skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like most security features that can be trivially disabled, if it's simple to turn it off, bad actors will just say "OK, first click 'Turn this off', just click 'Yes' on all the mumbo-jumbo that comes up, and then you can use our software that will give you [free money/a better love life/etc]". Many people who would've gotten far enough to install the app in the first place will be able to follow the prompts to disable the safeguards, and voila.

I agree with you that it's a tricky line to walk, but the UX issue can't be dismissed as a triviality.

You can go through the process now with Amazon Underground, Prime Video, and several other Amazon apps for Android. The user is prompted to sideload Amazon's apps that contain functionality disallowed in Google's app store. Amazon shows step-by-step dialogs teaching users how to do it. It would be really interesting to know how many "non-power-user" users have actually stepped through that process at Amazon's behest.
>BTW, as you read the scenarios outlined below, I'm sure you'll be convinced that I'm criticizing some specific coin or project, except no two readers will agree on which coins. This post is not about The DAO or the-coin-which-cannot-be-named-or-else-they-conjure-a-butthurt-online-brigade and also no-not-that-one-the-other-one or even oh-my-god-they-all-do-that. It's about all of us. The entire set of scenarios are synthetic -- an amalgamation of Sorry-For-Your-Loss (SFYL) events I've seen play out in cryptocurrencies over the years. No need to make it personal, it already is.

It really wasn't intended to single out any specific project. All the "funny anecdotes" are real events that happened to me or to people I know, and now that I think about it, none of them involve Iota.
I'm unclear whether "brainteasers" are synonymous with "Fermi problems", or whether they are a disjoint set, or a superset. From some of the descriptions in this thread, it seems like some "brainteasers" are clearly not Fermi problems.

I would be interested in knowing if anyone is hiring based on ability to do Fermi problems. I see these as not being about knowing a "trick" but about knowing how to utilize your own knowledge, which is a much more general capability.
The easiest way to explain it is to go backwards and ask if a one-size-fits-all allocator can really be optimal for most of its users. The answer is probably no. At the very least, most software that has a lot of memory churn could benefit from trying to reuse memory before going down to the allocator. When it comes to particular kinds of objects, like strings, it is very clear that you can have enormous performance benefits from relatively small tweaks.
But Apple has to obey the laws of the United States. Here is an alternative viewpoint:

If Apple is based in the "right" country (that believes in freedom) -- and I think you and I seem to agree this is the case, because you don't mention anything bad about the U.S., mentioning only Russia and China by name, and with descriptions like "vile shit", "mass murder", "oppression" --, then the U.S. government should be doing whatever negotiations and interventions need to take place to keep foreign governments from forcing a U.S. company to do evil.

Here is an analogy. If you're CEO at a Fortune 500 American company, you don't have to make your life choices so that foreign governments can't blackmail you into doing evil, by kidnapping your family. Because the government protects you from that. If Tim Cook's family were abducted by China to force Tim Cook to have Apple do something... well this scenario is just completely implausible, the whole weight of the entire U.S. government would be all over it, it would be an international issue of immense proportions.

I think it's kind of up to the government to keep foreign companies from forcing American companies to do bad things.
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This. I'd blame the real cause on a mix of disinterest, economics, and toxic social media.
China had already prepared to do exactly this. Notice what they said they will raise tariffs: pigs, soybeans, etc. A lot of farming states which are core Trump supporters.
DVR allows automatic ad skipping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_skipping
I believe it, but would like a source to see the criteria and who is rating.
How?

Both HTTPS and TLS implementations require custom software in order to work, as no OS supports this natively (yet).

It boils down to install a stub that your local resolver will use instead of the upstream directly.
I'm pretty sure it requires a routing server, of which Crossbar is the default (and semi-official) implementation.
> Even with C, for a long time there was only a single viable, mainstream compiler on any given platform.

I don't think this is even remotely true.

On Windows in the 90's we had Borland, Watcom, Microsoft compilers. Today there is at least MSVC and icc.

On Mac there was Think C, Metrowerks Code Warrior, and others.

For embedded systems there are multiple commercial compiler vendors, as well as the open source tools.
It's hard to put a company town in the middle of nowhere and get good schools, restaurants, and performing arts

Chernobyl/Pripyat (Ukraine) was reportedly one such example... until the meltdown.
> red pill / incel

incel = Involuntarily Celibate.

What's red pill?

Also, how does the 'Nu male' relates to, or is different from an incel dude?
I think it's a question of enforcement. You can enforce direct influence in the US because it usually happens on US soil or via US companies but indirect influence via tariffs is nearly impossible since foreign countries largely get to impose rules about what happens in their own country and this is what tariffs are.
It’s completely fair to target them since they’re responsible for choosing the administration who initiated this, and it’s totally clear what’s going on. Very different than dishonest manipulation of people’s ideas through fabrications. Targeted consequences to actions as a retaliation are very different to secret manipulation ahead of an election.
I never thought about reading out loud as a diagnostic method. Dang.
If they seriously believe that protecting customers security is important, they shall not encourage their user to use Apple products. Android is also bad for this.
I understand a lot of the US still uses SMS, hence the constant talk of iMessage. The rest of the world uses Whatsapp or Messenger, except Japan/China/Korea who primarily use their own clients. Nowadays the only SMS I get are 2FA codes.
If the goal of school is to get kids to learn the content of the curriculum, then that's not relevant. If you want to use it to assess how fast they learn or how intelligent they are, then that would have to be explicitly included as a goal before you designed the system. Perhaps employers and universities use school grades as a proxy for intelligence because it's convenient, but it's a little indirect. It would give falsely high scores to students who have good teachers or who hire private tutors.
Killing oneself is not nearly the same as deciding to not have children. The latter is a choice which will not harm you or your health.
It's amazing how much Periscope got right in its design. I'm guessing scaling mobile video broadcasts was the limiting factor. If you're Arianna Grande going live just before she steps on stage, or BTS landing in the US for the first time or basically any rapper dragging Drake right now. There is no other experience that is simpler to use, more immediate, or more real for interacting with your followers than Instagram Live. Given 200M+ daily story users, the stream quality is technically remarkable.

Monetization for users with under 10K followers is much easier on Twitch.tv right now. Than on any other platform, including YouTube. The Fortnite cultural phenomenon is just beginning. And the ancillary revenue services such as Streamlabs involve direct sponsorship. As opposed to negotiating third party brand deals. Twitch popularity is creating the feedback loop that informs game design. Looking across the Pacific at Tencent and its 500M mobile gamers. Just can't help but think there is still phenomenal upside here ;)
Protective tariffs are a good idea for protecting nascent industries from essentially foreign competition. Many countries in Asia essentially locked foreign goods from certain industries during the later half of the 20th century to help build their own industries post WW 2. They ended up opening their economy once their domestic players hit a critical stage where they could compete with international players. For example, India closed off their soda, car, and other markets to spark a homegrown industry. In the 1990s they liberalized the economy and opened it to the international megacorps, but many of the domestic companies still remain in some form and there are large manufacturing plants still from that era. So it is entirely possible that protective tariffs can help for long term growth when done strategically.

However, I highly doubt any of Trump's tariff's are strategically smart.
facebook is dial tone. Not very fun but useful when you want to communicate. Youtube is content made largely by their peer group. It's fun and dynamic. The comment threads are spicy and you can be a virtual person. Facebook is boring.
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It's hard for me to believe this is being asked in good faith
India is mostly vegetarian, grows enough food to feed all its people and still has millions dying of starvation. In most countries that face starving denizens, it is often (although not exclusively) the result of flawed distribution rather than an inability to grow food. I really think we're not focusing on the right problem, but that is my opinion.
>The secret list actually sounds more democratic than (ab)using the court system to me since it's basically just a private account of someones opinion and everyones entitled to free speech.

I probably should have made this assumption explicit, but I would assume that police summoned to a checkpoint and told things like "he rudely opted out" would be told that no crime has occurred.

This is the case currently, and the whole reason they're creating a list: to punish legal behavior.
On a Mac you have the option of downloading and installing the app directly from the Internet rather than from the app store. On iOS you don't, so there is a clear difference.
Before you start packing your bags, note:

Eligible workers can get up to $5,000
a year, not to exceed $10,000 over two
years ...

and

For 2019, total grants cannot exceed
$125,000. The cap increases in 2020
to $250,000, then drops back down to
$125,000 in 2021.

One can reasonably assume that the 25-75 people who will benefit from this were already determined before the bill was even written let alone signed.
I don’t work in the “high-tech HR” space, but do have experience with embedding vector methods, joint-embeddings, and trying to solve generic information retrieval tasks, where the underlying data is not text or images, by using embedding methods.

Even in a domain like reverse image search, where this approach has been studied to death, there are big concerns about how much of the problem is solved because a vector similarity approach can approximate the real manifold distance of some underlying true structure vs. just having huge models overfit to a particular class of natural image statistics.

This problem is discussed in [0], which creates a lot of problems for people who want to believe that some deep, internal layer of a neural net can capture semantically relevant features.

But a much bigger problem looms for trying to extend this idea to matching people to jobs. In that problem, you don’t even have the option of overfitting to population statistics because the population is constantly changing and the individuals in the population have an insanely high-dimensional set of internal unobserved variables, like their emotions, goals, current life or family priorities, interests, relative free time, sensitivity to stress, etc.

By comparison, the space of latent variables giving rise to observed natural photos is tiny.

Essentially, if you really wanted to take a scary, Orwellian, big data approach to quantifying a candidate’s degree of match to a job, you would need much more data on the conditional distribution of the observables (resume items, college degree, skills assessment, etc) when given information on the internal state (work ethic, introvert vs extravert, motivation for looking for a job, intelligence metrics, disposition, response to stress, etc) at a given moment of time.

This would let you model the posterior distribution of those hidden, internal characteristics of the applicant, and those characteristics could maybe be used to understand a holistic match to a certain employer-team-role situation.

But that’s a ludicrously high-dimensiomal problem that observable data like resumes or skills assessments does little to solve.

So overall, I probably share your opinion that this is an extremely shallow model.

It’s like learning a vector space model of spaghetti and a vector space model of walls and then claiming your model can predict what will stick when you throw spaghetti at the wall.

[0]: < https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.11561 >
Canadians are on average happier and live longer. I really don't see how you can argue there's a lower standard of living.

Also, isn't the median household income higher in Canada than the US?
The US had protective tariffs and regulations (along with a lack of free trade agreements) which definitely protected foreign goods and companies from entering the country. Protective tariffs literally started with George Washington with the goal of "the encouragement and protection of manufactures".
The stated purpose is "reduce impact", not "avoid harm to myself".
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> I work in tech, my salary is less than 1/2 what it would be in the US (not just Silicon Valley).

Yes, but I'd argue that SV income might look higher, but after you try living there you'd gladly go back to Canadian expenses if the compromise was that you also had to take your Canadian income once again. Also, income inequality in Canada isn't as bad as the US (yet...)
The website looks great. I note that you have a few screenshots in the app stores, but none on the website - might be good to add some there too, and if possible, a video would help a lot to demonstrate what it's like to use the app. I'm not in the US, so I can't actually try the app, but I imagine that I'd need to get somebody else involved to really try this out to see what it's like - being able to just watch a video instead would be great.
Because of what it is inherently or bad actors soiling it for everyone else?
Why would we have kids and suffer when we could not have kids and enjoy life to the fullest?

We make just enough to have a really good life without kids or have a really stressful life with them. We don’t even have a house yet (and I mostly don’t want one, but that’s another conversation). I ran the numbers, and I didn’t like the outcome.

Everyone that I know that has kids is sleep deprived, unable to do much of anything outside of the house and are in a lot of debt. Some people think that kids make up for all of that. Not us.
Another option is not play tit-for-tat and instead appeal to the American people by refusing to impose tariffs in return.

Make it about Trump, not America.

There's a chance Trump will lose all his power within a few months anyway if the republicans do very badly in the midterm elections.
> (Not saying Social Security is bad in concept, but it only works in times of sharp population growth, and even then, banking on the youth to carry you just because seems squicky to many ).

Social Security works with economic growth. It doesn't matter if you get 10 babies or 10 robots. Automation makes possible to keep proper living standards without exponential population growth.

Social Security, as other services like education, stops working because it is not shared.

Actually, with enough automation, it is easier to satisfy a smaller population.

There are 3.5 million professional truck drivers in the United States. Self-driving trucks mean that you need 3.5 million fewer babies to carry out that task. Just 3 million if you actually need 500,000 people to maintain the software.

So, I agree with you that in the past Social Security was depending on population growth. That has been changing fast for the past 50 years. There is no economical reason to not have Social Security in the future.
What about mass incarceration of black people (USA)? Should Apple play nicely with them too?
Well, every third number is a non-prime. There's no pattern like that for primes.
To maximize income net of living expenses, you should live in your car under the Googleplex. (And work upstairs.)
on phones, ads are not limited to your web browser
I have a friend who has 2 teenage boys. The other day we're talking about stuff on the Internet, and he says something along the lines of "I wish I could monitor what they're watching on the Internet!".

And I was like, I think there's some porn blockers around.

And he replied, "I wish they'd watch porn! They're watching YT, getting crazy ideas from others and doing stupid things!"
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That would sort of prove Trump's point though. "See, they knew their trade practices were unfair - they're not even fighting back".
Does not matter. This attack has not work since 2016.
Just found out about the co-op group in the UK from reading this article. It seems like they are a member based co-op vs. an employee owned one and it looks like they were shedding their banking division to isolate the loss from the whole financial collapse. It does seem like employee owned companies would do more to preserve their jobs vs. scrap the business for short term profit. So while one could argue that some sort of reform of this would help buffer the pain being inflicted on employees moving towards more egalitarian models of ownership would seem to be a better goal in the long run.
What is the point of political discussion on HN ? Isn't HN meant for quality technical discussions ?
Nothing good can come out of these sort of flame wars here.
I have a 'git aware' bash prompt, so my primary use case is making sure my prompt is ready with the git status really fast.
how do market liberalists reconcile this with their everlasting love of trump?
Your vitriol undermines your message.
Not "on the Internet", only in the USA.
I talked to my niece who is 19yo. Her take is that everyone is all about

Instagram (basically personal brand/image management, checking out latest styles from other people, styles she can actually afford)

Snapchat (personal circle of friends, unedited content)

YouTube (lifestyle bloggers)

Facebook is dying in their demographic.. pretty fast, except for Facebook pages for things she’s interested in
Because middle age people make better targets for ads. The old adage that you need to sell only to youth because preferences are set at a younger age doesn't make sense when people will switch brands more rapidly than in the past.
> I’ve added more to my watch later list in the last 6 months than I have in the last 6 years combined.

Are you actually watching it though?
That's definitely not true. Tariffs have allowed China to bootstrap a local tech industry. It's been extremely beneficial for them.
You call them sanctions when you talk about your enemies, you call them tariffs when you do it to your friends. The difference is nearly 0.
Agreed. This is exactly the implementation described in the patent.
It is , to the best of my knowledge, though I am not a big fan of arch. Excellent wiki however. If I were going to run openbox I would install Debian to server like setup and then manually replicate the general idea of crunchbang.
Prisoners dilemma.
I use YouTube(red) more then Netflix and Direct TV Now(comes free with my ATT plan). I'd rather just watch 10 to 20 minutes of professional content (favorite TV shows or clips of them) along with all the rando discovery that's tailored to my likes then long format stuff or annoying commercial TV.

Im a few decades older then a teenager.
You can't make a first party cookie work the same as a third party cookie. They wouldn't follow you across sites, which is the whole point of a third party tracking cookie. Facebook wouldn't know it's you visiting a site or know the same person visited site A and site B.
So do 40%+ of smart phone users in the US belong to a cult?
Just came back from SE Asia (4 countries) and everyone I met or saw in public was using FB and WhatsApp, and YouTube for almost everything. Telecoms also offered 'Facebook package' or YouTube specific promotions.
I never post anything any more. My wife regularly posts pictures of our kids, and I get tagged in those. My mother lives 4+ hours drive away so she doesn't see her grandkids as often as she'd like and appreciates the stream of new photos.
Trumps blather means nothing - the idea is to speak to the American people, not Trump.
Apple has now entered dangerous territory.

Over the last month they seem to have banned apps because some government out there didn't like that app. To make matters worse, those very same governments weren't happy with the app being removed from their regional app store but they demanded it removed from all app stores.

The VPN issue was a wake up call for a lot of developers. These apps were on the app store for years and because China didn't like these apps one morning, they banned it and referred to some arbitrary clause in the app store TOS.

The thing is this script has played out before. Twitter also had a vibrant ecosystem of third party developers. Those developers made Twitter into a billion dollar company. Then one morning, they decided certain classes of apps were not okay. This back and forth went on for months until there were barely any apps left. Twitter eventua

The same thing is happening with Apple. Several founders I've spoken to, all with big exits in the past, refuse to write apps first for Apple or Google because of the threat of getting "banned one morning".

Worse, VCs are now getting nervous in investing in startups where the app is the fundamental foundation of the business.

For any market to thrive, there needs to be transparency and stability. Just like Twitter, once developers are gone....they're gone. They won't come back and consumers will start wondering if the 1,000 dollar smartphone they purchased, with subpar apps, is really worth it.
The reason for this historically is that throughout human history the main problem for societies has been to devise systems and governments that allow you to grow as fast as possible. Famine, War, Diseases or any Natural Disasters had the potential to wipe out your community or Kingdom, so throughout history you see this mad dash at settling lands, growing communities etc.

That has changed in the past 100 years, especially in the New World. You no longer have to worry about your towns being burned down by an invading army (not in the developed world at least). The systems and thinking that we have in place for governing have just never dealt with this problem before.

I do hope that it changes in the near future as we see the inevitable decline in many, many rural communities in the US and the hyper-growth of urban conglomerates. It would be nice if Governments could plan for a gradual decline in the population and ensure that basic city services would survive the decline by investing judiciously, rather than try to reverse the trend with expensive gimmicks to attract people that lose money, make the communities financially insolvent and basically increase their misery.
If the pricing and compensation structures for products are misaligned with true costs, that is indeed a problem.
I haven't, but I've been meaning to read at least one of his books.
YouTube is the world's greatest repository of culture. And shitty comments. But mostly the culture thing. And Facebook is a bulletin board. No competition.