skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a completely unreasonable concern though; all of the big tech companies have had problems with employees misusing their access to private communications to snoop on people.

When my mother worked at the local government she (illegally, and unethically) accessed the file of a friend, and learned that a friend lied about the reason she's in a wheelchair, the real reason being somewhat embarrassing. She told all mutual friends about it too and caused big drama (she's a toxic person). This was over 20 years ago btw, privacy problems aren't new (just the scale of it has changed).

In the Netherlands we have a municipal database with data for all citizens. Civil servants legitimately access it in the course of their duties, but names for famous Dutch people have many more hits than regular ones. I think especially for high-profile(ish) people like Paul, it might be more of a concern than you or me.

I'm not paranoid about it, but I do think there's room for improvement.
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This thing has a hard drive in it??
Versioning is on the list of incompatibilities [1] we have currently at Exoscale. The current roadmap sets this for Q3 this year.

[1] https://community.exoscale.com/api/sos/#s3-incompatibilities

disclaimer: co-founder at Exoscale
The version I've been using has been crashing every once in a while, but the much bigger issue at least for running WSL is the lack of copying from the terminal.
The only flexibility is that is easier to implement, whence why it is usually the first GC algorithm one learns, and among the initial chapters of GC algorithms overview books.
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In this case it's not just their employer but other employees and customers. It's a negative-sum kind of action to retain yourself as a middleman.
That was my experience with the PS3
I have the same urge to make quick quips. I just make sure to add them only to lower level comments so that they don't derail the rest of the discussion.
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Yes, they can be calculated in constant time, NSA's friends can be told to use constant time from the start while everyone else used libs that copies from the non constant time reference implementation?
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Try the last of us and celeste.
Geospatial is on the TODO list
The branches can do one extremely profitable thing: sell you mortgages.
I don't believe that "a@" and "a+tag@" being treated as the same address is part of any specification, but I could be mistaken about this.

Many mail servers have a setting to configure which character to use; some default (or used to default?) to "-" instead of "+".
On a tangent on giving medical subsidy to the poor: this likely gets lumped into Medicare, yes? And Medicare is close to insolvency. The only way to prop it up is, of ocurse, taxpayer dollars.

The difference between goods and services is in the elasticity of supply. Double the demand for iphones? Apple will have it sorted in six months. Double demand for doctors? First be prepared for expensive doctors for the next ten years. Those doctors will get paid more, but there are only eight hours in a workday, so they treat the same number of patients. New doctors take a long time to train and have to contend with predicting economic conditions several years into the future. Net result: transfer of wealth from tax payers to doctors, little economic gain, worse average doctoring experience.

Tax payers including those with expertise in setting up production of goods. Who could have used the marginal money to set up new businesses and produce physical stuff. Opportunity cost is high, as always.
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And probably much more secure.
> If you want to watch Twitch.TV streams for example you are SoL. There was an unofficial Twitch app, but it was removed from the store.

I still get worked up about this. I was able to watch streams on my TV using this app and someone somewhere just decided I shouldn't be able no more. The TV has lost value with this change, to me at least.
UC Berkeley told to pay undergrads tutoring juniors more than $5m extra
That's why parallel reconsruction is a thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
>Global societies at large are poorly prepared to manage the cultural and practical impact of a confirmed first contact.

We're living in a world awash in decades' worth of science fiction media and pop cultural references to aliens, government conspiracies and first contact, good and harmful . That governments around the world are keeping the existence of aliens a secret has, itself, become a meme within a meme. I don't know if the disclosure of first content would be as much of a culture ending event as is often assumed.

It's not aliens, though. It's never aliens.
> there should be a tipping point where ray-tracing is more efficient than rasterization.

How so? Wouldn't both scale logarithmically with respective hierarchical acceleration structures? In what way does ray tracing scale better?
Here in the UK Macintosh is still genericized as a rain coat.
I was using this well before gmail even existed; support is not universal, but it's certainly not a "gmail feature".
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Germany's system is generally liked, and "the public option" is ~15% of income (but we "split" it between employer and employee so it doesn't look as grim, which means you get half of that less in salary, but only pay half yourself).
10% seems reasonable, and is something you'd only achieve in Germany if you have a high income (because the total amount paid is limited) or go for private plans (which you can if you're self-employed or in some special cases, or if you have a high income; caveats apply). The public insurances also provide a much lower level of service than the private entities (e.g. you're paying for glasses yourself unless you're basically unable to function without them).
That's on top of having income tax on the higher side and a high VAT, and high rents. From that perspective, 10% seems great.
Whether the market is 60:35 is favor of Apple or 60:35 in favor of Google, either way there's no real competition in the market. It's two local monopolies milking their captive audiences for everything they're worth.
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> The question is who is most likely to be right, a nobel prize winning Ph.D. specialized in molecular biology, genetics and zoology, who worked 20 years at Harvard etc, etc....or you.

Or we could, instead of argument to authority, look at the actual research in the field, which doesn't support Watson's conclusions. (Neither does it strongly support their negation.)

And Watson's expertise is in the low-level mechanics of heredity; it's less relevant to broad population psychometry and the analysis of heredity of traits measured through such psychometry than is, say, a bachelor's degree in any of the social sciences.

> What about double helix? Is he wrong about that too?

By “he” do you mean Rosalind Franklin? But, no, of course that's not wrong, it's been extensively confirmed.
> Then you kill (choose your method and make it quick) the natural brain - instant swap? Or is there something different? Where does the "consciousness" go? If it is different, why is it any different than the "near-instant" swap?

This seems to be a non-sequitur. If we simply understand consciousness as a property of the brain, as long as you have 2 copies of the same brain, you naturally have 2 consciousnesses. The 2 may be equal or not (most likely not, given that random noise is extremely likely to play a role in brain processes), but they are definitely not a single object.
Law enforcement often does things that make their job easier. Said things just as often encroach upon our rights as citizens https://besthdporn.me . We shouldn’t allow them to exist for that reason.
Hello guys !

I have built an Android app with a friend since 2 months and everythings's finally live. (you can check the announcement post here: https://creekorful.me/pimp-your-phone-like-never-before/)
The application allows users to customize their phone with HD wallpapers grouped by categories.
You don't have to choose the wallpaper anymore, you'll just need to select the things you like, set the change interval and let the app do the magic!

The technical stack is composed of 2 big parts:

- The native android application (written in Java&Kotlin because we needed access to low-level API).

- The API (written in Go) that communicates with a MongoDB. The API is used to abstract the different wallpaper providers that we use.

Authentication, analytics and user management are done using Google Firebase.

The whole stack is deployed on a Docker Swarm and routing stuff is done using Traefik.

Feedback is welcome ! And It would be a pleasure to answer any question (technical or not)
> A shared VPN might give you some plausible deniability

It might, but it's very feasible to correlate encrypted VPN traffic to outgoing traffic with netflow logs, which the underlying network operator is almost certainly storing.
Yup. Discussed here before! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14823054
How often do you go to a bank branch?

For me, for the last 15 years, it's less than twice per year, possibly even less than once per year.

I used to have cheques to pay in from my grandparents (birthday etc), although I think I usually posted them to the bank. Postage was free. Presumably the in-branch bank tellers have better things to do than process cheques.

There were a few visits when I emigrated to close and open accounts. Much of this could be done by phone, but I had some old accounts from childhood which I'd never used online.

It's not at all surprising to me that the nearest bank to where my parents live in England is only open three days a week, with the ones that used to be nearer long since closed.
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> especially on mobile

Eh, I much prefer using an app on mobile. All the buttons (up-/downvote, collapse) are too small, and a lot of space to the right is often left on the table, which makes longer comments very hard to read.
My partner has downloaded malware from the play store.

or is the play store sketchy? Where is the official repository of safe applications?
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s/conservatives/leftists/ and you get the same thing. It’s another non-argument.

The point GP seems to be making is that it is only conservative thought that is assailed as illegitimate to study or even discuss. As a conservative-turned-libertarian, I was frightened to even speak my conservative thoughts in college 15 years ago lest my grade be impacted. I can’t imagine what modern conservatives must endure in college.

Many reasonable people don’t want any particular side to have the upper hand. That applies to all of my conservative and libertarian friends. My leftist friends seem to have a self-righteousness about them that I can only conclude they gain from their empowerment on a campus lacking intellectual diversity.
I recently saw an announcement[0] of a Z-machine in Postscript. The Z-machine is a runtime for text adventure games. Also posted on HN[1] but no comments were made.

[0]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.int-fiction/HNtntxC...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21367412
I strongly suspect that it would not have really been published.
Hey! Thanks for the feedback :)

Unlike OneNote and other linear layout tools, Walling lets you throw out your ideas into Bricks and worry later about organizing and revising them and with those bricks/ideas side by side, Walling empowers you to step back and get a high level understanding of what you're working on.
Glad you liked the project!
Hosting service would be the main monetization method. In addition, we will be providing consulting, training and all sorts of enterprise services.
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> There is no contract if Google didn't send the phone. The commenter doesn't owe them money for something they failed to send.

Don't know about your jurisdiction, but in most countries I lived in the law works otherwise. The moment you checked out you have a contract. Seller not sending out the goods is failing their contractual obligations. But that failure does not cancel the contract, only allows you to execute the appropriate clauses of it (some of which usually lead to refund and cancellation). On the other hand, the delivery of goods doesn't usually prevent you from cancelling the contract (you usually have an obligation to return the goods in that case). The clauses injected by laws tend to make this very consumer friendly... But the ones I remember require you delivering a notice of cancellation and I'm not sure if failing payment counts as such (IANAL, I don't even know your jurisdiction, Yadda Yadda).
What if the script turns your computer to a server serving the type of content you know the FBI will bust down your door for?
I have noticed that the people who contact you for positions via HN also connect with you on a personal level and treat you like an actual human.

Although nothing has worked out for me yet, this is a welcome change from the run of the mill recruiters. You just know that you will be a cog in the wheel if you are hired in those companies.

I guess that the majority of people here want to work on something that adds value to the lives of others.
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Probably a software engineer. If you're a little above average, salaries are very high. Most software engineers I know in Romania make at least 5 times the national average. Good ones make up to 10 times the national average.
Sure has a lot of immigration from outside the West for a gated community [1]. On the other hand, non-Western countries have near-zero Western immigration, or even inter-continental migration among themselves. So much so that, when viewed with a granularity on the scale of an India, China, or North-/Sub-Saharan Africa, they're nearly perfectly homogeneous, in stark contrast to the "closed, gated" West.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2018/03/14/the-us-...
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How to make a web browser look like another kind of program.
Have you done the math, though? Consider the not so extreme nonhypothetical of how many Zuks it would take to make Medicare/Social Security solvent.

The only way to make an amount of extra taxmonies actually worth getting up for is to tax the middle class. Alas, economics is not a zero-sum game, some people have invest their wealth to actually produce stuff to make it all work, and this mostly comes from the wealth of the middle class.
> Academia churns out vast amounts of "research" into various feminist and intersectionalist topics. I've seen very few papers on anything approximating the male opposite.

Have you looked? Because there's at least two competing fields devoted directly to the topic (“men’s studies” and “male studies”.)
Thanks for showing interests in Nebula Graph!

In some production deployments, the graph size reaches hundreds of billions of edges and data size reaches dozens of TB.
I think this argument is backwards. Games will become more like video, in that they are passive consumption, narrative-driven experiences, not the other way around. Most games now still require too much buy-in, too much effort to learn and understand. The format is still an order of complexity above a book or video; it would be better to compare video games to other (immensely popular) games like chess, Go, or Backgammon.
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> Even the case-less hard drive icon in the Quick Look preview window incorrectly uses an image of a spinning disk to represent an SSD.

Its called a symbol. What else would you do, put a piece of plastic called SSD instead?
incredibly well said
Doesn't mention in the article that the 'reason' the name Macintosh was chosen was that it's simply after a variety of Apple (McIntosh).
The delusion is thinking "no code" solves all your (classical) problems. It does not. No code is the future riding the waves of simplifying programming. Like going from C -> Java -> Python -> (Low code) -> No code
Does gun have a built-in "Linked list" in the API? If so, where are the docs? Could not find them.

If not, any paper or doc that explain how to implement it with gun?
It took me a long time to figure that out as a kid. Listening to Beatles songs with lyrics like “the man in the Mac said you gotta go back” or “the banker never wears a Mac “ I had no idea what that was.
Thanks.

BTW I love your website's design!
You need to choose a cartel and find a good position in that cartel.

Find a large community of people who has growing power and influence and try to make yourself relevant in that cartel. Pick a cartel that is growing in influence as opposed to a large one that is stagnating or closed to outsiders. If the cartel is not working for you, maybe it's too late and you need a different cartel. You can still keep some ties to the old cartel if you like aspects of it.

I was trying to join the Y Combinator cartel before and met some interesting founders and had interesting opportunities but ultimately I couldn't achieve what I wanted. So I became involved with cryptocurrency, which I think is going to be the next high growth cartel. I found a way to be somewhat relevant in my crypto community so now I'm just pushing and trying to help the cartel gain more power and influence.
I know, it should be an actual crime that Apple sells brand new iMacs in 2020 for a small fortune and by default they come with a shitty 5400rpm drive. It's insane. Those machines have very decent specs but everything feels 2011-slow purely because the system is running off something that belongs in a museum.
A while ago someone had a "how to set up your own Alexa on a Pi". It was just using Java, so I tried it on Windows, and it worked. I commented so on the guide, which was hosted on Github, and I got many many replies asking "Can you tell us how to do it?".

It annoyed me that these folks have a Github account but can't figure out things without step-by-step instructions...
I mean the boring answer is that people have patience and energy constraints. They arbitrarily ignore the whole group because VC isn't adjacent enough to their life goals, or something, to warrant the energy necessary to pick out the patience-stealers from the insight-givers.
It looks like Kernighan's Pic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pic_language
I recommend studying the current European Union then. This is pretty much the status quo over here. And yes, it ensures that the states have way more power. But make your own conclusions.
https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/fractal-fern.ps

is a fractal fern. This is page description, but not in the normal way that it's used. Compare the output in a PS or PDF viewer with the source code which is under 1.5K.
Use a different Firefox profile for work/personal.

Sign-in to personal (while at work) to sync bookmarks if firewall allows. Depending on whether you trust your employer you could sync further personal settings.

Don't sign-in to work profile and no work bookmarks or settings/logins get shared.

Don't get me wrong: multi-account containers are a blessing for those rare days when you absolutely have to log-in to facebook.
While a good deal of our entertainment circa 1993 (Computer Science Honours, Sydney University) centered around exploiting this delightful fact (close second: unattended terminals), I had long since figured that forging emails off a open SMTP port wasn't really still A Thing.
Glad you loved the query language. Simplicity and versatility are our design goals for the language.

Currently the project has been deployed in multiple leading internet companies in China, including Tencent, MeiTuan (Chinese Yelp), Red (Chinese Pinterest), Vivo, and so on.
As a startup founder with wealthy parents, this seems likely. Not only can parental wealth serve as a safety net, but you might also get direct investment from your family, have a safety net if things don’t work out (enabling you to take more risks), not have to exert as much effort taking care of sick, old, etc. family members because you can hire people, get access to powerful family connections, and learn from highly educated parents.

What’s weird to me is that I don’t see more successful founders mentioning that having economically well-off parents being a factor in their success. I’ve long since accepted that any success I’ve had or will have will be, at least partially, a result of my privileged upbringing. I used to be a bit bothered by that, but now I’m happy to give tons of credit for any of my own successes to my parents. And anytime I hear about startup founders achieving success despite coming from poorer families or even hostile environments, I’m super impressed.
Often referred to as a 'Plastic Mac' (extra confusing during the early noughties era).

See also: 'Mac in a Sac': https://www.macinasac.com/
Congratulations! What a good story to read first thing in the morning
IQ has been statistically proven as a very reliable predictor. This is only disputed by impulsively triggered non-experts browsing chat forums, but is not disputed by serious academics.
These days, you either work for a company as an employee, or you work for cartel as an entrepreneur.
In the UK it's both, 'degree apprenticeships' were introduced recently (couple of years ago):

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

('Higher' being 'degree equivalent', and 'degree' being with an actual degree conferred by an actual university.)

At Arm I had a colleague who was on that programme, and so was also studying at a university. I think it started off part-time, 2 and 3 days of a week or something, and then switched to term-here/term-there.

I agree, great scheme. (Icing on the cake: I believe the education is paid for (subsidised by government and paid for by company?) in addition to the work being paid.)
Also I don't know why they put a save icon in that list /s
>would disobey orders to attack civilians or otherwise commit evil acts

So..how do you explain, to give but one example, the hundreds of thousands the US killed in Iraq?
IQ has been rigorously statistically proven as a very reliable predictor. This is often disputed by impulsively triggered non-experts browsing chat forums, but not by serious academics.
Geospatial support has already been merged to the code base. :)
Yeah, and the meaning is still the same. A reminder that you don't have to follow a huge monopoly that lost touch with customers some time ago..
Why would a customer need to know anything about banking at all? Imagine if you were stopped in a supermarket because you beeped on the way out, and then they leave you to wait for hours before someone finally comes to tell you it's well-known that their door gates' sensors are just too sensitive and you can go. You'd probably sue them or at least never go there again, certainly no one would tell you that you don't understand how shoplifting is a complex problem.

If a fraud detection system is known to detect false positives (and they're designed that way on purpose, to provide a better protection to the institution), then there should be measures in place to contain the possible damage to clients, and also an easy procedure for clients to resolve these issues quickly and painlessly. That's a bare minimum. One of the main reason why people moved to Stripe from PayPal and similar services in the first place (beside an api that works) is exactly this type of problems where payment gateways would block your money in the name of some arbitrary "fraud risk" and you couldn't do anything about it. Fraud is their business problem, not mine as a customer. If I'm doing business legally why would I need to care or know anything about it?