skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only one who keeps having problems with iPhones backround music/video play and resume? It's linux level bad. I play something I stop it and I never know what might be playing.

For PiP videos I have to play, lock the phone then press on play and then it might either continue the background video or play music from my library which I never really use.

The other day my iPhone would just reload and I still have no idea why? Did it run out of memory? Screen would freeze and it would stop on a black screen and then reload.

I don't remember these bugs from when I used to use an iPhone, but maybe I just didn't pay attention to them. When I travel and use a travel SIM it keeps asking me to switch everything to the new SIM. Default calls, iCloud, default messages. I say no to all of them but it still switches some of them.

Using apps from two different countries is a nightmare as well.

I do appreciate the speed of this device but ALL of these things are non-issues on Android. Something is off IMHO
Google Maps also felt like magic when it came out and you could just drag to scroll vs the slow click-click-click of Mapquest.

Similarly everyone was convinced Gmail was an April Fool's joke when they gave you 1 GB of storage when everyone else just gave you 3 MB.
EPA has an article talking about a specific type of ethoxylate (NPE) in the context of impacts to aquatic life which has some interesting info in it [1].

Does some one know if alcohol ethoxylates are a type of nonylphenol ethoxylates? Some brief searching implies these may be separate things.

From the article:

> Q2. How are NP/NPEs used?

> NPs/NPEs, which are produced in large volumes, are used for industrial processes and in consumer laundry detergents, personal hygiene, automotive, latex paints, and lawn care products.

> Q6. What are the potential risks to people?

> NP has been detected in human breast milk, blood, and urine and is associated with reproductive and developmental effects in rodents.

> Q7. Is there an easy way for consumers to avoid using products with NP/NPEs?

> Consumers can avoid products with NP/NPEs by looking for products with EPA’s Safer Choice Label on the shelves of major retailers. …

1: https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-t...
I know someone who went through the Lambda/BloomTech bootcamp. Although they weren't able to transition to a new role, the experience helped them start to code in their job at the time. And iirc, because he didn't land a swe role, he didn't have to pay Lambda based on the ISA.
“Career fairs” as such haven’t been very successful for us, so we don’t run them, but it’s not because we charge for them. There are other mechanisms to meet grads (and our most successful connections are 1:1, not many:many) but until recently when we had some major hiring partners come in for our backend program most of our grads were hired by companies that don’t pay anything.
Don't want to take a risk to be banned by generating some images like nsfw
Companies don’t have a duty to maximize shareholder value.

See here, for one discussion: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...
Yep, this is exactly how it is in Tokyo. There's a giant trash room downstairs for people to deposit trash and sort it (cardboard, plastic, PET bottles, burnables, metals, etc., plus they frequently have a bunch of hand tools and stuff you might need to borrow). The building management puts the appropriate trash out on the appropriate day to be picked up, so it's only outside for a few hours.
They were bought out by Haier a few years ago, they still exist as a brand in NZ, not sure about elsewhere. Anecdotally not as good as they used to be.
"...wasting how many dev-years rewriting it"

It sounds like you didn't read the blog post. The whole point is that they are not rewriting code, but writing new code in memory-safe languages (including "niche" languages like Java). This strategy is paying off with fewer severe vulnerabilities due to memory safety bugs.
It is a matter of practical fact that only a small proportion of the Andriod-using public chooses to use the software of their choice by sideloading. Mentioning sideloading in this context shouldn't be interpreted as an attack upon or a dispargement of the practice of sideloading. I, as an Android user, am happy to learn that the (main?) vector of attack happens to be sideloading. (if true) This informs the broader conversation and helps individual Android users gague the likelihood of whether they have may have been directly affected.
Ford has been in business for longer still makes dogshit cars
I lovved Neptune’s Brood. I’ve listened to it in audiobook form probably 10x
Qntm (Sam Hughes) has a number of works like this. Ra, Fine Structure, and There is no Antimemetics Division are fun reads that get really messy at times.
I recall NaCL, that also provided a sandbox and had a standalone version next to the web browser integration.
So phones are heavily locked down by manufacturers for our own security, but apparently they cannot secure their own keys. If anyone outside a few million nerds really understood this and saw all the vulnerabilities we have seen over the past few years, locking users out of their devices would be completely indefensible.
Sure, that's fair. I should have labeled them as people who are "deeply concerned about their entirely-imagined usages of cat litter boxes in classrooms". (source: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/urban-myth-litte... )

I apologize for referring to concerns like these as "crank causes"
Ukraine is a good example.

However for this, japan and s Korea would be in play. They have to submit to the power that control the sea or 1/2 of Pacific Ocean down to Australia (with a base in South Pacific say).
> I'd love to have a longer form discussion in a place where we won't run out of thread depth

You could leave a comment on my blog. Or write a guest post. Here are some possible attachment points:

http://blog.rongarret.info/2022/11/ron-descends-from-mountai...

https://blog.rongarret.info/2013/06/on-morality-of-kitten-to...

Or if none of those are suitable I could write up something new but that will take a few days.

> I like to think that humans and intelligence will make an incredibly cool, adventure-filled future for the universe

I like to think that too. But the evidence is strongly against it.
Raccoons poop can be particularly nasty. Raccoon roundworm eggs are incredibly hardy. Thankfully human cases are incredibly rare, but I wouldn’t want to increase the population I am around.
Cats kill mice, not rats. Rats are too large and dangerous for cats. NYC rats are as large as small cats.
Taxation without representation. Those paying the tax have generally no control over how Apple spends the corresponding revenue.

With respect to those in the US who pay the "30% tax", most of Apple's income is kept offshore so Apple pays minimal if any taxes on it. Compared this to the majority of people in the US who buy Apple computers who keep their income in the US and do pay significant US taxes on it.
My company just laid off 75% of its security engineering team
Now you're not even arguing in good faith.

Usually you need to argue for a better theory than what's being done, not make quip remarks about a movie.
I don’t believe ISP’s are common carriers. And they should be way before Twitter would ever get that designation.
they could do retrofit https://untappedcities.com/2020/04/09/inside-roosevelt-islan...

will take probably 100 years or so
That seems to be a very limited view on the issue, since the stakes with ansthesia related issues are much higher (a human life).
Meanwhile, Tokyo is spotless and has no trashcans anywhere.
That's actually super interesting. I would love to read a deeper dive on how you keep it so smooth, if that's something you'd be willing to share.
Would love to hear more about what makes Pleco stand out for you. I make a dictionary app as well (https://nihongo-app.com) and am always trying to improve it.
This Sparks Nevada presentation suggested that the Tesla mega-packs would play a role in delivering 1 MW in charging capacity (4X the rates of the newest Tesla cars).

The older (Austin?) introductory presentation (2017-2018) of the semi spoke of ridiculously low 7¢/kWh electricity availability (which even in Texas is a ridiculously low rate). I can't help but think that when you tack-on the added expenses of:

1. Site acquisition and leasing;

2. Permitting;

3. Design;

4. Trenching and installation;

5. Charger manufacturer;

6. Ongoing maintenance;

7. Added feature of a giant battery to feed the semi batteries

I'm finding it hard to imagine:

a) that 7¢ was even realistic for grid power backing in 2018;

b) that the enumerated costs above;

will be cost-competitive with current diesel prices.

Lastly, if its 30 minutes at 1,000 kW to reach 70% state of charge, then the battery is 500 kWh < x < 714 kWh. I'm thinking my math must be wrong somewhere... But if this is the ballpark, then this is going to be one expensive battery.
If you are reading a piece about free speech and content moderation on platforms like Twitter, look to see if it meaningfully engages with the concepts of spam and porn, which are both fully legal speech, and both heavily moderated with little controversy. (This piece does not.)

Why does this matter? Because free speech, free expression in general, is a means to express values and beliefs. Our values and beliefs are integral to the way we each evaluate the content decisions of private parties like social platforms, publishers, and people.

No one values spam, so no one writes hand-wringing essays about whether it is ok to kick spam and spammers off social media. Most people recognize that porn, even if they like it, is not something that should be in everyone’s faces all the time, so there is little existential concern for free speech as a whole when porn is excluded or hidden from some contexts.

You cannot expect to make sense of free speech if you try to ignore other values.
From the same discussion: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-co...
I think conversational fluency takes a bit of gumption, in that you need to find people to talk to. You can join Japanese/English discord servers, get into the voice chats and listen and learn. iTalki is an app where you can schedule conversation time with tutors. There are also lots of YouTube channels that focus on natural Japanese and not textbook learning. But the theme with all of these is that no one is guiding you through, there's no easy to follow path and it is very DIY. I think drilling kanji catches people because it feels like a gamified progress that ends in fluency, if only you could drill enough kanji. So it becomes a morale failing in someones mind, rather than seeing it as a failure to teach.
I...what?

I write C++ at Google, and it encourages use of modern C++ features, and many things you see adopted in std have roots in our libraries.

I'm curious what you think Google prevents us from using and why you think our C++ is like 90s Java.

https://abseil.io/tips has a lot of our philosophies and abseil is chunks of our internal libraries published externally.
Sure, in theory absolute perfection is difficult. In practice the achievable level of accuracy within the laws of physics is well within the bounds of reasonable and far, far beyond what is implemented today. You don't need absolute perfection, since as I suggested you can simply allocate some budget to cover overages amortized over your entire customer base. Especially since the vast majority of the time you'll be operating in a regime where you are far away from the billing cap, so that gives you a lot of leeway. There would never be a need to synchronize every byte written to storage.
Aesthetics would be a whole different ball game.
Bulk of the training of these types of questions are probably from stack overflow anyway
I have a couple of bootcamp grads who are good. Thing is, I’m 99% sure they’d have been good without the bootcamp time as well.*

Overall, I’ve had a terrible experience with the bootcamp “mills” that cram people though dozens in a batch and where all of them have some bullshit story about how they did customer interviews and then built an inventory manager or CRM or e-commerce site for this (made-up) business. The story rhymes with a story that would be relevant but it’s 100% veneer with no backer.

They’ll have a GitHub link on their resume. On it, you can see the same code as 5 other applicants. All the green days are clustered together and all stop abruptly at the same time as each other.

Those candidates are what a lot of people think of when they think bootcamp.

tl;dr: bad bootcamps are bad. I don't think I've ever crossed paths with a Lambda School/BloomTech grad to have an opinion on their program.

* this is the type of bootcamp experience that reads to me like the rare positive exception: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33826116
I don’t think it is more challenging than StarCraft or Dota. Does the blog post claim that anywhere?

Stratego is way more challenging than Poker, though. StarCraft/Dota/Stratego have the property that you can’t represent their imperfect information as a vector in memory, whereas you can easily do that in Texas hold’em poker (there’s only 52C2 = 1024 possible hands). So for those games, you have to use an approximate distribution rather than the exact one.

I’m an author on this paper (although my contributions were relatively minimal) and on the Player of Games paper (which did Poker, Chess, and Go).
Interesting. Could have also been a concentration thing, if the newer one just had less of it. But yeah, could potentially have been something else completely!
No, I didn't mean to say that. Case in point... Even that definition is vague.
> Social media platforms can exist to serve the needs of the people, or they can exist to be self-serving

Why do you think these are the only two possibilities?

Why can’t a social media company exist to serve the needs of only some people? Or to serve the needs of everyone, while also serving its own needs, in a balance decided by the company’s owners?
> Software is still the same mess it was when I started writing and working, or perhaps even worse.

I disagree pretty strongly with this claim. Nine years ago we didn't have (or they were in their infancy): Rust, Go, TypeScript, GitLab, VSCode, Language Servers, American Fuzzy Lop, Linux distributions that work out of the box on most hardware, web "standards" that are actually standards, ...

I would argue that all of these have dramatically improved software quality, and the software ecosystem as a whole. The industry is unrecognizable compared to a decade ago, and almost all changes have been for the better.
I periodically still drop in to Subspace/Continuum Trench Wars and in a multi hour play session will generally spend the first hour dogfighting and then get annoyed with the performance of my assigned team and switch to a command ship and spend a lot more time typing encouraging other pilots to do the sensible thing than I do actually fighting.

Both modes of play are fun, mind, but the parallels struck me as worth noting.
The difference between the Lisp REPL and other, Algol-based programming shells (Node, Python, Ruby etc.) is in the R which stands for Read. The Reader is unique to Lisp since Lisp syntax approximates to an Abstract Syntax whereas other language shells have to parse syntax as raw source code during this first stage. The Eval stage is also different with Lisps.
> Well, my other advice to candidates is cover letters, cover letters cover letters. No seriously, cover letters!

I just throw the cover letters in the bin...
Ankr DeFi project exploited for over $5M
I've heard this argument a few times and my response is that I don't think it's that simple in the case of Twitter. Abstractly I agree that the limit of a corporation's tolerance for unsavory content approaches the politically correct mean as time goes on. But I honestly feel that Twitter was nowhere near that mean and their moderation decisions were far to the left essentially excluding over 50% of the population. I don't believe that people pulling their ads are doing so because they think it's a good strategy or because they have issue with any content currently on Twitter. I honestly believe they've done so to their own detriment as part of the culture war that seems to surround Musk. In time the value of advertising will speak and the fears that Twitter will turn into a cesspool will prove unfounded and the fiduciary duty of the people who pulled their ads from Twitter to their own company shareholders will kick back in and they will return. If Twitter was say 40% agreeable under it's previous moderation team, I believe there's room for it to grow to 80% agreeable by tolerating more diversity of thought.
They define productivity as:
> Productivity gains — defined as the number of patents produced in a year

By that definition, patent trolls could be considered some of the most productive organizations?
I’m so torn on the bats thing.

Many people have spent countless hours exposed to them and never gotten sick, and very few people get rabies from bats at all, so the risk appears very low. I suppose the people around them the most follow certain safety precautions that regular people don’t.

Although cases are exceedingly rare (1-3 per year in the USA I think?), evidently that shoots up occasionally: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/p0106-human-rabies.h...

That link does make 5 cases up from 0 seem like a big deal, but… A chunk of that time was during quarantine time, and dropping from 1-3 to 0 isn’t so profound (though it’s far preferable, of course). M

In any case, I wouldn’t wish rabies on anyone. I suppose I just wish we were less afraid of bats and able to help them flourish. Apart from rabies, they are incredible animals that do a lot of good for their ecosystems.
If I were your lawyer I would advise you to delete this comment as it would likely be used against you in court as proof of your pattern of misrepresentations.

But you do you, I guess.

At any rate enough people have been made aware of your lies that the harm you can continue doing is limited.
> Stock buybacks were outlawed after the Great Depression and a widespread realization that buybacks are insider trading.

And of course it was Ronald Reagan who began the regulatory capture of the SEC by appointing a Wall Street executive to head it. So much of what’s wrong can be traced back to Ronnie.
How do you know? I guarantee you that glass gets washed at least once before it gets to you.
Surely you mean if you inhale it?
Its exposition, not documentation. Consider the audience.
Maybe it can be balanced by the vested interests of the rest of us in not being poisoned.
Which could be an issue by itself, as whatever mutation confers resistance to it could have side effects, unless it's some enhanced degradation of toxins or something.

But what if it's some other random thing that also gives people heart attacks?
Unsafe is necessary for Rust to meet its goal of being a systems language. If Rust didn't provide unsafe, then Rust programmers would be forced write this code in C, which would be just as unsafe, but a worse developer experience.
Heads up: No license given in the repo, be careful if you are thinking of using this for a project.

EDIT: Retracted -- did a search like for "license", but apparently the search results omits variants like "sublicense" which would have caught the MIT license at the beginning of the source file: https://github.com/scandum/blitsort/search?q=license vs. https://github.com/scandum/blitsort/search?q=sublicense
I’ve always thought of it as “Remembrance of Things Past.”

Always figured it was a reference to Ecclesiastes - “there is no remembrance of things past.”

Maybe I’m remembering wrong.
What obligation are you referring to? Wanting something does not make it reality.
Technically millions of human intelligence coders were trained from public open source code and tutorials, etc.
I'm stuck somewhere between Anki hell and Graded Readers (~Level 1). Do I just continue working my way up the Graded Readers list, or is there something more engaging for adults that's a good stepping stone from Anki to being able to consume written content?
What do you like about this app that you would want for your chinese learning?
Many languages had only a single compiler implementation when they were brought into the limelight for critical development so your benchmark would fail almost everything.
> Nash equilibriums exist when bluffing is involved?

In some sense that's the whole point of Nash equilibria.
It makes sense to have roughly sized but limited district, school, and classroom to optimize between the collective economies-of-scale on one side and the maximum number of students any classroom or district can administer in an effective manner on the other. Too few: it's too expensive per pupil; too many (~ 24+) in a classroom, the quality of education suffers and too many in a district also leads to inefficiencies and scaling issues. Los Angeles is the worst, by far: 560k students. Ridiculous. That's the population of a large city. Good luck forming a local hobby club for the kids with other parents and with the school's blessing.

Scale investment by managing fewer students and give school administrators best practices and benchmarks. It's far easier for large districts to use large piles of money inefficiently than for districts managing fewer pupils.

The other thing is to mandate parental involvement. Without this, there is unlikely to be a good outcome. It also implies that parents need some sort of paid leave and/or scheduling to be involved in their kids' education.
I'm honestly tired of so much misinformation regarding Brave floating around.

> They took creators' money while ostensibly "collecting" it for them

They did not. In the initial days, they did not have the feature to block unregistered creators from getting donations. When Brave was informed about it, they made sure that creators who registered can claim their tipped tokens and for the rest, they refunded the tokens to users.

The fact that you think they'd want their tokens back, when they themselves give them away to Brave Rewards users every month is kinda weird. Not only did they refund the tokens but also got them to the registered creators.

> and they inserted their own affiliate links when you visited certain sites

They had a URL auto-complete bug in the system and it was an opt-in feature but the bug replaced the whole URL instead of suggesting links. They fixed it in a day, before the news even got out. The PR is there on GitHub but people love to bash them because of a bug that happened when Brave wasn't even 6 months old at that point (iirc).

> I mean, when you have your own "Controversies" section on Wikipedia, you know there's something wrong.

So does Mozilla, your point?

> Sure, Brave and other Chromium browsers might say they'll fork Chromium, but how long will that last, really? It's no joke to maintain a fork.

Brave does not depend of manifest v3 for adblocking. Their Ad blocker written in rust is much low level than Ublock. They'll just be fine.

> I see no reason not to use Firefox.

but I do see reasons to not use Firefox. How about performance? Memory management? Loading speed? Dev tools? Webkit?
If I may comment on the abstract: I don’t get these bootcamps. I’ve been programming for 30 years and I still feel like there’s another 60% of the craft to learn. More data structures, algorithms, functional strategies, large system architecture, read/write fanning, I’m just getting into websockets now. The list goes on.

These people are getting hired as programmers? To do what?