skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny enough I just bought parts for a new build and my Motherboard was about the only thing without RGB lights. I didn't really want any at all, but the components I needed were all significantly cheaper than their non-RGB counterparts. Even the RAM ended up $20 per kit cheaper than the exact same model without RGB.

I might try to embrace it to look nice, but I will probably just end up turning them all off, despite having a window on the case.
This shows you can do almost anything in journalism, except go against the military industrial complex.
So I guess TEAMS is next?
Sounds to me like this should be the zillionth warning sign that leaning on a FAANG for any significant portion of your business activities is a critical mistake.

If there is no customer support, there is no reliability, period. You can delude yourself into thinking you have a resource, when what you have is a niche in somebody else's place.

Of course this will throw his business into chaos.

Time to sue Facebook for unfair business practices. Or if that's not allowed under the TOS, walk away and find the next path.

Every story I hear paints another stroke of the picture of Facebook turning into a cesspool of AI-controlled careless swamp of attention-grabbing, only mitigated by reporting on their most callous bullshit.
At least for the Mac client, I think the native app, as slow as it is (possibly made worse due to corporate spyware), is better than OWA for several use cases:

1) searching mails is much faster locally

2) OWA zoom plugin requires re-auth every time SSO times out

3) most operations take 1-2 more clicks on OWA (marking meetings pub/priv, editing a meeting, etc).

On the other hand I've not had plugins working on my native Outlook for several months...
That sounds like more of a risk with Bitcoin IOUs that are held on central exchanges, rather than with Bitcoin itself.

"not your keys, not your coins"
"ObamaCare is a disaster and Snowden is a spy who should be executed-but if it and he could reveal Obama's records,I might become a major fan"

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/39568370275766272...
I think thats because this unionization attempt is for the FTE to speak out over social justice causes and not face retaliation. Aka not about compensation.

I do wish there was more focus around the contract employees, in fact I think this petition (or whatever its called where they all sign) is only for FTE.
Ask HN: What are you doing with your “G Suit Business”
It has been a few months since Google announced that the unlimited storage on the G Suit Business is going away and is being replaced by the terrible "upgraded" deals in "Workspaces", this time with hard quotas that cannot be even upgraded past the limited number of TBs that are being sold at crazy prices.

Excluding the usual marketing speak no information on when it is going to happen is available:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-happens-to-your-g-suite-unlimited-storage-when-google-moves-you-to-workspace/

The question therefore is... does anyone have the timeline? Is anyone pre-paying for the 1 year license to buy ourselves 1 year migration timeline? Anyone heard if we would be allowed to pre-pay for another year if there's an announcement of the deadlines? Has anyone been approached by that special team for their customized transition?

And if you happen to work for Google you should realize should you make your G Suite customers unhappy with how this transition is handled, you may as well stick a fork into any CGP aspirations Google's management has.
I take your point, but would suggest that the stop was motivated by legitimate Police concern over public decency rather than political content (“Fuck” is quite offensive) and I believe that the Officers concerned probably wouldn’t have arrested her if she had refused to cover up.

If an aggrieved third party had been present, and her refusal to cover up created a likelihood of imminent breach of the peace then - perhaps - a temporary arrest might be justified, would you accept?

My point is our freedom of expression laws are aimed at creating an atmosphere where people don’t feel violence is necessary to defend their position or sensibility - it’s where we happen to draw the line in the paradox of tolerance.
>Your Page has been unpublished

They even give them a reason. How is:

>they kicked me and my pages off without warning or explanation

truthful?
From what I've seen, it's only the small benchmarks where the open source version of Graal is on par with regular Java, because their short run-time ensures that all the bits that give HotSpot its name don't have a chance to kick in.

I think my point stands regardless of any quibbling about terminology. I've got no objection to some sort of free-however-you-capitalize-it-but-with-paid-premium-features model in general. But baking such a business model into something as fundamental as a cross-platform ABI standard sets a really bad precedent. Having lived through the late '90s, that sort of thing immediately brings the phrase, "embrace, extend, extinguish," to mind.

I'm glad to hear they've started publishing a sticker price. My memory isn't what it used to be, but I believe that wasn't the case when I evaluated it.
No I am not. Failure to set that expectation easily is one of the reasons for much higher solidarity numbers needed to win these days.

In the US, costs and risks are pretty high. People need more than they did in times past.
Mixed feelings about this.

On the one hand, it's pretty. Aesthetically it's nice, simple, and I generally love stark monochromatic designs.

On the other hand, this feels very unofficial and off-brand. It doesn't feel like it's a part of the U.S. government. Was that intentional? If so, why?

Why does it feel more like the site of a small (and potentially underfunded) start-up than the world's biggest and baddest intelligence agency?
It's off an on. The connectivity is spotty.
You're handwaving about why there's some special definition of "significance" here, and when called on it, it comes down to "I don't feel like this is true".

Valid arguments, better formed, are: A) you're not sure it's representative of a real campaign, B) you're not sure it predicts the end-outcomes we really care about instead of some intermediate measure. Neither of these improve with more n, and so they're not significance related issues--- 4000 clicks doesn't improve either A or B.

I'm not off in the semantic weeds. And I think it's kind of embarrassing you're trying for a witty rejoinder instead of giving -some- kind of cogent argument.
Well that's discouraging. I always hate having to interact with any Teledyne company. They're not quite down to Danaher/Fortive's level, but they seem to do their best to try. FLIR, in contrast, was merely obscenely expensive.
Do note that I don't claim (or think) that it's very likely for this to happen. But the comment I replied to made a strong claim: that (technologically?) BTC offers this ability. This is not just some nice property that it currently has, it's part of the "intrinsic value" of BTC. This to me sounded like a claim of "guarantee", not just a claim that "nobody banned it yet, and maybe they won't ban it in the future, either".
Fascinating how entirely generic each and every page with a design like this looks.
See also, DITHER.txt: http://web.archive.org/web/20190316064436/http://www.efg2.co...
Watch a Self Driving Tesla Cruise from SF to LA
It's inflationary, since more bitcoin are mined every ten minutes or so.

That's not how it works… think about it.

How can bitcoin be inflationary when the number of coins being produced decreases every 4 years?

There's a fixed supply—over 88% of all the bitcoin that'll ever exist have already been mined.

Yes, every 10 minutes or so, 6.25 new bitcoin come into existence but every 4 years, the block subsidy is cut in half and will continue to be cut in half until the final block is mined. The next halving is May 7, 2024.

The amount of new coins mined will continue to decrease until 2140. You might want to read about bitcoin's stock to flow: https://medium.com/@100trillionUSD/modeling-bitcoins-value-w...

Sure, the code says that it will stop when 21 million are mined, but there's no real guarantee that the code won't change before we reach that point.

There's over $500 billion (and growing) in market capitalization that is based on the limit being 21 million bitcoin and not ever changing. This was already litigated by the bitcoin community.

Or, the blockchain might fork (again) and now there are double the coins.

Again, this isn't how it works.

There could be dozens of forks; that doesn't matter. Only the longest chain with the most work on it matters. All of the hashing power would continue on the one true bitcoin chain while the forks languish.

Bitcoin is open source; anyone can download the source code, make a few changes and launch a new chain. But it would get virtually zero support.

You may not be aware of the number of bitcoin forks that have been attempted and failed… Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin XT… you might want to do some reading: https://www.exodus.io/blog/bitcoin-fork/
As a former resident of Italy, I'm a bit stumped by "logistics center in Italy". Italy's a great place for many things - I could talk about it at length - but shipping and logistics is not one that comes immediately to mind.
Not marketing. That type of language comes from legal and the “never proactively admit fault“ mantra
Fern Creek Software | Louisville KY | 100% Remote
Fern Creek is a software consulting company. We build stuff for other people, usually in .NET on Azure but we do other stuff occasionally. The company has been around since I started consulting independently about 20 years ago. Recently I started taking on larger projects that need more people and as a result, started hiring people. Sometimes a 1099, sometimes W2.

This is not super sexy stuff where you will get options that might be worth millions, but likely worth nothing. What you will get is a load of experience on new tech (asp.net core, azure, blazor etc) and a great focus on the best feature of all...shipping.

The job is remote so you don't have to be in Louisville though if you are close that is cool. Set your own hours and all that, I want pros not people that need babysitting.

1 opening right now...

Full stack dev (C#, asp.net core, sql server etc)

Live the stress free life, work from home, build some cool tech, make money, be happy etc etc.

Shoot me a message at jobs at ferncreeksoftware.com
Yeah... But now HN is fast again, FWIW.
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We're hiring in our platform and web teams. We use Python/Django/Kubernetes and React/Typescript.

Memrise is a great place to work if:

* You're interested in working in a small team on a product with millions of users

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Similar to what Facebook does automatically [0] which was easily visible with an outage they had in 2019 [1].

[0] - https://research.fb.com/videos/automatic-alt-text-for-photos...

[1] - https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/3/20681231/facebook-outage-i...
Accessibility guidelines in the alt spec used to say "correctly describe the intended purpose of the image if the image was missing or unable to be loaded".

It would have probably been a bit more on the nose to be like "A woman of a non-white race showing our agency is capable of diversity"
The Nashville bombing and threats to critical infrastructure
Once again, that is a false equivalence.

No one imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay is a US Citizen and neither is Assange.

The US prison system is super fucked up but it is not the same as ethnic cleansing.

You are comparing apples to concentration camps.
Can you describe what it would look like to "own" land in your view? Are you suggesting people should be able to buy land in a community and then sit on it forever without contributing anything back to said community?
>the US is, I think, unique in that rich people can move downwards which doesn't happen in other places.

Which IMHO is very healthy since it creates space for the younger players to move up vs having a reign of feudalistic families owning most vital sectors of the economy for decades or even hundreds of years.
In home streaming with Parsec for me with a MoCA/Ethernet connection typically has 1-2ms of network latency. Over wifi in-home is more, closer to 20-30ms with a mediocre laptop wifi card. Playing online with my brother who lives 35 miles away using an Ethernet connection I typically see 15-25ms latency, not much worse than a 'meh' bluetooth controller. It's likely worth noting that my brother and I both have the same cable internet provider, but we also sometimes play with my brother-in-law who lives another 40 miles from me (~60 miles from my brother) and we can all play games like Streets of Rogue together from my brother's PC without issue.
No national authority has had to deal with a world-wide pandemic for the last 100 years. Treating this situation as if it were business as usual and following the normal rules may not lead to the best outcome.
You’re overthinking this.

I’m aware of people that immediately ask for social media, and rationalize it with trying to disprove infidelity or an assurance they wont get murdered, I can tell you that most people I’ve dated over the past two years did not ask for that. At this point I think there is a level of maturity involved in not asking questions you don't really want the answer to, as they too would prefer not to lead with their social media.

Its pretty much the same as introducing a date to your friends. You don't typically lead with that. YMMV.
Any ordered dithering algorithm will animate pretty smoothly, but techniques based on error diffusion will have a "swimming" effect. Lucas Pope's devlog goes into considerable detail. Here's a good starting point: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg104520...

(ETA: also the link that gruez posted. HN seems to be having some performance issues)
Recent results:

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/covid-19-china-sin...
You are missing out one relevant point: currency.

It is easy to win at exporting if you pay employees in a functionally worthless currency. Germany's trade surplus is 10% of GDP, this is roughly where China was at peak. Germany can win at exporting because: consumers are conservative and will accept large corporations milking them, and other countries in Europe are willing to let Germany export deflation to them.

It is one of the most unsustainable economic models (and the source of significant global financial instability...China's trade surplus peaked in 2008, not a coincidence) and that is before you consider the need going forward for high levels of innovation, business creation, etc.

I didn't say on earth: I managed that section, I said in the developed world. If you provide a counter-example then I will accept you are correct.
One other thing you might be able to try is to try reaching out to Google about it if it's a consistent issue. There is a contact form floating around somewhere for mail server operators to reach out to the GMail infra team about this kind of thing but IDK where it is or if they even still check it. I wouldn't put to much faith in it though, particularly considering Google's reputation wrt support.
2008 was bad because of excessive leverage. Top tech companies have little to no debt and there aren't any leveraged securities to do with ads.
This is technically true but remember that there was a long, protracted period where Brexit proponents were dissembling about what would happen. I’d expect this to happen for anyone who either believed them or thought that the obvious risks would cause people to stop playing politics and come up with a better plan. It’s not reasonable to expect every business, large or small, to have developed a range of contingency plans.
I went through a similar change then found the Mac Outlook client and have been using it for months. I had forgotten how great a stand-alone email app is.

I had hated Windows outlook for so long, I forgot that client apps can be good.

Here’s what I like:
1)
cmd+tab for quick switching between email and other stuff
2)
faster search using local storage (although I think this could be done in browser)
3)
Persistent login not affected by browser state/cookie/whatnot
4)
Keyboard shortcuts not mixed into browser shortcuts
5) speed

I think 4-5 could theoretically be fixed eventually in a browser app. But every single native wrapper over browser has had so much bloat that I suspect it won’t happen.

I also really like the native Mac mail app, but can’t use it with some email accounts due to security settings.
> Argentina asked Switzerland to extradite Jean Bernard Lasnaud

That's Argentina asking Switzerland to extradite a French citizen to Argentina for crimes committed under Argentinian law. The article does not say that France was asked for their opinion or permission.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Warmbier

That's the US asking North Korea to release a US citizen jailed there for a crime against North Korean law. Extradition does not enter the picture at all.
Are you aware of any OpenTTD-like projects for SC4? If EA won't play ball that seems like pretty much the last option left.
http://www.effectgames.com/demos/worlds/

http://www.markferrari.com/

....

I recall a recent kick-starter-type blog post about a work-in-progress game with huge 2d side scrolling dither art - can't find the link but :(
“At Noon on the 20th Day of January”: Contested Elections in American History
Though to pinpoint an exact issue, but i'd say that the return to work from a holiday weekend exacerbated whatever problem exists.
> Look for data on this and you’ll learn the opposite.

I looked at the data and stand by my assessment.

> Teaching requires a master’s degree in most cases

It does not. Most teachers get masters degree because pay schedule pays extra for master degree holders. Master degrees are less prevalent in private schools, because private schools are not typically so dumb to have rigid pay schedules that pay extra for degrees, regardless of whether these degrees are actually useful.

> that’s only getting you pay in the $40-50k range

That’s already above median wage. It’s slightly below median wage of all workers with a university degree, but once you take into account hours actually worked and non-wage benefits, this is actually significantly above average pay of workers with university degrees.

> A popular propaganda claim is that teachers work fewer hours based on the hope that reader doesn’t know teaching includes more than direct instructional time.

A popular propaganda claim is also that non-instructional time is a lot. It might be for some teachers, especially younger ones fresh into their careers who need more time to prepare for their classes. The non-instructional work sometimes is also pretty concentrated, making some weeks very busy and requiring hard work in those. However, most weeks are not busy, and most teachers do not spend more than a handful of hours each week on non-teaching work.
an indictment that so many people who should know better, still use a tainted and non-benign product.
This is a common criticism of teacher unions in the USA [0]. They donate dues money to left-leaning political causes against the wishes of many of their members. In a union shop, dues-paying employees have no choice in the matter. It is compelled political speech.

I expect this will be a big issue in tech unions also.

[0] https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2019/10/16/opinion...
Brexit is the best modern argument against Democracy. It's literally the beloved British saying of cutting off the nose to spite the face.

Edit: I mean if someone was arguing against Democracy, this would be one of their best arguments to support their position.

I am not arguing against Democracy. I hope I don’t get misunderstood.
The most convenient API for ray tracing is now provided by Diligent Engine
I am currently using Manjaro Linux with KDE Plasma as dekstop environment. It runs flawlessly on my laptop.
That theory makes sense, though it's unfortunate, IMHO. Personally, I'd prefer for comments to rank higher based on quality (irrespective of which way they lean) than hivemind inclinations. Seek well-roundedness and all that.
The US Gov has struggled to hire millennials for some time. My guess is this is to try to appeal to the younger generations
One thing that's been brought up in the past is that prior to this pandemic-driven WFH present (and probably is still true) is that secondary and satellite offices tend to not have limited openings or paths towards advancement. While a union might not be the best tool for the job, that seems like the sort of thing that organized employee opinion can try to influence. Maybe a lot of workers want to live and work in Austin, and management needs to invest more in the satellite office there, allow more career development opportunities, etc. This industry often seems to led by hidebound opinions that the rank-and-file often disagrees with. Fixation on Bay Area HQs, along with rejection of WFH and obsession with open offices, are examples of such policies which are seemingly only changed by something drastic as the threat of unionization- or more realistically- a worldwide pandemic.
It would be wonderful to have a BTC bank account with an insurance policy denominated in BTC, but that doesn't exist yet (AFAIK). Until then... Not your keys not your coins.

Also, you don't need to store them on your PC. There are also paper wallets, hardware wallets, or you could put your wallet files on a flash drive.

> I'm just happy what I was wise enough not to put more money in bitcoin than I could afford to lose.

That should be the default for ~any investment.
AMD's desktop CPU share passes Intel's for first time in 15 years
IMO it really doesn't have to be promotion-eager engineers or antsy product managers. I'm fairly satisfied with my role and comp and work type with where my career/life-stage is. I just did a code release first thing this morning, not because I am promotion-eager, but just because I'm picking back up where I left off, like any normal day. Granted I work at a much smaller company than Slack with orders of magnitude less traffic.
The USD also has the full backing and power of the largest military on the face of the planet. It will last as long as that empire does.
BTC now is only 0.6T. When it approaches M3 money supply, expect an attempted government action. Whether it's successful or not, is a separate question: it would have to be coordinated across G20 to be "successful".
SimCity 2000 was my thing back when I was 10. I got SimCity 4 shortly after release, but I didn't like it because it was too complicated.

I'd rather have something like 2000 instead of 4.