skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of the "high"s seem fairly generic:

- LTE has been a standard feature in business laptops for decades and feels less "magical" and more like work.

- Faceid vs windows hello vs bluetooth tokens vs ... . Maybe neat, but not particularly distinct.

- Clipboard sharing. Yeah, kdeconnect is neat and apple's copy is as well.

- Apple pencil. Windows convertibles with pen have been around since windows XP and usually used pretty good pens by Wacom. The difference is that the software is more "fun", e.g. apple notes makes more use of tilt, animations etc.

- The magic keyboard is still a keyboard and start at $300. For that price one could get much better mechanical keyboards and this even makes the HHKB seem reasonably priced.

- Blink and iSH to me seem to say that the ipad is not good enough and you hence have to connect to something better.

That said, I can see that all the animations make working on an ipad feel more "fun" and the form factor and display are indeed nice.
Totally analogous to every single self-styled agile software development environment I've ever worked in.

People pushing themselves to the breaking point when they could get better results by just stopping whatever they're doing and take the week off.
It's a common idiom in American politics. It was pretty cliche to contrast Wall St and Main St (finance industry and rest of the economy) during the 2008 crisis.
My my, the city council of Boston has a brain. When San Francisco banned FR they left the door open for private contractors, which the city just hired straight away.
> The fact they went to shit has nothing to do with analytics.

Perhaps, perhaps not. Analytics can definitely guide developers along the wrong path. A typical example is that it leads to simplification to cater to 80% of their userbase at the expense of the power users. After all, analytics tells us all these extensive options are only used by 20% of the people, why offer them at all?

But then the power users become frustrated and leave, and the remaining 80% who were mostly beginners on their way to becoming power users now find that the software lacks the in-depth options they needed later on. Then they don't stick around either because you just gutted your own product.

I agree with you that analytics is a tool; it can be useful, but often it is not and often it hurts more than it helps. I also claim that it is definitely not essential to modern software development.
Go look up real numbers. Amount of unarmed black men shot year by year and up-to the riots. Look it up. And you're right the number is historic...ly low under Trump and was literally spiraling down to Zero before the riots, you could count the on your fingers and have one to spare.
It was a magical machine.
PHP as a language really is that bad. It's probably the worst popular language right now as far as how difficult it is to write correct code. Especially because a lot of times your code will seem to run fine until it doesn't. It's also got a tacked on type system that is not robust or expressive at all, so your typing is worse than pre-generics Java. Only JavaScript rivals it. It has no async/multi-threading either, so probably JavaScript is less-bad.

I don't know that I'd call it insecure, necessarily. I'd call C an insecure language. I'm not an expert on all the various standard library functions that you aren't supposed to use anymore. Just make sure if you do SQL that you go through some interface that prepares your statements for you and never just shove user input into a SQL string you build yourself.

On the other hand, as people have already mentioned, there are some genuinely best-in-class libraries and frameworks written in/for PHP. Laravel and Symfony are extremely productive, pretty easy, full-featured, and polished.

It's my opinion that people who defend PHP as a language mostly fall into two camps:

1. They've never (significantly) used languages that are much better. Maybe they've only done PHP, JavaScript, Java, and C; and think that all languages are pretty bad.

2. They are conflating the language with the ecosystem. When you choose Laravel for a project, you're choosing a solid framework in spite of PHP-the-language. You're probably not really choosing PHP per se.
Using 2007/2008 studies to defend the 2010s behavior of an industry doesn’t really make sense. Imagine using a 2007 annual report to make a case, today, for why Apple will never be worth $1 trillion...

I’m glad that you’ve at least put a disclosure that you work in private equity in your HN bio, though. Kudos for that.
Yes, but the main goal of these subscriptions is to fund my work on the free open source libraries related to the book.

You get the book, AND the active development of the libraries.
Sure, private equity can mean a lot of things, but for Bain, the caricature is appropriate:

• 1988: Bain put $10 million down to buy Stage Stores, and in the mid-’90s took it public, collecting $184 million from stock offerings. Stage filed for bankruptcy in 2000.

• 1992: Bain bought American Pad & Paper, investing $5 million, and collected $107 million from dividends. The business filed for bankruptcy in 2000.

• 1993: Bain invested $25 million when buying GS Industries, and received $58 million from dividends. GS filed for bankruptcy in 2001.

• 1994: Bain put $27 million down to buy medical equipment maker Dade Behring. Dade borrowed $230 million to buy some of its shares. Dade went bankrupt in 2002.

• 1997: Bain invested $41 million when buying Details, and collected at least $70 million from stock offerings. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2003.
98 open jobs at JP Morgan with Perl in the description: https://jpmc.fa.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en...

Including many that seem pretty clear Perl is involved in a substantial way: https://jpmc.fa.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en...
US is globalist not capatalist. Cronyism. Capitalism doesnt allow corporate welfare. markets in US are in no way free markets.
> usually

https://www.gq.com/story/male-rape-in-the-military
I love this on Linux, but it is also a good example of how awful the standard Windows command prompt is at formatting :(
Interesting. Do you have a link? Those numbers are hard to Google, all the results I'm getting are for deaths caused by the police vs. of police themselves.
Ask HN: Kids-friendly video games theaching real-world skills and concepts?
What video games can you recommend that teach kids skills and concepts applicable in the real world, such as maths, physics, economics etc.?

Those games do not have to be (and indeed better if they aren't) purposefully "educational" games, but rather fun games that happen to train a skill or concept applicable outside of the virtual universe.

(Inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23593872)
Articles like this break my heart. The thing that stops ideas like the ones in this article taking root are, ultimately, the beliefs of ordinary people.

The real secret of education is it is the only method humanity has discovered to stop people making the same stupid mistakes every single generation like all the other animals.

There is a remarkable strategy for being very successful: identify and stop doing things that cause failure. It isn't the silver bullet but as strategies go more people should try it. Instead, everyone goes along with joining personality cults.
Declining severity is good, but it's not that important. Case count has the potential to increase geometrically if we're not careful. If the case count is doubling, say, every week, then a huge 75% decline in severity only buys us two weeks.
I’ve used the 12.9 pro for three years now. A (very) small business owner and part time teacher. iPad OS is becoming more and more of a joy to use. Some thoughts:

1. Dock behaviour is a little annoying since iPhone X was released. I hate that dragging up triggers app exposé when four fingers works just fine.

2. Apple needs to kill this whole notion of syncing media libraries. I have only ever hated it.

3. If Apple wants to get serious with iPad Pro then they need to put Logic and Final Cut on it. Full versions.

4. I really hope to live and see the day when Blender is on it.

5. iPads are such exceedingly wonderful tools for self education. A large part is due to online learning in general becoming wonderful but PDF reader split view with something like good notes and using the pencil is such a joy.

6. I feel like gaming is in a sad state on iPads. I really hope that having PlayStation and Xbox gamepads working on them opens up the platform. It’s a kick in the teeth to have a portable machine which is just about as good as an Xbox one not having games to match it’s potential.

7. It’s been ten years and so many people still don’t get it. iPads are in a weird spot between power users who need more for their professional work (like CGI, developers, working with ridiculous size PS files) who understandably see them as toys and on the other side are most people who don’t use their computers for work, art, study, whatever just Facebook and Netflix. These guys would be better off with an iPad instead of a laptop but they find them too expensive anyways.
Same, i do most of my work in those hours (amsterdam), being synced with the US is a nice bonus.
Watchmakers don't repair broken cogs either, they replace them with spare parts.
The military is a national organization with a hierarchy stretching from the first-day-on-the-job cadet all the way into the White House.
In the US, almost every police department is it's own thing. I'm not aware of any national organization. Usually the mayor is the top of the hierarchy.
That means a faceless bureaucracy, towns and states removed, will deal with individual concerns in the military. Not a known person three miles from your house.
That’s because it’s focused on root cause.

Unions are boogeymen for these issues. They advocate for members by design so that is easy to do. The problems affecting police in states that prohibit collective bargaining for public employees or where private police are the same.
How about APL?
OK, that's fair and constructive criticism, I take that! You got a point there.

Now it would be great to know, in what aspects a leading person can act in certain ways, that I can copy while doing my job. It also needs to be things, that I don't already do. That would be even more constructive criticism.

You got a point though, and I will think about what those things could be, that someone in a leading position does, that I could copy as behaviors, that are ethically good and also good for the job.
RHEL's distribution of Python 2.6 is still supported as part of the OS. As the author noted, the scripts were written to be forwards compatible with Python 3 for when the bank upgrades to a newer version of RHEL.
I like your idea of "technological development being fractal". Fractals get more complex by zooming in. On a high level we sat in front of a screen 20 years ago and probably will sit in front of a similar screen 20 years from now. But zooming in we have so much more content and abilities on a computer.

And I bet we will sit on chairs even in 200 years. ;)
Rational expectations?

I mean I can list a 100 points to prove what a stupid article this is but I am too busy picking out parts to build this super computer for like $1200...

People with the mindset of this article need to get some antidepressants and try working out. You are obviously not putting things in the proper context.
…yes? Is that a trick question?

Supporting tyrants against their people on some feeble 18th century concept of 'sovereignty' is why we have the crisis of the last decade in the first place. Freedom for everyone or screw it all.
What does Iceland have to do with anything? Those numbers are from the US.
Or a private firm that sets up to perform FR as a "public service" while collecting valuable person traffic marketing data.

Realize people, FR enables the physical world to be overlaid with web-site-like tracking ability. This is hugely valuable to business, and if they figure that out, they will push FR just like they pushed evasive tracking advertising all over the web.
"You're just holding it wrong"

It's (potentially mandated) poor design if it's so easy to misuse.
For consumer notebook repairability the golden standard should be something similar to HP Elitebook 2560p from 2012.

No screwdriver required!(with option to have a security screw)

While removing battery you can press a latch to remove the back cover.

Then you have easy access to everything that a consumer could possible want replacing(HDD/SDD,DVD->HDD, RAM, WIFI).

I recently upgraded a cousins 2560p to 16GB and SSD and it was a breeze, took a few minutes at most.

Sadly HP stopped offering this kind of notebook case around Haswell in 2014.
>but BGAs and things like that, forget it.

Sure. But things like batteries should be replacable in all devices. It's a consumable item, and it shouldn't even be counted as a repair at all.

The fact that modern electronics, and especially phones, is designed to be disposable is infuriating. And Apple says they care so ooh much about the environment, but wants you to throw your headphones in a landfill when the battey dies. Disgusting.
In that analogy if you ban self driving cars you also have ban humans driving cars. After all we have plenty of proof of the bad reliability of humans driving vehicles at any speed.
> the military has apparently better internal controls

Source?

The video "Collateral Murder" which made Wikileaks famous is one of the many proofs of that the US military doesn't apply much control on their engagements. The army had a video of the helicopter crew that shot unarmed civilians, including reporters and children. The crew obviously had fun killing them. They used offensive words and gamer slang. And the army lied to the press in order to protect the murderers.

You may also read the many NGO reports about misconducts, torture, and civilian killings in Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan… The internal controls almost never do anything unless a high level of media pressure applies.

The US army may have internal controls when the victims are Americans (bullying, etc), but apart from this... some lives are more equals than others.
Interestingly enough, Microsoft's BASIC was the fastest of all the early home computer BASICs sold in the US. Much faster than Timex Sinclair, Atari, and TI/99 BASIC. And it achieved those speeds with decent precision in FP.

Apple, Commodore, and the IBM PC all used Microsoft BASIC and were the fastest standard BASICs.

Across the pond the BBC Micro had a faster BASIC, and by the mid-80s there were lots of faster BASICs you could buy from 3rd parties.
>Actually that is exactly how the food industry operates.

Even worse, if you have a shipment that is 20% fecal matter, you can use it as long as you dilute it with other batches to the legal proportion.
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Slavery and branding are two things which predate recorded history.

We pretend like anything has changed but in actual fact the same rules apply as always.

Money alone is enough to set the world in motion. If you value peace prepare for war. The only way to make any money is to sell the fruits of someone else's labour. You can't buy loyalty.
I too am surprised to learn Quora still exists "actively" and is even hiring! They almost never come up on any web search, where is their traffic coming from? A little mystery here.
Good stuff, thanks for the link!
You're spot on. PHP is really bad, but zillions of hours have gone into tools around and on top of the language such that it's actually not that bad to develop in anymore.

Why was all this time spent on PHP instead of doing anything else? I don't have a clue.
It's worth noting that while every unjustified shooting is one too many, the vast vast majority of shootings by police are unambiguously justified. The US has a lot of violent criminals, many of who are bold enough to even try to kill police officers.
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Death-by-person probably less controllable than death-by-equipment-failure. But, in reality, I'm not sure that it is.
There are processes/procedures to reduce the likelihood of both.
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Ask HN: Can you recommend a GraphQL server library for Go?
So far I developed my GraphQL server in Java, but it's 2 years now that every single time I try to upgrade the dependencies, I fall down a rabbit hole of mysterious errors, JDK incompatibilities and inscrutable stack traces. Frankly I'm a bit tired of debugging it. I would like to migrate to Go, which is what the rest of my codebase is written in.

Which Go GraphQL server library would you recommend, and why?
Thank you, it's a great lead! I found this to be very close:
https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Anonymo...

but it's still not exactly that.

Maybe a term for what I mean simply doesn't exist.
It's not only personality cults. There are all sorts of false cultures. The only one that works is the family model but that one is widely misunderstood and in practice it is hardly ever done right except perhaps by a professional military or sports team.
For what it's worth, though almost every North American city I've visited has a Main street, and all of them appear to have small businesses on them, they are often not the street with the most small businesses. For example, in Toronto, there is a Main Street, but it's a North-South route north from The Beaches, rather than downtown, so King St. and Queen St, which are East-West, naturally have far more small businesses because they run through more of the downtown.
I've seen first hand how well it works in a study with 40k kids in the US, Norway, and France. The study was led by the Center for Game Science, Washington University.

Paper: Zoran Popović. Achieving 96% Mastery at National Scale through Inspired Learning and Generative Adaptivity. Proceedings of the Second (2015) ACM Conference on Learning@ Scale, 2015.
http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=2724684&ftid=1550376&dwn...

Post-test success as used in the paper you mentioned can be a misleading indicator if transfer to pen and paper was done improperly. As kids solving equations in a game are moving terms around by touch on a screen, they need to transfer that learning to pen and paper before being able to write a line by line solution. Failing to do this transfer would predictably lead to a poor post-test performance, without actually measuring properly how much algebra had been learned and understood.
Good point.

I tend to use my iPad as my primary computer - and once you get your head around the fact that everything runs off the share menu it's basically the same concept, without the physical dragging.
Android is fine. It's the sub-par hardware that isn't, poor flash memory gets unbearably slow at some point and that bogs down pretty much everything.

Second and related problem is developers that abuse storage, no, you don't need to fsync your logs or DB to the storage after each row. It really fucks with devices that have lost a bit of IOPS.
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What evidence leads you to this conclusion?
While it's good to have some data I would be careful with the assumptions. E.g. is 3 years a long enough time horizon?

There are also very different kinds of private equity, with the bain-like 'activist investors' the most notorious for their practices. So while many might not be so bad, there are also others that are just known for their semi-legal exploitative practices.
He didn't say anything to that effect.
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I have a very good experience with Mojave so far on my mid-2012 MacBook pro. I upgraded straight from El Capitan last year, skipped both Sierras.

Haven't moved to Catalina because, you know, 32bit.
Enso 2.0 (formerly Luna) visual programming language dev blog goes live
Kudos to the Godot devs
Plenty of places within Schengen where wild camping is legal, and couchsurfing (through platforms other than couchsurfing.com) is still a thing.
Company should be able to fire people at any reason any time, nothing wrong with that.
Almost all deaths deep sea fishing are from mistakes. Many deaths from policing are people intentionally trying to kill you.

Maybe that comes into play. With deep sea fishing , if you're careful enough, you can drastically lower the death rate - it's in your hands. Not so with policing.
Funnily enough, Korda Mentha came into existence as a result of two (or indeed, three) giant corporate collapses, one being Australia's previous second airline.

When Ansett Airlines went into administration in 2001, Arthur Andersen was appointed administrator, and Korda and Mentha were the partners put in charge of the business.

Then Arthur Andersen was forced to shut down as a result of its part in the Enron collapse, so Korda and Mentha started their own firm to handle the ongoing Ansett work.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/when-ansetts-balloon-went-up...
This one seems most interesting:
(Gary Weiss doxxes the NYT reporter who threatened to doxx)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23635818
Police unions are a good indicator of how deep the problem runs. Police union bosses are elected. Google "police union boss" if you want to see a spittle flecked shouting goon defending the worst police behavior. This is the guy who won the most votes. This is how we know it is not "a few bad apples."

Nevertheless, the union is a symptom of a very deep problem that will not be solved by half measures. If you build a true public safety service to replace the police, you can expect their union to look normal, not like a big city police union.
>to not be offended

If you think this is about being offended then I feel sad for your limited world view.

This is a mix of people not wanting politics to be controlled by external state actors and people not wanting acts of violence to be pushed for. The later leads to people getting actually hurt and killed. Avoiding that tends to be a value that most place rather highly.
> The government forces me to fund speech I hate?

Yup.

You already do it anyway with many other platforms. "Nazis" are still entitled to cellphones and mailing addresses. And you help subsidize them. And that is a good thing.

However progressive you think you are, I'm certain that there are people out there that would call you a Nazi and want you to be banned from everything.

> I can’t understand the supposed end-game for this idea that no one is allowed to moderate speech on private property.

A company like T-Mobile is not "private property". It is a good thing that T-Mobile is forbidden from terminating your account at a whim because they don't like your politics.

And Facebook is bigger and has a lot more power over the public than T-Mobile. But Facebook should play by the rules of some small Silicon Valley startup? Facebook is well into the domain of telecom giants.

Now, I don't think that Facebook should be forbidden from protecting some of their customers from other customers, or facilitating harassment. But I think they should be held to an even higher standard than the phone companies, because they provide so many features that people have come to rely on.
Essentially cops spend most of their time with people who hate them

How much of policing is actually responding to violent crime vs traffic infractions or minor spats between neighbors?

That the general populace is afraid of cops is largely of the cops own doing. If they weren't power-hungry thugs, even when executing traffic enforcement, they wouldn't have this problem.