skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My 2007 BlackBook was, I think, my favorite computer of all time. As a college student, it was such a huge upgrade from my previous Sony Vaio (that while beautiful, quite literally burned/discolored/cooked my upper thigh -- it took almost two years for the area to stop being discolored) and I gladly paid the Black Tax, with the justification that it was really just $50 if you compared it to a CTO price with the same size HDD. But honestly, the color WAS worth the price difference for me.

To this day, I think the plastic Black MacBook design is just perfect. I will always love the 12" PowerBook G4, but for me, that black plastic is just timeless in a clean and excellent way.

A side-effect of the Black Tax was that the cracked palm wrest issue that impacted a lot of white MacBooks, didn't seem to impact the Black models nearly as much (Apple replaced the top component I believe for people with yellowed or cracked palm wrests).

As much as I love my 14" MacBook Pro Max, if I could have it in solid black, I would love it (that or bring back the true rose gold color and give it to the Pro machines, cowards!).
For me AirPods are generally pretty reliable with one exception: using them with my AppleTV is a total nightmare. Terrible reception (can barely walk ten feet away without losing audio, whereas other Bluetooth headphones work fine) constant disconnects, constantly can’t get it to connect in the first place, constantly audio desyncing, utterly random behavior when taking them out or putting them in while a video plays, and so much more. It’s a horrible experience.
>adapted Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4

>permanently installed in the notebook housing

Total dealbreaker. So I have to replace the whole thing when I fry a GPIO port? Why even make this if you're not going for the modular approach? This is why the compute module was invented!
Pretty happy with VMWare Fusion much better than Parallel's. But I am biased as a Parallel update once zapped my macOS installation while living abroad and spend a long journey on busses (didn't drive) to get to an Apple Premium Reseller to get install disc
This happens with my doctor's scheduling people all the time. "Hi I'm calling for $YOU, will you please verify the last 4 of your social and full DOB?" uhhhh... no I will not, random person
David Friedberg on All In Podcast went into this topic quite a bit. (His bona fides: ex Monsanto Exec, active founder/investor in food/ag space, previously founded climate.com).

Prediction was 200-300m people facing starvation due to the food shortages. Fertilizer input costs being the major driver, with decline in wheat exports also being an important factor.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e72-impact-of-sanction...
There are many gems in its design and implementation in addition to those mentioned in OP.

https://verdverm.com/go-mods/
But now we're getting Web3 instead, with blackjack and blockchains.
I don't think that's a good assumption. The article above is talking about all abstractions, those built into the programming language, those not part of the programming language, and even those that span multiple programming languages.
For the people who are confused: this is a fairly common thing on landlines in some countries, where the telephone exchange doesn't drop the connection until both ends have hung up, or in some cases when the caller hangs up but not the callee. So it's possible to put your own phone down, but when you pick it up again your phone is still connected to the scammer's telephone. If they play a convincing dial tone, then change to a ring tone when they hear DTMF, you'd be none the wiser.

The workaround to this is to use another phone (e.g. switch to mobile), or if that's not possible, apparently you can wait several minutes until the exchange times out the connection.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/100268/does-han...
The author does seem to bang on about his "reasonable assumptions" for how much Wells and Apple Pay suck, so he should continue the call! Like he's just too clever to follow the advice he'd give everyone else to hang up and call back.
I'm in favour of post-secondary education being publicly funded, but what does it acomplish at a state level?

Even sovereign countries have a problem with brain drain. I assume that this would even be more pronounced with states. I don't think New Mexico 's job market can compete with some other parts of the nation.

It would be better if there was a national policy, to keep a level playing field. Otherwise New Mexico is just subsidising someone else's economy.
They forgot.

;-)
Apple follows many of the practices of the fashion industry. For example, the fanfare for announcements of new colors (which are highlighted during keynote announcements, as opposed to being a footnote), and having different sets of colors for different colors.

It fits the "luxury consumer electronics" segment they've created (how they've managed to create and maintain that is, I'm sure, a case study in business schools).

Charging more for an exclusive color whose only difference is that it costs more is classic fashion business sense.

See also, the origin of black pearls as a desirable item, which were originally thought as defective pearls until one savvy person started marketing them as exclusive and expensive. Or also Parmentier making potatoes appealing in France by having his potato patches surrounded by (easily bribable) guards.
I think Modula-2 was also quite influential in one of the main programming languages for modern industrial PLCs, called Structured Text. One of its features are lightning fast compile times compared to C++.
I would also add that one fundamental aspect of linear algebra (that no one ever taught me in a class) is that non-linear problems are almost never analytically solvable (e.g. e^x= y is easily solved through logarithms, but even solving xe^x=y requires Lambert’s W function iirc). Almost all interesting real world problems are non-linear to some extent, therefore, linear algebra is really the only tool we have to make progress on many difficult problems (e.g. through linear approximation and then applying techniques of linear algebra to solve the linear problem).
Ouch… That must’ve been incredibly irritating.

Any other things you’ve found where Fusion beats Parallels?
Abridged TiHKAL: https://erowid.org/library/books_online/tihkal/tihkal.shtml
Whoah, that's a pretty smart attack.
No way! You are the only person to spot that. Fixed. Thanks!!!
>There was a LOT of push back in the scientific community regarding the risks of HIV by demographic with a ton of efforts to try to communicate it was a major risk equally for all.

Except HIV was not and never has been an equal risk to all, not even close. Which I think was their point.
I expected some crazy new attack vector that was so sophisticated it could fool this Scam Prevention Expert, but this post is laughable. They fell for textbook "scamming 101" that my grandma knows to avoid.

Here's one tip for this expert – if you get a 2FA code over text or email that clearly has the line "we will never contact you for this code over phone or text" right under it, DON'T give it to a "support agent" over the phone.

> this is clearly a two-factor authentication code, meant to be entered directly into an authentication page. Which is normally not something that would be relayed over a phone call to a customer service rep. A concern that I raised to Daniel. However, he said that it was part of Apple's system, which they only had limited access to. An explanation that, as someone who works with computers, data security, and API integration professionally, I completely bought

And after reading multiple paragraphs of this person describing money literally taken out of their account in front of their eyes, you get to this line:

> Putting all of this together, the scales started to tip toward this potentially being a scam call, but I still wasn't certain

I really hope they don't have a lot of clients
I dont really have any qualifications, never been to uni, in fact I clashed with the educational establishment, but I've worked on some very high profile systems, pioneered novel uses of technology and continue to do so.

Remember it doesnt take any qualifications to set up a business.
Why would you need to determine their sex?
Right, my exact sentiment.
I don't have time to do the chain analysis right now, but it looks like they cashed out the equivalent of at least mid-7-figures USD, possibly much more. Trace the transactions yourself, here's the analytics for their receiving address.

https://etherscan.io/address/0x165CD37b4C644C2921454429E7F93...

That amount of money is easy to cash out even on a relatively small exchange.
From the beginning of the pandemic, it was 50/50, and it still is.
Half of the studies say it has an effect, the other half says it isn't significant.

The only thing that seems pretty much settled is that when it comes to covid (and many other things) vitamin D is useless for those who are not deficient, and taking massive doses is likely to do more harm than good. The uncertainty is whether reasonable supplementation to compensate for what is a common deficit during winter is effective or not against covid, both in term or infection and severity.
That's a good technical write-up. I wonder how much of an issue this CVE will be compared to Log4Shell....
For humans, hierarchies are easier to think about and easier to format. But you're right: sometimes you really want to express your structure in a more general graph. And format it more graphically.

For me the most obvious examples are: state-machines and entity-rln diagrams (and, for example, showing how your C-structs point to each other and how you're using std containers and ownership).

Thanks for pointing out that what I really want is a way to create/edit a graph.
Haha! Just clocked your username. One of my prize possessions is a signed copy of Neuromancer.
Good to see experts from well-respected institutions call out the current problems with monetary policies in the last two decades, while many others seem to be ignoring them.
Thinking about modern monetary theory proponents MMT here.

One of the several interesting and elsewhere rather seldom heard positions.

> Over successive business and financial cycles, all this can contribute to an upward drift in debt levels (Graph). Unless corrected, public finances deteriorate. And monetary policy contributes to a downward trend in interest rates which boosts debt further. The risk of a “debt trap” can become real: the rise in debt makes it harder to raise interest rates towards more normal levels without generating the problems policymakers are trying to avoid. The economy becomes more sensitive to interest rate increases, not least because of their stronger impact on debt service burdens.

I think western states/economies are already caught in a spiral of increasing debt, they'll have a really hard time coming out of. Looks like governments will just keep on piling on debt, because all other options are politically difficult.
Always thought these were cool. I see them pretty easily.
Had an idea that you could project "Wake Up Now!" inside your car windshield. When you get drowsy and loose focus, perhaps you'd suddenly see that, wake up, and pull over.
2 Changes to Virtual Goods in Web3 Gaming
Here's my dumb question that I always want to ask- why can't the people of Lebanon, or other residents of poor & unstable countries, just use digital dollars? (Or euros?) People in developing countries have access to payment technology like Payoneer and other methods of money transfer, and the dollar is vastly more stable than any cryptocurrency. Why don't they just.... ignore their local currency and do everything in dollars? What am I missing?
> Situational awareness and judgment gets progressively impaired. How is that even an acceptable risk on the railroad?

Out of the public eye, dirty and/or undesirable work in nature.
Trillions of decisions have been made off a tool that has poor error handling and data consistency issues. Blame is not entirely on either the user or the software, but the tool is too trusted without validation.

[Study that was at the core for Europe's austerity and European debt crisis contained excel errors when fixed showed the inverse of original hypothesis.](https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/opinion/krugman-the-excel...)

Programmable commands instead of a data grid would be huge improvement to quality but people use excel in many ways. Python is out of reach for most people. SQL would be an improvement as well. I assumed airtable or similar would replace excel over time. But the sunk cost for existing report and the sharablity seems to keep excel in control.
Caller would have gotten about five seconds worth of my time: "That's very nice. Please send an email. Goodbye". But then, I'm not an expert.
They (presumably intentionally) filed the claim in a state without an anti-SLAPP law, sadly.

Edit: Or at least, so Greg says, and I've found him a reliable source for such things: https://twitter.com/greg_doucette/status/1509184336188350465...
Couldn't disagree more (I spent years writing Go, and now Rust - will NEVER go back)
> senior engineers at FAANG

This means absolutely nothing. It's a well known fact that SV titles hold next to no weight.
Funny you should mention that. I've just been hired as a project manager to do just that. Figure it out. I see myself as infrastructure, my work is to build a structure to enable others to do what they do best. Then again, it's my job to develop the plan on how to do that within the given constraints.
People's inability to accurately assess how easy an inherently easy problem is has no bearing on people's inability to accurately assess how hard an inherently hard problem is.

Said differently, I start from the assumption that some problems are obviously easy, some problems are obviously hard, and every other problem is somewhere in the middle. Self-driving is in the "obviously hard" bucket. Feel free to argue for where you think Go sits in the spectrum, but I would argue no board game is in the "obviously hard" bucket

Hard and easy defined as the ability to solve in a reasonable amount of time with the algorithms and computational models we have today or in the near future -- regardless of ~marginally increasing processing power.
Yes, this is scam prevention 101. Anyone who called you is always unverified. It's hard for me to take seriously a "scam prevention expert" who doesn't seem to know or follow this rule, which by itself is enough to protect you from most scams. Normally I try not to victim blame people for getting scammed, but when you've made a declaration like that you forfeit that right.

I'll also point out that the author seems to have some complicated arrangement for their phone number(s), presumably in the name of security, that in fact got in the way of identifying this to be a scam.
I don't think that "it would be expensive to maintain the software" is a tenable counter-argument to a claim that a gender-neutral option (or optional gender) is important in preventing discrimination.

In particular, all of your quoted arguments would proceed identically with `s/gender/race/`. However, race is not something we specify on passports currently, and a call to add the field would be solidly rejected.
Facebook algorithm was mistakenly elevating harmful content for last six months
I know many well educated STEM professionals who rigorously apply critical thinking skills to their profession. They use the scientific method to discern truth from nonsense.

Outside of their profession, they uncritically accept silly ideas as the truth and throw all logic and reason out the window.
I have solved this mystery for myself, and the answer was 'the burden of expectations' is what has changed.

To reset tolerance, I have to wait till I've forgotten what the experience is really like, and only have vague memories.
About the security content of iOS 15.4.1 and iPadOS 15.4.1
Crypto isn't supposed to replace the hedges you mentioned- it's supposed to complement them.
Apple: When you start an Airplay stream on your phone directed at an Apple TV, the Apple TV doesn't send a switch input command.

I think it depends on the equipment combination, and its state.

I'm able to send an Airplay stream to my AppleTV and it both turns on my LG television, and switches the input to the AppleTV.

However, if the TV is already on, and I send an Airplay stream to the TV it will not switch the input. Which I think is an OK measure if you have kids or roommates or the TV is in a public setting so that someone might hijack your viewing as a joke or to be annoying. My memory is that this used to be possible with an earlier model AppleTV, or an earlier version of iOS.

That said, ever since I attached a $23 no-name Chinese DVR to another HDMI input on the same LG TV, the AppleTV no longer has the ability to wake or change inputs. Very strange.
Voyager still actually gets up to a whopping 1.4 kbps downlink! (but only 16 bps uplink)

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft/
No they have a sex field, the state is taking about allowing M, F, and X for that. There is really no distinction between gender and sex except as a way for people to explain the difference between “social sex” (i.e. the one people mean 99% of the time they say sex) and “chromosomal sex” (i.e. the one basically only doctors care about). Every one of my trans friends has their sex on their legal documents matching their post transition sex.

Which like I get that it’s controversial round certain parts that it’s even possible for those two concepts to not be in lock step but you gotta remember that 20 years ago it was controversial whether one’s sexual orientation could not be in lock step with one’s sex.
A secretive LA group has a new mission: paint untouched crosswalks
We are finding out in America.
After years and years of academic failings from food pyramid nonsense to repeated social science studies failing to replicate.
The public is on the tipping point of outright rejecting the science (or more so the holier than thou priestess-esque science class).

At my gym, all the personal trainers boldly reject food recommendations from the government or scientific papers. They have applied the scientific method themselves to find a system and foods that work, and even have their own online communities. They also can replicate their results with their clients.

At my women's book club, I've noticed more and more mom's are homeschooling their kids in pods, it went from 0% before covid to nearly 50% now, and I live in a pretty affluent liberal area.

My husband's fantasy football group talked about inflation since the start of covid, and now are extremely distrustful of the "media" and "experts".

I'm watching the breakdown of establishment trust in my own life in a very liberal circle of friends and family. I can't imagine how much worse it is in red america.
Just looked up whatever the follow-up of guy who made remarks about Captain Sir Tom Moore ended up being and the man avoided prison time for his tweets [1]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-60930670
It even makes the news [0] periodically. Watch the video, especially 2:22-2:36 which reiterates the PSTN behavior.

[0] https://bc.ctvnews.ca/beware-of-the-delayed-disconnect-phone...
Objections like yours have been raised from the start. How well meaning can these rules and the people implementing them really be if they implemented anyway them despite warnings of this outcome?
Piggybacking a bit here, I got fiber internet at the office, tested at about 900mbps up/down, got this router: https://www.tp-link.com/us/deco-mesh-wifi/product-family/dec... and I've never seen a speed test above 450mbps, including 10 ft from the router. It's a decent size building and other areas get 80-200mbps.

Any good recommendations?
Weird you should say that. The idea came to me after a long conversion with my 6 year old. He was telling me about a friend of his who said he was god or a god and we talked about how you could test to see if he was. That seemed to trigger off a whole synaptic storm.
But they could still try to trick the victim into reading the code for them.
I find Ryan Holiday to be pretty annoying as a marketer, I used to be on his email list for book recs but I got frustrated when the vast majority of his recs were books written by white men (I dont have an issue with books written by white men, but I do see it as a red flag when someone only really consumes content from one perspective).

But I did find "Trust Me, I'm Lying" to be a fascinating look into how to fake a grass roots campaign and create the illusion of virality (basically a step by step guide to fake it till you make it).

I also found his book on Peter Thiel/the Hulk Hogan case (Conspiracy) to be a really interesting look into a lawsuit with pretty major implications for the future of journalism. Although his musings on Thiel's motives/morality/approach seemed to overlook the idea that maybe there just shouldnt be billionaires.

Overall I would say he has interesting insights on specific situations but in general his thinking is fairly unimaginative/limited to manipulating the current system without actually questioning underlying assumptions.
You keep harping on old buggy version where Go has been very clear that it is operator's explicit responsibility to have correct/updated/fixed versions of dependency running.

It specially does not look good in your case considering you work for Google on a different programing language. If you have a clear point to make then compare it with your approach. Instead of making neutral sounding arguments when they are not.
The fear at the time was that all supplements would be by prescription only.

Then a 250 mg capsule of Vitamin C would be $14.00.
Waymo sues California's DMV to keep car crash data quiet
The trouble with a company providing training is people will take the training, and then leave.
I remember seeing a job description that was something like

must be self starter, enjoy high energy postive environment! enjoy coding in RoR etc

To me this reads like legacy Rails codebase people are too scared to touch that's always causing fires. No thanks.
Google Chrome classifies DDoS site against Russian propaganda as malware
Scientists finally finish decoding entire human genome
> "but most of our interviewers are senior engineers at FAANG"

Wait, so the result is that "interviewers from FAANG companies rate highly interviewees from FAANG (and FAANG-adjacent) companies"?

Or maybe more causally: "those who have already passed FAANG-style interviews are more likely to pass interviews conducted by FAANG people"?

I appreciate the mission here - but if the idea here is to give people a fair shot even if they don't have the pedigree of FAANG, building FAANG interview styles into the system seems counter to your stated goals. If anything these results are concerning - you can interpret the findings in (at least) two ways:

- these companies hire or produce superior engineers, the results you got are indicative of a broader higher caliber of engineer in those companies.

- the interviewing exercise is optimizing for "people who can pass/have already passed FAANG-style interviews", which rolls in all of the myriad biases of FAANG hiring and perpetuates them.
I honestly don't see anything about this website that is really building intuition.

The "derivative operator" notion that the GP is describing was hugely important for me in intuiting what linalg could do.
First complete, gapless sequence of a human genome reveals hidden regions
> It does not look professional or interesting to me.

But can the user make it through the UI with less clunks?