skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I would say this because the literal text is

Isn't this statement exactly what the 9th amendment says not to do when interpreting the first 8?

> A person taking a picture to share with their fellow man or even using facial recognition to enrich that communication with more info could well be protected

...well, that's what's prohibited by this law.

> an org feeding a video stream into facial recognition to blanket gather info on your fellow man would be apt to be disallowed

...and that's not prohibited by this law.

That's what we're dealing with here in Portland.

I hate to be an RTA guy, but did have you taken the opportunity to read the ordinance?
Consumerism is irreconcilable with environmentalism, capitalism is probably irreconcilable with environmentalism.

What is there to discuss? Alternatives to capitalism? Capitalism in the absence of consumerism? Is that possible in the absence of retail? Stores? Low prices?
IIRC they're syscall implementation is ABI compatible with Linux so you should be able to run unmodified Linux binaries (assuming the syscall itself is implemented).
Here is an example: https://teslaownersonline.com/threads/panel-gaps.8168/#lg=at... - notice the unevenness? I would guess that not only does it look bad, it will eventually start to rub out paint or cause wear on the panel due to the unevenness.
Perhaps? But I’m not aware of anyone (besides the DMARC crew) who could implement this, or even having been involved, so it seems mostly moot?
Hey HN, this is my first blog post!
Its about my saga of searching for Leonardo DiCaprio on the Rotten Tomatoes website. Search on that site is about the worst I've ever seen.

It's a comedic spin on a series I hope start about venting on various things in the tech space. Let me know your thoughts!
Please flag the above comment. It won't let me delete it now, and debating with this crew of simpletons is just entirely unrewarding.
> We already have another sandbox - browsers. And you're seeing problems with extensions, popups, .dmg downloads and .exe virus scans, etc. So much so that browsers are constantly fighting against attacks for 20 years.

They are, and, if you look around, they're winning: billions of people use Windows, MacOS and desktop Linux, safely, to do all manner of things. Billions of people use the web, which involves all kinds of code from all kinds of places - none of which is held hostage by a single absurdly valuable corporation - and, judging by the continuing success of that platform, I would say it's doing pretty well.

You know what's terrifying? This argument is terrifying. So, you brought up the web … assuming iOS continues to be what it is, and eventually people just stop bothering to make websites: is that okay? Is that what we want?
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Not sure how common but this has happened to me as well. Coding challenge complete, follow-up interview scheduled... then cancelled. Rescheduled... then ghosted.

It was a cheap way of figuring out I shouldn’t even consider working there.
Market forces should have already brought in more people into software if they really are that high, bringing down the salaries. What other measure would you suggest? Importing supply from abroad? Whatever it is, it would lead to a reduction in pay, which you suprisingly support - that amounts to walking into your boss' office and asking for a pay reduction.

> In areas that aren’t constrained by density limits, homes are actually very cheap.

That's the point. The effect of cheap construction labor only affects the rent prices in some areas, in other areas owners pocket the extra profit - while making construction jobs largely untenable except for immigrants coming from poverty.

I suspect something similar could play out in the software field.
This is why Python is my dedicated coding interview language. You could do something far more impressive in C++ or Rust, but if you don't quite finish the full implementation it's an automatic fail with some interviewers even if you had to take into account many nuances that a Python solution wouldn't.
>> the western parts of the country is literally on fire.

Currently under investigation as arson.
Let us assume a random candidate Mary who is batting at 20%, i.e., she passes to the next stage on every 5th attempt. Now if we follow the typical interview loop

a) Take home test
b) Phone screen
c) Onsite
d) Offer

How many take home tests does Mary have to take to get 1 offer? The answer is 125 and if each is 2 hours then 250 hours. So a single test in isolation may not seem like a big deal but if every company had their own criteria and take home exams as a pre-qualifier, the candidate would face a uphill battle to find work.
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I said no such thing. No one said that there weren’t keyboard issues. Apple was getting eviscerated for years by the Apple pundits for their horrible keyboards.

But you know what I didn’t do? I didn’t buy a Mac laptop with a keyboard after everyone knew the keyboards were bad and then complain about the keyboards.

It’s not about Apple being perfect - it’s about people buying a product that doesn’t meet their needs and then complaining when there are alternatives.
> try going a Month without using your Macbook, Ipad or iPhone. Hint:Good luck

Hint: PC, Windows, Linux, Android. Congratulations.
I don't want to sound snarky... but I can't even pronounce this website's domain name. This breaks their own rules.
> For example, apps should not encourage placing the device under a mattress or pillow while charging

Is this rule referring to anything in particular? Was there an issue with a pillow-warming app that I missed out on hearing about?
Never heard of regulatory capture?

If the government regulates something, that very often means that the incumbents will donate/bribe officials to pass regulations that favor the mega corps.

Getting government regulations that actually favors the consumers is somewhere between difficult and impossible.
It's perfectly reasonable to use a hypothetical to reveal how consistent or measured an argument is.

And none of what I've said here is so far removed as to be useful. Wearable or implantable cameras are coming. Taking photographs of one jurisdiction from another jurisdiction happens all the time.
> I know that some of this is nerves but it can’t account for all of it.

Why not?

If you've never experienced severe situational anxiety, you may not know how debilitating it can be.

And then, maddeningly, perhaps just minutes after the interview is over, you return to your "normal" self, and start to think about what you would have done in that situation if you weren't nervous.

It's basically stage fright, which can be terrifying if you're not used to the stage.
My perception is that climate change policy hasn't been sufficiently focused on biodiversity, maybe because it has taken so much effort to get the public on board with the idea that the science is real.

That's going to have to change.
Wait did you really think they were going to start writing OSes in Swift?
Actually, PHP has checked exceptions exactly like Java
That’s because covid ran through NYC in April leading to massive per capita loss of life.
Just to clarify, I thought the author of the linked piece was suggesting that people could share actual code from previous employers somehow. Of course it's reasonable to ask people about their past work in an interview and to expect them to speak about it coherently.
The second derivative of population is decidedly negative, as is the slope throughout the high-consumption regions of the world; optimism on that front is rational.
totally agree. See my other post here.
The fact they need rules to enforce use of their inferior payment system shows how inherently anti-competitive IAP is. If it were optional and you could freely roll your own purchase mechanism, most (not all) developers would remove Apple IAP with the current 30% fees.
Structural integrity?
Summary tweet thread by the author:
https://mobile.twitter.com/AlvaroDeMenard/status/13043994376...
> Consider the amount of code this would take in CL.

I don't really read APL - but isn't this just a map/reduce over the pixels? - maybe (length (remove-duplicates 'pixel-data)) or some such?
Doesn't seem to happen on Android.
I hate the syntax for lambdas in general, but not the concept of them. But the same is true for several things in C++, like functors.
processes are lightweight and stateless
>Believe it or not, nuisances are enough to stop some people. A lot of would be attackers are just cruising for low hanging fruit.

It is not "some people" that I worry about. I worry about attackers with a level of skill.

As I noted elsewhere in the thread, I have audited obfuscated code and the obfuscation is only a speed bump. I can only presume that attackers are smarter than I am, and obfuscation is effectively not an issue. And it is not an order of magnitude. This is another example of developer thinking that this form of obscurity is of any real value. Reviewing code will tell you if eigenvector_coefficient is really what it claims to be or something that morphed into something that the developer didn't originally intend.

Also keep in mind that code reviews approach code from a totally different angle than a developer would either developing or during a code walkthrough.
Well the GP was saying that density is the problem but really it’s the solution. High density keeps our mess contained and reduces carbon output.
My first CD burner came with a PCMCIA ("People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms") SCSI card. That only had Windows drivers. It might be supported by the Linux kernel by now, but it's long gone. And I don't have a computer with PCMCIA slots anymore.
>The fact of the matter is this, management _is_ a promotion, because you get paid more and you gain access to more powers. If it were _not_ a promotion within the company, no one would take it up.

Disagree. It's a different job, not a harder or easier one. It's just a lateral move. Some people are better at managing people and projects, and some people are better at doing engineering. A lot of managers become managers when they realize they're a medium tier engineer and they're honest with themselves and realize the future is stagnation. These managers tend to be the better managers! They have more empathy for the tradeoffs that are occurring.

That being said, where this is partially true is that it's certainly easier to move up the ladder as a manager than an IC, in my experience. There's just more jobs to be had.
you can often give a company a pass for a shitty interview, but you should name & out them for ghosting you as that is a far more systemic problem indicator. When I'm interviewing I want the poeple we don't hire to go away and have good things to say about us because they will tell many people about their experience. Companies that are disrespectful and inconsiderate to the point of just cutting off contact should pay the price.
I think it’s a response to the pandemic. Many people thought they’d be really productive during the lockdown, only to find that lack of free time was not necessarily their biggest barrier.
They're all beneficial or they wouldn't have gone to this stage.

Maybe you don't think the benefits outweigh the risks, and that's a valid question.

However, the concept obviously has tremendous potential. All the variety of life is after all genetics. Improvements in nitrogen uptake could save tremendous amounts of fertilizer and help the environment, for example.
Not cool. This kind of imperialist mindset has historically been at the head of some of the most awful actions in human history. Including forced relocations, imposed poverty, sustained resource theft, sustained vandalism and theft of local artifacts, slave labor, and even genocide.

If the rich world really cared about the wildlife in Madagascar we would fund green local infrastructure projects so that the local population could enjoy a sustainable lifestyle on their own.
So the first thing that I do with one of those is to parse it and convert it to s-expressions. Problem solved.
I assumed this was about the time Kevin Rose throw a raccoon down a flight of stairs
> I haven't used Apple's App Store; is it really true that, say, Ford Motor Company can buy one $9.99 (or $99.99) copy of some useful application and use it on all of the corporate Macs?

No. :) I tried to be clear that I was thinking about individual licenses rather than site licenses, but might not have been, and you're absolutely right about corporate site licenses. Apple's App Store is designed for handling individual licenses -- they're tied to Apple accounts, not machines. (With the asterisk that this isn't necessarily true for iOS devices which can be managed by your company, and there's a whole different way of managing those, but companies I've worked for haven't used those.)

I'm not sure I knew Microsoft was still requiring license keys like that for Windows, but I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.
This is why VP's own P&Ls. It doesn't matter if it's someone else's fault. You own the P&L and it's your job to fix it.
Good point. I'm sure some of the candidates who do our assignment have stuff on GitHub or elsewhere, but thought they could do better work with the assignment.
I'm struggling to walk away with a crystallized view of why port-knocking is bad, though.

I do agree, nobody should be going to sleep at night, relying solely on obscurity as their source of protection. But these commenters are offering it as an additional layer of indirection. They're not touting it as _the_ solution, full stop.

At the most basic level, would you refute the claim that port knocking or alternate ports are adding additional friction for an attacker, or no?

Myself, I would prefer to run a simple, (hopefully) set-and-forget daemon on my server if it really did add an extra layer of obscurity to my secured SSH service.

I guess I just fail to see why it's one against the other.
Bio-banking is worthwhile in some cases, but generally speaking it's on par with escaping to Mars in terms of practical utility. Genomes without a hospitable environment would be mostly anachronistic.
Thanks for the search term.

But it's funny, what you see as positives I see as negatives. When something has a devoted fan base but nobody else uses it, it tells me it's something incredibly niche for a reason, and therefore probably not applicable to me.

And a bad homepage would be a horrible intention. Why would any product ever avoid an audience? Why would you only want people willing to look past a bad homepage? That sounds like it's screening for people who have a lot of time to waste. I'm not sure why that would be your target audience.
Ew, god no. I think Apple should be allowed to offer us their idea of a good product and let the marketplace choose between that, Google Android, or other competitors who believe they could do better offering open source Android. The idea of having parts of your product designed by the competitors who envy your success is utter madness.
> Why not Al cans?

I am sick and tired of this being the solution to every problem!

Anytime there's a legacy business model in need of polishing, they plate it in Al and call it something new.

Al doesn't work that way. There's many uses it excels at, but it's not a panacea.

Nowadays, we have Al toasters, Al refrigerators, even Al watches. Yet no one stopped to ask if these were devices that needed Al.

Hell, I even heard about a company that's building Al homes. Interface with your car and everything.

Personally, I can't wait for the next Al winter.

/1950s sarcasm
NOT knowing the internal implementation details of everthing is what has gotten us this far in the first place. You just don't evaluate candidate data structures that often in the vast majority of programming work.
My thoughts exactly as I’ve been exploring strapi for a recent project.

The UI allows for build out the schema, and has all the CRUD interfaces pre-built and the CRUD api endpoints.

But then the code is still all there and you can add additional controllers actions, model hooks and services.

I haven’t run into any hard limitations yet, been very impressed.
It does run on real hardware, it's just very limited. Graphics card support is quite basic, it can't boot from a disk with a partition table (so the current ISO image uses a bootloader to load the filesystem into memory and emulates one), only the rtl8168d and e1000d Ethernet controllers are supported, and there's no USB HID or mass storage support so you need a PS/2 mouse & keyboard.
It's not just the ability to sell goods on iOS. It's the reviewing of the app, the upgrades, any App Store curation, any developer support, the iOS itself, etc. That said, I think 30% is too high as an industry standard for software.

The one thing I think that might be the most costly for Apple are all the free apps on the App Store. I know you need to pay $99 a year but as they are free Apple sees nothing in return from those apps.
If you have better data, then by all means, do share it with us.
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> Apple already declared a policy against game-streaming service apps.

I thought they did just the opposite?

4.9: Streaming games Streaming games are permitted so long as they adhere to all guidelines — for example, each game update must be submitted for review, developers must provide appropriate metadata for search, games must use in-app purchase to unlock features or functionality, etc. Of course, there is always the open Internet and web browser apps to reach all users outside of the App Store.
Speaking as someone who cares about the environment, I think that environmentalism in Germany has parallels to religious practice. I don't think that it's a coincidence that Germany is extremely areligious, and that sorting trash is taken to such an extreme.

Sorting trash is a ritual, it is slightly sacrificial in time (especially returning bottles to the store), and it can be seen as a penance for the sin of purchasing single use products.

I think we will continue to see more things like this pop up as people search for meaning in their lives, and want things that they can do daily to affirm that meaning.
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Marco's proposal fails to incorporate the fact that the fees collected help pay for the App Store... It's not free to create and maintain.
"Because nothingness was bored."

( Original intention of the backstory of https://andromeda.fandom.com/wiki/Trance_Gemini )

(Yeah, not quite anthropic principle, but definitely popped into my mind as something to give a 2-year-old)
Optional is okay. Of course, you could still be a real jerk and return null instead of Optional<T> and the compiler won't warn me at all and I'll just get an NPE at run time... But it probably won't happen.

The problem with Try/Result is that you still have to do manually unwrapping and/or early returns. Scala and Haskell have monad comprehensive to make this less noisy. Rust has the ? operator. Java has nothing. This makes your code WAY more noisy than having a try-catch inside your non-trivial function.

In a proper world, callers should NOT be aware of all exceptions a function can throw. That's exactly the point of having checked and unchecked exceptions. Checked means the library author thought there is a chance that you might want to handle the exception locally. Unchecked means the library author does not want you to try to recover- they've already determined you're screwed.
I mean, my takeaway from that is that Mary is not a very good candidate, not that there is something broken with the interview process. She only needs so many interviews because she has a low success rate. Most people aren't doing nearly that many interviews in an actual job search.
I actually want a phone with absolutely no app store. Just browser is fine. Given the amount of information it holds, adding any kind of apps that allow system wide access is horrifying to me. Since we don't have such phones, the next best thing is a store run by a company that can have security staff, highly paid security engineers and a whole bunch of people trying to make it secure than some reddit group that wants to distribute apps to billions of people. For that, as I said, just use a browser.
Truly absurd. Followed the link in your profile. You wrote VSCodeVim! 49,674++/14,291--. And because you used the "wrong" HTTP verb. Did they also say you should have used tabs instead of spaces?? Outrageous.

By the way, thanks for VCCodeVim!
I don’t know if you have seen the trash heap of bad apps that is on the App Store. It gives the distinction impression that Apple does not reject bad apps, only apps they don’t like for arbitrary reasons.

I do agree that the best solution would be allowing third party stores.
why? honest question
That's perfectly in line with expectations for a new inexperienced hire at a FAANG. If anything, it's a little high for entry-level even at these companies. Obviously much higher numbers are attainable via career progression or already having such a job to negotiate from as leverage.
For example, my team at one of the big software companies has code in Rust, Python, C++, Go, Elixir, C#, Scala (Spark), and probably another that I don't remember right now.
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Yeah, I'm ambivalent about that. From a purely theoretical standpoint, sure, bad actors should be punished. There's also slim but non-zero chance that they'll reciprocate and attempt to harm my reputation, and we'd end up in some dumb internecine conflict. It's good for bad actors to be punished, but usually irrational to be the one doing the punishing.
I know. Free usenet, mail, IRC... at a gratis cost in the 90's would be like a godsend. You lucky...
A tangent: are VPNs other than WireGuard less likely to have vulns compared to SSH? Seems the same to me (or worse for OpenVPN a few years ago)
> vs What in 1990? Pray tell. Parallel IDE? I'd have laughed in his face if he said that.

Yeah, back then Macs were bad, but at least they had SCSI, so they had something going for them. Of course, then they went to IDE, and had nothing going for them anymore.
Similar: “cry once, buy once”
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That definitely happens too. But over the past ten years they have definitely consumed some of our chickens.
If the whole process is capricious, it says a lot more about the company than about any individual interviewer.
Mate, I think Epic are bad guys doing the good guys’ work. Apple needs to be taken down a peg in the interest of the whole market, and sadly the only ones volunteering for the job are scumbags themselves. In the end there will probably be victims on both sides no matter what, because it’s always about the dollar and never about the consumer, sadly.
I remember hearing a (possibly apocryphal) story about how it was discovered in one town that all of the recycling was getting incinerated. It was then asked why they needed to sort everything, and the answer was that it was useful to help control the temperature of the incinerator.

If the flame was too cool, throw in more plastic. Too hot, more wet compostable material.
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You are correct, the case was Apple v. Psystar: https://casetext.com/case/apple-2

Of particular note in that case is the court ruled that Apple's alleged "monopoly" over the market of "Mac OS-capable computers" was not a valid antitrust market because users knowingly agreed to the EULA restriction limiting installation of Mac OS to Apple computers when they initially purchased Mac OS.

I expect this very same issue will come up in Epic's case as well with regard to Apple's alleged "monopoly" over iOS app distribution.