jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The thing people forget is that Apple is not a monopoly in the smartphone market, not by a long shot. Hence you cannot apply the same anti-competitive reasoning. Sure, what they do sucks for the people who have adopted their platform (both users and developers), but it's not anti-competitive (if it was, Android would be dead in the water). If you want an analogy, Apple's pissing in their own walled garden which is surrounded by a nice big open field (Android). You are always free to leave the garden through the big open gate (well, excepting the contract termination fees, but those aren't due to Apple). In contrast, Microsoft was equivalent to a feudal lord who owns the right of commerce over the local market (MSDOS) and comes by and destroys your little shop (Dr. DOS). OK, that last analogy is a little strained.

>It would be hard for Apple to reach market shares as great as MS, if they do you will see them hit equally hard for breaking monopoly rules.

By which you mean, not at all (US government dropped the ball on the case against Microsoft)..
Ridiculously techno-centric comment. You cannot replace trust with a shell script. IT has the profound ability to tell us, with amazing detail, the state of the world today. But business planning is done based on the future, and that requires trust.

Even if you are "building the future" in a startup: if you've taken funding or are drawing salary, you've convinced someone about a possible future state of the world, and that requires trust.
Great! It seems they noticed our criticism and added the missing information afterwards.
But it is more fun to see him do with just a few hundred million what huge corporation couldn't do with a lot more money.
I think the Zeo uses the word "Terrible". But "3" is selected by default, so you don't see it. (Although I am not at home right now and am not actually looking at the thing. Strangely, despite looking at this menu every day, I have no memory of it.)
I provided my solution in Python, typed directly into the box. Sub 5 minutes, but I didn't keep a copy, and now there's no way I can get it back.

Did it pass? Can you email it back to me ...
Does anyone here know why the scrolling speed in osx is not as smooth as safari?
Perhaps I'm missing something, but why was your productive sleep time not 0 - you were awake, right? Where does the productive sleep figure come from?
I have the same rule (combined with an understanding that my wife will generally text or email me instead, unless it's a real emergency). It works for us.
> When polls predicted a 99% chance of Hillary Clinton winning, you and I and most of our peers know that the polls weren't wrong.

A bit of a tangent, but polls don't make predictions, people make predictions based on the polling data. Some people predicted Hillary with 99% chance, and 538 predicted Hillary with 66% chance. When dealing with probabilities it's not as simple as "wrong" or "not", but if people were betting then those that bet 99% would have lost a lot of money, and 538 only a little. As a result I trust 538 a lot more now; that's the nice thing about people making specific predictions, you can over time learn who to trust.

Anyhow this tangent ultimately agrees with your point, as you and I know that if a talking head makes a "99%" prediction, it's got at best an 80% chance of actually happening.
This depends on the key derivation function used. PBKDF2 or BCrypt with strong enough difficulty factor makes even fairly short passwords difficult to crack. On the other hand, a straight SHA-256 hash method can be broken insanely quick with fairly long passwords.
Exactly. Just like not everyone can run an ultramarathon, not everyone can program fizz buzz.
> I have no idea what the solution is but I think whatever it is will involve the public being more disapproving of parties that behave in a slimy manner like this.

One of the two parties is currently seriously considering not accepting the results of an election they lost. The leader of that party is busy calling up election officials, and threatening them into magically finding thousands of votes that will give him the victory.

And the rank and file of the party isn't distancing themselves from this behavior. Instead, they are turning their ire at the person who leaked it.

On the order of slimy political behavior that voters don't punish politicians for, this issue we're discussing won't even register. We're currently so far down the rabbit hole, I don't think we'll ever find our way out.

> I have no idea what the solution is

That's because there is no perfect solution. We don't live in a perfect world. We just have to find the best solution out of a space of sub-optimal ones. And in this case, public research is a much better starting point for policy than private research, or no research (which is what would happen if we applied your standard.)
Sure, but if you're making $50,000 more post-tax, you could always bump it up to a nicer place and still be ahead.
Apple adds limitations to protect the system: "too strict!"

Apple gives the chance to disable these limitations to power users: "they should be disabled by default!"

Apple disables limitations: "temporary convenient oversight?"

...
Well, I guess that it can go both ways : you can have too many or not enough features...
The one that got me for years was Facebook recommending my ex to me as a friend over and over.

It hurt the most when her last name was changed to her new boyfriend's, only three months after telling me she never wanted to get married.

Constant reminders of the past kinda suck.
Solar energy is not practically limited, is already cheaper than oil, and can be harvested directly on earth

You're making a key mistake here. You're using terrestrial standards to judge something which can grow exponentially to many times what's possible to do on Earth. If the planners of major powers recognize this exponential expansion in an early phase, wars can be fought over who gets to plant the seeds and harvest the result.

The military power embodied in the kind of energy harvesting we're talking about here, greatly dwarfs the same possible on Earth. If the great powers realize this, they will fight over it, with more ferocity than they do over access to the oceans.
That account belongs to a regular Clojure-hater, it's seems the person is biassed against it at the personal level.
> The original story has been told for around 50 years with the widely noted implication "this was dickish behavior

I didn't ask when people started making up the claim, I asked how the claim was reasonable. The person sorting M&Ms would have been paid just the same. How does a reasonable request become dickish?

> they didn't have any particular preference for non-brown M&Ms but just wanted to mess with the people waiting on them"

Mess with? There's that unsupported judgement again. Am I messing with the cook if I ask for less salt, or no onions on my burger? Or are those valid things for a customer to want? Do I have to prove a medical reason for not wanting onions? Or brown M&Ms?

> management consultants [...] love the idea that organizations have a homogenous culture and the same ones that skimp on the buffet preparation also skimp on the rigging safety.

That's generally true but it doesn't need to be. If it saved them one bad show ever it's worth it. Even if it didn't, if they thought it would it was still probably a safe investment.

I'd be happy if a performer went out of their way to make sure that a live event that I paid for and travelled to attend went off without a hitch. To do otherwise would be dickish.
Did you read the article? The concluding section talks about this.
I think what you describe is "data-driven". This engine is "data-oriented", which is a different thing.
Fair enough. I recognize the formalism approach is tantamount to cargo culting.

I guess what you are saying is: broach the ideas in the context of the problem. "The foobar intermediary service will help us transition safer and faster than rewriting at once and doing a big switch". Instead of "we should use transitional architecture to avoid a Big Bang". If you follow me.

But I have no real evidence that "safer and faster" is empirically true. I can appeal to authority in Fowler's website, but that's what we are trying to avoid. If my lead can't see the intuition in the idea, or refuses to seek out case studies, etc, you can't do much right?
I think this is a case of a word having one colloquial meaning and a different technical meaning. If you "lift" something, you're probably picking it up.

In a hydrodynamic sense, "lift" is a force on a foil moving through a fluid. This kind of lift is a force orthogonal to the direction of motion through the fluid and the surface of the foil. That could be upward lift, like that on the wings of an aircraft. That could also be the forward and leeward lift on the sail of a sailboat, or the windward lift on the sailboat's keel. It could also be the lateral, stabilizing lift on the control surfaces of a rocket.
I mean, we're all dying either slowly or quickly
If anyone has watch the presentation video for the 'edge' device: I am still wondering how some people got sold on the whole: "look at the shiny, shiny" with a price tag of 700 USD, when you can have a some really nice piece of kit today for a third of the price from the like of xiaomi.

Sure the desktop experience embedded in a cell phone would be nice, but seeing how the desktop computer is being pushed to irrelevancy for light usage in comparison with tablets, it is hard to see how the ubuntu phone would revolutionize the cell phone world, more than say, a new battery technology.
> In other words, this injunction isn't worth the paper it's written on...

You mean in nonsense you just made up right?
Lack of sustained motivation has been the bane of my existence. The only true obstacle to everything I've ever wanted in life.

The article is cool, but not enough, when I'm not motivated, I will not do anything in those articles, I will do other things that I shouldn't be doing. Does the hack call for just work for 30 seconds. I won't. I'm unmotivated, that's the problem.

The question that is quite the un-scratchable itch for me has been, how do I sustain motivation for very long periods of time. That even if it falls, it never dies out. I've my up and down moments, but what I've noticed is that my down moments are almost as good at being as dead for a while.
This is just a Buzzword intersection.

For one thing, if blockchain-powered-rogue-AIs existed they would be hopelessly underpowered compared to ones running on AWS, because blockchains aren’t just magic fairy dust that make all things possible; they are meant to provide decentralisation at the cost of enormous and verifiably wasted effort. Perhaps the OP was thinking of quantum computing; might be worth adding that in there somewhere.
I am convinced this is why children get so dead-tired after the swimming pool - even if only wading around. They have a small body mass and they need to regulate a ~20 degree temperature differential ...
Start with a non-Bitcoin crypto and understand its components and how its supposed to work. Most of the core principles carry over to other cryptos.

Ethereum.org and the the Ethereum blog would be my suggestions as a primer.
Hi, one of the developers here. Did not expect this to land on HN.

For iOS, my understanding was that Apple already provides a built-in firewall?

Besides, the APIs to track connections/flows per application aren't necessarily available on iOS [0]?

I used to hack on AOSP for a living, so kind of right at home with Android, right now.

[0} https://developer.apple.com/documentation/networkextension/f...
> What is the programming equivalent of stack equal columns?

The game's "stack equal columns" corresponds to Haskell's Data.List.group function:

> import Data.List

> group [1,2,2,3,3,3,2,1,1]

[[1],[2,2],[3,3,3],[2],[1,1]]
Wrong narrative, bro.
I'm surprised so many people want to see our BigGAN images. Thank you for asking :)

You can watch the training process here: http://song.tensorfork.com:8097/#images

It's been going on for a month and a half, but I leave it running mostly as a fishtank rather than to get to a specific objective. It's fun to load it up and look at a new random image whenever I want. Plus I like the idea of my little TPU being like "look at me! I'm doing work! Here's what I've prepared for you!" so I try to keep my little fella online all the time.

- https://i.imgur.com/0O5KZdE.png

- Plus stuff like this makes me laugh really hard. https://i.imgur.com/EnfIBz3.png

- Some nice flowers and a boat. https://i.imgur.com/mrFkIx0.png

The model is getting quite good. I kind of forgot about it over the past few weeks. StyleGAN could never get anywhere close to this level of detail. I had to spend roughly a year tracking down a crucial bug in the implementation that prevented biggan from working very well until now: https://github.com/google/compare_gan/issues/54

And we also seemed to solve BigGAN collapse, so theoretically the model can improve forever now. I leave it running to see how good it can get.

I've never seen conglomerate pictures like this used in AI training. Do you train models on these 4x4 images? What's the purpose vs a single picture at a time? Does the model know that you're feeding it 4x4 examples, or does it have to figure that out itself?

Nah, the grid is just for convenient viewing for humans. Robots see one image at a time. (Or more specifically, a batch of images; we happen to use batch size 2 or 4, I forget, so each core sees two images at a time, and then all 8 cores broadcast their gradients to each other and average, so it's really seeing 16 or 32 images at a time.)

I feel a bit silly plugging our community so much, but it's really true. If you like tricks like this, join the Tensorfork discord:

https://discord.com/invite/x52Xz3y

My theory when I set it up was that everyone has little tricks like this, but there's no central repository of knowledge / place to ask questions. But now that there are 1,200+ of us, it's become the de facto place to pop in and share random ideas and tricks.

For what it's worth, https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai/ was a joint collaboration of several Tensorfork discord members. :)

If you want future updates about this specific BigGAN model, twitter is your best bet: https://twitter.com/search?q=(from%3Atheshawwn)%20biggan&src...
If you're prevented from working a real job, you should receive jobless benefits.
easier solution: I signed up as a chegg tutor and advertise my services for any class I'm teaching.

I also make clear that students cheating hurts other students, not me. Their degree is worth less if we graduate cheaters, my job isn't gonna change.
Will you marry me? I can turn gay... maybe. /s

That's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my entire life.
I’ve actually found Flutter to be significantly more productive for developing an enterprise Android app when compared to React Native. One in production and one being prepped to launch.

Why do you have a negative opinion of Flutter?
It is indeed bitchy!

I'd say simply having different scaling needs may not suffice to isolate services, especially if all the other parameters I mentioned stay the same. Even so, some cases for needing to isolate purely based on scaling - in my experience - have been when the scaling requirements are drastically different, with completely different geographical needs, scale ceilings, etc.

We try to keep authorization within the system itself, with additional hardening on the service mesh/container/vm/network level as needed. I don't know that this is the right way to do it, but it's worked for us thus far.

Biggest problem with isolating services is that it reduces predictable errors by giving you smaller chunks you can reason about, but raises unpredictable, unreproducible (aren't those a bitch) errors down the line because the overall complexity has grown.
Ugh, by default Mail.app just searches in the current mailbox. When you start a search, on the top of the left sidebar, just above your list of mailboxes, a new “All Mailboxes” folder will appear. Click that to search the whole app.

I don’t know why they did this. I don’t know who was asking for it.
I thought the 4000U series was supposed to be more efficient than Intel but still provide higher core counts?
Why should I remain neutral? We live in a sea of biases. I think it's better to know one's biases and consider how that affect what one wants to do, rather than remain neutral.

I've been watching archeology videos recently. The archeologists are not neutral on what how to interpret their finds. They use their non-neutral viewpoints to help guide where they work next. They are also well aware that the views of their profession have changed over time, and that those views can reflect implicit personal and cultural biases.

In this case I do not think Zed Shaw's personality outside of "Learn Python the Hard Way" affects the interpretation or use of that book. But I think Galileo was foolish for putting the words of the pope in the mouth of the character Simplicio and expect the pope and his supporters to remain neutral.
Poor design for pedestrians/drivers is good design for tax payers it seems...
I don't have tones of micros but dozens of pretty big backends. I create all in PowerShell which is epic as it isn't compiled so you can ad hoc change it while you still have serious dev tools to do that. I am not talking only about 1 to 1 interface either, but little conveniences here and there too that are in the language or domain sprit.

I looked once into making it automatic but didn't make anything of it at that moment. While I appreciate the option and there is certainly a context where it can apply, I didn't use it so far myself.

Microservices should really have only a couple of APIs to be micro. Yeah, there are tones of them but it should be in the job description of the maker to implement client too, and do service automatic tests using it.
For Spotify to pay 1/3 of radio stations, wouldn't that imply that only 3 people are listening to the radio station? I don't know what typical numbers are but that sounds... low.
Never read the book, but this is the well-published psychological factor known as locus of control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control

You should probably try to give credit for the idea where credit is due.

By the way, this is an important part of the growth of junior engineers into senior engineers. I've noticed junior engineers tend to identify obstacles as blockers. When asked about progress or estimates, they just talk about the blockers. Completely out of their control. Senior engineers find workarounds, solutions, alternatives.
Personally, I think the tooling is a much bigger issue than the language.
"Hero-coding" is the kind of thing where you alone go into a fugue state for a week, and emerge on Sunday night, covered in blood and with your hair standing on end, holding a crystal redolent with eldritch power.
Is Yi Cui with an h-index close to 200 the best scientist then? Or Pulickel Ajayan?

I worked with samples grown from both of them, so my opinion on them is mixed. They are drive-by shooters; they identify a hot area, publish some crappy but early papers on the topic and move on to the next hot trend. Both of them have very little to zero sustained contributions to the field.

And this is, by the way, the case for most h-index superstars. Fundamental contributions are often sustained contributions over the years to a field, and the honest answer is that we can measure that only years after the science has been published.
Not too different from 99% of management companies in the US stealing the majority of your security deposit.
I am actually 32 haha I do understand where you're coming from. However, our motivation around this was to have an emotional response to space. The idea of personalizing your space where you're spending time is an important one. We also want to be treated like people online and not boxes. So the whole idea of being on "mute" when you're listening to someone needs to be challenged.

This is probably not an answer to what you've asked. I just wanted to tell you about how motivations behind building this.
I only know the name of one prominent individual within the CPU space that is not a CEO or major scientist; and that's Jim Keller.

Why? Because I never ever see any articles talking about any other interesting employees. Every single time it's Jim Keller.

I'm sure he's good, his interview with Lex Fridman shows that he's knowledgeable and creative, but there's no way he's as exclusive a major force as the media portrays him.
Not so much laundering the money, but rather obscuring the trail between the crime and the money. Laundering would come afterwards, I presume.

Ok, so to pull this of, you need to:

1. have one or more stolen credit cards (obviously not on your name)

2. sell a book under a false name and buy it with the stolen credit card

3. have a bank account somewhere either under the false name from 2. or under some other false name or with a bank that will never give out your real name

So the money is not "clean" because it now rests inside a bank account with a false name or a bank that does not cooperate with authorities. In any case it is still somewhat shady.
The US Medical Licensing Examination is mainly for medical students not "senior" physicians, and the pass rate is extremely high for U.S. M.D. medical school graduates, over 90%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Medical_Licensin...

In other words, it's not a standard job interview technique for doctors, it's a one-time requirement for licensing.

The other difference of course is that doctors are legally permitted to open up your guts with a knife, unlike Facebook engineers.
Yea, to keep the Jews out.

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-ivy-leagues-history-of-d...
Yes I think you’re onto something. Fewer and fewer people are required to make the world go. You have to keep them busy/distracted.
honestly who cares? it's not a competition. most people eat when they are hungry and stop when they're not hungry anymore. for me this results in being at the lower end of the ideal weight range for a person my size. it takes no willpower at all; I don't even think about it until I read a thread like this. other people, for whatever reason, have an appetite that is out of proportion with what their body needs. why not just let them solve their problem however they see fit? if a drug is part of their weight loss regimen, so be it.
> Since Apple uses a hashed prefix, Google cannot learn which website the user is trying to visit.

Can anyone explain how this works? It isn't making sense to me. If the hash is unique enough to match in a database identifying malicious websites (without false positives), isn't it also unique enough to identify the website the user is trying to visit? At least to anyone with the hashing algorithm? Doesn't it have to be, in order to work at it's intended effect, to match a list of malicious websites?
You should probably enable JavaScript. Sounds like you broke your browser and half the web with it :)
What irony? Please enlighten me
The question is, is that sustainable on the long term mental health wise.
Looks uncomfortable. I remember the folding ones too but they weren't compfy.
Short version: lowest price for a carton (2 pens) is >$800. I would guess that each pen is a single dose.
I think that the death rate of startups is a lot higher than 80% ?
I haven't heard anyone talk about "mandatory WFH forever" but lots of companies are talking about mandatory RTO forever.

Time and money spent on commuting is mostly just lost. In contract, investing in a comfortable chair, good desk/computer workspace, and high-speed internet is still beneficial when you're not working.
DOTADIW. It's easier to climb that triangle when the project is small.