skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article: "They stumbled upon something in the app that mentioned there were paid plans, they went to the website and saw there was a subscription you could purchase, and then turned around and demanded we add IAP."

This is the part that Apple took issue with. Either they remove references to the external paid service, or they provide a way to pay for it from the app, with the usual fee. It's misleading to characterize this as "Apple forces a free app to become paid". Apple is just doing their usual thing of requiring that payments for features of an app cannot bypass Apple's payment system.
Progressive taxation would mean that the subsidy comes from the people making the most money. The goal of a UBI is to decouple basic living from employment, giving employees more leverage to negotiate pay.
In a nutshell, “There is no such thing as bad publicity”. Siblings explain in more detail.
I assume it's because people are awaiting their return to physical work environments. If your employer or team hasn't done anything to facilitate working remotely other than moving meetings to Zoom/WebEx/Meet, then you're right: people haven't put thought into video conferences.

There are numerous articles on why this impromptu remote environment isn't the same as traditional remote environments. Are people turning on their camera during meetings? Are people actually responding when talked to during meetings? Is there some type of plan outlined for team members who have kids in virtual school or are unexpected caretakers? Have teams been given the proper collaborative tools to work together remotely? Are working hours being respected?

There are lots of things people didn't think about when places went remote. The problem is that they never went back to address them either.
Why use ESDF instead of WASD

Fun game btw.
The principle of using skepticism is a sound one, but what do you do when the majority of your users don't employ that practice? Just let misinformation spread and just be okay with the ramifications on society because "it's not my problem my users are gullible"?
Apple denies Telegram claim that it ordered to shut down three channels
I'm pretty surprised the aws bot got through. I used to be responsible for detecting fraud for ads in the past and we had access to a blacklist that likely would include a lot of these ips. If we didn't do things like this, advertisers would actually stop working with us.
I see what you're saying about that implication. I think the effects were indirect; SQL winning meant that Postgres, even though it started out supporting only POSTQUEL, had to evolve to eventually supporting SQL -- though you are correct that the cause-effect was not as direct and as inexorable as might have been implied in the prose.

I personally think eliding details was artistic license to make the prose flow better without bringing in ancillary details, but that's just me.

Stonebraker did eventually change his mind about SQL however -- if you've watched any of his recent talks he's of the opinion that most query languages will eventually and inexorably converge to some variant of SQL. (he was wrong about Mongo inventing a SQL-like query language, but that's what his philosophical commitments look like these days)
Tell me, what do cartoons have to do with good science?

The whole point of Islam being against people in artwork, is to reduce egoism and superficiality. To not put anyone on a pedestal. Sure, it’s quite an extreme take, however...

Would you disagree that this is an issue in modern society? Selfies and social media perception above real life?

Not saying I agree in any absolute fashion with “no people in art” etc, but to argue in bad faith against Islam’s scientific position is just obtuse and argumentative. There is merit there.

And of course, this should go without saying but sadly cannot: extremist Muslims who commit violence in the name of these beliefs are horrible and wrong and guess what - not actually considered to be “good Muslims” by any true good Muslims out there, who value their fellow humans as also prescribed by their faith.
> nobody uses them because you'll never be able to use anybody else's keyboard

I doubt that's the main reason, and it may be unwarranted as I say below. Personally, I thought it would take too long for me to be able to type as fast as in QWERTY. Fortunately, I was wrong about that too.

I learned the QGMLW optimized layout from Carpalx (linked above) about a year ago. I trained on https://keybr.com and then on https://typeracer.com for a few days and in less than a week I reached 70wpm. I stopped training shortly after and now I can usually reach 90-100wpm. Not particularly fast, but I'm not any faster in QWERTY, and I believe I could get faster if I trained more.

Even though I almost never type in QWERTY anymore, when I do I'm still just as fast as I used to be. I never learned to type in QWERTY "the right way", though, and I suppose this is actually what keeps me from confusing the two "modes". Whenever I try to keep my fingers on their "appropriate" keys (like a properly trained typist would), it's like my brain switches to "Carpalx mode" (since I did make an effort to use the right finger positioning to learn it). It's kinda like switching between thinking in my native language and English - I can think in both, but it doesn't "feel" the same, and I'm more likely to confuse the two where they overlap more. Pretty interesting, really.
it's email/sms/phone-based. I consider "real 2fa" to be authenticator-based. Not vulnerable to SIM hijacking.

The email one has different problems (what if my email's hacked too?)
I feel like Twitter thinks it's way more important than it really is, with respect to elections at least.
The languages are related but quite different. The eco system and ABI are rather similar, though.
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> I was arguing with the "predominant" part he stated. I'm fully aware of bot manipulation. Who isn't?

You could have easily pointed this out above without being so argumentative. If you are so concerned about downvotes, perhaps you should avoid being so confrontational.
> It's what consumers want.

Do consumers want it, or is it merely taking advantage of some more subconscious human behavior patterns. And if the latter, is this something that is bad for humankind?
Fun fact: You're commenting on Hackernews, which was made with extra cash belonging to a man whose fortunes came from a successful CL business.
> When it's not being weaponized so much, they can keep it on.

Clearly you understand the recommendation engine is being weaponised at all times.

So why are you also trying to defend it?

As others have pointed out, Twitters motivation is entirely composed of two motivating factors: financial and cover-your-arse.
Julia, by virtue of being compiled, is also probably better for production. But it’s much less well known and has less library support, which is a significant barrier to use.
Threatening a public official, or even insulting one, is not a thoughtcrime, which means having incorrect thoughts. If some people use the term to mean something else then perhaps it just means that they do not fully understand the words they use.

Certainly threats are not free speech. Insults may indeed be considered free speech, but it's hard to argue that insults used in the way described in the law being discussed (which is about serious insults and threats to people while they're working) can serve any useful purpose including in terms of expressing one's opinion.

Note that in France this applies to anyone performing a "public service" so you would also in principle be committing an offence by insulting a bus driver.

I don't think this is unwarranted or excessive. Free speech is very important but, at least in Europe, people think that this does not give you the right to insult the police, bus drivers, firemen, teachers, etc. to their face while they're working.

I note further than in the US "fighting words, "threatening the President", "obscenities", and "true threats" are not protected under free speech.
It's clearly not a very complete list. I wish they had presented a more complete list, filterable by funding round, amount raised, year founded, year shut down, and maybe one or 2 other things.
Average person in developed countries spend hours on online media daily. I see that as a worrying trend. 6-7 hours for Americans so that would be a huge chunk of your life.

I wonder if people don't have time to buy other things to spend their day on due to social media being so addictive.
I wonder if that'll play poorly in the business crowd. Talking in hushed tones is bad but passable when there's a human driver. It's terrible when it's a recording device.
This is my first time hearing about uBiome. Oh well, at least I have one of their t-shirts from some startup trade show thingie I went to. It's pretty cool looking.
I agree with you. However very few "ML engineers" do any novel work, let alone "truly novel" work. Typically they just take the existing code and apply it to their specific problems with some tweaking. Sometimes they would try to reproduce papers when no code is available. Very few engineers are capable of the NeurIPS quality research - it does not matter if it get published or stays in a private repo. That's much harder to do and to teach than what 90% of typical ML engineers do. That was my point.

There's also a ton of bad research being published in second rate conferences, but I don't consider that "research". You won't get "simple extensions of what has been done before" published in a top level conference, the acceptance rates have been extremely low recently.
Can't wait for Apple to cut the App Store back to a thousand apps so they qualify as a console.
The absolute votes? No. In fact most of my higher vote comments are lower in substance (because people won't read long/nuanced posts, they want short black & white answers).

But it does irk me slightly when someone will -1 a comment without an explanation/response. I don't mind an active counter-view (heck, I may learn I was wrong!), it is the silent dismissal I cannot stand (and often seems knee-jerky when you criticize a sacred cow company/product).

But like all complaints like this, I am a giant hypocrite and have downvoted comments without responding.
No. I'm not a serial poster. But I mainly come for the interesting posts about technology and the discussions that surround them.
> super reliable

i've been scraping daily for most of this year, and fwiw gh actions fail pretty regularly. here's my actions log: https://github.com/sw-yx/gh-action-data-scraping/actions?que...

so if you want reliable data scraping you'll actually have to build in some sort of retry capability so as not to lose data. just fyi for anyone here
i LOVE schwab recommend their checking account to anyone. I also have a TCF account from my childhood and the difference is so stark.

Schwab has a US based super super helpful call center. They will talk to visa on your behalf and fix any problems immediately. They will go out of there way to be very nice and helpful. they've waived wire fees for me when they had very little reason to. So amazing.

You can't even get a human on the phone at TCF and they even recently got rid of local branch phone numbers you can't find it - which is insane.
> I completely failed

I'd encourage you to rethink this idea. GoodNotes and OneNote and Notability are fairly good at making the experience more robust than pen/paper. Especially the search function. It's so refreshing to not shift 100 pages to find one or two sentences.
It was posted in the correct place, but you can avoid it entirely using the same compiler by skipping builtins. So it is a library bug rather than platform lexer parser or optimizer.
The original scene from Goodfellas is pretty good, too:

https://youtu.be/8L4HHPTiZN8?t=12
Hi Peter,

You mentioned the prevailing wage update affects people renewing visas. Would you please be able to elaborate on that and the "field of study" change?

1.) Is there a guide to figure out which level you fall under?

2.) Lets say based on my years of experience (4 years + MS), I qualify for level 4, does that mean if I don't have base salary of 217,000 in NYC, then I am not able to obtain a H1B?

3.) If you have a related degree like analytics or data science, are you eligible to work as software engineer or has that become invalid?

4.) How long is this expected to run its course if no litigation or no other outside force provides adequate changes?
It's not cherry picking when wages have been stagnant for the last 40+ years.
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Have you seen Spot in Singapore parks yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viuR7N6E2LA

Makes me want to work on miniaturizing HERF guns for commercial distribution.
I think "kept pace" implies that if the trend were to continue. In your link, it looks like the trend for adjusted wages from the 40s to the early 70s is up and to the right, but after that point it reverses. Those two graphs still tell the same story to me.
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The company I most recently interviewed at asked questions about the particular technologies and associated libraries that were required for the job I was applying for. For example, what is your experience with React? What have you built using it? Have you used Storybook, Jest, etc? Tell me about a scalability problem you solved. What is your experience with AWS Lambda? My resume listed out my jobs for the past 10+ years, and they didn't feel the need to give me a leetcode interview. There was nothing to "crack" or study for, I just told honest stories about what I have done over the course of my career, and we had a conversation. Working out well so far!
Well, you start by acknowledging that by hosting hundreds of millions of people to your platform, you're also hosting the real world problems that come with them. And how you handle that a scale while mitigating the consequences turns into a nightmare.

Rather then evolving along with the needs of their users, Twitter froze it's functionality years ago. Twitter could have added a range of moderation tools, allow users to opt-out from re-tweets, trends and such, allowed people to create groups and communities, foster active cooperation with key users and it's communities,...

Why didn't that happen? Because those hundreds of millions of users aren't paying customers. Investing in all of those things simply isn't worth the investment or pressing enough in terms of optimizing for revenue through advertising and business intelligence.

An audience is a valuable commodity, and so what Twitter doesn't want is risk losing that commodity. Tweaking the functionality of the platform is such a risk.

However, hosting hundreds of millions of people who aren't customers, is also a huge liability. Worst case is having governments representing those poeple imposing hard regulatory frameworks that hurt revenue and profitability.

In a way, it's akin to the lions of the circus. People pay good money to see the lions perfom, but the circus has to accept the risks that come with keeping lions. Which includes getting shut down because the lions escaped and went to town.

So, why does Twitter cater to hundreds of millions of people, and why does the circus keep lions? Because the profits they gain from doing so outmatch the risks they have to accept.

Getting back to your original question, Twitter is basically Humanity's stream of consciousness materialized. It's prohibitively expensive, and rather utopian, to be able to moderate that in a meaningful way which caters to everyone's contentment. By contrast, Twitter's aspiration isn't to provide the best moderation, it's to implement just the bare minimum in order to not lose it's value.

Looking back at the blogpost, you'll find that most of what they propose is tweaks to how they filter content and a small tweak to how you do re-tweeting based on existing functionality. No fundamental changes to the feature set are put into place. On the scale of Twitter's operation, that's mainly targetting low hanging fruit since introducing more substantial changes would be a huge gamble that might end up hurting the business.
Yes they do, which is why the US made that in impossible in the 30s. Making it so that unions can only form on the basis of company level votes, along with myriad other restrictions, made it so that the labor movement could never have as much power as it does in Europe.
It's a physics game really, about velocity, mass and angular momentum
>> "we're gonna turn it back on in four weeks"

We'll improve our site for 28 days, but the other 47 months of the year we will, uh...
New app from Skoda can hear what's wrong with your car
Wow I feel like I need this thread for my 2012 MacBook. It has been the best computer I've ever used. No issues, no keyboard problems, MagSafe, etc. It is falling out of support, though, and I am sad for the future when it goes kaput.
The tjournal post(Russian): https://tjournal.ru/tech/221326-apple-zayavila-chto-ne-trebo...

Translation of the post with DeepL: https://telegra.ph/Apple-stated-that-it-did-not-demand-remov...

Previously on the matter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24722130

Both claims of Pavel Durov:
https://imgur.com/tfbpMDu.png
https://i.imgur.com/DM5oxh0.png

Quoting him:

> This sly wording ignores the fact that channels like @karatelibelarusi and @belarusassholes consist entirely of personal information of violent oppressors and those who helped rig the elections – because that is why those channels exist.
i dont know Adora and i'm sure she has useful things to teach people. however i really wonder if this clouds every interaction with people going through YC. it's kind of the huge elephant in the room.
Bus drivers are not making MW anywhere.
OK, so the compiled files are free/MIT, but the source files (MJML) are indeed proprietary. Interesting compromise.
I guess people can brand themselves as "successful" after what is by all objective standards a spectacular failure.

I have no idea how impressive Adora is and I cannot speak to her qualifications, but HomeJoy should be a textbook example of an SV failure.
As long as you could still target based on:

- location of ip address

- article/page the ad is placed on

You could get targetting down to a very small number of people, and consequently make advertising very cheap.

Because of the degree to which paid advertising us about creating common knowledge that a product exists, ads of this sort are likely more useful to the advertiser anyways, at least in the long run. If you merely want to inform people that your product exists, there are usually cheaper forms of marketting.
Software AG IT giant hit with $23M ransomware
Wages have not stagnated. Disposable income adjusted for inflation is up enormously since 1968, while at the same time, the average number of working hours per year is at an all time low. This is according to data collected by the federal reserve.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=rKwm
To all those who failed (apart from the weird sounding fraud with the FBI), well done for actually climbing into the arena and fighting. Better luck next time.

To the rest of us. Schadenfreude is its own reward.
Schwab's 2FA is app or hardware token-based.
https://www.schwab.com/help/two-factor-authentication
The person who was accused of "stealing customer data" was the other co-founder - not Adora (CEO & now YC partner).

If you actually look into the details of the matter, what happened was that the co-founder acquired the failed company as it was put through a bankruptcy process.

People who weren't privy to the process thought it was stealing when it really wasn't different from any other acquisition.
I’m still not sure. Was I unable to solve the task because I was on hour 10 that day, and I could easily have solved it had I done it in the morning, or did my subconsciousness really tackle the rest of the problem overnight for me?
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I don't get the last section, where you just name 4-5 small "failed" startups. For most of them, you don't even have any real insights!

Why pick on them, for no reason? They didn't do anything unethical, and most didn't seem to even raise a Series A.

You have no clue why they failed; you just speculate... and you don't just name the companies, you call out random founders by name. These people put themselves out there and worked hard, and now they're going to get a Google Alert saying they're in a blog post called "Biggest Y Combinator Failed Startups."

Most YC companies don't work out. In my batch (5 years ago), about 80% are out of business now. That's okay! That's just how it works. I'm all for talking about failures, but it's weird you just pick on a few small random YC startups.
I see hints of it starting: The Waterfall Model's redemption arc.
I like how stealing is called growth-hacking now!
It seems to me that the damage is pretty limited for a cyber criminals with alleged ability to bypass 2FA. That low number of victims among millions of RobinHood customers is highly uncharacteristic for a critical security breach.
> im surprised it hasnt been flagged

Yes, we should most definitely send some authority to punish this awful display of mocker of our religion. It's real science we're talking about here!
> Julia is great for explorative programming, while Python et al are better suited for slightly more structured, more productionized programming

In Julia, explorative programming is productionized programming, you don't have to switch to a different or restricted set of tools to make your program fast, it's the same code that you can profile on the fly. With types, you can patch your hotspots by adding a specific method to the generic function, and it will get invoked automatically instead of the more general case algorithm.
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Broadcom doesn't sell its processors to end users.
Just one data point, in my experience, when it comes to creativity at least, pen and paper beat screen and typing.

It could be because it is engaging the senses and the hands/brain more, or the physicality of the paper itself.

And another counterintuitive fact: when it comes to ideas, drafting in pen and paper is also way faster.

The second draft is a different story.
> The person who was accused of "stealing customer data" was the co-founder, not the CEO & now YC partner.

So, her brother?
And they require skills. Which puts them firmly out of the mindless, worthless, broom pushing category that was being constructed here.
The idea of folders rooted in the physical world is obsolete.

Use a system with tags so you don't have to chose one or the other.
I'm glad you clarified this. Your original statement reads a bit like the undeveloped cortex is due to people being poor and stupid rather than because of being young.
I think there's something inherently unethical about Apple making it against the rules to let people know they're paying more to buy it on Apple though.
But why aren't they paying a living wage in the first place, a wage that they were paying in the past if not for inflation?

And wouldn't the cost of the subsidy mainly be spread across the upper end of the middle class and not the employers, making it be a net benefit for the employers?

Walmart for instance already has a huge emphasis on setting their employees up with welfare and using that to pay them a below living wage, why would expanding that system convince employers to pay more?
https://adnauseam.io/ ?
Let me ask this: what evidence is there that the results of Twitter's censorship are actually in line with the political beliefs of Twitter's employees?

In many cases, Twitter's rules have been used to suspend accounts that people thought they were supposed to protect. And Twitter has gone out of its way and contorted every rule in order to protect the President from censorship and suspension, out of "public interest", despite the fact that he has repeatedly violated the rules that would have caused anyone else to be suspended.