skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I operate under the assumption that the majority of cops are just doing the job for a paycheck, and not out of any genuine desire to do the job correctly arising from a professional work ethic. I get it--it's just like every other job. Only a few people actually care about what they do, and the rest know what it means to just be an employee.

Giving the footage, without the name, forces the cops to positively identify the suspect through investigation of crime scene evidence. The FaceID-generated name is just speculation from Apple.

Operating under the assumption that the cops will do the absolute minimum amount of work to clear the case, just giving the video runs the risk that they will decide that identifying the suspect is too difficult, and give up. But bear in mind that they failed to identify the real suspect anyway, and also arrested an innocent person, just because Apple said that's the person who did it.

The professional cops, who are usually not as knowledgeable about computing science as the professional software developers, may be unaware of the GIGO principle--garbage in, garbage out. They don't know how Apple assigned a name to the face, but they trust them, because Apple spends a lot of marketing dollars getting people to believe that all their stuff "just works".

The facial recognition software linked the face with a name attached to all the faces that didn't. Apple can certainly give a rate of false positives and false negatives for the face-matching, but I'm not sure they have any idea how many people are showing them fake IDs. That's something cops and bouncers would know, not ordinary retail employees.

If you were a cop, and someone dropped this case on your desk, what would you do? I, personally, would search for that name on every corner of the Internet before getting off of my ass. I'd be looking for any excuse I could find to not go out to arrest someone, because that's work, and solving property crimes, especially shoplifting cases, is not noteworthy or glamorous. But Apple is rich, so I'd put just a tiny extra effort in to find the real thief, in case I ever wanted to run for sheriff, and get them as a corporate campaign donor.

I'd probably go to one of the department's fake Facebook accounts, upload a cropped still from one of the videos, and see if their auto-tagging software produces a match. If that didn't come up with anything, I'd have to get a search warrant for the named suspect and their home address, looking for any stolen Apple stuff. Then I'd see that the named suspect does not match the video footage. I'd give the best face-shot and a short video clip to the local TV news to see if that generated any tips or leads, and then finally write a report saying that the suspect could not be identified or located from the available evidence. But I'd be polite about it, because Apple is rich, and would certainly want to read the report. And then that would be it. Because every retailer has to live with a nonzero amount of shoplifting and other forms of shrinkage, even the rich ones.
Mark Zuckerberg has a podcast now
That's a commonly used design though. Putting integrations above the standard form itself. Many forms do this with Paypal integration instead of Apple Pay.
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Unpatched ModSecurity vulnerabilities leave web servers open to DOS attacks
Fastmail’s web UI is the only one I’ve ever used that feels as snappy as a native desktop application. It’s so nice.

My initial reason for leaving Gmail was equal parts de-Google-fying my life, and the terrible no good UI changes in Gmail.

After using FM, just the UI improvement alone was well worth the effort it took me to update my email address everywhere I have an account.
It contains everything that will prevent this.
Alternative title: I've only listened to bad podcasts.
Amazon's Alexa Team Can Access Users' Home Addresses
No, it doesn't.

Excerpted from the Oxford English Dictionary (the full entry being far too long for a comment here):

he, pron., n.1, and adj.

A. pron. The subjective case of the masculine third person singular pronoun.

I. As personal pronoun.

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2.

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b. In anaphoric reference to a singular noun or pronoun of undetermined gender. Cf. they pron. 2.

(http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/84893#eid302969944)
This is not a good interview question and neither candidate seems to have answered it well, but I would reject B first because I obviously don't know whether she did any research or whether she just asked Candidate A via StackOverflow
Survival of the Wrongest – Evidence has a well-known liberal bias
from the paper's abstract:

> In three studies, _clinically depressed_ participants were more likely than nondepressed participants to use emotion-regulation strategies in a direction that was likely to maintain or increase their level of sadness. (emphasis mine)
> I don't really understand why you'd want this in a compiled language.

Why not?
Because it's a very a CPU-intensive task? It's all relative, but in 2003 JS was one of the worst languages you could possibly use for that. Of course it's moot if they aren't actually planning to use it for that side of things.
I used to feel the same way, but I ended up adapting to the new medium. Reading is great, but sometimes listening is more convenient (commuting for example)
The good old 2015 MacBook Pro keyboards were super nice. Why change a winning formula? Was it the quest for ever thinner laptop bodies?
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What coherence is lacking? OpenBSD supports msync(2), which is the only POSIX mechanism I know of for ensuring coherency between read(2) and shared file mappings. Otherwise relying on unspecified behavior sounds dangerous.
It'd probably be easier to just withdraw a small monthly amount (<500$) to pay for bills and such. I'd be a good way to pay for non-essential things, maybe even rent.
Very compelling article, and a strong counter to the idea that the no-mind state is void of intelligence. If anything, the mind of the master is more active than ever, but so thoroughly focused on execution that the meta-level has disappeard. There's no thinking about the thought process, no second guessing, none of the games the mind plays with itself. Only engagement with action so deep that one feels like "the hand of fate."
For those that skipped the bottom paragraphs

>so as a thank you, all existing Model S and Model X owners who wish to purchase a new Model S or Model X Performance car will get the Ludicrous Mode upgrade, a $20,000 value, at no additional charge.

Are they having trouble trying to get repeat business?
I think it's irrelevant. If your build depends on inputs from two repositories, it's the same level of complexity as having the inputs all come from one repository. You might have two .git directories, but if the code is coupled, it's just a monorepo in two directories.

Ultimately the problem is in scaling the number of build inputs, not the number of .git directories.
Say what you will about the merits or necessity of all-day in-person interviews, at least the company is investing a roughly symmetric amount of time into the interview process.
Getting sad enough to cry is a good technique, because tears from strong emotion have been found to carry stress hormones with them out of the body.

Crying also releases endorphins which can help you recover from a feeling of sadness.

So yes, it's pretty reasonable to feel mopey but unable to extricate yourself until and unless you can push yourself far enough to cry, at which your body's own biology lifts you out of feeling mopey.
The fact that this service/promise exists, indicates that this is a huge, real, problem that Apple shouldn't keep ignoring.
I think at some point the effort will be too costly for them and they’ll fold and it would make more sense to divert that effort into legit businesses.
That article seems inconclusive to me. The FAA said the software change was news to them but Boeing said the FAA considered the final configuration in their analysis.

Either somebody is mis-remembering, outright lying, or they didn't consider the software change a true configuration change.
Sadly, the misuse of the terms "alpha" and "beta" testing has become so common in our industry that they mean little anymore.

I'll go to my grave using the old-school meanings: "alpha" means that "the devs think it's done", and "beta" means "QA testers think its done".
Are there any interesting practical consequences from this in common apps?
Have they fixed this as far as manufacturing goes now?

Or is there something inherent to the design that makes them prone to this issue that can't be fixed?
In OSI networking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloured_Book_protocols
Innovative Startups Created for and by Animal Lovers
I know this is subjective but: Is there a reason they needed to add those distinctive and overly-futuristic headlights that screams electric car?

One of the reasons I like Tesla vehicles is that while they look decent they don’t try to overly differentiate themselves. They look like standard mid-market cars.

I would think that if Rivian is targeting the truck/full-size SUV crowd then they would lean on a more traditional look?
Now if only the nearest Apple Store wasn't 4 hours away... I used to have hope that they would open more Apple Stores, but Apple Japan has now even closed all the stores outside of the 5 largest cities in the country.

edit: apple keynotes piss me off because they seem to only care about making sexy flagship stores in cities that already have stores just brag about how awesome they are. All I need is a normal store in a mall where I can buy stuff and have it fixed in a reasonable time with reasonably competent staff. Just makes it seem they're pivoting into a luxury brand instead of a technology brand /rant from a Mac user for 29 years
I appreciate the concept but there is a strong RCT on this that shows that this doesn't actually affect School Attendance.

Menstruation, Sanitary Products, and School Attendance: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation (AEJ: Applied 2011)

https://4d30f248-a-383b438b-s-sites.googlegroups.com/a/illin...
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My impression is that sad music tends to have more substance than happy music. Happy pop music is especially guilty of this where: "it's the summer, everyone is having a good time etc..."

I'm really drawn to metal because it creates something beautiful out of difficult emotions. I actually don't get the association to anger at all, it's like saying people who like watching action movies are psychopaths.

I would argue that more art is rooted in pain than in happiness.
Few, if any, European countries were democracies when they industrialised. Japan wasn't. Korea wasn't. Singapore isn't really a democracy.

It more about sensible governance and perhaps culture than democracy.
Sounds like an extraordinarily poor AI system if it depends on absolute numbers, and not per capita. And wouldn't the number of unsuccessful hires also skew male?
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>No Tesla, no Rivian, no Ford investment in Rivian, no iPace, no eTron, etc. AT least IMO.

The Chevy EV1 proved electric vehicles "desirable" before Tesla existed.
About time but, will the repaired keyboard just start breaking in a year? Or is it a more robust design?

I have had 3 broken keys so far. Apple replaced one key, right in shop. I replaced one out of my own pocket. And the other just broke last week.

I hate this keyboard so much - I miss my 2012 Macbook Pro.
It does make you wonder how much AI will be .. AI and how much guidance for desired outcomes humans will give it.

Humans are pretty happy to create nonsensical results if it fits their goals... especially if it befits them. I wonder if with AI we do that to the point that it is somewhat irrelevant.
Typical. Magic Leap was valuated at 6.3B[0] less than a year ago

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/11/att-takes-strategic-stake-...
Totally agree. Punishing people has some value as a warning to others, but it's secondary here. The primary point IMO is that the people who made or signed off on these decisions have proven themselves unsuited to those roles. The most important thing is to get them out of those roles, so that people who have the right priorities or temperament can be moved in.
Which is why if you commit to doing a take home project, you should at least ask how much time they expect the project to take. For a lot of software development projects there is always something to work on and improve if time allows. Parkinsons Law and all. I might be a good idea to exceed their estimate a little to get a more finished product, but that number at least anchors the project timeline. If they legitimately answer with 50 hours, then feel free to laugh in their face. However a 2 or 3 hour project to be completed at some point over 2 weeks seems completely reasonable.
We're talking about profiling people on physical characteristics outside of their control. Kleptomania is a behaviour, not a physical characteristic.

Asking if it is right to judge people based on their mental health is an entirely different topic than asking if we can judge people based on a physical characteristic they were born with and have no control over. Apples and oranges.
Counterpoint, I botched a coding session at a FANG interview. They wanted me so they gave me a take home coding problem. I spent 40+ hours over three days banging it out.

Got the job. 57% increase in compensation. 550k/year combined.

Totally worth it.

Only negative is it's months later and my right shoulder still hurts a bit. Getting old sucks.
Is there design/architecture doc for Cadence. Wanted to learn the design goals, non-goals, alternatives considered, trade-offs made for building a system like Cadence.
While the usage of pronouns in this particular article has no impact on gender equality, the sum of the hundreds of other that do the same absolutely have one.
It feed the expectation that hacker are all men, which push away women, which makes it more true.
And since most people are not aware of this it does make sense to inform them.
They already do support both of those.
If only SWF was extended to run deciders on AWS Lamda. Without this the main advantage of the Step Functions is hosting. I personally would rather see an integrated system where the Step Functions are a natural extension of SWF not a completely separate system.

This is the direction the Cadence is going. We are planning to add support for integrating custom DSLs easily, but maintaining the core code based libraries.

BTW: If anyone is interested on running the Step Functions DSL on top of Cadence contact the Cadence team. We could work together to get it implemented.
Interesting. As someone who was raised in and still lives in America, I agree that our media and government propaganda has been strong, but I have a different takeaway.

For all the talk of democracy in our country, it has been just that - talk. More propaganda to make the people believe they have a voice, when in reality property owners are the ones in control.

This leads me and others clamoring for genuine democracy, not oligarchy where we are told to be thankful for our fake democracy. And we already feel the pain from oligarchs, so it's clear a more centralized authority would only be worse.
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Yes.

>...the new version of Checkout is a smart payment page hosted by Stripe that creates payments or subscriptions. It supports Apple Pay...

Learn more at:

https://stripe.com/docs/apple-pay

https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/migration#client-s...

https://stripe.com/docs/payments/checkout/migration#api-subs...
Yes I used sequence loosely. The SNP array chips they use (last time I checked) have sufficient resolution to assign chromosomal segments to ancestral populations using the standard hidden markov model techniques.
As volumes decrease in size, the ratio of surface to volume increases, make weight a bigger issue with smaller envelopes (given that surface thickness would not be able to decrease proportionally).
Nor do they seem to even have a real product at this point. Not that they wont in 2 years, but still.
> pointing this out should be equally acceptable as pointing out issues with PHP

Not the best example, considering that PHP has done its time as whipping boy. I've never been a PHP dev and I did my share of trash-talk against PHP instead of learning about the aspects that I could learn from.

My problem isn't that it's "unacceptable" to point out issues - it's that people aren't doing so CONSTRUCTIVELY. Instead, it's about finding the lesser social class to dump on freely.

For example - I have serious concerns/doubts about typescript and how it props up a tool-enhanced crutch for programming-as-communication that ultimately leads to lower-quality code. You would likely disagree and would raise your concerns about JS without TS. We can have a lovely conversation comparing points and, while it's probable neither of us is convinced by the other, we both walk away with a better understanding of the perspectives of others and impacts of code choices.

OR we could imply that JS isn't a "proper" programming language, and thereby JS devs aren't "proper" programmers and we can pat them on the head and tell them to run along and play.

Back when I was doing a lot of Perl dev (before my Java days) I noticed that the weaker Perl devs would hate-on Python (and the reverse), while the stronger Perl/Python devs would hang out with the stronger Python/Perl and compare notes. It took me a while to figure out why that made sense. The two communities had a lot of explicitly different philosophies, yet were really able to learn from one another and occasionally both languages improved as a result.

If JS isn't someone's preferred approach, that's fine...but that doesn't mean they are "lesser". They're _different_, just like different problem domains are _different_. That doesn't make them immune from criticism either, but I'm far more interested in those looking to broaden their views rather than broaden the reach of their current viewpoint.
Yes.

Because in casinos The counter always has to do business with you. (ie-they give chips, specifically to make everyone cash out.) You can review all the video of the winners. You can review the video of people around the winners. Etc etc etc.

This makes card counters much easier to identify.

A shoplifting ring operating in, say, a crowded walmart during the Christmas season may do business with you, or not? Just depends on their strategy. Maybe they just wait for the right number of black people to go into your store, and then clean you out and leave while security attention is elsewhere. Which one of the, statistically, 50% of 5 to 10 thousand people leaving the Walmart without purchasing that day was the shoplifter? That's a lot of film to go through.

So in the case of casino security, the counters always have to present and identify themselves to you, making any review of a winner trivial. Whereas with retail security, that's not the case. This is a subtle but important distinction that, in the case of a large retail establishment, can significantly increase the difficulty of identifying shoplifters via film study. This is why in retail security, so much effort goes into identifying the shoplifter before they leave the store. Because if you can't make the attribution at that time, it's doubtful you ever will. In casino security, it's actually possible to identify the counters even after they leave the premises, and prevent their next visit.
Who will fund my startup to manufacture clothes with bigger pockets.
Its incomparable though. The Pegasus has far more compute power.

Just because the Pegasus has 500W worst-case TDP doesn't mean that its average case would be 500W constant. If you scale back your code and idle parts of the GPU, you can drop the energy cost arbitrarily.

At least, that's how GPUs on desktops work. They only use a ton of power if you give them a ton of work. Write your code in an energy-efficient manner, and the 2080 Ti will drop down to 20W, or scale all the way up to 300W.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-rtx-2080...

Modern chips idle very well. With the right code, the Pegasus could be tuned to only use 100W (assuming good enough programmers). But Tesla's chip will NEVER be able to scale above 100W.
> They've been successful at shutting out gay and female sexuality from film.

I don't agree with Hollywood's choices, but for the purpose of this discussion, those groups have been shut out from a market, not a medium. The right to free speech acknowledged by the constitution protects your voice, not your audience.

Now, perhaps in light of the impact of corporations on public discourse there should be some kind of new protection put into place to stop society from being harmed by that impact, but that's something new and different from what "free speech" has been so far and it would be less confusing and more effectively communicated if that distinction were made clear.
hmm, you could frankenstein together a bunch of trees to make it look like a partial checkout, but you couldn't make a new commit without all the parent tree objects up to the root. This sounds just like a subtree to be honest.

Are you frequently checking out a subdir of a repo and committing changes to it? Is it config?
The Apple Pay button is a browser feature and unless you mimic it using CSS, it will only show up if you're in a supported region with a supported device that has apple pay enabled and cards added.
They stated they had proven this controversial technique worked, then it came out it was never tested. That seems pretty clear cut to me.
How does this work behind the scenes?
This has been my complaint of every EV up until the Tesla Model S. EV seems to equate to no aesthetic design to manufacturers. All you have to do is look at the Chevy Bolt. It’s sad we even call that thing a car IMHO.
You might not think it's a valid argument but the thing that you're missing is that others do not want to write cross platform C++. They want to write nicer Java and that's C#.
This works in conversation, too. There's something powerful about the experience of diving down to meet someone in the low place they're sitting in, while keeping a bit of yourself apart as a lifeline - you can sync up with them by observing and validating the way the world looks to them from that hurt or scared place, then, step by step, help bring them closer to the surface by suggesting a little bit of a broader view at each turn in the conversation.

But yes: you really do have to have some time to kill, and it can be tricky to set up an environment in which a sustained, unpressured conversation can occur.

(What you are describing with your playlists sounds like the soul of DJing. Perhaps you might try playing with a controller sometime, if you haven't done so already.)
Well-known to liberals, at least.

But liberals can have confirmation bias, too. So maybe the more correct statement is "Evidence that liberals focus on has a well-known liberal bias". Surprisingly (not), the conservatives don't see it that way, because they have their own confirmation bias, and their evidence clearly supports their view.

Krugman titles his column "The Conscience of a Liberal". Remember that. He's writing as a liberal, not really as an economist.