skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d much rather save $$$ than to pay everyone else’s repair bills.

That said - its just ridiculous how much Apple charges for individual a-la-carte repairs. Or rather lack thereof - they’d just say replace the entire motherboard or display.
> Maybe they should try to engineer things so that they don't break within a reasonable time frame under normal wear&tear. Would save money for both themselves and the customer in the end.

You sound pretty confident, but just think about this: do you really know more about how Apple should be run than all of their executives combined, or is there a false assumption here?
Yeah, but you aren't allowed to ask about a candidate's marital or parental status, and age (at the crude not-a-20-something level) is usually apparent without having to ask.
WPM in the 90s is above average, but not "very, very high"! But I can see that you are a really really really big fan of adverbs...!
I have missed tax differences.

In New Zealand you are getting a 3 year warranty and getting something guaranteed in return - and the extra price appears minimal once tax differences are included.
> I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)

Nice.
That doesn't necessarily follow. It's really difficult to predict what people will do in the wake of trauma. The adult photoshoot could be an attempt to take ownership of it in some way. Whether you see their behavior as rational or not, you can't assess their mental state on that information alone.
> I think an even more interesting perspective is that they aren't the same thing, but they can be implemented in terms of each other.

I don’t know, I think that it’s perfectly reasonable even from an engineering/computer science perspective to say that they are literally the same thing, just viewed from two different perspectives.

After all, what is an object? It’s some code, with bundled data. What is a closure? It’s some code… with some bundled data. I think it’s fair to say that this is a “is it a vase or two faces?” situation. You’re looking at the same image, just seeing it from different perspectives.
Question: Where can I find these companies that heavily bias towards hiring young people / new grads?

I'm 23 with 1.5 YOE and so far my experience has been the opposite: Startups and companies I want to work for only have open positions for seniors and seem to mostly discard my applications, despite the fact that I've been programming in my free time for practically a decade now and consider myself a strong developer.

At this point I've honestly just given up and decided to work for crappy companies for a few years until I have the resume to get a job that I actually want.
This. I stopped writing shell script for the exact reason. When something is more complex than launching a couple of commands, and involves for example JSON processing, I write the script in python.

I realized it after wasting multiple hours debugging problems at work in scripts that used jq or AWK or similar tools and most of the time the problem was solved by quoting randomly things, except when discovering that there is the edge case that I didn't considered and the program broke, again.

Now when I have that sort of problems I don't even bother trying to fix them, I just rewrite the whole script in python (they are usually small scripts so it's a question of 15 minutes most of the time). And writing new script in bash is banned (except particular cases).

Also there is the concept of portability, most people assume that everyone has a way to install that tools because they have on their system, it's not that simple, and while putting things in production or on the CI it breaks because jq is missing. And good luck with Windows, by the way.
> My point stands: We do not know how the vaccines will react with new variants.

We also do not know what reactions may result from new variants + eating chicken, or wearing green shirts, or exercise.

Better play it safe I guess.
I think it should not be allowed to change after purchase because it is open for any changes and once you don't accept you will not be able to use the product. Forcing you to accept any change
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I'm not convinced that effect handlers are other than (at most) just a different name for delimited continuations.
It's just another speculation scheme. "Protect your money from inflation" means "make a bet that our token's price will go up".

If you want to safeguard your savings against inflation, the way to do it is to invest it in vehicles that are backed by something, like corporate stocks, government bonds, real estate, or commodity money, not a vacuous line on a digital ledger supported by nothing but people's hope that it'll be worth more tomorrow.

Valiu's claim that they're backed by USD is dubious at best. Tether was running a similar scheme, we now know that they only have 2.9% of the money that they claim to have in reserve, the rest having been traded away to mysterious LLCs in the Caymans, and many of their coins printed out of thin air.
The intent is supposed to be the same as with the usage of PhotoDNA. If anything, this is proof that security by obscurity is an effective strategy not only for hiding activity in a black box, but also preventing potential protesters from ever becoming aware that there was a problem to begin with.

I completely agree that the magnitude of the backlash against Apple is not fair in comparison to the backlash against every other tech company using PhotoDNA, and it feels hypocritical to for everyone to have given them a pass for over a decade despite the principle and intent remaining the same.
Ask HN: Best US mobile carrier/s for security and privacy?
With the recent T-mobile breach I'm re-evaluating which mobile phone service to use, and how best to configure my mobile device for security and privacy. I'd love to hear recommendations from the HN crowd.

Ideally I'd like one without sim-swap vulnerability. I recall Google Fi being considered one option meeting that criteria, primarily because they lack human customer service reps and thus can't be social engineered into porting numbers to new sims [1].

Is that still the case? Are there any others that do security and privacy well, that HN'ers are happy with?

[1]:https://www.usenix.org/system/files/soups2020-lee.pdf
Some stm32 boards are supported, yes. But not many. My fork on GitHub adds a few more.
> For example, it's possible to detect political campaign posters or similar images on users' devices by extending the database.

So who controls the database?
Yeah this has happened to me. I wrote a simple script that spams spammers from a pool of phone numbers I rent. At one point my calls were starting to get connected to other targets of the spammers. When I noticed this I actually got on the phone and tried to tell the other person that they were being scammed and they seemed appreciative.
I like the idea of more operating systems to pick from. I'd love to try Haiku or BSD one day soon. What motivates people to invest in these very niche systems?

I'd love to play around with them for fun but is there more to it?
> Government construction of lots of housing was tried in the 60s and late 50s, with numerous public housing projects. It's generally considered a failure, because once the units were constructed the government had little incentive to maintain them. It was also a key pillar in enforcing de facto racial/class segregation.

Sure, but evidence of incompetently developed infrastructure doesn't mean it's impossible to develop infrastructure competently (although we americans do tend to assume our government will build infrastructure with maximal incompetence, and our government in turn often does). Anyways, it is an option even if it's not the best one.

> Removing barriers to subdivision and construction can work though. That's the approach that Houston takes, and it succeeds at keeping home prices low, even if you do get occasional negative consequences like homes built inside a flood reservoir.

yep. I don't like the car-centric development style that Houston is built as, but you can't argue with results (meaning, affordability).
>Apple's role is not the police and they don't have the responsibility or moral imperative to scan for illegal imagery on their customers' phones

What if the police come to Apple with a warrant? Should Apple have the responsibility to reveal the user's content to authorities?

Part of the motivation for this type of thing is that E2EE effectively makes the old system of warrants obsolete and hides this data permanently from authorities. Lots of people see that as a huge win. Lots of people see that as a huge loss.
No, it doesn't get sent to LEO. It gets run against another hash function that can't be guessed using this method, and an apple employee looks over it.
Ad.1 Same value of each of 96 bits of the hash.

Ad.2 If hashes are to be matched approximately, not exactly, for example will be considered a match if they differ in less than 3 bits out of 96 then the most interesting thing should be how many collisions you can find if you compare them like that.
>I hate this *king division of countries into first world, third world, etc.

You're getting your nomenclature discombobulated. During the Cold War, first world was US and her allies. Second world was the USSR and her allies. Third world was all the others. Third world got branded as "shitholes," because they didn't have support from the superpowers and the superpowers tended to intervene in their local politics, or steal resources, etc.

>There are certain cities in a "shithole" country that are far richer and better in certain neighborhoods in a "first-world" country around the world.

Yes, most of the US by land mass would be considered a "shithole," by many people including myself, that was my original point. People in non "shithole" countries come here far less than countries who are worse off than us. That puts us in a pretty low point on the "great countries to live" scale. Somewhere slightly above Cuba and China. In most of the US, the economic prospects are grim and the federal support is near non-existent. The US is ok if you are the top 20-30% of earners, otherwise, it's pretty crappy. It wasn't always like this.

https://www.google.com/search?q=boarded+up+small+town+usa&tb...
Temporal Increase in Potency of SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies After Sputnik V
A bunch of people here are talking about having 2010-2015 Macs running, in contrast you don't see too many PC laptops of that vintage.
> This site has proven now that it's easy to create pictures whose hash matches (colides!)

But no-one, yet, I think, has cracked open the blob containing the neuralhashes of the NCMEC CSAM corpus which are the actual hashes you need to create pictures to collide with to flag people under Apple's new system, right?

(This may be because the blob isn't yet on the phones; I don't know, I just haven't seen anyone mention it wrt creating hashes.)
Anecdote: I bought my MBP 2015 model 15 inch in 2016. It’s my only laptop and still works like the first time (battery cycle: around 600/1000). Zero problems. Still on Catalina, though. I removed like half of the stock software that came with it (e.g., Garage band).

Having said this, I’m looking forward to the new MBP model coming this year.
> If not, what is going to convince them to stop at this point?

Maybe if masses of people go into apple stores and save photos on demo phones that collide with the files they're looking for.
Do those phones get scanned? Will apple ban their own app store accounts?
> The Amazon app/UI is HORRIBLE, too.

Zero control over playback speed is the deal killer for me.
When this happened to me, the spammer remained on the line and attempted their spiel to the other person, giving me the opportunity to intervene to some extent.
Yep, I recently bought Dragon Warrior 1, 2, and 3. I’ll buy 4 soon, but wow - it is not cheap. I play them on a Retron 5 which can play NES, SNES, GBA, Sega, and even Famicon cartridges. It also lets you set hot keys and toggle turbo mode. It’s pretty great.
That’s true. But it does help with the blocking their ads.
What might be interesting to consider is quality control in the various eras of Apple (e.g. 70/80s Steve Jobs, 80/90s Sculley, 2010s Cook).

Of course, keeping in mind that Cook-era Apple is operating on a more massive scale (product shipped, wider distribution, more product lines).
The goal of a war usually isn't to rack the highest bodycount, but to break the opponent's will. IDK how this works with fully robotic armies, but some devastation of the homelands is probably expected. The concept of a war front has been already muddled since the advent of airplanes.
That was previously submitted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28300234
haiku has hired an

existing contributor

who will work full time
It's funny how the wheel goes round and round. I loved it when Netflix had a lot more content, but now that each studio/production/company offers its own, it's ending up like nothing more than streaming a la carte and people are returning to piracy rather than spend hundreds across various streaming services (like cable/dish...).
@cyberge99 check out BrainTool[1]. Its a Chromium extension that allows you to capture bookmarks and notes into a hierarchical topic tree thats stored in an org-mode syntax plain text file editable w emacs or any org editor (incl Orgzly on Android). It's not browser dependent for capture and navigation (not sure how it could be) but otherwise checks your boxes.

[1] https://braintool.org/2021/08/25/Managing-your-Browser-with-...
What Apple does is they make a new model or add a big feature to the latest model and drastically increase the price. You can see that with the iPhone X, the iPad Pro, and with the introduction of the retina macbook pro's, or even with the touchbars. Apple knows how to increase prices and keep the vast majority of their customer base.
It feels like HN has really gone downhill… low quality comments, many pontifications and arm chair opinions stated as fact despite zero relevant experience, snarky comments, a ton of politicizing, less toothy technical information (articles and comments)…

I’m actually tempted to delete my account and stop participating, but I don’t know where else to go to instead. I liked old HN.. anything like it now? Suggestions?
I wonder when they'll add this feature to MacOS?
There's a setting to disable video podcasts and only get the audio. I don't want to watch a podcast via Spotify, and I hate that it's hidden away in settings, but it is there.
By this logic children can't have any surgical procedures, because u need to consent for that. That's why children have legal representatives.
Very cool! I struggled with this exact problem at a previous role to generate reports from the results of a simulation codebase. Ended up learning and using Django, which always felt overpowered for a simple static report. Excited to see how the product develops!
The concept of exit interview feels strange to me, as European.

Most to the time one just needs to give HR the resignation letter and that's it.

If one has enough vacation days to fill up the notice period, they don't even need to show in the office again, if they feel like it.

Naturally everyone will want to know why one is leaving, including the boss, but one isn't required to hold such conversations.
memoryholing episodes == ?
Here is some advice I hope you find useful: I wouldn't hire you based on this because all I see is a shit ton of 3rd party libraries stitched together. The exact opposite of what I would like to see in a good engineering candidate.

So you may want to rethink your approach in terms of putting forth qualities that speak to your engineering prowess.

I also wouldn't personally use this software as it has so many 3rd party dependencies that one would find it hard to audit or make any robustness / security guarantees.
I can see it being used to forcibly start an investigation of someone, but the image itself is not CP and would be quickly proven as such assuming you have a halfway competent lawyer.

There's a fair point in there about public defenders not meeting that bar, at least in terms of the quality of their representation given the amount of work they have, though.
Same here. I've sometimes wondered if getting a newly minted college degree would work to bypass the age filter.
> who may then forward it to the FBI who may then forward it to a prosecutor...

To be fair, though, those two steps have failed -in sequence- enough times for it to be statistically significant on the "OH WTF" scale.
For 1, I do agree that the term is overused, but in this case it's not really about the beauty of the code itself: it's about the fact that the final generated script acts in a predictable way and prints information and help messages in a format that people are already familiar with. You don't have to write your own usage message: it does it for you, and it looks the way I would expect a usage message to look.

I also see argument 2 a lot, and I've already addressed this in other comments, but sometimes you really just need to call a couple of commands while prepping some env vars or config files for convenience.

In those cases, reaching for Python or Go ends up being a lot of boilerplate for very little advantage, especially when you want to pass control over to other applications once you're done setting things up.
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Location: remote (anywhere in the world, any timezone) | USD 100k - 160k | Full-time

We are hiring a Federated Learning developer or someone who has experience working with distributed analytics. You will be responsible for writing highly scalable, production-ready code to power the next generation of the privacy revolution. Tech stack is: python. SAS and R are a plus, but python is a must. C++ is another nice to have.
To be fair... his move to Spotify coincided with him spewing more and more anti-vax and anti-mask drivel that I don't have any interest in listening to.
I don't work with data, so my most common usage for jq is checking package.json properties from the command line:

cat node_modules/some_lib/package.json | jq '.version'
Does that mean we shouldn't hold companies accountable for violating privacy as long as they don't market themselves as being pro-privacy?
Do you... regularly carry around like six laptops, then? Even carrying two sounds like a hassle, my husband had to do that for a while due to a single stupid time clock app installed on a corporate laptop that was too locked down to get the rest of his work done on.
I have a Spotify subscription. I used to watch Joe on YouTube. I haven't since he moved. I use Spotify at work to have something to drown out the noise around me. I watch YouTube to relax. My habits mean I don't even think of going to Spotify for a podcast.
big relief. I can still follow my favourite artist
I use multiple devices, mostly desktops with varying specs. They run off the same Ubuntu master image, primarily use network storage, and are managed with Landscape for updates and so forth. Now there are times when I will need to use my GPU workstation, and others times where an old C2Q would suffice for web browsing. In general though, I can sit down on any machine and start working right away in a consistent enviroment.

Those machines are getting old, and I've been considering upgrading my server and using a VDI solution instead. Or maybe it's time to switch to a more mobile option...
Apple says they're using two hashing algorithms. Even if you could figure out collisions with the hidden one finding a collision with both seems unlikely, although I am looking forward to more rigorous review.
I don't know why you think I don't understand that ageism is a problem.

But if they're in the market for a job, and they have experience with Postgres internals, why would they not apply to this if it otherwise seemed promising? They have to apply to somewhere and they presumably have many years of experience applying to jobs and such.

I get that it's a PR thing. This makes them stand out, and get to the top of HN. I just can't imagine being a young person and applying to this posting (if I wanted to and was qualified).
I don't see what's stopping them from doing that right now, they're running very fat 43% profit margins currently in their tech sweatshop[1].

[1] https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/23/18507750/fortnite-work-cru...
Automatic Facial Recognition Support – Case Study
Very cool!

I would like to see an option to make a copy of the analyzed data and/or a hash value for it.
It's unusual to editorialize in the abstract like that. It's not uncommon to puff up the merit of the work in the last sentence or two, but making sweeping generalizations about "modern man" is usually beyond the pale.
Building dashboard prototypes is easier than ever
Jsc: My New Best Friend
That's because what they really want is a 20-something that has 10 years (or more) of experience.
Ask HN: Book (or resource) on costs to travel to space for fiction book?
Hello HN Community. I think this is the best place on the internet to ask for this. I am writing a satire novel in which the first crewed mission to Mars has place.

Although it hasn't to be 100% realistic (and it isn't part of the plot), I'd like to try to be faithful to reality. Is there any book that explains more about the costs of a mission like that, different industrial needs, etc? If it isn't a book it is welcome as well (a documentary, for example).

Thank you very much!
But Einstein was no ordinary human, he was a genius. So you would need the AGI to be more than just your average human. Would the average Joe sped up be some form of superintelligence? They would be able to perform tasks faster, but that doesn't make them smarter.
When companies say there's a shortage in labor they mean there's a shortage of cute fresh 25 year olds who don't talk back and accept bad treatment.
Employers will do anything not to hire 40+ year olds including recruiting people from Greece or Lithuania. Enter the great European brain drain.

Meanwhile the government wants everyone to stay in employment until the retirement age of 67.
Biden Urges CEOs to Improve Nation’s Cybersecurity After Attacks
> What motivates people to invest in these very niche systems?

Nostalgia, curiosity, and hobby
Sometimes I feel like an alien with my late 2013 MBPr working all the same with the latest os.
You'll probably be able to buy the hashes from someone who distributed a bunch of CSAM for the express purpose of getting it into the database.
From the first paragraph:

"This is being done live, so please excuse typos."

I'm not sure that I understand myself. I'm just guessing that this article was written at a convention or presentation in a 'live-tweeting' like context. Sort of like war-time reporters in decades past phoning in stories to their editors.
Would this still be an effective attack if you used a single VPN provider with multiple hops and your adversary was not someone like a nation state? Alternatively, what if you did basic VPN chaining (e.g. you vpn to a pfsense instance or something on a VPS and configure outbound traffic on that server to be routed through a commercial VPN)?