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>But they don’t lie, because they understand that one of Apple’s key assets is its credibility. They’d say nothing before they’d lie.

This is so typical of Gruber as an evangelist.

There's no way that Apple would remain silent on this even if they KNEW it were true. The only possible move is denial.

Silence is validation or uncertainty, a statement of ambiguity will tank the stock and reputation as experts, recognition of even partial truth could possibly destroy their supply lines overnight.

I honestly think the corporate denials here need to be outright ignored because they have so much to lose. A story of this magnitude is basically like pointing a gun to someone's head and asking them for permission to pull the trigger.
You know the answer to that. Russian bots target Hacker news as well as other sites.
You are welcome to write the software for systems you describe and release it for free. Unfortunately, the economic model of the real world is a little more complicated than you seem to realize.
I'm sorry but that argument does not hold much water. Any developer with [maybe] the exception of people fresh out of school can and should be able to learn new things. Fast. On-the-job.
If you really believe that you're going to use X because it's mainstream and really popular and be okay you're kidding yourself.
Also, as you grow older, you learn to see the matrix and appreciate new things that come along when/after you use them and are able to see how they are better or worse iterations on ideas that were already out there.

Also to answer your comment directly. Being mainstream != lots of help, resources, answers, samples, high quality/well maintained libraries.
Being mainstream means that a lot of people have heard about you and a lot of people try using you / pick you up. Sometimes mainstream things do get to that place, sometimes you find yourself in an immense "the emperor has no clothes" ecosystem where everyone wants to use X because it's the cool/hot new thing. If you don't understand what the tool you want to use is good for and you forge ahead, most of the times, you will have a bad time.
Sure but would you say mushrooms on pizza “is a horrible idea”?
See, that's the reason I put it up there. And yes, citing stuff from the top of ones head usually doesn't help accuracy.

HN is a great place to have that kind of discussion.

So let me rephrase my statement: Alphabet and Fidelity invested $ 1 bn in January 2015, this helped to keep SpaceX afloat when in June 2015 a launch mishap resulted in a launch hiatus and subsequent loss of $ 260m in fiscal year 2015. Now even the timeline is correct.
holy shit she played with Earth! I aspire to be good at one thing and this person is distinguished in at least two fields
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You could do "blue-green" deployments with port numbers... service rev A is on port 1001, service rev B is on port 1002... deploy new rev... change nginx config to point to 1002... roll back, you repoint to 1001...
Depends. Certainly if you don't bring a carry-on ($35) or any checked baggage ($30). And don't print your boarding pass at the airport, either ($10). The bag charges go up $10 each as well if you don't do that from home. Prices are all each way, so assuming a carry-on and one checked bag, Spirit has to be $130 "cheaper" to be the same cost for a round-trip.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People's_History_of_the_Unit...
"Two of Elemental’s biggest early clients were the Mormon church, which used the technology to beam sermons to congregations around the world, and the adult film industry, which did not."

Amused to see some element of humor added to an article on a subject that will have extremely serious consequences, the likes and extent of which are hard to estimate at the moment
Hi,is remote option all around the world is open for software engineers?
Who looks at seat dimensions and has a great concept of how comfortable a seat is going to be for them? It's helpful to be able to compare seats but I don't happen to know my femur length and bet I'm not alone. Not arguing that they're not being transparent, just that it's not particularly helpful.
I'm intrigued by this idea of random-socialization online. Obviously the sites like this have thus far catered more towards sexual content, but I feel like there's huge potential for online streaming socialization that Twitch and Discord haven't fully tapped. I can't put my finger on what, but there have been nights I just want to hop online and meet random strangers to talk about common interests about. Kind of like going to a bar to meet people, but with a higher chance that they'll be interested in the same things as you, so a cross between going to a bar and coming to HN to discuss interesting things.
That's why we have levels of courts and people whose job it is to decide whether or not a case has merit based on arguments brought by interested parties. We can't say something is a waste of time just by looking at it. We can't see the nuance at the heart of every matter.

Again, it's not for you or me to dictate what is actually important. Not important to you is not the same as being objectively unimportant.
The parent is very clearly referring to pre-Civil War-era chattel slavery.
Then you haven’t used them. They are to rest apis what rest were to soap times ten.

You don’t have to take my word for it though, try it yourself: https://graphql.org/swapi-graphql/
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In the end what you say is really "I trust more my device and vendor then myself". Not really a concept I accept...

Of course too many lusers use IT devices even for serious work but consider their "luser" characteristic as a natural fact and instead of education prefer trusting a vendor for me is like preferring a dictatorship hoping that "it will be a good one" because people are not adult enough to be in a democracy.

A small classic example we all know "ok, you are authenticated because you have entered the correct username & password, now prove it a bit more typing an OTP I send to your mobile via SMS" can be easily read as: "I do not trust enough you because someone may have steal user & password BUT I consider enough unlikely that he/she/it steal also your mobile" and as a consequence it means that carriers/phones are considered more trusted than humans being. Not a good thing for me, not a thing I can accept despite, in limited case have some points.

Also I do not want my carrier know all the service I use and when I use them, it's a significant metadata leak that may be irrelevant in single case but may became relevant in other cases.
No it is not - do not be on the defensive when anyone asks about this in an interview.
A notch gives you an odd, asymmetrical screen.

Virtually all digital graphics are based on a rectangular viewing area, whether apps, websites, videos, etc.

Honest question: What would you think you went to a movie theater and the entire time there was notch removed from the corner of the movie?
being replaceable is a noble goal. the problem is that maybe some people don't want to be replaceable and maybe they want/seek to gain some kind of job security through the tooling they use, their idiosyncratic processes or just through rejection of new technology. those people are IMHO doomed to obsolescence.
I wonder if by the time we solve a 'theory of everything' (or understand by some other means the basic mechanisms of our universe), we'll be able to efficiently, procedurally, generate a simulated universe.

Also, the Fermi paradox could be a solution - we don't see any other alien life forms because we're running in a computationally limited simulator, and everything outside our (relatively easy to simulate) solar system is running on minimum resolution (so to speak).
Tell this Linus.
That was a wonderful read, thank you.

The post mentions that Google made some fixes and reverted them due to customer complaints, do we know what those fixes were? Have they fixed the issue?
What do you think the notch is for? From your comment it sounds like you think it's just for show. How does it eat pixels? The alternative would be to have a smaller screen. Also the difference in resolution is so minor it doesn't matter.
Nice Work
Cloud Foundry dev (pcf dev) or minishift will give you your own PaaS running in a VM
The public has a very short memory. It’s surprising how fast the credibility is damaged and repaired.

Don’t put too much emphasis on big Corp and their “credibility”.
I use https://github.com/Naereen/uLogMe (it's a fork of a tool Andrej Karpathy wrote a few years ago: http://karpathy.github.io/2014/08/03/quantifying-productivit...).
It collects data on your general computer usage by measuring the active time and amount of keystrokes per window. It has two parts: some scripts to collect the data and a web interface to visualize the data.

The main drawback of such tools is that most ot them seem to require X11 and won't work with wayland.

Similar tools:
https://github.com/ActivityWatch
https://flowdash.co
If it's for a technical position just talk about the prototype and if they ask just say your partner was focused on the business side and wasn't able to get enough initial customers to keep it going.
Maybe the merge leads to Node people doing the stuff the non-Node people didn't?
Right, PR folks may not understand how all the stuff works in their company, but they sure as shit know which topics require senior approvals. That is basic self-preservation for them.
I'm not sure if that's entirely true. My analogy here would be how we observe classical mechanics or even just regular objects. We can predict the path a ball will take through the air in painstaking and incredibly accurate detail (more detail than we have tools to properly measure), but that doesn't require that we simulate all of the component pieces that make up the ball. We compress that by just calculating what the whole lot of atoms will do on average and substitute that in when we have millions of them and the error is negligible. That's essentially the basis of statistical mechanics.
Why could we not make a simpler simulation of a life form (that its 'direct' real implementation) with similar processes of compressing information on component pieces and making approximations where the magnitude of the error is smaller than the accuracy of the measurement?

It seems to me that there is also a similar analogy to be made in the methods that we can use to compress information. Is there a functional difference between a compression algorithm that is lossless and one that would maybe corrupt 1 rgb value a tiny nudge in an entire image with millions of pixels if our only tool for examining it for corruption were our eyes? What if we then used that compression algorithm only in situations where we know the tools used to examine the results wouldn't be able to identify the losses, and used a lossless compression only when such tools were available?

All this is to say that I believe you could feasibly create a perfect simulation of something more complex than the thing performing the simulation with proper optimizations, but it would require certain stipulations like knowing when to use various optimizations to avoid contaminating fidelity of the simulation. Simple example would be simulating human history before a microscope was invented would allow us to constrain all approximations to have less error than would be visible to the most precise observer's senses of measurement.
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> The White House requested periodic updates as information came in, the person familiar with the discussions says.

You can't make this up, at least not in Bloomberg, that too in a front page or cover page write up. Truth could be somewhere in between and I am sure we will have more information in the coming weeks.
Leaving an abusive relationship tends to be scary, especially if the victim is convinced that the abuser is the least bad. Doesn't mean the thought of ending that relationship should be dismissed out of hand.
I would go to a local SMD assembly house and ask to use theirs.
I understand. But that is a pretty silly comparison for him to make. He's sampling two different universes. In the open source universe, everything is open to him, by definition. He has a complete sample space. In the closed source universe, he may only sample the companies who choose to contract his services. That is an extremely biased sample.

Not to mention the basic fact that he's almost certainly not controlling for other factors, like project age, usage level, etc.
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WIP commits in gerrit are perfectly fine. You can even push them to gerrit with all the rest commits. Just filter "WIP.*" out in gerrit view that lists commits to review.
For me, it was, apparently. I interviewed for quite a variety of positions without a bite. Did pass a reputedly difficult in-person series at a Big 5 employer, and apparently an executive nixed the hire recommendation for this reason.

Obviously, N=1 here. Best advice is to assume the hunt will take a lot longer than you expect.
> Amazon has gov contracts it wants to protect so Im not surprised they would deny this at the govs request, and Apple's #1 product is privacy so having something like this show up on their servers would undermine that product strategy so I can understand their denial too

Additionally, Amazon and Apple are two of the still allowed to compete western companies in China that they haven't booted out of their markets, it could be that Amazon and Apple also want to retain the Chinese market and don't want to appear like they are helping while they have the cover of the NSL.

Amazon and Apple are caught in a tough spot and the hardware issue/espionage device is definitely true. It is probably just that the people that know in the company aren't allowed to say and the PR team is not part of that 'need to know' group. Either way, trust of Chinese manufacturing is over, which hits Apple very hard in both market and domestic trust.
Note that this is solely in the context of a static data set. That makes this a relatively limited idea, since most datasets are either dynamic or small enough to just copy over. I write this not to dismiss Datasette, which looks like an excellently designed tool for the problem it's meant to tackle, but mostly as a response to the title of this particular HN submission, "SQL as an API language" which suggests maybe more than "just" querying static data.

Thing is, I really want to use/expose SQL as an API language for dynamic data.

E.g. the author writes:

> On hidden implementation details: since we are publishing static data rather than maintaining an evolving API, we can mostly ignore this issue. If you are really worried about it you can take advantage of canned queries and SQL view definitions to expose a carefully selected forward-compatible view into your data.

At my company (https://talkjs.com) we explored making our public API SQL-based for the chat & message data that our customers host with us. It would solve lots of customer requests in one go, much more so than adding a new REST resource for every kind of question a customer might want to ask our API. What's been holding us back is exactly this: Even if we'd carefully design a set of database views to guarantee backward compatibility, doing so will severely limit the kinds of database refactorings we'd be able to do. Especially when it comes to adding redundancy, denormalizing stuff, etc.

If anyone else has experience with exposing queryable (SQL or otherwise) dynamic APIs directly to customers, I'd love to hear your insights. How did you tackle this problem?
A new take on the 19th-century skull collection of Samuel Morton
a senior developer, by definition, will hit the ground running with mostly anything you use. that's the senior part in senior developer.
also if you believe that people need years of use to be good in any language/tools/framework you need to figure out how to attract better people.

also, the question you need to ask yourself is: do you want to build something with a technology you've selected and think it's the best or do you want to have someone that can pick the right tool for the job pick the tech? sometimes, not building something or various parts of something is more valuable that building something that you don't need fast.
Node is not JavaScript.

E: To clarify on this a little since I'm not posting from a phone. Which means he's still using Javascript-as-a-server (Deno), so he obviously still has some faith in using Javascript-as-a-server.

Go > Node, in his opinion, but that says nothing about Go > Javascript.
Team Productivity
Plank length?
That's not what the article is about though. It's about brute forcing yourself into someone else's meeting.
And here I thought having to do FizzBuzz for two different interviewers was onerous.
I believe you are responding to the tongue-in-cheek title, and not to the article (which is about a security hole in Google Meet).
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No YC company has mod access to HN.
.net core really should adopt it, that would make it really competitive to node on the backend in terms of prototyping.
Why should we be an aberration? Perhaps life is one of many things that occur naturally with relative frequency given the parameters of the simulation.
I just upgraded from a KeyOne to a Key2 and it's better in just about every way. Twice the storage and RAM, faster CPU, dual camera, more spacious keyboard, cleaner design, more solid construction, and the fingerprint sensor is faster and works better with sweaty fingers (i.e. while running/exercising) than my work-issued iPhone 7.
Ask HN: If a pattern existed for Prime Numbers, would RSA et similar be secure?
I see Apple and Amazon has a tremendous incentive to lie.

What incentive do you see for Bloomberg to report a major story and lie!? Why would they do that?
I love open source software and use it every day. I also donate to organizations who contribute to that community. My issue with OP's proposal, rather, was that those who create software and hardware should be forced to release it for free.
Compelling, but the Sans Forgetica font's effect is focused on recall/remembering. From the two abstracts you linked (I'm not paying for the papers) it appears the experiments were testing the effect of disfluent fonts on reasoning. These are different cognitive activities, so it doesn't really disconfirm the font's creators' claims.
That`s really great
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A side note: I sometimes transliterate latin text to cyrillic.

This doesn't exactly help with remembering things, but by now I have a somewhat better understanding of the cyrillic alphabet, even without being able to speak any of the languages using it, and only fleeting experience with any slavic one.

It definitely takes away the alienness of it.
You mean major major reports like Iraq WMDs?[1] Yeah, the press never gets major stories sourced from government sources wrong.

> Why would Apple disclose that millions of their products could be hacked and you’ve lost all your privacy. Who would trust them?

You've got it perfectly inverted. This is exactly why Apple would come clean if they've been hacked by a nation state and take further steps to protect their customers.

Case in point: This happened to Google.[2] Can you imagine how much trust Google would destroy if they vehemently pretended that the hacking never happened? As opposed to going public ASAP with an action plan, which is what they did -- and it improved trust.

These conspiracy theories are never very well thought through. Conspiracies leak. Remember how Watchmen ended?

[1] https://theintercept.com/2015/04/10/twelve-years-later-u-s-m...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora
How does the bogus chip exfiltrate data out of the system, wouldn't the alarms go off at the network level?
Your parent comment is using 'property' in the second sense of the word ([QUALITY]) given here: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/property

> a quality in a substance or material, especially one that means that it can be used in a particular way

It's also sense 1a given here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/property

> a quality or trait belonging and especially peculiar to an individual or thing

The comment says that many people are assuming that a photograph has "the property of being pornographic", and this is a mistake in their thought. Ownership and propriety are not related to the comment in any way.
A staggering number of U.S. troops are fat and tired
Classic Game Postmortem: Ultima Online
Quantum sounds cool but what big potential application can people point to other than crypto?

And if quantum resistant crypto is in place by the time serious quantum computing is in place, I assume the main application of quantum will be to read all stored, previously encrypted secrets out there.
See also Metaflop Modulator: https://www.metaflop.com/modulator (It has four variable fonts, each with a lot more parameters than here.)

Creating a variable font is a lot of work, which is probably why Knuth's METAFONT never took off, but it can be a lot of fun.
Major backing can get you publicity, but don't think that's the deciding factor. What really matters is that major backing gets you the resources to produce a really solid, complete standard library. That is a critical component to language success.
Sure, but why should we expect any 'host' universe to be based on such things as atoms, either? Perhaps our atoms are as coarse to them as models in gta are to us.
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Or maybe you don't get capitalism. It's not about selfishness or not wanting to lose money, it's about pushing others to work harder. Think of UBI as the other extreme, discouraging people to work for their own good when we'll have automation. Right now though, we need productivity, and we achieve that through capitalism.

Money is a zero sum game, otherwise we could just print as much as we could. We're only as rich as others around us work hard for us. Granted, we live in a crony capitalist society so it's not working that well. For example, healthcare in the US is notorious for failing to spend money wisely.