skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me.

For some background, I’m a longtime hardware and (more frequently) software developer. I also do quite a bit of ML consulting.

I was gifted a MacBook Air many years ago. I was an avid Ubuntu (and, to a much lesser extent, Windows) user and developer at the time so I didn’t know what to make of it. I certainly didn’t expect to be blown away and switch to all Apple devices.

Eight years later and I’m solidly in the Apple ecosystem. I have an open mind about switching but I love the reliability and consistency of the user experience. I can count on the core apps that I frequently reach for to just work. And if they don’t work there’s almost always an obvious, low-time, solution to fix them. I still do a great deal of development in Windows, but it’s exclusively in a Parallels VM on a MacBook and I’ve long since abandoned my desktop for development.

The Apple ecosystem has built up enough trust with me that I also use it when flying (Foreflight on an iPad). You couldn’t pay me to switch to an android tablet as an alternative for that use case.

My largest complaint is python development is not great on OS X out of the box. But that’s easy enough to work around.
This is a boring, off-topic response. You can litigate the entire concept of app review anywhere, and you can attach a response like this to practically any comment supporting any app review rule. A better response would take direct aim at the guideline this comment is referring to.
$0.329 for one dollar.

$0.59 in CC fees for ten dollars. That's 5.9%

$0.735 in CC fees for $15: 4.9%
> even if you add a bit of text that is still not fact based

It seems shilling for the CCP is easy to do when you refuse to recognize the credibility problem of CCP data sources.

We've seen these types on HN before. The ones who's accounts are 90% filled with Pro CCP comments - clearly shilling for the CCP. Ones like yours, La1n.

CCP lies about the number of COVID-19 deaths - lies about how it spread - lies about GDP growth, lies about militarization of manmade islands in international waters, lies about ongoing religious persecutions, Uighurs and more, etc. The list is endless.

But, they want us to believe their numbers about fishing boats? Doesn't matter how this article came to their numbers independently - the CCP Official Numbers are the only numbers to be trusted?
A "bourgeois pastoral fantasy"? Can you expand on that?

Shouldn't engineers who design social media algorithms have some basic knowledge of social dynamics and psychology?
Do We Still Need the “Opinions Are My Own” Social Media Disclaimer? (2013)
But I can choose to make myself a 12 pack of half Pepsi, 1/4th Mountain Dew, and 1/4 Cherry. That's the entire point. There is no artificial restriction that mixing Pepsi with some other soft drink results in a toxic mixture. But that is essentially what's happening on the App store/Phone hardware space.

IMessage facebook messenger case is not an artificial lock. They are fundamentally different protocols. It's not like IMessage supports facebook messenger and Apple just say no you can't use it. There is a real difference here.

Apple is artificially restricting usage of it's phones for no other reason then greed. If the app store would actually protect against malware I would agree that it might have some value but it really doesn't. The app store is filled with mountains and mountains of malware. But since it's malware that makes Apple money it's completely fine.

Apple mobile hardware is really amazing. The best there is in the world I think. But the software locks it down so much that it's essentially a paper weight compared to its potential.
Umm, well, there is this issue that you can actually see the plane without a delay, so...
> You seem to not be interested in living with your right to install any app you want on your device

I am unclear on how you have made that inference based on me saying that I do not want deceptive advertising in apps.

> Do you think that general purpose computing devices, which an iPhone is, should no longer have the capability to run software without third-party auditing and approval?

No, I think that if users _want_ to download malware, spyware, or simply ad-laden apps, then they should certainly have the capability to do so (hence, sideloading). My suspicions however, is that outside of malware researchers, users do not want this.

Meanwhile, do you think that users should be exposed to deceptive advertising in their apps?
>Closed systems implicitly provide some level of assurance here.

No they don't as I can't verify any of that. A perfect counterexample is the VW dieselsoftware.
Age was it, in part, for me. I used to do lots of hardware and OS tinkering. Now the last goddamn thing I want to do is troubleshoot graphical glitches in x-windows, or try to get my audio to handle changing outputs correctly, or cross my fingers while "dist-upgrade" runs, or fix scaling and font rendering in GTK apps, or whatever, when I'm just trying to do something else.

At some point I became acutely aware of every time I was doing something with a computer that was simply fucking with the computer, and not actually getting anything that I wanted or needed to get done, except to the extent that making my computer be not-broken is required for those things. Around that time I was exposed to macOS and iOS and finally had an actual choice to (mostly) not have to do that when I don't want to, and if I decide I would like to tinker then I can use... any other option on the market.

I'd probably be screwing around with trying to run NetBSD on Android phones and turn them into mobile computers I can plug monitors and keyboards into and embedding RPis and Arduinos in all kinds of crap around the house, if I were 16 again.

At the age I am now, though, you'd literally have to pay me to even think about doing any of that. Even when I screw around with getting allegedly set-it-and-forget-it RPi media projects (think: kodi, lakka) working I usually end up regretting it. I do know how to work with those sorts of things. I also very much don't want to any more, but do still want computer-things doing stuff for me with few or no hassles. Luckily these days you can pay to get that, in some categories at least. Largely from Apple, if you want them to last a while—I do wish they had actual competition in that sense. More options that don't spy (much) and Just Work (mostly), please.
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>"Because the two photons appear to communicate faster than the speed of light — something prohibited by his theories of relativity—this phenomenon deeply troubled Albert Einstein, who dubbed it “spooky action at a distance.”

These concerns remained theoretical until the 1960s, when physicist John Bell devised a way to test if reality is truly spooky—or if there could be a more mundane explanation behind the correlations between entangled partners."

[...]

Such “Bell tests” have since been carried out, with a series of watertight versions performed in 2015, and they have confirmed reality’s spookiness."

Logic:

If you believe that the Bell Test is correct -- you must equal-and-oppositely believe that the speed of light is NOT the upper limit of speed in the universe, that is, that Faster-Than-Light (FTL) speeds are possible.

Conversely, if you believe that speed maxes out with the speed of light, and that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light -- then you equal-and-oppositely believe that the Bell Test is wrong.

But, you cannot believe that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light AND that the Bell Test is correct, simultaneously -- as this would result in a logical paradox...

(Choose one, but not both at the same time...)
Hey, how do we submit a side project ? Do we need to register ?
There was a "Home on iPod" feature available in at least a beta version of OS X [1]. I remember testing it at one point.

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/03/12/01/apple_tweaking_ho...
FlightRadar24 certainly doesn't have a delay.
I apologize for the strange formatting. I'm new to HN posts, I thought I added enough new-lines.

I'll try again, since I can't edit the original post.

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I'm shopping for a new checking account.

My only requirements are

* Website with good UX and handy features like CSV exports

* I'd like to avoid ATM fees

* Accepts direct deposits - I imagine all banks do
this

* Support outbound ACH transfers

* A US based call center - or at least a well trained offshore call center

* Paper checks

Not a factor

* I do not have to worry about maintaining a minimum balance

* I'd rather better service than a good interest rate on my deposits

Red Flags?

While shopping around, are there any red flag anti-features that I should try to avoid?

Are there any specific banks that I should avoid?

Final note

I've done a bit of reading on sites like Nerd Wallet and Bankrate. But their reviews don't really provide the knowledge that I am looking for.

I'm looking for testimonials from actual customers. I am not looking for blog content written for the purpose of generating affiliate link revenue.
I stopped reading at the first paragraph: "At that point, anyone can take the key and use it for 2-factor authentication/SSH/GPG signing, so it’s not much better than just using a normal password.".

If the author hasn't figured out you can assign a PIN to the keys you store on the Yubi, then I don't see why I should waste my time reading their rambling blog post.

Good luck taking my Yubikey and trying to SSH to my kit. Won't do you much good without the PIN that is in my head. ;)

P.S. You can also configure the Yubi to lock and mandate a PUK after too many wrong PINs.
How to Avoid N00b Programming Mistakes?
Ha, I was going to make this exact argument. The flip side of this is that it cost Zuck almost nothing to get Facebook up and running with users using it. To build any type of nuclear weapon I assume that would cost millions to billions, thereby making the barrier to entry rather high.

That is not an endorsement of the authors proposal however. I would like to see it go the other way: treat it more like an engineering discipline and as part of that students would be required to attend the engineer ethics course that (almost) all engineering curriculums have.

But even admittedly that's not seeing the forest for the trees. The questionable systems that are built that are the result of many people working willingly together across a variety of disciplines (to the author's suggestion even). I'm not so sure making computing more multi-disciplinary is the right answer because in fact and in practice it's already that way.
Not OP, but daily OpenBSD user.

My desktop machine runs OpenBSD (after getting off of OS X) but I have a few headless Linux machines for things that only run on it.
I changed jobs 6 weeks ago. Left one job, took 4 weeks off then went back to the same bedroom with a different laptop to start the new job. It's not easy, everyone is really helpful but there is no substitute for real human contact and bonding.
I've been using FreeBSD for servers and as an occasional daily driver for the past 16 years. Linux is a great operating system that I use for my work and also in situations where I have Linux hardware support but not for FreeBSD (I prefer Linux for laptops over FreeBSD). It's not a bad thing that Linux's core utilities are not developed alongside the kernel; in fact, part of what makes the GNU toolkit so flexible is the fact that it runs on a variety of Unix-like operating systems instead of just Linux, a great thing for BSD users as well as users of lesser-used Unix-like operating systems like Minix, Solaris, and GNU Hurd.

But with that being said, what I love about FreeBSD is that the core utilities are very well documented. I believe the quality of FreeBSD's documentation is an artifact of the BSDs long-standing culture of providing high-quality documentation; some of the man pages have origins in AT&T Unix and the days of BSD up to 4.4BSD, but it's been updated over all these years to reflect changes. The AT&T Unix versions and the Berkeley-developed BSDs always had wonderful documentation, much of it written by Unix legends like Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Bill Joy, Marshall Kirk McKusick, and others. Even the post-Berkeley documentation still captures this spirit. Plus, I happen to prefer man pages to the info pages that GNU utilities tend to prefer since I can never remember the keys used for navigating the hyperlinks found in info pages. I also like how FreeBSD ships with some traditional supplementary Unix documents, which have helpful tutorials for classic Unix tools. The FreeBSD handbook is very well written, and it can be easily downloaded. For people who sometimes need to do kernel hacking, there's Marshall Kirk McKusick et al.'s wonderfully written "The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, Second Edition," which I have a copy of. I find the source code of FreeBSD easier to read than the source code of Linux.

FreeBSD reminds me a lot of PostgreSQL, another high-quality open source project with excellent documentation that happens to also derive from UC Berkeley.
Thank you. I've had blogs dedicated to specific topics (electronics, student lab reports, etc), and blogs on different topics (natural language learning, electronics, "cognitive abilities enhancement").

I eventually will compile content about operations and product, but most that exists is internal as I had started doing that during the first weeks of taking a role as an individual contributor: I work really hard to make my role either obsolete or commoditized so that there is a set of actors that can do it. Actors include people at the company, code, a document, a video, a commit hook, a CI/CD pipeline, or sharing views with others about product. And it has paid a lot. One of the best compliments I have received from someone taking over a codebase after I had asked them if they needed my help was them saying: "It's pretty well written and documented, even config files are documented. Thanks".

The underlying objective function is being able to disappear without the team being impacted other than maybe missing my lousy jokes.
"What are you gonna do, stab me?" - Julius Ceasar
Thanks to napster and co., who forced the fat cats to look for a solution mind you.
GloFo probably triggered all sorts of clauses when they announced the were stopping R&D on newer nodes if I had to guess.
Sweden's Covid-19 strategist under fire over herd immunity emails
And SQLite has a page on why [1] that explicitly lists the benefits of C for the project. Not on that list: bug reduction. Moreover, it has an almost superhuman level of effort put into testing and verification.

SQLite is just one piece of a broader argument that C's inherent risks aren't completely unmanageable. All it takes is an incredible amount of diligence, tooling, expertise, and money.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/whyc.html
> maybe it should be returned to USPS with interest?

Interest is an evil and harmful practice. We've known it for thousands of years.
Nice but i am scared people write in their resume that they train a GPT model from scratch. And when asked in detail they will accept just ran minGPT without understanding it.
This is the AI story now a days.
Best solution is to ignore minGPT and write your own version.
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Wording it like a challenge probably means he hopes there will be attempts. If we're to take any of this at near-face value, then it seems like he would love a reason to call in help from places he's claimed have offered.

I definitely feel for the people of Belarus right now.
I agree with at least most of the criticism of "Why We Sleep" and haven't read the book. My concerns about messing up circadian rhythms have nothing to do with the book (other than that some of the advice in the book seems to encourage some people to mess up their circadian rhythm). I am disabled due to sleep issues and have met a few others who also have severe issues due to circadian issues (some people with Non-24 do fine if they can keep a Non-24 schedule). It is at least possible that for some people experimenting with a non-24 hour schedule could cause a permanant Non-24 condition so anyone considering trying such a schedule should be aware of the potential risk.

For me (and I'd guess many others) a sleep mask does not make it much easier to sleep during the day. I would need to have a dark environment for a while before sleep. Some people can set up a room like that but I can't at this point. This is not to say that I never get to sleep during the day, but I stay up longer when I go to sleep during the day, even if I have been awake for a while. Some people with Non-24 have the same reaction I do and others don't.
206s seems to be the most popular out there. Plenty of room in the back for the surveillance gear and there's a few companies that cater to fitting in all the gear in there (FLIR/TV tracking pod, additional radio gear etc.).

The step up are the B1900s that CBP has which have additional sensor capabilities.
I guess the permanent collection at the DeYoung didn't make much of an impression the last time I was there for a special exhibit. Never been to the Legion of Honor.
Cloud Looks Like Trump
> But you can't put two different kinds of things on the same belt lane without creating some serious trouble.

Sure you can, it's called a "sushi belt" and with some simple combinators, it can work reasonably well.
Most job ads - especially in the tech industry - are already basically fake news, aren't they?
What you’re saying about certification is true but the comment you’re replying to was making the point that the volume is low enough that most elections can be safely called without having completed the count, e.g. you have 5 absentee ballots to count but one politician is up by 20 - doesn’t matter what the absentee ballots say. So while intimidation with absentee ballots isn’t a factor, that comment was saying the now material volume of mailed in ballots creates a greater risk exposure than we associated with the absentee system.
This sort of 'perseverance porn' has been a problem for a while now:

https://fair.org/home/medias-grim-addiction-to-perseverance-...

https://fair.org/home/media-just-cant-stop-presenting-horrif...
Not true. Panasonic is a Japanese battery manufacturer that Tesla is a customer of. Japan carmakers aren't going for batteries despite having local capabilities. Instead they want to go for natural gas based hydrogen fuel. South Korea also.
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I love microservices. Why? Because when customer is left in the wind with a myriad of small problems, due to previous developer(s) making a simple big problem into a complex array of microservices, they then pay big bucks to me for solving. What I usually do is integrate them back into the monolith they should've been to begin with.

Consequently there are customers left in wind with a tiny problem on their monolith that could've been easily solved if the original architect would've split it in 3 or 4 parts, which I usually do at the time.

I love hypes and I love the culture HN is spreading in developers world. It means a lot of code needs me to fix it and as a freelancer I make sure to get the big money while posing as the God's gift to them clueless clients.
Of course I have.
To his point about finding undiscovered talent, VCs are obsessed with finding people they can underpay via selling them on their “vision” and “impact”. They claim they can’t compete with Google and Facebook on comp, but the truth is they don’t even try to do so by offering fair equity deals. Instead they use rigged instruments like common ISOs with liquidation preference and 90 day exercise windows to intentionally screw early employees over. If they offered fair terms, many talented people would love to be involved in small companies over FAANG, but these types insist on screwing people over and paying them with speeches about “visions.” The vision of these VCs is always enriching themselves.

It’s also absolutely hilarious that his example of finding undiscovered talent at PayPal was by looking at Stanford students. He’s trying to make a point that you should do out of the box thinking on recruiting and his best example is recruiting from the most prestigious university in Silicon Valley. It’s almost difficult to distinguish from satire.
K is often shorter and simpler than J for these kinds of things, although J’a much richer vocabulary pays off if the problem domain lends itself to J’s immense built in vocabulary.
Which app?

Are there several? If so what was the key features you were looking for?
Did you understand the correlation? And what part of the source code is doing it? Or you had just fun without any understanding?
+ SLES also
You pay them a small salary and provide them with food, but the biggest expense is that you have give them a place to live, which means you need an extra room in your house.
Well designed color sensor datasheet [pdf]
There are various different strains of religous/spiritual/philosophical traditions that use meditation (of various kinds), in Hinduism and Buddhism (buddhism especially spread around the region in different variations), (maybe also in esoteric/mystical Abrahamic traditions too?), I'm not sure "ego death" or nihilism is seen as a goal or anticipated as an outcome by all of them.

But I think it's probably true that none of them think meditation is a "simple stress-reliever". It is a powerful tool, and like all powerful tools, you can cut yourself with it, and should learn it with someone more expert who can guide you and keep you from hurting yourself.

I suppose what's "good for the soul" depends on your theory of the soul and what's good for it. (Those who believe something resembling "ego death" is the goal believe that's "good for the soul"!) Seeing it as a tool to make you "more effective" (sounds like some kind of "productivity") definitely doesn't seem right, although probably is common in the de-spiritualized "self-improvement" U.S. "mindfulness" trend.
Note to self – Never give up on your dreams
There's a whole paper about crabs, it's surfaced up here on HN before and it's fantastic.

Let me know if this is the same thing you're talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22383205
Voter suppression would be when people are actually kept from going to polling stations to cast their votes. Limiting mail-in voting is not voting suppression, it is limiting access to a specific - and rather contentious - way to cast your vote. These are not the same things, at all.
Given he's called in Putin to provide security I'm guessing he wants people to try?
The more skilled the labor the less likely they are unemployed, so it depends on who you’re hiring.
Considering that Social Sciences are in midst of a replication crisis with no end in sight I'm not that sure they have anything useful to offer, except perhaps how to best do p-hacking to get results that one wants.

The claim that computing is a social science because it has big effect on society is simply bollocks (This was explicitly claimed in the article, heck it had a subtitle "Why Computing Is a Social Science").

The effects of computing to society definitely is social science. But social sciences have exactly zero to offer on how to, as an example, define an upper bound for certain algorithm.

Just as physics has massive impact on the world the actual act of doing physics had nothing to do with social sciences. How on earth does social sciences help me to solve some particularily nasty partial differential equation? How the results are used are yet again part of social sciences as that talks about what happens to society, but the actual physics is completely out of it.

And as I said at the start, the track record of Social Sciences is not too good. I'm quite doubtful they can even say anything valid on the actual matters that fall under it.