skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Get an iphone se with protector
Buy second hand iPhones.

A 5S will still run the latest iOS, and with a new battery wont be under “performance management” mode, so it should be quite fast to use.
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Apple customers elsewhere in the world are assured of Apple's integrity in this regard.

Of course, it is a bit unreasonable to expect Apple to actually do that, but it is also a bit unreasonable to believe that Apple will guard your privacy anywhere else when push comes to shove.
Honorable mention to the fact that software used to be a lot harder to distribute. Making disks and CDs was slow and expensive, but now we can push a patch any time over the Internet. Why not ship fast when shipping a patch is just easy?
Thanks for posting this as I'm anticipating to be going down the same journey as well.

I'm surprised that there isn't already some sort of service that handles this although it does sound like quite an administrative entanglement.

Off topic: Do you get requests around embedding AI/NLP in your chat program?
>>I think you are right but then I was never saying anything about the points

I think perhaps you should. It would improve the quality of the discussion.

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
why not just buy an older device? bought a brand new iPhone se as soon as the new iphones x maxx was announced. mobile phone development as plateaued imo, there is nothing out there you really need unless you're fooling yourself.
photos - I bought a nice mirrorless with the money I saved.
apps - se runs everything tolerably fast except for snapchat and Instagram, which I've decided to cut down on anyways.comparison is the thief of joy and all the new social media apps promote comparison as the primary feature.
games - bought a Nintendo switch and it has fortnite as well.

all told 300+400+300 = 1000 which is STILL lower than the cost of the iPhone x max
Didn't you c it before?
We seem to be willing to pay it, meaning the market will bear it, so yes?
Regarding speed cameras. I was driving around the Netherlands and saw speed cameras for the first time (I'm from the US) in Apeldoorn. There were signs that warned drivers about them. In the US, in several rural areas have electronic signs at the edge of town, just outside of the limit change, which warn you when you are exceeding the limit through town. I would have no problem at all with permanent enforcement systems provided they were accompanied by advance warnings. If I am so inattentive to my driving that I miss the warnings and get a ticket, so be it. It is much safer (and should be much cheaper) than randomly placed patrol cars performing radar/laser speed enforcement.
How fast is "fucking fast?" Metrics please! :P
> More than 15 additional websites involved in the scheme reused the same TrackMyShows.tv SSL certificate

Anyone shed light on this? How does one website use another website's SSL cert?
bitcointalk is the canonical location for most of the discussion regarding cryptocurrency and has been for years. They have a lot of ancillary boards, but the foundation of the board is the tech.
Price signals are one way to do this. This will hit people unequally though, so probably needs some other things at the same time.

Ie if energy price is raised a lot, it will make poor people's lives a lot harder suddenly.

But currently the price of things is very much disconnected from the climate impacts
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> Apple bans competing apps regardless of app quality or safety.

I don't know what criteria they actually use, but this is at best incredibly inconsistent. There's heaps of competing mail apps, calendars, camera apps, photo apps, weather apps, notes apps, reminders app, messaging apps on iOS, including a Google one in most of those categories.
I parse it as: This post includes a video of a teenager beating a tetris game which was released before the boy was born.
Uber and Tesla are dead last in self-driving tech, beaten by everyone from Hyundai to Baidu-BAIC. I don't know where you get the idea that "car companies can't even get cameras all around the body to avoid accidental scratches." The leaders of the industry are Daimler-Bosch, GM, Waymo, Volkswagen, Ford, Aptiv, and BMW-Intel-FCA. Mostly car companies.
They are trying to say that Tetris came out before he was born. Very poor attempt at a sensationalist title.
With breaks and exercise of course :P

Also, I have an extra Salli Twin I use while cooking and doing dishes in the kitchen.
I believe it would be FS;DR

But, in case you are serious: CTRL++ to zoom in. CTRL+0 to reset to normal.
it's hard for me to stay stoic in explaining what I see in this proposal, I wish so hard this were a real solution, but I fail to see more than A) a white wash, B) lip service to environmentalists or C) a way to circumvent current or future carbon emission taxes (unclear to me if dumping emissions as carbonates in the ocean is currently considered emissions or not according to carbon credit legalese)

First a thought experiment: consider 2 identical hermetically sealed containers (representing gravitationally sealed atmosphere), each containing an open bottle of water (representing oceans).

In container 1 we introduce CO2 in the container, some of which will be absorbed by the water both in dissolved gaseous form and in carbonate form.

In container 2 we introduce the same amount of CO2 by adding carbonate into the closed bottle and then open the bottle.

After letting both containers seperately settle, they will both have the same equilibrium end state, where the same fraction of CO2 is in the container's air, as dissolved gas in the bottle's water and also in the form of carbonate in the bottle's water.

H2O (liquid) + CO2 (gas) <=> H2CO3(solution)

I don't contest the chemical facts that these rocks can form carbonates by reacting with CO2.

I contest the idea that a new sink is identified. The sink is the same sink that has been known for a long time: the oceans, which are currently absorbing a large part of the emissions.

So how is this any different? It's just emissions foisted off as capture?!?

Do the investors know this? Who are the investors? I assume some of the investors are perfectly aware and simply big CO2 emitters trying to externalize any taxation back on the public by reclaiming money, and the other investors genuinely intend well but were simply tricked into supporting this scheme...
On November 16, 2018, representatives from more than 50 countries are expected to make history when they gather in Versailles, France, to vote on redefining the SI, including the mole. The vote will close the book on this chapter of Vocke and Rabb’s work, but will open a new chapter in chemistry as the fundamental unit, for that branch of science will no longer be tied to a physical object but a constant of nature.

Interesting to find out that the concept every chemistry student is taught is about to be redefined. Odd that they couldn't schedule it on mole day...

I remember struggling with the concept of the mole in high school.

After working many problems I was able to see what the big deal was about:

The mole links the macroscopic world we can directly experience with our senses to the atomic world which we cannot.

Think of the mole as a monetary exchange rate between these two worlds. It converts mass of a pure sample (which we can measure directly on the bench top) to number of particles (which we can't). Chemistry and accounting have a lot in common. If you're good with money, you should be good at chemistry.

Anyone can pick up an ingot of silver, place it on a balance, and read the number to get the mass. Use of the mole (and the atomic weight of silver) allows this measurement to be converted into the number of silver atoms in the sample. This process is identical to the one you'd use to figure out how much your hotel in Paris will cost you in dollars.
Well that's my sentiment too. But the article is wishy washy on the use of the collected data. Having local knowledge can make you a better driver after all.
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Ask HN: What do/don't you like in job interviews?
Hello, I'm maker of Worfor (https://worfor.com). I'm working on optimization hiring process right now.
I know how stressful and useless can be tech interviews sometimes. I'm trying to resolve this problem. Sometimes you can't avoid this step of hiring process because you should know you are hiring right person. But in most cases interviewers ask a lot of questions which will not related to your future job. Right now this process depends on whom you get as an interviewer but I want to optimize it as much as possible. I guess better way to do it - ask community.
So here my few questions:
What do you like and what you don't like in tech interviews?
What do your prefer to do instead of tech interviews, algorithmic tasks, etc.
Also It will be good if you share your experience, opinion or any feedback.
I've no idea about BMW but if they did the design and someone else did the manufacture, then BMW would still be a car company; they would 'just' be designers and not manufacturers. What's wrong with that?

So, if Apple make [all] their own hardware except the silicon then you could have answered the question rather than composing a strawman.

Yes, if BMW don't make their own electrical systems it makes them less of a car company. Is that controversial to you? It's supremely sensible for a company to buy expertise by outsourcing elements of manufacture of complex products IMO.
What 'giving' exactly?
Agile is like a religion. There is not a single consistent definition and any criticism is easily deflected along the lines that your organization did not embrace Agile on all levels of management. The uncomfortable truth is that Agile is internally inconsistent - you can not build an Agile methodology that will not contradict itself and that will not contradict the real world. A perfect example is the INVEST mnemonic for backlog items or the notion that Acceptance Criteria is against Agile.

One Agile coach ($$$) recently told me that the fact that I have contractual requirements and legal requirements in AC that I need to test for is a symptom of my customers not being Agile and the government not being Agile.
I don't think of it as offensive. It's an anatomy part, why would someone be offended by their body? Imho, don't change it, because there's no reason for such an action
That’s why circuit designers almost always create charging and power circuits with over voltage and current protections into fragile electronics. Certainly on a system as fragile and complex as a cell phone. This isn’t an excuse, this is bucking trends of circuit design that has existed for decades. And it’s even easier to prevent in wireless transmissions than physical ones because wireless requires careful tuning of resonance to work efficiently. The circuit to prevent this would be simpler than this handshaking one to detect “ok” chargers.
The rule of thumb seems to be this: if your product is allowing some genuinely new activity to happen, it's probably not unemploying people. If it allows for existing activity to be more efficient, or replaces an existing activity with a more efficient alternative, then it's likely unemploying people.
Name an advantage to google knowing what colour underwear you bought last Thursday at 3pm from an eBay seller called “thrusty jack”?

Siri/iOS/macOS/etc are proof that “smart” services can be done on-device and/or without identifying information and still be useful.

Google does it all server side because it’s the cash cow their entire business is built on, not because it’s the only way to do it.
>why not just buy an older device?

As devices age, they stop being supported by security updates.
Exactly. Depending on the team, I usually try to start off using something mostly by the book and we adjust from there. Some teams need more structure and some suffocate under it.

A business has to understand that the processes that are best for software delivery are orthogonal to the ones that are best for business.

Namely, (good/agile) software development demands fluctuation and iteration where business plans seem to thrive on long-term forecasts and projections. Waterfall would absolutely be the best things for businesses... if it worked.
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Have people forgotten arab spring already?
I still need evidence that my real time trading app running an entire gcc in it makes it faster. I have no problem with JIT in theory, everything you say makes sense. I've never seen this trend in practice though. Either the optimizations you're talking about can be utilized too rarely, or they are too complex that most JITs don't implement, or they're too expensive that it doesn't give any net gain.
I don't know why you're downvoted because that's exactly the point: the creators of closed-source applications may claim whatever they want, but you have no way of verifying their claims. Especially if the owner is the company whose income is based on profiling you, and the fight over FB<->WhatsApp profile linking is no longer a secret now.
Hmmm

https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=353259
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SAFe is actually fine if you choose an appropriate level and follow the practices. It's ridiculous how people read that SAFe is "tailorable" and then promptly do something that is in no way Safe.

Every single day i tell my coworkers to RTFM
Basically when the quality of writers declined and when everyone was going through the motions for money. It got old, stale and boring.
So basically neurons are ASICs, partially digital and partially analog.
We added more changes on master, now it creates tsconfig automatically, checks if the required dependencies are installed and other nice ux improvements.
O(1) restructuring, as I understand you need to do a classical log(n) search before any restructuring.
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I think I typed parental and went "no, the other one" and changed it to paternal. My mistake.
At least the one example they link is delivered over HTTP. If you request HTTPS instead, the server presents the certificate for TrackMyShows.tv.
They keep taking the entire event down (~7 hours of competition) on the CTCW YouTube page, but luckily someone thought ahead and recorded the Semi-Finals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHMLwgE4ZG8

I've been following competitive Tetris for the past 2 years now. It slid into my YT feed and I've been hooked.

I got to watch the stream live!

Jonas is the man! He's won it multiple times and plays a beautiful game. I thought he had the kid, Joseph, for a moment with a +100k lead. But, as he topped out Joseph was able to keep his composure. I was beautiful to watch and I gave him a standing ovation (from my living room).

The cool thing is, the kid worked hard at the game for about a year before joining the competition. He studied videos on YouTube and just became obsessed with the game. He's the next wave (which the Tetris community had been discussing for the past few years), and its cool to see that this game is not dead yet. Its virtual chess.

The Tetris community is a good one. Its seems as if everyone backs everyone. There are no egos, just humble-pie Tetris. Jonas was a class act at the end congratulating the kid.

If you have a chance, please watch the video. You'll be amazed with the skill/tactics involved in this game.

edit
Here's the winning match! Just watched it again. It give me goosebumps!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9rXBQLfjjE
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Most people don’t need to be. What the article fails to mention is that Black Widow bites are only life-threatening to the ‘feeble’ (children, elderly, sick, etc). Otherwise you’re in for a very bad time, but the chance of dying is insignificant.

“In the United States each year, about 2,200 people report being bitten .. each year 12 bites are considered serious but no deaths have been reported in 100 years ..

.. Contrary to popular belief, most people who are bitten suffer no serious damage, let alone death ..

.. Since the venom is not likely to be life-threatening, antivenom has been used as pain relief and not to save lives .. a study demonstrated that standardized pain medication, when combined with either antivenom or a placebo, had similar improvements in pain and resolution of symptoms.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus#Bite
I did drug discovery in grad school -- finding leads is generally not something suitable for small labs, but studying them is. A big source of compounds that actually work isn't high-throughput screening, it's isolating the active ingredient of plants and fungal matter that has the desired properties in nature, which is something that can in theory be done in a home lab (cultivating eukaryotic cells is difficult compared to bacteria but there are protocols and cell lines that aren't too expensive). This was how pretty much all science was done before molecular biology was a thing, and it gave us very useful compounds, including penicillin. (For the sake of the poor critters, please don't do animal research if you have never worked with lab animals before).

Most of figuring out which drugs are promising is biochemistry (and clinical trials) not so much organic chemistry. I wouldn't say organic chemistry is super inaccessible (given people with 0 education seem to be able to pop up kitchen counter meth labs in no time), but doing it with a purpose that isn't "follow this recipe" is difficult because a lot of stuff that looks like it should be biologically active doesn't actually make it into the cell in the first place. But I may be biased and I'm sure there are organic chemists around that have an idea of how amateurs could go around doing some small science in that area.
This is true but Apple is also vulnerable to the same type of "political" attack. I can imagine Google railing against the evils of employing a workforce of indentured servants to assemble high profit electronic devices. Facebook could begin publicly questioning the wisdom of supporting a technocratic dictator who may be the world's worst offender of oppression through the use of data. Hopefully, Tim is going down this road with his eyes wide open - glass houses and all.
This is what always bugs me about recommendations to buy older devices as a solution to all problems. Updates = security.
they fought the govt where the only headlines would be positive. look at all the privacy features they're giving to Chinese citizens who actually need them. instead they literally gave the keys to everything to the Chinese government
I don't know why so many DDG users use '!g' unless they're using Edge or just aren't aware that Chromium and Firefox both let you create an arbitrary keyword like 'g' for a search provider, which is a lot easier to type.

Some of the other bang commands do look useful, though.
Could it be that since software is just everywhere in our lives, and unless we need a strong enforcement of quality (I'm thinking of safety critical systems, which can still have flaws), then society is OK with it being released in that state?

The individual or organization making that call doesn't really get punished, while the upside can get even higher if they can release earlier, faster, etc.
2. seems likely. There are parallels in the real world. Put up a billboard and maybe 25% of the people seeing it will never need your service. Is that 25% wasted? Yes. But you just build that into the price.

Its not quite the same as fraud, since offline you can always argue about brand-building even among non-customers, but the end result is the same, money spent on ads that won't result in spend.
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AlephOne was CTO of SecurityFocus which was acquired by Symantec back in 2002. He stayed on until 2011 and is now at Cisco.

Oh the golden days of #phrack and #2600 in the 90's. Was a teenager armed with a dialup to a BBS with an IRC gateway. The modem so slow I would type lines and wait for the characters to catch up on the screen.
The large majority of malware is distributed off the app store. Should antivirus software simply ignore these apps under the assumption that users have complete knowledge of what these apps are doing?
There are ways to make it user friendly. iOS can provide some kind of API that apps can use to explicitly request user to switch location services on. Just like permissions.

They can also have an option is settings to ONLY allow foreground app to use location service.

I bet most people don't want random apps to know their location in the background. They only want location when they know what it's used for (e.g. Google Maps, Uber/Lyft etc). If Apple is really so pro-privacy, they can find a way to stop apps tracking location in the background.
IMO it *is" magic because it's not the default.

with npm I have to go through special effort to get anything to install globally. With both python and perl I've read countless books and websites over the last 20 years and never once ran into that incantation. They all just say type

install Chocolate::Belgian

or

cpan Chocolate::Belgian

or

python -m pip install SomePackage

etc..
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I agree with pretty much all your points, however you are talking about exceptions.

The rule is still profits first.

I really wish our entire society would change to care about humans and not money but I can't see it ever happening.

People still prefer buying cheap things from China labour because it's convenient. The individuals don't care (or don't care enough) and the companies are a reflection of that. As you said, shareholders are the ones in control of the company but the consumers will determine their decisions.

It doesn't matter that children are sewing your shoe, as long as you buy them for a cheap price. What would happen if a company in that area were to double their price because they're changing suppliers to more humane companies? What would happen to a CEO that presents a graph showing the costs going up and profits going down?

The shareholders will surely fire the CEO and the consumers will be outraged with the price increase and will most likely be switching to a competitor.

My point is that it doesn't matter if a few exceptions do the right thing. The rule is still the same and it will never change. That's capitalism's entire foundation.
It plays for me in Chrome for Android (on a UK mobile network connection).
I wonder if they could make a whole new company/brand that’s competes at the low end. If it ran iOS though, would that be enough to cannibalize too many iPhone users than would be acceptable?

Wondering if they could accomplish the same thing many car brands do i.e. Honda <> Acura
Apple, unlike many Android outfits, supports their hardware for a pretty long time. This chart (https://www.statista.com/chart/5824/ios-iphone-compatibility...) suggests that they're supporting devices up to 5 years old; since the SE is just 2, it has a good 3 years of software and security updates to look forward to.
Yes! I thought parent wanted to get into experimental science but this is also a viable approach. There is a lot of data to be mined in biology and chemistry and a dearth of people making good models.
siri is behind because apple thought buying a natural language assistant startup was enough work/money spent to get into the smart assistant game. there is literally no research coming out of apple on smart assistants or machine learning(that isn't photos) and it shows
> If you request HTTPS instead, the server presents the certificate for TrackMyShows.tv

But will it successfully connect?