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Apple, Inc.

We’re perfectionists. Idealists. Inventors. Forever tinkering with products and processes, always on the lookout for better. Whether you work at one of our global offices, offsite, or even at home, a job at Apple will be demanding. But it also rewards bright, original thinking and hard work. And none of us here would have it any other way.

Where do you see yourself at Apple?

-- Siri — Apple’s Siri is looking for exceptional engineers, designers, and project managers well versed in machine learning, natural language, speech recognition, server automation, and/or mobile software development. Siri is used on countless iOS, tvOS and watchOS devices and handles over a billion requests per week. Note that in addition to Cupertino, we are hiring in many locations such as Seattle, Pittsburgh, Beijing, Cambridge MA and Cambridge UK too.

If you’re passionate about Music, Productivity, or one of a variety of our open positions, you’ll be right at home.

Apply online or send a resume to jimmyhaley@apple.com

-- SEAR -- Security Engineering & Architecture is looking for engineers who can help make sense of complex hardware and software systems, distilling essential qualities, threat models, and vulnerabilities from volumes of structured data. We are looking for backend engineers able to build scalable services — ingesting, storing and querying complex graph-relational data from diverse sources. We also have a role for web frontend development, requiring skills in designing usable, focused, data-driven interfaces, and automation engineers with experience with integrating software and/or testing at scale. Requiring no specialized security skills (though such skills are valued), these roles are a unique opportunity to be part of the team that architects and delivers groundbreaking security to more than a billion devices.

Apply online (https://jobs.apple.com/us/search?job=113644011&openJobId=113...) or send a resume to lucia_ballard@apple.com (mailto:lha@apple.com).

-- FEAR — Apple's Fraud & Security (FEAR) team — is responsible for protecting Apple’s users and the services they rely on. We’re hiring for both junior and senior roles and looking for software engineers who love building large-scale distributed systems. Senior engineers should have 5+ years working on distributed systems. Junior engineers should have a strong data structure and algorithm background plus proficiency in a statically typed language such as Java, C++ or Scala. We’re also hiring tools & automation engineers to help us develop the high-quality infrastructure that enables us to ship applications quickly and with confidence. We're looking to hire in our Cupertino, Austin and Vancouver offices.

If interested send your resume to fear-eng-hiring@group.apple.com with [HN] in the email subject.
That is one way of looking at it. But it really depends on the intention behind such a block.

The other way to look at it, just as valid, is for an admin to protect her(or his) "citizens", the people on her instance.

If you intended an instance to be a safe-haven, you don't want people being able to raise mobs to harass people on your instance. Hence, you want to block instances that allow such behaviour.

But, you also want to avoid accidental "retweets" (boosts), replies and whatnot to reach your instance. So you want a thick layer of insulation: not just blocking one "bad" instance, but blocking the instances that interact with that "bad" instance as well. There are probably technical means to get such an insulation, but neither Activity-Pub nor mastodon has these in place. So being liberal in blocks is a pragmatic means to keep your instance a really safe and happy place.

(Do note that you might not need such a safe place -I don't- but people with trauma's, insecurities, issues, or just a wish for a safe and happy place might. And it being federated allows for admins to create such a place. A place where you can be a furry-amongst furries, or a victim amongst a supporting community).
There are certain sites like Wikipedia that improve the web's utility for all who use it, small and giant companies alike. Google search is improved by Wikipedia's existence.

And then there are sites like Pinterest, that degrade the web's utility for the vast majority of people on Earth. It actually harms Google's search experience (obviously image search) and frustrates us that try to benignly browse images. Why does Google let Pinterest get away with its user-hostile approach?
The existing Rig is $4750 USD and is rear-wheel-drive only. Are you saying it would cost 30% more to make it 4WD?
Possibly unpopular comment:

I think that master/slave correctly describes the relationship between constructs, and should remain unchanged. It is adequately separated from any sort of human relationship, and doesn't in any way glorify human slavery; in fact it actively separates the machine relationships from human ones. We can look at the relationships between these constructs, and see how far removed it is from any relationship in modern society.
That's if their children don't assimilate and forget their HK identity. Children of Asian migrants in anglophone countries losing touch with their language and heritage is a very common phenomenon.

Actually that raises an interesting comparison with the Tibetan diaspora that mostly left during around 1950. How many of their descendants growing up in India/US/UK still know how to speak Tibetan?
Why trying?

If it is so bad in the US, what is keeping you there? Many developed countries have relatively few immigration hurdles for US Americans to pass. UK in particular, European countries are lax in general in these regards (I live in Germany).
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In India, you don't ask elders "why?" for anything they tell you to do, that's considered disrespect - whether it is parents or teachers. That's why many customs that made sense once upon a time, have morphed into meaningless ones, because they continued by tradition rather than understanding.

At the time marriages were arranged by parents, this made sense because you get to preserve your culture, traditions, language etc.. (in a situation where dialect depends on the place and caste).

> Why not let the two people getting married make the decision if they want to merge the two cultures?

Well that's insane. Maybe, thinking from the place of those elders who are highly interested in conserving their culture, it doesn't make sense to leave everyone to their own causing a mix-mash of different cultures and interests, and that's the generation gap. Although it is more likely attributed to belief rather than such line of thinking.
hey HN, author here.

I have used Python for data wrangling for years, but there were a bunch of libraries and frameworks I hadn't used and didn't properly understand, so I learned a lot writing this summary.
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We smile on the outside yet cry on the inside.
Anti-democratic ethnic nationalism doesn't sound as catchy and fascism is a historically loaded term.
Into the fire
Uhhh no. Meritocracy promotes justice.

Better people become judges, not buddies.

Meritocracy doesn’t mean “winners take all”. It means the best person for the job gets the job.

If the best people for the job have the job, especially in gov by definition justice will prevail because people who know how to address injustice will have the job.
We need better data about the environmental persistence of plastic goods
The government that ruled the territory of the Qing Empire was willing to roll tanks into HK--Deng Xiaoping said "I could take it in an afternoon". China made it clear that they were going to end up with HK one way or another.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handover_of_Hong_Kong
Then Honk Hong should have been given back to the Republic of China (Taiwan) which is the direct successor of the Qing empire, not the PRC. RPC is not a successor of Qing nor ROC since ROC still exists.
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Magic hat leaves behind a transformed craft beer industry in Vermont
I would assume that most work is done in something like Dassault Systèmes Catia etc, so the wing is software also for most of its life...
Bit of both. Norwegian Air needs money, no doubt. But Boeing took a deposit and didn’t deliver a usable product. Under certain circumstances it makes sense for Boeing to return the deposit; they didn’t uphold their end of the deal. The lawsuit will almost certainly hinge on the terms of the deal and whatever local precedence and law might exist in this area.
Pre-covid I would have said of course it will fly. Because there is too much money at stake. Airlines aren't going to just cancel their orders and sell their MAX-8's and buy Airbus (suing Boeing for the difference).

Now with Covid, another possibility has opened up: a massive surplus of aircraft for the coming decade might actually make it redundant. Airlines will die left and right and there will be more than enough cheap planes to go around even without the MAX-8's.

I'd have no problem flying in one, as soon as authorities approve it.
Brand affiliation tribalism is rampant in modern society.
What everyone is saying is exactly the opposite of philosophical. This is an argument of semantics.

The existing supreme court rulings are crystal clear that they treat infringement as a different type of crime than theft, as they have different properties. No one is arguing with you about IF loss of sales can occur. They are telling you the legal definition of theft does not cover loss of potential. Hence the use of the word infringement. You are trying to redefine the word theft from its existing legal usage. Use a different word than theft.

Dowling v. United States (1985)

>interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud. The infringer of a copyright does not assume physical control over the copyright nor wholly deprive its owner of its use. Infringement implicates a more complex set of property interests than does run-of-the-mill theft, conversion, or fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowling_v._United_States_(1985...

This isnt about what we believe. It's what the law says and how the courts have told us they choose to interpret it. It's (interpreting their interpretation) is not really a debate or an argument open to interpretation, as they were so clear there really arent multiple ways to read it. This isnt about any of us changing our minds with regard to what theft means, as its not an opinion.
I think this actually highlights part of the problem. There's certainly a ton of capable products there, lots of stuff that looks very fun to play with. You can probably find something with whatever specific combo of features you need for your project.

However, there's two big issues: price and availability.

Price is obvious. If you want to spend $200 or more you have a massive number of options. However, this is a far cry from the $35-75 for a Pi, plus for both you still need a power supply, case, etc.

I can also order a Pi from a couple different sites, and probably pick one up locally in a pinch, too. It seems like there's lot of other boards where you can't actually buy one. Some are in the category of "how many thousand would you like?" It's just a totally different world than the Pi's distribution and ecosystem, to the point it's not really fair to consider for the average hobbyist.

There's dozens of readily available case options and other add-ons for the Pi.

I also know if I build software for the Pi I'll still be able to buy another one anytime I want for the next few years, and due to its popularity chances are for the next decade (if not a real Pi, someone will make a clone).

It's great there's options, but the fact a product merely exists doesn't instantly make it a viable alternative.
Is it surprising? UK has a problem with certain races coming over. What’s the difference between Syrian refugees and Hong Kongers? They would both be seeking refugee status essentially.
Walkie, no talkie: Japan city launches pedestrian smartphone ban
> they make it impossible to get a refund

Is this your personal experience? I’ve previously received refunds for purchases and movie rentals. It required an email but also gave me confidence that if I ever bought an app that was junk that I’d get a refund.
When was the last time someone from Hong Kong commited a terrorist attack.
It's one equation in geometric algebra. https://www.av8n.com/physics/maxwell-ga.htm#eq-max-ga

Also there is a new community for geometric algbera people https://bivector.net/.

Check out the demo https://observablehq.com/@enkimute/animated-orbits

Watch the SIGGRAPH talk https://youtu.be/tX4H_ctggYo

Join the discord https://discord.gg/vGY6pPk
Good stuff. Tell us more googly stories of interest. This is super fascinating.
Hong Kong was a British colony until 1997.
We have moved to Zoom for our team meetings but as a company we use goto meeting. My team used Slack for our standup but we were having a bunch of issues and a teammate has a paid Zoom account and was pushing for that. We are happy about Zoom compared to Slack for video calls. We are a normally distributed team so the video chat is an important aspect for us.
This book looks interesting. I'd like some advice on whether it will be useful for me.

I've been a professional dev for over ten years and I have a CompSci degree from a respected university. I'm getting paid principal engineering salary for a moderate sized city in the U.S. and I work remotely from Canada in a fairly cheap cost-of-living city at a small company (far from Silicon Valley salary, but pretty damn high for here).

Do you think this book will be useful to me? I want to maintain my career as a developer and grow in skill and salary. I have started blogging about a year ago and I do infrequently but I think my posts are decent. I also am taking the time to learn some stuff like ML and am constantly trying to improve my skills with stuff like PostgreSQL and Go.
Honestly I think so too, but I doubt the UK government wanted to start a war with China.
This is a worthless 2nd hand hearsay anecdote.

Remdesivir has a minor beneficial impact when delivered VERY EARLY.

No need to spread FUD when there's clinical data available.
How did you come across such a narrowly scoped website? Is it yours?
what would you expect it to even try to do with the UK present, given that EU foreign policy can be veto'ed by a single member state?

several of which are keen to preserve or grow their CCP trade
Hong Kong as a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) instead of a Special Administrative Region (SAR) would be an easy transition. Although I don't see it more appealing than other SEZ's Shanghai's Free Trade Zone or the entire Hainan Province.

But the consolidation of existing companies and operations in Hong Kong would still be pretty unique, its uniqueness still not that relevant. For regional price discovery it would be useful, like for some publicly traded companies or local futures markets.
Our biggest advantage is that we are a trilingual society with a deep understanding of both western and Chinese culture. Although there are many people in the mainland who have studied abroad, the ability to understand the needs of Chinese and Western business is definitely not as pervasive. But I agree that HK isn't anywhere as near valuable to China, especially in terms of finance.
A rare display of competent politicians in the UK
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> Irish is the first official language.

Which outside of a few details like bilingual signs or legislation, is more aspirational than reality.

On the legislation point, while it is translated into Irish and legally speaking the Irish version takes precedence, it's usually drafted in English and translated. This has caused issues such as embarrassment for the government where they had to update the proposed constitutional amendment required to legalise same sex marriage as the Irish translation accidentally legalised _only_ same sex marriage: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/irish-language-vers...
Linux booted faster on my Pentium 100 with a hard disk than with my i7 + SSD. The root cause is that when Linux moved to parallel “fast” boot and DBUS they didn’t add APIs to the kernel to work through all the race conditions around modules loading, etc. So, it has to sleep for a second here or there to let hardware stabilize. I first noticed this about 10 years ago (on a new, faster machine, X would fail to start because the video card kernel module hadn’t finished loading yet).

It has gotten worse since. On one machine, I have an NFS mount over WiFi. Network manager wants mount to complete before it runs because they didn’t think before they implemented it. I eventually got that machine to boot, but it takes an extra 5 seconds.
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That's not really an accurate depiction. All planes constantly change the control settings required during different flight conditions in order to maintain level flight, often with software. Different speeds, flaps, weather conditions all require different trims to those control settings. If your plane gets new flight characteristics through a design change, the configurations your training told you should work will probably not work anymore.

What Boeing did was hide the change in flight characteristics caused by the new engines using software, so pilots didn't need to retrain, and they borked the implementation.
"Relatively few" usually means a significant employment barrier - you usually have to be making a certain amount of money which is hard to come by at the lower rungs of STEM employment, especially if you're restricted to applying for companies you can interview with from overseas.
A primer about cohorts
They have a problem with Europeans coming over as well.
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For what it’s worth, I also deeply enjoyed every long haul flight I’ve taken on Norwegian B787s. The value was definitely there.
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A shake-up in cell culturing: Flame sterilization may affect the culture
No, I don't have any examples of 20 year old search results.
Ping me at dr_axel AT icloud.com and I’ll notify you. Two universities in Switzerland are using my book to teach JavaScript and seem happy with it, so far.
It kind of depends, immigration wasn't a big part of it from talking with many business partners. Many just dont like the idea rules are being made in Brussels.
Acknowledging bias is worthwhile even if the conclusion might be the same.
So you emigrated to another country because people were immigrating to your country and immigration is bad? Is this sarcasm?
> I didn't realize until after I left the restaurant that the Indian family who owned the restaurant probably brought their lower caste servants from India with them to labor at the restaurant.

Are you sure what you saw was caste discrimination? It may have been a person taking advantage of an illegal immigrant, something that several people and companies in the US are accused of every year.
Zoom misses its own deadline to publish its first transparency report
Amazon pulls its free game Crucible from circulation following negative reviews