skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> From what I've seen after talking to hundreds of secular homeschoolers and the minimal research done on this topic, kids with 1-2 hours a day of study facilitated by a parent do far better academically than the typical kid in school. They also do a great job transitioning back to school (if you decide to go that route) because they are so independent and autonomous.

We're banking hard on the 1-2 hours a day of direct instruction thing being true :-)

> Have you considered any of the learning tools like Khan Academy that don't need a parent to necessarily sit down with the child and can study independently?

Absolutely, apps and youtube videos are how we're going to handle much or all of "specials" instruction (foreign language, art, music—I wouldn't have counted on it for music except we happen to already be doing that and it's going better than I could have imagined) and probably some of the science and social studies work. We're mostly focused on keeping our foot on the gas for reading and math, at which she's already far "ahead", as far as direct instruction goes—a kid who can read and is curious can cover more science and social studies on their own than they do in school, we both know from experience, so if those two core literacy subjects are going well we reckon no serious long-term harm has been done, even if we somehow fail at everything else.

> Also, if you need a friendly ear, I'd be happy to help you and your partner think this through. I've been a teacher for 15 years in 3 countries, founded 3 startups to support homeschoolers, and most recently led schoolclosures.org and Modulo which are working directly to provide support to families. Happy to help in any way we can.

Oh hey, we based a bunch of our research on a pile of modulo resources you posted on an HN thread some time back! Haha, cool, didn't realize you were you until I got to this paragraph. Thanks for the work you've done, and for your kind offer of support. At this point we don't know what we don't know and our unknowns are down to things we won't uncover until we start trying it, though, I think. Which is very soon. If our Singapore Math books we ordered 2 weeks ago ever show up, that is. :-/
V-bucks should be banned completely, along with all other illegal gambling.
It's also good for making abstract art:

https://postimg.cc/vgG3PyW4
I can understand the battery but admit the case is weaker for screen and other components.

If someone gets hurt using an Apple product it’s international news [1] and everyone ignores the reports 5 days later when it shown they were using a counterfeit. So I can understand why Apple would care. Keep in mind this article is about bringing repairs to Mac. The 16” MBP has a 100WHr Lithium-Polymer battery. That thing is no joke.

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-new...
> - send battery / screen to Apple with all clients personal information

I trust Apple far more than any independent repair shop with my personal information. But also, what personal information is on a battery / screen?

Additionally I use full disk encryption via FileVault on my Mac and keep the passcode enabled on my iOS devices which is known to be secure. No one, not even Apple, knows my password/passcode.
Monument has had great experiences with J. It is fast, runs everywhere, and it is great for data handling and algorithmic dev.

Monument runs on an extended version of J that is implicitly parallel, which enables devs to focus on math rather than optimizing C code.
Oh, no there are a few of things here, and I think I got slightly confused. There is local signing, which I believe is short term - e.g. your own machine and device, which doesn't require paying anything to apple for a developer membership. This is for on-device testing.

There's also Ad-hoc signing, which I believe is longer-lived, requires a developer account, but has restrictions on how many people you can send it to.

As an enterprise user you can also distribute apps yourself to company employees without going via app store verification, though I think it's much harder to get onto this program https://developer.apple.com/programs/enterprise/ . This is what has occasionally been abused, I don't know how the certificate is revoked centrally though, but it's not for [user] self-compiled code.

It's possible that my knowledge of this is slightly off, because it was a few years since I worked with this stuff.
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New journaling app that analyzes your entries with ML for self-reflection on steroids.
Bolger vs. Amazon.com, LLC
If you have to do any serious repairs they will ask you to make a second admin account so they can login and test things.
> but people accept them as part of the process.

But that context matters because if it's both accepted and expected to the extent no one would make any material decision based on it, then there's no material intent to deceive, much less expected or actual harm.

I do agree that such meaningless platitudes are better left unsaid as they's just a waste of time.
This sounds like a 'deprecation tatics' to me.

You use a pavlovian adequation mechanism on your users for some time, labeling as "dangerous", until you completely ban the thing.

By then users wont miss.

I´ve never used anything Apple by this same reason. Apple seems to think that once you by one of their products, they own you.

Its not just inappropriate, for me its pretty scary and humiliating.

Its like that girlfriend or boyfriend who thinks it owns you, and want to say what you should dress or if you can hangout with our friends.

It dont get it how people can be ok with this kind of stuff (as this is just one example) and later just say it snarkly as if it was your kid being naughty, where actually it can have severe consequences if they can get away with it, and future generations wont even argue because its already normalized for them.
Will it? Or, like capital-intensive industries of the past, will deep learning funnel its profits into bigger and bigger computers, as has been done in the past and will be done again?
I have family in Mill Valley in that area. They've seen PG&E helicoptering in new polls in residential neighborhoods. I assume it was because the streets were too narrow but also likely that the community didn't want heavy machinery in their neighborhood.
I don't see how pricing can really fix this, because the price falls on individuals who aren't in a position to fix the grid. Do you think it would be effective by incentivizing people to buy oversized residential solar arrays and significant dispersed battery storage?
Is there something specific about Vanguard that you use it for, I can buy ETFs on e-trade and other platforms right?
Correct standard English would be "after he is there" and "to care for him". The masculine singular form is always used when the sex is unknown.
Don't they need to pay for and take care of country specific sales tax for you? If you sold directly to customers within the EU for example, you'd be liable to pay ~20% VAT for sales to most countries as far as I understand.

I don't know if 30% is fair but there's value for sure in making tax returns easier.
Myself.

If not for IME, I could have a computer under my control, running software guaranteed to be free from the Trusting Trust attack, right now.
You're saying your project costed millions of dollars, or the big boys' projects did?
It greatly depends on what that new behaviour is for it to be considered malicious.
Researchers one step closer to bomb-sniffing cyborg locusts
Delivery costs might go down at the expense of a large number of rural Americans unable to get mail at all.

Universal service has a cost and like roads, those costs may not be economical everywhere but none the less necessary (eg clean water, electricity, education, etc for all Americans regardless of which town they live in)
Expression Is Compression – David Perell
We want a few more families to move into your house. We don't like the fact that you have a complete control over your home, and I think you're just frightened that other families could run your house better than you. And by the way, you've never invited us for a party, so it is extremely rude and unfair, and just shows your monopolistic stance, so we expect that other families will open the doors for anyone who needs a full access to your fridge and amenities. But don't be afraid, it's for the benefit of your neighbours that we all care about, and eventually you will get used to it too.
> If you shine a beam of light into the sky, the light doesn't slow down, but gravity does take away some of its energy. As a result, a beam of light becomes redshifted as it climbs out of a gravitational well.

This is not true; or at least not that simple.

Under general relativity, the speed of light is c only locally. A remote observer can see a slowed down light.

It doesn't make sense that light could be bent by gravity, but not slowed down; and then there is the business of light not being able to escape from black holes.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/59502/does-gravi...
From bootcamp to job offer in 1,280 hours
GZip is a widely supported compression type for HTTP connections. It makes complete sense to have it be hardware accelerated.
Does the little guy enjoy doing business with an adversarial customer any more than the big guy? I can't see why that would be the case.
No big gnarly teeth, but re: the sibling comments, searching "dazzle cows" reveals https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figures?id=10.1371...

sadly not genuine dazzle camo but in the ballpark
It's not comparable to locking your car, unless you're in the habit of re-writing your phone's operating system every few days.
IMO, it’s about the moral equivalent of using dark UI patterns to trick users into performing actions they don’t want to do.

The scary warning and convoluted workaround for running un–notarized apps is ostensibly to prevent non–technical people from compromising their computers. Now Apple is abusing that security mechanism for Business Reasons that have nothing to do with protecting users.

The fact that users can technically bypass it is a weak defense; if it’s an effective way to stop malware, it’s probably an effective way to prevent people from running Unreal Engine games as well.
I talked to my brother in California yesterday during the blackout. He told me this joke that's going around there.

Q. What did socialists light their homes with before candles?

A. Electricity
I remember the database records feature that let you lay out the design of records in an intuitive way, even though I was too young to use it for anything! I haven't been able to find anything like it since. The other feature I used a lot was outlining, the WYISWYG Mac philosophy was great for preparing printed pages of notes.
A lot of the 'make money from home' ads are MLM too, with a similar effect on the unlucky recruits' bank balances.
> The idea that "life is meaningless" means that society cannot rely on you, because you'll do whatever strikes your fancy, whatever the consequences.

How does "life is meaningless" imply "life is useless"? Also, why would nihilism entail radical individualism? The core of nihilism is that since the indifferent universe is without meaning humans have to give it meaning, quite the opposite of what you're implying.
> We allow everyone to drive

Don't people normally get qualified to drive, controlled by the Government? Is that what you are advocating?
Hm, I notice the source code is missing? I did I overlook it
Makes sense -- Moody Road is a pretty dicey road for access and there's a decent number of homes that could easily be cut off there. Presumably in such a situation the opposite side access from Page Mill Road would be jeopardized as well.

Too bad the deadline has passed for nomination for LAH Town Council. You should run next time ;)
These are order-of-magnitude increases. If it costs $5m to train GPT-3, which is 100x more compute than GPT-2, then it may cost $500m to train GPT-4, and $50b to train GPT-5. This is what is meant by economically (not to mention environmentally) unsustainable.
I have been going back and forth with Linkedin the on this very topic. So help me out. Here is the list I have of 3rd parties.

https://www.jobleads.com
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https://www.ihireadvertising.com/
https://www.neuvoo.com is part of https://www.recruiter.com/
http://www.jobsflag.com
https://adzoona.com/
https://www.startwire.com/
https://eu.experteer.com/
https://us.experteer.com/
https://www.executiveplacements.com/
https://www.resume-library.com/
https://www.joveo.com/
At night in Death Valley, the stars are simply amazing. No clouds or even moisture in the air and no light pollution.

Back in 2006? I drove across the country (and through D.V.) in an old Porsche.
Yes, Apple should very obviously not have a completely unchecked right to disable arbitrary software from running on millions of computers for whatever reason they want. This is so obviously an abuse of power that I can't believe I have to spell it out so clearly.

At the very least such decisions should be subject to appeal to an independent board, and failing that the legal system.
I don’t see how this is the case. What is being put at risk if not the price tag/lack thereof?
FWIW, I don't think you were groveling. I think you were justly concerned with the livelihoods of your employees.

The GP just didn't want to put in the effort to empathize with your struggle, so he tried to paint you as pathetic and stupid and therefore deserving of suffering.
Detailed article that shows Uber’s thought process for moving away from PostGres. I am surprised no one has encountered these problems with indexing and repl before.
Because 2% more money is %2 more money and exec compensation is often based on fairly short term performance.
Luminous Computing – Photonics to Solve Data Movement and Compute
So when a friend of yours wants to message you and you don’t have the same app, what happens?

Both apps are free. Now you have to download another App Store to download the messaging app.

Price has no bearing here whatsoever.
150 isn't 'a little bit'. That's disruptive if there ever was something disruptive. A little bit would be to raise the average lifespan by 5 years. Prediction: all of our pension systems would collapse immediately.
Third party app stores on Android are purposely hindered in their functionality by Google. Restrictions in Android mean that they cannot install apps in the background, autoupdate apps or batch install apps. The Play Store can do all of those things, however.

Apple and Google have an effective duopoly on the mobile and tablet app distribution markets.
It's silly to take Schrödinger's Cat literally.

It's a convenience to explain states within equations. When you say "the cat is both alive and dead at the same time", you're simply saying "in this equation, do not assume that this variable will be one or zero, calculate the results for both conditions", and the final outcome will possibly be one of these calculated results.

The more such variables you have, the more different results you may get.
I don't follow. The game is free, "V-bucks" you buy, I think you just get character/weapon skins that aren't required. I don't love the setup, but since kids are hanging out on fortnite having it free lets everyone who wants into that world.
They can’t shut down distribution of source code, but:

- your typical user wouldn’t know what to do with it

- every install would run only for a limited time (only apps distributed through the App Store have a certificate that doesn’t expire), so those users would have to reinstall the app every week or so.

- it would make it harder for them to make money from it (they would give away the game for free. The in-game store wouldn’t give away stuff, but the source likely would soon be changed to support alternative stores)
Yeah, it's a lot of work to try and avoid copies and allocations.

cpython I think comes from a very different era where cpu speeds were much closer to memory speeds and you had a lot less latency between the two in terms of cpu cycles. Like reference counting would probably not be a design you'd start at today if you were designing a new runtime.

That being said, it's kinda amazing to me that cpython is only 4x slower in some of these benchmarks - and you can actually get within 2x with a different runtime that has the same guarantees and a JIT. It makes me think you have to have really good reasons not to choose Python for a lot of tasks given developer productivity and maturity of the runtime and libraries.
So, do you have a wallet with a dozen store credit cards or a wallet with a visa and/or MasterCard.

Imagine the former. No thanks.
Interesting problem. What is the general class of "find this object in other pictures" called? I've noticed that most image search aims at a different goal: "find pictures like this picture" so tineye, Google Image Search, and friends are unlikely to be of use.

By the way, it reminds me of the flag of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (a party from my home state in India), which coincidentally also uses a Sun amongst their symbols. I wonder if they've got a version with the Sun on their flag.

If I were an organization with clout in the field I would propose an alternative flag, but I imagine people are attached to this one. Well, good luck!
Hard to interpret this as anything but petty spite from Apple’s side. There’s no need to terminate their developer accounts for a violation of the App Store policy, nor does Apple usually do so.

I don’t generally like Epic, and used to be a big Apple fanboy, but in this matter, I really hope the judge tears Apple a new one, this kind of abuse of monopoly power needs to end.
I'm guess the "fake" resumes are just people with really, really bad resumes. Which is easy to do on linkedin (I don't know about indeed), because you just click one button to submit whatever you've chosen to fill out.
Desperately in need of footsoldiers.
Int the US, I believe it accounts for about 70% of ponds, which is a lot. Globally not so much but still the biggest by revenue, and has all the elites.
So, IQ and income are related, but I'm not sure if the causal arrow points both ways. Secondly, I think the 1) make an emergency fund 2) pay debt via snowball method then finally, 3) invest for retirement hierarchy is the most effective path to financial freedom, and given that poor people are more likely to have debt and no emergency funds, it's an okay assumption that they are investing prematurely if they haven't taken care of items 1 & 2.
Agreed. This is a calm and well reasoned post. Epic knew what they were doing, knew what they were risking, and did it anyone. Now there's nothing to do but wait for the courts to figure it out while Epic cries crocodile tears over their perceived grievances with Apple (and Google lets not forget).
That's a boss
If Epic chooses not to follow the rules, then Apple chooses not to trust them to deliver executable code to users.

You are arguing that Apple is incorrect to assert that rulebreakers should not have privileges to deploy code to end-user devices worldwide, when the rule is not one that protects users.

Apple's counter-argument would presumably be that this business rule exists specifically to protect users from being harmed by developers, given the prevalence of "free trial" subscription scams over the past X decades of Internet marketing (and before that, TV commercials).

So, I don't buy the argument that Epic did nothing unsafe. It takes seconds to construct multiple scenarios where users have been abused by third-party payment systems, such that Apple would consider them "malicious behaviors that impact the user".

ps. There's a technicality branch here on "malware" != "malicious behaviors", but, like, malicious payment processing is implemented using software, "malware" is "malicious software", so "malware" still applies to the scenario I constructed above — and that flexibility demonstrates why "malware" is a terrible abbreviation for whatever everyone individually thinks it means.
It's not clear how the Epic vs Apple war is going to come out, but both sides have doubled down on their positions, so it's probably going to take a while to resolve. So the worst case scenario, third party UE4 game devs being unable to get their game's code signed for MacOS or IOS installation, could happen.
This is hacker news; have you never encountered the visibility of identifiers in a scope? Or the visibility of side effects of a body of code? Visibility of a host on a network? ...
We took our kid to a county park where they keep some animals that were too injured to return to the wild, and give talks about them, etc. My kid was answering a lot of the questions and the presenter said "wow, you know a lot of about animals!"

"That's because I watch so much TV!!" my kid said proudly.

Bit of a cringe moment in front of the other parents, but then again, my kid did know all the answers...

(The relevant TV show is "Wild Kratts" on PBS and pbskids.org.)
It would be amusing if the outcome of this is that Epic has to allow outside sources of content in their games instead of having it in a vBuck walled garden. I'm sure many developers would be happy get a part of a billion dollar a year market without paying Epic a cut. Imagine the irony of everyone running around Fortnite in Apple store branded loot.
I respectfully disagree in my case. I don't consider myself a security expert at anything, especially at computers. This is probably 99.999% of the Apple customers.

People like yourself can probably manage their own security, have a secure NAS, multiple firewalls, etc.

Do you see it from the perspective of average Joe (or me)?
They managed to break Steam's grasp over PC gaming (at least enough to get their own games and some exclusives), they're trying for mobile now by taking on Google and Apple, it's hard to think the next step won't be to stick it to the console manufacturers if they have succeed
So anyone can take my Yubikey and use it to gain access to my computer without so much as a PIN? Is that a good idea?
They said slashdot, not HN.
You're basically saying hat the VC's have too much comp, and are not handing enough to the FAANGers.

Also - the weird tone about VC's 'enriching themselves' ... when that is 99% of the objective of most employees? People would not work at FAANGS for 1/4 the salary. The money is a 'big deal'.

The power imbalance is probably not the issue. VC's are comped somewhere in the ballpark of 'correct'.

There are zillions of new VC firms every year, capital is cheap - and most of them fail. It is actually competitive.

If there's a systematic bias, it's the immense power of the FAANGS and their ability to hold on to top talent and not always putting them to very good use.
> To expect a majority of journalists to recognize this sort of hype is unreasonable.

Give me a break. All the journalists had to do was watch the Google cars do the same circuits all day long in MV to realize they're just building a fake miles dataset for regulators.

Probably the same with the other companies involved.

Source: used to live on one circuit street off ECR. Saw up to 3 Google cars at a time behind each other, all day long.
The mysterious Mr Larsen: MI5 spy, terrorist or Walter Mitty fantasist?
> unlike with phones/computers where the consequences are nebulous.

So maybe they need to be educated on that? Or just, in general, to think critically at all times?

> Can you get social engineered into crashing a car or stabbing yourself?

There were cases of people "social engineered" into wearing bomb belts and blowing themselves up. It's just that this social engineering was much more sophisticated than telling someone to send bitcoin to have it doubled.
This feels like watching the tech business equivalent to the run-up to WWI. All these giants tangled up in contracts and economic leverage, bristling to carve each other up.