skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And that’s it—there’s simply very little data on how well the Myers-Briggs (and other type-based personality tests) measures personality and even less on how it might predict job performance.

I was surprised there wasn't any mention of a very interesting issue here, i.e. MBTI and other typological instruments come with user manuals, training, etc., and those materials specifically say "do not use this for hiring".

This is true even in marketing materials...Here's an example directly from the Myers-Briggs Company website:

https://www.themyersbriggs.com/en-us/company/press/press/202...

Even as a personal growth tool the instrument itself is kinda meh, but the soft science behind it is pretty fascinating...

And if you are concerned your employer is going to misuse your MBTI type somehow, 1) know your type first, ideally before they do 2) learn the associated relational blind spots and decide how you'll work around them 3) call yourself a "reformed XXXX" because basically the deeper theory is that any given personality type is similar to an illness in a lot of ways. Oh and 4) this may not be a very good workplace, good luck out there.
I completely agree with you. I tried updating my Nexus 5 with CyanogenMod for a while. I was very impressed with how well CyanogenMod worked but eventually I wanted manufacturer support instead of having to put the OS on an SD card and try to boot from it so I could install the OS. And worrying that the one volunteer doing my phone would get tired of updating the OS.

The Nexus 7 was a nice form factor for reading web pages because it was long and thin in portrait mode. The combination of hardware issues reported by other people and again lack of supported upgrades led me to eBay it.
I really don’t understand how licensing works, but doesn’t the Apache 2.0 license essentially mean “anybody can do anything they want with this code”?

If that is the case, wouldn’t that right also apply to the primary maintainer/owner of the copyright or is it just the users that have that privilege?

If I were concerned about somebody eventually monetizing a product that I contributed to, I wouldn’t contribute to anything.
Not affiliated with YC, but here are some reasons about why B2B would be more appealing to YC.

YC offers a big competitive advantage to B2B (especially tech B2B) through its network. YC offers a large network of potential customers and early adopters for new or growing B2B businesses. Access to the YC network makes it easier to get a B2B off the ground. Many B2B applicants to YC already have some traction and use YC to help take off. This kind of applicant is obviously attractive to YC because it is low-risk.

Also, with B2B companies, it is much easier to avoid the Achilles Heel of B2C, which is that the cost to acquire a user ends up being higher than the revenue that user generates. Even if there is decent product-market fit, consumers generally have tight budgets. With B2B, one sale can generate thousands in ARR, which makes hiring a sales team to close those deals scalable.
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In Billy Mitchell's defense, his villainy is fairly low grade and highly entertaining. He's very fun to hate on
I don’t know, modern phones have zero moving parts, are adequately water resistant so I don’t see that. The most likely problem it might have is the battery, which doesn’t happen overnight.
"I don't know if you're just using rsync, but automatically syncing modifications, corruptions and deletions without any kind of retention system isn't a good idea ..."

This is, broadly, correct.

However, we have been encouraging our customers to configure "dumb" 1:1 mirror rsync jobs to us and then allow the platform to handle all of the retention with the ZFS snapshots.

An rsync.net customer configures any arbitrary schedule of days/weeks/months/quarters/years and then we (rsync.net) handle the rotation, retention and maintenance of these snapshots.

The benefits of this, beyond the fire and forget aspect, are twofold:

First, they are more efficient than typical retention schemes like 'rsnapshot' or "rsync snapshots" since ZFS diffs on a bit basis and not a full file basis - so if you change a file, but only by a little bit, you don't pay the entire size of the files as a penalty in your snapshot size.

Second, the ZFS snapshots are immutable. Even if someone steals your rsync.net credentials and wipes out your entire account, the snapshots cannot be changed.[1]

Of course you may do whatever you'd like - you can even configure snapshots on an account you use 'borg' with and get very inefficient "snapshots of snapshots". Whatever makes you happy - we just give you an empty UNIX filesystem to do whatever you like with.

[1] https://twitter.com/rsyncnet/status/1453044746213990405
This is basically colocation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colocation_centre
I don't know why this would even be a subscription. I'm not hiking into the wilderness on a regular basis. I'd be happy to pay $20 to activate the feature for 30 days ahead of any adventuring I have planned.
Which the government already has a copy of and can add to your taxes automatically.
> I have never seen, let alone taken out, a 30 yr mortgage with a prepayment penalty.

Hence the the use of the word theoretically.
Globalstar was a joke, not because of its architecture, but because its satellites got irradiated and degraded to the point they couldn’t handle a phone-call even in their on-shore/near-shore use case.

Nobody is going to invest in satellite phones or credits for a provider that couldn’t do space right.

An interesting alternative to sat comms is HF-DL if you don’t care for security. Cool to see all the Russia seized and reregistered jetliner equipment pinging and hearing HF-DL stations around the world on ACARS. Slow though, 300-1200bps.
It does.

“Let friends know how remote you go.
If you’re on an adventure without cell service, you can now use Find My to share your location via satellite so friends and family know where you are.“
Most people in the groups you mention probably already own a dedicated emergency locator device. AAPL may very well take a lot of their business, but maybe not. An inReach is going to survive a much bigger fall than an iPhone.
Not just large corporations, startups too. It's embarrassing the kind of consultancy a mid-size startup can hire.
A bunch of carriers around the world have either “up to X roaming days in a year” or “up to X roaming days at a time” for the included roaming plan. I guess it’s to reset that.
I can't quantify "often" - that's the part of the problem. If I knew that, say, 90% of charities were actually sincere, then I could play the numbers game and know that 90% of the money given will go to those in need. But it could also be the other way around - 90% of charities could actually be fraudulent. If that kind of money went into the pockets of the very people who're making the problem worse (corrupt politicians and other powerful individuals who're destroying their countries), that would make charity a net-negative. There's just no way to know.

Websites that act as arbiters of charity justice don't help either, for the same reason - who is verifying the verifiers? It seems to me that the most corrupt charities would be most motivated to boost their numbers on various vetting websites, while the legitimate ones would be too busy actually doing something to bother dealing with internet politics.
It's a general recession, potentially leading into a depression. Nobody knows how bad it will get! We haven't yet seen the effect in the US but if the economy tanks here it will triple the effect on Europe with all its current problems.
Apple also funds much of TSMC's growth, without any pathway to ownership. Apple is likely just buying top priority.
Emergency Locator Beacons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_position-indicating_...

I've got these 2:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07V6CWS26/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01C6RCRIW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
I need to stop reading the news, it makes me quezy... But I wonder if ignoring news is going to make me ignorant.
That kind of analysis really only works well for people who make a lot of housing purchases, and have cash reserves to cover rising rates.

For most people, who get one mortgage on their primary home (which they live in), the potential downside if you’re in that 25% is ‘lose your house’, so it’s not unwise to go with a fixed rate that you know you will be able to pay for the life of the loan.
I use a combination of uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger. I haven't run into, say, YouTube not playing videos. Every so often chunks of certain pages won't load because Privacy Badger blocks them. I don't visit those pages/sites much so that's not a huge problem for me.
> organizations have elected to self-support

That is the conundrum of Open Source: Great open source software will be so easy to maintain that everybody can do that for themselves. Therefore the economic incentive for Open Source authors is to create software which requires maintenance.

Either way, someone has to pay in the end, either for the license, or for the maintenance. There's no free lunch.
Jacob Nyssen downthread [1] has also made similar points, and more.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32747387
What bugs me about this UI is that there is another button on the headphones that I NEVER use. Why can't that just be the pairing button? Or maybe their top-of-the-line headphone model could have... Three buttons?
> Even my Garmin Phoenix 5x plus will last multiple days with GPS usage for Backcountry camping.

Sporadic GPS usage, I'm guessing, since Garmin themselves only claim 13 hours of GPU usage (can't tell if it has UltraTrac though - the 5x non-plus can do 50 hours in UltraTrac mode.)
According to the link you posted, there are intermediate CAs. Those could be revoked and effectively revoke all the end entity certificates.
I know it’s a ‘workaround’ but have your MacBook use it’s own as the mic input, and the AirPods as the output.
Needs to be made thread safe!
Because people can have preferences to make things work better for them, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Software engineering is one of the few professions where you can use a hammer you designed yourself that fits your hand perfectly and is optimal for the task at hand.

Changes like this don't mean you're forcing other people to use your weird shaped nails, tho.
> If a single "it went badly enough to wind up in the NYT" case means Google is a no-go,

I think we are beyond 'one' case going wrong with Google services like YouTube, Drive, etc which the result of automated bans have made people realize that Google owns whatever you put on their services and can remove whatever they 'think' violates their ToS.

> I've got really bad news for you about blockchains.

Yet, I made no mention about or storing data on the 'blockchain', since IPFS is not a blockchain.
30 days after a new product announcement I believe as well
You should always catch ValueError when using int() on user input, because that input may not be a valid number.
but it contextualizes it with adapted variable names, case and everything. That's very hard to do with only statistical analysis.
I get what you mean but I really hope it doesn’t make the Apple Pay chime in that case, heh.
If you want to be at the leading edge you buy the 14 Pro which has the A16.
> I’m a bit more informed than the average HN poster

You’ve mistaken me for the average. I’ve worked in Integrity for a FAANG company and in FinCrime for a bank. I have a very good idea of how to mask information from bad people automating things. That’s literally all I’ve done for more than half a decade.

Save your condescension for someone else.
This, forget the mortgages, it's the HLOCs that are the issue, people using them to finance lifestyle, renovations, investment and buy more real estate. example: https://twitter.com/ronmortgageguy/status/156755118509536870...
But I read the code, and I run tests.
You can absolutely trust them with production code. Disney Streaming (CE and ZIO) and ITV (just CE) run them
Hopefully this moment gets remembered the same way we remember the floppy drive getting removed

Hopefully
I imagine you'll have the option to still have a password, for those that aren't concerned about Apple lock it'll be a nice benefit.
Cringely
https://www.cringely.com/
I received an exact 1.246 BTC from an unknown source back in 2019. I used it to travel, hire escorts and eat food.
This is how it works where i live, they do the taxes and i can contest or add missing expenditure, its super easy if your employed you dont really do anything for filing its all done automatically.
Google is an ad company. The logical strategy is embrace extend extinguish ad blocking. If your extension is getting attacked and stripped of functionality minimal investment in keeping it working likely to continue to work the longest is logical
It does seem very low.

However, you shouldn't be passing million-digit numbers around as (decimal) text. Even if you're not at risk of DOS attacks, there's still the issue that it's very, very slow:

$ python3 -m timeit -s "s='1'*1000000" "i=int(s)"
1 loop, best of 5: 5.77 sec per loop

A ValueError alerting you to that fact could be considered a service.

Contrast and compare:

$ python3 -m timeit -s "s='1'*1000000" "i=int(s,16)"
200 loops, best of 5: 1.45 msec per loop
Fascinating, I understand most of it but why vented attic vs conditioned?
This is a great example of the difference between "safe" and "secure".

Two locations is intrinsically less secure, not more. You're exposed to exfiltration from either site. It is, however, safer, because you need both sites to fail before you lose data.
What if I read your code? Now I have memory of it in my brain and it will influence my next projects. Is it stealing?
What’s odd is that in the US at least, carriers must allow any phone (even if it no longer has an active/paid plan) to dial 911 for emergency.

I wonder if Apple expects the government to institute similar requirements soon for satellite (if that’s possible) and this won’t cost anything.
You are correct, since chips designed at around 5-7 nm are much more likely to be hit with radiation. However, by scaling up the chip, you can be a lot more tolerant to it. Because of this, most chips are fabbed at around 28 nm. Generally, you want a mix of both things. You can harden a chip by shielding it, but that doesn't stop everything, so you add some fault tolerance.
Various ham radio data modes for 1200 bps or approximately that speed can be implemented with big ass dipole and yagi uda antennas for directional data links, with standard crypto libraries between Linux systems operating as serial bridge, it's just very very slow. And it's a gargantuan pile of equipment and huge antenna compared to something like iridium.
I still haven’t looked into it much but IIRC iPhone 12 & iPhone 13 could already save multiple eSIMs, while 13 could activate 2 at the same time. I think it was up to 8 (or 10) saved eSIMs?
That would make it extremely difficult to talk to anyone else about the code though, no?

You'd have to spend time finding and learning the "common" ground between every fellow developer you talk to.
I'm not saying it can't work because of an edge case. I'm saying the system has fundamental flaws and here are some examples.

And I can turn the same logic around on you: Why do you think this will work when just one country is claiming to do it successfully? Especially after other countries tried it and then repealed or at least partially repealed their wealth taxes to exclude hard to value items?
What are the chances the microphone will be useable?
That is concerning. Have to weigh that against the added security, I guess.

The article does talk about how tools like 1Password could allow for PassKey sharing without vendor lock-in.
I imagine this has to be a loss leader/marketing feature, where the hope is very few will use it but those who do will result in "iPhone saves 12 year old Boy Scout lost in the woods!"
Yes exactly, but instead of having to find a server, order it and ship it. the colo center also acts as a vendor of pre-built servers.

So instead of Amazon keeping thousands of servers ready for you to rent at any time, I'd keep servers ready for you to buy at anytime.

You pay $4000 say for the server. Now you own it. Then you pay me $100 / month.

We depreciate the server. If after three months you think you're done, we give you $3800 back. So your cost was $200/month. Same as AWS, except you own the server. Also, better for your taxes, because unlike cloud services, actual hardware depreciation is a tax loss.

Since you own the server at all times, and are just renting from me for the actual connection, you can decide to simply remove the server at any time (and then I keep the $4000, like a normal purchase). Or, if I decide I disagree with what you're hosting, I will pull the plug, but the server is yours.

Unlike amazon, since you own the server, I cannot seize it and terminate your data, as Amazon did with Parler, for example.

Moreover, unlike Amazon, the government cannot 'request' that they see what's on my disks or server. The government actually cannot compel me to turn over any incriminating data (fifth amendment) about myself, whereas they can compel Amazon to.

This arrangement gives you the same kinds of rights you get as a tenant in a normal rental situation, rather than the 'big multinational conglomerate owns everything' situation we have no.
While this does seem a bit high, it’s worth bearing in mind two things. One, most other places price sales tax into the advertised total, which doesn’t happen in the US. For UK prices, that’s 20% right there. Two, to prevent constantly floating prices, they need to fix a price at a decent hedge against currency fluctuations. This should be all the more understandable given the recent volatility in forex rates.
> If uBlock Origin offered an ad whitelist that only allows ad networks that a) serve only their own JavaScript, no third party crap

Wait, why would an acceptable ad network have JavaScript at all? Maybe a minimal, pre-approved bit of JS to help the network understand where the ad is being placed, but even that is questionable.

Frankly, I consider it somewhere between bizarre and obviously wrong for any serious website that needs to follow HIPPA, PCI, or any other reasonable security standard to allow un-audited third party JS at all.
"It’s hard to make sense of rsync.net these days."

We updated our pricing this past year and are, I believe, price-competitive with Wasabi and B2 for large datasets[1].

For medium sized datasets there is a premium that might pencil out given the free usage/bandwidth/transfer.

For smaller accounts there is a premium and in return for that premium you get actual person to person support from real UNIX engineers as well as a simple platform "that just works".

It's not for everybody. That's just fine.

[1] https://rsync.net/pricing.html
Does Google autofill transfer over to Firefox easily? I'd reckon that's a big pain point for a lot of people when considering switching browsers
which will cost 300M and not work.
>Your ears have on the order of 1 megabit/sec bandwidth, so anything more is irrelevant, specifically Wi-Fi 6 is 1000 times overkill.

That's silly. This would imply that there's no point in ever having any form of wireless data transmission with more bandwidth than the totality of your senses can intake at once. Obviously it could be used for more than just transferring audio data. But bandwidth isn't really the point anyways. It's about connection quality and range, which Bluetooth will never be able to achieve by design. I would gladly sacrifice battery life for headphones that "just work" with zero effort connectivity at all times, in the same way my laptop seamlessly connects to Wi-Fi.
Loab, the nightmare haunting latent space
Yes, I understand that.

I see I misunderstood korijn's comment. My earlier reply is off-topic, so I won't continue further off the track.
I'm looking forward to this as well.
Two issues with Dynamic Island:

1. background is always black (since it's what the notch used to be) for things like FaceID the animation looks worse and more intrusive
2. it's interactive that means you're gonna be touching it a lot and getting smudge on the camera
Knight Capital Trading Glitch Cost It $440M (2012)
There is also the https://www.joinhoney.com/ and https://www.rakuten.com/button.htm extension for comparison shopping. Their main business is cashback deals but there is a comparison shopping angel to them.
Who are AAPL?
does the bot write most of the tests too?
https://www.cringely.com/2022/06/03/apples-space-ambitions-a... - The particularly I, Cringely article.
I’d suggest to go one step further to advanced income. Government guarantees advanced income for everyone, why stop at basic, are you not generous enough?
Support for different architectures doesn't impact start time much. The code for the different archs is in different chunks of the file.

Linking more libraries slows down launch due to initialization that happens to get the libraries ready to use. Besides that it's mostly what the app itself is doing on startup.

So yes, beating Safari for a tiny app is… a good thing, but not very impressive.
Not everybody has experience with consultancy work, and this doesn't make them or what they write "ridiculous".
> You reserve no right to have service restored when you violate those terms, period.

You're right. Don't complain if Google Drive, iCloud, etc bans you via an AI or bot automatically over an alleged ToS violation. Same with Twitter and the rest of them or even payment companies like PayPal. When your account is banned, that is that. Period.

As these services are free to do business with whoever they want, you are free to choose alternatives to these services, since at the end of the day, they will never change.
Note that you can decide NOT to pay the "service fee" and they'll often still work, you'll just be hit with some pretty hefty fees for rescue, etc.

You can also get a older ELT-style 121.5 MHz but I wouldn't really recommend it. Might be nice as a last-ditch.
Jared Friedman has recently said each batch generally has over 10% solo founders. So, it would be considered a meaningful concern, but certainly not a deal-breaker, especially if the founder is technical.

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/7P-does-yc-fund-solo-fou...
My rule using copilot is to use it as a fancy typing assistant which will frequently make mistakes - so you need to read everything it writes for you, and have solid test coverage too in order to avoid accidentally accepting a dumb mistake.
For the uninitiated:

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Interjection
And that graph of an A11 A16 and “competing CPUs” is still true (showing A11 lightly ahead of the competition, while A16 being like 15% better than it) - apple is ridiculously ahead of the pack in CPU design.
I came from Android, while I agree with Firefox + ublock supremacy, I've been using Sarai with Ad Guard Pro (VPN based) and it has been good.