skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Flat, symmetrical design? Check. Actual edges to hold onto? Check.

Every iPhone made by Apple after this, in my view, is a “wet soap”. They’re all so slippery and bound to fall from one’s hands easily. I personally cannot hold them without a case that mimics flat and better edges, essentially changing the shape of the phone to that of an iPhone SE and also increasing the weight. What a lost opportunity to make a great device again in every respect, Apple!

From a consumer’s standpoint, Apple seems so shortsighted and completely out of touch with what people love (not jut like), want and desire. Mac mini, now iPhone SE...voting with your wallets alone won’t help while ASPs of new iPhones are more and profits are increasing. Write to Tim Cook over email and let him know why you’re switching. Maybe, just maybe, when the good times start to turn bad, Apple may realize its follies and change course.

These kind of articles also help, but consumers need to voice their thoughts to Apple. Send emails to the top people and also write on Apple’s feedback page.
Are you suggesting that non-standard shaping of screens is a good thing or a bad thing?

I personally think it's a bad thing, unless you have a specific use case in mind. For 99.99% of use cases, rectangular screens are a pretty good choice.
Why are you hosting it on GitHub? Something that should have been a 15 second diversion instead becomes a Byzantine nightmare. After all these years I still have no idea how to run something that’s hosted on GitHub, and neither do 99% of people on earth. Is it even possible to do? Or do you honestly expect people to download your code and run it locally?
When 12-Year-Olds Can Breach School IT Systems, Who’s Responsible?
Falling sand/powder games use particle physics for simulating the behavior of liquids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling-sand_game
Historically, no. Nuclear power has always been tied to nuclear weapons in terms of infrastructure and technology. Only lately have there been attempts at nuclear power without the capacity for weapons development. Except for dirty bombs, of course, which are possible with virtually any radioactive material.

And fear of "nuclear" technology isn't totally about rational arguments. It's not baseless either, because so many "impossible" accidents happened and its so hard to dispose of nuclear waste safely.

The deployment of small nuclear grenades, intended to detonate near or in our cities for such "minor" targets as tanks hasn't exactly helped that fear.
I thought that would be a big problem for me, too, being used to inverted-L shaped enter keys basically my whole computer life.

After a few days I stopped worrying because the UHK enter key is actually easier to reach for my right pinky finger than the one on my previous MS Natural keyboard was. OTOH the "\|" key above the enter key I'm still mistyping occasionally.
Not all websites are built the same, some might require more than just five lines of CSS. Add to that QA to make sure it works. And purchasing the device(s) to test that it really looks fine (plus setting up remote debugging if it needs adjustments) or writing something to replicate the notch behavior. It's one more thing to support in already many things we have to think about when doing web development (different browsers, OS, screen sizes, orientation, available features, ... and now the notch).

Apple could have used the space around the notch for some browser UI for example and spared us the extra effort to make our websites look good (or even be functional) with that notch. At the end of the day, it's their customers that are benefiting from a good/better browsing experience.
Internet Sleuths Are Hunting for China’s Secret Internment Camps for Muslims
PS: Your email is not view-able from your HN profile. Test in a private browser tab
String Art – From the Hand of a Robot
It seems to me like gregarious people and loners can be after the same thing. Some people want acceptance and approval from others whereas other people have more of an inner connection to the same source.

What is the source? We don't understand (yet) but it's an interesting clue that the things other people like about you aren't necessarily the things you like about yourself.
Never heard of that band before. Considering they have an album called "Your Computer Lies" I would say that's probably more than a coincidence they chose that name... ^__^;
That's really cool! I'm going to have to remember this when I'm debugging stuff without pycharm.
"They" being the revolutionaries, not the members of this cult.
I also bought the iPhone X on day one, but I had to get rid of it, I really hated the notch. Also didn't like the aspect ratio of the display, it's getting way too vertical.

For me, it's like living in a room where one of the walls has a weird inset, which makes it more difficult to arrange the furniture.

Or like having a picture frame on the wall that is slightly crooked no matter how many times you try to fix it.

Or maybe it's like having a mole or birthmark, and calling it a beauty mark.

Sure you can live with it and just ignore it, but that wouldn't be my first choice.

However if you are willing to boot camp into Windows, you are probably less likely to care about a notch.
That is true, and partially as a result it will shortly be that blue collar labour will earn higher wages than white collar labour. That and many important tasks will remain unaccomplished like people having houses to live in or clean environments.

This happened before in the early 20th century when middle class abruptly had to learn to cook and clean because their cooks and maids went to work in the factories - used to be true that human labour was very cheap.
But it won't, there's too much money involved to demonize China. And there are many other such examples of mass surveillance from the five eyes, CCTVs in major cities, less and less "freedom" in the web. Just this week in my country (western European) the whole database of everyone that enters and leaves the country was moved from the police to the secret services, to avoid any kind of scrutiny.
I opened it on Firefox and everything worked out fine.

I realized that on Chrome all the graphics were weird. No colors on the home page, I couldn't see the windows at the buildings. Maybe there is something not rendering right in Chrome.

I use Chrome Version 60.0.3112.113 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Fedora 25
A trade secret that can be reverse engineered by a tinkerer with an oscilloscope in an afternoon.

This is more or less the type of situation patents were invented for: a simple invention anyone can copy once it's invented, but difficult (I assume) to invent in the first place.
not that steve isn't correct but Rc and Arc effectively (in exchange for runtime overhead) "turn off" the borrow checker. i'm sure i'll get yelled but it's just this week i had the borrow checker yelling at me for something and i realized that the appropriate thing to do was use Arc (yes of course i'm not advocating for ref counting instead of being more precise).
Dusting off my usual response: mutual TLS (aka client side certs) could practically eliminate phishing. It would be simply impossible to give your credentials to a phishing site as they never leave your device. There's 2 things missing that browser / device vendors need to do:

1. Improve the UI of client certs.
2. Figure out a way to manage credentials across multiple devices.
I’m not an MEP, just a EU citizen that found the video and submitted it.

The video’s creator is an MEP from Poland, Dobromir Sośnierz.
I agree with you that there is nothing wrong with pressuring individual companies.

Totally agreed voting isn't simple! Also I tried to word my sentence carefully: I didn't claim no one cares; or that even the majority didn't care; just that they didn't "care enough" i.e. prioritize this to influence their vote over other issues.
Don't forget Plan9
Not sure why that's set to private and don't see an option to make it public.

Here's the address: delete-username-dashes-only-i-n-t-e-r-n-a-u-t@internet-mail.org
Vim: Make the yanked region highlighted and apparent
Intel making the baseband instead of Qualcomm?? That seems like a huge deal to me.
This is a really confused and flimsy piece of writing. The author starts by recounting a life-changing after which they decided to completely uproot and move to another country where they found themselves lonely and depressed.

The author then uses this anecdote to assert that "working remotely" is fraught with peril.

They say nothing about why they chose to move to Taiwan. Was it a place they had always wanted to see? Or was it just an attempt to try to escape in the wake of a breakup? The anecdote also makes no note of how or even if being a "remote worker" factored into their unhappy experience.

Further moving and traveling are not the same thing at all. I sounds like the author moved:

>"I lived in Taiwan for about a year before I returned to Europe"

The article seems to willfully conflate moving to another country, working remotely and working while traveling. These are all distinctly different things they people might choose for different reasons.

And some of the assertions are just downright silly such as:

>"Loneliness isn’t something that many traveling remote workers write about. You won’t see it in their Instagram stories."

It's also not something that sedentary office workers write about either. Having a daily routine and a familiar office space does not prevent loneliness. And most social media to has a positivity bias, nobody seems to curate anything other than a "fabulous" online persona for themselves. You would have to be a fool to let yourself be "informed" by social media.
Both men and women will tend to be polite but brief with a person they are not attracted to (in the context that the other person is trying to develop a romantic relationship). That is completely normal and I think it's fine and healthy.

Feminism will struggle against the tendency of women's attraction to be more heavily weighted by appearance than by character or economic status like men are.

I feel like from there men and women have organized themselves and their "competition" according to the criteria set by the opposite sex. Women will become more critical of other women's appearances and men will be more critical of masculine criteria (how much money do you make, can you defend yourself, are you tough/independent/emotionally stable) including penis size, because that is oh so important to making a woman happy.

Maybe men and women impose the harshest standards on themselves because they want to appease the opposite side more. And maybe even though it's true that those are characteristics we value in the opposite sex, we don't objectify the opposite sex as much as they objectify themselves.

Some men and women will resent the way they are "judged", blaming their "judges" for their feelings of inferiority. Some men and women will try to capitalize on the others insecurity to their own gain. Mostly the inferiority is self imposed.

It's a strange balance to acknowledge that (for example) appearances are important, and that it will be more difficult for either sex, particularly women, to find a partner if they don't take care of their appearances. And while that might be true acknowledging that you aren't an object and subjective qualities outside of the rubric of attraction actually do matter and are valuable to people you want to attract.

I don't think attraction will ever be negotiated, and that's where feminism will fail and frustrate people. It might become more taboo to admit you like her cause she's a lingerie model, or that he's a catch because he makes 7 figures, but those things are always going to make a person stand out no matter how angry or inferior it makes us feel.
It does not look good, and black causes ghosting.
I lived alone for almost 17 years in two different apartments (one for 11 of them) and this house until I got married, and even now my wife is overseas for months at a time right now because of what we've gotta do. Solitude is a big part of my life.

In the very beginning it could sometimes be very lonely even though I've known I was an introvert since junior high. The worst times were indeed when there was nothing to do. I have to confess the biggest motivator it took for me to evolve and embrace solitude was to realize my fellow medical students had lives of their own and my entire relevance to them was based on what I could fix for them, not who I was. This made me very bitter for awhile, but it also made me determined not to base my happiness on what anyone else thought. It was a lot easier in my second apartment where I had more room and a better layout for hobbies and many of these hobbies I found still bring me enjoyment today. I learned to be one on my own.

It is helpful my wife is also an introvert and we had been friends online for awhile before we dated, so she understood this perspective fairly instinctively.
ifvm.js – The Interactive Fiction Virtual Machines Suite
Am I the only one experiencing a game-breaking bug/behavior?

The D thrust gets stuck on if you press it once, and randomly the W comes on and gets stuck too.

Also, after the first ship, every additional ship starts with W and D thrusts on, permanently.
Could you elaborate on why you don't see compelling reasons to switch to Android? Seen from the other side and having to use an IPhone for work, I don't see compelling reasons to spend so much money for an Iphone. Especially considering that not even the basic features like collecting mails from an exchange server doesn't work properly...
I died in the last level, in the last life on the platform but with high speed :(
That vote was electronic. Julia Reda, MEP from Germany and member of the Pirate Party Germany, tweeted a photo of the result: https://twitter.com/Senficon/status/1039847916050046976
I don't get 18:9 on a phone at all, I purposely bought 16:9 as one of my criteria for a new phone.
Instead of cartesian coordinates, you could just program it using polar coordinates. And ring buffers.
2FA would also help, but people don't want to mandate it. And even if you require 2FA for your own employees, the third party "pay this invoice" request may not be gated on 2FA -- because that's up to the third party to enforce 2FA for (and they probably don't.)

Neither of these solutions helps with spear phishing emails, either. If you get an email that says "please wire money" from a sender you think you trust, the attacker's goal isn't credential harvesting, so protecting logins won't help.

Similarly we're seeing people fall for scams where a "trusted person" asks them to buy a bunch of iTunes gift cards and provide the codes on them in a reply email. Yes, people actually comply with this request when they think the requester is their CEO, etc.
Everyone complains about the notch, but what about the lack of a button? That is what made me choose an 8.
Assuming you are talking about America, I am not very familiar with the situation but a quick google ([1]) suggests there were ~1,800 candidates with something like 8 different options with notable representation.

Also, afaik, everyone is welcome to join a political party and scrum with the best of them to get good nominees through. It isn't fast or easy, but America's political process tilts a little on the slow-and-steady side for things like that.

Also note that being a democracy doesn't mean that scribbling on a bit of paper is the limit of what can be done. Voter apathy and the inherent complexity of running a 300 million person country remains the big problem.

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/Presidential_election,_2016
It is called: The Unix Philosophy [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy]

That's not to say that Linus is not a great engineer
How to Tell Your Team That Organizational Change Is Coming
Why? These devices (and SADMs) literally saved West Germany from being overran by the Soviet Union. No other option would have prevented it.

German officials _insisted_ that tactical nuclear devices would have been deployed, even against American reservations at this time. They were right, in hindsight.
The concept of a “safe area” is here to stay. It does not only apply to the notch, but also applies to rendering underneath the iOS “home button” or the translucent toolbar.
Katherine Scott: Machine Learning and AI for Satellite Imaging
I’m an iPhone user, my wife swears on Android. But usually, I set up her phone. The amount of BS Android asks you to consent plus the privacy-neglecting default options are reasons enough.

In addition, in my opinion everything on Android and the devices feels half-baked. Fingerprint sensor? Easy to fool. Face ID thing? Can be fooled with a photo. Sure, the devices cost half of an iPhone, but feature-wise they’re often not as carefully designed.
> Blockchain is being touted as a panacea, a solution to every problem, not just every data integration problem

Pretty sure that happens with every new tech.

> XML never had any association with large scale fraudulent activities.

I'm sure many criminal organizations have used XML
Ok I see what you're saying but I don't see why it's a big deal. The JavaScript is non-blocking right? So the static page is still displayed just as quickly. Gatsby does code splitting so the bundles are pretty small and keep in mind it takes advantage of preload/prefetch. Using JS to render a new page is going to be faster than loading the entire static page. Maybe you should try testing out real world performance vs something like Jekyll.
Ok well if I see any voting machines like that I might reconsider. In the meantime stick with paper.
I am very glad to know there are many people out there like myself. This article touched on many good points. I prefer to be alone about 70% of the time. I NEVER feel lonely, in fact just the opposite. I feel inspired in thought and connected to the massive pulsating power of our universe and everything in it. To be around people actually pulls me down into the superficiality of EGO which is not where I prefer to spend my time. I have practiced meditation for more than 10 years now and I credit this practice with allowing me to find comfort and power in Solitude. It really is a super power in today's world. I am completely comfortable with myself simply sitting on a bench doing nothing. I do not need more than that. There are certainly times where I do want to be around like minded people. I am constantly getting pressure from family etc.. to change my ways. The vast majority of people are obviously not like this.
My RustConf 2018 Closing Keynote
The mutual exchange of vulnerabilities

I agree, and I'd add to your definition to say that the ultimate bonding occurs through finding joy in the mutual exchange of vulnerabilities.

For example, last night my wife and I were not seeing eye to eye on how we saw our future. I was busy trying to make her see my side, but it wasn't until I was willing to give up and do things her way that she came around and agreed with my perspective.

It was not because I was wrong, it was because I wasn't recognizing her point of view, and that made her feel vulnerable. The joy we experienced mutually at recognizing one another's vulnerabilities is still–the next morning–a sublime feeling, the ultimate experience in life perhaps.
Highly recommend everyone to read "Weapons of Math Destruction" by Cathy O'Neil. I have tried to stop using services that collect my data as much as possible, and when anyone throws the arguement "you must have something to hide" it's good to have a few real life examples of why everyone should fight back against data collection and information brokers.
What's the incentive to even try to do the "right" thing if you can always be forgiven?
Doesn't happen here. (MacOS Chrome 68.0.3440.106)
People complaining about the notch or the rounded corners behave as if overscan wasn’t a thing for decades on TV sets...
The body is regularly stressed. It means little when normal. It's problematic when chronic, as it interferes with healing and causes degeneration. I suppose exercise is an example of a stressor that has positive effects.
I don't miss the button. What didn't you like about the missing button?
It's definitely fun as-is, maybe slightly too easy for long-term playability. I suspect rotation would make it brutally hard and less fun. Nice work!
Betting Big on Blockchain
You get over the lack of a button pretty quickly. The swipe up gesture works fine.
Large Cash Rewards in the Workplace Lead to Worse Performance
Anecdotally, the proportion of my couple-dozen-or-so close friends and family who are conservative has always been about half or a bit less, and they have always been, on average, much more quick to insults and mocking when politics come up. I don't think this makes them bad or uncaring people, and of course some of my liberal friends and family have the same problem, and you would never know that any of these people are anything but kind and compassionate as long as you're talking about things they can relate to and agree with at the moment... But I do think it's essentially impossible for people, on the whole, to consider each other kind and compassionate when either side resorts to that kind of attitude so incredibly freely, which seems like something nearly everybody does if my experience with friends, family, strangers, and anonymous people online is indicative (which it may not be).
I actually think it is a lot better without the button. It feels light and natural for me. I would not go back to button.
More levels please! ;-)
Sometimes a thing is worthwhile precisely because of the work involved.

For me, it's panoramas... Even if a mid range smartphone makes it very easy to get great looking panos, I still prefer going at it with a DSLR and doing my own stitching.

As mentioned in the article, it creates a certain connection with the subject that I don't have when doing it the "easy way".
Nice writeup. Thanks for that!
That's the case in all organizations - academic, government, business, military, charity, etc.

You can get your foot in the door by being competent. If you want to rise within any organization, you either have to know someone or you have to be great at office politics.

People naively think the hardest or best workers move up the ladder. No, you want the hardest and best workers working. You want them in the trenches. You want people with contacts or people you like promoted.

Whether we like it or not, success in life has a lot more to do with relationships than competence or merit. Who you know, who your family knows and who your friends knows matters far more than what you know.
> the result varies depending on the FPS and your actions.

you should try to decouple physics simulation from your rendering code. (i.e. pass a constant/fixed dt to your simulation step). simulation should not depend on framerate.
2FA can be proxied through. The phishing site also asks you for 2FA, and passes through the code to the real site where the attacker logs in.
The first generation to have nearly every moment of their lives tracked has already been born. That is frightening.
Does 2FA help? It might keep the account itself from being taken over entirely (assuming that another 2FA step also guards the ability to change the account's credentials), but a phishing site could transparently relay both factors to the real site to grant it access for a single session, which is enough time to do plenty of damage. And if the phishing email is of the form "you need to change your password now", the site could easily trick a user into handing over the additional second factor that guards the primary credentials.
Personally I hope the outcome will be a strict interpretation:

* opt-out by default

* dismissing means opt-out

* users need to be able to dismiss banners (at least per session)

Along with a lenient interpretation of consent-by-default for "normal" use (i.e. serving the content, anonymized logging and anonymized analytics) I think this would make the most sense from a user perspective while still serving basic business interests.
https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/27/face-id-iphone-x-fooled...