skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe the way to go with this is to have an auditing system where third-party auditors go through the source code (with NDAs) and certify it meets $PrivacyStandards. This might be a way to appease the folks who want to keep their software proprietary and yet make sure they don't just get to do what they want. Kind of like financial audits.
As someone with a 12 inch iPad Pro, Macbook Pro, and Surface Pro tablet, I can weigh in.

A Macbook Pro is significantly more expensive than any of the other options, and frankly, I despise the redesigned MBP. The touch bar hinders my productivity, and the new keyboard tends to malfunction. The key travel is so low that the keys often get stuck. Simply put, I love Apple products, but the new MBP breaks my heart. It sucks. It's one of the worst Apple products I've ever used. Apple urgently needs to put out a new MBP based on the previous design. Get rid of the touch bar, bring back the ports, bring back Mag-Safe, and pretend this terrible laptop never happened.

The Surface Pro is interesting. It's almost useless as a tablet. I basically treat it as a very small laptop. I've tried using it without a mouse, but the Windows UI isn't designed for it. I'm constantly struggling to click on UI elements that are way too small. A lot of Windows apps are not prepared for the high DPI screen, and are insanely tiny. You pretty much need a magnifying glass to use them. As an ultra-portable laptop, it's decent. It weighs very little, and the construction quality is decent (though not as good as an iPad). The keyboard for the Surface Pro is pretty good. It's slightly flimsy, so you have to keep it on a semi-solid surface, or the keyboard can start to buckle and cause some issues. The stylus on the previous model wasn't very good, but the new one is great. It's almost as good as the Apple Pencil, which is high praise. As for development, it runs Windows. If you're a C# or Java developer then that's great, otherwise it's not so good. You can run a VM, or the Linux subsystem, but that eats into the Surface's already extremely poor battery life.

The iPad Pro (especially the full size version) is just stunning. It has the nicest screen I've ever laid eyes on. I'm not just talking about pixel density. Images pop off the screen. The whole device is really solid, and it feels great in your hands. Battery life is good, usability for daily tasks is superb. The stylus is the best in the business (I strongly prefer it over a Wacom Cintiq). Unfortunately the keyboard is a problem, and the inability to run development software is a showstopper.

So I'd say the iPad Pro is the best hardware out there, but it's hampered by software support. In my dreams, I can run Emacs, Ruby, Haskell, and all of my other development tools right on my iPad. Since that's not possible, I use a Surface Pro for Windows related development (working on a 3D indie game), and an MBP for web development.
Agreed -- if they aren't having the same _access_, it is discrimination. But once again, nothing in the study points to that.

Do you believe men don't have access to jobs in the field of nursing? On average, women outnumber men 9.5 to 1 in nursing in the US. [0]

[0] https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/human-capital-and-risk...
Bill Atkinson, maybe?
Ask HN: Maintaining Quality in a Community
These are the problems I am trying to solve...

1. Readers can find quality posts user curated content from anywhere not just behind major search giants and major platforms.

2. Written content creators keep control of their stuff but still get exposure (it is hard not having a blog on Medium) thus keeping their code, design and monetisation methods.

I’ve received great initial traction with over 800+ users in 5 days of launching on PH.

There are some great content being shared and upvoted, however the problem is from the posts so far 30% are obvious Ads or guerilla marketers. What is the best way to build the correct community for the platform?

My current thoughts:

If I just keep it growing will it sort itself out as the front-page is user curated anyway? Should I setup a karma/money system for allowing users to post based on community engagement or would that stifle engagement? Should I review each post myself? Should I make it invite only?

The platform is https://www.readory.com

Any help, feedback, criticism, or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
See also: Scott’s Cheap Flights. Daily flash ticket sales to a random place in the world.

No affiliation.
It's incredible to me that so many Americans consider free market as an ideal. They substitute compassion and cooperation with a superficial version of competition and cruelty.
> I think that's an unnecessarily hostile viewpoint. Basically your argument boils down to "some things take longer to do than other things, so there's no point in making things easier/faster/more efficient".

I think what the parent means is that there are several other reasons, and at the same time makes a case against the main argument in favor of card transactions.

Many people simply feel they don't want to give up control over their cash, over information how they spend it, and basically: how they live their lives. As history shown us, once you give up this control, it's gone forever, and here are many actors eager to take over this information, not necessarily to the benefit of the citizen.
I suspect people living in Athens may be rather upset by the assertion they don't speak Greek!

(Yes, I assume you meant ancient greek)

High School teaches tons of crap. I spent 5 years doing French, and while I remember "J'ai joue le foot" (which was a lie), that's about it, I could pick up more French in 3 months worth of weekly evening classes.

Even the French I know doesn't help - I went to a kiosk at Gare du Nord, having just got off the train from Brussels. "Je Voudrai une cafe sil-vou-plait". "Three-fifty" comes the response. Bloody French.

High School languages in the UK (and other English speaking contries) would be far better giving a smörgåsbord of the basics of French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin, and Portugese. Being able to say "Hello, good to meet you", "Thank you", "Excuse me, where are the toilets", "Could I have the bill please", understand a few phrases (tickets please etc), and have a fighting chance at reading and ordering from a menu, etc, in most countries of the world would be very beneficial. 4 years, 2 languages per year. Perhaps more important than the language specifics are the customs, even things like composting train tickets,

(Of course with translate apps, map apps, etc the menu/map problem is going away, but the customs and some language overview would go a long way - when train tickets neet composting, when tipping is required (USA), not required (most countries), and actually an insult (many far east places). Being able to recognize which toilet to go in - W or F - is helpful).

Wider cultural education would be a massive benefit to Americans in general, who on the whole don't get the chance to travel that say Brits do.
From what I've seen here in London (UK), mostly tourists use cash. Everybody else uses contactless payments. You can pay with contactless cards or apple/android pay on the public transport or on your corner grocery store.

And with the new fin-tech banks like Monzo, Starling or Revolut the banking apps are light years ahead of traditional banks.
Whenever i read a paper, i do have troubles understanding the fine details.

That one math formular which is nowhere explained? Yeah good...

I often enough, get the idea and details like results but thats it.

Those papers are not tutorials and they are not written / done to be reproduced and easy understandable. They are, in my opinion, written for other science people who spend there work time doing something similiar or need to solve the problem what the paper solves and rebuild those results in time consuming work.

Probably still better than having no paper but still way more work than just using it.

i do read "the morning paper" (https://blog.acolyer.org/) and he is really good in reevaluating papers. I'm very curious how much time he spends reading and analysing them.
I've always named mine after Red vs Blue characters.

Laptop=sheila. Desktop=tex. Server=lopez. Names are recycled when the machine is replaced.
It's almost always easy to spot deliberate cherry picking and dishonest statistics in order to come to an alarmist conclusion.

"For their study, the researchers selected five leading brands of so-called first generation e-cigarettes, which are referred to as cig-a-likes because they resemble traditional cigarettes. (Newer ones look like small cassette recorders with a mouthpiece. In the newer devices the liquid is added from a dispenser prior to use. In contrast, the liquid in first generation e-cigs is stored in the cartridge together with the coil, which increases the liquid’s exposure to the coil even in the absence of heating.) The five brands are sold across the United States in big-box retail stores, convenience stores and gas stations, as well as online. Three of the five brands constituted 71 percent of total market share in 2015. If a brand came in more than one flavor, the researchers chose one flavor for consistency’s sake."

Almost no one uses this piece of junk cig-a-likes. Try and find a person using one on the street, compared to people using proper high powered mods, which their "market share" statistic most certainly does not include.

"This study was funded by the Institute for Global Tobacco Control, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health."

Shocking.

I have yet to read a negative study that does not contain obvious blatant lies.
It IS a massive positive. The only reason you are complaining is because Musk set some super ambitious goals. But if you read the report, they are already producing as many Model 3s as Model S and S has been in production for 5 years. It is a monumental achievement for a company that only has been selling mass produced cars from 2012
I've always wondered this myself. Wouldn't travel companies want to open this information up? It seems like it would be a good use of price discrimination.
Tesla's are the largest, though, since they have largest batteries.

Tesla builds EVs, that's the only thing they sort of can do (of course they can't actually build them at profit, but that's a problem for Tesla's shareholders). Others will build EVs when they can be profitably sold, because it isn't their only business.
Brain, DeepMind and MI are mostly researchy. I know some people working on applied deep learning that got shuffled multiple times between PAs in the last year - it seems to be the solution for this exact problem.
> The quality of Model 3 coming out of production is at the highest level we have seen across all our products.

I am dumbfounded by this statement, weren't tons of images and videos of huge gaps between sections on Model 3s?

He does not even acknowledge it happened, so I cannot assume that it is meant to say that the issues were fixed.

Am I missing something? Otherwise that's incredibly misleading.
If you need a reference, you can take a look at Electroneum: https://electroneum.com/
No no, they're right, the US military is evil. Your statement is also true though.
Wow, I didn’t expect so many comments.

Thanks for the constructive ideas and discussion. I noticed that the skeptical comments fall into two broad categories:

1. I can’t do my work on an iPad because I need to use tools that don’t work on iOS. Therefore I don’t understand how anyone could use an iPad.

2. The iPad seems so obviously unsuited to software development the author must suffer from masochism, or need to prove something, or suffers from Apple fan boy disease.

I didn’t write the article to evangelize iPads for development. I described my experience using an iPad Pro for my own work, which just happens to fit pretty well with a tablet and keyboard because I work remotely on code I can’t easily run locally, and I prefer using Unix (actually Linux) as my IDE. That won’t work for everyone. Not everyone needs a pickup truck to do their job, that doesn’t mean people who don’t own a truck made a mistake or want to punish themselves.
The cash premium already exists, since you can get some of the money from each purchase back on your credit card.
Inflation has nothing to do with whether the currency is electronic. Maybe you're confusing it with cryptocurrencies? That's not what cashless means in this context - most Swedes are not paying with Bitcoin, but with electronic krona.
Found the logs! Woo-hoo!

Monday, July 1, 1996 - We got hits from: polio.yahoo.com, pilsner.yahoo.com, mead.yahoo.com, scabies.yahoo.com, ratbastard.yahoo.com, lambic.yahoo.com, stout.yahoo.com, scorpio.yahoo.com, and srinija.yahoo.com. The Wired article had already come out at that point so I must have just remembered Srinija Srinivasan's name from the article.

Later in 1996 and in early '97 we got hits from: suppository.yahoo.com, boils.yahoo.com, tuberculosis.yahoo.com, and lobo.yahoo.com.

So, I see an alcoholic beverage theme and a disease theme. Yay!
Actually casinos DO depend on wins to keep people gambling, there just needs to be more losing over time. If nothing else the psychology of inflating personal successes and devaluing losses will achieve the needed goals, although adding all the other goodies you mention optimizes the process.

A casino in which you ALWAYS lost, despite a constant "near win!" incentive and all the other manipulations would quickly be empty.
Dishonest is the norm of doing business
That does not make them right
The rear doors are a 100% given, especially where the upper chrome trim meets the C pillar. It's like they just threw up their hands at that part of the manufacturing spinup.

But, the longer you look, the more mistakes you see.
I would like a feature where I could add a group of people that are traveling from different areas.
I can't find the actual memo. But Bloomberg wrote about a leaked memo.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-29/tesla-urg...

> Tesla will suspend Model S and Model X production Thursday and Friday because it’s ahead of target on building those this quarter, Peter Hochholdinger, vice president of production, wrote to employees in a March 21 email obtained by Bloomberg News. An unspecified “limited number” of workers who build those vehicles will have the option to work on the Model 3 line on those two days and Saturday, he said.

They moved workers from the Model S & X lines over to the Model 3. And an unspecified number of "volunteers" also got cracking to make the final spurt.
Cash is the norm at all casual places in Berlin.
turbo frequency is not everything.

Every benchmark i know from intel desktop cpu versus mobile cpu is the same: desktop wins by big margins.

I'm guessing that the mobile version does have less execution units.
The fact that Apple hasn't released an IDE for iOS that can develop iOS apps is a pretty clear indicator that the iPad is not meant for professional software development, even if some people (myself included) try it anyways just to see how well it works.

However, there are plenty of other professional users who could probably use the iPad as their primary computer now. Photographers, graphic designers, visual artists, and musicians could probably make the switch now and iOS will only get better for them in the future.

I think that Apple's vision for pro users is correct as long as we consider more than just software developers as pro users.
I would agree with the parent, as a laymen casually observing HN and the major news outlets this is really what it feels like, a complete shift in news/commentator opinions of Tesla.
I think the starting point is having a by-value member of that class, which has convenient automatic destruction semantics, but requires the actual class definition in scope. To lift that requirement, you move to a pointer field, and if you go with a scoped_ptr rather than a raw pointer, you don't lose the automatic destruction.
Are Bitcoin Bubbles Predictable? Combining Metcalfe's Law and the LPPLS Model
I wrote a bot that provides randomized follow suggestions (from its follower list) -- https://botsin.space/@FollowFriday

As for interesting people to follow (biased in favor of people who post interesting technical content) I recommend https://mastodon.social/@natecull, https://cybre.space/@a_breakin_glass, https://mastodon.social/@hisham_hm, https://mastodon.social/@tomharris, and https://hackers.town/@thegibson

I'm at https://a.weirder.earth/@enkiv2 at the moment.
How to regulate Facebook
Hi,

Running your own TURN server isn't that difficult and you should remember that most calls (80-95%) don't need TURN (packet relay) but only use STUN (IP discovery). So one small TURN server should have no trouble handling 100 concurrent calls.

There are AMIs if you use AWS, and if you're interested I can send over the config files we use. We use coturn. My email is in my profile.

Shameless plug: I'm a co-founder of EagleDial, we specialize in calls over WebRTC with built in payments either per minute or per call. We have white label solutions.
It's worth noting that privacy against ISPs, at least today, is hugely more important than privacy against DNS resolvers, and not just because first-world ISPs have a reputation of being less trustworthy than companies like Cloudflare (Google is more debatable).

You always have a choice of DNS resolver; you often don't have a choice of ISP. Especially outside of the first world, where the ISPs might be in the pocket of the government, like in the example from Turkey mentioned in Cloudflare's blog post, or in China. The ISP is the physical pipes, and if you can't get through the physical pipes, you're dead in the water. You can always change DNS resolvers.

This is still an interesting idea that's worth looking at. They just shouldn't minimize the significance of what Cloudflare is doing.
That’s a photo from 2 years ago?
One solution to wreck privacy-hating websites
It's just a different form of PvP gambling, like poker.
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And he joined Equifax after jumping ship from A. G. Edwards in 2008, presumably because the company was accused of fraud in that same year.

His first security gig was Senior IT Security Analyst at A. G. Edwards and Sons. His only work experience before that was Supervisor of Branch Installations.

This seems unbelievable, but that senior security position was his first IT experience.
Sounds like you want VRChat.
Memories of writing a parser for man pages
> I could learn more about Mark Zuckerberg’s habits and interests, creating my own ad profile of him. Then I could sell this information to brands looking to target that coveted "male, 18-34, billionaire” demographic. Think of it as a physical version of Facebook’s business model.

That's just pure gold!
Sure, sometimes a text file is the best way to send money over the internet, although I have to stretch to think of those scenarios.

Bitcoin is the best way to send money in a lot of scenarios. Visa is the best in a lot of scenarios, Venmo is the best in a lot of scenarios, sometimes a check is best, but there are a lot of scenarios where that won’t work.

Bitcoins use value comes from the number of those scenarios.
There was an ISP / hosting provider in Dayton, OH, named "donet.com". For years and years their DNS was available for public zone transfers and they had wonderful computer names like powdered, glazed, chocolate, and my favorite, dayold. (Looks like some of those names are still around, too, even after they "rebranded"...)
Lol, I have a Hyundai and a Model S. What you wrote makes zero sense
do we make an account
I think creating a legal regime where corporations are financially responsible for damages created by misuse or leaking of personal data would discourage companies from collecting the data in the first place.

By all rights, the equifax databreach should have ended the company. Instead, they're likely to profit from it.
That is owner satisfaction, which means nothing. It is common for that list to have a car to have a significantly different rating depending on what the logo on the hood it. If the car has the GM brand it will be rated lower than if it has the Toyota brand, even though the car is EXACTLY the some other than the brand.
> Others will build EVs when they can be profitably sold, because it isn't their only business.

Tesla's margins are the highest in the industry for their vehicles. Legacy automakers don't want to innovate and cannablize their own business, which is why they cannot succeed.

If you want to sell like Tesla does, and get the level of subsidies they do, sell vehicles that people want and will pay for. There's a reason people would rather wait years for a Model 3 then buy a Bolt, i3, or other half-attempt at an EV by a legacy automaker.
On the scale of Tesla's own history how would you rate that rough time? E.g. is it more rough vs 1st year of Tesla 2nd year? 3rd Year? How rough is it for people who actually pulled through all the challenges they faced from the founding till now. I think people are overestimating the "rough times" part. Musk and Tesla have a ton of good will that no other automaker has and they can leverage that in a rough situation.
There is no State Legislation in India governing Muslim Marriage. According to Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act 1937, the subject of Marriage is included in the List of subjects (Section 2 of the Act) on which Courts will apply only Muslim Personal Law, as a rule for decision where both the parties are Muslim. Muslim Personal Law permits multiple marriages for the Male and it is not illegal for a Muslim Male to marry a second time during the subsistence of his first marriage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Personal_Law_in_India
https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1325952/
>"He attributes the earnings reversal overwhelmingly to one factor: education. For every two guys who graduate from college or get a higher degree, three women do."

If you're comparing degreed vs non-degreed folks, how is the comparison in the peer group?
Tesla is attempting to change too much at once. New model, new (highly automated) production line and adding a degree of self driving over and beyond what is currently present in other cars, probably will run out of cash somewhere this year.

Any one of those would be a major challenge and a major achievement to lick. While I totally admire Elon Musk for challenging all these things at once you have to wonder about the wisdom of it all, especially when taking into account that he has another major project (SpaceX) that would normally be enough to tax any CEO.

Furthermore they decided to roll Solar City into Tesla which makes Tesla even more encumbered with debt. I get why he did it but I firmly believe that cross-tying losing businesses and winning businesses at that level is a failure prone strategy, it is gambling rather than managing.
What I really miss is a message reading and search program that handles megabytes of text in DOM without freezing the browser.