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> I appreciate Masters of the Universe types like Bloch and Lea contributing wickedly-efficient code, but somehow it's always mere mortals who end up mopping things up after the fact

I think this is the wrong way to look at the problem. Progress is always iterative. If a given person happens to make a bigger iteration, then people call them 'masters of the universe', but that iteration isn't inherently different from the normal, smaller kind of iteration. And - consider: if every line of code has a chance of being buggy, then a bigger change is likelier to be more buggy. I say more buggy, rather than have more bugs, because bugginess is rarely disconnected; the whole conception is likely to be more flawed the newer it is. If we were to only accept small contributions then, somewhere along the way from here to the limit, we would arrive at timsort. And all the flaws of timsort wouldn't be gone, they would just be amortized into smaller chunks along the way from here to there. Which may be preferable, but that's something you have to consider; it's not so cut-and-dry as 'if we only make change conservatively, then we avoid catastrophic failure'.

All this not to mention that there are people who are 'masters of the universe' at fixing bugs.
Apple is perfectly allowed to ship a newer version, they'd just have to share some of their special sauce. Not entirely unreasonable in my opinion.

Apple doesn't want to ship a new version because they don't want people to see how they've modified bash. I don't know what patents or top secret features they've added to make their version of bash incompatible with GPL, as they're allowed to ship GPL code in a closed source product just fine as long as they ship it as a separate binary, but it's more important than their users' convenience apparently.

Also note that Microsoft ships entire Linux distros without having a problem with GPL licensing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi
I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve experienced
Musk admits was duped by the Howard-Higgins, supposed private investigator
I'd expect a tiny population at a precarious outpost to be far more measured and disciplined in terms of their growth and resource consumption than anything we see on Earth.

What I was referring to re: "Child's play" was the nature of a worst-case scenario conflict @ early stage Mars in comparison to late stage Earth. Nothing whatsoever related to how challenging it is to sustain life there in the long-term. I fully expect it to fail, I just don't expect it will be anything I'd describe as a "blood bath".

Back on Earth with the many millions of people established and living on dwindling resources and vanishing coasts, that's going to be a blood bath.
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Meditate on who you want to control our financial future or create the first real one world currency. I sure as hell choose Zuckerberg dead last. I would rather a Kim Jung oom ffs. I will support Open Libra and anything that goes against Facebook
>Can the candidate understand the mission of the company?

>Can the candidate make sound search queries?

>Can the candidate setup an environment?

>Can the candidate into version control?

>Can the candidate into debugging some piece of code?

Pretty much sums it up

EDIT : Also, punctuality is key, lateness is not acceptable. All Stakeholders must be present to start the meeting, we can't afford to wait.
It is possible for a compiler to catch that particular mistake at compile-time. It's also possible for the user to provide a proof to a given compiler that a comparison function is well-formed. But I think that the parent was referring to a function that would check arbitrary comparison functions in java for correctness, without a proof, which is afaik provable impossible.
That seems incredibly onerous, or a great way to ensure wifi isn’t offered.
None of those were real technical improvements over the 500/2500 set however, they were upgrades designed to please the customer aesthetically.

Meaning, all of those sets performed more or less (in some cases less, specifically in certain special service applications) identically to a 2500/500, and at least one of those was a 2500 in a mouse shaped box.

Touch-Tone was actually a value add for the telco because it reduced register holding times in crossbar switches, and could reduce the amount of common control hardware needed, yet they still charged more for it (and the service too)

(Also, I think you mean trimline not streamline)
Hasn't the rate of development grown too over the years? It's not going to be an even distribution.
This is all true, though much of the impact of cats is in how they affect urban design patterns and result in cities where it's impractical and dangerous to walk, cycle, etc. , and huge amounts of land are lost to asphalt.

I like EV's but they still encourage auto dependence and its associated ills.
Voter suppression is not nearly comparable in France and in the US. The system used in France would thus likely not work.

For instance imagine that the voting enrollment office is 30km from your work/home and that it is only open during work hours. It is likely that poor people/people without a car/etc would not enroll.
Carbon emissions are an entirely different issue from air pollution.
He really didn't understand Java's take on this.
Being zero-insensitive obviously is totally insecure. Java knew that. But Java decided to fight those kind of attacks better than most others. Java has a still trivial insecure hash function, which it decided to keep, because of an API blunder. But they convert the collisions from a linked list to a tree on too many collisions which indicate an active attack. Those attacks are rare, the common case is still fast.

Zero-insensitivity would have been fixable trivially, perl fixed that with 5.18, but they couldn't, so they came up with a proper and much better fix. Unlike perl and everyone else.
Your comment made me look into it. I think you mean the "Microsoft Text Driver", included in the now-deprecated Microsoft Jet Database Engine. I found some references to it going as back as 2003, so there's a good chance that it was already around at the time of my project.

I'll keep your comment in mind for the next time one of those threads titled "what would you tell your past self?" pops up.
Review of the book by Max Tegmark: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RVSAD5GWSLQ42/
No, being an intern is prior to your career beginning.

If you are a junior engineer in a fast growing org you will work your ass off, being forced to cut corners to ship quickly, then rather than promote you the org will simply hire people above you. And you will find that what you learned was not a solid foundation to move onwards.
> I expect applications to have access to my desktop. I do not need to be asked. It would be like asking permission to access my clipboard, or use my speakers, or read my keyboard.

I would like to know if an application:

- Is scanning the contents of my documents or desktop outside of files I specifically selected or it previously created

- Is monitoring data going on the clipboard

- Wants permission to make alert sounds or play other audio even if my sound is silenced/muted

- Wants to listen to my microphone

- Wants to monitor sound being output by other applications, such as VOIP

- Is monitoring for keystrokes even when it is not in the foreground.

> If you bombard users with dialogues for every little thing, all you will do is train them to habitually click yes. Now you have lowered security, because users will ignore the more serious warnings too. And you've wasted everyone's time in the process.

If the new permissions were about security, they would all be denied and applications would have to figure out how to cope. They are about user privacy.
I am getting spam downvoting on like a lot of antiCCP comments. Shouldnt HN deploy that feature that some platforms have where you cant mass-downvote one users comments?
Yeah, but even HN? This place is dear to me and now theyre destroying it. Its like they found my secret treehouse...
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They do it in colleges? Could you tell me more about this? I am just hearing about it now.
Japan wasn't run by a dictator, didn't have tens of thousands of people from a particular religious group placed into concentration camps, or owned so much stock in particular US companies that they can get those very same US companies to bend over to their demands.

It's not the same, and you know that.
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You don't ban it, cuz it shows that you habe been hurt by it.
https://applehelpwriter.com/2016/07/28/revealing-dropboxs-di...

Dropbox imitated a system dialog box in order to get your password to give itself system level permissions without asking you.
I have been working with IP based networks for close to two decades. I have yet to have a client who really wants and needs IPv6. The main reason being that the majority of nodes do not need to access any arbitrary node over the internet. Thus for the most part nodes happily exist behind RFC1918 private networks. Their edge NAT and the carrier's NAT provide accessibility in spite of the address space limitations of IPv4.

Of course, there are use cases for IPv6 and where it is the best solution it is being used. But where IPv4 gets the job done it is very hard to justify replacing equipment just for the sake of being IPv6 compliant.

The use of NAT64 is helping many organisations to delay migrating to IPv6. From a purists point of view it is probably not an ideal solution. But it seems to keep the pragmatists happy.
Well, yes. It's a blog post on a blog focused on, among other things, game design and economics, with a focus on MtG and Artifact. Readers are presumed to be at least passingly familiar with the subject - HN is not the target audience.

I would celebrate to see more of this sort of content on HN - while it may require some research, I find that these sorts of articles by people passionate about a topic are often more accurate, insightful, and interesting than a traditional journalistic overview.
I thought it might be since it's so obvious but discussing a similar topic with coworkers a few days back had a similar situation where someone just frames the argument in a time window that explains their narrative - I wouldn't be surprised if someone argued this because of the US economic dominance post WW2
fwiw, I work for one of these services.

For a large consumer app (and actually, that's less and less reserved to the larger apps only), you can expect that every time you see a widget, or tap anywhere in the app, it is going to trigger some kind of analytics log.

The goal is not to determine your profile in order to sell you ads but to understand how people use our product (in aggregate).

Let's say you have a checkout feature. you need to add an address, payment method and tap checkout.

If a significant % of your users bail out of the checkout flow in the address step, there might be something you want to investigate.

We also do user studies, they are super useful but are harder to generalize.
I don't see any compelling reason to upgrade to catalina. at least macOS upgrades are a painless process, but the risk of breaking existeng applications is becoming increasingly likely over the years
And even if "me learning something" means different neural rewirings than "you learning something" and isn't transferable, you could instead have 100 instances of yourself go and learn 100 different things, then combine all the rewirings at the end. There might be "merge conflicts", but I suspect it would still mostly work—and you could parallelize the work of finding ways to fix the conflicts! Even if none of that worked, at the very least you could have your branch-instances discover by experiment the fastest way for you personally to learn each thing, then have your main instance follow an optimal educational program, which I will arbitrarily proclaim to be 4x faster than normal learning.
Speed greatly depends on your location, I highly doubt the majority of commutes in Berlin (where I'm at) will be significantly (if at all) faster by car than by e-bike - seeing as the ubahn tops at 45 mph & is quite often quicker to get around town than driving.

I suspect the same is similar to any major (and therefor congested) urban area.

The real killer is the American-style sparse suburban living that requires long commutes on highways...
Why are you confident about Chinese? Do you have any evidence directly from mainland Chinese to support your arguments, or only speculations?
Actually no, the lower the price of silver the more people are eligible to donate since the criteria to fall in that group is lower.

Despite the lower price of the silver, the "tax" is a static fiat-based % so basically more people are donating the same %. All the people that were donating 1.5% if holding a balance over $380 would still be donating it (and the same $amount) if the threshold were $360 (silver price drops), more people would be donating since now everyone between $360 and $380 would also be donating a 1.5% in addition.

If the donation was in silver then it might even itself out, but you'd have to look at a distribution curve of income to know for sure.
I see this position fairly frequently. While I respect the place it comes from, I've never quite understood the unequivocal nature of it. Is it all take home tests you refuse?

Does your position change at all depending on the length of the take home, or how much effort has been put into designing the test? Or the trust you have in the company?

Personally, I'd rather do a short and focused take-home if it means I can save time on a longer in-person interview setting. It can be a really efficient way of demonstrating a set of skills, which leaves in-person interviews free to discuss higher impact topics like architecture, decision making and soft skills.
Anyone remember this Apple ad from 12+ years ago? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuqZ8AqmLPY

That didn't age well...
Machine learning is a wide field. Could you give some examples of research you've done based on papers that came out of Alibaba, Tencent, etc.? I'm curious.
How is this politics. This is a stand against a tyrant, this has nothing to do with political opinions. As a human being you have an obligation to stand against tyrants, nothing political about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/us/chinese-students-weste...

From what I hear, this problem is even worse in Australia.
It's traffic analysis. They know when something 'subversive' gets posted, they can filter out who was connecting to the site at that time, get a list of suspects. Obviously 99% of the traffic is coming from mobiles which have great metadata tagging already, also geolocation. Cafe wifi you can use from across the road, in a busy place etc, much harder.
I think it is important to acknowledge that there is a continually rolling narrative about an impending catastrophe in 15 years from now.

In 1988, New York was going to be underwater by 2000. Etc. It is crazy to look back at the endless series of predictions - all of them very alarming and all of them, it turns out, completely wrong.

It is also worth remembering that in the 1970s the huge, science-based headline was that we were sliding into an ice age. The 1930s and 1940s had been particularly hot, and by the 1970s the decline in average temps had everyone worried. Newspapers ate it up. Like they are now. The predictions were alarming.
....writing arrogant comments on HN
That seems pretty false to me.

- Global phone networks

- The internet and everything that stems comes from instant global communication

- The personal computer

- The personal computer that fits in your pocket

- Global financial networks

- Global supply chains

- Widespread international travel that takes less than a day

- International space station

- GPS and similar

- Automated language translation

- Automated computer vision

- Automated speech recognition and transcription

- Genetic code read and write

- Antivirals

- Artificial organs

- MRI

- Minimally invasive surgery

- 5x reduction in global child mortality rate

- 25% higher global life expectancy

You can handwave that away by calling it 'better networks' or 'democratized for the masses', but that's a pretty biased PoV considering you could summarize most of the '19-'69 achievements by calling it 'better engineering'.
What? Untrue. Cheap and fast genome sequencing, a mitigation for AIDS and ART in general (fuck, even just describing AIDS), LASIK, CRISPR (and gene therapy in general), GPS, the Lithium Ion battery, MIRVs, TCP/IP + WWW + Internet, the smartphone, discovery of exoplanets and gravitational waves.

Fuck, living clones, the Hubble, the fucking ISS, Wikipedia, and automated home vacuums.

Holy shit, these years have been wild.
meme-driven development. literally.
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It's also ignores the fact that simply driving a car contributes to congestion, and the various network effects of that. More traffic means more pollution, more cars means less people are willing to walk or ride bikes due to safety, etc.
US Government Blacklists 28 Chinese Facial Recognition and AI Companies
I wish that worked by my anecdata says otherwise. Walgreen got rid of lots of branded items and replaced them with their cheaper "Nice!" brand products. 7/11 here in Japan has been working on getting rid of brands. They no longer carry branded tea. They are working on getting rid of branded coffees.

Both companiese "seem" to be doing fine AFAICT. Most people I've asked seem not to care. I'd love it if they did care since the store branded products are not as good IMO.
I feel like EPUB is a standard who's features are underutilized.
Is there a nice high-level overview of EPUBs capabilities?

I found a German text from 2018 that covers EPUB 3.0-3.2 (which was obviously still a draft back then): https://www.dpc-consulting.org/epub-3-3-0-1-3-1-3-2-das-vers...

It links to a long blog post that covers recent EPUB development by Dave Cramer, co-chair of the W3C Community Group: http://epubsecrets.com/why-specs-change-epub-3-2-and-the-evo...

EPUBCheck is an open source tool that can check your EPUB files against the EPUB 3.2 spec. https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck
Unicef now accepting donations through Bitcoin and ether
When visiting India ~15 years ago, even mid-sized (for India, so ~1m people) cities were so polluted that the air was yellow. This was despite the fact that far fewer Indians own a car per capita than in the west- but the car they did own (and/or fuel they used) were horribly polluting.
I think by this point there's no question that ICE is at best a questionable agency, at worst - one step removed from hitler's SS and concentration camps.

Maybe if the issues at the border weren't so deplorable there might still be a grey area of 'are they really so bad', but since Trump's come into office they've blatantly become more and more powerful and have enacted human rights violations which most other countries would have UN workers fighting but since we're the USA, they cowtow around us.
Yeah, we're GDPR bound and henceforth compliant, and nope, a one-way hash isn't sufficient. We just drop the last octet and accept it. I mean, we can still say 'this impression was from a user in Strasbourg', but we enrich the record with that enroute through our pipeline, about the same time as we drop the last octet of the IP.
Jesus Christ... I dont even know what the solution to this is... Its frightening. I come from an ex-communist country and now live in the US. Cant we ever get away from the mess??
When phases of the moon? Probabilistic astrology is the new astrology.
Did you ever buy anything on their platform?

If so, is it possible they have access to your name via your past money transactions?
It is likely not going to be AI vs humans. It is going to be augmented humans vs less augmented humans (as it always has been).

The peoples that worked bronze prevailed over the peoples that just used stones and sticks. Advances in AI are no different than that.

If you can automate production and defense systems, the natural consequence is that a few people will conspire against the rest and dominate them.
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The "self-driving vehicles failing and killing people" argument is pretty lame in the context of other, more important things, but the "self-driving vehicles becoming practical" scenario is pretty much equivalent to "instant 10-20% increase in unemployment", and that's going to be bad for everybody.
Look at this. I literally posted this comment 10 seconds ago and I got instantly downvoted. What the hell is going on
I'd argue that this is completely and absolutely political. Just deciding that this guy is a tyrant is political.
HN is actually quite popular website - SimilarWeb's estimate is 12.6 million visits a month:

https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com#over...
SoftBank’s CEO Masayoshi Son Is ‘Embarrassed’ About WeWork and Uber Investments
"near consensus" .. yeah I've come to realise that this is not as straightforward as it is often presented.

For a start, a scientist would not find the term "consensus" at all compelling. Things are either proven or disproven when it comes to science. "Percentage of Consensus" is more about social engineering, and it is more something a journalist might seize upon.

But if you DO want to use the figure ... it has been pointed out that the 97% figure generally quoted came from a survey. Another survey at precisely the same time showed 51%. Which survey should be used? As I understand it, the 51% one apparently had a bigger sample size. One certainly sounds a lot less certain than the other.

And finally, as was my point from the last post, even if you accept the 97% figure, don't you have to worry if there is the chance it is achieved through fear of reprisals for disagreement? Let them speak. Let's hear their crazy ideas. Crush their ideas, not their dissent.

My favourite left-wing commentator used to always say "the solution to bad-speak is more-speak". He was saying that silencing is bad.

Anyway, that's enough of this debate for me. Frankyl, it is all very unclear to me. I envy those who are completely certain.
You're confusing the media narrative with the scientific consensus. The predictions that the IPCC made haven't changed all that much since the nineties. The ice age things was never a majority opinion, more papers predicted warming than cooling.
This just isn't going to happen.
The author touches on the cargo cult belief that data has inherent value, so collect all of it, hire a data scientist or ML expert and point them at it, and watch the value flow!

Seems to come from the same place as the belief that the Cloud magically makes everything resilient and scalable without any extra effort on your part. Just put it in the cloud, and then give your CTO a bonus for suggesting the cloud, and suddenly you don't need to worry about sysops.

Don't get me wrong, "log all the things" is a good place to start when you need to figure out what's actually worth logging - but it needs to be followed by a rigorous prune.

Otherwise your data-lake turns into a data-swamp, you collate a lot of noise that makes it harder to find signals, and people eventually end up spending a lot of time trying to figure out what's actually used, if any, when Hadoop gets full or the S3 bill gets too high.
Jaywalking is also illegal.
I wanted my first comment on HN to be on an Article where I really learned something.

Your article on Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming did just that.

Thanks for taking the time to write it.
He lost his job for using an official stream to push his politics. That's a huge difference that everybody is deciding to ignore for some reason... outrage culture I guess.