skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things:

1) There is no way Apple would be allowed to sell iPhones in China, without China government having access to anything. So, I assume that Apple users in China have e2e encrypted exactly nothing.

2) I have a strong suspicion that those 'enter your Apple ID password because your account needs it' message really means 'a government has requested your data and even though it's encrypted, we will nag you about entering a password, and if you give it, you're a free game'.

I don't blame Apple for this, I'm sure they're doing what they can, but when a government says 'give us this data', they can't not comply and stay in business. And a whole point of a company is staying in the business.

Vote responsibly - companies can't protect us from a government we have put into power.
Agreed. The fact that we're making comparisons to worse scenarios just shows how low standards have become.
Saves more than a click because it requires you to sign in to read the article.
Exceptionally Monadic Error Handling
I don't think we understand yet how to model the impacts of breaches on products.

Cambridge Analytica didn't ruin facebook, but it did enable CCPA, and it probably changed how FB users think of / trust the product. Ashley Madison / equifax breaches completely ruined their cos.

Snowden disclosures were a weird middle case that meant all things to all people.

Weakening aapl's privacy claims may not matter to a post-truth public but I suspect it will further drive demand for actual consumer privacy products, when and if they enter the market.
it's like 8 pages just for SV on indeed
Wait, your answer is Android? From Google?
I have that problem with many sites that use that. It's usually because of privacy blocking so I just use the regular login.
An increase income range is an increase in income. Most companies do not hire high school students or drop outs for more than minimum wage.

How you can reconcile a higher educated person being higher up the income ladder, but not making more than what they made working minimum wage at a lower education level, eludes me.

What stagnant income means is, they aren't making more relative to their productivity. Meaning salaries have not changed all that much for about 2 - 3 decades through raises despite high productivity.
Thank you so much for that resource. It is greatly appreciated.
Thank you for taking the time and contributing a well-explained and argued line of argumentation.

Yes, Germany is wealth because others (the southern countries) have to compete because of the union currency. I always thought people of the southern countries (i know people from spain and greece) would rage more vigrously against that. Interestingly rage is only mildly and not a big thing. Maybe it's the selction bias bubble I am living in, I don't know.
There is a certain extend where the judge can easily see that you're just trying to bullshit around the law itself.

In this case, the most likely outcome is that the judge will rule that breaking the image into 128 pixel squares and then reassembling them is simply the same as displaying the full image by intent. The result is the same so you broke the law.
I Quit: 21 Stories of People Who Walked Away
Is that really Soviet style? Does that have a name or book or wikipedia article describing it?
Former ITA'er here who went through the Google acquisition. This news is interesting because Google's flight search, which used to be ITA Software, is/was very competitive with SABRE - it would have been impossible to imagine them working together like this in the ITA days. Additionally, many of the former ITA folks are at SABRE now.

I always hoped that Google would build a free GDS (global distribution system; basically a broker/layer of indirection and source of truth for travel that requires multiple unrelated carriers). SABRE makes a lot of money on their GDS; a GDS charges something like $5 US a booking, and Google was uniquely positioned to make this free (of course, free to you in exchange for knowing your travel data). It'd have been a nice thing for price-sensitive consumers... maybe it could still happen.
Even though I want them to have more ad cash, DuckDuckGo isn't vastly better: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=buy+printer
On my W10 machine select-string was aliased to grep. Almost every command was already aliased.

get-content -> cat

set-location -> cd

get-childitem -> ls

etc
1$ for Each Day You Don’t Read
What's Wrong with Computational Notebooks?
I changed my mind about that after working with our Barcelona divison - top notch engineering all around.
How many people actually paid for the Netscape browser in the first place? Was selling the browser ever a viable business model?

Netscape could have developed different ways of getting money, like ads on the start page or default search engine. But such schemes could only have worked if they had retained a large market share, which they jeopardized with the rewrite.
> Rust is without a doubt a (much) "better C++" but I'm not sure a better C++ is necessarily what systems programming needs most.

I agree but if better C++ is what the PL industry can give me, then I'll take it, thank you very much!

(Frankly at this point I'll take anything that isn't C++...)
I'm disappointed that this is about typed text rather than actual talking - I had hoped that training something that talked like me might assist technology vendors in actually creating voice recognition technology that works for me.

And yes my problems with voice recognition are probably due to my Scottish accent.... ;-)
Not sure what the point is when it costs $100 and is magnitudes smaller and less powerful than a proper one which runs at $200-300 - an upfront cost which is dwarfed in the long run by filter replacements, as would be the case here.
My reasoning in this entire thread has been:

1. This isn't news about Apple's encryption, it's just that the status quo is here to stay. Your Apple device is as secure/private as it has been, and will probably not get any better. It's disappointing, but not really much of a revelation to anyone who's been paying attention since 2012 (or earlier).

2. The way the headline is phrased vindicates an orthogonal personal decision I made to not purchase hardware or software from Apple.

Given your most recent comment, at some point, you must have assumed a lot of things that a) aren't true and b) I never stated or implied.
Don't know what you want from it but I use Sublime Text (which I keep open as scratch pads) and GitHub gists and rarely and untitled file in my IDE.
I'd love if someone took the next step from Pandas being influenced by R to port dplyr-esque syntax to it.
That's strange. I still have a calculator on my Windows 10 install. Its resizable, has a history, can do unit conversions, a quick shortcut to keep on top, and has a ton more features than the old one.

The old Windows Photo Viewer still exists and is the default out of the box to open .TIF files. With a couple of short registry hacks you can make it the default for other photo types again. Other than multi-page TIF files, I usually do prefer the newer app as it once again offers a ton more features.
> To me the Rust community seems to want to argue that everything should be rewritten in Rust

I haven't seen this. At most, I've seen the push for rewriting important libraries where security is a core issue in Rust. I don't blame them. I'm tired of C/C++ being used everywhere because of performance, leading to the current-day situation of so much fundamentally unsafe code running the world.
Ask HN: Consumer hardware setup for long-term backups?
The iCloud development has gotten me thinking about my usage of major cloud storage solutions, including Dropbox. I've been getting increasingly annoyed with Dropbox's product changes lately anyway, so I'm thinking about setting up my own solution.

In terms of size, half a terabyte (or maybe a terabyte to be comfy) would do. My main priority is durability: I don't want to worry about a drive failure (durability is the main reason I've used Dropbox for so long; my house could burn down and my data would be safe).

Presumably I should go with an SSD for durability (?) seeing how sensitive HDDs are to movement/magnets/mechanical failure in general. Should I bother trying to do some kind of RAID redundancy setup, or is that overkill? Any other thoughts or suggestions? All-in-one backup solutions would also be interesting, as would cloud storage solutions that are end-to-end encrypted.
In a similar vein, James Clear outlines this same sort of principle as "habit stacking"[0] in his book, Atomic Habits.

[0]: https://jamesclear.com/habit-stacking
I could give a recent example that applies to Germany. But it would be flagged since that kind of thinking is forbidden here.
What fictional boss are you?
Those are functionally equivalent imo. The NYPD operates in other cities and countries. I wouldn't expect people to preface a description of them by saying they were a global police force based primarily in the Phillipines
Any day now, it's going to overtake Logo on the TIOBE index. You just wait.
Scientists unearth the mystery of Yarrabubba, the planet’s oldest known crater
Your quote from the article literally says 'much faster than previous predictions'. The article implies it is a prediction. I didn't infer anything.

> you inferred a prediction and used that to discredit the scientific data.

I did no such thing. I discredited the interpretation of scientific data. Huge difference compadre.
I'm Captain Holt. That is all.
Where do websites get this information? Do they get it for free or do they pay CBOE for it?

edit: as in the raw data
I personally wouldn't say it is clickbait but it does appear to fall foul of other parts of the relevant HN guidelines:

Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
I run a bookmark manager on my home web server (accessible from the internet). I prefer that over managing bookmarks using browser facilities, because I can use bookmarks from any browser and any machine, anywhere. I also don't have to worry about losing bookmarks if I change browsers, replace the OS, etc.

I'm also a bit allergic to using some external service to do this -- that seems like a pointless loss of control to me.

(I use Online Bookmarks http://www.frech.ch/online-bookmarks/ for this)
The reminds me of when people would ask how it was possible that Madoff was such a successful investor; he's just better than everyone else.
Any CSS wizards that could come up with user injected CSS that would move or highlight ads appropriately?

Is GreaseMonkey the best for that, or is there a nice lightweight alternative more fit to purpose?
I think they may be claiming this, because technically Mullvad doesn’t have an iOS app, and their Android app is still in beta and recently released, and doesn’t have an audit done.

Mullvad has had their Windows and Linux apps audited (which were all they offered at that time).
Pinner works fine on iOS.
Forecasting high-dimensional dynamics exploiting suboptimal embeddings
We live with a hellish duopoly. If I'm not buying Apple, what other option is there?

Attempting to pantomime surprise is dickish and unncessary for HN.
TLDR: economists are imbeciles.

Never mentions hidden champions[1], never mentions the high level of training and morale and hence productivity for the German worker, never mentions German dedication to quality, never mentions the social capital of corporations which are hundreds of years old, never mentions the fact that MBA quarterly profit maximization uber alles bullshit never caught on in Germany, never mentions the Landesbanks.... I submit this article as evidence that economists don't understand any economy.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_champions
Aireless Tires Wheels
Number of people killed?
Some speed comparison on a larger dataset would be interesting
Not only the "ads" in the start menu but the fact that they're actually INSTALLED APPLICATIONS that are part of the update packages.

Who knows how much bandwidth and time has been wasted at my job alone with folks' computers force-updating with included installations of Candy Crush, Spotify and Disney Kingdoms.
I don't think it would be. With the current setup you can almost completely avoid using the keyboard. In bash, you just triple-click and middle-click to follow a link. You don't even need to move the mouse between clicks. Selecting a line with triple-click includes the newline needed to execute the command. Zsh has protection against executing from a paste, so you would need to hit the numpad enter key with you thumb after pasting with the middle-click. This is assuming that your desktop environment doesn't prevent you from using Xorg's PRIMARY selection clipboard.

If you haven't used PRIMARY before, you don't need to Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V (that's the CLIPBOARD clipboard). Middle-clicking does the copy and paste at once from the last selection.

I find it nice for mindless browsing. In contrast, changing the last few characters means the action is different for each link. You need to pay attention to the id of the post and write it. Also, you need to memorize the number/path, because most terminals will scroll to the bottom when you start typing.
There are alternatives that more appeal to my taste in the works. Given the cost of changing language, any language, I'll wait and see how they turn out before making decisions.
Ecosystem..

I don't know about node. But there's whole lot of java code and libraries out there. Otherwise why would people build other languages for the JVM?

Ease of writing; Most of code is okay having a GC. But time to produce working code (not necessarily 100% correct code) is important.

Rust is created for low level stuff. It is wrong to expect web backend programmers to deal with ownership, stack-vs-heap and all.
Pi Connects Colliding Blocks to a Quantum Search Algorithm
At the 10 year horizon the grandparent was using, the ultra low end of MCU may be substantially more powerful, with possibly lowend AM or RISC V being the smallest thing you can find. At some point, packaging will dominate cost over silicon for such small MCU so a better silicon won't cost much more...
> Use Google when you want to go back to something.

Yeah, good luck with that. Most of the things I bookmark are things that were really hard to find in the first place. Google isn't much help with stuff like that.
It's more than one screen. And the workarounds to not signing into a Microsoft account just to INSTALL the OS are becoming more and more tedious by the month.
Why Learn Awk? (2016)
If by productive means lying about car emissions to cheat authorities, yeah, Wolkswagen and Audi and whatever are really efficient cars made by really productive german workers.

Maybe we could move this conversation to adult zone and non-cartoonist levels beyond "spanish cheap drunk workers living in the beach" and "german saint teetotalers workers"?

Thinking that a spanish engineer is less educated than a german engineer is hilarious (yeah, we take siestas under a cactus with a big hat all day in between last party and next party). University titles in all EU are equivalent for the same grades.
Millions eligible for free cryptocurrency tax software
Maybe I misread it, but it sounded like the OP was comparing Rust to C or C++ on low-powered/resource-contrained firmware, not assembly.
Over 500 Top PDFs Posted to Hacker News in 2019
I'm involved in a couple of github projects where we have had drive-by "hey, rewrite your project in Rust" PRs. Obviously not official or anything, but never seen anything like that for any other language.
Are you seeing something else than I am? DDG looks lightyears better than current google now, at least on visual clarity side
Rust for me is the modern C/C++, as much as Go is the modern Java. I see no point going back to C/C++ now and I will now reject any job offers that deal with these languages.
This is very astute, thanks for sharing. It really illuminates the value of leisurely tinkering and playful discovery, free from the pressure of well-defined objectives.
I believe that move is more of a CYA to prevent clashes with the legal system in those countries which could result in fines, being unable to operate servers there at all, etc.
You have to look at how Agile was started. Before it often projects were planned out in detail beforehand and then they tried to execute that plan without changes. As it turned out that often didn’t work. So the Agile Manifesto writers tried to explain that software is unpredictable and you have to make sure people can adapt to changes.

Scrum as a base methodology isn’t too bad either but as always management prefers precise plans and a lot of Agile consultants are happy to feed that. Saying “let people make up whatever process they want” is actually quite profound because it often goes complete against what management wants.
Opening the article it seems like this has been more than a little overblown - I was expecting something like banner ads for random things, and it turns out to be small, dismissible, banner suggesting that you might like to use MS Office instead.
Absolutely. As a paramedic, in a good instance of the number of SCDs I have attended where the family have said "y'know they said they just really didn't feel right/had a sense of something dark/impending doom, all day long".

In the setting of chest or upper abdominal pain or pressure, especially over 35 years, any pain that radiates to shoulder or jaw, especially that cannot be relieved and doesn't appear exertion-related (but even then) should be considered something serious until shown otherwise, in general, and coupled with the above.
You can start at the About page as a root node: https://omnieq.com/about

Recommend Hull's Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives as reference text.
> forces the developer to know that the compiler will be doing such magic.

Do you regularly order your stack variables? :D

99.99% of cases there are no expectations about details of a `struct` and having to think about it all the time is a PITA. That's a good example how silly defaults in C/C++ are. Just because I might need manual ordering once in a while, does not mean I want to be bothered by it all the time.
You're suggesting spending a lot of time and hassle trying to wrestle with search engines instead of just keeping a bookmark that can be found and accessed very quickly?
The point is with the app, you don’t need the config. The app can automatically assign you to the fastest server for you, you can pick any server on the fly without predownloading a config, you’re automatically abreast of the latest servers added, etc.

Advantages and disadvantages with both methods.
Alone on a Mountaintop, Awaiting a Hard Rain
While this keyboard is too small for me personally, something like a 40% or a 60% is doable since they retain the modifier keys. These keyboard sizes are great for traveling or taking somewhere with a laptop to give a "proper" keyboard experience without being overly bulky.

Keyboards with support for custom firmware (https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/) can also greatly increase the functions of normally single-use keys at the cost of a steeper learning curve.
Deadly mystery virus reported in 2 Chinese cities and South Korea
> Yet, by the way, why do they always use lethal doses of morphine for euthanasia?

Deniability.

Euthanasia is still illegal in most of the world (and yet is the moral thing to do at times). To avoid tangling with the long arm of the law, the medical staff overseeing a terminal patient will hint at what a deadly dosage would be, and leave the dosage control with a family member. So what if the coroner finds morphine - it's supposed to be there. 5-MeO-DMT (or any other non-medical compound), is far less innocuous, and could potentially open a legal can of worms for everyone involved.
>Wonder if this will help to kill a meme, aboyt how much Apple cares about users and what great values they have,

Probably not. The keyboards on their laptops are barely functional but it doesn't stop people from saying how great they are.
At what point do we stop talking about commerce between Eurozone states as imports/exports?
I’m not sure about that. Face and fingers are typically authentication mechanisms. They can grant access to a key, but they cannot themselves be the key.

The thing doing the authentication can be your local device, or a cloud-device. That thing must necessarily store a validator for your face/fingerprints which it can use to decide your submitted capture is “close enough” to consider a match, after which it grants access to the key, usually indirectly, by allowing certain cryptographic operations with the key.

Apple takes pains to ensure the biometric validators never leave the Secure Enclave of a local device. Possibly they could allow syncing these validators between Secure Enclaves of paired devices but I think you have to re-enroll. Absolutely never do they transmit these biometric validators to the Cloud in a readable form.

So in a lost-device scenario, you are also losing the biometric validators as well as the keys which were unlocked by the validators.

I think storing decryptable biometric validators is worse than storing decryptable device backups. Such a fingerprint database would almost certainly be abused by a government (forced to match a terrorist’s fingerprint against their users).

The singular reason I am willing to use biometric authentication on my phone is because the authentication is done locally.

For example Amazon’s recently announced project to link Amazon Pay to a palm print in stores is a total non-starter for me. Besides the fact that it’s a clumsy and bad idea to begin with, no way I want them having my palm print validator sitting in the Cloud.
You're right, of course.

I had in mind an e2e encrypted backup on Apple's servers, which would be far more convenient than doing it locally. That's all.
If you'd bothered to read you'd realise that the author isn't an economist, and that he does talk about Germany's manufacturing excellence. That doesn't explain why in 1992 Germany had a massive trade deficit and UK had an equally large trade surplus, or how they've been able to avoid the fate of Japan.
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A serious question here: what history are you drawing this inference from?

Popular history tends to be a distorted view of history that willfully ignores evidence to the contrary to tell a good story, and military history especially tends to fall victim here. As a good case in point, take WWI. In popular history, WWI is a war of unimaginable destruction because generals were idiots fighting Napoleonic-era tactics with modern weaponry. But that's not really sustained by the evidence. The generals and officer class were aware of how much more effective modern guns and gunnery was compared to the Napoleonic wars, and their battle plans accounted for this. Trenches came out of known tactics--on the defensive, digging in is the most effective way to avoid the lethality of opposing weapons, and an underground trench is more effective than an above-ground static fortification.
I think that's the point - when everything looks like an ad, then nothing looks like an ad. (Read: ads blend in more - so users are probably more likely to click on promoted links.)
> The two co-editors are Graham Gudgin and Robert Tombs, both of Cambridge University

But you don't mention:

> Graham Gudgin is chief economic adviser at Policy Exchange

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/graham-gudgin

Policy Exchange is part of : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tufton_Street

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/eu-referendum...

> entirely funded by well-wishers

Cool, how would I go about donating £10 to them? Would you say that this kind of small donation makes up the majority of their funding? Who are the large backers?

So this is totally above board, unaligned and not paid for! /s
There's only one IAP listed, and it's a $4.99US "Tip".