skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Economists (at least the sane one) talk about market failure, which means when things being sold for a profit but those who buy them are coming out worse than they would be in a well-functioning market. And example would be where there is price-fixing.

Another type is information asymmetry, which is when the seller knows something the buyer would benefit from knowing but doesn't. An example would be some sells a car as running great but knows it is really a leamon.

What we have here as a case of blatant information asymmetry. Consumers think they are basically buying a TV set, but it is actually doing all sorts of things they have little or know awareness of. And there is an unspoken agreement among the TV set producers that they won't tell the consumers, much less offer them real alternatives.
I'm starting to notice that in the Bay Area, older tech workers are more stable then fresh transplants, simply because we've been around long enough to get affordable housing. I make about 15k less then I might otherwise, but its not really an issue for me because I own my home.
I typically just take a photo with another device when I need a screen shot of an app with screenshot protection.
I gave an example of a template program to show the general method. Obviously, primality is decidable, but there exist candidate C++ programs whose parse tree is undecidable. The trick would be to encode your parser in a template, run it on the undecidable program (i.e., itself), and create a contrary result. Does this have any effect on practical C++ builds? I honestly have no idea.
I would have forgiven most things like lower viewership if the stream itself was at least reliable. That said, Google/Facebook's requirement that you use some "real name" just goes against what gamers prefer: anonymity.
Have you actually reviewed the story of GT Advanced?

Apple bent over backwards to forgive late delivery, and GT Advanced repeatedly lied about what they’d actually achieved.

Apple surely turns the screws on it’s suppliers, but GT Advanced isn’t a very good example of this, the producers just lied about what their capabilities (and mid-stream accomplishments!) were.
I don't understand your question. Alternatively, if you're making an argument, then I don't what your argument is.
> Why would this be any more reputationally damaging than the numerous other bugs with iPhone behavior?

Oh I don't know, someone denied the call because they're possibly in the shower, or other inappropriate moments. Oh look now they're naked on a video call... Yikes!
doesn’t help that their bug bounty program is invite-only ( at least the last time I checked )
There's actually an entire thing that historians need to learn called Paleography since old documents tend to be nearly incomprehensible to laypeople. Its not just you!
Let's compare notes in 2020 or 2021. Infrastructure upgrades happen slowly... I'll stop now and we'll both find something actually productive to do.
> but the public perception might be forever changed.

No. Human fix their first impression and seldom change.

Soon after Apple release a fix, they will boost how fast Apple fix bugs.

It take a decades to realize no software is secure.
Thoughts on Translating Robbe-Grillet into Inform 7
It's really simple. I and many others quite enjoy the peripheral benefits of living the world's #1 economy. We're #1 because of size and productivity per capita. If another country with a larger population matched us in productivity, they would be the #1 economy and would get benefits that I and many others living in the US enjoy. One of those benefits is generally spreading democratic ideals and promoting natural rights, such as free speech, private property, etc.

Any country whose values contradict those values threatens me if they become the most economically powerful country. With this in mind, it's imperative that we pull up the ladder behind us if we want to maintain the lead that protects our values.

If/When China gets the lead, you can be certain that they'll pull up the ladder behind them, leaving us in a position of dependency.

I don't care if some podunk country does this. I do care if a country the size of China does this because my life is better so long as I'm on the winning team.

A big difference between the US and China, is that any foreigner can move to the US to contribute to and enjoy the benefits of being #1. If China becomes #1, that option won't be available in practical terms, because China is essentially a homogenous ethnostate with an almost impossibly difficult path to naturalization for those that were not born there.
While they're getting a fix ready, might be smart to just disable FaceTime if you don't rely on it.

https://www.imore.com/how-to-turn-on-off-restrict-facetime-i...
That's a pretty huge flaw. Millions if not...

Is it just me, or is such a phrase applicable to Apple far too many times in the past several years? I think their engineering is losing quality or is falling behind on what they have to cover.
Yep sorry, thought that the ride to work was assumed. You can always turn off the assist so you get exercise on the way home, but don't sweat on the way there?

I've commuted via bike for 4 years now - 6mi with a big hill each way. Started on an ebike but moved to nonmotorised pretty quickly.
There is a general lack of unit testing culture at Apple. This became all too apparent after Goto Fail (https://martinfowler.com/articles/testing-culture.html) and remains an unacceptable risk for using iOS products in my view. Incidents such as https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/28/macos-high-sierra-bug-a... make me skeptical about using macOS, too.
Agreed. Lesson learned.

As recommended elsewhere in these comments, I'll likely use Chromebook + https://www.paperspace.com/ in the future, and implement a travel policy for my team regarding what material can be taken where.
For real estate, your state’s realtor organization will have standard purchase forms available with a quick google search. With these, a title insurance company, and home inspector, you can easily do a private party real estate deal where everybody has reasonable insurance.
Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle also covers the Royal Society at this time in history.
Today's milieu is exploiting existing technology, which has raced ahead, affecting our perception of technology in general.

A deeper cause is mathematics taught as a trade to technicians, when Euclid and geometry stopped being central. Instead of a way to think, to prove, to investigate, we have tools for jobs.
whats the app called?
Actually, you can get closer to the original Smalltalk: https://lively-web.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html (this is an actual port of Smalltalk-78 that runs in your browser)
Surely you understand that different bugs create vastly different problems?

Audio and video leaking without knowledge from such a personal device that people take with them everywhere is about as bad as it gets in terms of privacy breach.
We should listen to him not as a Stripe founder, but as a smart guy. But he's being interviewed because he's a Stripe founder.
Blind hiring doesn't do anything to prevent or correct for bias outside the interview process for this specific position. Assembling a team this way would likely result in one that looks just like the rest of the industry. Meanwhile the hiring manager gets to pat themselves on the back for "doing their part" without actually accomplishing anything to address the problem.
Help wanted in algorithm to estimate location of missed persons in Brumadinho
Why waste resources developing a solution when you can steal a solution that already exists?
>If letting one person off the hook can benefit all americans through better trade, how is that a disgrace?

it's a disgrace for the rule of law and an independent judiciary.
My father started feeling this in his 50's, then he got his master's degree and his callback rate increased significantly. Now he's in his 60's he's getting a PhD so he'll be marketable as an old guy, even if that is just as an adjunct professor.
From the README.MD:

This is the first version of a tool to estimate the possible location of a missed person at Brumadinho/MG. At this city, a huge Dam Burst occured recently and many people died and many more are missing.

The Brumadinho dam disaster occurred on 25 January 2019, when a tailings dam at an iron ore mine in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil suffered a catastrophic failure.

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brumadinho_dam_disaster

This tool requires the latitude and longitude coordinates to calculate the estimative based on the tailing flows.

The algorithm still needs to be improved (so much!). Also, we built it with few data that we had got. To improve it, we need tailings physical-chemical data, topographic map (.csv) of the place, simulations of the reject spreading, and, of course, the latitude and longitude coordinates from the victims' cell phone.
You shouldn't have to worry about Send and Sync if you aren't using generic types that require that their type parameters be Send and Sync. What such types are you using?
Teaching agents to paint inside their own dreams
Lyft rider kills pregnant driver
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I've grown very accustomed to being the only person in the house during normal working hours. This is a really keen insight and puts it in to perspective for me. Thanks for that.
Apple's application programming has fallen off a cliff in the last 4 years. I blame Swift. There's nothing wrong with the language itself, but its outward similarities to.... other dynamic languages I feel has led to a rot in the core of what was once a rock solid culture of embedded C/C++/Objective-C programmers building robust, well architected applications. The average Apple app today is just as buggy and disjointed as anything else on the App Store, and that never used to be the case.
Just let the worst college get the worst student. What harm can it make?
See:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/28/media/buzzfeed-layoffs-pto/in...
Name your businesses better.
I'm in the middle of a similar build, and I'm curious how you got 4 of those to work well right next to each other. Are they FE cards, or some other variant?
Autograph fakery: two firms monopolize a lucrative business (2014)
Why isn't the British term spelled "graught"?
> The Rust bugs are on one hand a None variable being initialized to a Some() value

Wait. There has to be more going on there than just that—perhaps it's some interaction with naked functions?—or else we'd be seeing crashes everywhere from this.
Another thread with some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19022353
You need to integrate the famous iTunes into this thesis.

(people have complained about it approximately since it was released)
It’s also the kind of bug and impact that is very easy for the layperson to understand, even without sensationalist write ups.
Here's the perspective:
You, or rather, the average "you" incur 1 micromort (1/1e6 chance of death while conducting a particular activity) for every:

6 miles traveled by motorcycle

10 miles traveled by bicycle

17 miles traveled by foot

230 miles by car

1000 miles by jet plane

So, it really is rather dangerous to get around by bicycle. Not that I recommend against it (I commute by motorcycle, personally).

[edit: source wiki article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort#Travel ]
This would actually be a fun interview question - how to emergency patch 1B+ globally distributed mobile devices. I would say at least several days for the obvious QA which needs to be done.
-600 + Billion every year buys a lot of ‘toys’ and T-shirts.

At 1.3 million active duty military and more than 800,000 reserve forces the infrastructure to maintain that is already significant manufacturing capacity. Training more people takes time so you get various projections around force mobilization vs war footing etc. But while some lag is expected, you can get a lot done with even 1 year of critical supplies on hand.

Remember this is the same group that designed the internet to keep working even as major cities where nuked. Going to war is very much part of long term planning.
Oh, that's awesome! Remind me to move to Canada... Vancouver isn't too far from Seattle =) tax rate isn't that much higher, these days, either from my understanding (depending on your income).

Edit:
Though, you guys aren't taking us in anymore as easily, these days, though huh? =) I say this all mostly in jest. I do think things will even out here and cooler minds will prevail, eventually.
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>You need to integrate the famous iTunes into this thesis.

Desktop iTunes is a dumpster fire, but their iOS software is what I was specifically referring to.
they should launch a reality show about themselves!
Hi Berdon!

I grew up in Mitchell, but left about 30 years ago. As a youth, I had a paper route and vividly remember walking backwards on some cold days to keep the wind out of my face.

Good luck with this upcoming cold snap!
I’m pretty sure protections against age discrimination only kick in federally if you’re 40 or older, though some states may expand it to younger workers.
Just for a counterpoint that I know will be attacked - Why not create plenty of jobs? Let's say we want programming jobs for everyone, just start adding constraints to what can be sold in the country based on whether that company hired programmers in the country. Are there people who want to do more woodwork? Well then start adding some limits to importing products built with woodworking skills. It doesn't have to be "all or nothing", it can target creating the jobs desired by the community.
I know this would take a lot of work to get right, and there would be costs, but it sure seems like it would be worth it to create a society where everybody could do the type of work that they desire.
What? Objective C is a lot more dynamic than Swift - which was the whole point of making a new language, albeit Swift itself is not quite as well-developed, highly-performing or safe as, e.g. Rust.

I think it's programming practices themselves that have fallen off a cliff, at least in the non-FLOSS world, and nothing specific to Apple. You can even see this in the dumpster-fire that's popularly known as "Windows 10", as well as in the latest versions of Mac OS X which are a lot slower and less user-friendly than their predecessors.
They said later this week, which seems surprisingly untimely given the severity of this bug.
The rhetoric is saying that only media of certain political bent and their allies should engage on twitter. That much is obvious as is the fact that many of these "watchdogs" are politically motivated propaganda organizations themselves. They are trying to set a propaganda regime favorable to one side for the 2020 election ( aka interfering with our elections ).

What I'm puzzled about is whatever interference russia had in the election was dwarfed by interference from a bunch of european countries, canada, israel and the like. Why isn't that being investigated? Even more, why aren't these watchdogs themselves investigated. Who is funding them and why? Or maybe we all can stop using twitter.
It was partly because it was policy. De-industrialising kept on throughout the 80s, not while in the recession as would have been the case in the past. Even as recession ends industrials were still being kicked. Kids in sharp 80s shiny suits would turn up on TV news telling us we shouldn't do yesterday's car making, tool making or $niche any more and all go into services or banking. Germany was far more pragmatic about it.

The biggest difference I see is housing. They keep getting more and more absurdly expensive with no signs of stopping. Even in countries far less attached to the idea of ownership than the UK. Which is more neoliberal policy again - public housing is right out of fashion everywhere it seems, even places that once did public housing really well.
Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes
I too watch Scotty Kilmer.

https://m.youtube.com/user/scottykilmer
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I mean, you can disable Facetime:

https://www.imore.com/how-to-turn-on-off-restrict-facetime-i...

So I wouldn't get all the tinfoil over this matter, I would probably disable Facetime if I were most people though. Then it's likely to only be an issue of audio being streamed, much less horrible than inappropriate video streaming. I would hope they roll out a server-sided fix initially. "If calling user, if user ads themselves to group call, hang up group call" or some silly logic. I rather see that first, and then the client-side fix.
Desk Control by a company called Linak. It's not the best app--I keep having to reconnect via the bluetooth--but for the price of the Bekant, and knowing I don't change heights often, it works for me.
Very few of these micro-saas businesses will even hit $500/month. You wind up with a lot of crap you have to maintain. It's death by 1000 cuts.
The Hunt for the Nazi Loot Still Sitting on Library Shelves
Am also confused by this (and hoping this comment would get some love!)
Well, I mean, Tumblr has basically no navigation between blogs on the desktop, and that didn't stop it.
Or a bad BGP route being broadcasted, whether intentionally or not:

https://bgpmon.net/bgp-leak-causing-internet-outages-in-japa...
I wonder if the Apple representative who said this would be "fixed later this week" realizes this allows any attacker to wiretap any iPhone user (that has the vuln)
I don't think they're saying never. If you look at the recommended guidelines[1], for a crime like Schwartz's the maximum could theoretically be many years, but the guidelines would suggest a sentence between 0 and a few years (he'd be in the first column assuming he didn't have any criminal history. Depending on what modifiers come into play his "offense level" could be as low as 6[2]. Maybe it would be more than that, but he certainly wouldn't hit level 40, which is what it would take to get a 30+ years sentence. Even though a judge can technically give a higher sentence than the guidelines, it's fairly rare— it happened less than 3% of the time in 2017.[3]

depending
[1]: https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/guidelines-manu...
[2]: See §2B1.1 at https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/2018-guidelines-manual/2018-...
[3]: Table 8 at https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-pu...
It’s not easy to start your own company. Sometimes you have no choice but it’s not for everyone.
>What? Objective C is a lot more dynamic than Swift

Sure, that could be argued. But with Objective-C, you still had exposure to the "metal". You had to understand what a pointer is, and why you would want to use it. You had to understand memory management, even though ARC does the job (mostly). It was firmly entrenched in the world of memory efficient embedded programming that mobile started out as, but now that developers coming from Javascript/Python land see a familiar syntax they've brought their patterns with them as well.
First total bike miles are not rigorously tracked making this statistics extremely suspect. Which is why both 10 and 20 miles are given as separate estimates. “Travelling 10 miles (16 km)[25] (or 20 miles (32 km))[24] by bicycle (accident)”

Subway miles are also very safe at ~ 1/20 the risk of driving your car. So, a 2 mile bike ride to a subway + a 20 mile subway trip is about the same risk as a 22 mile commute. Though with very large error bars on that estimate based on personal habits and local conditions.

PS: Don’t become a bike messenger it pays well, but the risks are more significant when people are running red lights etc.
Maybe, but that seems kind of crazy as I had tangible proof of age discrimination. It's not like they'd say someone who was 38 was too old and someone who was 42 would suddenly not.
It reminds me of this MacOS bug from last year, where simply hitting the login box over and over with no password would eventually bypass the security entirely:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/28/root_access_bypass_...

And this other MacOS bug, also from last year, where the password hint would contain the plain text encryption password:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/05/apple_patches_passw...

All within a month of each other.
#1 such issue is Israel/Palestine.
An quick stop for the possbile privacy disaster for Apple is to stop group facetime call at once but not wait for later this week for bug fix.
Could image that quite some one might already try to peek for privacy using this.
I would like to bring up something that happened to someone I know during WhatsApp call. Person A was in US and person B in India and were audio calling through Whastapp on something work related. Person A starts hearing someone else on his side, nothing unexpected on Bs side. A started a new call and everything was fine. A said it reminded him of the crosstalk that was common during the landline days. Could it be a bug or was someone listening and forgot to turn off their mic? No idea.
Try doing it every week for a year.
Well written piece of quit-lit, but the funny thing is the author barely touches on how lucky he was to quit when he did. In the intervening years academia devolved further into toxicity. Rather than wistful, the many-worlds version of this narrative where he stays would probably be a rage filled diatribe.
Inefficiency isn’t the same as adaptability. It has no intrinsic value. Ineffective people aren’t automatically great generalists and ineffective companies aren‘t better suited to adapt to new market trends.

This is a bad case of one-dimensional thinking.

All the anecdotes in this thread are about optimizing for a particular outcome and failing to anticipate variations there. Even the human body stores fat not because it‘s an inefficient machine, but because it has adapted to (sometimes rare) situations of low food availability.

So, let‘s not celebrate slacking by claiming it to have some intrinsic value.
You can install these apps from other app stores or directly from the app developer themselves. Google only decides what to carry on its own app store.
Perhaps, but the financial world is so much more complex now. All sorts of crypto currencies, tens of thousands of EFTs and index funds. Lots of FUD via social media and the internet. A million and one ways to lose your money.

That being said, indexing is common now but Active was more common in the 80s, so who knows how much money was lost on ineffective managers.
Building the Perfect Remote Work Policy
By the way that's a really horrible feature of Android (don't know about iOS). I never gave permission to any app that it could be aware of my screenshots, and yet one of my contacts asked why I screenshotted their message. That's not the business of apps to know, at least without permission first.
I hear quite a few of them are picking up coding.
Those issues end up being reflected in the multiple.

Revenue * multiple is just a common way of talking about it, especially because companies within the same industry tend to have similar multiples. In reverse if you notice two public (since the information is easy to find)companies with seemingly-similar businesses that have very different multiple, you can start looking into why, and the quarterly financial reports with high-level numbers like cash burn, outstanding debt, profits, or net income would be a great place to start :)
> Meritocracy is a lie used by the privileged. There is no such thing in the real world.

That's absolutely untrue.. you really discredit yourself when you say provably false things like this.
Sure, but then why do people use these expensive services like HelloSign, when they could just get away with a "I agree" checkbox, or even a canvas element asking for your signature?
Samsung's affordable higher configuration M-Series Phone to be released in India
He knows where is the problem but does not use this knowledge to take a proactive stance.

"yes I know that I'm old, BUT shouldn't be a problem for the job because... (I keep learning, update my skills often, can do X) ... etc, etc"