skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The last conversation I was in on this topic was highlighting that the data shows very high numbers of events from some ecological and animal rights groups and considering them as left wing violence, and from that arguing that there was much more left wing violence than right wing violence. Almost all of those events were property damage. This is all in the https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/ dataset.

The dataset that I mention above doesn't contain any references to antifa. This is probably because 'antifa' isn't a specific group, but an umbrella term for a number of groups, some of which are entirely nonviolent or target only property.

> This is the kind of thing I'm talking about: bad faith straw manning to justify ignoring violence by leftists.

This is pretty unfair. I'm not in a position to do anything about any particular act of violence, but there's a strong chance that if you suggest a concrete example to me I'll state that I disagree with it. For example, I don't believe that you should punch people you disagree with in the face, regardless of whether they are fascists or not.

You should not be surprised however, that people are more aware of violence resulting in fatalities and more vocal in their condemnation of it than other violence (even other violence that they also disagree with).
The iPod started off as a Mac accessory and ended up transforming multiple industries.

The iPhone was a Mac derivative and computer accessory that required iTunes to even work but became the most successful product in all of human history. You could call it just a ‘mac in your pocket’ but it would still be the most successful products

The watch is on a similar trajectory.
Yeah sorry if I came off as dismissive. It's usually a long process, if that's how things run.
That's actually the most disturbing aspect. They're absolutely cruel and disgusting, and yet extremely sexual. And it's been very hard to forget about them.

Some old-school shock sites were a little like that. Lemon party, for example, is a disturbing image, for an old man. And that girls/cups one. But even those are just funny, compared to what I'm talking about.

If you email me, or PM me on Keybase, I'll share the link.
Log structure is really important, from the examples provided I would suggest the same approach can be used using a full 'logfmt' style, so timestamp and the event type can be set as keys, e.g:

ts="2019-03-18 22:48:32.990" event="Request started" http_method=POST http_path=/v1/charges request_id=req_123

the main difference is that you make easier the parsing since many tools can parse lOgfmt without problems.

One interesting use-case here for 'me' is the ability to perform queries in a schema-less fashion and I will do a quick speech on what we are working on Fluent Bit[0] (open source log project), pretty much the ability to query your data while is still in motion (stream processing on the edge[1]). Consider the following data samples in a log file:

ts="2019-03-18 22:48:32.990" event="Request started" http_method=POST http_path=/v1/charges request_id=req_123
ts="2019-03-18 22:48:32.991" event="User authenticated" auth_type=api_key key_id=mk_123 user_id=usr_123
ts="2019-03-18 22:48:32.992" event="Rate limiting ran" rate_allowed=true rate_quota=100 rate_remaining=99
ts="2019-03-18 22:48:32.998" event="Charge created" charge_id=ch_123 permissions_used=account_write team=acquiring
ts="2019-03-18 22:48:32.999" event="Request finished" alloc_count=9123 database_queries=34 duration=0.009 http_status=200

so if I wanted to retrieve all events associated for user 123 I would process the file as follows:

$ fluent-bit -R conf/parsers.conf \
-i tail -p alias=data -p path=canonical.log -p parser=logfmt \
-T "SELECT * FROM STREAM:data WHERE user_id='usr_123';"
-o null -f 1

the output is:

[1552949312.991000, {"event"=>"User authenticated", "auth_type"=>"api_key", "key_id"=>"mk_123", "user_id"=>"usr_123"}]

the results are in a raw mode but can be exported to stdout in json, to elasticsearch, kafka or any output destination supported.

One of the great things of the stream processor engine is that you can create new streams of data based on results, use windows of time (tumbling) for aggregation queries and such.

[0] https://fluentbit.io

[1] https://docs.fluentbit.io/stream-processing
I see no indication that that ship can only operate the F35B. It's designed for VSTOL aircraft, so it doesn't have catapults like American carriers. This isn't new for the UK: they previously had carriers that only used the Harrier, another VSTOL jet.

This new ship can surely use the Harrier, but of course the Harrier is pretty old at this point compared to the F35B, but if they needed to, they could go back to it. Or if someone built a different VSTOL jet, they could use that too. Maybe they could also buy some V-22s from the US.

Building a carrier that only operates VSTOL aircraft is not an unreasonable thing to do. The US does it too, with their "amphibious assault ships" run by the Marines: these are basically mini aircraft carriers that are just like this ship in your link, and operate only VSTOL (F35B, V-22 Osprey) aircraft and helicopters. If it's good enough for the US Marines with their ships like this one[1], why is it a problem for the Brits?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America-class_amphibious_assau...
One of us must be drinking de-caff by mistake! :D When I use the search at the bottom it "corrects" the spelling, not even bothering to remark on what it did. Adding quotes was good suggestion, but now there are 0 search results.
Of course, but also quarterly reports help you predict the future.
I mean, when you the word question like that and say the backdoor is to “monitor suspected terrorists” of course the average idiot will agree. They think it won’t apply to them & their communications. They aren’t terrorists, so why should they mind? Most people have no idea how far the government is able to stretch the law under the auspice of “safety.” Perhaps naively, I believe people would be outraged if they actually understood how the Patriot Act is used and what a backdoor would allow the government to do.
A lot of startups are consumer focused and there's a lot of 'how to your first 100 users' material, but how do you get leverage in a B2B space? Finding a customer to validate and work with your idea. Ideally, the customer is from a previous service or maybe someone you know, but that's not always the case.
Yeah this is what I’m most excited for. filter and map and my preferred array traversal methods. reduce can be awkward though, and people abuse it by using it to replace or combine filter and map. fromEntries almost makes reduce unnecessary when working with objects.
Any Cubesat forum/board you would recommend? I joined the Cubesat.org mailing list but it's very quiet.
Right, but my point is what if I want to implement the math? Without deep diving into my research, I disagree with your second sentence entirely. It is why I think we are also seeing the rise in Jupyter notebook still articles - because you can explicitly follow along. As a rule of thumb, I try to assume no one understands anything and so I must be very explicit in anything I teach. I find this to be a better baseline than assuming everyone already knows what I'm about to teach.

Back to my point - if I want to implement something I've read in a journal article on something like queuing theory that I'd like to work into my CS education research, having a weaker foundation on math has made it harder for me to implement someone's work.
Thoughts on Forth Programming
Do you have a specific example of code that's hard to annotate in TypeScript? I've been using it for about a year without major issues (except somewhat slow compile times).
How do you handle building changes to just one of those projects? Can Jenkins do that (easily)?

I think that's the big thing that always puts me off monorepo... We'd basically be going from ten 5 minute builds to one 50 minute build if it wasn't possible to do incremental builds. IIRC Google and MS have purpose built tools that do impact detection to work out what to build for their monorepos to keep build times down.
Ski ramp carriers are a prime example of penny wise and dollar foolish. Actual capabilities are a tiny fraction of a real carrier and costs are only slightly less.

They can't launch aircraft with heavy fuel loads. US Navy carriers always put up an aerial tanker during flight operations so that other aircraft can refuel in an emergency. One fighter in the Kuznetsov air wing crashed because it simply ran out of fuel.

https://news.usni.org/2016/11/21/russians-blame-mig-29k-cras...

Ski ramp carriers are also incapable of handling larger aircraft like the E-2 Hawkeye. Without AWACS capability the carrier is essentially operating blind.
The whole thing uses weird language to try to paint the practice of serving one thing to google and another to people coming from google as some kind of feature.
I've been anticipating this comment :-) There are a few reasons:

1. I personally think that Loglan is a much more human language. You know, with capital letters and no overuse of the apostrophe.

2. I've been a somewhat active member of the Loglan Institute's mailing list. I still am a member, but I haven't posted anything in over twelve years, I think.

3. Back in the day, I also significantly improved the article about Loglan on the Russian Wikipedia. It had a “Good Article” badge for a few years, until a review found it “not good enough” :-/

4. Like a lot of Loglan-lovers, I think that the circumstances behind Lojban's “forking out” from Loglan are somewhat fishy. IIRC, there was some bad blood between “The Three Old Men” of Loglan and the Le Chevaliers, although my memory of the details is very holey.
There's an Amazon warehouse near me. My neighbor works for USPS. Amazon is poaching tons of their employees and it's really hurting USPS because Amazon is so much better. If he wasn't holding out for one more year to get full retirement from USPS he would have jumped ship too. Instead, he's hoping to work for Amazon part time during retirement.

I'm not suggesting that there aren't problems with Amazon warehouses, but I think a lot of the reaction is from highly educated wealthy liberal types who don't know what it's like to work hard labor jobs.
I think oftentimes in human interaction you can either be right or be liked. It might seem like a great injustice but oftentimes, being right comes at the expense of another being wrong. The problem is that there is nothing wrong with being wrong and yet a lot of us still take this very personally. Everyone is wrong until someone tells them what is right.
It goes back a long way. Look up "The Battle Of Wichita". They had enormous difficulty with the B-29 back in World War II.
I do not think they will be getting any money from you!
I don’t even mind the touchbar. Just give me back the Escape key!
Well, if that happens, then the vendor just inflates the cost of other things you're buying from them. If you don't like that, what are you going to do, go to another vendor? There aren't very many of them left now, only 2 usually.
Important to note, however, that spoken language information density (per syllable) and syllabic rate are strongly inversely correlated [1]; languages such as Mandarin with lots of information contained in each syllable tend to be spoken slower than languages like Spanish, which uses many more syllables to convey the same amount of information, but in a similar amount of time.

So, the compactness really is more just on the writing side.

[1] "A cross-language perspective on speech information rate" https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/16e6/43a9e39674c58acd7cdf56...
TouchID fails because of a wet or dirty thumb.

FaceID fails when your face is not fully visible.
There are hundreds of medium-size providers that do Urgent Care & Walk-In Clinics. So maybe my error was generalizing ER. I'm speaking about going to an urgent care clinic and then being remitted to an actual ER. Either way, I have never been charged upfront or given a cost beforehand in neither of those.
I wonder what your take on the ZBrush UI would be then.
It makes Blender seem positively sane and OCD by comparison.

Yet many artists make amazing stuff with ZBrush.
Eventually, but evidently a lot get away with it.
I could not care less about touch bar either way, but I would not willingly go back to touch id from face id.
Ask HN: Which companies interview the best/worst and why?
I am doing research as I am pretty passionate about how interviews should work. But I also recognize there are differing views from both sides so I am looking for some examples of good and bad with reasoning. I'd prefer knowing which company(s) or at least a hint so I can understand differences in market, size, capital etc that will obviously weigh on how/what they do.

What companies do you feel do the best and/or worst job at interviewing people and why do you like or dislike their methodology?
I'd like to know what the development cycle for new weapons is and how it usually works.

It's not the same but all new code I write doesn't work at some point / needs to be reworked / etc.

I guess what I'm saying is it is really hard to know what not working at this point really means.

It's so easy to walk into any situation and throw up your hands and panic when you don't know.
I don't think anyone argues that journalism is in a healthy place today, but what is the alternative? The problem is that real news costs real money to produce. Newspapers could be not-for-profit but their reporters would still need a salary to do their jobs.
Or knew what she did, but there was no going back.
The alleged Capital One hacker didn’t cover her tracks
This sounds like the setup for a Black Mirror episode.
The US already has a mix of different carrier types such as the LHDs that can operate F-35Bs. Those don't have ski jumps, but they make only a marginal difference anyway. So what are you proposing exactly?

The F-35B has very limited range and payload so it can't do much compared to a real carrier air wing.
The iPhone is a product that completely transformed the world and defines what a smartphone is. There are 3 billion of them so almost half the world owns a smartphone.

If your bar for "innovative" is seriously that incredibly high, prepare to be disappointed..
This came up in my teams standup today. We were analyzing old dependencies and Lodash was in the list and none of us could justify why we needed it anymore. So I guess that point is nowish. Same for jQuery.
I'll cut them this slack: They don't need the Ford. If it never works right, it was wasteful, and embarrassing, and, sure, they really could have used it. But they don't need it the way we needed, say, the Essex class carriers in World War II.

The time to experiment with new stuff is precisely when you don't have to have something that works. So throwing all the new razzle-dazzle techniques into one ship, letting them be ironed out or rejected... that's actually not all that crazy.
The reason I ended up with XPS 13 instead of ThinkPad was appalling service levels from Lenovo.They are on the same level at least in the UK,as an average run down kebab kiosk.
I don't think I've seen any other company that'd have 0.8 rate on trustpilot:
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.lenovo.co.uk
Not sure how they remain the largest computer manufacturer on earth..
> You might argue that this means what I'm actually doing is statistics.

whats the difference?
iMessage is useless because it’s just sms over internet but then it only works if the other person has an iPhone. It works fine but everyone uses WhatsApp because that works on all phones and you just can’t rely on everyone using an iPhone. There’s just not enough added value to justify that limitation.

Originally iMessage was supposed to be opened up for third parties but that never happened for some reason.
The internet allows misfits to find a place where they can feel accepted. This is the other side of the coin.

On a different note, being right is overrated anyway. Being wrong is a great way to learn... if you're willing to accept it, of course.
Dear all,

I appreciate your effort and your time testing the website. It was a great help to me. Your feedback is the light in the darkness. There are a lot of ideas in the pipeline. Your feedback helps me to prioritize them. Big thanks for everyone who wrote feedback here or sent it to me via email or LinkedIn. Thanks for all 9k+ tester. This is my Sunday project. Each Sunday, I am going to release a new version with a new fix or feature.

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They removed the escape key? What the.....

I'm never going to retire my 2013 MBP at this rate.
then maybe don't comment here?
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Some good publications are nonpaywalled nonprofits that rely on donations. Not sure you can make that work in every niche, but two examples: https://www.quantamagazine.org/, https://www.texastribune.org/
I thought this was a joke as I haven’t used a recent Mac in a while but apparently it’s not. There really isn’t an escape key!

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207358
Information asymmetry is a key part of security - users not having information clearly does not make them more secure.

As noted elsewhere, patches are effectively disclosures, with some small delay (best described as an obscurity delay) baked in.
Adding touch id doesn't require the removal of face id.

I like to be able to unlock my phone when it's flat on my desk without picking it up.
Panasonic makes a roughly $200ish camera, too, and it's also... "not great". 4x optical zoom, 720p, 230k display.
The issue isn't about having a sufficiently scary warning. It is that the browser has to store the fact that the user has agreed to this warning somewhere (ie, presumably in the user's profile). That means any other software running on the computer with regular user permissions can make the same modification to the profile and then install an unsigned extension without the user's consent.

Typically, when Mozilla finds out about software installing extensions without user consent, the extension is added to the blocklist, but if the extension is unsigned it can just claim that it is ublock origin or adblock plus or some popular extension, leaving no practical way to block it.

This is described in greater detail at
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/04/15/the-case-for-exte...

(in full disclosure, I am a Mozilla employee)
That would be a much better law than the lawmakers'.
Face ID does not need light to work. It projects its own grid of IR dots.
At least that, and the idea of making the touchbar an actual tray is a great idea, would like this to be natively done and keep the screen as free as possible for the actual apps.

As long as it's optional, I could see people not liking this.
Typical shortages are really: We cannot find anyone who will do it for minimum wage ... cry cry cry.

This is usually followed by comments: <country of choice> people are just unwilling to do this job ... cry cry cry

Both cases are 'For your cheap pay they are not'.

One good question for the western world, why are so few people studying CS https://danwang.co/why-so-few-computer-science-majors/

I suspect it is the working conditions.

Of course I find it interesting I have a dozen head hunters asking me if I am interested in a job that does not match my skill set. Ok I am a techie, but I am not a ... All I can figure is these companies have some H1B visa thing coming up and they need to prove no American will do the job. Last time I was actively looking was 2009. So they are going back 10 years to prove there cheating statistics.

I found it 'Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act' is going to import more techies from India. So they need to prove that a C# back end developer will not take a javascript job doing web pages.
One might reasonably assume the "bad guys" they're trying to catch would go elsewhere though, if they have any sense. So then you're just left with innocent people to spy on.
So what? The question was why macos gets mentioned, this is why. There is deep interoperation between ios and macos that Apple themselves relies on to sell users a better total experience than can be achieved in isolation.
What is exactly wrong with share buybacks? Clearly they have more capital than they can deploy effectively right now, so they plan for the future by putting some powder in their gun. Share buybacks serve three main purposes:

1) increase the share price (as you mentioned)
2) signal to investors that the company is bullish on it's future (they wouldn't buyback shares if they thought the shares would be lower in the future)
3) Give the company the option to sell the shares in the future in case the extra capital can be used for a prudent use.

It's really mystifying why people are so against share buybacks while no one talks about dividends. They share a lot of similarity, but buybacks provide more options and greater tax efficiency so they should be preferred over dividends in most cases.

> Do you think there is any downside to just transferring wealth to the (already rich) shareholders over and over and over again? Seems to be their top priority nowadays.

That's not what's really going on (see above). Also, I would hazard to guess that most people who have exposure to the stock market have direct market exposure to Apple. Moreover, about half of households have direct (non-pension) exposure to the stock market. So I don't think your claim about it only benefiting the "already rich" shareholders hold much water. Hell, I would bet that 90% of HN users have direct exposure to equity markets.

Also, I bet you do as well.
This was a fun read (until the grim conclusion I guess), but what is the word for this phenomena? Tribalism? Religion?

Be sure to stop and consider: would YOU give up all your friends in search of the truth?
I have an pre-touchbar macbook pro on my desk that I've been using as an in-place workstation. For some reason, I pulled it out of its place and opened it up this past week, and I was blown away by the improved typing experience.

I think that I'll be upgrading back to the old one going forward.

And I promise that the next laptop I buy (or my company buys for me) won't have a touch bar or a butterfly keyboard.
The way I read it, that concerns an attack by a single submarine. So what if there are a dozen or more enemy submarine. Is taking out a carrier for 2 or 3 subs a meaningful war exchange?
Well there is a middle ground - one where any conversation could be examined after the fact but only with an auditable warrant-based investigation.
The entire Mac platform is less than 10% of their revenue, for what it's worth.
I wrote a post about this last week that's somewhat related:

https://getpolarized.io/2019/07/26/Minimizing-Defection-Migh...

I think it's an issue of tragedy of the commons. No one wants to pay for news because of defection.
Why does flatmap exist? What's against `sentence.map().flat()`
Oh dear, these filters are now so sophisticated and realistic, that they are able to distort reality and can fool anybody. It is getting easier to fake anything these days, and I can only see this being common place in the society dependent on social media being a source of news online.

The importance of the 'Don't believe everything on the internet' advice is becoming increasingly important these days, as there are many Wizards of Oz out there hiding behind the computer screen and Instagram/Snapchat filters.