skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since many years I made a few application using wxWidgets, and the macOS part can have issues. While it's ok regarding the size of the app (in term of MB) you still drag and extensive library.
Is this an undefeatable weapon? It seems governments and bosses have "7 things they can hang you for" against anybody. Or Malicious Compliance wouldn't be a working striking strategy. What could go wrong with:

1. Accuser must provide evidence that deviations indicate worst case behaviour, not normal procedure, after researching similar staff members
2. No suing for deviations and law violations known by bosses
3. Prevent counter suing and prioritizing the suit of less powerful
That's not true at all; threats, for instance, are not incitements to violence, yet they cause harm. Fraud can be speech, but it is harmful. One philosopher noted how in his profession, if someone broke his left leg, this would not even compare to the kind of harm he'd suffer if someone wrote an slanderous piece against him and published it in a big newspaper. "Whites only" signs can be said to cause harm.

Put it this way: if speech cannot cause any harm, then it would be almost pointless to have a law which guarantees freedom of speech.

Aside from all this, the first source I linked is a good paper that already goes over this distinction of harm which you've outlined and how baseless it is. As I have already said: there is no metaphysical difference between speech and non-speech actions:

>I argued that all speech is conduct, involving an agent, and all conduct, being intentional action, is expressive (of the motivating intention); that speech does not differ from other conduct in being context-dependent and subject to interpretation; that speech is a physical phenomenon, having physical effects on its listeners, effects which can be caused by the content of the speech; and that verbal assaults can be harmful in the same ways that assaults involving direct bodily contact are. For these (and other) reasons, I concluded that the attempt to assimilate freedom of speech to freedom of thought and in that way distinguish it from freedom of action fails.
Sad to see such a lack of response from HN readers on this submission. I think it nicely illustrates how social media can be used for ill. Perhaps we think "yes, we know this already" but the discussions around ethics and what to do once you've created a monster aren't happening, and they need to be.

Instead we'll upvote and fervently discuss pointless exercises like porting vim to wasm.
I use both. Fastmail is more compatible with clients and has a good per-client security model. However it is based in Australia, which has increasingly insane digital privacy laws.

Proton mail has more advanced cryptographic features and my understanding is that your email is encrypted so they can't offer it up to third parties without your consent (or at least stealing your password.) The usability is not as good: search often does not work very well (I believe this is due to the encrypted nature of it) and there are only a handful of local clients you can use via their bridge. The mobile app is pretty good, the web app is acceptable but clunky.

I use fastmail for day to day stuff I don't care too much about and protonmail for my more important/personal stuff. Both support custom domains so you can move your email to another provider if you get sick of one.
Time is just a measurement that we haven’t quite nailed down the definition of yet.
I adopted a mix of both: FM for non-secure and calendar stuff, ProtonMail.ch for stuff that needs to stay private. I do love FastMail -- just wish their iOS app allowed me to sign into and switch between multiple FM accounts like Gmail does. The lack of this feature is the ONLY reason I'm not Gmail-free yet.
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These damn entitled white males, inventing products to make the world more efficient.
Tesla Net Income, Millions...
Q1 2019: -702
2018: -976
2017: -1,961
2016: -675
2015: -889
2014: -294
2013: -74
2012: -396
2011: -254
2010: -154
2009: -56
2008: -82
2007: -78

Amazon had losses for 5 years in the beginning of their existence, and then showed profit
I wouldn't be surprised if it's balanced out by having to spend more time shopping for clothes because all those repeated trips through the washer and dryer wear them out more quickly.

A while back we got fed up with our apartment's laundry facilities, and switched to one of those Haier portable washer units, drying on a clothesline, and washing less often. At this point I'm almost annoyed with how much longer my clothing is lasting, because I'm ready for some new colors.
This reads like a pretty good summary of how these pile-ons work. Take a small bit of what someone said out of context and make it larger than life in a few steps until everyone talks about that person being the next Hitler.
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Ugh stupid HN formatting. Sorry about that
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We are working on providing exactly that thin native wrapper in modern C++ without much bloat.
Why seaweed is strangling Mexican tourism, and how science could help
> There are standard C libraries that handle strings very well.

I'm not aware of any. I've never encountered a language that is more frustrating than C to manipulate strings in.

> Are you saying other languages don't have security exploits?

No, I'm saying they have fewer. Far fewer.

> And in 35 years of writing in C, I have only had a very few segfaults while writing new code but never in production

Good for you. In 25 years of writing C and working with dozens of other programmers writing C in that time, I've lost count of how many segfaults and memory corruption errors I've had to debug.

I don't miss those days and never want to go back.

> unless your knowledge is only from reading reddit headlines.

It is not. See above.
I've used both for some time and decided to move to Fastmail and so far I am very satisfied.

Fastmail does one thing and does it well, email. There is no PGP support. Protonmail does PGP in the browser via a library that they serve you themselves which I find less than ideal. If you want to do it outside the browser you need to have a subscription and download a bridge software that needs to be running on your machine. With Fastmail if I need PGP in my email I do it via the GPGTools plugin for the Mail app which uses the system gpg installation.
> fear of spontaneous Tesla combustion

heh.
> I think it nicely illustrates how social media can be used for ill.

This could be done even without the social media (although this does ofcourse make the process much easier). I'd more so blame a mindset for this than any technological tool.
I love Protonmail! I use it both on desktop and Android. It's interface is very basic, but that's the way I like it. I pay for it as well as ProtonVPN so they will hopefully stay in business.
Ask HN: Has there been any academic research into software interviewing?
Some common interview types are algorithm problems, pair programming exercises, take-home assignments, etc.

Has there been any research into the predictive power of such assessments? Is there any evidence that a particular type of question correlates well with job success?
Everyone makes snap judgments based on first impressions—the best people are just more self-aware to be able to recognize this in themselves and counteract it.
Wow, thanks for your answer.

Point 3 is something I haven't thought of yet. During reviews I pointed on some issues, not every. But that was never something I had a specific reason for, I was just focused on what we want to learn in this lesson.

I will keep that even more in mind now.
I believe some students who struggle with "being challenged" could do quite well at something like a trade school. I believe that higher education doesn't have to wholly be an intellectual battle of the minds where only the strongest survive. You can just teach somebody a trade so they can put food on the table. You can teach people to be better writers, better reseachers, how to study effectively, etc.

I believe higher education should be that PARTIALLY. However lots of students can get value from school without being put into a class which has difficult discussions about sensitive polarizing charged issues.
Open Source Artificial Pancreases? Yes Please
I always wonder how much lawyers in the US pay for their phone numbers... 444-4444 or 888-8888 and so on. I would guess it's even more?
I'm an ESL. I started learning English at school, then I started reading English novels (I remember reading the last Harry Potter book a few months before it was translated). And then a lot of time spent on the English-speaking parts of Internet.
The millions of unwed military-aged Chinese men that could be seen as economically expendable has always made me nervous.
I don't think I'd argue that emotional pain isn't "real." I have felt negative emotions before, I know that negative emotions actually make me feel bad. I also don't think it's some kind of good thing to make people feel bad. Sometimes it's just a matter of good manners -- respect people, avoid offending them, etc. You are positing that when microaggressions occur there was intent, however, and this is obviously false. In fact, it is exactly the lack of intent that is the focus of most of the conversation -- unconscious bias being the main explanation for why the aggressor commited the micro-act that led to the aggrieved's injury. There is a strong analogy to physical pain here, yes -- we're talking about the arena of ideas where unpleasant conversations and thoughts are inevitable if one is going to become and educated person. In a physical arena, say athletics, a similar situation would be where a coach makes everyone practice until they feel micro-pain, like maybe fatigue in their muscles and shortness of breath, or bumps and bruises from normal contact.
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I use both.

FastMail:

+ simple, lean, paid email.

+ fast web interface

++ working full text search( not just subject line)

+ No ads.

+ iOS App. Fast and simple.

+ Integrated calendar

- No encryption.

- group calendar has been a pain or non intuitive.

Protonmail:

+ Encrypted

+ Lean, safe web interface

+ IOS App that works.

+ or - Free as in cost.

- - - No Full text search.

- can't really configure your chosen email client to it...

- last time I tried, dragged and dropped images disappeared. May have improved UI now.

I only use protonmail for automated alerts and system originated communication.
Mods, this is from 2014, maybe add that to the title?
DRM is more about free listening than free speech.

The existence of DRM does not limit your speech. It does limit what speech you can consume but the author (presumably) wants to be limited in their speech.
The lessons should be straight forward tutorials that builds something relatively functional. This builds practical knowledge of capabilities and motivation. Then you teach theory to some of the basics as the practical knowledge grows. Then more complicated abstract theory as they progress.

As a teacher, you minimize roadblock time. Not eliminate, minimize. Let a student flop around like a fish to debug for a while and before they suffocate, you point out the problem. Also, answer questions or provide different strategies with their pros and cons.

If I can teach a crayon munching marine to dev this way, I’m pretty sure 99% of the human population that wants to dev can learn that way too.
No it's not a joke. The Model 3 and Model S have relatively high NVH and a relatively cheap feeling interior compared to vehicles of the same class and price point. You're paying German car money but it goes to the drive-train instead of the "luxury German driving machine" experience. There's nothing wrong with that but to talk up Tesla's vehicles as though they're luxury cars is foolish.
Off topic

I had a proton email created when it was announced & didn't use it. I found out that my mailbox decryption for that email id is not working (not sure how, I use password manager) & I haven't set a recovery email to recover my account.

I saw a HN comment earlier telling, the user had recovered their Proton mail account by answering few questions to customer service.

I attempted the same, the issue is that I used VPN to create the email id & didn't provide any personal details for the account.

They asked questions like,

-Do you remember the exact time and date when your account was created?
-When was the last time you have accessed your account?
-What is your display name?
-Do you remember to which addresses you have sent your last messages?
-Do you remember the email subjects of the last sent messages?

I tried to answer the account creation date by using the date of password creation in my password manager (the login password was working); but the support didn't seem to buy it.

They were insistent on,

-Can you please tell us if you remember from which addresses have you received your last few messages?
-Could you tell us if you have used the ProtonMail account to sign up for some other web services?

I told them, I don't remember receiving email from anyone else & I didn't sign up for any service

-There is a service that the xxxxx@protonmail.com address has been used to sign up for. Can you please tell us what that service is?

I told them again that I didn't sign up for any service using that email id.

- Can you tell us the full address below?

no-xxxxx@drxxxxx.com

Even though I could obviously guess the username of that email id. I told them that I didn't sign up with such service, that it must be a spam mail sent by some service.

They said,

- If you have not signed up for this service, the account probably belongs to someone else.

Then I typed 'no-xxxxx@drxxxxx.com' on Google Search, the instant results gave 'no-reply@dropbox.com' as the first result.

I sent them,

Hey sorry, I remembered the service. I did signed up for Dropbox & used the account for a while.

The email id you asked was,

no-reply@dropbox.com

They reset the account & I got access to it.

Edit: Had to fix the xxxxx.
This is scary, man. And it could happen to any of us. There was no public recording of the conversation. Just claims. And this was the result.

This is frightening.
Yep I swapped to it last year and I've had no problems. Works very well for me.
Warnock's Dilemma
Ask HN: What is the best way to prepare for my SOC interview
I have recently been offered an interview for the role of a 1st line SOC analyst. This is my first real interview so i am not really sure how to prepare for it. There will be a technical exam, group exercises and technical questions within my 1 to 1 interview. If anyone could direct me into what would be the best way to prepare i.e. what to revise for the interview, how to act in the group task it would be greatly appreciated.
Same reason people block Google Analytics or Facebook Like buttons. Many fonts are hosted by fonts.google.com
There seems to be a tremendous opportunity in higher education right now. Costs are out of control, administrative positions like this will eventually result in lower quality education and likely less successful graduates. An institute that truly values and teaches critical thinking while minimizing costs could change the world.
Triggers in PTSD commonly involve things that causes stress rather than specific topics. Bright light, loud noises, and sudden movements. I have seen several times where Medical professionals that treat PTSD recommended bans against fireworks, as a very low bar in order to reduce such stressors.

A healthy debate around PTSD might include listening to professionals that treats PTSD and follow their recommendations.
Theranos Granted 5 New Patents in 2019
Personally a machine that could iron and hang my shirts would save me a lot more time than a machine that could fold my t-shirts
Update adoption is getting slower because people (or perhaps just me) are frustrated with updates removing/changing functionality, making the device slower, or causing additional bugs beyond whatever was "fixed".

That's on top of the fact that my carrier refuses to stay on top of updates for my device anyway.
This scum bag wants to allows murders and rapists to vote from prison. If you support this guy your moral compass is broken.
> Android devices aren’t kept up to date, leaving their users unable to benefit from advancements in the platform.

What advancements? Both iOS and Android have for a few years reached maturity, not much exciting with each new update. At least not without new hardware, as most updates are to support something physical (notch, fingerprints, face scan etc).

I used to hate my phone not being updated, so switched to a brand of Android that kept them up to date. But lately I don't really mind. Only reason I upgraded to Pie this weekend (after being bugged by the updater for months) was because of a few emojis I couldn't see properly when being sent to me. The update hasn't done anything big. Things are a bit rounder, the clock is now in the wrong corner. Some BLE issues as well, making me regret the update.
That means their servers cannot be directly accessed but since they're based in Australia the company can be compelled to install decryption software without notifying anyone.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW-OMR-iWOE
Eric Sink is a great developer and blogger. If you have a bit of time, do yourself a favor and go through his entire archive ;)

-> https://ericsink.com/tocs/topics.html
More companies and people should take advantage of good 404 pages. What a good opportunity to add another “donate” or “upgrade” button!
Because a company cannot raise pay infinitely. This is explicitly a call to rebalance pay away from executives and towards hourly employees.
Or 1800-flowers/glasses etc.
Not sure why I should care. Can't think of a single feature I'm missing on my S6.
It last ticked back in 2010. It doesn't only go forwards.
The above quote mentioned the quoted one wants to take full control of character position, is this achievable with plain TeX?
The shining example of Google vs apple for me is the package manager. Since Android D, updating my apps has caused the phone to slow to a crawl. Fps drops heavily, apps are laggy, etc. There is no option to only download updates when charging. Google has done nothing about this for years now.

I still use Android because I need the control. But parts of the platform are just inexcusable (imo) in 2019.

Dont get me wrong, Apple has their own problems as well. But Fps drops aren't one of them (at least on my iPad)

If only apple let me actually have a non-terrible home screen...
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Very curious to hear success and non-success stories from people involved with sales, support and customer success.
I misread the title. The article is about the rate of adoption of new releases.

Personally, I think it's due to people keeping their phones longer (and, of course, carriers not passing on the major updates).
>Articles published in renowned journals and based on sound research or...

You are asking objective trustworthiness here. People's perceptions are more complex. On one hand we can't reliably know the objective trustworthiness (or objective truth for that matter) in a timely manner. OTOH we are evolved to use heuristics to deal with insufficient information and information overload.

Cliche as it may be, "the optics" aren't currently on the side of over-arching, globe-spanning climate action.

Contrast that with examples: ozone layer hole, smog in cities, polluted rivers, whale hunting, and many other similar issues - specific items that got popularized and solved more or less permanently in our lifetimes. There are several other specific issues considered pressing (like drug resistant pathogens, garbage in the oceans, overfishing, honey bee population collapse) that people support major efforts towards solving. There are other issues that recently came to attention as potentially pressing and requiring rapid research and again major efforts towards solving (like microplastics, insect population collapse).

We will solve the specific issues.
Australia's Daily Telegraph prints rival's pages by mistake
So the golden path in keeping a hobby on the fun side is to select one that is sufficiently expensive to never ever be at risk of seeing a break-even line at the horizon.

/wanders off to browse carbon handlebars
> Avoiding airplanes pretty much means you never travel longer than a thousand km or so.

Trains exist, and in first-world countries they're usually pleasant to use, even if it takes longer than an airplane.

But then again, if being in an airplane cabin with a peanut eater is dangerous, then being in a train wagon with one probably is as well.
> the fact that my carrier refuses to stay on top of updates for my device anyway.

I don't get why the carrier has to be involved at all. It has nothing to do with them at all so why do they even get a say in when a phone gets an update ?
About this point: "- can't really configure your chosen email client to it..."

Do you have any experience with using the IMAP Bridge? It is a daemon you run locally that translates between Protonmail's internal protocol and IMAP, to let you use your email client of choice. I'm using it and it seems to be working OK in my experience, but I don't use my Protonmail account heavily.
Is there any evidence that the general public's attitude toward privacy and surveillance is changing? Is _anyone_ persuaded to care who isn't already privacy-conscious?

I see articles like this all day long about Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, telecom providers, device manufacturers, DHS, Walmart, etc, etc.

Snowden's revelations about the NSA were in 2013, for God's sake.

And I don't evidence of any systematic change: no legislation to protect personal privacy (like the EU's GDPR), no effective boycotts of companies that abuse privacy.

It feels like we're losing, or have already lost.
Just lean into this one and buy brightly colored and patterned socks instead.

That way, you're obviously always wearing mismatched socks, and it becomes an obviously deliberate (if eccentric) fashion choice instead of a repeated sartorial goof-up.

Also, you get to wear socks that are more fun.
Is there any candidate yet that wasn't born in the 40s?
Whoa, I was not aware of this. Now I can completely avoid using the touchbar!
> What advancements?

Security?
Not particularly on topic, but OnePlus is a pretty decent choice if you don't want to pay Pixel prices but get an almost stock experience with reasonably rapid OS updates.
Also not found: any examples where socialist policies worked out in the long run.
> I think it's due to people keeping their phones longer

Why can't the old phones run the new versions of Android? There's been no architecture change has there?
I agree.
I get sponsored pins just barely tangentially related to my other interests and would love to not have them.
Does this get us any closer to being able to edit text fields using vi keybindings? I've tried some of the plugins (long ago) and was underwhelmed with the experience.
Even thought that 404 is as bad as they come, I think the issue here is more Cloudflare's than Sander's
The biggest problem is that android is not focusing on the low end where most of their users are. They need to make the UX on these older and slower devices _better_ with every update, not worse
~~There seems to be no source or github for kiwi browser.~~

Actually he is dumping source in the releases but no history or link to where he forked chromium (there may be an artifact in the source tree that would help however) -

https://github.com/kiwibrowser/android/releases.
The ability to update apps on battery power only. The ability to not have ridiculous lag during updates of my apps.

Better integration with password managers (works great in apps, not so much in Chrome)

S reasonable desktop experience (shout out to Samsung DeX FTW)