skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In theory, HIPAA anonymized data sets should be nearly impossible to reidentify in combination with any other data set.

In practice, that's probably still true for “safe harbor” deidentification, but less true for “expert determination” deidentification [0] that doesn't need the safe harbor rules. The latter option should be eliminated.

[0] https://www.hipaajournal.com/de-identification-protected-hea...
Are any of these systems based on Prolog? I feel like the next great advancement will need to use the core concept of logic programming to some extent.
Employer liable for worker's death during sex on a working trip
I’ve definitely had the experience of reading a human written paper, and just skimming it because it didn’t really seem to have a point. Then I sighed and decided to really give it my attention and quickly realized that the reason it was hard to read was because it was chock full of lazy thinking, bad analogies, unexamined assumptions, and non sequiturs to begin with.
> People are almost certainly asking for thinner phones.

Are they? Almost everyone I know has a case on their phone; and I didn't have one until I bought the iPhone XS, which is over $1k and has glass on both sides.

I mean, don't get me wrong; I like the capabilities of the new iPhones. But the current design means that what most people actually use not the slick shiny slimness you see in Apple promotional materials, but thick sturdy plastic keeping all that fragile glass safe.

If Johnny Ives really wanted to be able to see people use phones the way he envisioned them, he should have designed it to withstand a 10-foot drop onto concrete. That would be a lot more useful than 30 minutes underwater.
From Internal Tool to $85K/Month SaaS Product
This is a worthwhile writeup of how Uber's operating costs are generally higher than the industry it "disrupted" without actually solving the structural problems that industry had found an equilibrium around: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2019/05/ubers-path-of-des...
Ask HN: Who is the biggest tech celebrity that you know of who comments on HN?
I thought Richard Stallman commented here occasionally, but now taking a look for his profile I can't seem to find it.
These people are not like you. Where you would be uncomfortable and leave. They were extremely focused on why they were there and not let the presence of someone else ruin the entire night.
I wish Apple would make a good product. I’d be thrilled to drop a grand to get better cpu, storage, ram, and camera.

But if I have to give up the phone not falling out of my pockets and breaking, the removal of the aux jack, and the removal of Touch ID, why bother?

Are my interests unusual? Do they not want money? I don’t get it.
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I disagree, I was surprised Konami was making games again. I thought they abandoned video games, in order to focus on pachinco.
> I don't think you find a lot of people who absolutely love the notch, but I like it now.

You will learn to love the design flaw. You will win the victory over yourself.
I suspect that if variable electricity pricing for consumers, a great deal of the need for "batteries" will evaporate. Heavy consumer electric uses (charging the car, HVAC, hot water) can easily be time shifted. It isn't time shifted today because consumer electricity rates are constant 24/7.
Oh, that's unfortunate :(
It's pretty fun:)
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> It doesn't really cost anything...

Depending on context, sure this could be true. Like if you're comparing the cost of releasing some small OSS module of Uber's to Uber's annual revenue, sure, it's going to be a negligible cost. But if you compare against the cost of developing the module in the first place, it can easily be an equal expense. For example I spent several months on a BLE library for Android (https://github.com/iDevicesInc/SweetBlue) and asked my company to open source it. It took several more months to get the library to a point that was suitable for a proper OSS release. So cleaning up code, making sure no sensitive info, swear words and such, documentation, lawyery stuff, icons, PR copy, blog post, basic website, wiki, and much more nitty gritty I'm glossing over.

I mean a company can just throw code over the wall into GitHub and call it OSS, but I associate a basic level of polish with a proper OSS release that does indeed take a good amount of effort. And that's just initial effort! If it becomes at all popular then you have further ongoing overhead.

I'd say a general rule is that open-sourcing something is at least 50% of overall cost of the project.
Most likely Qualcomm after the settlement, Intel’s exit and issues plaguing current Intel modems in iPhones
The original idea for SMT was that a single application would use both threads to do part of the same computation, using resources better. But we just used it as "more CPUs", which has a different security profile.
When was your last vacation? Where did you go?

When was the last time you thought about changing jobs? Why?

When you joined this company, what were your goals? How many of them have you met?
Hey HN,

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I started Thread two months ago because I believe current social media and social networks are built in a way that harms our ability to meaningfully connect with one another. They're highly addictive, superficial, and socially isolating. They also run a reputation of violating user privacy and selling it to third parties.

I strongly believe in ad-free, private social networking as an alternative. It's all about building and maintaining relationships with the people closest to you. If this sounds interesting, please try out the app! It's still very early, beta software.

On pricing: I think advertising is out of the question. It's a strong misalignment of incentives in trying to deliver long term value for end users. I have some ideas here, but the most obvious thing that comes to mind is a subscription based service (say ~$10/year).

I would love to hear your feedback (questions, comments, suggestions) on what I'm building.

Reach out to me personally at daniel@thread-app.com.
It seems like then we should be doing all of that already for all military applications since we're considering hackability to be such a huge issue.

People write insecure applications because of all the priorities they are given by management, security usually isn't even on the list. Perhaps we'll get to the point of real maturity and have security experts working in every department, and operations with real security. Maybe.
> This thread needs to lighten up.

Tagline for HN in general.
> OTOH, if you hire a contractor to program your back end, that guy wouldn't become an employee under the test, because you're not in the business of programming back ends.

I have zero faith in the courts’ ability to distinguish this. In the case of Uber, their business is providing the back-end, and their revenue is a commission for doing all the back-end work. They are not in the business of driving cars — no Uber employee drives a car — and yet this bill would make the car drivers employees.

Similarly, I would have to expect someone working on any instrumental part of the product which generates revenue will fail the ABC Test.

If my product is a web API and I hire contractors to port my library to 17 different languages, pretty sure that is failing the ABC test.

If my product is food ordering, and I hire contractors to key in local restaurants’ menus into my database...
I stream, but I also have Spotify keep ~4,000 songs worth of saved playlists on my phone for flights and driving in areas with no service, etc.
Naw fam, you're ignoring the growing trend of short term leases and the value of a consistent repeatable brand in the space. It's not an industry killer, but they still do have a strong product.
First the new Mac Pro and now this. I guess Apple is all about circles this year :P
> plus the sort of twilight zone $999 = £1049 pricing in the UK

I don’t know what the hell is going on here. Usually the lack of VAT in US prices explains weird conversions, but even factoring that in it comes to £970. Keeping it at £999 would be fine; to put it up by 50 quid is some serious bullshit.
"To me this actually sounds hilarious, if it is as you describe it."

Well, here's the original I was referring to: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/c8klvj/wh...

I was wrong. R was suggested in some of the replies. But the original answer is given as "The M", and contains gems like '"r" is a misspelled letter, and "m" is a misspelled letter. "M" is a misspellable word you can't use as a word in the English language.'

"Like the above poster said, I've seen this style of spam-y context-free meme on reddit before too. "

That would make sense. I guess I just don't frequent those corners. GPT-2 is clearly capable of picking up on structure, so if it sees something repeated it doesn't just notice "This particular thing is repeated a lot", it picks up some concept of repetition itself. A number of the bots have picked up the concept of quoting the message they're replying to. (In the meta reddit for this, the creator has said the posts and the replies are trained as separate corpora, so the replies "know" they are replies. I gather there is also enough markers that the bots can distinguish between title, post text, and subsequent replies.)
Anyone who thinks the CIA discontinued their mind control projects in the 1960s is a buffoon. Open your eyes.
> ore attention provided to things like Wasm than there is to things like embedded use cases for example.

Things might be better, but last time I checked rust's compiler was a lot slower than C and the binaries were several times bigger. That last one is a big deal for embedded.
That's a lot of talk. How many people in the UK don't have access to medical care due to, say shortages vs how many in the US die every year b/c they cannot afford care?
"Only 4000 engineers"? What are they all doing? That's more engineers than a random truck manufacturer.
Why? Why wouldn't anyone with more than a passing interest in photography buy a dedicated camera for much less money that will work much better?
> Those 7 dollars Starbucks venti iced white chocolate mochas with 5 shots will slow also.

<joke>On the plus side, this may slightly delay the onset of type II diabetes related healthcare expenses!</joke>
Not disagreeing but elaborating: The costs are higher when it's an already existing product of which parts the company doesn't fully own enough rights of for publishing. Even higher when it's not known which parts are fully owned by the company and which parts are of foreign origin. The costs are lower when it's meant to be open sourced from the start and it's been a project constraint since before the first line was written.
Instagram influencers of course.
link to 2 page summary of the study
https://rmi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/clean-energy-port...
While they were upgrading, Github added a lot of their own core features into Rails itself. Like multiple databases supported by default, parallel tests for a much faster test suite. Github didnt just upgrade their Rails version, they upgraded Rails itself partly.
On the other end we have : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_speaker
> It’s worth noting that Opera, too, includes a free built-in VPN service, which includes the ability to set your location to either the Americas, Europe or Asia.

I’ve found that Opera’s VPN would never work when I set myself to “Americas”, and always place me in the Netherlands.
Young Steve Jobs Introduces the Macintosh (1984)
Seems like it's based on CloudFlare. Is this the same as CloudFlare's wireguard-based VPN (Warp)?

I'm still 100k+ on the wait-list for that one.
Touch ID and Face ID both have cases where they don’t work well (gloves/wet fingers, and sunglasses/squinting).

The thing I like better about Face ID is that it lets you hide the text of your notifications by default but then reveal it as soon as you look at the phone, which is nice for privacy.

I never enabled the setting to hide notification text in the past because it was too inconvenient before Face ID.
For all the scandal, they were just really good identifying people who could be convinced and doing their best to convince them.
Would love to see some studies on this if someone can pull them on that specific style of law.

>>Um, I'm not sure people doing crimes need much additional self justification...

It doesn't work this way. They do need the additional self-justification. It's a constant stream of reinforcement. "Yea, I don't feel bad that I stole this rich asshole's twitter account because I used the money to feed some orphans and told him how to fix these problems in the future" is the self-justification. It's a constant establishment of why you're good in a relative fashion.

It's something everyone does on all sorts of things, it's how everyone builds their worldview, and it's normal but that doesn't mean we should join in on it as outsiders and say things like "well at least he gave the guy some precautions for the future".

>>From society's point of view, allowing some leniency of judgement is probably beneficial on the net...

Maybe? I mean as a general statement, sure. But there are going to be specific situations where it isn't helpful. Also, there's a whole school of thought that says that it's more important that you minimize situations that would encourage criminal behavior rather than providing leniency in punishment after the fact. Better to eliminate the need to steal in order to provide for your family rather than create uneven enforcement by judges deciding where leniency should be exercised.
iPhone XS Max is 208 grams.
Galaxy Note 10+ is 196 grams.

I think these are pushing the limit of weight comfort. Bigger batteries are nice, but certainly contribute a lot to the weight.

I really liked the 158 grams of the LG V30 back when I had that.
100% agreed, I started doing this for a small project my company has. We don't really use it anymore, but it would be helpful to many hobby projects however we are now sitting here saying 3 weeks work to just give this code away? ick.
A fluorescent lamp is a mercury-vapor gas discharge lamp with a phosphor coating. Doesn't that qualify as an arc discharge?
Not to mention the stories of early stage Uber engaging in shady tactics like hailing and cancelling Lyft rides as a manual DDOS, or ripping mustaches off parked Lyft cars.
>That's impressive. Which Android tablet from 2014 or 2015 is still supported nowadays?

Nexus 7 owner here. No support, has always needed a better battery, and the sensors need a power cycle occasionally, but I still don't regret the purchase. I mainly use it for videos and reading.
They made me watch the whole keynote too. If I even tried to look away an iGuard would jab me with his camera bump.
Samsung does, at least on my S8
It doesn't matter whether you see it or not. What matters is if the market sees it.

If solar + storage comes out cheaper than alternatives, it wins. Period. The market will insure that. If you don't think it is possible, you need to lead with actual numbers to support your case, not just gut feelings.
But that IPO stock-comp expense is largely attributable to R&D, so if you want to subtract that from the losses to look at a more cash-focused analysis you have to substract that cost from the R&D side as well.

Of the $3.95B total stock expense, $2.56B was from R&D, which suggests cash cost that quarter was more like $910m (still a lot!)
Nice fixed point types too. A fixed point all to the right of the binary point to represent angles asa semicircle was useful. Table ovelays are evil though. I'd rather have rust than ada for the functional lineage along with the performance, but the thin stdlib combined with the difficulty of getting a crates.io mirror certified clean of malcious code makes it problematic.
I see where you’re coming from, but it also feels like asking ‘why do you want to work in a nice place ? what difference is it really making that your desk has smooth angles and is made of sturdy materials instead of a particle plank with feets we’d buy at IKEA ?’

People can be productive and do fantastic work on any working material. But why have it worse when you’ll be using the device day in day out and stare at it for years ?

I don’t think we are arguing the Pro is nicer, right ?
A bit funny (sad) about the dependencies - zope, the early web application server - brought much to python (eg: eggs) - and essentially worked more like bundler + Gemfile/Gemfile.lock - with its zc.buildout dep (and more) manager. And like with ruby/rails, it could be difficult to get it to converge on "known good sets" of dependencies.

Take a look at this dated doc for zope 4 - anyone who's had to fight with bundler should see some similarities - good and bad i think:

https://docs.plone.org/4/en/old-reference-manuals/buildout/b...

You can still use it today, too (but you probably don't want to):

http://www.buildout.org/en/latest/
Is there even a good 4" Android to switch over to at this point? Their flagship phones also seem to be slowly expanding.
I would love to hear more about your experience. In my experience, no startup comes close to the pay of a big and healthy tech company.

Specifically, even if you get the startup to match the base salary of the big company (which is almost always not true and comes at a 20-30% discount, but I'm willing to assume that it can be done), the equity that the startup will give you is effectively $0, whereas the public RSU the big company will give you are basically cash-equivalent (if you are really conservative you can adjust them by 20-30%?).

This last point is the major one for me: at least in the Bay Area, senior software engineers are offered equity grants that are effectively the same size of their salary every year, so by going to a startup you are immediately being paid at least half.
Purdue Pharma: Sackler Family's 'Personal Wealth' Offered in Opioid Deal
(And Reynolds is now wholly owned by BAT.)
'Epstein did business in America, the world demands why America didn't stop him!'

See, I can do that too
If suburb living is so desirable, why does it cost more to live in the city?
No 3.5mm jack? I'll stick with my SE thanks.
It's about $2 per card, and not that much money in total. Also, I'm obviously unsure of the person's situation, but you'd think there's be some well-paid jobs available to people with photographic memories. For example, a design firm may pay him to vet new logos, to see if they're similar to others. Would be nice if there was a happy ending to this one, the guy doesn't seem like a criminal mastermind.
I don't see comparison to Istio, might be helpful.
Seems like "the next big thing" has existed in the tech world from the start.

I remember using Ada 95 in university, after learning C++, Java and Python in other projects. It worked very well for concurrent processes, but it was so basic as a developer experience.

In C++ (98 I think) I needed to build length dynamic arrays, in Ada 95 I had to build dynamic length strings.
Probably the Stripe brothers, or now @ayw
If they'd stuck everything in it you want and the base price was $1600 people would be complaining about that and it would be a brand shattering headline. Yes, they are marketing people; but they are balancing a lot of constraints -- a little engineers...

[EDIT: "brand" instead of "branch"]
If Uber pays drivers more than Lyft to a point where drivers stop driving for Lyft, riders won't be able to get a ride on Lyft, so they'll pay Uber's higher prices. Not everyone will; some will opt for a regular taxi, driving themselves, or transit. But I suspect that there is actually some combination of higher ride prices and higher driver salaries that will keep Uber alive and growing, though probably not at the same rate.
You can get Rust binaries just as small; the smallest known one was 145 bytes. Some defaults were recently adjusted to make them smaller by default too.

https://github.com/tormol/tiny-rust-executable
Uber is at a worrying place with or without bill.
FWIW, my Series 2 still gets me 2-3 days based on my usage. The main feature I use is the heart/sleep monitor at night, and then sporadically throughout the day (weather and time, usually). I disable all notifications besides navigation.
How do you train users about mouse right button?
The only thing those two events have in common is immigration? Are you saying that there is a war between people who want immigration and those who do not, or something?
You wanted to commoditize higher ed and demand people have degrees just to essentially survive, yet you've defunded higher ed. This is exactly how a market functions. Consumers no longer have the time nor money to waste on degrees which are poor returns on investments, either because they came from a college no one had ever heard of, or because the skillset that the degree endowed is not in-demand. Really this is just the market reacting so I don't feel like its a huge surprise. (I guess the article kind of expressed this sentiment already, but I feel its worth reiterating).
Given what we know of Travis Kalanick and Saudi Arabia, burn baby burn!

Good riddance.
Just google Verilog and VHDL. There are plenty of resources online. The most important thing is to buy a board (any FPGA around the 20-50 dollars price range is more than sufficient), do not delude yourself that a simulator will teach you hardware. Hardware is brutal, you are limited by the laws of physics. Experience in stuff like Arduino etc. would help a lot. Otherwise just stick to Redstone in Minecraft if you are only interested in how things theoretically work.
It has to live on dom element.

BUT

I wrote a separate plugin that does exactly what you're thinking: https://github.com/propjockey/aug-attr-spliced.js

It allows you to specify

.mydiv { --augmented-ui: tl-clip exe; }

in the CSS file and it will automatically apply the dom element attribute to whatever matches the CSS selector. The plugin needs work and optimizing and is my current priority, but the basics are there and it's functioning!
We're currently using my mother-in-law's unused first gen ipad (wifi only) with no issues but 30 pin charging cables are getting hard to find + not compatible with my wife's phone + there is no GPS in the unit which we would like as a backup. Apparently the 3G fist gen models had GPS but this is not one of them. Also the battery life is horrendous.
Because the first generation who was essentially denied the ability to comfortably afford housing/living are now having families are having to look elsewhere to commit and start a life.

There, I spared you a click.
Apparently it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20928350
It's already not what most people would call a sensible price. Seems difficult to significantly shrink a phone that has a pair of M.2 slots in it though.
I agree. I have the Samsung S10+ with 3 lenses, wide, normal and zoom. And I end up using the wide angle way more frequently than I thought I would. It's super handy.
More jobs I guess?