skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's 1984 kafkaesque. The slowly-boiled frog deserves neither liberty nor safety. What the naïve fools don't grasp is anything they do or any information about them can be used to target them for arbitrary or deliberate police or political purposes.

Oh and then there's the peer-pressure gaslighting of anyone pushing back on the "nothing to hide" mantra or pantopticon surveillance state. Ask them to live in glass houses or give over their banking details, suddenly they have less "nothing to hide."

Lock up anything you value because no one else will. Also a good book: Three Felonies a Day
If your goal is to arrest someone for the crime, then this may be the best way; but if you optimise society for catching criminals you aren't optimising for prosperity, comfort or sustainability.

The country with the greatest personal liberty, currently probably the US, is consistently a place that people would choose to live if they had a choice. This is a hint that moving away from personal liberty will end up with a society that is (1) free of crime and (2) not a desirable place to move to.

I'm not really going to expand the argument; I hope it is self-evident why having your activities reviewed by a person who might choose to arrest you is going to make your life worse. Statistically and at the macro scale that is a bigger threat to you than a home invasion (even if you think you aren't committing any crimes - I hope you've read all the laws that apply to you, don't ever get into a grey area and the police never make a mistake!).
The issue is much more complex.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2013/04/08/indias...
People with schizophrenia get put on anti-psychotic medication. One of the side-effects is significant weight gain. It's likely that this weight gain is affecting gut-microbiome.

It's nice to see they're being a bit cautious.
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You can do it with Xcode by opening the devices and simulators window.
It is crazy how quickly gaming on demand/in the cloud has developed lately. I was very skeptical of the technology at first but said "fuck it, I'll try" and it is working far better than I expected.

I work with VNC/RDP access to machines every day and could never imagine to game on a remote machine, but Shadow's proprietary protocol is super swift on my 50Mbit-network.

If anyone of you is interested in gaming but does not want to buy a $2000 gaming PC or wants to game on the go, I would strongly suggest you try this out (as long as you're close to one of their DCs).

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I first and best understood Jasper Johns in particular 'Flag' (1954 onwards) through viewing a documentary as a teenager.

The narrator described 'Flag' as many things: a flag, a painting, a sculptural object, a commentary and a concept.

These were and remain all true and equally valid.

The historical context of mid-50s America is helpful but not essential. Of more relevance is the disruptive innovation of creating a work both of and outside the system, that ends up influencing the system in return.

It's like a self-aware mutation with genetic and memetic qualities.
Yeah, exactly.

By 15yo, I was knee-deep in trying to make my own games. Final exams came, after which everyone's chatting about how they solved the math questions. "It was simple, I've used Pythagorean theorem", they'd say, and I rolled my eyes wondering how that applies. I said, "it was simple, I've used the formula for the length of a 2D vector, which is also the same for the distance between two points". They rolled their eyes wondering what I was talking about.

(It did click for me a couple moments later that the cool thing I've learned for my game programming goals was, in fact, derived from the Pythagorean theorem.)
Thank you for your thoughts on it, I'm intrigued enough to really want to look more into it. Even if I don't get to use it, I think it will give me some ideas that I can apply to other projects.
Police search areas around crimes, people known to be in those locations (log books, identifications on surveillance), and warrants against locations searching for evidence. Warrants don't need to be against a person.
It's basically a reinterpret_cast, it's dirty and should look dirty, even if it's necessary in this case.
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Ask HN: What Best Practices does your company follows to write alert playbooks ?
Most of the tech companies operating at some significant scale must have a lot of alerts and for those alerts they must have playbooks.

These playbooks need to be concise and precise to make sure MTTI and MTTR is on the lower side. So what practices does the tech companies follow to make sure that these alerts are remediated within some time. If the companies do not have playbooks, then how does debugging happen at the time of alerts.
I'm sure someone has tried to use their digital records as an alibi.
There were, up to a point. France and the UK carved up several continents without much tension, after 1850 or so.

Provided that China becomes less authoritarian and the US doesn't do something stupid, it's not impossible for both to coexist, while still competing.
> I had a Surface Book 2 with a whole host of issues as well.

I mean, to an extent you expect that from Microsoft (certainly their whole Surface line has been pretty buggy). People are more annoyed at similar issues with Macs because historically they haven't had them (or at least have had them less than other vendors).

To be honest, I suspect the 2018 MBPs _still_ have fewer weird issues than most of the competition (imagine how Apple users would react if it routinely shipped with coil whine, or the sort of screen quality issues that are common on the Surface line...) but it definitely feels like Apple have slipped a bit, and given that their whole thing was always "it just works", that's not great.
Once I entered an Apple store with a cracked case (white MacBook fell from the table). I left with a brand new lower part (hard disk excepted - they moved mine to the new machine) for free. There was a recall for the case, IIRC, one for the upper palm rest (something to do with magnets that made the plastic crack) and they replaced the keyboard for no reason.

I have to say Apple's support experience is stellar. I can't imagine having that with a Dell or Lenovo.
Ask HN: How to Help Beginner Java Developer
Hi HN.

I'm a senior developer looking for advice on how to help a totally beginner java software developer to acquire programming skills.

This developer comes from a social science degree, a 1 year conversion master degree to computer science and it's the first time working in software development role.

This person is in the position by less than 6 months and the progress is relatively slow, maybe it's just how it is.

What have been done to help:
- Provided a copy of Java Effective, a presentation is given every week about some items of the book;
- Constant helping with explanations and walking through solutions (copilot);
- Suggested to look for programming courses to improve skills;
- Suggested to practice with programming challenges from websites like CodeWars and HackerRank;

What else could you suggest to start or stop doing?

Thanks!
Not much different from having to install brew to get usably recent versions of basic developer utilities on macOS or installing WSL on Windows. Atleast with the Thinkpad I still have my arm and leg to get it done and I love the keyboard.
I was running my own email server round about this time, and gave it up mid-2000s, in great part because of spam. Both inbound filtering and outbound deliverability into other people's filters.

It seems that centralisation has been highly effective in spam-fighting. Google must have a huge corpus of spam and ham, and they also have the benefit of being able to spot patterns of incoming mail "live" across a very large number of accounts.
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I assume that as a reader of the code, I can get to the code behind those diagrams, not just the images? If yes, I would call it acceptable. Not something I'd prefer personally, but that's a good trade off between actually making an illustration for the sigted and making something accessible to everyone. Accessibility must be taken into consideration, but it shouldn't dominate the software and make the experience worse for users who don't need it. I think you strike the balance here.
And a future too apparently...
Does Germany not have judicial review of these kinds of police requests?
I think it was sarcasm.
> the pro audio industry is probably 1/3rd of the Macbook Pro market

Citation needed - I seriously doubt that the the professional audio market is large enough.
http://thegrumpysage.me

Philosophical poetry and stuff. Not very regular.
This is actually by design, I think, though it's arguably pretty surprising behaviour. Every audio output has an independent volume; it's just reverting to whatever the speaker volume happened to be.
> And since cryptocurrencies aren't really used for real transactions, we can't really see how they would fare in a competitive currency market.

They used to be. I made online purchases and bought coffee in real life using Bitcoin just a few years ago. The evolution of Cryptocurrency has been away from any real-world usefulness, and toward its current incarnation as a largely speculative instrument.

And I would argue that in fact this has been the result of a Libertarian experiment playing out. Everything about Bitcoin has been opt-in: in principal anyone is free to own a node, and the community would have been free to opt-in to a governance structure which would have discouraged actions which made Bitcoin less useful to the majority of users, but this is not what happened. Instead power was consolidated in the hands of a few, who chose their own self-interest to the detriment of the larger community.

I am not a fan of coercive government, but I struggle to see how the story of cryptocurrency to this point does not provide evidence that some strategy is needed, beyond maximal personal liberty, to discourage bad actors from causing disproportionate harm to the collective.
Most “high deductible” plans (the ones eligible for an HSA account) use coinsurance for medical services, instead of copays (there may be copays after you hit the deductible).

This is different from an HMO, PPO, or EPO, where you’ll have copays for most in-network services and some out of network services.

All US insurance plans also typically have copays for most medications.

Of course, all of this differs state by state along with state regulations. Also, I believe that since the ACA you’re supposed to get an annual checkup covered in full as well as a couple other preventative items.

Have you come to this conclusion after billing or after reviewing the insurer’s pricing schedule for your plan?
Protection is for victims who fit the hierarchy.
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We all know green m&ms cause acne.

But it is a problem. Lots of people publishing just to publish (a consequence of how academia is laid out), and then sensationalist media who doesn't understand what's actually being said, or why to be skeptical (or maybe they do, and just don't care) , takes over and runs with it.
The article equates empire with civilisations, but that's not entirely correct. Sometimes the collapse of an empire coincides with the collapse of a civilisation (like the Western Roman Empire), but sometimes it doesn't (HRE, Austrian, British). In fact most European empires' collapse haven't hurt European civilisation in any way, because these empires didn't dominate the continent and had lots of contact with surrounding countries.

So will modern western civilisation collapse? There's certainly a number of red flags. Not just the rising inequality and oligarchy in the US. More worrying to me is the rise of authoritarianism, decreased trust in democracy, and decreased commitment and understanding of our rights and values.

Authoritarianism is on the rise all over the world. China will inevitably overtake the US as the most powerful economy at some point in the future, and China is deeply committed to remaining unfree: no free expression, press or elections. Russia's democratic revolution after Gorbachev and Yeltsin seems to have failed with Putin. The Arab Spring only really succeeded in Tunis; the other Arab countries just ended up with either their old or a new dictator, or otherwise became violent and unstable. South America seemed to become more democratic, but is getting more authoritarian again in Brazil and Venezuela.

And most importantly, the US and the EU themselves are struggling with authoritarianism from within: Trump and his supporters, Hungary, but EU technocracy doesn't exactly inspire confidence either.

I do think that these are developments we need to turn around. Lately I've started to fear that maybe these past few centuries of enlightenment may have been a fluke.
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Ask HN: Do You Talk about Your Technical Interests with Your Partners? and How?
Hey there,

Today I was asking some coworkers how they share their interests and knowledge about their domain of expertise to their spouse/significant others/kids, and I was surprised to learn that the none of them do such a thing. I personally spent a huge amount of time with my partners discussing and sharing topics from theirs or mine, that's one of the main activity (not necessarily the main one, but definitely in the top 3-5). As an example we started recently to study the book "Introduction to Algorthms, 3rd ed." and spent Sunday afternoon discussing the first chapters and exercises.

So now I'm wondering, is it something that you do? If no, do you have a reason to not do it (too complicated, takes too much time, person expressed not being interested, ...)? If yes, how do you approach those discussions? Based on my personal experience it can be really time and energy consuming, but it's satisfying at the end to be able to have some discussions on what one of us is interested into.

Just interested to read about other people perspective on this :)
> For those who don’t care how their phone is backed up, iTunes is the only way to fully backup their phone at all without paying for iCloud.

I'm unclear by this statement. iTunes backups are technically a more 'full' backup than the iCloud ones, because iCloud will avoid caches, files marked as not-to-backup, and will not back up files which are part of app packages (and can just be downloaded again). But you can do an iCloud backup without paying a cent - you'll just hit a storage limit with sufficient data/devices and have to start paying for additional storage.

> iTunes is the only way I can listen to Apple Music on my Mac.

There was an article here the other day about http://musi.sh

> I can’t wait until I’m not forced to use iTunes.

I thought the hold-up was that it was cross platform between Mac and Windows - but the Win 10 version is still the same old crap.
Cell providers have information on what cell sites a mobile user has connected to and rough triangulations of the devices position.

Google has the exact GPS coordinates sent by the device itself, WiFi networks around it, and other location data.
That's because of atrocious urban planning. Traditional Mediterranean streets were never meant for cars. Municipal governments, instead of having a clear strategy where historic city centers are preserved and everything else is bulldozed to make room for proper, modern urban design have instead opted to have no plan whatsoever. As a consequence, there is now nowhere to park, the streets are hard to navigate (even for locals) and things like sidewalks and bike lanes are pure fantasy in many of Croatia's coastal cities.
It would be hilarious if everybody suddenly shifted to a Prolog implementation with ML functionality ¯\(°_o)/¯
The original: https://github.com/emmericp/ixy

Haskell: https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.hs

Brothers in arms: https://github.com/ixy-languages

Previous discussion:

- Rust: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18405515

- Go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18399389
Isn't this being blown out of proportion? Can't it be simply repaired by a firmware update?
Gmail can do that because they can see into the inboxes of many million of people. So if a mail is flagged as spam somewhere, it can use that info as a signal to classify it as spam in my inbox.

That is not the content based plan for spam PG describes.

And it comes at a cost. Complete loss of control over your inbox.
This. I was hoping something of the sorts of "if I like X game, I might also like Y game"

Another suggestion, have more pictures of the games. Specially of the board, mid-game. It's a nice way to have a sort of feel for the game.
Here's a screenshot comparing vue, react and vanilla javascript [1]

https://screenshots.firefox.com/5I1plTW4qc61JEjR/rawgit.com
And thus cancer was born?
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I agree tho, the tech is interesting

it is pretty amazing how they have achieved that there is no noticeable latency if you're within a couple of 100 miles from their dc
A lot happened since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. If western civilisation today collapses, of course something will come in its place. But it won't be the same thing, and we'll have lots of social upheaval and possibly war in the mean time.

Also, the UK Pound has lost a lot of value over the past couple of decades. According to this chart[0], it more than halved in comparison to the dollar since 1953.

[0] http://fxtop.com/en/historical-exchange-rates.php?YA=1&C1=GB...
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Not surprised after watching Louis Rossmann's rants and demos of brand new MBP's failing. Glad I bought a Lenovo T480 on-sale rather than deal with an overpriced loaf Apple pinched out lately.
>The country with the greatest personal liberty, currently probably the US

What's their prison population again?
People underestimate the industry involvement with this hype. Microbiome drows lots of water.
Is it really that great? How many apps do we use in our day to day life? Let's say 20 apps that we use regularly.

Is $100 too much for lifetime access to these apps?
Wherever I saw this idea originally (I think it may have been the TV show Braniac) cut one grape in half so there was just a little sliver left connecting the halves which gives a really nice arc between them.

I later reckoned a cherry tomato would probably do the same thing and it definitely does. I remember at the time thinking the grape gave a whitish-blue arc where the tomato gave an orangey-red one but not sure whether I was imagining that.

Probably two of the safest microwave tricks to do, as it is just food after all, but the CD one is definitely worth the temporary smell of burnt plastic.
Take your race baiting and shove it.
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> That said, the criticism above is very scarce on details. What exactly is the nonsense about mathematical concepts that he is objecting to?

There are examples in the thread I linked to.

> But the strongest argument going for Clark, IMO, is his stunning pictures.

I've seen countless amateurs produce far better images with much cheaper equipment. He also misses the point of modding cameras, improving Ha sensitivity allows more structure to be captured. A case in point, this is my quick and cheap North America nebula with an old modded DSLR and Ha filter: https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4490/37423232795_8a37a7ecbf_h....

My colour image isn't great but it shows a great deal more structure than Mr Clark's, despite using the same 200mm camera lens and less exposure time: https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/593/22026540174_273c7ffa8b_b.j...

For comparison: http://www.clarkvision.com/galleries/gallery.astrophoto-1/we...
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Except for the 1-indexing part.
Absolutely.

I hate library/playlist oriented stuff. I have everything organized in folders and files, with good filenames. Since I have in my collection a lot of unkown, old or rare media, most programs are not able to find out what it it or even tag them wrong!

I still use foobar. On my kodi setup, I navigate almost everything via file browser. I spent a lot of time finding a decent folder oriented audio player for android.
FAANG is an investor term for people who want to throw money at the tech bubble. If, as a developer, you are not offered equity to work there I would forget that term as what you are really doing is brand name shopping for vanity.

> so I haven't had strong classes about CS fundamentals

I wouldn't worry about that. Most developers either treat their undergrad CS education like a weak trade school they don't take seriously, or are preparing for further education.

Honestly, it sounds like you are shopping for buzzwords in preparation from some future job interview. I would instead focus your energy on solving hard problems and building valid experience.
IANAL but I think the law says "if the judge says its okay, its okay."
Right, so bitcoin main stands out as especially terrible, even among the ecosystem of terribly inefficient PoW cryptocurrencies.
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It looks like the left-pad incident has collectively taught us nothing and has had no lasting effects. One of the things that bothers me the most is over and over casually downloading 1568 independently controlled packages from a free-for-all repository (also privately owned and controlled, but that's a different discussion).

create-react-app is a complex tool put together by I team I largely trust. What I want on my machine is a static build of their work, not the whole sausage making factory in 1568 pieces. Once I would have the binaries, the whole of npm and the JavaScript ecosystem could go away altogether and I would still be able to build and deploy my apps.

The package, in its published form, would be vetted by the create-react-app, who have a much better idea of what's going on in their dependency tree than I do. If they decided they need that many dependencies, it is up to them to manage the complexity. That said, it would probably make their lives easier to depend on 10-20 packages, statically built by people they trust, and so on.

Even if the result of this would initially be very similar to today (still running the same code of those 1568 packages), it would make me trust this stack a lot more.
> The point is it is possible to deploy serious server-side software written in Swift, and people are already doing it.

Examples that you would care to share with us?

Really serious examples, not the typical blogs and ToDo's done with Kitura I have seen at some conferences.

For me, Tensorflow would be better served with Julia, given the target demographics.

However if it helps Swift ever to be usable on Windows, then more the better.
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Programming and technology, I'm currently working on rebuilding it and new content after a bit of a hiatus
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Links to personal projects and conf talk videos.
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You won’t change the world. Best case you’ll be vaguely known for a dead front-end tech in 20 years.
Making aluminum isn't a waste! You can build airplanes out of aluminum. You can also relatively easily recycle aluminum into more aluminum things, so it's not like you have to pay that smelting cost every single time you want to purchase anything.
> it dies [...] while thinking it's at 20% battery

This is definitely a manufacturing defect with your battery and you should take it in for warranty repair. It should never do that unless the battery is severely degraded (1000+ cycles)
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