skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it’s just about your habits and not some deeper disorder — you need to push yourself in the context where you’d stop thinking and learn new patterns.

Like demanding sport activities, team sport preferably. Some outdoors survival bootcamp etc.
KYC is a legal requirement for the banking industry.
Not disagreeing, but observing Apple has a big scale problem: They sell millions, hundreds of millions of things. They are remarkably small in the clue department, so the clue density remains high (this is the MIT theory of clue: the more people you have the thinner the layer of clue has to spread until almost everyone is virtually clueless)

View it from their point of view: a spigot will deliver 20,000 important, believable problems to everyones desk like a mailman opening the letter-to-santa sack in December. Every desk: Which one(s) do you look at first? Note, all of them are from people of good intent, not fools. The fools are railing on bulletin boards.

BTW I have met Apple engineers who write things. Important things, like the TCP/IP stack for the iPhone. There are two of them. They can't write amazing code, and triage 20,000 bug/improvement inputs at the same time. Sometimes, they're at standards meeting handling fools like me.

Sure, there are ass-hats, but the vast bulk of the time Apple is drowning in good input, and has to triage. The example listed here probably affects 1,000 to 2,000 developers, and a critical bug probably has to affect 150,000 people to get traction.

or you can spend $99 and prioritize your problem.

I had this problem with Microsoft and X509 about 15-20 years ago, (selection of which client certificate to identify a user when there is a certificate subjectName collision) -There was precisely one expert able to fix it, I was ringfenced from them, talking to a consultant and I had the great joy of hearing how much it would cost him to even TRY to get their attention on this problem, which btw, affects the US Government, so its not like it doesn't have "scale" behind it.

This is a problem you get, if you have hundreds of millions of customers.
It may be woo, but how I understand his approach is a rejection of dualism and the Cartesian theater. To commit to physicalism but lean very hard onto what can be asked of it. One must do some kind of move to escape the Cartesian theater. There are those who say consciousness is too hard, and those who say we can take a stab at it. In the latter camp I think he’s more on the right track than anyone major figure I know of.
No, especially if you make me click 3 times to get to the login section but put 'sign up now' on the front page.
That "what are they getting from me" attitude is a filter I view the world in.

I didn't realise it until I went to my local library. I had a mental glitch until I realised I could drop my suspicions and relax. Was pleasant to simply be there.
I'm not sure what Amazon does but when I worked at Google all effort was basically in battening down the hatches to make sure there was absolutely, positively no way to reach a human being anywhere in the company unless you were a business partner of some kind. I stopped answering the phone because every call was someone randomly typing extension numbers out of sheer desperation.
I’ve only ever filed one or two of these “technical support incidents” but even though it sucks to pay for support — they have some very good engineers answering these tickets, and in one case they got a bug fix for an API shipped pretty quickly.
IMO one solution to this problem would be to introduce some kind of industry wide licensing. Then we could pass the exam every 2 years or so and be done with all the current non-sense hiring practices.
Personally, I want to see PCIe x16 devices (or U2 NVMe) where you can plug a few sticks of RAM to get a temporary volume.

It would be ideal for caching!
That was mostly sarcasm, but I would prefer to know if my neighbors think I’m a burglar so that I can politely let them know that I’m not.
>there is no epidemic of LGBT people “grooming” children. It’s a made-up thing designed to whip up a frenzy of hatred towards LGBTQ people and justify rolling back civil rights.

In a country of 300M+ people there will be always plenty of examples of both. And a civilized society would attempt to discern the 2 different behaviors and find a reasonable way to distinguish them formally. The media is not doing that - it artificially divides people into 2 polar opposite camps and forces you to take side based on identity, rather than discussing specific behaviors.

>However, in context it sounds like you are saying that my example of criticism isn’t legitimate because LGBTQ people are “groomers.”

No, I am saying that some people are groomers. And some people are LGBTQ. And the groomers (some percentage of them being LGBTQ) would yell "homophobia" and claim that their critics are trying to steal civil liberties (while some of the critics would actually be trying to do that and trying to use anti-groomer guise for cover up). So it's important to make a distinction between behaviors (e.g. allowing gay people to marry) and affiliation (like identity-based quotas and virtue signalling), because the former is rather hard to abuse, and the latter is an abuser magnet.

>Everything you say after this point is interesting, but utterly unrelated to what I said.

Oh, I would argue it is. Attention is a legitimate intangible asset. Pride month is taking a small "attention tax" from everyone, and redistributing it based on identity. Stop doing that and the tensions in the society will decrease. If you want activism, divert it towards actions (like bullying is bad, regardless of the victim's identity) and you will get people to actually agree rather than splinter.
If you are interested in Pressure Stall Information mentioned in the post, be sure to check LWN article on it, Tracking pressure-stall information: https://lwn.net/Articles/759781/
> The reason loans on the blockchain are cheap is not because there's no middle-man but because they're over-collateralized so there's no risk.

You’re talking apples and oranges.

I think, given recent blowups, it could be related to limits on rehypothecation. But hard to know for sure.
Most comments argue to the contrary of what the article lists as potential use-cases. I must say that the problem with crypto is not so much about its foundation (decentralized, blockchain) but rather the very fact that it promotes a broken business model that neither solves old problems nor offers new problems with novel solutions. I think any computation system that gets coupled with monetary incentives is potentially going to self-defeat its purpose one way or another. Crypto just makes it a lot easier for agents to game the system and lead it to corruption. Yes, the traditional financial institutions are not perfect either, but crypto takes their very worst (i.e., market manipulators) and provides them with a platform with far less regulation and much more reach.
Crypto is more akin to a fundraising strategy then a specific technology. It's like calling a company "tech" and hoping that gets you more dollar signs.

A use case like Helium sounds useful, but using a Blockchain doesn't necessarily add obvious value. The fundamentals don't make sense, you pay for power in dollars but you're paid back in monopoly money. It makes it harder for users to understand the underlying costs... But then again, maybe ambiguity is the value proposition.
And men still aren't allowed to participate in Olympic synchronized swimming. Your point?
Positioning your identity around sexuality (what pride month is essentially) is a left issue, sexual orientation or preference in general is not. GLBT people have allowed themselves to be used and abused by the system and the corporations unfortunately.
That specific creeping behavior is hilarious. Several years ago, my daughter and I found a lost dog clearly a family pet near our home near a busy road. We trapped it in our shaded yard and went around with some quick flyers to find the owner as we knew it was one of 30 homes. Multiple people revealing as little of their eyes as possible through blinds and curtains became funnier and funnier.

(Eventually we found the home. The mother said their dog was in their basement, and we almost left without a flyer until her daughter ran to the door and said their dog was missing and identified her and then the mom was willing to come get the dog. Strange episode.)
I'm going to be blunt here - there is a genuine shortage of good senior candidates right now.

I would nix the take-home assignment, or drastically minimize the size, and ensure salaries align with, or are above the current market rate.
Recursive decent parsing without lexing (2016)
For what it's worth, bugs that Apple engineers file inside of the company often go into the proverbial "Bit Bucket." When I worked at Apple many moons ago I experienced a really horrible bug when performing a system update. I meticulously recorded all of the context and submitted it directly to the owning team. That team proceeded to ignore my bug report for over a year and then kick it back to me with, "It's been a while. Maybe it's fixed. Try going through your repro steps again with the same hardware and let us know what happens."

By then I had swapped out said hardware with more recent stuff I was doing development on.

How many people were impacted by that bug in the meantime? No clue, but I guess it didn't hit Apple's bottom line hard enough to warrant anyone on the owning team even bothering to follow my repro steps themselves.
Of course, that's what any self-respecting burglar trying to throw people off their trail would say.
It's hard for me to understand how such a small amount could have such a meaningful impact on someone's life. I suppose that says more about me though.

Edit: Dolly _personally handed them the cheque_! I could see that being more of a motivation than the cash itself

Edit 2: I would highly recommend listening to "Dolly Parton's America" - https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dolly-partons-america
Gravox is the best. I wish I could find it in San Francisco.
The Defi loan argument also discredits the argument that "crypto" is money. Why would I swap it for stablecoin, which presumably I swap for dollars which presumably I use to buy things if I could just buy things with "crypto"?

Either I can't actually buy things with "crypto" in the world where grown ups reside or I don't want to part with it because I see it as a speculative investment/gambling.
I saw this sometimes as a kid and completely forgot about it. I think I assumed these were just dirty or something. Wow!
From the same Wikipedia page:

> The specification used in the European Union: European Standard EN 1822-1:2009, from which ISO 29463 is derived,[4] defines several classes of filters by their retention at the given most penetrating particle size (MPPS): Efficient Particulate Air filters (EPA), HEPA and Ultra Low Particulate Air filters (ULPA).

The Wikipedia citation goes to a specification which is, annoyingly, not freely available, but Google seems to confirm that Wikipedia is correct. Many sources confirm that EU standards measure penetration at the MPPS, I can find nothing suggesting they use 0.3 microns for anything.

I think the introduction paragraph for that Wikipedia page is simply wrong, and it's conflating two different standards. The actual section on HEPA specifications, however, is much clearer.
> Crypto is successful at being money. If you don't believe me, then I'm happy to sell you the laptop I'm writing this on for 1,000 ETH instead of 1,000 USD.

Utterly absurd and yet even still seems to make the exact opposite point. 1000 ETH can be sold for over USD1m, if ETH were successful money surely you would be indifferent to receiving $1000 and $1000 worth of ETH. Not to mention this seems to imply everything is ‘money’, I’d swap my phone for an RTX3090 so I guess it’s money too. In some sense maybe but this is so broad that the word ‘money’ ceases to have much use discussing.

This piece is ridiculous. It accuses people who believe there are no use cases of making a bad faith statement while interpreting it in the most literal way possible. They aren’t saying you can’t do anything at all with crypto. Many crypto projects are interesting from a purely technical perspective, but mass market adoption isn’t driven by admiration of a technical implementation.

It presents several technologies most of which have been developed as a crypto version of an existing technology for which a use case exists. In this circumstance the ‘use-case’ sceptics refer to is a feature that dominates the existing products for a price users are willing to pay. For the novel ones it's still unknown, but scepticism here is obviously warranted.

I’m not even wedded to my scepticism of crypto. I have an interest in distributed systems and seeing ways people try to design byzantine fault tolerant systems. But I’m yet to see a project that I would use at all and I semi-regularly look.

Even the final claim to cut out middlemen is false. To the end user transaction fees paid to miners don't feel any different to a fee charged by a bank on a transfer except maybe in magnitude.

edited: said USD instead of ETH
I assume they picked something silly so that they would focus on the actual technical goal (assessing the viability of wasm on AWS) and not getting perfectionistic or bikesheddy about the application itself.
Congrats on shipping. I like the product.

What are your plans on developing this further?
Who do you see as a potential user of this product?
How does the product intend on making money and remaining profitable?
Yeah they changed the default behavior a year or two ago so that if there’s a post in a nearby neighborhood that someone in your neighborhood engages with, it shows up in your feed.

The result is that shitposts spread and drive engagement.
The poor people I know eat healthier food than the crap I do. Veggies are cheap, rice, beans.

They aren't buying TV dinners at $5 per pop.

What do you mean they are forced to eat crappy food? It's usually more expensive than the healthier options.
It goes away at year 15 or so if you have a good reputation.

I resigned my previous role out of sheer boredom and a desire to work on something new and have been flooded with no/fit-only interview offers, not that i'm going to follow up on them.
Ask HN: Why picture-in-picture is still not available in YouTube app?
I remember seeing it in “try new features” in YouTube app’s settings (I’m using iOS), but now it has been removed and I can no longer find it anywhere in the settings… picture-in-picture has been out for many years and what’s stopping YouTube from making it available for users?
Project Farm on YouTube is one of the best review producers ever. He buys tools, shop equipment, supplies, and so forth, then runs objective tests using sophisticated measurement and use cases that run from realistic to hilarious.

https://youtube.com/c/ProjectFarm
In pictures: Historic flooding in Montana
At the same time he's basically looking at the equipment that just so happens to perfectly fill his desires (to be a writer) and justifying them by saying "well there's worse things out there."
Oof, I had to delete my Nextdoor account after witnessing that same kind paranoia (with a hint of racism).

The last post I read that caused me to delete my account was about an elderly woman complaining about a brown guy taking pictures of his own car on a public street. (It seemed like he was putting it up for sale, after looking at the photo "evidence" and he obviously was the owner.)

When I commented it was that it was a public street, she got all huffy and flipped out at me. And the same type of "We have to be careful!" response.
Probably their A/B testing showed that Pic-in-Pic doesn't increase revenue, so they botched it like so many other GOOG projects.
A 3,400-year-old city in Iraq emerges from underwater after an extreme drought
If you are paying FAANG salary and giving real stock in a public company, you can insist on jumping through more hoops.

But if you are a medium size enterprise company that isn’t paying that type of compensation, you can’t.
I can get in this state too, Lightheaded helps, worn out helps, tired eyes from looking at a screen helps.

Then for some immediate relief, I will squeeze my nose bridge from the eye socket from both sides.

And in that moment of relaxation, I will see stars. Probably from starting to breath slower, it's a lack of oxygen caused faintness, then the light and fractals and patterns come in. If I relax, and dont blink, just chill, they will slowly grow larger. Blink or stop focusing and it goes away.

I think it has something to do with the liquid environment of the eye, and how tired and watery it can be. Squeezing that water away to another part seems to short circuit the eye and give fuzzy electrical sparks and fractal patterns.
I see this misconception a lot so I'd like to correct it. Hormone levels at a given moment have very little to do with physical performance in sports. Testosterone is important during puberty and while training. Not at the point of competition. A large, athletic male, put on estrogen for a few years will still be incredibly, incomparably stronger than an elite woman. His bones are bigger, his muscles are bigger, his connective tissue is bigger, his leverages are better, he recruits more muscle fibers at max effort, his power production is higher. The biological difference is insurmountable once puberty takes place.

This is why even elite female athletes, with high testosterone, even when taking testosterone, even on steroids, even in the olympics, are physically competing on the level of high school boys. It is impossible to overstate the physical advantage that being a male provides. It is not about the current hormone levels.
I have an iPhone and I like it. I have little need to update it even though it is almost 3 years old.

I also agree it is far from perfect but pretty good. Used to be on android but it was easier to use the same devices as my wife.
There is a separate standard for TLS over UDP, namely DTLS which is unrelated to QUIC.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datagram_Transport_Layer_Secur...)

TLS is not TCP specific.

DTLS is regularly used in IoT applications such as smart metering where the overhead of a TCP stack is costly.
Most senior (in the traditional sense, not the "7 years experience = senior" sense) people are mostly in jobs where the problem is they are bored, not the compensation.
Strongly agree, when I was looking for a job in the 2 month timeframe, perhaps only 5% of the jobs descriptions had a salary range.
I am currently working for a FAANG company, where the first thing that the recruiter talked about was the salary.
When you "turn off" WiFi or Bluetooth via the control center you're simply disconnecting from any remote devices. To actually turn the radio off you need to go into the WiFi or Bluetooth settings – this lasts until you turn the radios back on.
For more lightweight task and project management with an notes editor and outliner feel, try Taskade [0]

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[0] - https://taskade.com/
Here's the definitive list:
https://firt.dev/notes/pwa-ios/

None of those things are necessary to create a very full featured Tumblr web application. E.g. twitter works quite well on mobile web.

Tumblr wants people to download the app for engagement purposes.
Only once I've got any response to Feedback. After getting it I never opened another case again.

Can't recall what exactly was the issue but after macOS update, some bundled software stopped being so friendly and required more actions to achieve a goal. Some built-in functionality stopped being more useful than 3rd party products.

I've opened a case to try to tell Apple in what way their update has broken my productivity, pointed out what was needed to get results before the update and how more labor user had to do after the update.

Got the most Apple answer possible: "this works as intended".

Just another example of Cook's hostility towards users to make Apple more attractive to investors.
Once I realized that the Olympics and all sports are just entertainment, lots of decisions make more sense. It's not about really being fair (nothing is), just (usually competitive and thus) entertaining with plenty of (record breaking) "news" to report.
Really curious about the reasons though, is it because picture-in-picture will make if more difficult for tracking user activities or what?
Can’t you tell from the bones if something has been boiled?
Web 3 seems to want to monetize every web transaction under the guise of providing increased freedom.

So it may not have been the pitch, but NFT's are definitely Web 3. You're just moving the goal posts.
Ah, sorry I didn't get that. The answer is this is a global team, and we do hire all over the globe. This particular position is for the US timezone, and that is why it's in the US.
What if it was just a pit that a lot of frogs ended up in and couldn’t get out.

It was full of water, they went in and then as the water gradually dried up they realized they couldn’t get out anymore. So they concentrate themselves into the ever drying pool and end up buried together in a very small space.

This happens to fish all the time, with steep enough walls it would happen to frogs too.
A $1M house would cost someone about $5,800 per month just to pay a 30 year mortgage at current rates without a down payment and that excludes property taxes, insurance, utilities, repairs, and all the other minor costs that go along with ownership. How can anyone possibly expect to be profitable in the slightest building that housing. Not even luxury housing would be doable at that price. The only return these investors get is from hoping the cost of the property goes up in 10, 20, 30 years, not from the income generated from rent. Companies actually refuse to build in California because what happens when the anti-landlord, anti-profit government decides they don't even deserve enough in rent to stay afloat until they reach those breakeven years 20 years later. The government implements rent control, decides that tenants don't have to pay, decides that tenants can't be evicted if they don't pay, and decides you are the bad guy for being a landlord, or that you are gentrifying the area. There is this assumption some government grant or combination of 5 of them should be the incentive to build there. Why not just allow those properties to actually be profitable an build there - then they would build more housing? Housing built to be affordable housing and those built to be luxury aren't even that different in building costs but you only get incentives if you build the affordable housing. 1000 new units at the top end still increasing overall housing by 1000 units. Instead they incentivize building 1000 units at the bottom end. Why not have the developers actually be the good guys, the hero's that are coming to build housing, sure at their profit but refusing to allow people to become profitable landlords is like saying we don't want more doctors in the world because doctors make too much money. There is an obvious need right now and they sacrifice the entire housing market in order to 'help the poor' but in the end it's a sacrifice. any economist knows that implement pricing controls (like affordable housing) only causes shortages. You have reduced supply because no one wants to build anymore, You have increased demand because everyone wants to pay that lower price. Pricing controls are the biggest disaster in the country and have probably caused more homelessness in their desire to lower prices.
If it's speculative, as in 20 other people doing the same test for one job, I'd probably not.

If it was, "we want to give you the job, but just need to check if you can actually do exactly what we need", well that's different.
It's because it's a VOIP number which they can check instead of a Mobile number.
Nothing about the hiring process laid out is specific to senior hiring and is basically time intensive. You are not the only company reaching out to them or that they are applying for, so your assignment is completely not going to fly.