skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why wouldn't they just keep doing it server-side

Because they want to scan files that will be encrypted on your device and not transferred to the server as plaintext. No doubt they'll continue to scan unencrypted files server side.

> no one asked Apple to do this.

If someone asked them to it would turn it into a warrantless search with Apple acting as the state agents to search your possessions. It would almost certainly result in the evidence being tossed by any US court. This kind of warrantless search only works if Apple does it of their own accord, instead of on the governments behalf.

Note that this doesn't apply to searches done on Apples servers to data you uploaded, there it's their possessions that they're searching, not yours.
> Since when is soap the mainstream thing for washing the body?

For soap, it sounds like maybe 3500 years ago? (Which is 1000 years after it was invented.) https://time.com/5831828/soap-origins/
> Given this definition I think you almost never really want the parallel curve though (at least in computer graphics).

Fonts want this a lot.

It helps more to think about this in terms of a closed curve. If you have an arbitrary closed cubic curve, what does it mean to make it "bigger", "smaller", "thicker", "thinner", etc. For example, a blob sticking out eventually needs to get "flattened" as you shrink the curve.

A lot of the problem with 2D graphics currently is simply that we don't have good underpinning theory and, especially, definitions like we do for 3D graphics. If you don't even agree on what things mean, you can't generate a theory for how to do them.
NIMBYs in their own backyard, not necessarily your backyard. Marc Andreessen for example.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andre...
Google is not the underdog either by any measure...
> You are outrageously ignorant of the causes of homelessness if you think that the people you see on the street can afford or will stay in any of the new developments.

The YIMBY approach to homelessness is just a modern form of trickle-down economics. You see, if only there were more properties for Uber/Twitter/startup millionaires, which they could buy for $3m instead of $4m, then they wouldn't drive up the price of those $2m properties, and then ...<iterate several times>... all those unhoused people on SF sidewalks would have a place to live!
> This can already be done to a degree via the banking system, but a CBDC would provide for much more granular control.

That's vague. Prove it.
The potential applications to permaculture planning are quite exciting. We can leverage the basic aspects of our current plant models and create new models for different species that capture not only their appearance but their behavior to different environmental factors.
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I'm a problem solver.

I learn quickly and use whatever technology is necessary (familiar with other techs beside the ones above).

Finished my PhD in CS recently.

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Passionate about computers since I was a kid. Studying and working in CS full time since 2009.

I'm at the top 10% of Leetcode contestants.

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Creating better explanations on how to use and apply knowledge is so huge.

I’d be curious to learn if there’s any pain points or things you wish you could do faster in your process. Happy to chat offline :)
I personally prefer the WFEO model code of ethics. It's more generic but also more to the point.

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In the course of engineering practise, I will endeavour to:

# Demonstrate Integrity

Refrain from fraudulent, corrupt or criminal practices Be objective and truthful Practise fairly and with good faith towards clients, colleagues and others

# Practise Competently

Practise in a careful and diligent manner in accordance with my areas of competence Practise in accordance with accepted engineering practices, standards and codes Maintain and strive to enhance the body of knowledge in which I practise

# Exercise Leadership

Practise so as to enhance the quality of life in society Strive to contribute to the advancement of the body of knowledge within which I practise, and to the profession in general Foster the public’s understanding of technical issues and the role of engineering

# Protect the Natural and Built Environment

Create and implement engineering solutions for a sustainable future Be mindful of the economic, societal and environmental consequences of actions or projects Promote and protect the health, safety and well being of the community and the environment
In 2017 Apple introduced the iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and X. All three still get updates this year. That’s five years of support. They may get updated next year+, we don’t know yet.

You know what the iPhone 8 had? 2GB of RAM. Same as Google is calling for now.

And people have been through this over and over. Apple does not insert fake delays to make phones feel slower. If you could prove that you could make a mint.

They add features, which takes extra CPU. Though not all are on every phone for that exact reason.

How many Android phones from 5 years ago got 5 years of updates? How about 2 years?
I have always been an unabashed fan of the idea of domain-specific databases. Database implementations make a lot of compromises for the sake of generality and avoid useful features that overfit a single domain. The idea of a database engine perfectly optimized and feature-fit for a domain has obvious qualitative advantages, and it isn't controversial that it is eminently possible to build such a database.

So why are they so rare? It is expensive in several dimensions to build a narrowly tailored database engine from scratch. Database engines are not modular, you can't assemble them from arbitrary parts while maintaining control of their basic characteristics. Building an optimized domain-specific database from scratch is not trivial because you will have to do a lot of the really hard parts yourself.

In my head, there has always been a missing piece of software - a "database compiler", that can take the very complex and high-dimensionality abstract specification for a domain and codegen a purpose-built database engine. I also recognize that this is exceedingly non-trivial; I codegen storage engines to spec and that is already difficult enough. Doing that for a full database engine in a specific domain would have hundreds of input parameters, many of which would require expertise in the underlying codegen to know how to use them. It would be awesome if such a thing existed though.
The music school is prestigious, and if you're going to the symphony you probably aren't going to learn the musicians' politics.
I don’t believe Oberlin is a scam though I think they messed up quite big with this case. By this logic a lot of private unis are scams which is quite a large brush to paint with.
It's illogical to fault Apple for something that they hadn't even talked about implementing ("local-only images" as you put it)
You had a handset? Luxury. We used to dream of having a handset...

We used to create static electricity by rubbing a hand on the carpet, then touching the phone wire...
The biggest pinterest asset is founder who is an ex googler and had enough connections to secure it from being banned from google for seo gaming and hijacking whole images category.
There is a good chance that someone could get to the 400th page if there were around a total of 8000-10000 hits for an for a obscure topic. It would be a multi-day effort, and I am sure that person would wish that they could search within the result or group the result by some properties.
CBDC will never catch on. It's worse than the existing system for everyone involved. This is just clueless bureaucrats trying to show how cool they are. Not to mention corporations trying to extract more money from the government by providing CBDC services.
Have you tried a total wipe and reinstall? It’s rarely needed but can make a difference in such circumstances.
> the proportion of people who use psychedelics and end up on good tracks is way higher than that of those who use psychedelics and end up on bad tracks

I'll agree with that, but the real question is whether people who use psychedelics more frequently end up on bad tracks than those who don't, which in my experience is definitely true.

> homeless people are homeless for reasons stemming from their own decisions

No, my bias is that many homeless are homeless because they live in a place that enables and even encourages actions that lead people to become homeless (psychedelics use being one example).
You're talking about the role that transistors play as switches in a digital logic circuit. The video is about the physical operation of, in particular, bipolar junction transistors, which are more commonly used as amplifiers.
When one collapses does it’s entangled counter part collapse to a particular state immediately?
They have it backwards, scanning cloud uploads on device is more private than scanning them in the cloud.
It was also the spec of the iPhone 8, which gets iOS 16 this year and is thus considered fully supported.

Seems reasonable on Google’s part to me.
I think a lot of times the catalyst is if you don’t agree due to insufficient evidence, or choose to shop there then “you’re the problem”.
For sure, infinite scroll isn't designed for the benefit of the user.
> Android seems to be growing inferior to iOS in almost every way

Crazy statement. I have iPhone for work and it is horrible to use. I haven't met a single thing from UX point of view in iOS that is better than whatever is in Android. It's a complete downgrade IME.
It’s city officials vs state law not just judges. An ongoing question is which powers should be local vs state level.

It’s reasonable to favor local governments on local issues, but this stuff is impacting outside their area so it’s no longer a local issue.
Stratified Synthesis: Automatically Learning the x86-64 Instruction Set (2016) [pdf]
Every Google engineer can see the code that performs this calculation. Google engineers have demonstrated that we are very vocal when we smell foul play.
> If you sue the city and win, the judge orders the city to follow the law, and they still don't, do elected officials go to jail or something?

There are various things that might happen; an obvious one here is that, with the city declining to follow its own procedures, it would be prohibited from enforcing them against you. You would then not require a permit to do whatever it was you were trying to do.
Roy Harper’s Stormcock (2020)
Some companies vest quarterly with no cliff, so you are going to vest within 3 months of starting.
Opening downloaded PDFs is uncommon?
That's the third Hoare for me today.

1. Tony Hoare - "I couldn't resist the temptation to put in a null reference, simply because it was so easy to implement. This has led to innumerable errors, vulnerabilities, and system crashes, which have probably caused a billion dollars of pain and damage in the last forty years." Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake - https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Null-References-The-Bill...

2. C.A.R. Hoare - "The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user."

3. Graydon Hoare - "Rust started as a personal project (on my own laptop, on my own time) in 2006. It was a small but real 17kloc native compiler for linux, mac and windows by the time Mozilla began sponsoring it in 2009-10."

EDIT: C.A.R. = Charles Antony Richard = Tony. Not to be confused with his twin brother C.D.R.
If the battery or storage is aged it can slow down apparently unrelated things. They're both consumable components.
Invasive biopsies in common medical screening? Yeah, that just isn't gonna happen. Nobody is going to test for any of those chemicals either due to the huge cost and questionable benefit.
I briefly worked with a woman who studied computer science by way of math at Carnegie Tech* in the 1960s. Some of her experiences blew my mind, considering they didn't happen that long ago

For example, grad students got priority on the mainframe. No big deal for most undergrads, they could just go in at night to get some computer time. However, the dorm for unmarried women had a curfew, and the young ladies could only leave under the supervision of a male chaperone. My colleague's solution was to ask her male classmates to pretend to take her out on dates. Once a gentleman caller convinced the dorm supervisor that his intentions were honorable, he could check my coworker out from the dorm like a library book, walk her out, and she'd be free to try out the programs she'd been working on during the day.

* I might be misremembering the details, but I think she said that women technically weren't allowed to be students of Carnegie Tech, but they could go to a separate CMU women's college (that didn't have CS or engineering majors, but did have math) and cross-register for individual Carnegie Tech classes.
Ask HN: Where to find jobs that have screening questions?
Hello HN!
I've been job hunting unsuccessfully for nearly a year now. I've been trying to get my foot in the door, however just haven't had much luck, except whenever there's a position that poses one or more technical questions to applicants, which usually gets an interview.

Is there a place that aggregates or has such questions as a feature?
Navy Says All UFO Videos Classified Releasing Them ‘Will Harm National Security’
Does anyone even use Youtube Music / Youtube Gaming? I just interact with the main Youtube site whenever I use it.

Structured Content sounds great, but we already have that: add a number to your video title.
Travel SIMs are great but so are options. One issue with outfits like Airalo is they often give you an eSIM from a random third country carrier that happens to have a cheap roaming agreement in the country you are in, resulting in your data being routed around the world and 300ms+ pings.
Digital Ocean Web Service $5.00
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Ironically, that almost looks like the sort of fantasy image you'd find as GPU box art many years ago.
I’m in the iPhone camp. Always have been. And I think Apple’s camera tech is better.

That said, some of the stuff Google has pulled off with the Pixel cameras is very impressive. Like the ability to shoot simple astrophotography.
This comment has predictably spawned a back-and-forth about which shitty privacy violating phone is 10% less shitty, but if you care about privacy the discussion you should be having is how to eliminate smartphone usage as much as possible.
> I'll keep using passwords, thanks.

> If you are using passwords THAT YOU CAN REMEMBER WITHOUT YOUR PHONE then I assume it's pretty basic and insecure.

> Presenting this as a choice between using Apple's closed solution or using EASY-TO-REMEMBER passwords is disingenuous.

All caps to indicate how sbuk changed the meaning of what mort96 said.

The dichotomy was between using using Apple's solution and using passwords. Deciding the latter must mean using easy to remember passwords and not acknowledging the existence of password managers and complex password generators is at best ignorance or forgetfulness and at worst dishonesty.

Unlike mort96, I didn't automatically assume dishonesty, but sbuk posted this in response to mort96's accusation:

> You have been equally as disingenuous and based on your responses, acted in bad faith from the beginning in a bid to start a flamewar. How what you are doing is anything but basic bullying is beyond me.

This implies that they were aware of what they were doing and, rather than call mort96 out on what they believed to be an attempt at a flamewar, decided to contribute to it by deliberately altering the meaning of mort96's message.

I believe mort96 and sbuk were both accusatory and rude, but what sbuk appears to have done would be worse in my view. Rather than just assume the worst of who I'm communicating with, I'd rather give them the benefit of the doubt by inquiring for more information, attempting to inform, or possibly explaining how I interpreted a passage.
That's right. I'd rather see it be made possible for average citizens to sue whatever appropriate government agency rather than just allowing people with money to do so. That route takes a left turn at "one person one vote" onto "one dollar one vote." It's the literal opposite of democracy in action.
More likely flash degradation than any explicit code to insert delays
The city might lose some rights or have an overseer but it's not in anyone's interest to not require building permits to build buildings.

I say this as a pro-development YIMBY.
A different reference: in 2011 my Xperia Arc S was running happily with 512MB RAM on Android 2.3
Apple does throttle your phone when your battery degrades. They do it by default because it helps avoid situations where the phones would shut down completely before the battery empties. There was a class action on this, and now they allow you to toggle this feature off:

https://www.itpro.com/mobile/battery-life/356946/how-to-turn...
This is easily solved: quit social media (it does nothing for you, it’s just a massive advertising machine), and quit the news (why worry about things you have no influence over?)
No amount of marketing nor "science" is going to change my mind: Aircraft cabin air is /motherfucking/ foul.

You don't need to be an aerodynamics engineer to understand this either: Take a deep breath inside a usual aircraft cabin and tell me if that air is fresh and clean. If you do, either you are fucking lying out your ass or you never tasted truly clean, fresh air in your life.
One obvious solution would be to eliminate the provision where your property tax is reassessed if you develop the property.
> Prepaid SIMs are already manufactured, packaged, and shipped to convenience stores, so why not a Prepaid eSIM QR code?

Unlike regular SIM cards, the eSIM QR code doesn't actually contain your subscriber information. Everyone who uses the carrier gets the same code. This can make the process of signing up for a new carrier more complex, as you need to tell them your phone's IMEI number before you attempt to use the SIM. (This also makes switching devices harder; you can't just pop the SIM out and use it in a different phone.)

So a post-eSIM prepaid carrier would probably end up selling something like iTunes gift cards, with a code you have to scratch off and type into a website. Or they'd just sell exclusively online.
You could argue Apple is at 20% world wide market share, but they have the lion’s share of the high end market so that’s kind of disingenuous.

Really I think the term “underdog” can only be applied to some individual Android manufacturers or any non-Android non-iOS based phone.
In general we know how cells grow, and even plants. Actual plants are controlled by variables that vary species to species, can't be easily measured, and are too numerous to count.
>It sounds like that’s exactly what this group is doing. They’re not suing about housing in the abstract, they’re suing over specific denials of projects that would have provided housing.

That's not proactive, it's reactive. It's not even close to what I'm talking about. I said propose a policy, this is piecemeal.

The poster below you linked this page:

http://cayimby.org/2021-legislation/

These are state laws, mostly cutting red tape (which is good). The two proposals which go further than duplexes in zoning reform are SB10, which provides for up to ten units near transit, and AB1075, which provides for up to ten units almost everywhere, provided the building is less than 26 feet tall, complies with setbacks and has not been rented in the last three years, and also provided (a lot of legalese).

This is okay, insofar as it's about as good as you can do at state level. But it's not what I meant either, because I was talking about local politics. It's going to be hard to get things done while acting only at state level and tying your hands behind your back with the height and rental provisions.

You can't say "we're preserving local control", not engage in local politics, and succeed. Most of the cities where housing is expensive have present zoning ceilings well above 26 feet — most of SF is already built to three stories.
Sending humans into space is an expensive boondoggle that distracts and detracts from legitimate scientific research.

Whether or not outer space scrambles your genes, we know for sure that we've scrambled several astronauts and nearly scrambled several more.

I politely but firmly ask that we stop scrambling people to appease people who misplace their sense of wonder. Even if they volunteer to be scrambled.
No one said it's a simple problem. What the book looks at, high level, is that high housing costs are what correlate most strongly with homelessness.

West Virginia, for instance, has a huge opioid problem. And far lower rates of homelessness, because housing is cheap.
Eh, although the travel data eSIMs are better than travel data SIMs, it still doesn't beat local SIMs.

For example, anytime I go back to Romania I pick up a ~6EUR prepaid Orange SIM card which has 2000 minutes, unlimited texts, and 6GB data with a bonus 120GB data on activation.

According to https://esimdb.com/romania, that same 6EUR offers 1GB of data.

Is it more convenient? Sure, a bit. But it's nowhere near as cheap for most local SIMs.
I had Thomas Plum's "learning to program in C" which was excellent
I interpreted that as sarcasm.
Does this also apply to android installed on smart devices? I doubt they have those specs
Still well within the statute of limitations I assume.
What makes something a UX underdog? I’ve never heard the term used that way.

Mindshare, sure.
Rob is a careful student of history.
And if you don't join in: "Silence is violence"
Oh classic, that reminds me of "rocky mountain oysters" - proof that anything fried can be pretty alright
There is a difference between fresh air and clean air.
> If this isn’t maliciousness or incompetence, what is it?

Expensive to calculate, for something nobody really cares about anymore.
I mean, with 2 GB of memory you'll only be able to use the phone as an ebook reader anyway—and I don't mean PDF because scrolling is gonna be a bitch, what with incessant garbage collection in the background. As for storage, for me Android 11 occupies 17 GB of it.