skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He seems to be changing companies quite often. Apple to Tesla to Google to his present employer, in a pretty short time.
I love when technology intersects with non high tech environments.

So I built BuzzMeIn that hooks up to old school phone based apartment buzzers via a Twilio phone number and now the sky's the limit of what I can do.

Plus it solves real people everyday problems, making life more convenient (which I'm also a big fan of)

https://buzzmein.ca
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Back in M.2 days? I know I'm getting old, but what did miss?
Their latest developments are about making GrapheneOS more usable, not more secure. Like they are working on a camera app, and our integrating Google apps. (Don't mistake me, I totally respect them for what they are doing)
Denmark (or mb just Bornholm) has a triangular version of their flag that is flown regularly
Not really a problem when your computer has a large UPS built into it. Desktop macs, not so good.

But really isn’t the point of a journaling file system to make sure it is consistent at one guaranteed point in time, not necessarily without incidental data loss.
Seems like this discussion about an astonishingly inconsequential piece of syntactic sugar was the catalyst:

https://forums.swift.org/t/if-let-shorthand/54230
Just a lawyer at the BBC being cautious about attracting an unnecessary lawsuit.
Do you have a newsletter or website? Would love to hear about updates to this.
I don't see how you could argue that C is comparable in terms of level of abstraction to Rust and C++. For instance with Rust memory management is totally abstracted away from you as the programmer, which is a core part of what a computer is doing.

And if you index into an array in C, that's basically like saying `root memory location + stride * index`. In Rust it's calling a trait function which could be doing arbitrary work.

Rust and C++ are on similar levels of abstraction, but C is much, much simpler.
Well, if only it was so simple.
Majority Russian-speaking Kyiv voted for pro-Western politicians since early 90's.
Russian language dominates in every major southern and eastern city, that does not mean that every Russian speaker wants to join Russia (in the very least).
And what should a PM do when their engineers are not effective at shipping?
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Not martial law.
"You're too negative, stop telling people that they can't jump off their roof and fly and start being helpful and figuring out how to solve the problem."

Honestly we have way too much of this going on in our society. Management with delusional ideas about how to run a company is often spouting more or less this exact same line. Not everything you can dream of is possible in reality.
Computer-generated art way too focused on pure aesthetics. Sure, it's pretty, but at some point it becomes quite boring.

Anyone cares to put a little more meat in these?
To be honest Rust has some of the most beautifully painted bikesheds I've seen.
What are those ideas, specifically? (Assume I don't know any details about Swift.)
It's quite near the production values of a real fashion ad. Definitely shot by someone with experience and some skill - probably another victim.

Given the styling and the obsession with appearances, I'd guess this character is a plain old narcissist. His only real skill is superficial charm. There's no real business ability there, or even much serious interest in running a real business.

But being seen to be a CEO and thought leader - that will appeal to him.

It's exactly the kind of love bombing -> charm -> attention seeking -> future faking -> increasingly outrageous lies -> reality of outright abuse sequence you'd expect.

My guess is he lacks any remorse, because he's likely incapable of it. And he'll be lining up some more victims in some other scheme.

A lot of this is unquestionably criminal and illegal, but it's hard to get the police interested in a case like this. And even if the victims group together and take him to small claims he'll find some way not to pay them.
A core selling point of Airtags is that other people's iPhones help you find your AirTag. That's also what makes them effective trackers. It's a bit of an unsolvable problem.
What is done right now, is another question.

The topic here is about past failures of the West. When all realistic alternatives were worse - that forced neutrality would likely create Ukraines and Yugoslavias spanning whole middle third of Europe - is that actually a failure?
Japan is building a maglev between Tokyo and Osaka. The Nagoya stretch will be done this decade.

The Shanghai maglev is kind of a pink elephant, it doesn’t even go to downtown Shanghai. I took it once for the novelty l, but a cab is much better time wise and about the same price.
Groovy is definitely underrated when it's done properly (pretty much my favorite language when used as a "java substitute"). Unfortunately most people's exposure to it is in Jenkins or Gradle where it's a bit of a train wreck.
This is a good point. A project within Google that doesn’t move the needle next to it’s search advertising business should not be _driven_ by profit margin. However there are a few reasons why I think this happened within Google Play:

1. Lots of pressure for google products and services to become standalone businesses

2. Too much imbalance of power between business teams and engineering teams within Google Play. The business teams just saw it as copycat App Store and the engineers and product leads didn’t have the influence to overturn this. In some ways this is against what the broader Google culture was thought to have. (Eng/prod > bd).

3. Androids existence as a defense and not as an opportunity to create the future. Android has always been this and it’s engrained culturally.
> Honestly, at this point, developers probably shouldn't ever be coding alone to begin with, but there are limits to what people who are.

Heavy disagree, there is deep work that requires working a lone. Anything actually technically complex requires both enormous communication AND execution time. Ive worked in companies with pairing all the time and solo execution. By far solo execution of different parts with communal design and heavy communication produced the best outcomes.
Great stuff, I just got shivers looking at your trailer late at night here.
I’ve always found the “convention over configuration” thing a bit of an odd descriptor for Ember. Outside of Ember CLI generating things for you or errors/unexpected results being thrown after something has been made, if you look for any documentation on those “conventions”, it’s really difficult to find (if it exists).

Do I really have to do things the “non-Ember” way just to figure out what the Ember way is on my own?

I found Ember to be very frustrating in that regard.
The outside is a vacuum, the inside is at pressure. While the forces are reversed, the problem is otherwise the same.
> The issue is not your ability to adapting in a situation where you're already engaging in privilege, but about whether it is reasonable to lower standards for the poor.

What does this mean? It would seem that if legions of middle-class people can adapt, why couldn't poor people?

> the notion that they have a genuine choice itself tends to come from a highly privileged attitude

You keep repeating that your opponents are privileged, that is not an argument for anything, it's just random ad hominem. Not that it even makes sense.

But in any case, even if someone has little choice, that doesn't mean that it's reasonable to say that a gift "imposes" on the receiver. If I give a beggar a hamburger, I am not forcing him to eat meat, whether he has much else to eat or not.
Agreed re the cultural phenomenon. I think one of the things that makes people vulnerable to this is that it’s hard to “ask for the sale” and by extension, to ask for payment ahead of time, or even on time, when you’re starting out.

Most of us have this inner sense of “How dare I?” ask for money. Even when it’s earned and perfectly honest or in direct payment for your directly contributed labor.

This is what makes raising money hard and it’s what makes sales hard. And it is what allows people like this to take advantage of those who work hard without paying them for a surprisingly long time.
There's a British startup founded by a hyperloop engineer trying to do this.

https://www.magway.com/
I partially agree, evil is such a hyperbolic word. However, Apple and its rank and file during the Steve Jobs era believed 3rd party developers to be rather incompetent, and 3rd party software could never live up to the beauty that Apple itself could create. (I also worked at Apple)

If it somehow proved Steve Jobs wrong and some indie company made popular beautiful software, Apple would bend over backward to acquihire them, sell off (read. kill) the product, and get them making beautiful software for Apple. Of course, back then, it was a dream for so many to get noticed by Apple and end up working there.

Don't try to minimize the bad faith moves from Apple by calling them "clumsy". SJ (and proved through documents released from the Epic trial) absolutely treated everything as a zero-sum game and was exceedingly ruthless in getting what he wanted. On the one hand, yes, the iPhone App Store was just an expansion of the iTunes/iPod platform they had started and found worked well. Yes, it also simplified, what at the time, was an insanely complex web of mobile app markets that carriers themselves didn't truly understand the potential of. All would have been fine if they approached it with an open mind and listened to feedback.

The main issue and feelings of "evilness" that so many people express about Apple, is that they so quickly used the App Store process as a weapon against anything that showed signs of stealing market share away from them. For example, around the start of the iPad, so many interesting book store startups launched, (ie. comic books, out of print books, etc.) and I loved it. However, SJ wanted his iBooks platform and through draconian changes in App Store policy, shut them all down over night. Sorry, but there's nothing clumsy about that that. It was very intentional, and very much directed at Amazon's Kindle, regardless of who got hurt along the way.

Developers tried, repeatedly, to give feedback about ways to improve the App Store, time and time again. Instead, Apple closed feedback forums, canceled Q&As at WWDC, and followed up with more App Store policies against speaking out and essentially made it a privilege to work with them.

I loved woking there, I really did, but we shouldn't minimize these feelings of evilness that so many developers express. Their intuitions are right and they deserve to get as much visibility for their pain as possible. Keep in mind that essay was coming from the perspective of a VC who was dealing with a lot of his startups struggling with the App Store and him trying to get Apple to listen. If that meant being dramatic with words like Evil, so be it, but in the end, surprise, it didn't really do anything heh.
Unless I misunderstand you, I think you need to look into the “automatic market maker” concept. Their paper is the best source to cut through the chatter: https://uniswap.org/whitepaper.pdf
That rather defeats the purpose of a deposit!
True, but hyperloop isn't needed to solve any of that.
Ah, good point. Thanks for the response
Off-the-cuff, i.e. without digging deeply into a set of history of statistics books:

Tied 1st place:

• Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm

• Hidden Markov Models and the Viterbi algorithm for most probable sequence in linear time

• Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory of statistical learning (Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik & Alexey Chervonenkis) and SVMs

4th place:

• Edwin Jaynes: maximum entropy for constructing priors (borderline: 1957)

Honorable mentions:

• Breiman et al.'s CART (Classification and Regression Trees) algorithm (and Quinlan's C5.0 extension)

• Box–Jenkins method (autoregressive moving average (ARMA) / autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) to find the best fit of a time-series model to past values of a time series)

(The beginning of the 20th century was much more fertile in comparison - Kolmogorov, Fisher, Gosset, Aitken, Cox, de Finetti, Kullback, the Pearsons, Spearman etc.)
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Statistics is an applied science, and Solomonoff induction has had zero practical impact. So I feel it's not underrated at all, and perhaps overrated among a certain crowd.
You're a lot more pessimistic here than in your blog post!
Journaling file systems depend on commands like FLUSH to create the appropriate barriers to build their journal's semantics.
Indeed. Myself as an example. I give stuff away for free on the Play Store, but charge to breathe on the App Store. And the only reason I do it is to offset the mental drag it takes to bear with Apple. Else I would just leave
My favourite is Mandelbrot's heuristic converse of the central limit theorem: the only variables that are normal are those that are sums of many variables of finite variance.
Indeed, astonishing really.

Seems to me to probably reflect a high degree of insecurity: if you're not secure and feel the need to protect your position I can imagine some people reacting this way if Chris is telling everyone he thinks your idea is a bad one.
It's not like journals didn't charge publishing fees before. It always confused me why journals could get away with charging publishers to publish, then charge readers (or at least libraries and universities) for subscriptions.
With some military info
There are ways to lie with statistics, but the Play Store is a huge cash cow. I play a mobile game where thousands of players at least have spent more than a car in in-app purchase transactions. Someone told me if you're spending less than $1,000 they consider you free to play. One of the key items for high level play you can only unlock after spending $12,000 on an account.

Imagine if Ford could make 30% profit on selling cars, and didn't even have to manufacture the car.

Fortnite alone is worth hundreds of millions to Google. There's a reason they're willing to compromise any supposed principles they had over it.

Then there are additional effects, like how their control over the Play Store impacts their advertising opportunities on Android.
I'm having a lot of fun making a virtual ant farm as a side project.

https://meomix.github.io/antfarm/

I found some code written in 1991 for Unix (in C) and decided I would port it to React and get it running on the web. I have to implement persistence and iron out a few bugs, but it's at least functional at this point.

I wrote the original coder and let them know I'm rewriting their code 30 years later. They're stoked to see it come back to life and I find that motivates me to do a good job. Plus, some of my friends' kids have started to take an interest in it.

I'm not sure which direction I'll go with it long-term. I kind of wanted to get it running on an e-ink screen and have it sit on my desk or become more like a tamagotchi. I don't have any experience working with hardware and think it would a cool way to learn some of that stuff.

I'm probably going to add some more features to it like a queen ant, food, pathfinding, etc. I saw this cool "ant-based solution to the TSP" https://www.theprojectspot.com/tutorial-post/ant-colony-opti... which I could see being solved by the ants over time and then introducing variables like weather or user-interaction which disrupt the path and then watching it get solved again, etc.

idk! I just played SimAnt when I was young and impressionable and am taking it way too far now. :)
<q>If there's a substantive comment to be made about that historical parallel, it would look very different from what you posted.</p>

Given that you seem to have the authoritative editorial position on these comments, can you give us an example of what you might consider substantive in this particular case? So that we, in the peanut gallery, could have something to go on when crafting our responses? We're not mind readers.
> I think a more important goal if we are designing artificial life might be whether or not an AI is conscientious(like morally).

I have the feeling that attempts to create conscientious AI will just result in paperclip maximizers that have to use rationalization as an indirection layer to engage in their paperclip maximizing behavior.

Not much of an improvement, but realistically, what other result would be tolerated by whoever is building a DWIM AI to run a paperclip factory and for whom conscientiousness would just be a regulatory box to tick?
I think this is something LTT could handle with their new test lab. They already said they want to set new standards when it comes to hardware testing, so if they can hold up to what they promised and hire enough experts this should be a trivial thing to add to a test Parcours for disk drives.
Part of the process is making sure the process works, i.e. achieves objectives. This sounds like such reviews were never done in those teams.
Total. Based on coverage in Dutch press. An issue I read about is that the sanctions can reach a maximum of a percentage of earnings (10%) but they need to take the exact legal entity into account.

There are other ways in Dutch law to threaten firms with larger amounts but not all of those are open to the antitrust authority. A judge could threaten penalties that can escalate quickly when a company remains non complaint and even persons (in this case: directors) can be taken hostage for not complying. (Obviously, that is a last resort measure and not often used.) Dutch source [1]

[1] https://blog.iusmentis.com/2022/02/18/wat-kan-de-acm-doen-da...
How difficult was it? I'm thinking of doing something similar in my mid-sized mid-western city. There are so many growth opportunities stunted by zoning laws. I'm a big advocate for regulation but parking mandates and housing density limits present more problems than solutions.
Can this be a base for Windows 3.1, 95 or 98?
C++ has a Directions committee, with exactly zero authority, but immense influence based solely on respect for its members. That is probably a good model to follow, provided you can identify enough people who command such respect.
What is an EVO Pro?
Why isn't this a crime? Isn't it the wage theft equivalent of check kiting?
> I would be just as glib about someone who donated $50 to Hezbollah and got their accounts shut down.

When the truckers start lobbing rockets into population zones, this comparison might be reasonable. The increasingly common habit of comparing everyone with Wrong Political Opinions to terrorists does not sit well with me.
It's also strange that this is written as if there's no option other than "have a meeting" or "save it until tomorrow." That's what Slack is for! Start a thread, notify the right folks, but also ensure you share context about time urgency e.g. "I'd like to respond to $stakeholder today" or "Can you share thoughts sometime before standup tomorrow?" - and importantly, especially for engineers who might take things literally, make sure you share whether or not any coding action (EDIT: including digging into existing code) is requested as part of that effort.

Engineers also appreciate that their opinions are valued. Be a buffer so they don't feel like they're getting the full force of the stakeholder, but package the requests in realtime, and build a rapport so that you'll know if you're over-asking!
The UK police have essentially given up on fraud[1]. The amount of fraud and scams going on here at the moment is incredible. It would be expensive and difficult for the individual contractors to sue him, I expect most of them have "moved on".

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/feb/20/online-victim-... quote: Fraud now makes up 42% of all crime and only one in 700 fraud cases resulted in a conviction in 2019.
> But all this begs the question. Why should we believe Gauss's law?

This particular incident had nothing to do with the validity of Gauss's law, which is nothing but a restatement of Coulomb's law in electrostatics, and something that has been extensively verified in experiments. Feynman's presentation of Gauss's law is crystal clear. The issue in question was an application of Gauss's law. Feynman likely goofed up (like most of us do) because he didn't think twice and went by his intuition. And he was absolutely right to criticize the student -- saying that something is written in famous book X written by famous author Y is completely irrelevant in science if you cannot make a good argument for why it is right. This is different from many social "sciences" where people often make such claims.
we think "snap sucks" at our admin sewing circle, basically.. avoid when possible, dislike (increasing) required snapd junk on Ubuntu LTS
Weird, I missed the mechanism that involved violations of law, trials, and due process. Did you forget to put that in your list?
> I can tell you that you are unequivocally wrong if you think that NK is anything like CA. It's a fun narrative of the uninformed.

Also real democracies have real elections and real candidates and peaceful changes of power between politicians.

The DPRK, Russia, PRC, Venezuela all claim to be democracies -- but really they use assassination and imprisonment to quash dissent.

If the truckers wanted to protest with signs and march up and down sidewalks, or strike against carrying transport, those are all legal things they can do. But they can't block commerce...
For a phone. Android has set the bar incredibly low. Kobo has supported their $130 Kobo Touch eReader from 2011 longer than any iOS device. On PCs its trivial to run modern software even on ancient hardware like a Pentium 4 with Linux/BSDs. Even Windows can let you easily get 15 years out of a device.
Ah right, switching branches. I usually keep two checked out copies (not C++ but for dependency updates), one for my main development and one for others.
I'm not - I'm saying that contributing to an unlawful activity after being warned not to, very publicly ("playing stupid games") is subject to winning stupid prizes.
Not even comparable example. That is a really sad contribution. Very misleading