skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What would work for that would be some machine learning algorithm that evaluates any content while you're shooting it on your phone and phones the police so they can come running. And for it to be forbidden to ever have your phone offline in order to circumvent this.

Why stop there?

Just implant that AI into peoples brains. (We will soon have the tech for that).

Also you wouldn't need to call the cops. Just "deactivate" the offensive individual with the help of the brain chip in case law is broken. I guess this would create a paradise without any crime on earth in a blink.

Who could argue against a paradise? Don't we all want this?

/s

PS: SiFi movie references intended.
6 months is the lower bound. Actual duration is unknown.
That’d be my rule 100%. But apple apparently requires personal apple accounts be signed into on company provided devices by employees. It does sort of make sense as they want to be sure of company secrets.
If a team uses those metrics, easy identifier that you don't want to work with them anyhow.
Computation is the creation of and executing of algorithms. Even if an algorithm is expressed functionally, it progresses through a sequence of states when executed.

Check out Computation and State Machines by Leslie Lamport: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/state-machine.pdf. Specifically, in Section 3, he shows how interactive and recursive definitions of the same program are actually executing the same underlying algorithm, even though their source code looks drastically different.

Syntax is superficial, and declarativeness is really just an illusion, or maybe a convenience. But, a program is executing a sequence of states no matter what paradigm it’s expressed in. Functional programs are still executed.

In this respect, you’re talking about a very superficial aspect of algorithms.
To the many people coming here to comment about why she had personal apps on a work phone: Some Apple employees are reportedly required to link their personal iCloud with their work account/devices.

https://www.theverge.com/22648265/apple-employee-privacy-icl...
> I'm not going to explain this to you all, but yeah, the language used by Chappelle has specific and very serious consequences for people like me.

I watched his latest special and perhaps I didn't catch it but could you give examples about the specific language he used? I'd like go back and watch again.
where you are forced

Nobody is forced.

to start a project on technology that you know will be deprecated in the near future

There’s a lot of speculation in there.

What other MS products use Electron? VS Code does. My thought: Deprecating the thing that VS Code runs on - without a drop-in replacement - is unwise. I’ve seen nothing to suggest that Microsoft is trying to move Code users to VS Community. And think about the extension ecosystem for Code. Other MS teams have built extensions for it - for example, their distro? (not exactly sure how it’s packaged) of Jupyter is based on Code which is based on Electron.

Re. EcmaScript Modules (aka ESM) they are experimental, and a Microsoft employee addresses their absence on that issue:

“FWIW, Electron won't be supporting Node 13 as our policy is to only roll in LTS versions of Node. So, while we definitely want to support ESM, this isn't going to be happening until Node 14.”

Also relevant: Submission of “Microsoft is ditching Electron for Teams”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28848715
Enough with the Pelosi Dynasty.
However if you're confident Python simply is "never going to specialize in" performance, maybe the GIL isn't a problem and this work is irrelevant right?

I'm dubious about this work because I think it tries to paper over the cracks in code with data races, but maybe the problem was there already with the GIL and this changes little.
> I’d rather just quit than try to change a company this way.

What if you found every other company were the same way?

> Or I’d just work into leadership and make executive decisions.

There are much fewer leadership positions than people in those companies. It can't be the general recommendation that if you want to make your workplace better you have to compete for one of a handful of positions.

That's like telling somebody living in a monarchy that if they want influence over their lives, they just have to marry into the royal family.
At minimum big tech (GAFAM) is guilty of Data Trafficking, Illegal Wiretapping and Racketeering.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/amazon-copied-produ...

Every interaction with them is blindfolded deep cavity strip search with average 30 agents(30 cookies) without our permission. Even the EU data compliance pop ups don’t show participants of this heinous data molestation.

Forget antitrust, they ought to be tried under racketeering laws or RICCO statues which was used against mafia. Bork and Lina khan doctrine while relevant can’t help us restore the old internet from the current toxic ad littered pages.
They don’t need to sell anything. They aggregate and collect data, and sell value added services.

Facebook in particular always states they do not sell data. There are plenty of documented examples about how various datasets are used to target people in different ways. Google was contracted to deliver anti-extremist messaging, data from insurance claims, insurance background checking and web behavior has been used for opioid diversion.
Happiness is overrated. Every time in my life that I've been happy I've known I am, I realized at that moment that it is going to pass. Just as I realized every time I was miserable that too is not going to last.

Pleasure is above the speed limit. It's in the definition of it.

And the point actually is to learn to drive and take care of your vehicle, understand the local roads and traffic, and play in that playground, or some other. Not to ecstatically crash it all at an early age, having forgot about the breaking functionality.

It gets easier to do if you realize you're one of many, and can learn from what they did before you got here, as well as now, when you're tackling it. You are never, and have never been alone.
No I will not pay you. Subscription models suck.
I’m finishing up Concrete Semantics right now. No mention of time complexity that I saw, but even without that it’s become one of my top programming books of all time.
Supply and demand. Demand for block space on Ethereum main net is very high. Billions now transact every day on Ethereum DeFi protocols. Like traditional markets, the opportunity be first to hit an arbitrage can be worth millions.

Against that the Ethereum devs are extremely conservative with block space. To maintain decentralization they want consumer hardware to be capable of running a node. Chains like Solana provide a lot more supply of block space by simply cutting out consumer hardware.
Bruh we bag on Apple constantly about Right to Repair, their app store monopoly, and destroyed them over their phone scanning shit.

We regularly BEAT on Apple.

Obviously the app we all noticed was...Google Drive in that list!

/Edited: I forgot, we also bag on them constantly about WFH, and their piss poor record with bug bounties. There are probably some I'm forgetting.
Another former Python dev, now rust dev… give it a try. I have trouble putting it in words, but Rust has the feeling of ease of expressiveness that makes Python fun to work with, but with a top notch static typing system. Lots of former Python devs doing rust work now.
This is the most reddit comment I've seen on HN
Sounds bad for surface life. Morlocks live underground.
They're not working against the company's interests. They may be working against the interests of individuals in management. For public companies like Apple - and arguably for any company larger than a sole proprietorship - those aren't the same thing.

(It is still true, of course, that management has the power to fire you and therefore picking fights with management is generally not good for your career. But that's a cold practical observation, not a statement about merit. There's a significant difference between losing a political fight and working against the company's interests.)
Steam is banning games that are categorically shitty. The last thing I want is Steam to become the garbage pile known as the Android Play Store.
An inaccurate criticism which is addressed in the article: "Personally, I deliberately avoid working long hours and I suspect I don't work more than the median person at my company, which is a company where I think work-life balance is pretty good overall. A lot of my productivity gains have gone to leisure and not work. Furthermore, deliberately working on velocity has allowed me to get promoted relatively quickly, which means that I make more money than I would've made if I didn't get promoted, which gives me more freedom to spend time on things that I value."
I had to do a second reading when I realized that "ate" was a typo of "are"
This is a big cultural disconnect. What you interpret as "bad mouthing" is actually an indication of corporate health, a mechanism for self-correcting behaviour, and pruning bad management practices that cause behaviour to deviate from objectives. However, your views are not uncommon, people like to hide their misbehavior, and it's always a challenge to root those people out.
Ghost Robotics unveils autonomous robot dog armed with assault rifle
Somewhat niche but a good use case, thanks.
So? `.decode(“hex”)` still makes sense on a string, and was >95% of the encode/decode calls I had.
Being on an eternal guilt-trip, surrounded by killers and asphyxiating cow farts!

Surely that decreases your smarts? But have to be hip! (SCNR)

OTOH: I think this has no merit if not taken into account the larger populations where meat is taboo for some longer time, instead of the current hype.

Like Jains and some Hindus(or all?(don't know exactly)), for instance?
Disclaimer: have personally recorded from whisker barrels, the structure that inspired Vernon Mountcastle to posit the idea of the cortical column. He’s my neuro-great-grandfather according to neurotree: https://neurotree.org/neurotree/tree.php?pid=154706&fontsize...

The idea of cortical columns isn’t like the 6-layer-cortex. The cortex just isn’t organized into little column-shaped modules. It’s true that if you record two neurons right on top of each other, they’ll have a similar receptive field/preferred direction/…. BUT there is no consistent horizontal organization of neurons into columns. There’s whisker barrels, which reflect the way rat and mouse whiskers work, and there’s ocular dominance columns, which are a totally different thing at a different spatial scale. But there’s no global organizing principle that should be called “cortical columns”. It’s a lovely idea that would be great if it were true—-it would be so much easier to understand the brain if there were a common unit of organization larger than a neuron but smaller than a brain! But it’s not so.
From my own experience this might have only been true before the age of 4 when I woke up to the world. After that only when I am so strongly identified with and attached to what is going on that it's unhealthy. Or when I have gotten it all so Zen that I don't have to decide anything, everything flows.
You’re absolutely right, independent of whatever’s going on here.

Why is your post downvoted? Holy hell some of you are completely lost. Don’t shill out for a fucking firm, idolatry is no lesser a vice than corporate squabbles and petty theft or whatever.
I’ve been trying to cut down on terrible companies recently, bad for heart-health you know
Is Turo Profitable? Can You Make Money with a Few Used Cars?
Loop unrolling.
Did anybody else here play Doom on on DWANGO [0]?

My claim to fame was a 4-way deathmatch with Thresh [1], myself, and two other randos (like me) on Doom 2, I think the map E2M7? The rules were first to a score of 100, rocket launchers only. Final score: Thresh, 100; me, 7; other opponents -3 and -6.

[0] https://doomwiki.org/wiki/DWANGO
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thresh_(gamer)
I could listen to people complain about Google Drive all day
Without taking a stance on the "how it's supposed to work" claim, the US banking system is already regularly surveilling you for tax purposes without a warrant or any suspicion of a crime -- 1099s, SAR reports.

The IRS thinks it loses $600 billion in revenue annually from owed, but unpaid, taxes ("tax gap"). The Biden admin thinks they can recoup about $46 billion a year in owed, but unpaid, taxes just by adding this reporting measure -- without increasing tax rates at all[1]. This represents something like an additional 2.5% in tax revenue from individuals (which is about ~$1.7T annually).

If you don't illegally evade taxes, (1) this reporting is no threat to you, and (2) you should be mad at your underpaying neighbors who would pay more because of this surveillance program. And if you do illegally evade taxes, you should stop doing so.

[1]: https://home.treasury.gov/news/featured-stories/the-case-for...
Yeah, I'd agree it's kind of stupid to use OS threads if you are going to have a GIL. It does make the implementation simpler, but it comes at tremendous cost to IO bound programs. If you are actually trying to do computationally intensive work, you should really be using multiple processes instead of threads in a language with GC. When writing a UI, moving work to a separate thread can still lag because GC will also block the UI thread. Even if you don't care about latency, having separate memory pools via separate processes often helps GC because then GC is embarrassingly parallel regardless of GC implementation.
You could possibly make use of https://rssby.email for this.
What do people use instead?
Shatner is 90.
dynamics are different if the company is small or big.

It's like asking a person to leave a country, instead of trying to make it better.

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK
Is it possible to short tether effectively to profit when the whole scam collapses?
It can be still pump and dump because rising price induces fomo.
I prefer beanie babies as an analogy vs tulips.
People are okay with that because they're in a position to not have to care. Perhaps apple is correct in that this was because of deleting things they were not supposed to - but individuals advocating for a culture of "apple can do whatever because it's a company" is nodding along to union busting talking points.

Tech sector has been very fortunate in the past to not have to unionize, but now as the workforce grows exponentially, wealth is concentrated, salaries relatively decrease, jobs become commoditized, and companies are overall too big. Most new devs today are not going to see the same autonomy. Devs are slaved in plenty of jobs already, and no they don't make enough nor can they just drop and make a startup using someone else's money. Those things are the top of the 1% of workers.

It's demonstrated time and again that outrage at companies works. Marketers run the show, and they don't like bad publicity. In this case it's probably not enough to do anything. Apple has their fingers in too many pies and people can't afford to drop their lock in ecosystem.
Only those with the most secure job prospects would take the risk to report, so you have to estimate the denominator -- what proportion of the boldest and most privileged employees report, and what can we infer about the wider company from this?
The hijra cult in India kidnaps children and brutally castrates them, then pimps them out. Western gender theorists using hijras to justify their ideology is one hell of an own goal.

https://www.rediff.com/news/1998/oct/20hijra.htm

https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/special-report/story/1994...
I love it. OpenBSD is my end-game in terms of operating systems -- it's the only thing that fully fits in my head. And the lovely, not-so-serious community around it just makes it so much better.

Thank you for doing this.
> We regularly BEAT on Apple.

From my direct experience, anyone who speaks out against Apple's restrictive, walled garden approach and anti consumer practices gets downvoted hard and mass-flagged 'round these parts.
Roughly: mask up when numbers increase. Remove masks as numbers decrease.

Not really that hard of a concept. USA has several states that ran out of hospital space and entered triage of care. They needed to mask up roughly 3 weeks before that happened, to mitigate the peaks that overwhelm hospitals.

If you are in an area where hospitals are reaching critical levels (which is a fair number of states) you need to do everything in your power to save work from the nurses.

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When elective medical procedures return, masks come off. Sound fair? If people aren't getting their cancer surgeries because there's too many COVID-19 patients filling the place, do something about it.
...that can't be right. I wouldn't let them come over from work and rummage around my house either as a condition of working there, you'd have to be addled to accept anything like that.
FDA Delays Moderna Vaccine for Adolescents to Review Rare Myocarditis Outcome
> Apple employees are reportedly required to link their personal iCloud with their work account/devices

That's a big fuckin' nope and likely illegal.
Sorry to disappoint you, folks, but after Zuck's $400M "fortification" of US elections in swing states last year, he's not in danger of any "trust-busting" whatsoever. You can downvote me all you like, but you know it's true.
Meanwhile near me McDonalds has been offering $15 (or $18 for a closing shift) and they seem to be unable to fill positions.

Turns out if there are fewer jobs than people wages go down. Reverse it and they go up.

Smart companies will move to preserve the employees they have instead of having to train new ones after having to raise wages anyway.
You can still sell data with GDPR.
You know how apps work right? Nothing has actually been deleted.
That only works if there are no branches
> What it is missing is quality studies

Um, exactly? We have millions of scrips issued and still nobody can produce data.

Now, what we can posit is that there is a worldwide conspiracy to suppress the fact that ivermectin is effective OR we can posit that ivermectin doesn't actually work very well for Covid.

The problem with anecdotal medical treatments is that the human organism is highly variable. Just about any disease "treatment" will work for somebody, somewhere. But that's not enough to proclaim that something works. This is going to be especially true in countries where parasitic infestation (which ivermectin does treat) is more common. If a significant fraction of your population got their parasitic infestation cured, their Covid numbers are going to look quite a bit better, too.

If we're trading on anecdotes, then I'll say that ivermectin doesn't work. We had lots of people taking ivermectin at various level in US Red State land. Their hospitals still got overrun. If anything, ivermectin use is correlated with more hospitalization. This is, in fact, a tautology--but not because ivermectin makes Covid worse (or better) but because people were getting poisoned by ivermectin and most ivermectin users were in red state areas which had lower vaccination rates.

This is why you don't believe claims without data.

> And again, I don't know or care if it works, I'm vaccinated and wouldn't take it, nor am I a conspiracy theorist, your point is just not correct.

The problem is that your "I'm just a skeptic" ignores the fact that nobody can cough up any data. Continuing to promulgate things in the absence of data articulates your position quite clearly.
You make it up. That question, you made that up entirely. The concept of a point of a life, or lives or maybe, the existence of life.

In the same way you should think of an answer. You should. You.

Because right now it's like you're asking me "Who am I?"

Me. About you. Who you are.

That is not my responsibility to decide. I don't know what you are and what your question is about. You do.

But I know you're a thing like me. Because a similar sentiment arises in me, at times. I've learned to not recognize that as a knowledge-seeking thing, but instead as a form of hunger, or thirst.

An indication that time has passed.
Yep, we use Gunicorn in full gevent mode, tuned to spawn and route to a gevent-patched Django process per core, each of which can handle as many concurrent requests as will fit in (its slice of) RAM.

A far cry from the one-request-per-thread days of yore!
Oops I completely mixed up ages here with Betty White, another person doing exceptionally well that I just looked up.

Thanks for the correction; doing all that at 90 is still pretty good.
Sure, if you'd like to collect your winnings in bottle caps and IOUs.

And if the exchange you are shorting it on doesn't wipe your position out through a margin call, in one of those strange moments where due to a mysterious glitch, tether breaks the USD peg for a few seconds.

If you're looking for easier money, I'd recommend card-counting at a speak-easy ran by the mob, before I'd recommend getting into this business.
Shouldn’t you probably degoogle or deapple your online stuff before working for a competitor? I know that’s a high bar, but there’s probably a point between lowest rung worker and VP where it makes sense professionally/personally.
> NFTs enable this without having to build any of the infrastructure to support it.

So I could build this infrastructure on mongodb/dynamodb in a single weekend, offer it without $$$ minting/gas fees, still get higher margins, point out my solution is green, and offer my simpler solution to game devs, and everyone will be better off.
I think you get exactly the same kind of "employee's fault," corporate defenders in all of these kinds of discussions.
> Apple Maps program manager Janneke Parrish was accused of deleting files that reportedly included the apps Robinhood, Pokemon GO, and Google Drive, and by doing so, impeding an investigation. According to The Verge, Apple staffers believe that the firing is actually retaliation for her work organizing the group that talks about conditions within the company.

Both can be true. She might have done something that was a fire-able offense (or at least something in the grey area that can be tolerated) yet Apple was looking for an excuse to get rid of her.
I think we're in the middle of a bit of a transition phase within the industry.

> Every single one of our customers is looking for a path back to something that looks like the mainframe in terms of vertical integration of the business stack.

I think this is always going to be true as a desire, but it's also true that it's likely an impossible state to achieve completely. There will always be consolidation efforts, but with the rate of M&A and growth of new markets and alternative products, I don't think anyone can afford only consolidation as a strategy today. So in the end, it's a losing battle to try and avoid system sprawl at the moment.

> The only financial services companies that are seeing positive uplift from these sorts of initiatives are those with enough resources to try this path

My view has been the exact opposite, only the resource heavy FS companies are the ones who can afford to pursue consolidation!

> Many of our clients are stuck in some contorted stance with half their stack in AS400-land and the other half scattered to the various "cloud" services which are mostly just random websites/services with shitty SOAP APIs (or no APIs at all).

My take, and what I think this article is poorly commenting on, is that everyone is betting on and trying to pursue open banking. Rather than move internal systems into a more simplified format, pushing the market to use common standards and unify behavior across the industry. We're in a phase that is not quite there yet, but bits and pieces are starting to move, so it's very messy. And that's why it seems that strategies for vertical integration and open-source both can coexist in the zeitgeist today.

Caveat, I do work on tech innovation from a regulator and FMI side, so I'm certainly missing the nitty gritty of your perspective.