skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why does "the most unique" not make sense? Object A can be different from all others in some way (so it is unique), but object B can be different in a much more extreme way. So B is "more unique" than A.
I wish Toyota would partner with Apple for their internal maps, screen, controls, etc. Toyota seems to have a major problem with intuitive usability (especially for my parents who are in their 80s).

Toyota is the largest car company in the world and makes the most reliable vehicles in the world, but they need that extra touch to take them to the next level.

Just as I would never by a phone that is not an iPhone, or a laptop that is not a MacBook, I would never buy a car that is not a Toyota. But Toyota does have some room for improvement.

Also, an Apple-Toyota partnership would make Teslas look pathetic in comparison.
I just watched "A Trip to Infinity" [1] on Netflix last night and really enjoyed it. I'm not a mathematician by any means, but I was still able to follow it all. Highly recommended.

[1] https://www.netflix.com/title/81273453
Ask HN: How to Compete with Cloudflare
This week we're going to see a bunch more announcements from CF. They'll probably all have a top comment about how CF is the MITM of the internet and a single point of failure. Is this simply the future we're doomed to live in?
Unique: being the only existing one of its type or, more generally, unusual, or special in some way

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/unique

I think it depends on the context, but it does not seem an incorrect usage.
The real upvote is to favorite a comment. Thanks, I am about to embark on learning Spanish. I’m going to talk to some people instead :)
Could you explain how rewriting one of the worlds most complex and critical specifications would break of the Google/MS hegemony on search?
Thanks for the interesting reply. I'm curious who "we" is that you reference several time. Do you work for an organization dealing with this problem?
The CSAM scanning would have required Apple employees to view flagged photos to confirm if they are CSAM - so yes, Apple employees will have some level of access to iCloud data, otherwise, legal requests for data would be impossible.

This wouldn't be an issue if iCloud was E2EE, but they probably save a chunk of money by only storing one copy of the "meme du jour" on their servers.
> hire a video production team

That's a good way to kill the authenticity of a channel, and race to the bottom creating flashy but shallow content. I don't begrudge a youtuber merely hiring a cameraman, but the more people they hire on a permanent basis, the more pressure there is to optimize for monetary success. This means flashy well produced videos, but very shallow content that is more accessible to a wider audience.
Spread of Stuxnet is easily tracked: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

Iran had the most infections and the virus is designed to attack centrifuges. Israel took over the code base during the Obama administration and made the virus more viral, but the targeting remained the same.

Essentially what you've written here is not only inaccurate but I'd say a conspiracy theory in that you're implying the US took custodianship of the code back and began using it again, which is entirely unfounded.
It's a substitute (however poor) for the non-verbal signals we get when talking with people face-to-face.
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It would be very coincidental when both fail the same day due to shoddy workmanship.
AGPL basically says you can't use the program to provide an online service unless you $(sacrifice your first-born.)

Granted, the license only asks you to publicize your modifications, but in software that's basically your "first-born".
We recently had to deal with a case of this at my company. The story is almost exactly the same, guy sounded great, passed all the interviews, had a killer resume etc. When he actually got to work, it was clear that he barely knew how to use a computer let alone program one. He had trouble searching for string of text in an open buffer, or explaining simple code in a language that his resume claimed he had expertise. It's very unfortunate and ultimately just wasted everyone's time.
If you become a manager you still don't get to veto who becomes your manager - and I assume there is no difference is the level of misery inflictable upon a report just because they themselves have reports.

I don't think it's a reasonable counter. Enjoy the work you do, otherwise what's the point in being lucky enough to be selective?
One disadvantage of BetterHelp compared to a traditional clinic is that BetterHelp therapists often have a much higher client load than is typical elsewhere. This is not necessarily bad, but may be worth knowing.
Or you do it the Gnome way and have a thin top bar all the time but hide the dock and use the keyboard most of the time for opening and switching apps.
Imagine a world where the car manufacturers no longer deal with software development for the vehicle, but instead you have a licensing agreement with Apple where CarPlay is the interface. Similar to Volvo and Google and Android Automotive. A lot of car manufacturers are standardizing around Android in general (see Acura, Volvo, BMW). If Apple could get in with an A-series chip and a custom software stack, then that would probably be a decent amount of money through some hardware purchasing and software licensing. Look at how Cariad (the VAG stack) blew up schedules for upcoming Porsche and Audi models and early versions of it were laggy, missing features, OTA updates are slow/non-existant, etc. If Apple can get their foot in the door, it opens up new service opportunities for things like Apple Music alongside any licensing, which may be the bigger goal.
Russia would be happiest to remove NATO from the equation entirely. Steamrolling Ukraine, sowing dissent within the alliance, and then grabbing one or more of the Baltic states would have done that.
And you have to pay for the luxury too.
< “Inside a European city” is quite a broad concept

Is it though? Paris, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Madrid, Rome… dominated by 3-5 story mixed-use, with some special area for skyscrapers, and farmland near to the edge of the city. (Or, near by American standards)

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”
Iam infact behind a Carrier-Grade-NAT so this could mess things up.

Thanks for your reply!
I like to think that HN is a site where its users don't care about internet points.
Apple want to vastly increase the amount of money they make from ads - that blurs the line somewhat, no?
>How else can you explain our Universe spontaneously sprouting out of 'nothing'?

You explained nothing. Where did the multiverse come from then.. did it sprout out of nothing?
How much would it cost for Apple to take a 10% stake in Toyota? Doesn't Apple have a couple hundred billion dollars just lying around in cash?
I'm for destigmatizing mental illness so that people who need the help don't have to face that barrier to getting help. However, could it be that the focus on mental health is in a perverse way making things worse?

The way it is analogized here [1] was interesting to me:

"If we told people that fear of flying was something everyone struggles with, that it was the result of what others have done to them, or structural racism or whatever, I’m sure we’d get more of it. Imagine further if TV, music, and movies taught kids that fear of flying made them deep and interesting, and schools and universities had fear of flying awareness weeks. This is pretty much the modern approach to mental illness."

[1] https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/how-i-overcame-anxiety...
Why didn't they make a up totally fake person with a fake history instead of using a real person? I feel like it's possible to do, even fake a github.
> it's wise to minimize windows on the side of the building facing the poles, both to reduce winter heat loss, and minimize summer heat gain.

North-side should always be low-window, but south-side depends on levels of winter insolation. If there's a lot, then south-facing glazing, with a suitable overhang to block summer sun, and a large thermal mass right behind them, is very desirable for winter warming.
I was equally annoyed by this part. You are very generous with your very close to making an incorrect statement. I would straight away say it’s both misleading and wrong.
Even the App Store version of Signal is allegedly not the same as what's in the open source project. So unless you compile and install the applications yourself, there's no way of knowing anything.
There don’t need to be “winners” in every market. Consider the market for grain. Whether suppliers tend to centralize depends on market characteristics.

Keeping markets competitive often does require regulation. (For example, common carrier regulations.) Thriving markets don’t happen by accident; they are often tough to get going and don’t necessarily happen without a stable government that allows trade to happen.
Carpooling to the Database
Pretty much.

If a student bribes their way out a speeding ticket in a foreign country, the laws of that county apply. The US government mostly doesn't care.
Prosus: SoftBank Without the Drama
NS2 has also been taken out.
"Harpoon" was amazing, but is quite dated at this point, and I've not been able to get it to run on a modern PC in many years.
Why didnt Egyptians get industrial revolution or electricity?
I know, but still insist that the things that separate this unique item are themselves small or large.

If an item separates itself from the others on mutliple dimensions, then it is more unique than an item that differs only in one dimension.

Both of them are the only things like themselves. I have a collection of vases. Almost all of them are roughly the same size (15cm), shape (round; tapered), and color (clear or white). But there are two that are different: "A" is green instead of white, with a square base.

B is made from petrified buffalo dung, stands 1 meter tall, must be carefully balanced because it's so heavy on top (and skinny at the base), and is covered in velvet.

A is unique. B is definitely more unique.
7 drafts? Their country is being invaded. If there isn't anyone left to fight, why hasn't Russia taken Kiev yet? Why did Russia lose Kharkiv? Who is Russia fighting?
* Ukrainian sabotage -- pretty much the only actor for whom sabotage makes rational sense. Especially if it is a demonstration of Ukrainian cyberwarfare capabilities.

I mostly agree but... You could make the same argument for bits of the middle east, Norway and the USA (the US refuses to export gas to the EU to make US industrial products more competitive).

Sabotage? Maybe! Ukraine? Maybe or maybe others!
My dad thought that his Facebook account didn't exist any longer because he got a new computer and hadn't logged into FB on it yet.
No problem with his style either, but whatever software he's using to cut the audio together doesnt duck the cuts properly and so they click. Subtle issue, and definitely not a criticism, but it's emphasized because of the recording style.
“ the reason there’s about a 90% chance you are reading this on a PC with an Intel or Intel compatible processor”

Here I am, reading this on a phone with an ARM-based CPU :) and some quick market share stats I found actually point to about 50% web traffic happening on mobile devices. So not 90%, no :)
People are simply under the thumb at home and work and have been for sometime. It's when the economy really takes a turn for the worst that we will see more people cracking from the pressure.
You can get interview rounds with random people from the company, and maybe the hiring manager will be the only one that will keep working with you in the future. That's pretty common for big tech companies. In those cases, you would have to deceive only one person, I guess?
Similar but not identical. The different Windows UI toolkits have slight nuances that are sometimes only noticeable if you’re looking but sometimes stand out.
This is the type of arbitrage that happens when developers have similar technical skills but not similar interviewing skills.
> Every major social media network in the US feeds all data directly to the NSA without any kind of warrant.

> Did everyone forget about the Snowden leaks

It appears you are misremembering or misunderstanding the Snowden leaks.
I was told my state drivers license wasn’t sufficient and had to bring my passport. I’m in the states.
Context for those who aren't familiar with this; It's a political catchphrase of the CCP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurting_the_feelings_of_the_Ch...
That's quite uncontroversial. But this is about math.
Dated a therapist who was adamant she could only see 15-20 people a week and still give quality care; built her schedule around making sure she had adequate breaks because it felt irresponsible to her, otherwise. Anything past that it was a plaster-on empathetic smile and “that sounds hard, tell me more.”
I hope Andrew [0] — the college junior with morals who blew the whistle on the attempt to get him to impersonate the author — gets an internship or job offer out of this; he apparently was having a hard time with that.

The author's sleuthing is reminiscent of Cliff Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg from 1989. [1]

[0] Andrew blogs at https://unfooling.com/, according to the article.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
Not really, the vast majority of users of these kinds of software run it unmodified, the valuable stuff is around it. (If that weren't the case, MongoDB hadn't come up with their own "give us everything!" license because AGPL was too "weak")
oh I agree. I don't want to care about internet points. yet, there it is.
Off topic, I am really digging the artwork at the top of this article.

The bondi blue iMac, on wheels so snug in their wells they couldn’t turn more than a few degrees, standing on a white polished surface that it couldn’t drive on without unsightly black streaks, with a clearance so low it needs that polished surface to drive on. The most impractical car design, but quintessentially Apple.

It is part homage and part diss at the same time. I love it.
> The whole thing is ripe for a redo

Web developers have worked around quirks for as long as I can remember. The stack has many warts, but we learn to adapt to them. Like 90% of a web developer's job is working around gotchas, and will continue that way. A 'redo' might not be needed. Developers need something to moan about and need something to keep them employed :)
Here in California, the people setting the next generation math curriculum explicitly reject the idea that some children are better in some subjects than others (0% of the people responsible for creating the math standards studied math).

Their original proposal would ban all but remedial coursework, so your kids would get the same treatment as everyone else (by intentionally lowering everyone's achievement; especially the special needs and gifted kids).

I can only assume the people pushing this are trying to sabotage the school system, but they claim to have good intentions, and hide behind all sorts of woke double speak.

In other news, the schools no longer fund science or art classes. Instead, the parents pay the public school $1000's per year per student (tax deductible) so we can have those programs.

Also, the facilities are crumbling and have all sorts of obvious health and saftey issues. This is in an extremely affluent part of the state and a top ranked school.

My kids will be fine (the parents at the school happily throw money at the problems -- it's cheaper than private school, after all), but I don't see how kids in poorer districts will be able to pretend to have a middle school education, regardless of whether they earn a California high school diploma, or not.
According to Wiki "Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people, usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group...".

The initial goal of this war was to change Ukraininan government to a more friendly one. I have no idea what the current goal is, but it's very clear it's not killing people. Propaganda is trying very hard to deny any killings of civilians that do happen, if the goal was genocide they would try to portray Ukrainians as less than humans, the way some Germans considered jews to be vermin during Hitler.

Russians identify deeply with Ukraine, many have relatives and roots there (myself included). For this reason propaganda is trying to say that they are not fighting Ukraine, but NATO mercenaries. Again, this is horrible but does not sound like genocide.
Yea, before I got an offer to my current company you had to be vetted by hireright which was quite thorough. They contacted your previous employers and required a near absurd amount of documentation to prove who you are. It wasn’t a pleasant process, but it would be really hard to pass through as a fraud.
Note: [2019]
That, in exchange, was proven right empirically.

> and would say something like this on a public forum

Why, is it a crime against humanity, or what? Based as well on my experience, there are things said constantly in public forums that are much worst than this.

How high is the moral pedestal you are standing on?
I liked this "music video" [1] inspired by the concepts involving proof of infinity

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNYfqklRehM
The US doesn't need to do this, nor does France. Interested parties would include the Baltics, Poland, the UK and even Russian factions. Although the UK might put unecessary pressure on its own gas acquisitions by doing this. Ukraine is excluded because Germany would refrain from giving them any more weapons then.
The Kinzhal is basically an air-launched Iskander, a ballistic rocket, not a cruise air-breathing missile.
Just once, I interviewed this guy with a clearly european name. On the call he had no camera on, a very thick chinese accent and barely spoke English. In our email comms he was fluent.

There was no way for me to verify this guy was real, he couldn't give me his address because of "tax reasons" and wanted me to use his "wife's address" for his W-2 and legal paperwork.

Just all around fishy. After a bit he just stopped responding in the call, hung up and never responded to emails again.

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Unrelated, I've had many chinese nationals reach out to purchase my freelancing profile so I guess this is a common scam.
My kids are struggling to learn English; would be very happy to use that with them. I can help in translating the UI in French if you'd like!
Thank you for sharing! I've been in love with LiteStep but it's not had any development on it in years - seems to have died. Hoping this will be a good-enough replacement for me.
Almost done "Shadows of the Apt" and it has to be one of my favourite series.
There have long been CarPlay and Siri intents for things like climate control but no automaker has wanted to give up more control inside their dashboard.
I would bet that he hasn't read the article.
This helps to drive iOS updates. My iPad 4 is locked to iOS 10.3, so I can't easily download newer releases of apps. I am aware of being able to "buy" an app on a newer device and then download the last compatible version on that iPad. This policy could impact that ability.
> we don't refer to an engineers progeny.

"progeny" dictionary definition is "a descendant or the descendants of a person, animal, or plant; offspring." I'm not sure if you used the wrong word, or what you mean? I don't think you are talking about literal children?
This is worth a read. Don't get turned off by the flowery nature of the prose in the beginning. The idea(s) presented at the end are a fascinating start to solving the "two party problem" in the US.
If we're allowing Javascript in the picture, isn't this something that's always been possible?
This publicly disclosed vuln brings a new perspective into the Bezos phone hacking incident: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos_phone_hacking_inc...
Click and bait, for sure
Well if we're going to start deciding what things to believe in based on whether they're comfortable or not I am going to stop believing in traffic and the texture of coconuts.
Isn't the dramatic discursive style abundantly supported by the acuteness of the problem, and the various non-climate related advantages accrued from the methods used to mitigate it?

The fact that annoying/religious-oriented people exist does not diminish that aspect.

Let's say we give additional attention to people who complain about being shut down. I don't want to be too cynical, but the response is likely to be along the lines of not being interested in the various mitigation strategies. There might be quality arguments but the conclusion will largely be inaction or just devil's avocation for its own sake. If we move away from the "called deniers and shut down" or complaints about free speech part there's often not actually a lot of material left. Which is why the answer is sometimes to simply not have the conversation.
> Promoting the highest performers would be actually a great idea

If they are genuinely interested in the management career, I fully agree, otherwise I'd be more cautious since engineering management is a very different job.

A top performer may be a better fit for a technical specialist role, keep producing high quality apps/systems/code, mentoring colleagues and shaping the technology within the company.
"Guitars really rose to prominence in the mid 20th century."

I think that's very true and I reckon that's because the guitar is easily/quickly learned—that is to learn and play badly.

If your learning curve was much steeper with the guitar than the piano then your expectations must have been to play it properly (and that could be because of your piano experience).

I learned the piano for while and later gave up on the guitar because I found it too difficult to play every note on it as one does on a piano. Strumming a guitar and playing chords suits many and that's fine but I wanted to do what the likes of Segovia and John Williams do and that was pretty much beyond me.

So I sympathize with your steep learning curve.
The US isn't the holdout. Astronomers everywhere use light years and parsecs. Particle physicists everywhere use barns. Chemists everywhere use Angstroms.
Since the issue was in both the iOS and Android versions of the app, and it was caused by an integer overflow, does that mean that the bug was in a bundled C++ library implementing webRTC? Is there any information about the source-level cause of the issue?
Works great with Russian! Would suggest to set the bot to communicate with the "T–V distinction"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%E2%80%93V_distinction

for example instead of Ты (you singular) it should say вы (you plural)

Duolingo explains:

Russian makes a distinction between ты, singular "you", and вы, plural "you". The latter also doubles for "polite" you, with verbs also in plural. And don't forget that the "excuse" in "Excuse me" is a verb!

Use ты with friends and your family members

Use вы with adult strangers, your teachers and in other formal interactions (at the store, doctor's, airport etc.)

People use вы with those who are much older.

Nobody is "polite" toward kids.
Yes but Infinity explains that. It just goes on and on...there is no beginning.
Russia’s media echo chamber is Russia’s own doing. Apple has the right to stop doing businesses with entities they find objectionable.

If they can kick people out for having the wrong shape icon, they can kick them out for anything VK has been accused of.
To be fair, mathematics are not really concerned with the real, physical world. What’s interesting is that we can built axiomatic rules allowing us to properly define infinite sets and these constructions display surprising properties. It’s all purely abstract but it’s a fun thought exercise if you enjoy that kind of things. Plus it has practical applications sometimes which is good I guess.
Not for both pipelines to explode within 24 hour. That is too much of a coincident.