skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was talking about lifelong monogamy. This should be obvious from the "virtually impossible" descriptor. This is just basic logical reasoning.

> someone who gets infected and later dies from AIDS, but has had a child is better off than someone who never had kids. What kind of mental gymnastics is that

It's the kind of "mental gymnastics" where they propagate their genes and a celibate person doesn't. This isn't hard to understand so please don't be willfully obtuse.
Seconding this. I also work at Apple but I don’t want to associate myself with my day job here.
I got a Dell XPS 13 last year and the touchpad is great. I use it both on Windows and Ubuntu.

I also remember having a Toshiba something-or-other 10 years ago and hating the touchpad in comparison to a Mac. So, just saying, I've seen how bad it can be. The XPS has given me no issues aside from having to make sure I change the click behavior (tap to click really annoys me).
The link brings to a React Dashboard and the Vue version is not free (it's actually $24).
Wrong title?
Spotify India user here. At midnight when I found out from my friends that they launched in India, I switched from my $9.99/mo shared account from some internet service to Spotify's $1.67/mo within minutes.

Spotify had a pretty neat prepaid option too, where your subscription doesn't renew until you manually recharge. Was cool of them to add such an India-specific feature at launch.
Are there any good resources to read up on this?

I don't really recognize the name. The only thing I remember related to something similar was some windows program which somehow made peer-to-peer connections possible, supposedly through starting out using an external server first, and then somehow continuing in peer-to-peer mode.

Never did find out how it worked. But since with any connection involving a public server and a PC behind a NAT the packets reach the PC from the NAT because the NAT kept state, so I theorized that this program set this state up in a way that two machines behind NATs could continue this conversation.
Bigo bought out by YY for $1.45b
Kurzgesagt is a group of people who are aiming to explain science in a fun and visual way.

They have recently deleted their 2 most-watched videos (31M views at total) because they thought one of them was biased, wasn't wrong but didn't reflect the opinion of the other side and the other one was prepared with a moment of desperation.

I am a follower of the channel for quite some time. They already have my respect and love but they have managed to earn both once again.
Brilliant just finished watching micromen and loved it even though I was in the commodore camp myself. The spectrum next project is really cool for a 8bit remake computer. I hope to get one for the kids when it’s generally available.
That is a compelling argument. Be careful with the terms of use though, they can hide a few surprises.
Example: in Vectary's terms of use[1] I interpret the section 4.6 as "backing-up your data is your responsibility. If our servers burn, we might not be able to recover your data and we won't be responsible for it".

That being said, the limits of Vectary's services seem to be clearly stated, so one can adapt to them (by using some storage drives from OVH, Digital Ocean or any such provider to back-up the data, for instance)

[1] https://www.vectary.com/terms-of-use/
Even if there were some hypothetical mouse that needed that kind of speed (there isn't[1]), it's irrelevant to your parent's actual point.

[1] https://www.howtogeek.com/193866/are-there-any-benefits-from...
Well, I had a go at this problem with Tab Jump List addon. It creates temporary window-specific bookmarks. Might be handy at times, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-jump-list...
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Ask HN: Does anyone know of a (free) livestream for the RSA Conference today?
I want to keep tabs on the conference and check out the GHIDRA presentation. Does anyone know of a livestream link to it? I found some links to earlier livestreams (2017/2018) but can't seem to find one that's current.

Thanks
As far as I know Kostya he started by improving Helgrind as valgrind plugin in 2008: the first ThreadSanitizer (as project data-race-test) https://storage.googleapis.com/pub-tools-public-publication-... which was a harder problem than oob checks.
But it was still too slow, and they started with tsan and asan as clang plugin. Years later they ported it to gcc. gcc started then becoming more plugin friendly.
Ask HN: How to understand my stock warrants/options
I've been offered to be part of a warrant program and I have some difficulties trying to understand what I'm being offered. Can someone explain to me a bit more plainly what this means?

On the date of the conclusion of the Grant Agreement, the value of one Warrant is measured at $X.
Based on the value of one Warrant, the parties agree that N Warrants are covered by this agreement
on the application of section 7P of the Tax Assessment Act.

When exercising Warrants, the Employee subscribes shares in the Company of a nominal value of $1 each.
The subscription price for Warrants is Y * 100 (i.e. the price for each share of nominally $1 corresponds
to $Y).

Replaced some prices with X and Y and number of warrants with N.
>Easy. The Capitalism system is about predators and those who get eaten.

The primary ways people in capitalism get successful is by developing new technology or products, providing valuable services and employing people. The heroes of capitalism most celebrated here are people like Steve Jobs, Bill gates and Elon Musk. All of them have built fantastically successful companies, developing innovative and valuable new products and payed the wages of thousands or tens of thousands of people directly, and built ecosystems employing millions. All of those people benefited. Their customers benefited from useful products. Their suppliers benefited, their employees benefited otherwise why work for them? That is what capitalism is about.

But ok, you disagree, that's fine. I'm sure you must have good reasons. Please, tell me what non-capitalist system is better, how does it work and where has it been shown to be successful?
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A standard website cannot access your local services. 127.0.0.1 and localhost are local addresses to the server, not the end user system. Private addresses cannot be accessed over the public internet.

This is about a server accessing backend local services on the server or local private network via a SSL terminating reverse proxy etc.
I wonder about that too. My experience with Macbooks has been solid (vs. other laptops). I even spilled water (a full cup) on one of them and it only needed a Wifi card change.
How could you possibly know this? Every company I've every worked at is compartmentalized, and my experience is that Apple is especially compartmentalized, with secrecy and measures similar to governmental security clearance around various projects.
The incentives are not alligned properly. Cancer patients don't pay as good as advertisers. It would help if everybody would have an expensive cancer insurance. But I guess most people don't think about cancer until it's too late. It's more fun to buy stuff after clicking on ads.

Edit: the incentive of an insurance doesn't work either :( . It should be possible to bet money on getting cancer. Everybody who bets against me gets my money in the case that I don't get cancer.
While there are ways to make sure that the wealth transfer happens "just before they die" (rather than them living on after giving it away), the law tends to frown upon them.
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Power corrupts but the placard is still there and if the staff are holding their ground on opposing then its a sign that it may yet still be relevant.

I may very well be optimistic but I don't think Dragonfly will ever be released.
That's not the right way to talk about it. The error was in code that used Ragel but it was all on us. But as part of improving things we have moved away from non-memory safe languages and Ragel was using C.
Certainly not novel but whether or not it’s meaningful is quite subjective.
This is certainly a fun way to introduce twelve-tone equal temperament to someone who knows enough math to understand logarithms but is new to music theory. It works well, because the only elementary music theory claims that we need to accept without explanation are that there are twelve different note names that repeat in the same order and that each note of a given name is twice the frequency of the previous note of the same name.

Okay, not quite. You actually also need to know that the frequency ratios of all pairs of keys n keys apart should be the same, for all n. This article kind of sneaks that one in silently. But once you’ve accepted that, it leaves you with only one option: tuning the keys to frequencies spaced evenly along the logarithmic axis.

Of course, there are so many more details on every side of this topic. Why 12 divisions per octave (this certainly isn’t the case for all musical traditions)? Why do we want all pairs of notes n steps apart to have the same ratio (this certainly isn’t the case for some instruments)?

And, most importantly to me, since it’s the question I can find the least solid information on: why do we take for granted that one note with twice the frequency of another note sounds so similar that we call both notes by the same name? I have a pretty good understanding of other details of music theory, but I’ve never gotten a straight answer on why (and indeed to what extent) octave equivalence exists.

I’ve always speculated that it has something to do with our auditory systems evolving to interpret sounds from roughly simple harmonic oscillators, because those exist in important roles in nature (like the vibrating chords and air columns of human and animal vocalization).

But that’s still not a great explanation to me. Yeah, there’s some important noise-makers in nature that have roughly the overtone series. But why would it be important to hear the first overtone as equivalent (in some strong but not absolute sense) to the fundamental? Could it have something to with hearing vocalizations from a distance such that the fundamental would be more attenuated than overtones? That’s really grasping at straws.
> Meanwhile advertising is a direct social negative (IMO a cancer on human society)

Wow wow wow you can't just make a claim like that without any basis whatsoever? It might be true or not, but would you mind collaborating on why you think that? I am not even talking about proving it with some science (which is likely very hard), but you just write it off as if everyone else is sharing your view and as if it is self-explanatory or widely accepted. It is not.

Capitalism and the product culture has led to the most technological and in many case, lifestyle, lifespan, and life standard advancements known in history. This way of propelling progress forward requries efficient markets, and markets need to connect products with people who want and can benefit from those products. No advertisement is directly forcing anyone to buy or do anything, they just provide information for people and help locating people who might otherwise not have knowledge of the products they might want.

Assuming your take on the advertisement industry is different, what is that take?
I'm still on a late 2011 13". I hit the SATA cable issue once, and called in a lot of favors to get an official replacement (the quote was absurdly high).

The second time it happened, I ordered a couple more cables through ebay. That was 2 years ago, and the second one is still sitting in my drawer...
> yes, all of the statistics which show a deviation from a priori gender balance

Why do you think so?

Regardless of what criteria you use to split human groups, you get non-equal distributions, because people are different.

To me, exact equal balance everywhere would be a much stronger indication that indeed something very fishy is going on.

> any group based genetic hypothesis

Really? All children are born to women, none to men. Obviously cultural forces.

Most women prefer men as mates. Most men prefer women as mates. Obviously cultural forces.

Little infants and even little infant monkeys show gendered toy preferences. Obviously cultural forces.

Women vastly prefer early childhood education as a degree. Obviously cultural forces.
Eh, if they ever release it we know Google being Google will just shut it down a few years later like every other new Google product they have released.
> First of all, Rome did not unite neighboring groups in Italy as a culture

It very much did.

> never mind Europe.

It did that, too, though less tightly.

> The lands and tribes they conquered simply used Latin for trade and as a lingua franca. It never became the mother tongue for any of those people.

And where exactly did the Romance languages that are the mother tongues of much of the area that Rome used to rule come from, then?
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Interestingly, I did computer science at Cambridge, and now I'm doing university research in genetics. I very much view what I'm doing as applied computer science, with a not-insignificant amount of software development.

By the way, you gave your supervisor quite a scare when you went off and got a computing job before you had submitted your thesis. I remember him lamenting about it quite clearly.
Indeed. If you want to support full Scheme semantics, with continuations and all the crazy control structures, you really need to contort the C language into a form that's pretty hard to grok. That's the sacrifice Gambit and Chicken made, and it's probably a worthy one given how excellent and complete those compilers are.

Pre-Scheme is intended for a different use case -- when you want the level of fine-grained control that C gives you but don't want to leave Lisp behind. Its semantics are accordingly quite different from Scheme's and it doesn't support the full set of Scheme control structures, nor implicit garbage collection.
I just got a precision 5530, an xps 15 clone. The touchpad is pretty good, but it takes some getting used to coming from a MacBook pro 15.
https://www.rsaconference.com/live

Though I believe this is just for keynotes.

You can get a free ticket from most vendors, search "RSAC free pass", to ensure you can access all the recordings when they are posted post-conference.
All the Spectrum computers were awesome computers that somehow crammed a lot into a very compact package. The Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ was my first computer and I recently snagged one on eBay. With the right transformer and HDMI converter, I had it hooked to the living room TV in no time.

It took less than 30 mins for my 11-year-old daughter to figure out how to draw basic rectangles and circles in various colors on the screen. She was hooked. And I was transported back to my childhood. I saw the same joy I experienced as she discovered new ways to have the computer do her bidding.

Today’s computers can do amazing things, but they sort of miss out on the whole human user experience bit. Maybe they need to go back to basic ;-)
the dell xps machines are quite nice and higher spec'ed than the surface stuff
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There's PEP for condoms breaking.
You can still get a real working zx spectrum off ebay for about £30-50. Go on, treat yourself!
1. There's something fundamentally strange about this question. Suppose the answer is "there is none"; is that meant to be some sort of absurdity? Perhaps we should spend less effort "accumulating wealth". It might be healthier for us and/or for society.[1]

2. I suspect that no one in this discussion (even those whose words suggest otherwise) want it to be so that you literally can't leave anything to your children. So there's some point in accumulating whatever amount you can leave to them.

3. By and large, I think people accumulate wealth mostly in order to have it. I'd rather have $3M in the bank and know that barring really major upheavals I never have to worry about being poor, than have $0 in the bank and live precariously from one payday to the next. This would be true even if I had no children and no prospect of ever having any. It would be true even with a decent "safety net" ensuring that even if I completely ran out of my own money I'd never be, e.g., at risk of starvation or homelessness.

[EDITED to add:] Wait, there's more.

4. You might accumulate wealth in order to use it for some expensive enterprise. Consider e.g. Elon Musk, who (at least the way he tells it) got rich in order to save the environment and give us the ability to escape to Mars if we need to. I don't know what Warren Buffett's original motivation for getting rich was, but his present alleged intention is to give away almost everything he has for charitable purposes, and he explicitly says he doesn't want to give his children too much. (Though it may well be that "too much" in his sense is much more than 99% of parents could possibly give their children.) The advantage of this sort of use of wealth is that it doesn't suffer from diminishing returns as much as spending the money on yourself does. There's not much I could do with $2B that I couldn't do with $1B, but $2B will save approximately twice the number of lives that $1B will.

5. You might want to turn your wealth into power. Lots of lobbying. Carefully targetted political donations. Make yourself a household name and run for president of the US. Give funds to academics and other potential public intellectuals who happen to have views you want to be more widely heard. With a couple of billion used carefully you can have a big impact on your country, or even on the world as a whole.

[1] Or, of course, it might not; it could be, for instance, that the smooth running of a modern economy depends on a level of acquisitiveness that could never exist if people were getting money only for their own use and not their children's. (As it happens, I think that's unlikely.)
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Which is the best free utility for writing raw images to USB drives?
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Writing code for your future self
I am just now digging a bit into IFTTT like event driven api pipelines (OS of course) and so the "Automated Events" section on tile38.com hit my attention - niiice!

I just today found this interesting project:

http://www.flogo.io/

and this seems to be a great fit! Very nice toolset!

NO, I am not affiliated, I just liked it. I tried several different things, Flogo seems to have hit a nice spot between "general, but not too generic tool" with easy extensibility but still good usability for gui experiences.

Adding an event capable mapping server to the toolbox triggers exciting ideas!

Thank you very much for making this fantastic project a present to the world! Great!
Outside-In TDD on Android
Care to elaborate? Both these comments are just name calling at this point.

Don't know much, but my Indian friends seem to like them. From what I gather they compete strongly on price (as in free) in an attempt to get into many other sectors. Once you have a wechat-esque hold on numerous market sectors making them profitable isn't really that hard, which seems to be their goal.

I certainly don't agree with this type of business model either, but then again most people I know give strange looks when I rail against FB or Google.
Very interesting. Welding glass and metal together instead of using an adhesive. This could be big, depending on how long-term testing comes out. The trick seems to be to use picosecond laser pulses to avoid running into thermal issues with the very different materials.
Charged Interactions
I just checked and I do have the latest firmware for both the laptop and the dock. The issue still persists.

What is your motherboard version? Mine is A03. I had the initial one replaced. (I also replaced TB15 that was a total failure)
The link gives me 404.
FWIW I don't think Jon is suggesting an OOP approach either. ECS advocates definitely promote that as the dichotomy though. There are lots of ways to structure game state without having to go the fine grained route.
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Pick any random cable, regardless of what’s on the ends.

Yes, I can determine what it is used for, because I bought it for a purpose. What you are describing is the same issue with barrel-style AC or DC wall warts, and those powered the world for a few decades just fine.
I'm guessing you don't use your laptop in your lap. It is impossible to avoid some strain on the cable while the computer is on your lap, because it must hang unsupported.

Use it this way for a while and I guarantee that no matter how much you care, the plastic will splinter exposing the inner cables and eventually shorting them.
If the car was worth $200k to you when you bought it, great. If it was not, why did you buy it?
> People bitch and moan about how unfair everything is and while it is unfair the wealth the poorest individual has in the united states is light years ahead of what kings had in the middle ages.

I have better medicine, better comfort (bed, electricity, running water ..), &c. than the richest emperor of 2000 years ago. Does it invalidate any critics I can make ?

As far as I can tell capitalism didn't sell mere survival as a goal, yet we're telling an ever growing part of the population that they'll have to deal with it.

"The necessity of production is so easily proved that any hack philosopher of industrialism can fill ten books with it. Unfortunately for these neo-economist thinkers, these proofs belong to the nineteenth century, a time when the misery of the working classes made the right to work the counterpart of the right to be a slave, claimed at the dawn of time by prisoners about to be massacred. Above all it was a question of surviving, of not disappearing physically."

"The imperatives of production are the imperatives of survival; from now on, people want to live, not just to survive."

- Raoul Vaneigem
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I found a chrome extension a year or so back called workona [0]. It _kind of_ did this, but was fairly limited and I gave up on it. Might be worth taking a look at for your use cases

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/workona-tab-manage...
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Automatically exclude development dependencies from Apple Time Machine backups
Bad news: Apple takes us for fools, again. this sucks.

Good news: many businesses and influencers (iFixit, Louis Rossman, Linus Tech Tips ...) are talking about it. This is bad press for Apple. The more noise we make about these issues, the better the chances are that Apple improves on its flaws.

I'm not overly optimistic about it: spreading the word about Apple's bad habits might be useless. But trying and failing is in my opinion better than not trying at all : at best, Apple makes better product ; At worst, they just keep on doing what they're doing.
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