skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I was just trying to comment on how interviewing itself is an arbitrary crapshoot.

Say one slightly dubious thing and you torpedo your chances of the job. Write one slightly dubious thing on your CV, and it will be rejected without a second look.

While I’m confident that most of the people rejected for those reasons would be at least adequate at their job.
The 5S was 64 bit.
To the coffers of the CCP.
These are the A2DP (stereo audio, but no microphone) and HSP (sucky audio, but microphone) profiles. The system is supposed to switch automatically between them depending on whether microphone input is required.

As of today I think no operating system performs this switch correctly. It's been broken in desktop Linux for a couple years now.
How strange that the world does not want to use German as its lingua franca then.
Previously:

Guacamole – A clientless remote desktop gateway, 1096 points | Oct 3, 2017 | 218 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15389727
I haven't been through a smelter, but would love the opportunity to tour one sometime. Were you on a public tour, or was it through a business dealing?
I use a shipping app that does that. Doesn't the shipping app know when it's newly in focus, and shouldn't it only then check the clipboard, not constantly check?

FWIW, the one I use only checks once — upon startup. It's sometimes annoying that I have to kick it out and re-launch if I've copied a tracking URL from e-mail after the delivery tracking app is already open, but now that I know that's the price of privacy, I'm perfectly OK with it.
> I don't think TikTok has any relevant functionality

Does pasting text into a video as an annotation require “Paste” to be enabled in this way?
Yes, but this is still convenient. For example, Pocket (a read-it-later service) checks your clipboard when you open the app. Normally to add a new URL to your reading list, you need to tap through a menu or two from the front page of the app. But if it detects your clipboard has a URL on it, it provides a small one-tap "Add this copied URL to your list?" button at the bottom of the screen, reducing the friction.
The Ghosn issue is much more complicated though. There are arguments that the judicial system was politicised in a manner. He was a foreigner who fell out of favour in a land that protects their own. See Olympus Camera scandal.
I'm really glad I recently replaced my old 80% efficient oil boiler with a 97% efficient natural gas boiler. My winter bills are less than half what they were and it barely uses any gas during the summer for hot water.
> “ changing X would make it not Haskell”

this seems like some version of a No True Scotsman argument.
Ah, that makes more sense. I would still say they are both drawing on common mythic material, e.g. myths of daphne, narcissus, and I think in the odyssey there are bleeding reeds. However, the tree smoothering is similar, so I can grant Tolkien was inspired by MacDonald.
Depends on what you're doing, driving or flying - you don't want surprises, they'd definitely be concerning. Privacy too in my opinion.
Unlikely unless they were compelled by law or found something else to replace it, and I think it's the latter. Something about machine learning and such.
Immutability is great. What does that have to do with Haskell?
Thoughts: Twitter but Posix, by self-hosting one file
Correct. The key material is stored in the Secure Enclave.
I think you're right about perceived barriers to entry, and I certainly didn't say (nor did I mean to imply) that anyone should "just" learn to code. But I think the promise of "apps without code" is a siren song, always ending in frustration.

I'd never tell anyone that learning to code is easy (only that most people can do it with some hard work), but I would also never tell anyone that tools like this will make it easier because I do not believe that to be true.
Fine, I'll try to do a bit better. :)
Perhaps there should be a separate security level for “access whatever was just Copied in the last 4 seconds, if the only other action taken was to switch to the app requesting the clipboard”. Almost any app could clear that bar, since under those conditions it probably means “user grabbed something and wants to use it here”.

What is the use case for “read whatever was copied from anywhere for any reason at any time”? If there is one (e.g. full-fledged word processor maybe), that should still be a separate entitlement and require a higher bar, e.g. extensive app review.
This works both ways! You can clean the grid in the the Northeast[1], and the clean energy would go a lot further to condition your (properly energy-retrofitted) houses then a house in Houston.

[1] For example in Toronto, Ontario, the electric grid is fueled from hydro (and we get passive cooling from lake water). And yet, Toronto's urbanization is so intense (and still growing) so the city still needs to reduce the energy consumption of it's buildings to manage it's peak power consumption. And I would argue this still has a huge impact on CO2 emissions given the reduction of transportation emissions associated with high density areas.
A Yubikey or similar device is a good way to mitigate the damage of having your password manager's password stolen.

https://bitwarden.com/help/article/setup-two-step-login-yubi...
Another ex-Googler here. This seems like a viable strategy, but it seems rather inefficient for the organization, don't you think? E.g.

> Write some queries, run an internal survey

> Write a proposal doc, get it reviewed by others

Even if one could convincingly claim a causal effect on those noisy metrics, that sounds like quite a bit of overhead. IMO the majority of cleanup or bug fixing work shouldn't require any sort of formal planning or justification. At other companies, we would just go ahead and do the work. Then if an IC's work shows a pattern of code quality improvements, the manager should take notice and make sure it's considered in any promotion decisions.

Moreover, the strategy you mention requires a concerted effort to improve the quality of a particular component in a short period of time. Ideally one should evaluate bugs and quality issues as they arise, and most of them should be fixed promptly. But if a Googler is optimizing for promotions, it seems better to let code rot for months or years, then fix many issues in a short sprint to create a nice dip in the metrics.
It’s somewhat common for worn out molds to be sold as scrap metal, then someone buys them from the scrap dealer and starts making counterfeits. This is why quite a few places will deface old molds before scrapping so it would be cheaper for the counterfeiter to make a new mold than repair the genuine one.
See also: Privileging the hypothesis.

If I'm searching for a murderer in a town of 1000, it takes about 10 independent bits of evidence to get the right one. And when I charge someone, I must already have the vast majority of that evidence. To say "oh well we don't know that it wasn't Mr. or Mrs. Doe, let's bring them in" is itself a breach of the Does' rights. I'm ignoring 9 of the 10 bits of evidence!

Using a low-accuracy facial recognition system and a low-accountability lineup procedure to elevate some random man who did nothing wrong from presumed-innocent to 1-in-6 to prime suspect, without having the necessary amount of evidence, is committing the exact same error and is nearly as egregious as pulling a random civilian out of a hat and charging them.
This is, of course, an active thread of discussion in the WebAuthentication working group.
Yes but the old versions disappear more quickly. So if they decide to upgrade to requiring 13, they don’t leave an old version available.
As someone who only runs a win10 instance for gaming, while using Linux for all other aspects of my computing, I am honestly now thinking about giving PC gaming up just so I can stop having to deal with M$ and their practices.

And before it is mentioned; I do realize I can play on Linux, but frankly I dont feel like sysadmining every time I want some escapism.
Show HN: Abtesting.ai – Optimize your landing page for conversions using AI
This. Someone else is hosting it which to some is a pro while others is a con, but it's been great at replacing my finnicky pihole instance, and supports DoH and DoT natively.
Pretty cool tool, could easily see myself using this
> I've never seen one of these app-specific paste widgets

IIRC having an address (or address-looking string) in your clipboard will cause it to show up as the first result on the search screen in Google Maps.
Is the “Link you copied” feature in new tab of iOS google chrome one of these?

As well as the “Address you copied” iOS Google Maps search field feature?
Hard to say since only Amazon knows. As you've mentioned, there are many ways for counterfeits to enter the supply chain.

I think the main difference is who shoulders greater risk/impact of a counterfeit. Under normal models, the store (Amazon) is hit harder (returns, supply chain management). Under Amazon's model, the customer and potentially manufacturer bears a heavier burden.

As a customer, why should I care about the brand owner feature? Additionally, Amazon does not clearly mark products as such. These things just look like any other FBA product.

As a product creator, why should I have to register myself with Amazon? Should I have to police Amazon listings (which seems likely based on the brand ownership service feature list)? Or can I just work with my trusted distributors like the standard model?

I don't have an answer to these questions especially on the sell side. However, this all seems more like Amazon's way of shifting risk and cost to external parties.
Not enough procrastination already?
It's not a graduate course in the traditional sense, but Paul Wheaton runs a number of hands-on permaculture classes and courses on his land in Montana. Maybe not Canada-cold, but there's a large focus on shaping land and designing buildings to use energy more efficiently.

https://wheaton-labs.com/
Hi HN!

I'm Rodrigo from ABtesting.ai and I wanted to show you our product. It's still in a very early stage, we have been building it up as a side project over the last year or so. The main idea is to lower the barrier of entry to do A/B testing on landing pages.

The product works as follow:
1 - You enter your URL and create a few variations of your title, copy and call to action. The possible combinations of these variations can be very big.
2 - We create a first experiment with some of the variations and run it using a multi-armed bandit approach.
3 - Once the experiment reaches statistical significance, we take the variations that worked best and use an evolutionary algorithm to mix them up and mutate them to run the next batch.
4 - Run a new experiment and repeat this process until finding the combination that maximizes conversions.

Since we use a multi-armed bandit algorithm, it's unlikely that you will get a worse performance than if you just left your landing as is.

I know our product is oriented towards a marketing audience but I would love to have some feedback on the technical side :)
Yes; if people claim that X will cause Y, and over decades of doing X it continues to not cause Y, I'd like some very compelling reasons to suddenly believe that X is going to start causing Y.
So what you're saying is, that study I linked to was published by a bunch of crackpots, and there's actually no need to study the relationship between vaccines, their ingredients, and autoimmune disorders.

There's a lot of information available in that study I linked, you should check some of it. Careful, it might challenge your deeply held dogmatic beliefs, though.
Me too! It was bundled with OS X server, which I was running on the G4 Cube that got relegated to utility box status when I went all-in on laptop life.
>There is a lot more to medicine than just math and science

This is the problem.
I can't agree enough with what you wrote, but I can add some colour.

'It is impossible to automate this club with 100 membership options and 300 members, it is just too complicated'. I think there is some complex psychology behind statements like this. There are elements of not knowing what is possible, elements of not knowing how to break down a problem, but also an element of not wanting someone from IT to come along and show you that the job you care about and you have to work hard at can be automated away. I tend to approach these things by building rough prototypes of the simplest case, and using that to find the edge cases. All the while using lines like, 'this will allow you to concentrate on the sales part of your job, rather than admin'. But here is the truth, most people want stability in their work life, and are terrified of what systems people might change.

In another sales-order flow project I worked on I was suspicious of the time taken to manually intervene with orders (I was worried it was stopping us from scaling), so I started asking questions like, 'what takes you a long time?', 'what could be improved?'. Apparently nothing, it was all fine. We started to map the process out and began the tedious work of finding out how the manual process works....one day the person was frustrated with one element of their job and let slip about a process that took hours that had apparently slipped their mind previously. This was manna from heaven. I attached two senior developers to the team and they fixed that problem in half a days coding, but it couldn't go live because x needed doing first. I let them do x, and they found y..so it took around three months more to fix this simple flow, I would say there are in the order of 1000 loc generated in total. I agree, it is the human part of these kind of systems that is hard, not the coding.
You are correct. I guess that was one of the details I got wrong. I think I'd clicked on the 5C page when I grabbed those numbers.
Performance counters are vital, and you don't need to grovel the disassembly yourself in association with profiling, even if it's feasible. Get a tool to do it for you; MAQAO is one in that area (x86-specific, and unfortunately part-proprietary).

Anyway, yes, measurements are what you need, rather than guesses, along with correctness checks, indeed.
I deleted my Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram accounts, and felt great since
Because its so hard to use that nobody can really explain it. Is it a share drive in the cloud? Not really, but it can kind of do that. Is it an application platform like Salesforce? Kind of. Is it a project management system? It sure can be.

On top of the confusion, often times the only time a end user sees the word "SharePoint" is when their Office document got lost because OneDrive pooped out and it's SharePoint underneath, so then it starts whining. The only time I've seen SharePoint work well at all is at a company that kept teams of SharePoint developers on staff, and even then we still begged for a share drive somewhere (have you ever tried to store keepass vaults in SharePoint? it's a magical experience).
I completely block access to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and some other social media outlets on my home network.
Reminds me of ActiveX in the late 90s/early 2000s...tons of web applications developed exclusively for Internet Explorer on Windows. As a Mac user in high school/college at the time, I occasionally had to use the shared computers in the school library just to use certain web apps that were built with ActiveX.
i'm not a database person, but does postgres not scale horizontally?
The iPhone 5s (the first 64-bit phone, first iPhone with a secure enclave) is still receiving security updates. It received iOS 12.4.7 on May 20th.

It was released September 2013 (6.5yr), discontinued September 2014 for the 64GB version (5.5yr), March 2016 for the 16, 32GB versions (4yr).
Guards feel superfluous if the x, x pattern can be trivially lowered into a guard.
People love to hate on Apple but the fact is, they continue to release features to better showcase or restrict developers that abuse your privacy. The "walled garden" also ensures they apply a ton of checks to apps to better restrict abuses. Sometimes it's overly sensitive and bad things happen, but in general it's awesome that over time it becomes harder and harder to get away with apps blatantly spying on you.
I'm not usually a pedant, but something about this drives my brain totally insane. None of these websites are text only. Alternatively, all websites are text only. Several of them even feature that unholy technology which must be struck from the Earth according to HN: javascript. What is the line being drawn here? You might as well call it "Websites that load very fast and have a very plain aesthetic that I enjoy".

If I wanted a clear definition of a text only website, I'd say a text-only website is a website which is served with a Content-type: text/plain header. This is far from that.
That's not so much Perl hijacking a user space variable as Perl having some single character globals that have special behavior. Really, you usually learn about those early (sorting is common), and if you're using strict like you should be, if you define them and use them they will work as expected until you use a custom sort, in which case you'll track down the error.

In Perl, you learn pretty early that single character non-alphanumeric variables ($|, $_, @_ $@) are special and if you encounter them and don't know them, look them up. You also learn that $1 through $9 and $a and $b have special uses, so don't use those without knowing what you're doing either.

> utterly confounding the first time one accidentally runs into it.

Yeah, but every language has some of those. Who remembers "Unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM" in PHP? Or giant template error messages in C++? Or just plain segfaults? All paradigms and the languages within them have their own trade-offs and gotchas, and part of learning the language is learning those.
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it was fun though, I would intentionally have it transfer at the lowest speed to watch the text I wrote earlier be re-written on the computer. somehow it gave you a better sense of accomplishment.
> What's the alternative? leave facebook do exactly it instead of the government?

Not only Facebook, but any company that wishes to offer this service. Private monopolies are usually the result of government policies. In Brazil, all monopolies are like that.
Developers build row houses. Engineers design complex machinery.

I try not to go by "Software Developer" anymore because too many managers have gotten the idea that it's something you just do. Which it is if you're only working in frameworks... the stick houses of code.
Steam handles all that now. You literally dont have to do anything special for an ever increasing number of new games. The method of installation is the same as on windows: Click install and wait.
Did you mean to post a link to a YouTube video demonstrating that? Your link is a dupe of the parent.
So if you want Amazon to stop selling counterfeit versions of your product you have to opt in to this program, and start serializing all of your products at your own expense?
I left the industry for the exact same reasons as you. I like like solving problems conceptually, but don’t actually care for the hours of bug fixing and learning syntax. I stopped pursuing it because I don’t think I have the drive to make it my career.

However, I do like tinkering on my own time and not feeling pressured to do better because it’s my job.

In my current non-programming job, I get to go home after finishing my tasks and I still get paid the same 8 hours a day. So, I made a little Shortcut in iOS that tracks my arrival time, what time I finished, what time I left work, and the workload that day. I plan to write another script to parse the data and graph it.

Another example, if you like cooking, you can write a program that calculates cost per recipe given parameters like how much you bought the ingredients for and how much you used.
I completely agree with your point about admitting mistakes. I am not invested either way on the topic. Either we have a discussiom thread informing OP, myself and others of their mistakes or we don't. That's what downvotes are for. We see clickbait topics make it to the front page all the time but the top comment calls out the article's misleading claims. I've been corrected from holding incorrect beliefs as a result of misleading articles or blog posts on HN. Voting works.

What I didn't like was the constant flagging. And censorship. It's not ok to allow a "i quit facebook" post where commenters discuss the factual nature of the authors reasoning and at the same time ban/censor an "I quit HN" post. I have no problem with downvotes but when a post gets popular enough to make it to the front page and gets removed because it contains incorrect claims the result is people like me who didn't care much about the topic before but the fact the authord HN censorship claim was validated before my eyes made me believe him. Censorhsip does not correct false claims (streissand effect).

I would like to see all popular posts and read commentors opinions so I can make up my own opinion (short of spending time researching the accuracy of every claim for every post first hand).

I hope HN will allow that but I do understand this is a private topic specific platform.
The Canadian model of Interac e-Transfer works pretty nicely, and is (at worst) cheap or (increasingly) free depending on the exact bank accounts involved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interac_e-Transfer it's pretty widely supported within Canada, both among banks and among real use cases like paying rent or moving companies as well as peer-to-peer reimbursements.

Transfer time for Interac e-Transfer ranges from instant to hours, in practice.
Apple released updates to iOS devices back to the 2011 iPhone 4s last year.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/07/22/apple-issues-ios-...
It does make me wonder how many apps on Android also do this and go completely undetected. Hopefully Google adds something similar.
Things like rent, tuition, and car payments are done in the US with ACH. Takes a day to clear (which is fine for scheduled things like that) but free.
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So when's the last time you had someone very foreign, who had difficulties with language and no social context over for beers?

Most people don't hate or even loathe foreigners and certainly not Asians, but social circles everywhere tend to be pretty narrow.

He may have had some nice students or profs invite him on the occasional thing out of social courtesy and genuine interest, but people really far from one another socially are not going to get tons of 'hang time'.

As Uni becomes a little bit more simply 'where you go after high school' and more a social experience, as opposed to being a truly academic experience, I suggest this issue may even be exacerbated.

I don't doubt the social isolation is real for people, but I don't think hostile language is where we need to go.
There's an article on the front page about Perl 7, I'm starting to wonder which one has the more difficult grammar ;-)