skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You’re missing the argument.

No, you are.

> Right now I have confidence that anything that can run on my device is signed off and approved by Apple.

> That gives me a sense of security and privacy. I don’t have to worry about something being approved or not approved.

(Except apparently you do, judging from your previous paragraph.)

> If there’s an app, I rely on Apple to have signed off on it.

That's why people are saying they should allow other app stores beside their own: So they can continue to curate and ban apps in their own one, and still not be (seen as) totally evil monopolists who use their entrenched position to crush potential competition in the app space.

Keep installing apps only from the Official Apple App Store — don't even install another one (they'd probably put up lots of scary warnings around that) — and you'll still be just as safe as now. Just like all the other inmates.
It might not be surprising when they implemented it by supervised learning, but when they also solved it by reconstructing the input it was like a rediscovery.
Apple hasn’t exactly hidden the restricted nature of the App Store from customers. On the contrary, they’ve been quite boastful, and view it as a selling point. Apple would likely be thrilled if this was the extent of the regulatory action against them
Dependency Injection Is Evil
I love the thing about "and then the fishermen returned her and her boat to the ocean"... That's pretty mean of them!
It’s valued by the users, not by the app devs.

It wouldn’t be an “alternative choice” app devs with leverage would ship outside of the store to bypass policy and force users to install shitty versions.

You might have to do this because of network effects.
And there's plenty of COBOL developers that have been trying to retire for years but keep getting coaxed back.

Maybe the nuance you're looking for is it would be unwise to not progress your skills along the way. Like Salesforce Classic is a dead end, but if you transitioned to Lightning you're probably ok.

Or Tableau, maybe you should be learning Google Data Studio, Microsoft Power BI, etc... at the same time.
Elon Musk’s Saturday Night Live Hosting Gig Is a Trap
Interestingly, in a first-ever move (AFAIK), the Pentagon ordered the tooling for the F-22 destroyed when they shut the program down. In every other case I'm aware of (and I participated in both shutting down and bringing back things when I worked in the aerospace industry), tooling and documentation/artifacts are carefully stored and preserved for possible future use. If there's one thing the DoD does know how to do, it's configuration management and archival/storage.
Certs are worth getting. I have 12, charge $100 hr as a contractor, and have only been doing it for 5 years. No degree. I get people reaching out to me daily for work.

I see it as a long term career. Salesforce has the tallest building in SF. They own Heroku.

Salesforce is not fun to work with. What is fun for me is being in demand making a ton of money.
For people w/ an EV, I have a question

How do you do longer trips? I live in Colorado and go on multi day "camping" road trips.

I'd be able to charge, but what's the time spent at a charging station along the way?

How would I find a charger in the middle of nowhere Utah or Wyoming? Often even gas stations are pretty few and far between when you're not on the more main roads.

It's only maybe 5% of my total miles, but it's the fun ones. In-town is a solved problem for sure, but seems less so for long distance, and often back-road travel.
Actually car also make them sleep. But subway has too much noise, which could wake them up.

For breast feeding, car provides a private space.

For baby crying and toddler drama, it's kind of embarrassing to have those in public transport.

I can even have the toddler pee in a bottle in my car, definitely not on public transport. Also change diaper, etc. etc.
There are currently a lot of government subsidies for electric vehicles in various countries, and I expect this will continue.
Me too!

Everything i know about vi/vim is :q and :q!
interestingly enough, for stage races, that is how things work to some degree for the "pack" finish, just not the guys going for the day's podium
Learn to create a solar-powered Raspberry Pi crypto “mining rig”
Many swim races are more than one lap, so you would have to adjust the touch pads for lap count.
I think this is the key. The strategy that makes you most likely to beat your personal best, isn't the same as the strategy that makes you most likely to win the race. Races this close don't mean that the athletes were incredibly exactly matched, but that their racing strategies kept them close to each other.
> Neural networks are universal function approximators

What about discontinuous functions?
Should even a wheelchair accessible public restroom cost $2M and take years to finish?
A hoverboard burst into flames. It could change the way Amazon does business
The blockchain only tracks ownership of the NFT itself. It doesn't keep track of who owns the art piece. As such it doesn't provide a record of the "provenance" of the art piece at all.
Well the point is that it does not make sense to DFT data before feeding it into a multilayered neural network (or calculating the force generated by mass and acceleration as you point out). Those formulas make no sense: the network can just learn them on the fly.

In fact you'll find that this does not just work for the Fourier transform, but for any FIR filter (and some other classes), and therefore neural networks can deal with signals and construct low-pass filters, high-pass filters, bandgap filters, ... as required for the task at hand without the network (or it's designer) having any idea at all what is happening.

I mean there's some basic assumptions these reasonings make (main one is that you need to feed many discretized values from a time window).

Of course, a problem remains: local optima. Just because a neural network can construct a filterbank or do a DFT, doesn't mean that it will actually do it when the situation warrants it. If there's a local optimum without filters ... well, you may get unlucky. It there's many local optima without filters ... sucks to be you.
Ett kutterschmycke.
I don't want to go back. I miss the face to face interaction, but it's a fair trade off to make given the perks of WFH
Android allows alternative app stores. But Google blocked Epic from pre-installing the Epic Store on OnePlus and LG phones. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21368395/fortnite-epic-ga...
IMO both vim and nano are perfectly fine tools. IMO the emotional gripes that people have with them are really more preferences in a world where everything is already near perfect.

Or maybe that's just me. Nano, vim, it's all good, but for the past 3 years I strongly prefer vim :P (before that I prefered nano because I couldn't find a good vim tutorial)
> do you need a SaaS for "feature flags", since they're just an if statement?

If you want the ability to remotely enable/disable a feature, then yes.
Things I have avoided over the past year: wearing uncomfortable clothes, being unable to use a restroom because it’s occupied, sweating from the heater, shivering from the AC, being held hostage by coworkers who talk at me about their personal lives and grievances, unpleasant noises, unpleasant smells, being asked trivial questions, the drama of coworkers who can’t behave professionally, ugly decor, uncomfortable seating, traffic, car troubles, parking woes, and unhealthy lunches. I realize these are small problems in the grand scheme of things, but we’ve proven we don’t need to deal with them, so I just won’t from here on out.
When have environmentalists ever been listened to?
You sound like you're the type of person who would enjoy working for yourself instead of for someone else. Have you ever considered it?
As a vim and emacs user, I don't give nano any hate.

I'm surprised when programmers use it, sure, but that's because if my profession was going to require editing text files for hours a day (which it does), I would be happy to trade a steeper learning curve now for a less unpleasant job experience later.

I totally understand why non-programmers don't use it. If your job does not involve you editing text files for hours a day, then nano (or a graphical editor - gedit, kedit, notepad?) is inarguably a better choice for you than emacs or vim - the effort involved will probably never pay off.

ed users: you have my respect, which I will dispense from a distance.
sportsmanlike is when you lose by a hair, you congratulate the winner and don't feel too bad about it. What you're suggesting is a test of competence, not a race.
21.1% is implying a different confidence interval than 21%. At least to me.
I think you'll find that the president who led America through WWII couldn't climb a flight of stairs on his own. Whether or not your assertion about Biden is true, it doesn't seem to matter one way or the other when it comes to leading a nation.
Agreed. Actually, I wish the norm was to communicate percentages with confidence intervals by default, because I feel like the tacit implication is colloquially "100% CI unless communicated otherwise."
I'm glad to spend less time commuting to a "family" that let go of 20% of workers last April and to spend more time with my family.
1 critical comment about nano, 3 top level comments defending nano from the evil vim users. (at time of reading)
How to Rewrite the Laws of Physics in the Language of Impossibility
Hmmmm "probably time traveling alien from the hollow earth", :P
Data on lifetime likelihood of death by cop in the US by ethnicity. https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793

It's very evident the US has strong implicit biases just from the Justice system. We could also look at incarceration rates, or sentencing disparities by ethnicity.

At some point saying "hey, we can't just _assume_ this is racist" _appears_ less like good faith debate and more like bad faith denialism.
Nano has the best anime avatar
https://youtu.be/k5HYzIw60iI
Debateably better to daydream about success than fail and realize you couldn't do it. In the first option you can at least blame someone else.
The field of web dev is so vast and nebulous, the idea that you can't learn anything new or that you've reached a permanent plateau in your career doesn't add up.

Also, Salesforce development is a specialized field. What you're basically saying is that in the entire, vast field of web development you can learn anything new or find anything interesting to do, so you want to move into something much more specialized/narrow in focus?

Can you provide some more details on what you're currently doing?
Google's messaging app strategy is completely incomprehensible.
> I thought that the purpose of lockdown (in the UK at least) was to prevent health care from being overwhelmed

Which never really pans out (field hospitals, hospital ship sent to NYC, etc.) - they got strained and perhaps local spots overwhelmed, but never doomsday scenarios we hear bandied about without any evidence. His point is that lockdown doesn't really change behavior and places that don't have strong mandates end up largely practicing safer behavior anyway.

I think there's also a strong argument that lockdown ends up decreasing the time spent outdoors, which promotes spread.
Just another example of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...
Ask HN: Why isn't there more outrage about Twitter deleting Modi critics posts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/04/26/twitter-india-coronavirus/

I'm amazed there isn't more controversy or outrage about Twitter removing tweets that criticize Modi's covid response?
I think the author's point is that every data transformation can be represented as a neural network. Neural nets are just many degree polynomials.
the nec plus ultra of pointless oligarchic extravagance - paying seven figures for something w/ no physical presence besides the grotesque amount of carbon released. Louis XIV's profligacy, at least, left a palace behind!
In the US, 33-50% of the population apparently had antibodies pre-vaccination, and we apparently did a terrible job keeping it out of nursing homes (so the percentage that caught it that died was higher than it would have been across the whole population).

So, it would have killed 2-3x more people, max. There were strategies that were developed after the 1918 pandemic that probably would have saved more people than the lockdown at much lower cost, but they were ignored by the politicians. The basic idea was to focus all resources on protecting the vulnerable, and let the disease run its course quickly. Effectively protecting the vulnerable during extended lockdowns is extremely difficult, and the COVID lockdown was no exception.
I remember having a unified inbox, of sorts, in Windows 95.

I don't remember the name of Win95's included email app (it was one of the ancestors of Outlook), but it supported plugins for various services, so in addition to my email from my ISP (SMTP/POP3), my inbox also contained Compuserve messages and faxes (not that I ever received many faxes).
I've been doing work in Salesforce for the last 7 years in two different positions. Both are smaller companies in the Midwest (smallish city of ~100k if you include neighboring towns). I know of at least one other company in the area that is built on Salesforce. It's not the most exciting work in the world, but it's work that I know is providing value for the companies and people I work for/with.

Pros: Salesforce abstracts a lot of the DevOps/database work that I don't have a lot of experience with and lets me focus on building the applications we need. Much of my current work is building out Lightning Web components, which is your basic JavaScript web development work built on top of some pre-existing components provided by Salesforce. There is a ton of documentation and it's easy to pick up on things you need to learn.

Cons: Salesforce has a lot of quirks to it that you'll become familiar with as you get into it. Build/test/deploy cycles are slower than normal, but they are working on tools to make that experience better. In some ways, their focus on no-code is nice and it's really easy to get simple things done. In some cases though, it feels easier just to write code to get things done, especially if you suspect the feature you're working on will get more complicated over time.

All in all I'm not sorry for getting into this space. I've had enough variety in my jobs that I've done some work outside of Salesforce and I don't feel pigeon-holed. The Salesforce ecosystem seems to be growing and their is a lot of work available. I'm in my mid-40s so if I can get steady work over the next 10-15 years with decent pay, I'll be more than happy continuing work in this space.

FYI: I haven't bothered with any paid certifications though I do complete Trailheads when I need to learn something new as a way to both learn things and provide a signal to potential future employers that I know what I'm doing.
> People in a state of confusion or crisis sometimes don't have the option of being cooperative with the police.

I hear your point, and I'm all for mercy, patience, trying to understand and help people in crisis, etc. But at the same time, choices have consequences, and you can't escape that. This isn't victim blaming, it's just a law of nature. It is a tragedy if someone gets into such a state of confusion/rage/whatever that they, say, try to stab someone to death, but it's also not wrong for someone to step in and protect the intended victim. And if the act of saving the innocent harms the attacker, that's awful, but the fact remains that the attacker would not have come to harm if not for their earlier choices.

> [0] https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793

I haven't had time to look at this study in depth, but a cursory glance suggests they are almost completely ignoring what is probably the most important factor, and that is the rate of violent crime (the second most influential data point would probably be socioeconomic level).

They show a correlation between race and death at the hands of police, which is indisputable. A causal relationship is TBD, though they brush up against it by stating, "This pattern is similar to the distribution of violent crime".
It's not clear if the author reported the newly found vulnerabilities, though.

I think most security researchers agree that public disclosure is the only recourse if an entity repeatedly refuses to acknowledge or fix a serious vulnerability. But you have to give them fair opportunities to understand and try to address the vulnerabilities before resorting to that.
Yeah exactly - it's great for numerical computing.

I get a bit annoyed by Fortran advocates complaining about people using C++/Python instead of it, when there aren't libraries for doing really basic things. I think Fpm is a really good step in the right direction though.
If you're running a gun without a metal chamber, you're probably going to have a bad time (unless it's a very small caliber such as .22LR). I would argue that if you're going to require metal in a gun at all, might as well require it to be the chamber to prevent catastrophic failures.
Rent a gas car for those trips.
I have never in my entire life met a female plumber, yet somehow I doubt that's caused by the inherent patriarchal bias in the ****-fixing industry.

Note: I have never even met a women that aspires to trying to be one.
Beeper seems to be doing a pretty decent job with a unified messenger. Though I don't think it does email (yet?)
Earth will only be habitable for less than 1 billion more years. We do not have any evidence of abstractly intelligent life forms outside of human beings. There is not enough time left for another intellect to evolve.

Like it or not, if we do not successfully become a space-faring species, all life known in the universe will be wiped out.
Yeah, absolutely no interest in going back to the office unless they make me, or they pay me considerably more. Maybe not even then.

I save at least two hours and $25-$50 a day by not commuting. No wear and tear on my vehicle, no wear and tear on me. I can pop out for a half hour and putter in my garden or take a walk with the dog.

Of course, I don't really enjoy people at the best of times.
Take any marginalized group. Call it group A. It is almost always the case that there are prominent advocates for group A, who profess (at least at first) to be pushing for equality for group A, but what they really want is special pleading for group A. The libertarian position is that equality is desirable; special pleading is not. The people who advocate for special pleading, once having dropped the pretense of being merely for equality, tend to argue that special pleading is now necessary to compensate for the centuries/millennia of oppression group A have suffered in the past.
I don't know why people downvote you:

//> we finally have an absolute number of sales measured, but no way of knowing - representing all sales within a period or just cherry picked?

//> for the rest of the population, did it reduced sales?

//> was there any randomised test or not, because in the latter case there could be other biases we're unaware of

//> the increase is compared to what exactly?

//> any WHY is purely speculative as what was measured was WHAT people did. Internal motivation is in this case unproven, there is just a potential correlation.

//> confuses me to hell people taking about error margins and confidence intervals for something measured directly.
After a year+ of fully remote work, I think I'd fall into the hybrid camp if it wasn't for commuting. I work the same exact hours I used to work but gain about 90 minutes a day cutting out the commute.

The reasons hybrid appeals to me is I do miss the casual interactions that happen when working in an office or grabbing lunch with random coworkers. I miss having a frustrating day and going to happy hour with someone to commiserate. I miss being able to jump up in a meeting to share something on the whiteboard.

But the trade-offs are great too. My commute now is one flight of stairs. I'm saving money on lunch. If I have to pop out to pick up a prescription, it doesn't involve planning my day around the pharmacy's hours. I can take a nap if I need it in something more comfortable than my car.

All-in-all, I don't think any of the three options is "perfect" as they each have ups and downs.
> and then happy that their assumptions where validated by their models

This was done in the pro-lockdown measures camp all the time, epidemiologists, etc. love using models based on assumptions that are used to show scenarios as evidence of the original assumptions.
Remember that at any time:

- Salesforce could announce a massive change in priorities.

- Salesforce could be bought by a competitor.

- Salesforce could be [more slowly] replaced by a competitor.

The odds of any of these things happening in the next year are probably quite low. The odds of something like this happening in the next ten years is pretty high.

I can't speak to whether the work is interesting or not -- I would assume that's it's not much different from any other general business programming jobs -- but IMHO, having general skills and being able to learn new techniques is key to having a long-term career in IT.
We are integrating Salesforce at my company and I am currently leading a large portion of that integration. Salesforce dominates the CRM market. Unless there is some sort catastrophic event that tarnishes their reputation, they will be around for quite awhile. Their system is incredibly complex and can be somewhat difficult to reason about. I believe if you specialized in Salesforce development or administration you can most definitely make a long term career out of it. Consequently, you run the risk that of becoming highly specialized which may make you less marketable for non-Salesforce related positions. Companies are going to spend countless engineering hours and bags of money to integrate Salesforce which will ultimately vendor lock them for an extended period of time. This is great for current and future Salesforce developers because it will add stability to their job market. I don't view certifications as a red flag but there are people out there that look down on people with certifications. That is a personal problem IMO.
We use estimation in days, for longer running project wherever have a collection of user stories we are tackling we tend to use the average cycle time for the team (how long it takes from starting the issue until it is done) multiplied by the amount of issues we are tackling.
Signed apps is not iOS-ification. That's just normal, sane security practices.

Apple is not deaf to their users, they know how important Homebrew is. Apple themselves gifted hardware to the Homebrew team:

"Particular thanks on Homebrew 3.0.0 go to MacStadium and Apple for providing us with a lot of Apple Silicon hardware and Cassidy from Apple for helping us in many ways with this migration. Enjoy using Homebrew!"

https://brew.sh/2021/02/05/homebrew-3.0.0/
http://caffeinewithdrawalgames.com/TRS/details.html

edit: This link doesn't really answer the burning question, which is "How do I play?". After a bit of looking around it seems that as of today, you don't, it doesn't appear to be released yet.
You don’t even have to be shouting slurs. Donating to the wrong cause is enough.
What Is the Price of Science?
> The documentary film was released and posted on August 20, 2020 on the YouTube channel of Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation in connection with the celebration of 75 years of nuclear industry.

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2020/08/rosatom-r...
I’m less worried about my credit card purchasing history being sold and more worried about the cc info being intercepted and stolen.

But if I’m going to share my info with someone, I would rather it be Apple than the likes of Google, epic, or some random app that’s allowed to take payments using whatever they want.