skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like you're on the path to burn out and finding reasons to justify it.

Take a look at this talk from John Willis, which covers the topic in a unique way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E84vWVJyi30

Separately, the premise of the topic is a little unclear. You don't really state what you do, what industry you're in, what your ambitions are (beyond a monetary figure,) etc. so you won't get much advice on advancing yourself.
Hugh Hefner, iconic founder of Playboy, has died at age 91
BTW, several of the core Pony people are working for Wallaroo labs. The fork sounds temporary, and this is probably a good thing for those following Pony.
NGINX as a WebSocket Proxy
What is LE in this context?
I lifted it from this: https://twitter.com/twitkeels/status/860158814900953089
Law Enforcement
Maybe it doesn't help that different countries do have different colors. In the US it seems the veer more toward the yellow end (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=us+traffic+light&t=chakra&iar=imag...) but in Australia the seem more orange (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=australian+traffic+light&t=chakra&...).
Who said anything about saving in the US to spend in India? Saving in the Bay Area to spend in rural Montana is an equally valid comparison, cost-of-living wise.

The point I was making is that some things cost the same no matter where you live. The Indian dentist who wants to take a foreign vacation, buy an iPhone, or a car needs to spend more, relative to her income, than the American dentist. Purchasing power only holds for things that are labor-bound (mainly services, and goods that are labor-intensive to manufacture) rather than resource-bound.
Confirm what exactly? That they as a company prioritize privacy in the design process? Or the technical aspects, such as FaceID/TouchID data not being uploaded, or selling user data to third-parties?
The Internet of Sovereignty
http://www.playboy.com/

SFW as of now
App store policies mostly, such no browser engine except Safari, no replacing functionality offered by a built in app (is that still one? It was for quite a while), etc.

There are policies that empower the user, such as making applications subscribe to specific security permission sets and notifying the user what those are, and there are policies that restrict the user, such as only allowing signed applications delivered through their own app store. To my mind, Apple is much more willing to restrict their users for what they see as their own good, as well as for Apple's profit. Android isn't perfect in this regard either, but it's better (at least for a lot of brands, which allow third party applications if you jump through the right hoops).
That point is where VS Code is strong. These extensions are made by the VS Code team itself. Apart from that, AFAIK these plugins are not installed as binary but source code. They have transparency at least.
flagged due to autoplay and really utterly offensively crap journalism
In the UK it's actually a different color though. Their center lights are a light orange that, as an American, I wouldn't hesitate to call amber.
Some discussion of the FaceID white paper began ~12 hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15349372
Warrants aren’t always required. Also, lack of a warrant just means the direct evidence they gather won’t be admissible, but it might lead them to new evidence. Also, it’s not just the police one needs worry about.
ARSE: Australian Research and Space Exploration [UPDATE: UNOFFICIAL/JOKE]
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the reduction of Fed stimulus - reduction of quantitative easing as well as low inflation rate. It's not just grains that have slumped -- almost every major commodity is down from its 5 year high.
We may never know for sure but at Apple's scale the cost of getting caught lying is just too high.
for "browsing" you'd have a browser app along the lines of patchwork[0], might even be patchwork actually since we use the same core tech. i don't think they need to be the same thing, personally.

[0]: https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork/releases
I like that the company which takes users' privacy interests seriously exists, and I am more than willing to pay for it. Unfortunately, they don't have their own search engine and social network.
At this point I wonder if it would make more sense to fly into the Dominican Republic and then take a boat.
In the examples in the article, do you find the second example for 的 legible (figure 5)? Or either of the characters in figure 7 - without being primed, would you know what characters they were meant to be?

I once worked with a paediatric neurologist whose handwriting was so bad, even he couldn't read it. We had a patient with a referral from him which we couldn't read, took it down the hall to him... he scrunched up his face... and gave up reading it: "Well, I know the patient, and they need...". Absolutely lovely bloke, but I'd hate to get a referral from him without being able to talk to him :)
> Absolutely useless unless you enable ten-attempt wipe, which is disabled by default.

Why? Apple does increasing timeouts on password attempts no matter what; is that not enough?
> We guarantee type and memory safety by introducing a
new exception (DanglingReferenceException) with the
following semantics: a dereference to a deleted object
will either succeed as if that very object was not yet
deleted, or result in a DanglingReferenceException.

I would worry about what might happen in a variable-sized object reuse/freelist type scheme combined with this allocator. A dangling reference might not contain garbage that allows an attacker to control program flow, while still containing data that is exploitable in other ways.

So this is not an entirely safe way to do things. Arguably it would be worth the speedup. But many of the techniques for making this approach safe . . .

> such exceptions can be detected with the combination of rigorous testing and support in the allocator for a debug mode that enforces stronger semantics (i.e. exceptions on every dereference to a deleted object) at a higher cost

. . . can also be used to test C++. For example, we use https://github.com/google/sanitizers a lot at the office to detect these sorts of errors.

Still, an interesting and clever result. Nicely done!
I recently read an interesting comparison:

Apple is a product company first, and a services company second is supported by having privacy support their core product business. Companies like Google are a service company first, and a product company second. The information is the business.

It's a struggle still, to reconcile this strong statement from Apple with how often Macbooks call home.
I have known some pretty terrible dentists and they still make a crap ton of money or just rip people off. There isn't some universal truth associated with the amount of money you make and how good you are at your job. This is the entire problem with the medical industry in the United States. For the most part you can look for recommendations, reviews, and find the right physician; for other cases where options are limited or this isn't available you don't have much you can do but be ripped off or suffer from poor service when it happens. Usually poor service and being ripped off tend to go hand in hand. It's obviously not always like this, but there are conditions where you have little choice
A lot of it comes down to the fact that this isn't engineering, and we aren't engineers.[0] The field has a very low barrier to entry (much lower than a bachelors degree). The standards are low, the expectations are low, and there's a strong anti-intellectualism streak. Don't believe me? try talking about "esoteric" stuff like category theory, logic programming, LISP or writing functional specs. At the workplace most of your fellow professionals will stare at you blankly, and even on self-selected places like here or proggit, half the people will rush to dismiss it.

There aren't - as an example - mechanical engineering "bootcamps" because mechanical engineering is an actual engineering field, with high standards, real accreditation, and professionalism. We don't have that, we have middle aged men giving talks in t-shirts and saying stuff like "ninja" and "awesome".

I think we need to face up and rectify the fact that we aren't engineering before we can advance. And yes this requires excluding people who aren't up to standards. We're not the equivalent of chemical engineers - we're the equivalent of alchemists.

[0] with the Caveat that stuff done in Avionics, or Medical Imaging, or anything else with very high standards and rigorous processes could probably be called that.
What did he do to obtain that position? Start the company?

Can you take the same risks?

If you can’t, what sacrifices now would let you take that same risk in a few years? Are those sacrifices worthwhile?

If they aren’t worthwhile, then whether he makes 0.9x, 90x, or 900x your income isn’t relevant - you and he have different situations, even if your workloads are similar now. In that case, if you’re happy otherwise, great, stay. If you’re not, leave. Don’t do it because someone with different skills and risk tolerance makes way more - or way less - than you, though.
Japanese people often use the word for blue to refer to the green traffic signal: 青い信号. They also use it to refer to greenery: 青葉. I’ve heard some explanations, but I still don’t really understand it. Maybe someone else knows why?
I may not be up to date on Apple's stance but last I read it, I thought their privacy policy basically said "we record whatever we want, and use it how we want" (maybe with a "but we won't sell it" clause)?

I feel there's some very careful wording in the OP which blurs the lines between "we care about protecting your privacy from everyone, including us" and "we care about protecting your privacy from everyone, except us". I don't have time right now to do another deep dive through their legal documents but this is the kind of thing large data-driven companies do to keep their customers feeling good while they go about collecting data as always.
The total amount of verbosity honestly felt like the author was trying to superficially pad the article... It's an interesting topic, but I couldn't bear to read it any more. I had to check the comments to see if anyone else was put off by the writing style.
Hugh Hefner dead at 91
Sure, much like a the elite ruling class of any society. How many slaves (or near slaves) made your clothes? Picked your food? Built your computer? Recycled your old computer? What about the garbage man? Postman? Janitor? Teachers?

What is it doing to the environment to make your car? How about the electricity you use? How about the plastics/nylon in your clothes, shoes, food packaging, etc?

How about your children? What air will they breath? Water will they drink? How much more contaminated will the environment be? How many estrogen mimics will there be?

Keep in mind that the current bushmen are basically working half time jobs, are quite healthy (measuring blood values, percent fat, aerobic capacity, etc) AND they are living on extremely marginal land after been pushed out of more desirable land by cities and agriculture. If they weren't forced off the good land their quality of life would be even better.

A planet full of similar nomads (at their normal density) would likely last a billion years on the planet. Not sure the current society will last 200 years, and I'm afraid my kid is going to have a WAY tougher time of things than I had.

Sure it's great to be in the top few %, getting great health care, making over $100k, and not really having a serious unmet need. This however requires legions of poor working all over the planet and destroying it.
The app store policies you state are no longer in force, eg:

- Chrome, Opera, and Firebox on iOS

- Google Maps, Waze on iOS (and others)

Restrictions that empower users on iOS ultimately restrict developers. That is an essential power balance "problem". Which side one prefers sure says a lot about that person ;-)
Few admit it, but this guy's taste in women has had a profound impact on the entire entertainment industry. LA as a city of busty blondes ... that's all down to hef. Compare his girls to the rail-thin girls in the fashion houses of NY or europe.

And before we scream about his clubs and the mag degrading women, look up the interviews with girls who worked in such places before playboy. Hef cleaned up an industry that badly needed cleaning. Imho the porn industry today is in need of a new hef, one to clean up the websites that are treating girls like cattle, paying them nothing over dramaticly shorter careers. Sadly he stepped asside and never really participated in the internet scene.
Model-based design has been the wet dream of software managers looking to eliminate costly, finicky programmers for what? Decades now? I remember when I was a college student being told that eventually, the work products of software architects would be UML diagrams that could be turned into code by a simple turn of the crank on an automated generating tool. I didn't buy it then and I sure don't buy it now. The reason why is because once you specify models with sufficient granularity to be automatically turned into code, the graphical symbols in your modelling language become isomorphic to keywords in some programming language, and your programmer-replacing code generator becomes a compiler.

As for Bret Victor... Programming is hard because you are trying to reason about not just the future of a dynamic process, but all possible futures of that dynamic process. That's way too much information to be represented in a visual manner for all but the simplest of systems, and it's why visual programming tools have been met with spectacular failure outside of constrained niches (e.g., LabVIEW, Max and its relatives).
Thank you for this explanation. Do you know why 3 solar masses were converted into gravitational energy? (31+25-3=53) What kinds of black holes collisions convert more or less mass?

Is there a rule of thumb one can give to predict this, for 31 and 25 solar mass black holes? Is there a limit that we expect (e.g., 2 <= mass lost <= 5), or could it go up to 31+25-56=0?
rotenone is no longer certified in america as a pesticide [other than to kill fish]. May seem like nit, but it was a very dangerous pesticide and citing it as an organic pesticide might incorrectly lead to the conclusion that organic pesticides are not safer.
There is no major credit card company in the US that doesn't have a $0 liability policy.
"You can easily secure your devices with a six-digit passcode, which is very tough to crack since there are a million possible combinations." ... rofl
> no replacing functionality offered by a built in app (is that still one?

Not App Store policy, but can’t change the app handling the functionality at least for the main one I care about Maps.
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> The app store policies you state are no longer in force, eg: - Chrome, Opera, and Firebox on iOS

On iOS, any "third-party" browser is just a wrapper around Apple's rendering engine.
If there was one guy that lived life to it's fullest. This was the guy.
At first I thought this would have a lot of overlap with Facebook's folly[0], but after glancing at the internal packages, Abseil looks lower level: it provides alternatives to STL types with shims for older compilers.

It's interesting to see more and more Google internals being open sourced. It's like Blaze being released as Bazel[1] opened the flood gates for many other projects to be shared. Can any Googlers speak to how these projects are synchronized with the internal monorepo?

[0]: https://github.com/facebook/folly

[1]: https://bazel.build
Idk why this guy is somewhat admired in the US. He seems like the epitome of sleaziness and bad taste.
I am consistently unable to guess which obituaries will show up on HN.
Law Enforcement would be my guess in this context. I did have to think a bit to come up with this though.
Documenation Driven Development (DDD)
More and more I'm writing high level pseudo-code, and planning ahead, before diving in. When I'm done, I basically have a to-do list and a good chance of not painting myself into a corner, which would otherwise happen way too often.
The issue isn't that keystrokes are sent to bing, the article says they are sent to other sites other than bing. That is a legit security issue
Compared with the competition, they have little motive for not following through. Their business model doesn't rely on data collection, data redistribution or advertising whereas much of their competition does. Google gives data to other parties for income and so they would have little ground to make such promises. Instead, Apple's profits generally come from a hardware business with large margins thanks to outsourced overseas slave labor. Also, they have held their ground against heated government requests in the past.
How to Delete Everything on iPhone Before Reselling?
Bret Victor is like an "all-mouth-and-no-trousers" version of Alan Kay. And many of his talks recapitulate work that Kay and Ingalls did in Smalltalk and Squeak in their various forms. His sexy presentations very closely resemble the "Active Essays" that got promulgated in the Squeak project in the 90s.
Indeed. Are there reproducible builds of open source software and firmware in iOS?

It is my impression that it is still closed-source.
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Sense-Quantum-Mechanics-Bricmo...

$55 to buy, $30 to rent.
He championed civil and gay rights.
>>good luck trying to retire as a welder or car mechanic making $50k

I know a few people here in India who as cooks and welders have retired early. You have to ruthlessly put your interests on the top. Things like frugality etc, are qualifying conditions. But the necessary conditions are keeping an endless watch on your income, learning new skills and to a degree being able to move on from your jobs to ones that pay well.

That also involves doing things like getting into renting, and squatting useful real estate by buying way in advance and having others pay for your investments later.

In short you need to consider your financial interests as the only things that matter, and do what it takes. More often than not, it will usually create a situation where you trample on others along the way.
If I recall correctly isn't tire pressure monitoring done through wireless communications (on newish models) as well? Seems like another possible tracking vector, as there are likely unique identifiers. That said, I can't really speculate as to whether a tower like that would be a suitable means to collect that info... Oh well, there are really just so many ways you can theoretically (or practically) be tracked these days.
> Hang on. Sure, all engineering has hurdles. But how many engineering projects face regular enemy action? The last time somebody actively tried to compromise a system I was building was two weeks ago. How many engineers live like that?

I don't think that's a good analogy. Engineers might claim we have it easy because we don't have to face earthquakes or electrical surges or birds flying into our turbines.
> do you find the second example for 的 legible (figure 5)?

Yes. All of the 的 examples are clearly 的 that I'd get without being primed.

Figure 7 is more tricky but I'd know 五 without being primed, and 王 definitely after being primed or if I was reading handwriting that had more context.
Comparing that with https://google.com/privacy/ ... Of course it collects much more data than Apple, but I like Google's organization of this information too. All important things are clearly and carefully written down with options to change them near each of them. (Sure, you can't permanently stop data collection with any option yet :) )
Heck of a marketing site to sell pricey t-shirts.
A time when the French aristocracy was obsessed with face stickers
Having built VR/AR applications for a long time, I have seen a lot of folks struggle to get into the industry and it does take time and a lot of perseverance. The most successful common route I have done and seen others do, are based on strength of portfolio examples:

For media agencies you will usually need two examples of a product configurator e.g car you can change colors, materials etc and a basic game example is a bonus.

For training organisations you will need a basic part task trainer e.g. dissassemble/assembly a complex part or piece of equipment and step through each part task

For engineering design viz - start with a complex piece of CAD data, optimize it and show in both desktop and VR - and had a good demo quirk - such as interactive annotations or highlighting sequences etc and be prepared to be able to talk through the how you made it steps at each point (especially the optimization from CAD stage)

For architectural viz - a real time walk through showing off lighting and shader capabilities and interactive walk through where you click on things to get more info.

For data visualization - obviously a data visualization example doing this well is harder than it first appears but see http://bit.ly/2yb5ZvC for inspiration.

Build which ever example of the above is closest to the type of work you want to do, then create a portfolio website showing off your examples so you can send prospects a link to see a video of your work.

Then use linkedin and google to find your target companies in the area you want to work. For example look for -

Marketing - Media director / producer in a media agency, also do a search for '3D, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality solutions for businesses' that will find a lot of the specialized contractors

Training Organisation - Head of training in a defense contractors/equipment manufacturers / industrial training organisations

Engineering Design - Design Visualization Manager in product manufacturer of your choice e.g. Automotive, Aerospace, industrial equipment etc.

Arch Viz - specialist architectural Viz firms or very big architecture firms (who have arch viz in house)

Data Viz - do a linkedin and google search for Interactive data visualization exhibits - it will find a good cross section of those working in this area

Then its like any sales - cold contact and its a numbers game till you get interest.

Last but not least a number of agencies use places like UpWork and remoteok to find contractors. A couple of such projects done at a lower cost can help you get experience when you start out and can help make a resume and portfolio standout as you go for bigger gigs.

Good luck!
There is not, but we hope that those who can check would have reported if it were otherwise. They certainly do for other products, and many of them rely on iOS these days over android for this reason, so I think it's safe to say if these features aren't up-to-snuff someone will check and find out.

Like another said: At this scale Apple can't afford to be lying here.
We used to have a poll in a forum once a year where we "bet" on which celebrities were going to die that year.

To be honest I was pretty bad at it because I can't even remember which ones are alive.
I suppose we don't really know, but I'd argue it's in their best business interest. No other major tech company seems interested and/or able to offer privacy, and Apple is well positioned to. It's a major competitive advantage.
Honestly on verge of switching, despite my deep disdain for the locked down walled garden. Hopefully their privacy stance is a raging success and catches on to every other service that I only minimally use due to the 'surveillance chill' effect. (..goes back to tracking my users)

If only it wasn't for that fscking no headphone jack..
I guess nice of him to meet the lowest bar.
Ubuntu dropping 32-bit desktop images
Just because you want to work forever doesn’t mean you will have the opportunity to. There are plenty of 50 year olds who unexpectedly find themselves out of work and unhireable.
RIP sweet prince.
I am remember watching the documentary about him 6 months ago. It was an Amazon original show. I was really impressed. RIP

I recommend you to watch it if you got prime.