skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While that's true, and I get the feeling this is coming from the perspective of someone already working at google and shopping around for new projects, this actually brings up another point I hate in particular about Google's process.

When you're interviewing you are interviewing for a role but not with a team. So you don't know what you will be working on, and it seemed like when coming in, new hires always seem to get to be put on whatever. I talked to a couple of the managers who wanted to work with me, and it felt like these projects were kind of silly. Talking with people on the inside, it seems like the way to find something useful is to get in, then transfer to a team you want. But why would a qualified person want to go through all this craziness when they can just interview at a different company and meet the people they will work with, and talk about what they are working on? Like a normal job? It seems like Google's process is highly skewed toward "great for Google, shaft the candidate." Which they can do, because everyone wants to work for Google, so why not only hire kool-aid drinkers?

And just to bring up the empire building again, if every great opportunity has so many people wanting it, it tends to lead to toxic behavior and culture due to unhealthy competition.
How This Bangalore-Based Edtech Startup Is Delivering Cognitive Learning
I'm sure Google will suspend their own podcast app too?

> Searching for “coronavirus”or “COVID-19” in Google Podcasts returns podcasts from mainstream media outlets that aren’t endorsed by government entities or public health organizations.
You don't need money to travel beyond your front door/neighbourhood but come on, you need "some" money to travel. You can't travel without a penny in your pocket.
The French government uses Matrix so it does not have to be like that. And the German military is looking into moving to Matrix too.
In France, cyber critics burned a fablab to protest the digital culture (2017)
I've been getting away from apps installed from the play store over the years. This is one of the 2 remaining apps I have that I paid for. This is appalling behavior my Google. I can't wait until I can make a real Linux based phone my daily driver.
The German Innovation Game – Covid-19 Edition
Have you looked at the actual numbers? Sweden is at 6th place in deaths per capita in the world ranking. It has 4 times the deaths per capita than Denmark, and 8 times more than Norway.
You're not even wrong, it's logically impossible to derive temperature from velocity either because temperature is defined as a fundamental attribute of matter. You can only quantitatively connect them, and such connection is seen as explanation in mechanistic way.
> the political class, who don't need to understand STEM because they use rhetoric, persuasion, and political manipulation to get what they want.

And right now, we are witnessing this line of thinking crashing and burning up, as you can't persuade a virus. You _have to_ understand the underlying science, and not make this category error. There's no away around it.

Unfortunately, persuasive but ignorant leaders have convinced many people otherwise, so it's not until there's a real issue that this lack becomes apparent by example.

I'm sure that "rhetoric, persuasion, and political manipulation" have their usages, but to think that they're "all that you need" is what's causing issues in the countries that are handing COVID badly.

There will be more examples of this kind of problem before the 21st century is over.
What makes you think this is something other than another (awful) high profile case of automation gone wrong?
Try the FFS MSDN in English browser extension. Available for Chrome and Firefox.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ffs+msdn+in+english
I’m not sure it’s quite this simple. I maintain a popular video player and as such many of our users are nontechnical but some are more familiar with some of the options that are offered than I am myself. Whether someone is entitled really depends on…whether they’re just entitled in general, I think. I get people saying that we should “just add complicated xyz feature” who clearly don’t know the complexity involved, but then people with just as much experience leave issues like “I love your software so much but it is crashing every time I launch it (actually a one line fix, which they don’t know), can you please take a look at this, I’d really appreciate it” which is like the perfect issue. On the other hand I get technical issues with people filing pull requests to fix them but then sometimes I need to say something they won’t like such as “we don’t want this feature” or “we can’t work on this” and I’ll get a range of responses there too.
For anyone that has a hot reload in their development process - it's worth seeing how the UI refresh with several screen containers can keep you aware of responsiveness versus coming back to it later.
This is once again an example for how freedom of speech is becoming more and more controlled by tech companies.

I'm a little worried about this phenomenon. Google is not constructed by journalists. Freedom of speech might not be first priority for Google.
Still happens. Even worse, there are sites that still think French is the only language in Belgium. Sometimes they offer French and English for Belgium, even though they do have a Dutch-language site if you choose the Netherlands instead of Belgium. I don't understand where they get their info on languages in Belgium.

For those who don't know: in a long gone past, any official business in Belgium was done in French, even though about half of the population spoke Dutch. But that's long gone, and certainly dates from long before the rise of the world wide web. These days we have three official languages: Dutch, spoken by about 40% of the population; French, about 40%; German, less than 1%.

EDIT: Example: Nvidia's site. Opens in French for me, and the "Select your location" page has only "Belgique (Belgium)" for Belgium, which links to a site in French. For our Dutch neighbors in the Netherlands they do have a site in Dutch. I don't even understand why they don't just offer a language choice instead of a location/language choice. The specs and drivers for a video card are the same whether the card is in Belgium or in the USA or anywhere else.
The One Engineer Method
There is a lot of pressure on the large tech companies to stop spreading misinformation. This is one of their measures.
> * And even at google, golang is starting to be banned for real systems use by some projects.*

Quite curious. Got a source? Would like to read more on that.
Is that a spec or it just happens?
Truthfulness isn’t the most important thing when writing these sensation pieces.
We don't need to know how it works, it asks the web pages to serve content in that language, it's made explicitly for this use case. It should be the first choice. Second choice could be browser language.
I think maps is a specialty case where optionally displaying location names in their native language and script regardless of locale settings may be a useful feature overall.

I certainly don't think it should be location based.
> The appeal of WhatsApp was free text messages

Except that this is a feature of every messaging app. It's not really a response to

>> It also has no killer features in comparison to any existing messaging app, nor the defunct MSN.
YouTube constantly recommends me COVID-19 conspiracy videos since I dared to watch one that was popular here in Germany. Basically on every video I watch I have now german conspiracy videos as recommendations. I did neither like the video or did I subscribe the channel.

It's beyond fucked up what Google is doing.
As a citizen, I am not okay with this degree of intra-sovereign surveillance. If I am to live in, pay taxes, and otherwise contribute to a society, I want to be free of surveillance and subterfuge within that society - my states laws, designed to protect me from thugs and mafia (a very real threat), should not be thwarted by military industrial mafia hell-bent on exerting control over sovereign states, in spite of my desires as a citizen.

The trouble is, I see no way forward for citizens of the 5-eyes states to address this issue, other than either a) revolution to uncover and dissolve the control networks that have been covertly put in place, or b) sedition - leaving the state, and not contributing (taxes) to its continued economic development.

As we have seen with Wikileaks and Julian Assange, its not enough to just reveal the covert secrets that underpin this inner state-within-a-state - there have to be actual repercussions for those involved, and this isn't happening at any rate near well enough for my needs.

So, it appears that sedition is the only option - and indeed, that is what I have done: I no longer participate in the economies of any of the 5-eyes states, directly, and I"m about to give up my citizenship in my birth nation over the issue.

But we know this isn't a solution. Do we have to start a brain-drain revolution which moves the economic power of an intelligent class from state to state? Or, do we just let mother nature do its thing, and 'hope' that things will 'change' in the 5-eyes super-state somehow? Too many people I trust and respect in the crypto-anarchist sphere are responding to this appeal with "well, covid-19 will sort it out" for my liking .. but what other options are there, really? Journalism is utterly dead and decrepit in the West, this is not an avenue. Violent revolution makes no sense whatsoever. So, brain-drain it is ...
Nobody knows how. But the fact that there's nothing else but fully known and understood physical forces pushing around the particles that make up my brain is rock solid science.
Zig: Async I/O without function coloring
> Similarly, I predict we will see an uptick in popularity of actually native frameworks such as Qt over Electron for the same reason.

I would predict that if only Qt didn't cost a mind-boggling price for non-GPL apps. They should really switch to pay-as-you-earn e.g. like the Unreal engine so people would only have to start paying as they start earning serious money selling the actual app. If they don't Qt popularity is hardly going to grow.
I also know someone, a very handsome dude in his mid 20s who had a bit of a wanderlust for a year after a brief stint in the military, who also got plenty of harassment from dudes he was staying with. As in, two of his hosts in Italy cooked and ate naked with him ("no strings attached"), and one really creepy dude tried to touch him while he was sleeping (in a separate location)... which obviously didn't end well for the host as this dude was fresh out of the military.
Because unfortunately the law permits them to do this in many cases so they take advantage of this ability.
Another nearby fort (Fort de Bois d'Arcy) built for the same protection of Paris is storing the archives of films, including some of the oldest movies in the world (films by Lumière brothers).

http://www.cnc-aff.fr/internet_cnc/Home.aspx?Menu=MNU_ACCUEI...
> I can imagine a being that is physically identical to a human in every way, but is not conscious

I can't, and I think that's the central point. This means you're claiming the big c is not a physics process. But I suspect that the next sentence is a more accurate representation of your argument:

> there is no reason to think that intelligent behavior requires consciousness

To which I would say, what if consciousness is just a side effect of data integration. What if it's just what if "feels like" to be a system that has memory, external and internal data integration? Nothing magical about that.

> So what is the difference between such a being and a conscious human, if the two are physically identical?

Again, you're tacitly assuming that consciousness is not physical, thus assuming your earlier conclusion.
Has there been any scientific assessment of how powerful Google is compared to governments?

Governments in general seem to be lagging hard behind advances on the net. More and more power is ending up in the hands of companies.
threema is not open source and it is not free, Signal (better some European fork) without recent baggage would be better option

user base is extremely slow, in Slovak media Threema is associated with mafia and murder of journalist, it will be hard to convince people to use same app as mobsters
> * Go language, which is widely adopted and used in many core network infrastructure systems programming, powering Internet today.*

Is there a place where I can read more on this?
There's a very nice write up about the socat command line interface here [1] in case anyone is interested.

[1] https://medium.com/@copyconstruct/socat-29453e9fc8a6
Doordash seems to provide two different services.

1) Doordash has some deal with the restaurant, gets a commission on sales, fees, whatever.

2) Doordash has no deal with the restaurant, charges customer $x+y, buys food from restaurant at $x.

In the second case, Doordash may be charging much more than the menu price, if it things it can find customers who will pay it.
Thanks for the answer.

What I'm really trying to fish out is: if a developer is significantly better than the competition relative to his years of experience, how is he supposed to communicate that? How does he actually get paid commensurate to that extra effort? In your experience is it even possible?

As far as I can tell the only way to really do that reliably is either work on a respected product & basically make an impression outside your company (crapshoot) or show what you can do via open source. I can't see how I could communicate it otherwise.
It also subsidizes largess such as unnecessary buildings and retreats. University department managers treat budgets as signs of status, and try to build as large of org chart pyramids as possible.

Source: I worked at a top 5 US university as an employee, on both the business and academic sides, for 7 years.
Did you read the article? This was covered there, though as a less extreme price difference.
AfterCOVID EComm: 5 Ways to Add Empathy to Your Paid Social Strategy
I feel like it is almost its own kind of focus because that state can be lost, though I don't remember how. Multi-line text boxes maybe.
> I'm already on the hook for fixing the in-laws WiFi, printer, and IoT cat water bowl -- how could this possibly scale to the masses?

IoT cat bowl? Leave it out...

As for how it'd scale, I'd say a look to the past would suggest that much like we saw with COVID, every State takes an initiative to deploy it [1] based on each departments need [2]. Hell some States have their own mining operation they were able to fund through some work/jobs program, and were able to get it funded through tax money.

Personally, I tuned out when people at our local meetup were pushing for this: it seemed like government lobbying and I have no interest in pandering to politicians so I stopped listening--my co-founder was doing enough of that for her other ventures and I felt disgusted just asking her about it, let alone doing it myself.

But if I recall correctly, they did manage to pilot test it. Its just that, while I advise everyone to pay their taxes, I hardly see the novelty or utility in pitching politicians to see this tech as a viable means to collect taxes. Especially since the actual talent in this space is already spread far too thin, as it is.

These were ETH guys, so being the Bitcoin guy (maximalist, as they often called me) in the room I didn't want to see needless bloat on the network (after 2017 we all had main-net tx paranoia) so never really bothered to ask any further questions.

1: https://statescoop.com/colorado-lawmakers-push-for-blockchai...

2: https://choosecolorado.com/blockchain/
Even more amazing considering that there was no hack, it was an internal leak named Seth Rich [0].

I know, false news, end of discussion. Very convenient label to slap on any information that threatens to rock the boat.

What never ceases to amaze me is how otherwise seemingly intelligent people blindly believe what they're told without asking questions as soon as the potential answers get uncomfortable.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich
Your point is being made as though it's relevant to a healthcare system that exists today anywhere on the planet. It isn't.

It especially isn't related to the US healthcare system, which again, costs the US government - not the US consumer who pays astronomically more then any other developed nation - about twice as much per capita as other developed nations, while providing less services to the public.

Whether or not healthcare might consume all the remaining spending is irrelevant when your system manages to be twice as expensive per capita while excluding tens of millions of people from any coverage at all.

An emergency appendectomy - life saving surgery - costs $15,000[1] unless you manage to find a surgeon who's in your healthcare network, available right then, and you also don't get unlucky enough that anyone in that operating theatre while you're unconscious is also in your healthcare network.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-health-care-indu...

Your system is corrupt garbage.
For me, open source is a matter of passion. If you like programming and you do it on your free time, at some point, you end up with a more or less showable software that is useful to you. Of course you will share it with others, thinking that maybe it will be useful to someone else.

Working to make money is a completely different story, and it's quite rare to be able to completely merge work and passions.

There are also plenty of reasons for a company to publish open source software (and that's a good thing!). But you have to remember that behind this choice, there will always be a strategic reason with a business plan.
What a load of garbage, next they'll ban overcast because they let people subscribe to RSS feeds, and some people have hard left/right wing podcasts, or anything you want to see that's not mainstream.
YouTube, stop with the 480p bandwidth discrimination in India already
Definitely true for me in the 2000s. My social network formed a bunch of circles with very little overlap. A blog, like the ones I and some of my friends used to have, would serve as a bridge, thanks to the sidebar linking to other people the blog author reads/recommends. Back in the day, I used to be active in a local gamedev scene, so my sidebar was mostly full of links to blogs of other hobbyist/aspiring game developers, who would in turn link back to me. If you were interested in gamedev, you could easily go from blog to blog and enumerate almost everyone in the group, but at each step you also had an opportunity to branch out to a given author's other interests.

It was a nice way of discovering new things, and a more personal one. You jumped around topics and social networks simultaneously; at every step it wasn't just a new theme, but a new person, an acqauintance of an acquaintance, someone with a name (or more likely then, a nickname) you would remember and refer back to in conversations. Even though we mostly didn't know one another except from blogs and IRC, the Internet felt much more like a village back then. Now, it feels like a strip mall.
I find it rare, have you configured the language used by the browser when it request pages? It's different from the language user interface.
Thank you for the excellent references - indeed, I have added these to my queue and will enjoy catching up with you on the subject.
NASA launches guide to Lunar etiquette
Show HN: A Customisable Dashboard Service for Your Pi, Smart-Mirror and Browser
It auto-recommends (very) popular podcasts. Guess what: many of them have Covid-related episodes.
Thanks. One more question. For Visual Studio Code, Microsoft has a plugin called Kubernetes - which I currently use. Have you done a comparison against that?
The poster above literally mentioned the Death Star, so unless there's something like this in Dune I don't know about...
if you ever apply to YC, this is your YC story.
Coronavirus: Over 100M in China's north-east thrown back under lockdown
> Please show me a business (aside from Amazon, obviously) who needs Alexa.

I'll bite.

Have you ever been getting a haircut, and the hair dresser had to stop to pick up the phone to make an appointment?

Have you ever go to actually pick up a pizza at a small pizzeria and noticed that from 4 employees, 3 are making pizzas, and one is 99% of their time on the phone?

Every single business that you've ever used in your life would be better off with an Alexa that can handle the 99% most common user interactions.

In fact, even small pizzerias and hair salons nowadays are using third-party online booking systems with chat bots. Larger companies are able to turn a 200 people call center into a 20 man operation by just using an Alexa to at least identify customers and resolve the most common questions.
nope, people will use SMS and email
To be fair, 10-20 years ago was the age of Windows XP and Windows 7, not Windows 95. There barely was anything good about Windows 95, and there are likely not many people missing it, but it was also a complete different era from the later "modern" desktops, hardware as also software-wise. If anything I would call that era the alpha-version, problems included.
> We are also open source!

This is a big deal actually. From what I've heard, One of the reasons why Hospitality Club fell into decline, was that the code-base was closed source and the original developer was reluctant to let go of it.
I'm very saddened by the news.

To me couchsurfing was not only about hosting people to my place (which I hope I can continue doing after the pandemic) but also about their events.

The weeks I couldn't or didn't feel like hosting strangers to my place, I could still meet random foreigners in bars or outside.

My city had 3 weekly events in addition to random theme events, from board game nights and sport activities to cooking classes.
Whoa, I cannot reproduce that. I don't doubt your report, but I see a completely different behavior.

When I want to download Inkscape for Windows, I get a zip file. When I download GIMP for Windows, I seem to get a genuine installer with the same size and filename as what is offered on gimp.org. I didn't download these files on Windows, though.
> delete this before it becomes mainstream

ignoring the fact that this post itself is top of HN and going viral?
I think this sends a really strong message to the rest of the world to try avoid buying US technology because they might get locked into arbitrary rules sometime in the future.

There was an article in The Economist a few month back (can't find the link right now) that suggested that China might secretly like Donald Trump and accept the short term pain of his presidency because of the long term gain of the wedge he is driving between the USA and the rest of the world.
I've been working on VideoLAN (VLC, x264, other...) for most of my professional life.

For a long time, I had other jobs, working at startups around video, and doing VLC at nights and weekends and holidays.

And now, I built a couple of companies around Open Source multimedia, where we do consulting, integration, custom development around software, applications development, licensing, support and so on.

Those companies are now paying around 25 FTE. It's not too bad, but not impressive either...

The employees are working most of their time on improvements of the open source software, working for clients is a minority of their time.

But I've worked a lot, and by a lot, I really mean a fuckton... And the rewards are not big.
Apple begins reopening some stores with temperature checks and other safeguards
It's possible to export my data from CS. Would the Trustroots community be willing to have a CS data import option, for bringing in old CS references and friends?