skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HN generally really supports Apple products and the company, but cynical old me can't possibly believe some monstrously powerful for-profit corporation could ever make customer freedoms a primary goal. My gut tells me Apple are taking this stance because they feel it affects their bottom line somehow (perhaps they want to project an image of being customer friendly?)

I don't want to be unfair towards Apple, I think large corporations inherently lack empathy for customers and primarily focus on their bottom lines as a consequence of their ownership and structure. It's just very concerning to see people become emotionally attached to corporations or products partly because of stances like these, when I'm fairly certain those stances aren't completely sincere.
As I said, if it were only this site, it'd be fine. But it's the entire frickin' Internet at this point. Almost every single browser experience is entering a world of nagging or shameless selling.
That's looking at his life through a current day PC culture lens... he was the epitome of class and cool in his day, and definitely did his share of fighting for civil rights. He probably could have aged out more gracefully, but he was a product of his times and rich... meh. Even in his older age, he lived perhaps a bit sleazy, but in a "like you wouldn't do the same thing with that kind of money and status" sort of way, if we're all being entirely honest with ourselves.
The tribute at playboy.com (SWF as of now) just needs a bit of vaporwave.

Rip HH
The midwest senate seats are powerful and much easier to influence.
It wasn't the lowest bar in the 50s and 60s.
If you are looking for tech events you can use https://techevents.co/ aggregator. Right now it collects events from Meetup, Eventbrite, Lanyrd, Facebook, and shows in one place by providing easy search and ordering by attendees count to be able to see popular events.

Full disclosure: I'm the creator of TechEvents.co
I still see those sentiments frequently, even posted non-ironically and even on HN. It baffles me. People don't seem to value their rights, especially if they aren't using them. What many don't seem to realize is that the loss of liberties may impact them when they do decide to use them.

They may not feel like they need privacy now, but what about what they do becomes taboo? Rights need to protect even the worst among us, and they are eroded by using the worst among us as examples.

I don't really have anything to hide from the government, but I damned sure support the 4th. Some day, I might want to hide something and be secure in my person and papers. I don't like most criminal activity and I don't like terrorists, but I really don't want them being used as an excuse to erode my rights.
So what is up and coming compared to ML?
I have both a question and a comment. I got my license (Technician and General on the same day) about a year ago. I have not once pressed transmit on a radio. I guess I don't know where to start. If you have any advice I would like to hear it.

Anyone with an EE background should be able to study up on https://hamstudy.org/ for a few hours a night for a week and pass without trouble.
The controversy was not about nothing. Lots of professional users did not upgrade because they were not happy with the new offering.
I know how they work and that they exist. However, I use cash as little as possible, and really don't need a cash substitute. The few times I use cash it is for small consumable purchases and things paid with a few quarters. No need for the waiting for a bitcoin transaction to clear.

There are people that prefer cash. Of those people, a large portion of them are old or luddites/anti-tech (I actually don't mean this pejoratively as I sympathize with this view), but these people probably won't be too keen on Bitcoin as a replacement. The other portion are those seemingly like yourself that are all embracing of alternative payment methods or basically e-gold. That's great, but you are a niche bunch and I assume a pretty self-selected group.

The mainstream wants convenient credit with decent consumer protections for the many advantages it brings to their boring, mainstream life. This is not ignorance.

My credit cards give me extended warranties, travel protection. I just got a courtesy credit for a purchase well outside the return window, and I just was reimbursed a few hundred bucks for a computer that failed out of warranty. Meanwhile, I have had to call the credit card company once in 5 years for an unauthorized $200 charge. And no, I was not liable for a penny of it. I don't know where you keep getting off on this $50 stuff, but it's complete nonsense. No one ever pays $50 in practice. And most cards the window is 90 days for a dispute.
There are blurred nude women in the background, but it's more or less SFW.
I think OP was criticizing whose death deserves being noticed VS your bet about who may die.
It seems eccentric but harmless to ask that people use non-gendered pronouns, but when other people respect that, it is almost certainly not because they now believe that you are somehow not male.
Can you imagine the courage of a young Hugh Hefner? What if there was a new kind of gentleman's lifestyle magazine? With best in class reporting, editorials, interviews, fashion and accessory coverage. And two to three pictorials of totally nude babes. But even those would be of the highest quality, with concern to the art, and the presentation. It wasn't ever smut, it was always ever art, with the level of care and attention to detail at every level of the magazine.

Even today, it's outrageous to suggest I'm going to start a new venture featuring nude pictorials, because you're immediately thrown in to the Internet porn category. Your pictorials can't be shared on Facebook. You're immediately banned from entire countries for syndication because of nipples.

But Hugh had a vision, and he stuck to his guns with his idea. Playboy and the Bunny logo are inseparable parts of popular culture and American history, now. Hopefully, forever.

God bless you, Hugh Hefner, for what you did for art, expression, and freedom of speech. May you rest in peace.
Didn't read the article yet, but this is relevant to the discussion.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk
I suspect the URL will make some proxies squirm tho
The lines aren't blurred at all. In fact, they even explicitly say that the data they do collect is anonymous and used to find patterns in usage etc. not to sell or do other nefarious things with.
> My gut tells me Apple are taking this stance because they feel it directly affects their bottom line.

That's a feature not a bug! This means that Apple thinks a core of well-paying customers view privacy as very important and are willing to pay for it.
The domain is not .gov.au.

The PayPal account is in the name of Illinbah Group Trust & Tripp Group Trust t/a Constant Supply.

The domain registrant is The Trustee For Illinbah Group Trust & The Trustee for Tripp Group Trust, ABN 71788990122.

https://abr.business.gov.au/SearchByAbn.aspx?SearchText=7178... indicates that business has traded under names such as “NICE GARRY”.

Need I add more?
What's the funny part?
Ubisoft partnering with Google for hieroglyphics translation project
Cool, look forward to it, and definitely ping me when you've got it ready.

And you're welcome! I probably spend a bit too much more time answering questions than I really should, but hopefully it's helpful :)
Why does art need to be so obsessed with boobs? I can see them being present, but why focus on them so much if it's about art, fashion, and other non-boob things?
Hugh Hefner didn't invent the look of women movie stars of the 40s and 50s, pin-up girls of the era, etc. And you can google your way to Steinem's A Bunny's Tale (written 50 odd years ago) about the good times to be had working in a Playboy club.
For search: DuckDuckGo.

For social, well I use twitter and simply don't provide extra details like date of birth etc, but it probably depends what your goal is with a social network?
I'm far from pc culture.

> like you wouldn't do the same thing with that kind of money and status" sort of way, if we're all being entirely honest with ourselves

I would not no, BTW.
I think that, here at least, it is well understood that there is a financial motive, and not altruism, that motivates Apple to take this stance.

Given the current state of affairs, I'll take it. We can argue the philosophy aspect with them after the war, for now they are an ally.

I don't use an iPhone, but I could use a new iPad. I'll throw a few bucks at them and I think my daughter would like one of the new laptops. I'll find out what she wants and have one shipped to her.

It's working as intended for Apple, but I'm willing to financially support behavior I agree with. If asked why I made the purchases, at any official site during the order process, I'll be sure to let them know my reasoning.
If you are paranoid you can choose your own random seed when initializing the wallet.
There was no flash on the page when I loaded it.
In discussions of new nuclear technology, it's always a good idea to keep in mind the famous Paper Reactors Real Reactors document written by the architect of the worlds most successful nuclear power program.

http://ecolo.org/documents/documents_in_english/Rickover.pdf
cant tell if serious or
In my view, Apple has been slow to make iOS more flexible and less restrictive. I'm hoping that some of the above limitations would be removed in some way in another few years.

Allowing a third party app to be set as default for some function could be done right now, but Apple doesn't seem to think it has any incentive to do so. I'm not expecting that change anytime soon, or ever.

Some other changes will be done in a methodical way without compromising on the app sandbox and other restrictions placed on apps to maintain privacy and security (if not enhance them). I'm guessing third party browsers with their own engines could come to iOS within a few years.

Some other limitations, like allowing apps from a non-App Store sources (except the Xcode side loading available now, for which a Mac is required), would never be lifted.
Google is an ad network company first and foremost and anything else a long way behind.
I'm far from understanding exactly what you find so sleazy about him then?
I'm sure if you were alive in the 1700s you'd be championing anti slavery, women's right to vote, etc right?
That's a great looking landing page, though I think it's another example of the stark contrast between Apple and Google in regards to privacy. Apple's page begins with "we believe privacy is a fundamental human right". Google starts with the headline "Every day, data makes our services work better for you", followed by, "That's why it's important we keep it private and safe".

That said, I really do love the data "takeout" feature. But my guess is that most people don't know about it. I once tweeted something innocuous and nerdy about the JSON format used and I got a ton of response, most of which was surprise/shock that this data was collected at all: https://twitter.com/dancow/status/849111902961532929

(Then again, I still remember when Steve Jobs was flat-out defiant that iOS was collecting/storing user geolocation data, even when the SQLite database was easily discoverable: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/technology/28apple.html)
UK metal detector enthusiast finds ancient Roman bronze artefacts
It's probably not correct to say the stance is insincere. If it is purely profit motivated, then it would be quite sincere of Apple to say they care about privacy, in the same way it's sincere of them to say they care about quality. They may or may not care about the quality intrinsically, but they certainly care that it allows them to charge more for their product.

So long as there's a disincentive to lie about privacy, caring about it for profit reasons is still caring about it. Since privacy is trust based, destroying that trust would destroy a large chunk of the perceived value of the products.
Gravitational waves redshift in an expanding universe, so as they propagate out to lightlike infinity, their wavelengths stretch so much that there is no hope of detecting them.

In a flat universe, they go out to lightlike infinity without redshifting, but with the amplitude falling off 1/r rather than the 1/r^2 of light. Eventually they become too weak to be detected unless we can detect a single graviton of a particular frequency (which is going to be unimaginably difficult technologically).

> can GWs hit the edge of the universe?

This is an excellent question! Neither of the above types of universe has an edge; there is a lightlike infinity that electromagnetic and gravitational waves head towards. What's there? Who knows! For all practical purposes, these waves just depart from us and everything we can see, never to return.

We can have an edge to a universe that is contracting rather than expanding, or one that eventually contracts.

This is really hard to think about and I had to look around, and found http://jetp.ac.ru/cgi-bin/dn/e_042_06_0943.pdf [I sadly have had almost no previous exposure to the authors, and somewhat regret it; this paper is from the "Third Soviet Gravitational Conference" in 1972. Wow!]

It will take more time to digest it than is reasonable for a real response, but section 3 is relevant for a universe that is like ours in most ways except that it won't expand forever but rather will eventually collapse. However, essentially (and this matches my intuition), for a typical source the gravitational waves will radiate outwards from the source, slow down, and come back. Depending some choices of Friedmann parameters, they could even return as convergent waves focusing on whatever moved purely timelike from the source (e.g. the remnant of the merger) during the GWs lightlike journey; more likely they'd smear out in a larger region; and possibly they might not actually converge (or smear into the same general region) until very near the future singularity having undergone gravitational blueshifting. After converging they'd depart, and rapidly get lost in nonlinearities. This is not super-different from ripples on a pool that spread out, bounce back and lose structure.

This also raises the question of what significantly blueshifted gravitational waves might do. Drag matter a bit faster towards the future singularity is my guess. It also raises questions about constructive interference, but in that direction lies strong gravity, and there's not going to be an answer to those questions in the linearized gravity that we use to model gravitational waves.

I answered some of your other questions in other comments on this thread, I think. If not, ask again!
Umm, maybe because people love them?
Earth Had Life from Its Infancy
You won't see this from Google or Facebook or Twitter or...
Looks like the sort of operation that tries to capitalise on the meme of the day for a quick buck. 'Nice Garry' was a bit of a meme in Australian sport at the start of the year[0], and this group registered it as their business name in January.

They also seem to be behind https://ntunofficial.com/, with the (fake) travel slogan for the Northern Territory, of "CU in the NT!"

[Edit: All this said, I would legitimately like it to be called ARSE, now that I've seen it.. exploring the galaxy, in true Australian style - ARSE first.]

[0]: http://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/moment-lyon-knew-nice-g...
Depends where I would have been born. In which countries in 1700s did anyone have right to vote.
Because the human form is the most beautiful thing you're ever going to see.
>>Plans like this just seem downright dangerous to me.

Retirement doesn't mean one sleeps 15 hours a day. It generally means one doesn't care much about the day to day financial demands of life and does what he/she always wanted to do.

If you give these $50K/yr people $400K at the age of 37, these people will very likely go on to a lot of other important things which can help them make more money.
I would say technician to general isn't such a big leap. Extra felt like it was a big leap - targeted at electrical engineers. I did all 3 in one day - was trying to prove something to myself I guess. If you're technical and are interested in the subject it'll just take you a few hours to get general and HF so so much fun!!
Someday I should write up how that was done in modern terminology. You can read the "Number 5 Crossbar" documents, but the terminology is archaic.[1]

Crossbar offices consisted of a dumb switching fabric and lots of microservices. The switching fabric did the actual connecting, but it was told what to connect by other hardware. Each microservice was implemented on special-purpose hardware, and there were always at least two units of each type. Any unit of a type could do the job, and units of a type were used in rotation.

Microservice units included "originating registers", which parsed dial digits, "markers", which took parsed dial digits and routed calls through the switch fabric,
"senders", which transmitted dial digits to other exchanges for inter-exchange calls, "incoming registers", which received dial digits from other exchanges, and "translators", which looked up routing info from read-only memory devices. There were also trouble recorders, billing recorders, trouble alarms, and other auxiliary services.

Every service unit had a hardware time limit. If a unit took longer than the allowed worst case time, the unit got a hard reset, and a trouble event was logged. This prevented system hangs.

Failures of part of the switching fabric could only take down a few lines. Failures of one microservice unit of a group just slowed the system down. Retry policy was "try one microservice unit, if it fails, try a second one, then give up and log an error". If a retry with a different unit didn't work, further retries were unlikely to help.

All microservice units were stateless. At the end of each transaction, they went back to their ground state. So they couldn't get into a bad state. All state was in the switching fabric.

All microservice units were replaceable and hot-pluggable, so maintenance didn't require downtime.

This architecture was very robust in practice. It's worth knowing about today.

[1] http://etler.com/docs/Crossbar/
I was interested, so I searched and found "American Playboy". Is this correct?
It is for this reason that the InnoDB Adaptive Hash Index exists: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/innodb-adaptive-hash...

> Based on the observed pattern of searches, MySQL builds a hash index using a prefix of the index key. The prefix of the key can be any length, and it may be that only some of the values in the B-tree appear in the hash index. Hash indexes are built on demand for those pages of the index that are often accessed.
> If a table fits almost entirely in main memory, a hash index can speed up queries by enabling direct lookup of any element, turning the index value into a sort of pointer. InnoDB has a mechanism that monitors index searches. If InnoDB notices that queries could benefit from building a hash index, it does so automatically.

I am really excited by some of the PostgresQL developments lately.. in particular with parallel query execution. To the best of my knowledge the only place that currently exists within MySQL (or MariaDB) is MySQL Cluster.
> the police can't legally compel you

That is a very wrong statement. I don’t care if things changed a year or more ago, it doesn’t make it any less wrong now. I of course meant no offense to you, but legal statements which are wrong could easily mislead someone and the emphasis is necessary. Apologies if offense was taken!
I know the long-running joke of reading Playboy for the articles is based in truth: it really did have some great journalism. Is there a good history on how this editorial decision came about? And whether it had a noticeable impact on subscriber demographics/data, compared to Playboy's less-literary competitors?
Words for colours don't necessarily match across different languages. This page has flashcards for colours in Scottish Gaelic:

http://www.cram.com/flashcards/scottish-gaelic-basic-words-c...

Scottish Gaelic speakers share a country with English speakers, and they all also speak English, yet Gaelic colour names don't map at all well onto English colour names.
The reason I support Apple, and can be fan boyish about them, is because they very intentional make sure their customers are not their products. The make money selling devices & subscriptions, not data. Ergo, making devices more secure makes their product more attractive to consumers if anyone of them value privacy. That seems like a good setup to me.
Yes, but, you took it a bit too far.
Yes maybe. On one file. The iOS version gives access to all files after you allow it. That’s the point.
Ah, it did seem a little too silly to be real. Thanks for the sleuth work there.

I've updated the post title accordingly.
Opera gets around this by doing the rendering on their server and pushing the results to the app. This also enables them to do things like a VPN without additional software and image/page compression being done server-side, instead of using the Safari engine (blink or webkit?).

At least that is now it was very recently. As in, within the past year. I'm not sure if it has changed since. In May, they announced they were slowing development down. I haven't followed up with that.
Hugh Hefner embodied the startup spirit that HN loves. He was bold and innovative.
By any file I meant all files.
the WSJ obit could give some guidance to that.

> Mr. Hefner also paid top dollar for top-rate works of fiction and journalism, attracting iconic writers such as John Updike, Margaret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut and Ian Fleming, among many others. Beginning in 1962, Playboy began featuring monthly interviews with leading cultural and historic figures, including Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and Jimmy Carter. The quality of the work led readers to often quip, sometimes jokingly and sometimes not, that they bought the magazine for the articles—not, it was implied, for the photos.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hugh-hefner-founder-of-playboy-...
Don't know about Adobe Air, but Java Web Start was bloated, slow, ugly, with a complicated API and poor security. Perhaps this new attempt would simply have a better implementation.

Currently the most common development approach is to develop a web app, then later an iOS and Android app. So there must be a deficiency with web apps if so many companies develop a native app even when they have already developed a web app. If Android apps also ran on Windows, Mac and iOS then they would most likely dominate web apps.
This a lift from a radio club slide on propagation:

Types of Propagation

●Ionospheric waves (sky waves): Main portion of the radiation that leaves the antenna at angles above the horizon

●Tropospheric waves: Radiation kept close to the earth’s surface due to bending in the lower atmosphere (higher HF or lower VHF)

●Ground waves (surface waves): Radiation directly affected by the earth’s surface

- Earth-guided surface wave

- Vertically polarized and absorbtion increases with freq

- **Travels much further over water than over land**

So I agree it’s not the sole criteria for dxers. But they a better chance of hitting some distant stations for QSOs with propagation over water. I suspect it’s why the am stations in the Jersey swamps have their towers over water.

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I feel like if I have to explain this, you prolly won't get it.
I think that some people in the recent years only sees him as a some porno-king, while, as Larry Flint, he was a leader on a lot of conflictual subjects. Some of the interviews in Playboy are also legendary (I am thinking about the one with Larry Page & Sergey Brin, and the one with Steve Jobs).
Ask HN: People who are using Flutter in production apps, any regrets?
For choosing it over React Native?