skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry if I came off as a virtue signaler. No I'm not blaming Apple, and of course people would buy cool things to look cool even without them. What I'm saying is that Apple is especially good at applying pressure in right spots: as you said, the human desire for status and fear of being left behind. Some still haven't recognized it and I've seen countless people make poor financial decisions because of their blindness to what is moving them to buy. Maybe I should have used "aware" instead of "intelligent", since intelligent people can fall for it too. Of course I'm generalizing and as you said, people also buy Apple just because they like it and can afford it, I did that too. But too many times I've seen people really torn and staying there thinking to themselves for half an hour if they should buy it or not, because they know they shouldn't. If you just like a thing, but you know that buying it will have very bad financial consequences for you for the next 10-20 months, it's not difficult to resist. So the fact that all these people were buying anyways, makes me come to the conclusion that there were more powerful internal forces moving them, then just "liking Apple".
You end up paying quite a bit to owe 0, because it's not easy to find a competent accountant who can, say, understand your Italian tax returns, and then file in the US based on those.
It’s somewhat morose to consider that the resources expended to bring this device into the world likely far exceed the positive environmental impact of the relatively few number of repairs that users of this device will ultimately perform.

That is to say, a mainstream phone’s production is so optimized and streamlined, that the weighted average environmental impact of making 10 more (e.g. iPhones) is significantly less than the weighted average environmental cost of making 1 Fairphone.

Maybe if you factor in the value of performance art and political proselytizing then you can justify it!
That characterization of Woit does not appear quite accurate. Woit's claim may even be bolder, in that he claims that there is no functional difference between MWI and Copenhagen.

> What strikes me when thinking about these two supposedly very different points of view on quantum mechanics is that I’m having trouble seeing why they are actually any different at all.
The publisher Metropolitan Books looks like it's part of Macmillan so they're likely a traditional publisher, which suggests he got a pretty healthy advance on the book because of his fame.

I would also guess that even if he sold enough books to earn out the advance, his take on each incremental book is really small as the publisher took most of the financial risk with the advance itself.
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Even if I don't believe that Snowden is a Russian agent, I think that is a fair question. The point you make about the sources and uses of cash telling the truth about someone is a great one not only within the context of Snowden.
I wonder if Swift Playgrounds will get access to SwiftUI, it seems an obvious feature to me.
I like eating meat, so I am motivated to believe this, but the numbers seem in stark contrast with numbers I've read elsewhere, with no solid explanation where the difference comes from.

So I'm inclined to call BS.
>Railing at people to stop eating meat because “it’s causing global warming” is at best ineffective and at worst disingenuous

Right, but one of the biggest annoyances I have with right-wing blogs like Reason is that 95% of their content is just reactionary "Actually, liberals aren't quite right about X" crap while offering no alternatives/solutions. At least "stop eating meat" is something with a net positive.
Can you point to someone who is pro-Brexit who has also publicly said they favor the LSE being sold to Hong Kong?
Know how to design a RESTful interface correctly, and you don’t need “API versioning”. Certainly not URL-based versioning, which is as anti-REST as it gets.

The correct way to manage non-backwards-compatible changes in a RESTful system is to define a new content type for the resource representation that has changed.

For example, here is a JSON-encoded representation of a Person resource:

{"name": "Bob Jones", "age": 42}

To describe this particular data structure + encoding, we give it its own content type:

"application/org.example.person+json"

and provide public documentation for this representation type.

To retrieve a description of a given person in this exact format, a client sends a GET request with an "Accept: application/org.example.person+json" header.†

Let’s say after a while you decide to replace the "name" field with separate "firstName" and "lastName" fields:

{"firstName": "Bob", "lastName": "Jones", "age": 42}

This new representation clearly isn’t backwards-compatible, so give it a new content type that reflects this:

"application/org.example.person.v2+json"

and provide public documentation for this new representation type, alongside the documentation for the older format.

A newly written/updated client that requires this improved information sends a GET request with an "Accept: application/org.example.person.v2+json" header.

Existing clients that still use the old format continue to send GET requests with an "Accept: application/org.example.person+json" header.

Where there are many such servers all around the world, it is likely that some will be older than others. A client that much prefers the new, more detailed, representation but is prepared to work with the old-style representation if that’s all it can get will send an Accept header containing both content types weighted by preference:

"Accept: application/org.example.person.v2+json;q=1.0,
application/org.example.person+json;q=0.3"

No sequentially version-mangled URLs. No Grand New Major API Release Announcements. No “we have ended support for the v1 API so now you must switch to the v2”. Just flexible, reliable interactions between any number of clients and servers, where each client and each server is free to evolve naturally and non-disruptively over time.

TL;DR: Everything you think you know about RESTful HTTP is completely and utterly WRONG. Same goes for everyone you learnt it from, and so on. #FractallyWrong

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† A client that doesn’t care what it receives as long as it’s JSON encoded can, of course, send an Accept header containing the basic "application/json" and if the server is happy to serve that particular idiot^Wtype then that’s what it gets back. A server is also free to represent the same resource in any number of encodings, e.g. "application/org.example.person+xml" (for All your Enterprisey™ clients), "text/html" (your Auntie Ena in her Internet Explorer 6 will always ask for this), and so on.
they're about to get a LOT more ...
Near the boundary anyway. The headline is poorly worded, but the argument is that some of these objects aren't black holes at all. I don't think the "event horizon" term really applies to GEODEs. I also don't think they have too clear an understanding of what this crust would consist of, or if they do the article fails to mention it.
If you're a Belgian citizen, and move to, say, Canada, you'd file taxes in Canada and that'd be the end of it. If I, as a US citizen,move to Canada, I'd have to file and pay Canadian taxes, and file - and maybe pay - US taxes in addition.

What you're talking about is if, living in Belgium, you have income from other countries that needs to be reported, which seems fair enough - after all, you live and pay taxes in Belgium, not those other countries.
Not being used by social media, I don't come across infinite scrolling much. But where I do it's most annoying. Discourse: how dare you take over my ctrl-f keyboard shortcut.
Interesting decision considering Mayo is an Epic customer, and Epic has their own cloud AI product. I guess Mayo doesn't have much confidence in them to deliver?
I have an iPhone XS Max. FaceID is nice. The camera is good, no question. It is enough for me and for most people. But don't buy too much into the shit Apple tells about their cameras.

After I got the XS Max a year ago, I was seriously unimpressed. They overpromised and underdelivered on the capabilities of the camera. Don't get me wrong. It's a good camera, probably the best in a phone, but boy, the "magical" portrait mode has its glitches. In 10-20% of the portrait photos, the camera/software has trouble detecting what's in the background and what not. Studio lighting sounds impressive, but I honestly never use it. It looks too artificial for my taste.

Sure thing, you can get decent photos with the iPhone XS Max, but the improvement compared to an iPhone 8 is a LOT less than what Apple says it is.

I guess I would be more impressed if they didn't frame it as some "camera that pro's use instead of their DSLR" or whatever they said in the marketing campaign.
That's only with the people who don't uphold the Constitution.
Yeah I see your point. To me it's all about trade-offs. A year from now Py3 will have a larger community than whatever replaces Py2. So, investing time to port my code to Py3 was worth it.

> In sum, the very fact that py2 is now stable and unchanging is a killer feature (IMO) that differentiates it from py3!

This is a good point, but I disagree. As long as they make future py3 versions backwards compatible, it doesn't affect me if they keep changing py3. To me, it's more important that the world will be operating on py3 as opposed to py2; this is the killer feature of py3.
> Who cares what the CIA did 60 years ago? Why isn't NPR reporting on what they may be doing now?

Short answer probably is we don't know what they're doing now because it's still classified and no one inside has leaked much recently and no reporter has gotten a break. As for not reporting what /may/ be happening NPR is pretty good about not wildly speculating with no evidence.
Yeah. Feel like neither Jobs or Jony Ive would've let that camera cluster happen. It's the ugliest thing I've ever seen on any smartphone.
They have a little. 5ghz is more common, so you won't get any thing there. WPA2 is significantly harder to crack, and I usually do it on GPU with pyrit or hashcat-ocl and a wordlist. WPA3 is out now, too, and I'm there aren't really any well-established procedures for it yet.
Why was the title changed to remove the “and nothing magical happened” part, @mods?
Hong Kong's long term independence is uncertain at best. A company cannot just be "publicly listed" if in the PRC.
It's more that I'm surprised the school would let news take over their schedule. If a tower in NYC is on fire, that doesn't seem to be enough to justify it. When the second plane hits, sure. But even then, if you live far from NYC, why make the kids watch that? I mean are there other events that your teachers would make you watch?
Any links posted to amazon.com from HN should be to smile.amazon.com -> .5% of your purchase will be donated to a clarity of your choice.
That's not what the p-value means. It means that if you run 1000 of the experiments in a universe in which the hypothesis is false, around 50 of them will confirm the hypothesis anyway. If the hypothesis is true, then there are no false positives; all positives confirm the hypothesis. In a universe in which the hypothesis is true, there can only be false negatives.

"False positive" means that the effect or condition we're looking for is not true, but the experiment yields a true answer: the positive answer of the experiment is a falsehood. If the condition we're looking for is true, then there can't be a false positive. Even if the experiment yields a positive due to some flawed step, it's still a true positive.
Read it again, the article literally states:

> the A and B series of ISO 216, which includes the commonly used A4 size, are the international standard used by almost every country.

A and B series are specific size classes for specific use cases, that there are a number of sizes either historical or completely outside these use cases doesn't make them "not […] worldwide standards".
$90 million is peanuts compared to the potential cost of this bill.

That's why lobbying and buying propaganda works.
And Canada, Italy, Germany, Norway, New Zealand, France, UK, etc... etc.... do as well without the silly system the US has in place.
The EU is in a large round negotiations of commerce treaties around the world right now. The UK, not so much.
> severe shortage on infra teams

Seems like infrastructure/devops always gets short-staffed, presumably due to being considered a cost center. Interesting to hear someone observe this even as they're saying a company "over hired" and "engineers ran out of things to do".
Note that I said "science", not "engineering". Engineering is driven by usefulness and profit.

Falsificationism isn't a stupid idea; it's even useful at a personal improvement level. But pharma or materials research use it because it tends to lead to good results, not because it's the very definition of what's worthwhile knowledge.
1/420 :)
> forcing you to constantly evaluate how you compare to others.

Doesn't that start with schooling very early in life though. What does that specifically do with social media. Maybe schools are different in America.
Jokes work on the internet, but some audiences don't.
Just to clarify, we think a lot about product managers, but when there's a tug-of-war between making life easier for developers vs making life easy for PMs we lean towards the former.
That's the opposite of the correct conclusion. Because the meat ecological component is dwarfed by the other activities, it becomes (ecologically) insignificant to stop eating meat.
Yes. Better to upgrade immediately without any action than "later tonight" with a security code
Ask HN: What's compensation like in the greater Boston area?
Where's a reliable place to learn about compensation in the area? I'm still new to the GBA too so I don't have a large network. I'm also getting different and conflicting info from my Google searches. I'm happy to go to any events if it helps grow my contact list and meet others in the industry.

A little about me: I have close to 2 years experience with python, C++, AWS, Jenkins, and Concourse. I've done a lot of DevOps-type work over the last year, and I'm getting my Kubernetes app developer cert shortly.

Thank you in advance!

*Edited for clarity.
It's part of the plan - weak pound makes many struggling companies rich pickings.
It would be cool to have the same price in western countries as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgk8UdV7GQ0
> Many of the 'programmers' of those days lacked the sophistication and education to appreciate Ada.

That certainly sounds like academic self-righteousness.
Rand Fishkin Is Speaking at JumpCon 2019
Baffling the more vulnerable customers with bullshit to sell them expensive things is hardly a phenomenon isolated to Apple or even to the United States. That's a proud cornerstone of Capitalism.

One could argue a whole lot of highly valued startups are built on the premise of selling conveniences to people with far too much money and not enough sense.
In the UK even nuclear powerstations are outsourced to French and Chinese state owned companies
At least in the USA, public support for any given policy is usually a function of how much money is poured into promoting it. It's no surprise that policies that benefit the rich, get promoted by the rich, and consequently end up with sufficient public support.

I have no idea how it works in France, but if I were a rich person trying to find the country with the best ROI for my influence-dollars, it would be a large powerful country rather than a small one, and one where the law is set up specifically to encourage unlimited financial contributions to political causes.

What you pointed out in your initial comment is totally true, though. The "current powers" have nothing to do with what side of the political fence they're on. There are rich people on both sides and they tend to support and fund things that keep them rich. And that's what we end up with as policy, regardless of what letter is next to lawmakers' names. The red-vs-blue distinction is manufactured tribalism and doesn't really have much of an effect on who public policy actually ends up benefiting.
Your lack of charity is alarming.
Washington had a revenue neutral carbon tax on the ballot in 2016 and that was (imo unfortunately) rejected by voters. The revenue for the carbon tax would have funded a reduction in the sales tax:
https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Carbon_Emission_Tax_and_S...
What is amazing to me is that after this attack has been successfully mounted against the CEO of the company he still has not announced "I have directed our engineering to implement a non SMS-based 2FA. They have been provided all the necessary resources and authorizations. It will become available for all users on a platform in no more than 30 days."

Imagine if it was Amazon and Bezos' account got hacked because the company did not implement proper security. Plugging that hole properly would become not a priority one but a priority before priority one project.
True, I don't think it's ideal, but non-US entities are in slumber, there's still basically no deployment of more secure standards by ISPs. I'd send my ISP an e-mail about providing DoH but they can't even give me IPv6.
New York Times Dev Portal
The other side of that coin is that on mobile the article is painful to read and the layout is horrible.

For what it's worth I hate medium as well. But I would recommend ghost.org if you want to go with self hosting.
Gusto will handle it all. Though I’m not a fan and we’re looking to switch. The never gave us our referral credits and while it’s NBD, it definitely left a bad taste.
> For the last 40 years, Google would never have been challenged as a monopoly because its products were free to consumers, hence there could be no harm to them, hence no monopoly. Same for Facebook.

This is demonstrably false. The Microsoft anti-trust case began with them giving away Internet Explorer which led to further discoveries of them harming the performance of or outright blocking other applications and eventually that they subsidized manufacturers.

If Google, Facebook, et al is giving away a product for free (similar to dumping) to build a moat around their other products.. that's one thing. If that dumping harms or disrupts competitive products, that's another.

It has nothing to do with free but with "harm".
The anticompetitive measure by Apple working as designed then.

Looking forward to the inevitable outcry on this forum once the EU competition commissioner levies another fine on Apple worth a day's profits...
A 5% chance of the results being reproducible by fluke even if the hypothesis is false is obviously too high for anything important. Splitting hairs over .048 and .052 is ridiculous: it revolves around tiny differences in a gaping uncertainty. Neither value is anywhere in the neighborhood of where the benchmark should be.
As Trump Rails and Employment Slumps, Tech Jobs Still Immune
We were called "paranoid lunatics" even when we started speaking about ECHELON in the '90ies.

Same with the clipper chip. Same with TPM/DRM/ME. Same with Internet centralization.

It's worth asking why the general public keeps trusting authorities and distrusts techies, even those among us with a career in security.
For what it's worth, there's now a basic Web version: https://swirly.timdp.now.sh/
I thought it couldn't get any worse, but thank you for reminding :)
That's the argument that helps people give up doing something important instead? "At least I'm doing something". When that something is insignificant when there are better ways to contribute.
> and directing them as to how they should do they job

This is, to me, a very puzzling take. If you hire a contractor, you don't direct how they do the job, only what the job output is like. Hourly contractors are certainly a thing.
This, 100% this. It makes the move from a single person company to a 2 person company terrifyingly complex, particularly for those of us without a background in business.

It’s a literal chilling action on small business.
Flutter 1.9 Release Notes
That creepy. Good catch OP
>Why wouldn't we?

Because the only reason you're seeing them is that this is solved at the wrong level. The laws should have targetted browsers and adtech companies, not webmasters.
The Alfa AWUS1900 is a nice model, but if you want something cheaper (and will put up with 2.4ghz-only), the TP-Link TL-WN722N is cheap, but get the v1 chipset! It's the best-supported with drivers on linux. Oh yeah, and you will probably need to do monitor mode on linux.
When I recommend this game to friends, I introduce it as a $70 game with a pay-as-you-go model.

My point is not that it makes the game bad, but that it's disingenuous to assert that the microtransactions are purely cosmetic or unnecessary. For my case at least, I would prefer if I could just buy the game for $70 and not have to buy more microtransactions if/when some future patch makes them advantageous.
This was a popular adapter more recently because of the WPS pin exploit using something like the reaver tool.
But it is not the end of the world.

True, it might only be global catastrophe that will take generations to recover from.
Is he implying anything at all or are the voices in your head?
The future of transit-oriented urban development is not retro
> Maybe I need to read the book but I don't see it.

Yes, that would be the point of reading the book.

You can't argue with the reasoning if you don't know it.
> Most recently it was throttling on a X220, fixed by swapping to a redesigned fan/heatsink.

Personally I believe the major source of heat of the X220 comes from the Sandy Bridge processor. The next-gen Ivy Bridge in X230 has almost no performance gain, but reduces heat dissipation significantly (ironically, Ivy Bridge is also the turning point when Intel started to use crappy thermal paste in the desktop CPU packaging, leading to thermal issues...).

I own both machines and the difference is great. Also, two of my X220s from different sources all suffer with random shutdown issues, I suspect the source is the cold solder joints under the power MOSFET or a defective one (saw a troubleshoot post of a similar issue in a fourm), but it's BGA, so...

Anyway, that's why I recommend everyone who wants a X220 to get a X230. You can even replace the motherboard and the bottom case to "upgrade" the X220 to X230.

> the heatsink from the x230 can be fitted to a x220.

I believe it's virtually identical. I never heard about the X230 heatsink performs better, perhaps it's the case, I may give it a try someday...
> HKEX's largest shareholder is the Hong Kong government.

Is this true?

According to the bloomberg terminal 388 HK is owned 79% by funds( investment advisors) and only 13.78% by the Government.

Additionally 53% of shares are held by US entities and only 18% by Hong Kong entities

> HKEX's largest shareholder is the Hong Kong government

That just seems like a weird lie to tell when its so easily disproved.
Looking on ebay, you can get a new or lightly used iPhone XS 64GB (the only option that was as little as $999) for around $700. So if you bought it a year ago, your annual cost after selling it is about $300. The Pixel 2 XL goes for about $200 on ebay. Looks like it costs as much as $200 per year more to have the flagship iPhone new than it does to have a year old flagship Pixel.

In your opinion, the iPhone is better, so it's OK that you're spending more, but it's weird to say someone's getting ripped off by buying an excellent one year old phone for much, much less.

The money over time argument rarely works out as better for a more expensive item. Anecdotally, the people I know that buy a brand new flagship do not wait four years between phones. The ones that are OK with a one year old flagship are also OK with a three year old one. And even if they upgrade more often, it's just so much less expensive (over time.)