skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually there are no guidelines about voting whatsoever.

However arguably it's a bit rude to ding people simply for being (mildly) misinformed.

And the guidelines do ask us not to be rude.
FYI: a lot of people used Blackberries much longer than you would expect because they got Tier 2 (expert, near-shore) support by default.

I never got a scripted answer to my questions.

And I also recommend and use the Apple stores for support.

So the OP is asking a really pertinent question.
I'm not a stoic but after losing my faith in religion, I needed something to replace it, and also found stoicism helped w/ depression, but I namely only focused on a few main things.

1. There are 3 types of worries: What we have power over, what we share power over to change, and what we have zero power over. Stress goes down if we use 0 mental energy on group 3, 25% on group 2, and the rest on group 1.

2. Spend a few minutes a day to ponder the fact that one day I'll die. Am I doing everything I can to maximize my time here?

3. Don't push emotions away, but try to understand the triggers behind them. I'm rational anyways so this makes sense to me.

I think people of different beliefs and political backgrounds of course can go different ways w/ some of the teachings for sure... my therapist looked over my notes on stoicism and basically said it's CBT just under a new umbrella.

I'm a progressive, I support equality of wages (to a point) -- everyone should make enough to support a family, and have basic needs met if they put in 40 hours per week. Whether they work at Facebook or McDonald's.

I also have ADD so stoicism is just one part of the many things I focus on so I still have many things in my life 'not' in control, but I have a lot less stress because I worry less about things out of my control. I also have more joy because I realize I'm going to die, and it makes me want to enjoy my kids more cause I don't know when that day will come.

Honestly, I've felt more inspiration, love, hope, and in awe of the universe since I left the Mormon church, than I ever felt in it's grasp. I thank therapy, stoicism, crossfit, and ADD medication for that. Though I need to go back to crossfit --it's been a few months.
>There's a difference between "We won't give you this information because you didn't get the battery from us" vs. "We can't give you this information because we can't verify that this is a brand new battery"

This requires a leap of trust that I am not willing to make. I do not believe Apple is being truthful here.

>And please... tell me which features have been disabled for old devices.

There was this huge scandal regarding Apple slowing down phones with older batteries without notifying the customers: https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-slows-down-older-iphone-batt...

They made it right by offering cheaper battery replacements for a year and battery monitoring software in iOS. The battery monitoring software still claims my 4 year old iphone 6 is running at peak performance, and that is not true. The same battery monitoring software that would stop working if I install third-party battery. Which is also why I believe the company is not being truthful; their software clearly is lying to me right now.

>If anything, Apple is known in the industry for supporting their devices far longer than any other phone/device manufacturer.

We would need to have a semantic discussion on what 'support' is; for example, why are some older devices running iOS9+ not support ad-blocking? If there is a genuine software-design reason, that it is bad software, since I can do it on desktop computers that are two decades old, and on a raspberry pi that has a fraction of the CPU power. There are plenty of examples, but my definition of support would extend far beyond the version number on the Settings > About going up. Yours might differ.

>I think you're either being disingenuous with these arguments or you just really haven't done any kind of work to validate what you're saying.

Why would you think that I am being disingenuous at all? Do you think I have some sort of agenda? what would the agenda be?

My original comment targeted all hardware tech companies. Most want to make repair impossible or extremely difficult. Apple has been leading the charge, all the way back with Macs using the then obscure torx screws, but they are the norm now. As far as I know, Lenovo is the only company that has repairability as a design factor, even then only for their business lines.

As for not doing the work, well as you can see I have. I am disappointed, however, that you would not extend me the courtesy of assuming I am not a complete idiot. I did so for you.
Just curious: which sport/industry are you working in?
Everyone reading this that ever has a problem like this with Google support should write it up and submit it to HN. Then we as a community should come together and upvote the hell out of it. The more these things get publicized in the industry the harder it will become for Google to do this without repurcussions.
https://imgur.com/l99s11R

For those times when you want your child to learn about alcoholic beverages.

From a computer.

On the internet.
The feeling of wanting to tie someone up and lecture them on Huey Lewis and the News before murdering them, I suppose.
I'm not sure how could you write anything if you don't think about the problem before? I didn't like my last whiteboard interview because I just stare at the screen for a long time before writing anything, and sometimes even the best design decisions happen outside when I'm walking or under the shower.
The problem sounds like they wanted you to implement a state machine, and to draw a state diagram before that.
How do you brainstorm on web pages with your team via chrome extension?
Anna Karenina Principle
I love Matt Levine, but I think he missed the point there, as I don't see anything wrong with what Google is doing, when taking into consideration everything Levandowski did.
China has leveraged "smart city" technologies to build open air Panopticons.
> Not so much a debunking

Yup, 'debunk' is probably not the best word here. English is not my native tongue, I apologize. What I meant is that a different opinion was presented by Google. But you're right - it's still one word vs another, it's impossible to determine who is telling the truth.
So... An apple product?
I think your practices are fine - coding even a limited prototype reveals a lot of unanswered questions in a mental model. Once you have the model, you can apply it in a theoretical sense, but in my experience it takes longer to build one by not coding than it does by doing some coding, then some thinking. The only limitation on prototyping is that it's difficult to communicate what is being accomplished in the middle of the process, because you'll make something that looks negligent or incomplete - it isn't trying to answer all the concerns yet(that's what you do in production code).
Anything their algorithm does that reduces the rank for a webpage can be seen as a penalty.

But it's not a penalty in the legal meaning of the word.
Easy. Google’s CEO runs an advertising company.

You assumption is that the app has two functions functions: sending and receiving email.

It actually only has one function, put eyes in front of ads.
Vast majority of the outrage is from people who would never consider getting an Apple credit card to begin with. They just look for any reason to turn their nose up at Apple. In this case, it a CYA support document.
> artificial intelligence becomes more power, I think we all agree that some parts of the "code" will be automatically written + maintained + deployed.

Who needs AI? Large parts already are automatically written, from simplified higher levels specs. In fact, that's been true since we developed the first compiler, and all progress in tooling has made it more true. All that progress does is increase the impact each programmer has, and the value of each hour of programmer labor compared to other labor in the economy. Software Development may involve more work that looks like analysis and architecture and less that looks like what we think of as coding as time goes on, just like programmers now work at a much higher level of abstraction than when the job involved manually flipping switches to set the code in a machine. But I don't think any great collapse is imminent.
This is a cool color. I bet just about everybody working on self-driving cars though is terrified of this, as it's almost invisible to lidar. It will also be very difficult to see with cameras at night (not to mention the human eye).
I decided not to include links to the overt nazi/racist content.
Looks pretty slick but I wonder about the visibility from other drivers points of view in certain conditions.
I'm sure the Tesla in space has Black-Hole-Avoidance™️ technology at least.
To the extent that Facebook has any utility at all, it works fine on a mobile web browser and when you close the tab it's gone. Why does anyone install the app?
I'm pretty sure regular black paint has aluminum to reflect a lot of energy back out.
>That's a sin I now atone for by discouraging younger developers from making the same mistake, using the harshest language I think dang will permit.

I'm not against your crusade. I would suggest that instead you pick up some books on how to influence people (not talking just about Dale Carnegie here), as well as how to present an argument. Harsh language, shaming, having an absolutist/binary stance, making broad claims without proper support, and not demonstrating understanding with those who are discussing the topic with you will not get you far.

> Advertising is propaganda inherently contrary to the interests of anybody subjected to it.

All it takes is for me to think of one counterexample to decide you're not worth listening to.

> It's rife with psychological manipulation.

Did you not spend time to think of other things that you might accept as OK that is also rife with psychological manipulation?

> The relationship between advertisers and consumers is inherently adversarial

Once again: All I need to do is think of one counterexample where both parties gained value (monetarily and psychologically) to conclude "This guy doesn't know what advertising is".
Plans are worthless, but planning is essential.
SmartPrivacy.io uses Google ads?
My theory is that Google is now being run by robots. They maintain a few token humans to propagate the facade.

Before you disagree, ask yourself, would you know if they were(n't)?
I'm lucky enough to have a memory/mind's eye where I can see the problem in my head almost always. I also tend to take time to flush that out in my head before I start coding, attempting to work through issues.

I'd like to think without having that, I'd take the time to put it in a day book.

In interviews, I've typically tried to draw/write out the problem (especially in terms of requirements) to help work through what I'm thinking.
I use the Firewall app on iPhone.

All phone numbers in my Contacts app go into a whitelist that is maintained only locally on my phone.

When a call comes in, a notification gets fired off to the Firewall app, and it checks the number against the whitelist. If the number is on the whitelist, then it actually uses a functional replica of the iPhone Phone app UI to "ring" the call through.

If the incoming call is from a number not on my whitelist, then it checks the blacklist of known bad actors. If the caller is on the blacklist, then the call just gets blocked. I get a notification from Firewall that a call from a known bad actor was blocked.

If the incoming call is not on the whitelist or the blacklist, then it goes to voicemail, where it gets transcribed, and I get a notice that Firewall sent a call to voicemail.

I'm hoping that this is basically the same workflow we will see with iOS 13, just built into the basic iPhone Phone app. Then I should be able to stop using Firewall.

But I certainly don't need Nomorobo or any other such tool. Firewall solves all those problems, and does so better than any of the alternatives.
Paypal says hi :)
Would this be applicable for better stealth tech?
I manage a team that directly uses ML to create software services that our customers pay money to use. This is relatively rare. Most ML applications are internal - your customer is your own company. In this case, you should think of yourself as an in-house ML consultancy for your company. You need to reliably create value for the company, and be able to measure it.

In my opinion, there are three business "tiers" of ML.

1. Process automation. You're turning a defined business process currently done by a human into something automated, with some custom rule logic, of which some of it may be via ML-trained models. The easiest, because the criteria are well-defined and everyone knows what success looks like.

2. Data Mining/Analysis/Insight. Your company sits on some unexploited set of data, and you want to generate useful business insight from it. ML models can help make sense of it. This takes the traditional business intelligence function to the next level. Harder, because you may need to educate the company on what ML offers. They may not even realize what types of new questions ML can answer.

3. Customer-facing automated-decision services. This is the most demanding application from a business perspective, but not necessarily from a technical perspective. The standards for quality, stability, accuracy, should be much, much higher. If it's customer-facing, it can't mess up, or people will stop trusting it. The customer may be internal or external.
I have no idea whether this is relevant.

I noticed that the site has reviews of anti-tracking products like Ghostery and Privacy Badger. (The reviews are a bit thin in my opinion.) Google may view those as existential threats and work to remove that material from the web.
It can’t be driven on the road. The paint isn’t durable enough. This is just a cool stunt.
>Lots of projects use Debian and docker, etc...is it even ethical to donate to an npm package before donating to the dozens of free tech layers node sits on top of?

Are you asking whether it is ethical to do something that the authors have explicitly said is OK?
It's a complicated subject. I think you're too quick to dismiss income redistribution based on the happiness levels of the envious: this is a fundamental part of human nature. Just as we exploit human greed in our capitalistic society, so too we must mollify human envy so there aren't riots in the street. Uncontrolled wealth inequality leads to a breakdown in the egalitarian ideal (or fiction, if you are more cynical) we have of our Western society. Insofar as wealth represents power and influence, this was a topic of concern even to the Founding Fathers.

Status seeking is something you see in all animals, not just humans, and we shouldn't deny the effects of it on happiness. Trying to make social policy without considering it is ignoring a valuable piece of information.

I make no comment on the effectiveness of the US' current social safety net and income redistribution policies. Just that there is a principled argument for having them.
Looks like a repost of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820000
The lenovo has a decent trackpad. At least mine does, and works great for me with the windows driver. I am guessing no one has written any decent drivers for them on Linux.
I deal with OpenGL a lot so glxgears has been my standby. If it's just X I'm testing I've always used xclock.
Could be! The problem is we'll never know because Google's awful support makes it impossible to know what you did wrong, only that you did something and you're being punished and too bad if you want to know why.
> After doing a bit of research, I discovered that the number that is generated in the wallet app (the only way you can get your card number for the Apple Card) is, infact, a virtual card.

> And if you're planning on using the Apple Card for anything important, think again.

Using virtual cards is a perfectly legitimate activity. I'm a client of a top-tier bank in Europe and they always recommend to use a virtual card (they would ask if you'd like them to issue) for everything online. This doesn't seem like an Apple's fault (although it would be nice of Apple to clearly inform you the card is virtual). Google should be sued for this.
A space grey version would be pretty slick.
It will radiate it away as IR light.
They released a new version on the 27th of August[1]. It looks like it that was the first release since August 2018[2].

[1]: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/68.0/releaseno...

[2]: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/60.0/releaseno...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You fell for the classic google trap:

They only pick up the phone if you are a paying customer. If your payment isn't working you can go fuck yourself.

I know, a common mistake.

Seriously though, this is also the case with using their phone service, or any other account. If your payment ever bounces, you lose EVERYTHING.
but they could have just as easily put the logo and the user's name on the right and the chip on the left
It's only required if you need the ability to change the schema of a SQLite table at runtime. I'd wager that's not a very common use-case for SQLite.
I don't think it has yet been done.
But as you probably noticed he tested with webrender too
What causes mass shootings?

If it's motivated purely by the desire to shoot people with cool badass assault rifles, then banning things that look like assault rifles would solve it. If it's just the desire to shoot people, then you would have to ban all firearms.

However, if it's caused by the desire to kill, with no regard for the mechanism, then banning guns would have no or little effect: they would move to the next-easiest node in the attack tree.[1] If you ban all trucks, then attackers would try to burn down high rises, or poison water mains, or release sarin gas in subway stations, etc etc.

The observation that these other attacks are exotic and weird is only weak evidence for to the question if mass shootings are for the shooting, or the killing.

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1: https://www.schneier.com/academic/archives/1999/12/attack_tr...
It is if your table is just a datastore with no foreign key links or indexes.

See another reply in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20841814
You can only solve a problem with TDD well if you know EXACTLY what do you want to implement before even starting with exact input-output.
It would only keep them from banning you for the use of a virtual card...unless you used a virtual card of some other kind.
I use rogaine daily, you apply it on your scalp and it’s a foam. You need to wash your hand well because you can get hairier on your hand. As for the rest of the body I am extremely hairy already and I couldn’t possible notice a difference.
I am strongly inclined to switch over to using a 900 number as my official public number for everything. Anyone who really wants to call me can afford the small charge it would require.

Everyone else can just hang up.
I agree. Unfortunately you now have to go out of your way to vendor with modules enabled which is soon the default.
So, assuming your phone network is compatible with the US POTS (Plain old telephone service) system, here's what you need. Analog interfaces for phones run in two modes: FXO or FXS. An FSX adapter, is a device that you connect a phone device to. It generates dial tone. That's not what you need.

What you need is an FXO device (sometimes called a channel bank). That is a device that emulates a phone device, and which consumes dial tone. Many devices sold as FXO gateways are expensive. If you have a real server, you can get an FXO PCI card from Digium for some hundreds of dollars, but that's expensive too.

Some cheap FXS devices can also operate in FXO mode. The cheapest one appears to be the Grandtream HT813 for $89:
https://www.voipsupply.com/grandtream-ht813-gateway-ata
Oh neat, when they first switched to sync that wasn't the case (the previous system did allow it over WebDAV and such), but because sync wasn't just a data dump with WebDAV it wasn't possible at launch to run your own server. I'll have to look into that again.
Do you work for Google? How do you know that using an Apple card would result in you getting banned for the use of a virtual card?

E: Yes, I read the article.
>I'm betting the vast majority of women would be totally fine with your stoicism. (And would prefer it to a lot of the alternatives

When I used to work for someone, I refused advance of a coworker and she got me fired. Some people can't handle that I do not acknowledge their existence, I do not make them feel important, I do not give them attention.
I'm sure there are many different reasons but I expect a common one is because our worlds have become deeply intertwined with online stuff. And online stuff is, almost entirely, fake. Not fake as it not real (though there is plenty of that) but posturing, signaling, image crafting, and all of this other fakeness to try to achieve some frequently superficial end or another. And piled on top of this is a hoard of companies all seemingly happy to create a dystopia to get people to click on ads so they can make a few more bucks to...? When you take a step back and look at it 'from a distance' it's all just so unimaginably absurd, and fake.

When 'soul searching' for whatever 'real' actually is, it's quite easy to end up in the classics of philosophy and, in one way or another, stoicism.
An alternative is S2E (https://s2e.systems), it combines KLEE and QEMU to enable whole-system symbolic execution. It is most suitable when you have a program binary that heavily interacts with the system (system code, device drivers, etc.). S2E does not require writing any syscall models to run programs. This is important from a practical point of view: first, if your program can run in QEMU, it will run on S2E, and second, you will not run into issues of clobbering execution states that you have in KLEE when calling external functions that don't have a model. Of course, S2E is not magic and is still facing path explosion challenges, but you have flexible ways of managing it via a powerful plugin architecture. E.g., you can instrument the guest to use function models, control when to concretize data or prevent execution from forking, writing searcher heuristics, etc.
One reason to do this would be to discover what other apps the user has on their device which may not be detectable by other methods. That is valuable business intelligence that could be used in various ways for maintaining a competitive advantage. I got this idea from this reply:

https://twitter.com/nial_26/status/1167464788667928576
don't you close it by mistake sometimes? I'd close it to unclutter the screen
Tangentially related... in one of my last convos with an American Express business rep, they noted I set my cashback preference to advertising purchases. I was informed by them that Google Adwords has a history of 'blackflagging' accounts. He said they could generate up to 100 cards with unique numbers for free to my account and that it was fairly common for agencies to have big split-ring binders full of cards tied to each client.
From the report linked to in this commment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20833229

"There is moderate evidence that cannabis or cannabinoids are effective for:
• Improving short-term sleep outcomes in individuals with sleep disturbance associated with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, and multiple sclerosis"

That's not everybody, of course, but it's enough to say that weed can have positive effects on sleep quality.
The thing is a popular figure, especially if they do semi-large numbers with Google, probably wouldn't get banned before outreach and if they did would be able to get decent support.