skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at education as a luxury good: I really liked learning economics from an economics Nobel prize winner, math from a Fields medalist, and I'm sure I'm forgetting other luminaries.
The difference between SHA1 and voting is that expert consensus is that SHA1 sucks, and that expert consensus is that systemic mail-in voter fraud has not taken place.

Either be an expert on the subject, or defer to expert consensus, or provide clear evidence for why the experts are all wrong. You've done none of these.

I can't believe that in 2020, I have to assert, on a technical forum, that people making technical statements about security should either know what they are talking about, or provide evidence to back up what they are saying.
> This issue impacts literally every phone ever sold.

No, actually, most phones did not release an update like this, deny the situation, and then also refused to let people purchase replacement batteries.

The issue is that Apple did this update, did not tell people about the whole thing, however you want to describe it, and then also did not allow people to buy replacement batteries.
I’ve worked in credit risk modeling and it is rather strict the predictors that can be used and well documented. Data comes in from a variety of sources and it is favorable to be skilled in established models than to try something obscure that isn’t intuitive. The models have to work across different sets of time and the varying business processes that may have been in place. Fraud modeling is more flexible, but seemed to have fairly similar results although more trendy things like random forests and neural nets would show up.
This is obviously not tax advice, but I think the earlier poster is referring to reductions to AGI that are on "schedule C" titled "profit or loss from business". Some tax language seems to refer to these as "deductions", but they are distinct from the "itemized" or "standard" deduction. Schedule C goes to Schedule 1 goes to 1040 line 7a. The standard or itemized deduction is on line 9. The Qualified Business Income Deduction on line 10 is another AGI-reducing gimme for people who get 1099-income distinct from the standard or itemized deduction. And don't forget, your eligibility for Marketplace plans including subsidies is based on your (Modified)AGI, not your gross income, which can be a costly mistake (Based on what I understand now, in 2020 my household would have been able to get a marketplace plan with subsidy but we didn't due to not understanding the income guidelines).

(note: I may have mixed referring to 2019 and 2020 tax forms here, particularly wher I cited line numbers)
they'll change the name of the app/service every 4 months and finally deprecate it in 3 years...?
You can't really get away with just knowing del from vector calculus, as this is the geometric-calculus del.
∇F = ∇ . F + ∇ /\ F

But for defining the terms you're going to need a couple paragraphs to go along with the one equation.
Its portable. You can choose your drug with a phone - games, texting, facebook. And it pings and pings and won't let you get any respite. Its different in intensity from all those things that came before.

I just think it deserves some analysis - what's the maximum distracting addictive information rush we can support without becoming disfunctional or chronically obsessed? Isn't it worth finding out, before we give children unrestricted access?
> until there is confirming evidence that assertion is just mental self-gratification.

I'd say this is a bit overly negative. There's value in developing theories and frameworks which aren't yet provable but should be as soon as technology or other theoretical frameworks catch up.
I signed up to a lot of other websites to get an email when a 3080 went up for sale, but I noticed that I'd get a notification way after the limited stock had already sold out. I suspect this is so people don't try to run their own bots because they think they have signed up for a service to run one for them, but it may also just be because they're so huge and have many thousands of emails to send.

I am not planning on advertising this anywhere so feel free to sign up and get notified as soon as my bot sees something :) I've already got a 3080 from it. My friend wanted to use it so I figured I'd make it usable to anyone.
So NSA has an algorithm to not capture Israeli communications, or if it does automatically deletes anything with a "Cohen" surname?

I don't think what you are saying is even technically possible ("we spy on everyone except this small country"). Everyone spies on everyone.
My wish-list: EU, PRC, USA, Russia - in that order. The US has had its chance.
Exactly. In many other markets, the retailer takes a full half of the sales prices. For instance, my parents are professional sculptors, and standard gallery commissions are 40-50%.
How should we handle misinformation from official sources? It wasn't that long ago the New York Times told the world they had evidence of Saddam Hussein possessing weapons of mass destruction, setting off a chain of events that literally killed hundreds of thousands of people. In today's political climate, the misinformation that led to the Iraq War could never have been exposed.

Edit: surely I'm not the only one who remembers how the NYT almost singlehandedly started a war based on false reporting?
It simply affords you the same level of security enjoyed on macOS up to and including 10.10 (Yosemite) -- which was state of the art until July 9, 2018.
It was what the article was about. This 'drug' is portable, instantly accessible and actually pings you constantly for attention. It's like nothing that came before. And whitewashing it as 'more of the same' is disingenuous.
If the issue is visually surveiling employees and their computers, can't that be solved for remote work by issuing every employee a camera and tripod to be situated over their shoulder, remotely monitored by whoever was physically monitoring employees on site?

If the video feed goes dark, the surveillance operator could trigger a forced shutdown of their laptop (or even better, disconnect their RDP/VDI/etc. session).
So Apple creates a closed ecosystem and everyone is cool with it for years and now we are demanding that they need to make it an open ecosystem?? Lolol
Yes! The market is the name of the system which sets the salary, but the name has no descriptive power. Just like the opening to the article:

> I should have loved biology but I found it to be a lifeless recitation of names…
So kind of like super easy to upload google cameos from a browser? https://www.google.com/cameos/2ZhjhGne/4NgPQa?hl=en
Note that it's not uncommon for an individual's cells to differ in DNA. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/21/science/mosaicism-dna-gen...
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> No, they created the possibility for the most valuable mobile software market in the world. Third-party developers were the ones that created it into the most valuable mobile software market in the world.

No, they literally created the market. The products sold in my supermarket don't create the supermarket either.

Whether what Apple does meets the legal definition of tying is an open question. I doubt it, clearly you're convinced, which is to say, you're assuming your own conclusion.
After not drinking alcohol for more than a year, I just feel alcohol is such a drag on life. A lot of mental energy and time consumed in alcohol related activities. Planning, buying, drinking and recovery from hangover if you had too many. Not to mention physical effects like upset stomach, feeling cranky next day, headaches etc.

Just like we don't like to overwork, so our body. Not processing alcohol and its side effects - few less things to do for our body. I feel very calm most of the time and less anxious than before. I also didn't fell sick in last one year. No visit to doc.

Above all net positive in mental and physical wellbeing are too good to have one or two drinks.
The device is fine, and so's the battery.

What I'm suggesting is that you consider the 100% performance mark to be far side of the performance curve at the end of the expected life of the device, so 80% capacity after 1000 charge cycles or 2 years, give or take.

With that as your baseline ("100%"), if you can make the phone perform better than the that in the first few years you're offering an early-life performance boost over the baseline, not a late performance degradation. Otherwise, the far end of the curve is the performance level you'd have to artificially limit the device to in order to avoid any change in performance over time. The phone was defective before the update was shipped as it didn't appropriately account for this normal battery degradation curve.

Apple was basically giving you more performance than you paid for, for free, early on -- not stealing your performance down the line.

The only time you should be told your battery is defective is if it reaches the 80% mark in less than 2 years or 1000 charge cycles along the defined anticipated performance curve. I do agree, however, that a battery replacement should be available at a fair price to those who want one.
This ship already sailed before the Intel Mac days.

Apple shutdown all the Mac clones, stopped releasing details about the hardware, etc.
I believe it is the court case with ID TOSLO-2015-67093 [1]. Trough my old university account I still have access to lovdata pro so I was able to search for it and view it. I am to lazy to reupload it tonight, but if you are interested I could do it tomorrow.

[1]: https://lovdata.no/pro/#document/TRSIV/avgjorelse/toslo-2015...
What I don't understand is why a bank would loan money to a leveraged buyout when it so often ends in bankruptcy.
Yes, 100% agree with you. Even the user experience of the App Store seems deliberately crippled - it sometimes won't even show a specific app you search for by name! The idea seems to be force developers to spend even more money with Apple to promote their app on the App store.
Yet the fact remains that what they’re doing is still not good. It’s a bad thing. Them taking a 15% cut for no reason other than they can is bad, and evil.

The reason people shouldn’t be praising them for loosening their iron grip ever so slightly is because they are currently in the midst of the most antitrust scrutiny they’ve ever had to worry about. With that context, this 15% reduction is clearly nothing more than an underhanded deflection tactic.

The legal system is the only thing that’s going to help “indie” developers. Apple themselves are not going to do it. They’ve shown nothing but more and more disdain towards competition over these past 10 years, and the only time that has started to change is when an actual legal threat appeared.

I don’t even know why I bother writing this, since it’s all obvious. And even though it’s obvious, some people continue to ignore it and come up with excuses for this company for some reason. I don’t know what that reason is, but I doubt logical arguments are going to make a difference. Hopefully the courts aren't the same way.
Not surprising that people that make money on this is more shortsighted than HNers that doesn't.
I completely agree with you on UEFI - PC vendors mostly have really done the right thing vis-a-vis Secure Booting Windows with MS keys and Linux with custom MOKs.

Keep in mind anything Intel does with their CPUs and GPUs has historically been Linux compatible for the most part - that's just the way the market has been. So it is not far fetched to assume whatever MS is doing with Pluton would at the very least not prevent Linux or BSDs from booting on x86 hardware. And with the Microsoft of today they might even release the specs - after all there is talk about Pluton being used in Azure - and Linux/BSDs can benefit from it too.
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I'm surprised you find Paypal to be a user-hostile service! I've never had major issues with it. Would you like to elaborate?
Every X hundred miles feels kind of like where I was going. Even then, there's a very active question of how many uplinks each given uplink ("gateway") would need to make, to provide the massive amounts of bandwidth required. Anyhow, I found a couple numbers on spectrum that are semi-interesting to me to assess what spectrum resources Starlink has purchased. According to this site[1], Starlink has:

27.5 – 29.1 GHz and 29.5 – 30.0 GHz and 47.2 – 50.2 GHz and 50.4 – 51.4 GHz = 6.1GHz of spectrum for uplink from base-stations ("gateways") to satellites

10.7 – 12.7 GHz and 37.5 – 42.5 GHz = 7GHz of spectrum for downlink from satellite to user "terminals".

According to this page, a year ago they were authorized to run 6 gateways.

I'm not sure how much throughput they can push to a satellite with 6.1GHz of total spectrum. It's still interesting to me to try to consider how even the current 893 satellites get anywhere near enough throughput up to them to be well utilizing their own downlink capabilities. I'm still only inuiting, but it still feels like something doesn't add up, I still don't see how the fleet is going to get enough bandwidth. My previous image of a data-center bristling with dozens & dozens of dishes pointing & tracking upwards indeed doesn't seem quite right (and the side-lobe interference question I was asking about), but the alternative, of a massive network of ground stations each boasting colossal connectivity, seems almost equally hard to imagine.

[1] https://www.elonx.net/starlink-compendium/
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They did ship and have been shipping batches. This is the mass production run, not the early adopter dev phones you can find on eBay.
I doubt it’s A/B testing, more likely some multi-armed bandit algorithm.
That would have to be Apple just like Bootcamp. It's not just drivers - there's also bootloader and firmware.
I wonder if he can sue the corporate shell that still holds the obligation to get his IP back ....
I was looking for a project like that about a slack for the same reasons about memory and cpu.Thanks for opening the path I'll look into it.
Maybe not quite the same thing as in your country, but layaway used to be fairly common in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layaway
Basically it's the data plan that matters. The call time allotments are so large that they don't matter anymore.

Coverage is still an issue.
I think that's a very good way to have a long list of things stashed that you don't remember what they are.
Commiting your changes is much better as you can add an explanation for your futur self.
I'm currently working through Naive Lie Theory https://www.amazon.com/Naive-Theory-Undergraduate-Texts-Math... by Stillwell and there's a lot about quaternions in the first chapter, including their standard matrix representation. You'd need to be familiar with some group theory to fully understand the 3D rotations but the matrix operations are clear enough to start coding with, I think.
> You would get the benefit of prepayment discounts and an accurate financial picture when looking at your main account.

I've been using YNAB for a few months and it's perfect for this. I used to park large sums in different places to keep track of what was what, but since I just track it all in YNAB now I can happily park most of my cash in a HYSA.

It pays for itself!
What I do is extract spacing, colors, fonts and other standardiz-able elements in SCSS maps and use them in standard css BEM class definition.

As in

color: c(cool-gray-800);
background-color: c(cool-gray-100);
font-family: ff(sans-serif);
padding: s(m);

Where c, s and ff are SCSS functions returning a value defined in scss maps.

If you find the tailwind definitions useful, they’re easy to borrow.
Recently, I went to Peloton dealership to order one bike. They offered 39 months 0% APR. I asked if they can give me some sort of cash discount. Because of lack of cash discount, and availability of 0% APR naturally I financed it. Perhaps, that's how Affirm is getting their business.
> school taking up 100% of her time, energy, and attention that is preventing her from pursuing creative interests?

This was the problem for me when I was a kid. I had limited time to play my favorite video games. So I spend whole days in school imagining and planning what to do in the game in order to trade school time for the game time in a very inefficient way, and all my life was optimized to make full use of my game time - even though I was not playing. Separating kids from their favorite activities don't usually work as expected.
Salary is higher in areas where the source of money creation is. The current source by our economic design is currently in the banking credit area. Then the business type, telling the story that appears to be the most interesting for these kind of guys, gets most credit, with this credit, all saleries are paid (so independent from real market or need, just based on a 'market' of imagined future value, if we would sell it would be..remember finance crises, people lost real jobs because money creation stopped). So it is no wonder that health care workers get less and others a lot more. Its not really earned but shared along story telling lines. One fairy tail is "market". Unless the banking investment guy gets sick, once in a while, he has no interest for biology or health care, but he likes big machines and cars. Its hard to imagine how biology is usefull for him, unless just to make a lot more money to buy more cars and penthouses, why not 'invest' in that directly?. Just my little theory :-D
>What we recognize as freedoms and human rights are more appropriately associated with limited government, separation of powers, and republics.

There's a term for this, "liberal democracy".
Sure, but luckily there do exist careers somewhere in the middle! Data volumes are becoming much larger and many biotech companies these days are building out extensive software teams to tackle all sorts of challenges.

There's also an entire field of computational biology where you apply (and innovate) on huge datasets using ML/algorithms.

In both types of roles you can remain fairly close to biology while still writing software day to day. Many biotech companies will even compensate at bay area tech salaries.
Agree - From personal experience, Biology undergraduate eeducation in the United States and its tendency toward rote learning seems optimized for medical school admissions (MCAT, are you tough enough?, etc) and not for becoming a biologist
It seems more like he was watching educational videos on YouTube before getting a phone, and has since become addicted to other phone things?
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I don't like the Ebay and PayPal fees and it's not like there is another option, can we get those reduced too?

I don't think the fees for selling my goods via Amazon are fair. There aren't many real competitors to Amazon. Can we get those fees reduced?

I want to sell my game via Epic or Steam and they are charging too much. Can we get those fees lowered?
Probably travel for a while, take care of those bucket list items, and then figure it out. My creativity is completely dead from working in big tech (see my user name) -- it will take some time for it to come back and then have a sprouting of various ideas.

I'm really not in a place to plan beyond that right now.
I remember how some a16z podcast they were talking about this. How for the salary of a decent frontend web developer you could hire the best biologists in the world. So if you had to hire both, the market is determining a salary structure that would almost certainly cause social issues in your startup.
Corporate/social media censorship is now the en vogue censorship and the one we are most problems with, at least in the western world. Or maybe it's the one with most publicity. In comparison, government/ISP censorship seems to have died out and be pretty mild.
However, something like China's censorship is much worse than social media.
I thought we luckily would be free of such, but I do consider Poland western, and Japan a reputable democracy. It is still dangerous because a threat we thought dead or dormant is still active.
"I should have loved biology but I found it to be a lifeless recitation of names"

This is a common complaint when learning many subjects, and many teachers don't explain why the names are needed.

Take music theory, it has an insane amount of vocabulary and concepts to assimilate, but if you watch any of the popular music theory videos on YouTube around these days, you get a glimpse of what mastering those terms looks like.

So, extrapolating to other areas, it seems like school needs to do a much better job of explaining the focus on vocabulary. The language of Algebra, the language of Organic Chemistry, the language of Music Theory, etc, etc ... what superpowers does mastering those languages unlock?

To me, watching someone work who already mastered those languages in action can be very inspiring, even if haven't reached that level of understanding yet.
This is a strawman argument. To see why, lets compare with Facebook.

How much money does it cost to develop API servers to deal with apps which use Facebook sign in?

How much money does it cost to run those API servers in a performant manner?

How much money does it cost to make sure that those servers are secure?

How much does Facebook charge? 0.

I could keep going (or find many other examples), but the point is that the justification of a price based on the seeming cost to the provider isnt relevant.

The issue for me here is that I should be able to run the apps that I want on hardware that I have purchased. Imagine if you buy a TV and then all of a sudden, the Netflix app is removed from the TV because Netflix didnt pay the tv manufacturer AFTER you've already purchased it.
> behalf of Cisco

Cisco is not part of the military industrial complex.

Boeing or Lockheed Martin on the other hand, I'd be extremely surprised if our intelligence agencies didn't give them stolen tech.
Not sure even if Google can be trusted as reviews can be from friends/family, I've seen owners give themselves five stars, and recently saw signs posted on stop signs about buying five star reviews for businesses on Google.
I'd much rather have a helpful compiler error than run something that has been "repaired" and may silently do the wrong thing.
The iTunes api gives you almost no useful data. And it's rate limited to 20req/min, with no alternative.
For those curious, ∇ . F is called 'interior derivative' and relates to divergence, whereas ∇ /\ F is called 'exterior derivative' and relates to curl.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_calculus#Interior_an...
I think one problem we have is that every year there is some new shiny language that is hot. And companies and recruiters expect you to learn that language or stack which is ridiculous. Back when I was in college in the CS program I made a decision to focus on one language and only learn that and try to become good at using that language. I know my way around a few other languages but rarely use them. Like a carpenter who uses a few tools but has one favourite tool. I think that is OK, and nobody needs to learn more tools or stacks or languages. If people expect you to do that, just move on and find a company where you can do what you want with the tools you want. There is a lot of "you should be learning X or doing Y" and this just creates a lot of unnecessary stress and it's ridiculous to expect that. Lawyers only need to know a few tools, and nobody expects them to learn new tools every year. They just have to do the bare minimum to keep up. Same for a lot of other professions. I also think that recruiters and companies just use the "you need to know X" excuse to simply pay you less. So don't fall for it.
I posted about this yesterday [0] and the post was flagged. Well, here you go, 24 hours later and we find out what happened.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25133562