skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Apple is stifling innovation by not supporting certain APIs.

They need to stop doing this, or they will hurt themselves in the long run. As it is, most people use Safari on iOS because they are forced to - all other browsers on iOS are forced to use WKWebView, which basically means they are wrappers around Safari's view.

To this day, I can't understand why their users stand for this. In this regard, Apple reminds me of a cult leader brainwashing their followers into believing the cult's way is the best way. Makes me a little sick actually.
I think that elected representatives are a special category in this, whilst technically you employ them they’re operating democracy not capitalism, so it’s different in many ways- it’s more reasonable to judge their character, the power imbalance is in their favor, positive discrimination for elected representatives seems more reasonable etc etc.

The lines will always be a little blurred, but international bankers isn’t a synonym for Jews, it might be a dog whistle but it would only be a problem for me if they know the colleague is Jewish and do this day in day out after being asked to stop.

I think so much of this discussion is wasted, and we’d be more productive just to pick a few examples and argue on them about whether we shift the line.

Eg. For me Damore shouldn’t have been fired and that’s when I realized that the woke thing wasn’t a right wing straw man, it really was running big Corp America
You do not really have an option if all options are bad. And less bad options will be outcompeted by worse options.
Unfortunately, I'm not savvy enough on the lingo to know what "This is totally QED" means beyond Q.E.D. referring to "Quod erat demonstrandum."
The repl is another tool. I can and do run my tests in the repl. I can set my tests to run everything I change a fill, now the repl has enhanced my tests.

The reason the repl is widely used in clojure is because it's the fastest way to get feedback on ridge code.

I draw a sightly superficial line between ridge and dynamic code. Ridge code would be like an API call to get very specific specific results, here the repl is better then a unit test, for it would be too much for code and time to capture your specific API call results, namely because you haven't really tested anything much larger than a couple data points.

So, it's the opposite, unit tests are often used because languages lack a repl.
Special relativity is well-known for having the least prerequisites of any modern physics subject. Yes, you can explain it with just calculus and vectors. That's precisely what we already do in university courses.

But the complaint that started this whole thread is "why can't physicists explain why it's hard to add in extra neutrinos to the Standard Model?" Understanding the reason requires 2-3 semesters of relativistic quantum field theory, a subject which in turn requires relativity, quantum mechanics, and classical field theory.

Seriously, any resource that legitimately explains all of this, without bad analogies, and assuming no prerequisites, would end up precisely as hard to read (or likely harder) than the ~10,000 pages of textbook people currently study. The textbooks have already been optimized for ease of learning, there is no magic way to make a hard thing easy.
The FAQ strangely avoids the fact that Indigenous Nations also waged war against one another over territory. Sharing the land and negotiating agreements is a strange euphemism. It sounds more interested in narratives of Noble Savages than historical facts.
Vine was definitely the precursor to apps like TikTok, and I tried Byte but I didn't really like it (at least not as much as I do TikTok).
I agree - we have a lot more time to development new skills and improve ourselves.
It puts you above the background. See this amazing acquaduct? Well it's in the background of me. You are the subject of the photo.
The point of subsidies is to increase scale if spending for the industry. People with the disposable income to buy it are a multiplier of total demand. It also helps build up consumer facing business practices towards that end vs just effectively being a government contractor.
Any attribution for that quote? Because I am going to steal it. Is it just a transposition of "If it doesn't make dollars it doesn't make sense" which I see as a headline a few places?
Yes but none of those apps make their way to top 10, dont they? US works this way. They eliminate whatever not originating from their own companies. TikTok is very clear example of this. Give me a break about "Security concerns". Everyone knows that whats happening around TikTok is political.
... which if past practices provide any indication means that the USA will abrogate yet another treaty.
Is there any way to refute a flagging? I think the original comment spawned some great conversation which relies on it being visible.
If I inform a corporation that I will not do business with them while a person is in their employment, am I oppressing that person or am I using my freedom of speech?
is the jury still out on whether MBS knowingly sent him that hack? that is, not to put too fine a point on it, a fast path to becoming even more of an international pariah than he already is
Because we're not a totalitarian state built on the backbone of censorship and information control.

Yet.
The concept of a colorblind approach ignores the existence of historical context. One might as well take a disability-blind approach to whether buildings need wheelchair ramps.
I love your list of top 50 favorites.

Have you reviewed this site, for learning piano:

https://app.hoffmanacademy.com/lessons/

I am currently teaching my 6 year old and my 3 year old how to play piano and guitar. We have gone through enough of his videos that I can honestly give his site two strong thumbs up.

As far as I can tell, all his videos are free. If the parent knows enough about music, they can use the free videos to supplement any beginner music curriculum.

I enjoyed his videos enough that I purchased his premium lifetime membership, which comes with workbooks and games. But my kids are young and I haven't made them work through workbooks yet. I'm trying to make it as fun as possible so far.

I have no affiliation with Hoffman Academy. I just think he's a great teacher.
Creating a persistent disk clone from a source disk
Yeah, except Biden is a moderate Republican, so I doubt it. It's a neat primary rhetoric for sure.
I hardly ever use my phone for 2FA. I have a 5 line Python script using pyotp to create my codes on all my computers.

Admittedly if a skilled hacker breaks in into my computer they could recognize what the script does and misuse it. But at least no scripted attack should ever look for it. It's not on github because my seeds are hard-coded and there is not much to generalize.
Well I am commenting from America and there is very little they cant do unless they go out of their way to officially state they are doing it for an illegal reason
SCOTUS left the door open for Congress to change or nullify the treaty that created the reservations in OK.

If we (American society) decide we'd rather not deal with the complexities of a massive reservation that overlaps half of OK and includes one of OK's largest cities, we can ask Congress to change the rules.
Many companies make MDM mandatory and refuse to pay for a phone. Most people will just comply rather than have _no mobile access_ to their work email at all (which will cause conflict with managers, and may even lose you a job)
It sounds like you will protect free speech by suppressing certain forms of free speech?

I would not necessarily be against anti-harassment/doxxing laws, and stronger employee protections around firings. However, also stronger hate speech laws around protected classes. It's a double edged sword.
For me - Cooking and furniture refurbishing

Making homemade bread, Italian food, various other meals from different cultures etc.
For composition, try https://bravewriter.com/
For handwriting, try https://www.lwtears.com/
You are already. You are trying all possible ways to destroy TikTok.
Every time some pointless, self-indulgent, or even dangerous activity becomes fashionable with women, we see essays like this written by women or male feminists defending it. Is everything women do above criticism?

Also, the author of this post looks like the typical male feminist rapist: tvofuturenow.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Nathan-Jurgenson-Life-After-Digital.png

I guess he thinks if he writes enough GoodThink pieces in defense of women, they'll have sex with him.
I wonder to what extent a state can block a website.

ESNI - HTTPS - cloudflare

That’s all it takes to bypass the porn filters in the UK and other websites banned by the high court such as the Pirate Bay.

It only takes one geek kid to figure it out and they’ll all know it.
In the 90s word was still trying to take the crown from word perfect. Everyone knew guis were the future, but the F Keys in word perfect were important to know.
Seems like there is quite a bit of fragility and anxiety with this thread, mostly culminating into getting the US out of the spotlight, and talking about humanity through all periods.
Licensing issues? Too power hungry for embedded ARM devices?
Tell me a single good social app from Google. I'll wait. It's not like they didn't try, but all of them seem to suffer from the design by committee syndrome.
From the same author. I think this is quite interesting.

"Why do so many incompetent men become leaders?"

https://hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men

I read article years ago and I couldn't find it until just now.
If you have an Apple device enrolled in Find My you can remote wipe it.
Perhaps when I was younger I would, and did, switch jobs immediately when something like that came up. I've gotten older and the cost of switching jobs is not zero for me anymore
I guess that's fair enough, it is admittedly difficult to separate that I am personally not interested in Quibi vs I don't see why it could succeed.

I guess the two things it boils down to is their place in the market, and who their customers are?

- I think Netflix speaks for itself.
- Disney+/Hulu has the power of the catalog, generations of IP, and creatives to leverage it.
- HBO is HBO if ATT can manage to keep it that way.
- Amazon has quite a few good things going on imo, and it helps a lot that its just attached to prime.

So now with these players, we're very much at the point of marginal overload. Why do I want your service? What do you have that no one else does?

So I guess what I'm really interested in is who that 8% is? In what ways does Quibi work, because I already feel like I have an idea/opinion of how it doesn't work.
For that matter, what about the wrecks on the bottom of the ocean, and the survivors bobbing on the surface?
"indigenous people" comprises hundreds of tribes, with distinct cultures and beliefs. Talking about what was or wasn't a "foreign concept" in that context is like doing so for Africans or the kind of Indians that Columbus intended to find.

It's difficult to come to an objective conclusion because so much of what's believed and reported about native culture is often done through appropriate by the descendents of European settlers, rather than the natives themselves, and a lot of mythologizing, fetishizing and stereotyping has taken place over the years as a result. One should at least be wary of sweeping "just so" truisms about historically oppressed people.

Anecdotally, I was able to find some evidence to the contrary[0], and I would expect the actual truth to vary according to tribe.

[0]https://daily.jstor.org/yes-americans-owned-land-before-colu...

[1]https://mises.org/wire/did-indians-understand-concept-privat...
> to refer to the 15th day of March, while leaving the year deliberately unspecified

Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Calendar_dates –

> The 2000 [of ISO 8601] version allowed writing "--04-05" to mean "April 5" but the 2004 version does not allow omitting the year when a month is present.
It makes a lot of sense for Slack to acquire Notion
Slack is already designing the future of work; becoming the main application where employees spend lot of their time at. That experience can be further improved by using Notion like tool to allow people to work within Slack. I explain more here - https://cnc.substack.com/p/three-eras-of-workplace-technology. (Check the "Legoficiation" section)
How the E-commerce platform Elliot fell back down to Earth
that really depend on the group
"Some ethnogroups are considered in disadvantage" is one way to put it, but it's minimizing it. We're talking about groups that were specifically targeted for their ethnicity: murdered, raped, disenfranchised, and exiled (with no hyperbole).

You can't decimate a group based on ethnicity and then ask why they deserve special treatment for their ethnicity. Further, they're not even getting special treatment- they are having the sovereignty and jurisdiction our _own system_ assigned them validated and reaffirmed after having it unlawfully stolen from them.

You can argue that a tribal government should adopt open, non-ethnocentric policies, but that is their decision to make, not ours.
I had a mostly vegetarian diet for 4 years.
Very hard to get enough proteins to build muscle.
Hard to lose fat without losing muscle.
I'm not saying it's impossible as there are vegan athletes proving it, but I found it significantly harder.

Your best bet is something like soylent or supplement.

After a very stressful period I started experiencing stomach problems, immune system problems, lack of sleep, depression. I tried changing a bit of everything and moving my diet to meat, eggs and vegetable made a huge difference; while I think it was mainly stress related, somehow a more varied diet helped me.

In the end I think it's better to worry about finding your balance more than following some ready made recipe.
Most of New England would take Yankee as an insult, but only due to baseball rivalry

Canuck is another dual-use team name/insult
I use to live in NYC; in Battery Park City. I was looking to move back, currently in Mountain View, then COVID-19 hit.

How is live in NY? I was there in Dec before this whole thing broke out and returned to CA in mid-Jan 2020; mini vacation.
I feel like this TikTok backlash is so overblown. I don't think TikTok is spying on US consumers/business, and I don't think TikTok is sharing any US private data with CCP... I believe this because there's no evidence to the contrary, and out of principle you shouldn't assume malintent.

In fact, TikTok explicitly left Hong Kong because if they didn't they would have to share private data with CCP to comply with new laws... they're intentionally leaving MAU on the table to keep their users' data safe. [1]

If you look around, US social companies are making the same mistake with your clipboard data that TikTok did. LinkedIn just got caught reading your clipboard data [2], but we aren't talking about banning them... I would assume in all of these cases, it's just an engineer who accidentally shipped a bug. There are legitimate use cases to read the clipboard (eg. more seamless 2fa).

It feels like the negative reaction to TikTok is so politicized and just comes from a "China bad" attitude.

[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/tech/tiktok-leaving-hong-kong...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23716451
But it's self-evident that it's acceptable to the workers: they're doing it.

As the article explains, some workers left for better opportunities - so clearly it wasn't acceptable to them.
The idea that women can't handle something like the Lena lorem ipsum seems more potentially offputting to women, to me.

Seems ironic that guys race over each other to claim a picture of a woman is the shibboleth that keeps women out.
Vine was different. I just posted this on another thread couple of days ago.

>

Vine was 6 second long video clips. Comparing Vine to TikTok is somewhat like comparing TikTok to YouTube videos. They are different.

Lot of TikTok popularity has come from offering songs/lip syncing functionality (done better by their acquisition of musica.ly). That wouldn't have worked on 6 second Vines.
It makes sense. Enterprise sales processes are very very long and hand-holdy. The final price is very dependent on the amount of value a product brings to this particular organization. It also involves lots of negotiation.

None of those fit in a pricing page. Maybe as a very dynamic calculator it could work, but it's likely the person looking at the page doesn't even have enough context/info to fill out the calculator.
> The big factor with covid is, people know it's temporary

Do we? Some people might believe it but there doesn't seem to a lot of evidence for it yet. If anything it seems that it might behave like other seasonal viruses such as the flu and especially like other coronaviruses such as the common cold. That is it might mutate so rapidly that immunity will not last.

So we might have to live with it or something like it for ever.
Indian land was taken over the course of hundreds of years of false promises and violated treaties. European settlers were predominately the ones drawing the maps, and consistently taking what was not only not theirs to begin with, but what they had agreed belonged to the native tribes and then took anyway. We're not talking about thousands of years of human history, we're talking about very real injustices that are still being perpetuated by one current-day party (largely the states) against another (various tribes). Would you prefer the tribes resort to rebellion and bloodshed to reclaim what is theirs by treaty? Would you prefer that contracts and treaties are simply ignored when inconvenient?
Thank you so much! I didn't know about this and I want to write a review of music curricula so this is very helpful. Many thanks.
Same here, some time ago it did not work. I thought some old HW is causing trouble.
I may have been a little too harsh. Binary search is close to being a good interview question, especially since the algorithm does, rarely, come up in real code. But I prefer questions that are more like what people will be doing in their day-to-day job, and binary search is just a little too fiddly.
This is really cool, but in other comments I'm reading that good JPEG encoders and decoders depend on knowing the other.

That you can design a better JPEG encoder for a known reference decoder (which decoded version best matches the original), and you can likewise design a better JPEG decoder for a known reference encoder.

But now that there are both encoders and decoders trying to be more efficient and non-blocky respectively... it feels like a mess. Even more so because a decoder never knows which encoder was used, and an encoder never knows which decoder.

Is there any solution to this mess? Is there a best practice here? Since most JPEG's are probably viewed on the web, do all browsers share the same decoder, and so effort is best spent on the encoder? Or even while encoder improvements are made specifically for the algorithms browsers use, can improvements to decoders still be made that remain improvements, instead of e.g. "overfitting" and actually making things worse?

This just feels like a bit of an "improvements race" on both sides which leaves me a little dizzy in trying to understand it...
Actually the newest version does allow export. For years it was true you couldn't export. But now they allow you to export. Thankfully.

Though I tend to use U2F. With Yubikeys and other U2F keys. I use my Yubikey to store a backup of the TOTP (Authenticator type) codes. I also set a password and touch required to generate the codes.
The Pat Hobby Stories - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sure. I'm starting to work on a compilation. If you send me an email I can point you at it. I don't have them on me at the moment.

One time it was a 10 year old research paper detailing the simple fact that if you don't force a particular chemo drug into a person over the standard 30 minutes but instead do it over 2 hours you have a much reduced chance of permanent side-effects such as neuropathy. The doctors changed the treatment in response to the paper, and FWIW the person did not develop have any permanent side effects.

The fact that that paper exists and is 10 years old and had no change on the treatements of many people since then (many of which could have potentially avoided permanent damage) led me to further question the "scientific" nature of modern medicine.

Another rich vein of research is in the numerous research on the effects of certain medicinal mushrooms as an adjunct to cancer treatments, both radiation and chemo. In allmost all cases, the effects were very positive and replicable. Some of these papers are also over 10 years old.
I guess Temporal will help you there[1]:

const now = Temporal.now.absolute();
const then = Temporal.Absolute.from(
'1989-11-09T22:45:00+0100[Europe/Berlin]',
);

const sinceThen = now.difference(then);
sinceThen.toLocaleString('en');

1: https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/duration.html#toLocal...
> Windows 7 is supported until 2023 in enterprise

Not just enterprise; even a single user can easily acquire ESU:

https://tinyapps.org/blog/202001220700_windows_7_esu_smb.htm...
In the exact same way that every country in the world operates. The tribal government sets the criteria that must be met to be a member of the tribe.
I fail to see any situation where MBS would be an international pariah while still controlling Saudi Arabia
TikTok seems to be more specialized on addictiveness: auto-play unlimited stream of short videos. It's all about removing friction, and TikTok has a good recommendation system.
Oh No! Corporate taxes going from 21% to 28%?? We're Doomed! How will we ever make profit ever again?!?!
Fragility is accusing anyone who disagrees with you or presents a slightly impure viewpoint of fragility.
Paper mirror: https://www.gwern.net/docs/genetics/editing/2020-mok.pdf
I think that "mixed" farming like this article describes has a huge potential for automation by the software field.

Monocrops[0] (homogeneous fields of crops like corn or soybeans) are easy to build automated robots for. We've been doing that for generations now, starting with combine harvesters[1].

But there are many problems with growing monocrops[2]. Pests are a problem -- they breed and spread disease. And on the soil nutrient side, you have to keep re-fertilizing (and often over-fertilize[3]) every year to keep it going. And still nutrients continue to decline in the food that Americans are eating[4].

If, as a field (of software engineers), we can figure out a way to build robots that allow growing and harvesting plants in heterogeneous environments, that will be a significant step forward to fixing these problems. I'm optimistic that it will be possible in the next decade to build it and make it profitable. :)

If you don't have to use fertilizer and pests don't eat your crops because you haven't created the ideal breeding ground for pests + disease, then this problem should be solved by market forces alone. At least, I hope so!

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocropping

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combine_harvester

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocropping#Monocropping_diff...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer#Environmental_effec...

4: https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/view/journals/hortsci/44/1...
Strategic Allocation of Coin Inventories