenagers (the subject of the article) is that their circadian rhythm is out of phase from adults, shifted later about 2 hours [1]. Early start times don't just reduce sleep, they're also just the wrong time of day. Telling a teen to wake up at 7am is like telling an adult to wake up at 5am.

[0]: https://www.cdc.gov/features/sleep/index.html

[1]: https://www.uclahealth.org/sleepcenter/sleep-and-teens
Former congressman confirms he offered to broker pardon for Assange
Why would it be illegal?

They aren't docking the employees pay for shrinkage (which is illegal), they are paying out a bonus based on company performance (the performance being level of shrinkage).
Sadly, all three are used and none of them should be.
Continuing to handwave, if the system as a whole is something like "user complexity + program complexity >= problem complexity", you can indeed hide it from the user in many cases by pulling it into the program itself. Otherwise, programs would have no utility at all. That's essentially their whole purpose, is to pull it away from the user by putting it in the program.
1970s Honda Civics were TINY, 9 inch wheels, they looked like toys. A 2020 Civic is a low end luxury car.
>What's wrong with thinking "Well it is great, but its not $2000 great." You aren't beholden to the thoughts you had about how worth-it it might be before you tried it.

Nothing. But I read the GP comment more along the lines of "It was as great as I imagined it would be but it was still too much money"

Sure, if you can, if something expensive is good but not as great as you hoped it would be for the money, return it. But it's a bit hard for me to see buying (not test driving) something that, however great it is you're not keeping it.
Kind of hard to sneak out a 20 lb rack of ribs or 50 lb bag of rice.
LibreOffice 6.3.5
Nah, we need a culture that utilizes the best data and adjusts for that, not some preconceived notion about when everyone should be waking up and being productive.
UK points based system. It will be much harder to enter UK now and this is where Germany will offer alternative. A very strategic move by Germany.
I predict an FBI sting operation soon
The title of the paper is misleading -- it's not generating energy from ambient humidity, but from sitting across a humidity gradient (i.e. sitting in a bucket of water on one end).

Still a really cool advancement, but not some magical de-humidification technology.
Hahaha don't read the article too closely.

> The big picture: The Trump administration brief came Wednesday just as Oracle founder Larry Ellison opened a campaign fundraiser for President Donald Trump at his southern California estate. Tickets ran as much as $250,000, according to an invitation obtained by the Desert Sun.

Fucking Trumpanzee. Get out've here.
Bug covers for mattresses need to be of the right type and installed properly. Doing it upon pick up only increases the risk of damaging the cover and ruining any utility it has. They're not designed for durability and it takes only a pinhole puncture to ruin the entire cover.
It's true, as worded, it doesn't make any sense.

What would make sense is that in August 2017, Rohrabacher wanted to strike a deal for actual, solid evidence that would debunk the idea that the Russian government hacked the DNC (and with it, the idea that Trump worked with Russia), rather than just take Assange's word on who the source was and wasn't. Since his goal is to save Trump's reputation, Assange's word isn't enough.

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/video/3731570-rohrabacher-ma...

Of course Trump likely wasn't aware that Rohrabacher was trying to make this kind of deal at the time. Rohrabacher only spoke to Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, who could have easily mentally filed their phone conversation directly in the trash, because the Trump administration was already busy secretly drafting up charges against Julian Assange at the time.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/20/politics/julian-assange-wikil...
Fastly has a new CEO, Joshua Bixby
I'm probably too squeamish to wash my mouth with it (did Romans really do that?) but washing clothes with publicly collected urine is generally considered to be a pretty impressive bit of urban engineering, not to mention very environmentally friendly. Wouldn't knock it till you've tried it.
It's one of a number of options (gmail for example had an unofficial official one for a while, and there are other similar extensions). They still all have the same issue that the only threat they protect from is "my webmail provider is incompetent".
Yes, you got it perfectly. That's exactly my fear. And Tesla isn't helping with their marketing because they suggest we are further than we really are.
>How does DO get out of this spot?

What if they package the available open source versions of AWS and GCP services and allow people to move off amazon and google? Have DO as one region and at first sell it as a backup. Then, make it enticing for people to scale it up so that they shift some work over.

DO could become the place where people can run infrastructure that mixes AWS and GCP. After some acquisitions, companies will have services in both worlds. Why not unite them in one place?
One of the best responses I've ever read on HN. Bravo. You demolished the outlandish, propaganda-laden premise of the author.
Probably not, but you are pointing out kind of an oddity in the adage. Complexity should always live on the side of the developer, not the user. Any design choice that says, "We could figure out how to do this, but we didn't, so we'll make the user do it for us" is just outright bad. That's not an adage; that's just an injunction not to be a bad designer.

What's more interesting is that even within the domain of the user space, there is an irreducible complexity. You can push it around, but you can't make it go away. Figuring which users you will inconvenience, how often, and how bad it will be -- that's the artistry.
I saw a good youtube video about how blazing saddles was satirizing decades of hyper popular sanitized Western genre and helped kill it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzMFoNZeZm0
Thanks! We really did start committing code on Jan 23rd -- but we had strong views on what a solution should look like as we experienced these problems first hand.

We've already had requests from people to store events into different databases, but I hadn't considered doing it with graphql/JAM. That could be a really nice way of having the storage abstracted from the database.

In terms of feature parity, our goal is basically 100% parity. Anything you can do analytics wise in those tools you should be able to do in PostHog. We're going to try to keep up the same pace we've had for the last 4 weeks.
I have a hard time to see any use case where no security is different from giving google a plain text copy of a private conversations where google has the right to determine who and how others might participate in accessing it.

Giving google a plain text copy of everything you say in private communication is not good enough security. Anyone working with information that is covered under privacy laws should be held legal responsible for disclosing it to a third party, regardless if that third party is google or a friend at a bar. If it is a doctor, lawyer or government employee the probability of this is close to 100%. If its a company talking to customers, communicating personal data as defined by the EU between employees, there is only a google breach away from being found out and sued.

The only choice is encryption, with the choice between a encrypted server under the control of the person responsible for keeping the information safe, or encryption per email. Which of those two choices one choose does not matter but giving google a plain text copy and calling it safe is just LARP security.

I should mention that here in Sweden there were recently a large political scandal involving the government using IBM as a third party service provider. Sensitive data got sent over the border and outside the control of the government, and it continued for years as those in charged really wanted to believe that "the cloud" could treated as just as secure as running your own servers. The law said otherwise, and when reality came crashing down things had to change. Convenience does not make it suddenly acceptable to give a third party sensitive information, even if that third party is a large international operator who can't do any wrongs.
Yeah, same here. I remember getting home from high school around 2:00 (even earlier if I didn't have a class for the 6th hour). I would just collapse on the couch and sleep for an hour. Then, of course, I'd have trouble falling asleep at night, leading to it being hard to get up. Lather, rinse, repeat.
My favorite thing about the "publisher" vs. "platform" rabbit hole people of a certain political persuasion seem to be burrowing through as a not-so-veiled threat towards service providers that "censor" posts consisting of pictures of Michelle Obama photoshopped to look like a gorilla is the delusional alternate-reality plane of existence on which they seem to reside where they think that going through with the threat will mean that their preferred content will be more likely to be hosted.
> "But the average American house today has twice as much square footage per person than in 1985... Expenditures on housing are increasing--but the number of vehicles per household has also gone up since 1985. The cost of college has gone up, but the percentage of people attending college has also doubled in that time frame. Colleges, moreover, are far more luxurious than in 1985."

> "...it's actually extremely hard to figure out how to precisely measure changes in standard of living over time."

indeed, those kinds of increases are of "questionable utility", and thus not relevant to the standard of living discussion.

rather than the fed's definition of inflation, it's important to look at the basket of essential goods (and more house and more cars ain't it) when we consider the economic tide for the majority of americans.
This should’ve been clear to everyone from the get go, when research into electronic computers began during WWII under the aegis of military codebreaking.
> What's complicated about repealing a 2-clause law?

There's substantial consensus among Internet scholars that this would change the entire Internet ecosystem in either negative or at least highly unpredictable ways. It's complicated because we need to consider and plan for the consequences, and because it opens up an entire new set of legal distinctions that have never been applied to the Internet and will need to be established and refined over decades.

Repealing 230 is simple in the same way that SESTA/FOSTA was simple -- there are lots of things that seem simple until you consider the details.

On the other hand, antitrust law is pretty widely established, it's something we need to be applying across the entire market (both online and offline) anyway, and breaking up companies has comparatively fewer fundamental consequences for the wider.

It's a mistake to measure complexity in lines of law, in the same way that it's a mistake to measure program complexity in lines of code. The real test is, "how much of the system does this change, how invasive is it, and do we know what all of the effects will be?"
> kids usually need to board on the school bus before parents leave home

Why’s that?
That's pretty much the exact premise of the OP. Specifically, the growth in labor force/prevalence of dual income families was driven by the increase in costs, not the other way around.
There was a pretty popular recent post on reddit's /r/unethicallifeprotips about this recently.

It's beginning to become common knowledge that paying for a mail-order mattress is often optional. By choosing not to request a refund (and keep the product), you are subsidizing the purchases of everyone else who does.

If you squint this kind of looks like the CyberRebate business model and I wonder how much longer it'll be sustainable.

(The industry also has amusing quirks like https://www.vox.com/2017/9/23/13153814/casper-sleepopolis-la... )
Many of these stars have planets orbiting them, likely discovered after the author wrote this page. There are some references to planetary systems, but few compared to what has been discovered since. Proxima Centauri has at least one planet orbiting it (in the habitable zone!), for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri

Barnard's star also has a planet, contrary to the claim on the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard%27s_Star#Planetary_sys...
Instead of selling reports, would it make more sense to create dashboards that let users slice + dice data and view the insights?

In other words, instead of being a Gartner, focus on being a Crunchbase. That way, you can sell to both the end users of these insights (the companies in these industries) as well as the market research companies, themselves.
> This would only move the problem later, not solve it.

And for teens, that would be a huge improvement. Their sleep schedules are biologically offset to be about 2 hours later than and adult's [0] so the different between having to wake up at say 08:30 instead of 07:30 is the equivalent, for an adult, to waking up at 06:30 instead of 05:30.

> The problem is that there are only 24 hours in the day.

That's also a problem but it's a different problem. Even if we reduce the workload, sleep still can't be healthy because teenagers are being forced to consistently wake up at biologically unnatural times.

[0]: https://www.uclahealth.org/sleepcenter/sleep-and-teens
Oh hey a Nazi.

How can you say anything in your last paragraph with a straight face? Brother get a fucking grip. You associate with Nazis because you are one.
Is this the same Lazslo Bock, founder of Humu, formerly head of HR at Google? If so, very diverse set of founding experiences.

If not, is this a common name in Hungary? Small world.
I'm sure no one has asked for this(Please don't judge me.). But I would be willing to drop 25 bucks on this not 49 as that is way too high.
The problem is not averaging. The problem is these inflation measures specifically exclude major expenses.
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> But we also do a "technical interview" with some fizzbuzz stuff

Why does anyone still think this is a good interview technique that provides any valuable metrics?
As the article briefly touches on, the monochrome icons made a ton of sense when color was added externally to the icon by the system. Windows Live Tiles would add brand colors as backdrops and other parts of Windows would color icons their brand color in foregrounding. Some problems with that approach was Live Tiles never got the general acceptance they deserved and the "smart" display surfaces like Live Tiles and Notifications that knew about branding colors and such were never the only places icons might appear (especially for cross-platform apps).
The article is also very confusing. He alternates between considering the inflation rate and not considering the inflation rate. I still don't know if he is claiming that BLS is claiming that, for cars, the inflation rate is 0.

I also find his COTI quite misleading. It seems he is counting 100% of health care expenses (100% of premiums) but not counting the ~70-80% of premiums an employer pays in median weekly earnings. In the college field, he also uses a semester if college tuition for some reason. Since this is a 1 time cost, it should almost surely be accounted for differently.
> Google and Amazon both fucked up by weighing in on political campaigns.

What are you referring to here? The fact that executives had and expressed political opinions, or are you alleging that they put their fingers on the scales?
So what ? You care too much about these things.
But I wonder how many people buy a mattress, never open it, "return it for refund" then just resell a "unused, unopened mattress"?
I think the suggestion that the admin's position on the AT&T/TW merger wasn't biased by CNN's existence as a moderate news outlet is extremely disingenuous, since multiple judges found the opposite to be true.

As well, if they cared about freedom of the press in the face of media consolidation, Sinclair wouldn't have been able to buy up so many local news outlets. But Sinclair runs stories that praise the administration, and Sinclair has impunity when it comes to acquisitions.
I can get behind your theory. But I don't know how well it holds for housing, because of the technique described in the longer article posted in another thread. [0] Specifically, housing is 40% fair market rent on a three-bedroom apartment. So while it's certainly possible that the things you talk about housing are true for apartments, it's a different argument to make. Certainly at least some of the things you discuss are applicable, like central AC. Some others, like size, are probably less applicable.

> Adjusted for CPI, the median cost per square foot for housing only rose by 5% between 1990 and 2010

Minor nit, but it seems like poor form to take someone who's arguing against CPI, and then to use CPI-adjusted numbers in a counter-argument.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22378311
I respectfully disagree with you on all accounts :)

Anyway, Lenovo care service (whatever its called) costs about $400-500 for three years and they send a technician to your place within 24 hours.

We have a fleet of Macs and thinkpads and the thinkpads last more and cost less in total.
When something works fine for 99.9% of the users, you have to ask yourself if the things you’re demanding are really necessary.

Is it possible that your workflow is so unique and important that you need something that everyone else is doing just fine without? Sure, maybe — but I doubt it.
Actually it's the BLS that says inflation has not affected car prices. And, yes, he is questioning their methodology.
I find his COTI quite misleading/confusing. It seems he is counting 100% of health care expenses (100% of premiums) but not counting the ~70-80% of premiums an employer pays the median employee in median weekly earnings.

In the college field, he also uses a semester if college tuition for some reason. Since this is a 1 time cost, it should almost surely be accounted for differently.
Is setting this up worthwhile for a general charity? Would it be better for them than say, working out an overstock donation?
Doesn't take a genius to Learn how to read
> Macron infuriated environmental activists by abandoning a 2015 target to reduce nuclear in France's energy mix to just half by 2025.

I'm very much in favor of preserving the environment, but I hate environmental activists.
I can remember that star names from the very similar map in Frontiers: Elite 2.
Meanwhile Ireland is desperately working to get an interconnector between itself and France because it needs France to act as the "battery backup" for all the wind energy Ireland wants to produce in the future. The last time the interconnector between Ireland and UK was broken, Ireland had to shut down a bunch of wind mills until it was brought back up. France and the surrounding countries need those nuclear reactors available in order to experiment with more "green" energy

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/energy-and-resources/eu-...
Really exciting. Good to see all of this recent AI progress yield results against a problem that's actually meaningful.
You seem to assume that the government will need to access all accounts at Google individually, and will have to work equally hard for the first one as for every subsequent one. Why is it not a likely risk that Google is thoroughly "compromised" by the government? We have seen this before, when another company was in a similar position regarding access to user's communication:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
Conservatives want platforms to moderate in a politically neutral way. Passing a law requiring such would be unconstitutional as it would violate the free speech of those companies. Making section 230 conditional upon political neutrality might not be unconstitutional. No Internet platform would ever risk operating without section 230 protections, so they would essentially be forced into political neutrality. So the same effect would be achieved.

Nobody is seriously considering simply removing section 230; that would be devastating to the economy and to free speech both. Any such assertions are no more than sword rattling and idle threats.

Neither is anybody seriously talking about ceasing all moderation entirely. Platforms would become flooded with spam, among other things making them virtually unusable.

Where this all gets very complicated very fast, IMHO, is in how you define political neutrality. And I'll stop here because that's much too long of a discussion to have in a HN comment.