skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem
They have hostile business tactics, does that wash that they use your data internally at Apple only?

For someone that doesnt mind getting tailored ads, the privacy argument is a non-issue. I am curious how long this will last at Apple as well, they don't strike me as a company that wouldnt sell your data.

EDIT: HN is very weak when it comes to critical thinking on Apple products...
PSA if case you're a Linkin Park Fan and in San Francisco... Mike Shinoda (Rapper/Guitarist) is on tour right now and performing in SF tomorrow night (11/6) at the Masonic.
"Anyone can contribute to make a Standard Ebook better for everyone!"

https://standardebooks.org/contribute/

Improve it then.
Globally asynchronous locally synchronous (GALS)
> An excellent example of this is how a 6-10% wage gap is considered an acceptable outcome of biological differences and choice, but a 10% average difference in primary education among young men is a crisis, with multiple think tanks suggesting society caters too much to young women and that being a young man is "a liability."

You're comparing a difference in wages to a difference in population. The maximum range of a population difference is 100%, e.g. 0% of men go to college and 100% of women, which would be a scandalously large difference. The maximum range of a wage difference is arbitrarily large, e.g. a $200,000 doctor makes 1000% of what a $20,000 fast food worker does and that is not at all unexpected. It isn't even maximally large of the differences that exist in practice -- compare the compensation of Fortune 500 CEOs with part time migrant workers.

Moreover, if you want to see a large difference, what's with the gender balance in the prison population?
And then get pwned by a BIOS rootkit.
I don't care at all about Microsoft being the largest open source contributor. It doesn't change my opinion about them one bit. In fact, I use it against them because they constantly talk about it as if it were a big deal.

Microsoft and Microsoft fans just can't let their actions speak for themselves and allow opinions to change naturally. They just have to force themselves on developers and say "wow you don't love me, OKAY, I'll just buy the platforms and services you love so you'll have to love me". I know why they do this though - it's because Microsoft's history is akin to Sauron, Darth Vader, or Lord Voldemort. Microsoft's history is just comically evil and the only reason they've changed is because the landscape shifted in such a manner where Microsoft was FORCED to change. They aren't doing this from to bottom of their hearts and they don't deeply believe in the open source idea and spirit; they are only doing it because, by the grace of God, the internet became the place to do business and not the desktop.

Microsoft would still demand its pound of flesh from all of us if they could; and they'd still be a closed source firm that looked down upon people who believed that free, high quality open source tools were a win for society in general, and they sure as hell wouldn't have let go of Balmer. Microsoft and .NET developers with stockholm syndrome need to stop treating us as if we're dumb for not bending the knee before Redmond.
I struggle to find evidence that this is any better anywhere else. At almost every other company I've worked at, the interview process was more about the referral itself (which leads to some pretty awful hires), or whether you can fake it til you make it.

Talent is not a single measure at Google. There are multiple facets to whether Google believes a candidate is solid. Strong technical talent is not an indicator of success, rather just one aspect of it that's taken into consideration by the hiring committees. So yeah, Google will say no to incredibly talented people because they fall short in other areas.

Crapshoot is table stakes practically everywhere you go. At least Google makes an attempt at making things objective and holistic.

There's a lot of myopia in this thread.
As someone who conducts interviews frequently on behalf of Google, I'm in a position to categorically reject your claim that someone with {PRESTIGIOUS_COMPANY_X || INDUSTRY_REPUTATION} is given an easier path. Please note that I haven't interviewed anyone with 30+ years of experience (yet) and I only interview candidates for SWE roles (not Research Scientist roles) so view my experience from that lens since because I still think it's applicable to a majority of the crowd here on HN.

Everyone (regardless of background) has to sing for their supper, so to speak. Sure, having good pedigree can make it easier to get scheduled for an interview, but that in no way means you're slated to have interviews with people who will handle you with kid-gloves. On the contrary, the whole process is designed to zap out any bias and cover a large amount of breadth. Interviewers have questions they're calibrated themselves on, and if they get picked for the loop they just usually ask those questions. This is true from the phone screen all the way through the on-site.

You may feel that established engineers cross-pollinating from other competitive companies don't have to jump through as many hoops but that's only because they've been through this rodeo enough to know how to prepare for it well. Many are hobbyist competitive programmers and people who build stuff on the side so the interview questions don't blindside them completely.
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From all the 6d changes and features already implemented in cperl, the only one intersection, the default value of Num was chosen correct by cperl: 0.0 and not NaN as chosen previously by rakudo. So no new incompat's and deviations.
What about going back to the notebook idea? You give them a notebook that's called 'Passwords' and it sits on the desk beside their computer. They only write passwords in that notebook, and you can explain to them to write at least 20 random numbers and letters for new passwords.

When you visit, you can write those passwords down in your password manager. This way if the book goes missing or there is a disaster, you have a backup.
Passwords can always be used.

You can forget a password, but you can't drop it down a storm drain, or have it all of the sudden fail to boot, or forget to bring it when you're at a friends house and now you can't answer your user's calls to fix the site that went down for some reason.
> Signals 9 and 15 and much more well known by their respective value than their symbolic name. They are everywhere in program output and log files

I have never written a program that outputs a signal number to stderr or a log file. And grepping the logs on a server with nearly 800 days of uptime, I can find only five references to signal 15, from months ago.

> It's like if you have touched computer code in any language then you probably know that 65 is A. [..] a programmer who never stumbled on ascii codes must have lived in an unusually insular bubble.

20 years of programming and doing things like making custom fonts. I couldn't remember the ascii code of 'A'.
Naproxen is vastly superior to prednisone.

The side effects from prednisone are wretched, and long term use is way worse than the impact of naproxen.

I was on nsaids for a decade due to poorly constructed skeleton. I only moved off because I became tolerant to them.
Maybe I should have said "ethically" or "morally" instead of personally. I'm not suggesting we ride people out of town on a rail, or tar and feather them, but I definitely agree that if you work for an asshole company doing asshole things, that makes you an asshole, with all the social consequences that follow the label.
U.S. Supreme Court ends fight over Obama-era net neutrality rules
"Free" as in "freedom to get pwned".
I don't fully understand your problem, or how Apple could provide a solution.

Are you saying that the current system of having a checking/saving account, and setting up autopay/direct payments for your various bills (mortgage, utilities, gym, etc.) is cumbersome?

And proposing that instead, Apple should add up all your bills and provide you with a $amount to pay each month, and you just pay that amount into your Apple checking account?

The example you gave above, overpaying for a music subscription because it didn't auto cancel, wouldn't be solved by this system, Apple would just add it into the bill and if anything, reduce your visibility into what you're paying for and why. I'm not sure how they would know to "protect" you from a music streaming service you signed up for.

The method that works best for me is to use an app like Personal Capital/Mint to centralize financial info and get notifications on what I'm paying for, and when. It also summarizes what buckets you are spending into, so if any look odd you can dig down and investigate further.
>Alas, B12 and certain other nutrients are only gotten from meat.

There are alternative sources of B12 and every other nutrient we're aware of. Even if you doubt plant-derived/synthetic analogues, that still leaves dairy and eggs. There is very clearly no requirement for humans to consume meat.

>I find it reasonable to limit meat consumption to animals that were bred for that purpose[...]

Why is that? Is seems much more reasonable to me that, if you are going to eat animals, you would eat the ones that are not raised specifically for that purpose. Animals raised specifically for consumption have absurdly short lifespans (chickens for instance go from egg to slaughter in about 7 weeks) with most of them having little to no chance to lead anything resembling a normal, stimulating life. Is it not more reasonable to eat hunted animals who had the opportunity to experience real lives?
I don't think anyone is saying that's it's "not OK" for a woman to be a garbage collector. Some are saying that the fact that women are generally not garbage collectors is a problem.

I honestly don't know where I stand on that. While I absolutely believe that much of the disparity in preference is cultural, I'm apt to believe that some of it is biological. Further, I'm not sure eradicating that cultural bias is beneficial.
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Sure, it has happened before that we found a different theory that's also compatible with the experimental evidence.
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His forums were a pure gold mine of fun. There was the same kind of diverse mix of people you'd see on a huge site like 4chan or Reddit, but it still felt really intimate. Like the Tucker Max forum but not quite as hyper-masculine.
The day Apple begins serious flirtation with ad revenue is the day I bail on them.
Cancer-Linked Chemicals Manufactured by 3M Are Turning Up in Drinking Water
Relative success can still mean absolute stagnation.
If anybody is curious about the work of Science being a fundamentally human activity, check out Bruno Latour. I'm sure there are others, but this is one I've recently discovered. NYTimes did a good article on him: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/magazine/bruno-latour-pos...
Troy Hunt's whole career is basically based on the brokenness of passwords...

That's unfair. Troy's career is based on the brokenness of bad password implementations, not passwords themselves.
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Even without the underlying theory, though, you can still look at lots of real-life mountain ranges and see that they generally align themselves to continental contours and not geometric shapes like boxes.
If the user can change this setting through the operating system, why can’t malware do the same? What am I missing here?
It's a justifiable concern, that somehow hardware companies will wall off high-end hardware from Linux because of the industry pressure behind ill-fated ventures like pervasive DRM and Windows piracy protection.

I'm glad that Apple still has the "fine, but it's your funeral" option that lets users do what they want. Secure by default, open if you want/need it.
At Google, responses are calibrated against other interviews that interviewer has done. If they have some consistent skew then this can be adjusted for. If the interviewer sucks and the committee can tell then they can give that score less weight.
I know, but it's one of those things that are much easier said than done sadly
It wasn't ad hominem. He had addressed the argument, and refers to that, before adding that Popper was an egocentric jerk. That might be abusive, but it's not ad hominem (because it's in addition, not instead of, a rebuttal of the argument).

See the excellent "Ad Hominem Fallacy Fallacy":

https://laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html
You can still get something like that using exceptions, it depends on where the exceptions are caught. If you have a function which has 3 calls:

function f (...) {
val a = something.a();
val b = something.b();
val c = something.c();
return (a,b,c);
}

If the exceptions can occur in the calls assigning to a, b, or c and are handled locally (here, in f) then you can construct that first case. It's only if you throw the exception up one level higher that you end up in the latter case. As written, it is more like your latter example. But with a modication:

function f(...) {
val a = default_a;
val b = default_b;
val c = default_c;
try {
a = something.a();
} catch {
a = error_value_a;
}
...
}

You can get the former case.
How does it work? lol !~
Why do I bookmark everything and then never actually look at my bookmarks again?
This is ridiculous, you will be given a no hire recommendation by the interviewer at a FAANG company if you do not provide an optimal solution. This is very well documented on sites/apps like Blind and accurate from my personal experience. It's corporate double speak to state otherwise.

Can't give an O(N) solution but come up with a correct O(N^2) solution? Too bad - go do more Leetcode.
"job preferences" is not the same as job aptitude.

In a free market system people are going to be pushed into the jobs for which they have the most aptitude (or out of the workforce if their aptitude is too low/lower than machines) regardless of their preferences.
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The C model is ‘there is only one core, race conditions don’t exist. Multithreading is undefined.’ How is that better?
From C99 and C++, also Java, `const` does not affect the bound value. It's a declaration keyword, so it affects only how to bind the declarator name or names that follows immediately. This is all stating the obvious, but expecting effects on the initialiser will lead only to frustration, on two counts:

1. JS is in the C/C++/Java lineage syntactically. Ok, that is a deeper design flaw, but Netscape management to keep Sun on board said "Make It Look Like Java".

2. If you want declarations to affect captured expressions, you'll soon want a type system if not immutability controls and defaults. IOW, at least Scheme-like binding rules and set! as special form to use when mutating. Again the ships sailed 23+ years ago, and in truth for "Mocha's" target audience, immutable-by-default would have been harder to use.

"They just start writing and see what works" => a primary design goal. Flawless Victory! :-)

Seriously, the Scheme in the browser baby was killed in the cradle; the recruiting bait used to get me on board was snatched away because of the Sun/Netscape Java deal. All is not lost, as JS grows better special forms (but for backward compatibility must keep old ones). Among these, `const` is least better but still useful.

What's more, those who advocate mass-market immutable-by-default are still working to make it usable in the large (e.g., in Rust). Pedagogy helps, but also has not delivered the goods yet. We are living through the full experiment to refine and confirm that i-b-d is best.
"It is also that you can always enter a password."

You are correct, as long as you throw out all the other password advice that, ironically, Troy Hunt has given us about not reusing passwords, making them long or full of hard-to-memorize characters, etc.

Once you use secure passwords by making them long and/or hard to memorize, unique for each website, etc., you can't just rely on your brain, fingers, and an awkward on-screen keyboard to "always enter a password." You need your password manager with you, you need privacy so nobody can shoulder surf while you agonizingly peck out your password on your touch screen keyboard (remember everyone learning Kanye's cell phone password recently?), etc.

Your statement about universality is only technically true.
I have a feeling that soon this will be forgotten. His family will get $50 million from SA and an "apology"...and within a few months to years, the world will focus on the next horrible thing. Maybe the Saudi money will be slightly laundered with bigger funds so "we didn't get Saudi money, the fund we got the money from has a lot of investors" and the world will keep going. Money and geopolitics talk.

He, a commoner, already caused a lot of problems to a soon-to-be King. If he was in SA, he would have been charged with espionage or whatever and left to rot in jail or beheaded, with virtually no complaints.
A rhetorical question that says "I don't understand what feminism is".
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Happy ‘National Jealousy Day’ Finland Bares Its Citizens’ Taxes
I’ve toured an artisanal bourbon distillery in Kentucky that does something similar while the bourbon ages in barrels. The music plays loud around the clock to keep it vibrating (among other things).
Israel sees desalination as Sea of Galilee's savior
This is true if one doesn’t practice basic accounting. Most people don’t, but without it, recurring bills are likely the least of one’s financial issues.

This costs me about an hour a month, which I spend noticing the bills I pay rather than paying them by hand.
I've heard some rumours about that, but wrote them off as too implausible.
lol - yes. That entire article was a very long-winded way of saying "they've got a lot of money so we really don't care about what they do"
Yeah, but that's not really news. We had Bush holding hands with Saudi royal family members shortly after 19 Saudis perpetrated 9/11.

Trump and his family are hucksters so of course they're looking for a Saudi money angle. It's not particularly notable compared to the overall pattern, just an instance.
I'm not saying humans are infallible, but trying to argue that "the scientific method isn't perfect because people aren't perfect" is nonsense, especially if the conclusion you want to draw is that "therefore we should respect faith as an alternative means of determining truth".

The scientific method IS the best tool our species has when it comes to determining truths about the laws of nature. In fact, it's practically the only tool we have. Almost every major advancement our species has made has been because someone had a theory, figured out a way to test it, and came to a conclusion with some degree of confidence that they were then able to act upon and share with others.

Since this is a thread about philosophy, "truth" (and how one determines it) is extremely relevant. Epistemology is a whole branch of philosophy. If you're truly skeptical, one could even argue that true knowledge cannot be attained at all, and all we can hope to do is arrive at conclusions with as high a degree of confidence as possible.

My point is that science offers a way to increase confidence in a conclusion, religion does not.

It's as simple as that.
The user only has access to this dialog when booting in recovery mode. The ability to access this can be controlled by setting a firmware password.
It's not that you don't have to work hard if you have talent. It's that if you don't have the talent, no amount of hard work is going to make up for it.

There are so many people in the world, so much competition. That to be "top" performer in whatever field you have to 1) have innate talent, 2) work your ass off 3) get lucky.
According to Wikipedia, "his mathematical abilities, however, did not extend as far as trigonometry and were limited to the simplest algebra."
I can not submit form.
Absorbing commit changes in Mercurial 4.8
Niantic overhauls Ingress to make it more welcoming for new players
Can Hong Kong Sell Its Residents on Watery Graves?
Many small businesses I've seen are also incredibly exploitative. I don't believe we should be defending these practices; if a small business really can't afford basic human decency, maybe it should not exist? And maybe the effort should be refocused on asking how to allow small businesses to afford being humane while not losing ground to large corporations.
> are actually going to be used to the effect of providing cred in that person's circles

And some comments are questions about programming or accurate technical answer to them, but neither that, nor what I quoted, is relevant in this context.
The next version of PLASMA has a JIT compiler that will compile PLASMA byte code routines into native machine code based on call frequency. Currently supports 6502 and 65802/65816 backends into a 4K code buffer. It doubles the speed of the PLASMA compiler, itself written in PLASMA.
Changing secure boot (and SIP) requires a reboot to recovery mode - you’re running on a pristine mini-macOS
That's what I found, too. It looks like the flowchart in question is on p. 42.

This is really helpful by the way. My sister is completing her MBA and I think IBM is a program sponsor or something and has really been pushing their blockchain product. Whatever the case, she's drank the Blockchain Kool-Aid. I'm going to point her to this (this site and the NIST doc) the next time she brings it up.
A Large Scale Study of Data Center Network Reliability [pdf]
An elementary fallacy in the context of a discussion of whether or not philosophy has made progress seems pretty salient to me.
Did I just see a popover cross-selling products on my mobile? It covered about half the screen.
> Apple should add up all your bills and provide you with a $amount to pay each month ...

This is my nightmare of where the subscription-culture is headed.
The burden of usefulness is on those who present them as useful, not for others to demonstrate that they are not useful.

That 'some people are using them' is not really validation of anything.

If someone can explain why they are practical, give real world use cases, and demonstrate how they are already being used in a practical way, then that would make sense.

Until them it's vapourtech.
> You can probably get OTC versions of the two pills for much cheaper than what Vimovo charges.

I don't think you can, specifically:

I don't think naproxen (as distinct from naproxen sodium, which has more rapid effect) is available OTC at all, much less in enteric coated delayed-release capsules.

Esopremazole is available OTC, but AFAICT only in delayed release form, and not in the same dosage used in Vimovo, which is immediate release esopremazole magnesium with a delayed release naproxen core; the esopremazole is to manage the side effects of the naproxen.

So, kitchen-table Vimovo from OTC supplies is not simple.
Miniso far, Mumuso good: how China's 'cultural copycats' took over the world
Ahh, I had tracking protection enabled. All good now.
Poor wording on my part. I wasn't referring to the OS's running on top of the VM, but rather the infrastructure that's running the VM's.

https://www.quora.com/What-technology-is-Azure-running-on-Is...
Apple (later joined by IBM), with Pink/Taligent?

Microsoft (Cairo) seems to fit the bill almost exactly, but it was only initiated in 1991.
I wasn't implying that the interview was easier for candidates with recognizable track records. Perhaps two sigma was not restrictive enough. I was merely suggesting that if a candidate has domain expertise and it is well known, that they may not subjected to the same leetcode hoop jumping as the bulk.

Do you really want to remove bias for experienced candidates with a track record of substantial and nontrivial contributions?