skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Because the stories have been on all the news sites, it's common knowledge, and thus it would be superfluous to submit detailed documentation every time it's mentioned?

Those are the claims, yet every time I dig deeper I see how from “actively collaborating with authoritarian governments to shut down pro-democracy activism” they are reduced to “complying with local laws” within a single brief conversation.

Sure, in some countries the latter is a superset of the former. In such countries, violation of ethical norms could be required in some situations to comply with local law. However, it doesn’t mean that any instance of the latter always requires the former, nor that Apple had ever faced this choice, nor that if put in this situation Apple would agree to actually do the former as opposed to exiting the market (which, exiting, I suspect is a scenario CCP would very much prefer to avoid).

I will roughly delineate the difference based on two concrete example situations:

1) Complying with the requirement to store encryption keys for Chinese user data on Chinese servers = complying with local laws.

2) Providing personally identifiable information about individual Apple users at request of CCP, or helping CCP representatives hack into Apple devices = collaborating to shut down activism.

If you have any evidence of anything along the lines of (2), I’m all ears (as I’m sure is any tech journalist worth their salt).

> Are you seriously saying I should pack my bags and leave the Apple ecosystem forever and no longer write software for the Mac or write blog posts about it?

I’ll level with you here. I’m not a professional Apple developer making a living from selling my software to end-users, but I dabble, and I am very deep in Apple’s hardware and software, preferring them to any other alternative in the market. It would be an extreme lifestyle change, but if I had reasons to believe that Apple had indeed collaborated with CCP to shut down activism, due to my personal views I would have to exit Apple’s ecosystem and start hacking on a PinePhone or something.

That said, if a country like China doesn’t want its citizens’ data encryption keys to live on servers in a country like the USA, I don’t believe that’s outrageous; if you’re an activist, you’ll be aware of that and make arrangements. There’s a line, but this does not cross that line as far as I’m concerned.
We were not taught massacres and such is the difference I mean. That Robespierre was not like "good guy" or that French Revolution is actually completely complicated event with many fighting parties was completely unsaid.

There was French Revolution and then was the freedom and happiness, basically.

> is there a good aristocracy

I think that feudalism is fundamentally bad. But, I think that answer to this question is yes, there are non-evil aristocrats. Aristocracy is class you get born into, set of duties and privileges. Aristocracy holds power and have interests opposed to those who live under them. The image where all individuals belonging to that group are basically ugly and evil is not correct. It is not like all the the tortured and executed aristocrats deserved that.

And then there is question of huge amount of non-aristocratic victims of revolution which went completely unmentioned in our version of history.
If the business model is solid, I prefer the type of investors who look at the assumptions and not at the font the calculator uses.

It’s not rocket science, it’s adding up a bunch of imaginary cash flows, explaining where they might come from should be the important bit.
Or if you're in Berlin, you lose your internet connection inside the large city as well. Seems to have improved greatly in the last two or three years though.
I don't think this attitude helps; the parent poster has a point. Jet fuel isn't taxed, yet trains pay the full fuel duty (and even electric trains pay some other duty costs).
Most digital thermometers/weather stations have clock/alarm clock. Most have clock with radio sync so it is also accurate.
I don't really mind the Epstein Drive and really appreciate the effort to portray a decent stab at realism. It's very refreshing.

The one thing that bugs me a bit is the way they conceptually represent the solar system in the show. If you follow the way the situation is represented you essentially have Earth on one side of the solar system, Mars in the middle and the asteroid field on the other side. That seems to be how the strategic situation is presented. To get from the asteroid field you essentially have to go past Mars, which is closer to the asteroids. If you think about the actual layout of the solar system this makes no sense, in reality Earth is about in the middle and any given asteroid is closer to the Earth at any given time than it is to half the rest of the belt.

Again, it's fine. There's no way to capture the real dynamics of the solar system in the story without hopelessly bogging everything down, and for the purposes of the show the simplified model works fine. I suppose you could argue that during the period of the show by chance most of the main asteroids and Mars happen to be lined up on roughly the same side of the solar system as Jupiter, and then it basically works. It's just a bit of a fudge.
Being difficult != good. It can take years to prep and pass a CCIE as well but it’s not really a good indicator of being a good network engineer, despite the esoteric protocol details you have to memorize.
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thb it is very dependent on the location.

ie. i get good 4g signal in most of the forests in bavaria but no signal at all in the lobby of my local hospital.
I have a use case where I'm using 6 different amazon accounts which I'd have loved to use with containers controlled by bookmarks (I use Firefox keyword bookmarks a lot for productivity).

The best out of the box way you could do it with Firefox is to setup different profiles and switch between them, however, while there is a many-to-many relationship between website and containers, there is none between bookmarks and containers, thus you'd have to manually switch to the right container.

My workaround for this was to setup a thin server that redirects amazon<\d+>.localhost to amazon.com. Then, on Firefox, I bind each amazon(1-6).localhost to its own container and configure it to always open this site in its container.
Now every time I type "amazon2" it will open up amazon.com in its right container.

Would have wished to have bookmarks granularity as part of Firefox, but for my use case, this is the best I could come up with in few minutes of work.
> Today, the MTA is unveiling its new digital map, the first one that uses the agency’s own data streams to update in real time

So they have a new data stream and _are not_ using the already provided GTFS stream from the MTA?*

*https://transitfeeds.com/p/mta
You can also get "fecal occult blood tests". Which has nothing to do with the devil, but it's a test which can detect blood hidden in your poo. There are at home test kits. These are as simple to use as dabbing a stick in a turd a couple of times and waiting for the result. Similar to a home pregnancy test.

Our local bowel cancer charity recommends these. If positive, get a colo(no)scopy. If negative, retest in another year or two.
These are sent out to everyone over 50 IIRC. They're also recommended to anyone who is younger and possibly at risk.
Seems such a strange statement to make. I could understand someone saying they don't like action films for example, but to state that you don't enjoy any film and entirely reject the notion of being entertained is rather bizarre.
I remember discovering Randi while I was at university and I credit him for really strengthing the skeptic in me. I wish we had more public figures who encourage people to think this way and rather less of the screaming consipiracy set. Scientific and rational thinking should be a huge part of education. I wonder if it is and just doesn't stick or if people find comfort in clinging to easy, yet clearly bonkers, stories.
This concept doesn't change. If anything it gets more confusing as you need a Microsoft for both editions.
There are 11 million millionaires in the US which is approx 3.3% of the population. Polls show that many more people expect to become millionaires real soon. In fact, 60% expect to become wealthy during their lifetimes. The optimism that one sees in the US is commendable but it reflects itself in the resistance to taxing the rich. After all, why would you vote to increase taxes if it is going to negatively affect you in a few years. In reality, very few actually become rich.

Edit: link to a recent article on how many US persons expect to get rich/wealthy/millionaires ... https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/13/how-much-money-americans-thi...
If you're already in FF, consider using about:profiles as well, the old profile manager GUI was integrated into the browser itself a while ago.
It didn't had "the BEST license"
I am one of those, with mechanical keyboard and high quality mouse (MX Master 2S). I have to say that after buying a good mouse I don't deal with random disconnects of a mouse, of a cord in the way, mouse responding poorly on some surface where I have to work and an awesome way to scroll quickly with that special scroll wheel that MX Master has. It just works and I can concentrate on work. For the keyboard it feels so much better to feel the response of the keyboard, I enjoy typing on it and as I spend most of my day typing, it is quite important for me to feel right.
I would compare this to having more expensive comfortable good looking clothes instead of some itchy, not well fitting mediocre looking clothes. They cover you the same, but you feel so much better in the former.
> I can see how it's a bit like indoctrination though, but as another thread mentions, the AWS certification isn't that different; the first certification you can achieve there is pretty much learning the marketing message and talking points from AWS and cloud computing as a whole.

In other words, AWS certifications suck too. I don't see how that excuses MS or GH.
Ask HN: Obtaining a degree vs. learning by doing in IT in 2020
I would like to know what your arguments are to obtaining a degree vs learning by doing in an IT related field, esp. in 2020?

I am a relatively experienced developer, have finished my bachelors and masters in Computer Sciences and have 5+ years of experience in the field and I am trying to make a decision whether I should go for another MSc. (in AI) or simply keep learning by doing.

I tend to lean towards earning a degree and I do find it useful (in terms of getting structured knowledge that you do not need to put together yourself, making connections, finding a group of people interested in the same thing as you are, having the official "paper" to be able to officially prove your skill and so on).

I realize some of these arguments stem from my own background, since I have always had to legally be able to prove I am qualified for each skill I have (language skills, technical skills etc) - not in obtaining a job offer itself, but in applying for the visas and such.

However, there are plenty of arguments against it and I can see some of them as well: curricula is indeed "prepared" for you, but it might be relatively "old" or rigid, time might be wasted - I could spend those hours working and getting paid for it, same skills might be learned easily online and then getting a job in the field and so on.

Help me, HN! What is your stance on the subject and why?
Demand far surpasses supply. The density is too damn low (in high demand places).
"Estate tax - reduce dynastic wealth and recirculate" I think this could work in XIX century (maybe at the beginning of the XX century).

Right now it would only mean that really reach people would invest elsewhere (they have means to do this) and estate tax would be paid by the middle class and poor people (especially the latter, since they have to rent flats very often, and this tax would be just added to their rent by the estate owner).
Worldspace Coordinates to Local Ones
who knows how to switch from worldspace coordinates to local ones?)
It's centralised at the repository level. There is only one main version of BTC that miners run. The devs have full control.
I've got a Kinesis Advantage II, so one of those several hundred dollar types.

I know it's "just a tool", but I can't help but feel a connection to it, like people often feel for their vehicle. I think back to the things I built with it the same way one might reminisce about that one great road trip. Keyboards are the bridge between the physical and virtual realms. I understand the desire to have one that's truly your own.
Bottoms up goal planning for high growth startups: From a former chief-of-staff
I think the 92k is correct for net income, breakdown would be something like:

Gross salary: 100k
Family allowance: ~300 x 3 x 12 = ~10.8k
Salary deductions (unemployment, retirement, social insurances): ~11k
Taxes: ~8k
A pedant who uses a standing desk.
There's a bigger issue here, apart from the outdated advice.

It's just BAD advice to begin with.

What it signals is lack of tech savvy in the investors. It does not in any way shape or form signal any lack of financial savvy on the part of the founder.

If you're starting a tech company, do you REALLY want to work with an investor who can't open a cloud spreadsheet ffs?
The key reason why you (and likely most developers) struggle with CSS is because we underestimate it.

In reality, it is as complicated, maybe more so, than any programming language or framework you will ever come across.

The best way to start to get better at it, is to gain an appreciation for it, as a 'hard', technical thing. Which it is.

You do this by re-framing how you see it.

Instead of seeing CSS as an annoying way to 'style' pages, see it instead as a visual programming language for constructing visual guides (UI's) for your user.

You don't 'style' pages, you 'construct' and 'architect' them. It sounds weird to use these words, but they have a massive effect in changing your perception of what you're doing. And that has a massive effect on your impression and willingness to learn how to do it well.

Essentially, you can properly learn CSS by transforming it in your mind from a 'styling' problem thing, to an 'engineering' problem thing.

I've got a post on this coming up tomorrow, which I'll post here.

If you want to get a shout when the full post on this is up, you can drop your email on the site homepage here: https://planflow.dev. Or you can just follow the twitter account here: https://twitter.com/PlanFlowDev.

In the meantime, you can check out another post where I talk about this general idea at a higher level: https://simpleprogrammer.com/information-architecture-develo....
Banking, media, and software extracts wealth just as efficiently from city-dwellers.

The difference is that city-dwellers are more economically productive (For various reasons, some of which are systemic), and, after paying for all those things, are left with a surplus at the end of the year.

Not to mention that the cost of supplying more mundane, necessary-for-life goods to rural areas is higher, due to
higher distances, and the inefficiencies of serving low-density markets. This is another thing that keeps rural areas poor.
Steps to Discover and Define Your Distinctive Brand Tone of Voice
Well they are, but they aren't. They are both pronounced the same and if I hear one, I could easily mistake the other. If someone tells me about this "prologue web framework" I could easily transliterate that as "prolog". Also - fuzzy search as mentioned.

"Sea" and "C" are not the same ballpark. "Prolog" is a subset of "Prologue." This is more like "C" and "C#", and I can tell you that it is actually a problem.
It is exactly as crazy as it appears on the surface. Why target people on the bus/train EXCLUSIVELY when you can get money from everyone else too? The engineering cost isn't that much higher. They actively chose to paint themselves into a corner.

I actually wanted to watch the Reno 911 stuff and the Ron Funches show.... on my TV, where I watch stuff.

They played stupid games and didn't win any prizes.
I always get the same stuff Michael Jackson was using. You fall deeply asleep for the duration, wake up pretty refreshed, only downside is that I am usually besides myself for the rest of the day. Good thing you aren't allowed to drive for the next 24 hours.
Ask HN: Books or courses on cyber-physical systems?
Hello!

I'm interested in modelling and simulation of cyber-physical systems. I'm working through:

Edward Lee et al's "Introduction to Embedded Systems - A cyber-physical systems approach"

Edward Lee et al's "Structure and Interpretation of Signals and Systems"

Ricardo Sanfelice's course at https://www.coursera.org/learn/cyber-physical-systems-1

Three books that I'm considering to go deeper into modelling, verification, and simulation are Rajeev Alur's "Principles of Cyber-Physical Systems", Andre Platzer's "Logical Foundations of Cyber-Physical Systems", and Francois Cellier's "Continuous Systems Simulation". What are your opinions on these books?

Do you have any recommendations for other books, online courses, or other resources for going deeper into modelling, simulation, and verification of cyber-physical systems?

Thank you.
Also, he wrote:

> Not bright red, more like muddy-red. Poopy-red.

Hemerroids are usually a very bright obviously blood-like red. I appreciate he wrote the above description with the benefit of a lot more knowledge than he had when he first saw a doctor, but they should've asked about the colour even if he didn't offer it, and that should've raised extra suspicion immediately.
They could have pivoted to people that had 5 minutes between meetings and wanted some entertainment while making a new cup of coffee. I’m pretty sure there are millions of us now.
The article is benign but the first picture isnt best for viewing at work.... Just sayin'
I am almost positive that the GP is referring to the suburbs of large economic centers. Generalizing rural America based on the life experience of someone living in Irvine, CA is completely off-the-mark.

In my second paragraph, I'm not even speaking about federal political power. The observation holds for municipal, county, and state-level political power - none of which have anything to do with the electoral college.
rsync, please and thank you.
The secretion from the brachial gland of captive slow lorises is similar to the allergen in cat dander, hence the secretions may merely elicit an allergic reaction, not toxicosis.[120] Loris bites cause a painful swelling, and the single case of human death reported in the scientific literature was believed to have resulted from anaphylactic shock.[121] Slow lorises (of the genus Nycticebus) are accepted as the only known venomous primate. Slow loris venom was known in folklore in their host countries throughout southeast Asia for centuries, but dismissed by western science until the 1990s.

yet again the new york times- hyperbole, bad journalism
The post's idea: Uptime monitoring with screenshot diffing.

As the post points out, this only works if the site's content doesn't change very often, but for static sites this might be worthwhile.

Personally, I think that static sites are very easy to make secure, and sites that don't update often tend not to have much traffic, therefore don't make much money, and as such may not want to pay for this extra service (though I admit there are exceptions)

That said, if we could mark "expected change zones" and "expected stretch zones" in the images, such that blog posts or news articles would be exempt, then we could tell if it's a site hack or just new content... that might be usable. A second phase (and much research required) might be to detect hack-based content within these zones using some kind of text-based machine learning, comparing usual content and examples of the kinds of things hackers usually add.

Of course, this may be made harder in an American election year...
Completely tone-deaf person would not be able to recognize voices, e.g. tell male voice from female, father's voice from mother's. Obviously there are cases like this, but I believe very few.

On the other hand reproducing the tone requires practice, and mostly practice with your vocal instrument.

I would imagine that kids who grow up in families where e.g. mother sings while cooking, don't even notice how they practice at the age of 2 or so. But what is important, they train their voice, not only hearing.

It is like with colors. A person can see colors perfectly, but if you asked to mix acrylic paint to get chartreuse? Most of the population would struggle I would believe. We wouldn't call these people color-blind.

However with music I feel we somehow mix tone-deafness and ability to sing/reproduce tone.
How to separate work projects on Mac?
I am currently working on very different projects, from multiple software projects (where I spend most of my time in the shell, using zsh and vim) to writing (vim + some other tools) to consulting (some shell, a lot of Firefox). In all cases I need some browser running.

What I really love is having separate histories and sessions both in the shell and in my browser.

For now what I ended up doing is:

* use the same mac user

* [works ok] use iTerm profiles, and set different environment variables / launch commands for each iTerm profile notably to change shell history files

* [works ok but needs trickery] use tmux + plugins + iTerm for saving shell sessions

* [works bad] separate Firefox profiles.

I wonder what other people are doing on that?

From where I stand, I feel like using separate Mac users for each project is the best bet, as per simplicity. I feel it'll have the added interest of better psychological separation of projects (different desktop, etc.). But will need a heavier setup (notably: synching dotfiles).
With train you can have the tesla experience i.e. not driving and reading, watching movies, working, eating on train restaurant while moving at 350 KM/h.

In Europe we use them because you can go about 10 minutes before a train leave and carry as much as luggage do you need, plus they are usually cheaper.
This is a shame - there are a lot of great "old" games for PS3 and PS Vita, which were never ported to modern consoles.

This is the new normal on consoles. The Nintendo 3DS will face the same issue soon - once Nintendo pulls the plug on the 3DS online shop, many games will cease to exist, since they were never released on physical media.

Piracy is a solution, but it's sketchy, hit-and-miss, and is kinda against my morals.

This is why I love Nightdive Studios, which is reviving some old games.
Tesla FSD price will go up by $2k starting next week, says Elon Musk
I hope that the Swiss will stay level-headed and not get into high-speed trains. Reliable connections are far better for more people. The opposite example I would like to present is the high-speed Berlin-Munich train line. It has gobbled up a lot of the railway budget. According to Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin%E2%80%93Munich_high-spe...] this was the most expensive transportation project in Germany. In my opinion it would have been better to bring the rest of the infrastructure up to a higher standard.
Very good advice. It seems that it is difficult to ensure sufficient oxygen to the brain under anaesthesia, and the effects are more noticeable in older patients.
Exactly. If someone wants to demonstrate that they can use Github the best way is for their personal Github to be full of well-structured projects.
Never had this issue, sure, your hand gets warm and then just dose of. Quite pleasant actually, the rest of the day kind of sucks for me, so. But I do get why people take for non-medical reasons, no idea how you will be able to fall asleep without so, if you use it that way to often.
Very little of what a modern military does is “meat heat killers with killing tools”. Critical things like tracking space junk and ensuring the safe launch of rockets is the job of the military. You just might not have noticed because it’s not a meathead with a gun.