skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same with rats..
For me, a big breakthrough around that level was using books (or videogames) that I've already read in English so I know the story and don't get lost when there are chunks I don't understand. If I know the story already, I can enjoy going through it again even if I'm not getting everything.
Housing market facing a brutal squeeze
Books. A lot of people gave me books, many college-level books are free on the internet in PDF form. I also had to read back through algebra and calculus to pick up on some concepts I had forgotten. Earlier in my search I used Udemy and Khan Academy. There's good courses on both but they really only get you so far, imo.
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In Manhattan at least, trash is picked up every single day. And yet there's still tons of garbage on the street. It's a problem of scale.

Honestly, I got no problems with the rats. They're kinda cute actually.
really I don't think they did. I think the public health professionals did what they had been planning, since the last major pandemic.

This wasn't "the people demand it, or the mob will lynch us" this was "this is the plan we have, which we have rehearsed for, which we think we understand"

Except, as a large number of generals have said: "No plan survives the dawn of battle" -The WHO focussed on fomites, not airborne until PM2 air quality specialists forced a re-think. And we got vaccines far sooner than anyone expected but we didn't understand the volatility of the virus against those vaccines. And, we got diverted into treatment models which didn't work, in a highly politicised space worldwide, as people started floating bizarre beliefs rather than allowing public health models to do their job.

Some places did go into deprivation of liberty pretty hard, yes. Some still do. No, I don't think most western democracies violated their constitutions, I think you're in a different headspace to me there.
Depends what your sort key is.

Radix sort works only for small-ish integers, but not well eg for names that you want to sort alphabetically. Nor for floating point numbers or even large integers.
The issue with compelled school is that it creates forced riders, a problem very rarely addressed. At what point does society end and individual rights begin? People demand marriage rights even when marriage is an institution of the state. I don't see why school choice is the particular line at which the "good" of the many should now be given consideration, despite education being as personal a choice as whom one marries.
30% seems a lot though. Credit card processors take somewhere around 2-3%.
I feel like the further I dig into automating anything, the more I find fucking everything has a huge margin for error and narrowing those margins is like a lifetime of engineering in itself.

Mind you I’m not an engineer at all, I just play one on the weekend. But really, some seemingly trivial stuff can become really complicated in a hurry. I can see automated trash pickup accidentally disposing of kids or something on the first day.

Like you though, I love the idea. I’m just more discouraged by my own incompetence.
> How many people do you know in the industry without CS degrees? A lot of those folks came in through bootcamps, whether they cop to it or not.

People without CS degrees or degrees at all are fairly common, including at staff level and above. Many of these people have been in the industry since before bootcamps became a thing.
I find it funny that after all the talk about requiring reasonable salary ranges for jobs in NYC, the city itself is sort of skirting the rule by including a very wide range: upper range is >40% higher than lower range.
How do the editor CRDTs integrate with source control?
You can implement a bottom-up merge sort iteratively fairly easily. It's basically two nested loops only.
Android has a global user base of around 2.7 billion[0] and nearly 100,000 NEW apps are released on the platform every month[1]. Given these facts, it simply does not follow that a family of malicious apps with 1M downloads or an analysis of 1238 malicious apps demonstrates "Malware on the google Play store seems fairly common."

The working hypothesis (gathered from other comments here) is that the main vector of attack for this case may be restricted to the sideloading system-level components (not end-user apps).

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.

[0] https://sortatechy.com/android-users-are-there-worldwide/
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1020956/android-app-rele...
No choice makes something difficult impossible.
Do you have data that shows Musk is taking down more CP or similarly vile illegal content than "Twitter 1.0?" Or are you seeing the news that he took down a few noteworthy hashtags that had previously been ignored and using that as broader evidence?
Also if you're into videogames there's an amazing resource here if you haven't seen it before: https://sites.google.com/view/jo-mako/home?pli=1

Among many other things, it has a huge catalog of Japanese game transcripts. I will copy-paste those into my other app Nihongo (https://nihongo-app.com) which will automatically create flashcards that I can use to pre-study before going through each section, so I can get more out of it.
It all depends. Has @sokoloff contributed the same in the past? What is the value that age/experience has brought him in the things he does do and does not do? Performance reviews will always omit some aspect of the value the reviewed person brings.

> Deciding to pay me the same or more for less value certainly makes things better and more convenient/comfortable for me.

Of course it's going to feel better just looking at the numbers. But then we get back to the same old problem - how do you define value and contributions and say A goes over B?

Sure, I'll admit that it doesn't create the best incentives for people who want to optimize their paycheck and standing, ie. ambitious people. However, this is fine in some circumstances when you're aiming to create a self-sustaining team.

> Does promoting me to lead that major new initiative put the company in the best position to succeed in the market and, via that success, continue to provide income for all employees?

'Best' is an ill defined, extremist term. For many tasks at hand, there are checkboxes that they have to tick, and for all you know, they might need not to be the best, but just at sufficient level to check those boxes. And that is enough.

Take an example where a dungeon boss needs a certain amount of damage dealt to it within a certain period of time to beat him. There are many class specialties, some doing more damage than others, but these are rare, and all of them meet the requirements. Are you going to spend extra time trying to grab that rare class specialty or take one of the abundant ones? Of course not.
I think it does, because LLMs allow things that LMs like BERT don't - like answering complex question on their own etc which is being discussed in the context of this thread.
Just fine based on the limitations that were given, ie Manifest V3, but it is still better on Firefox.
Protecting their customers. Crypto well established as total scam at this point.
I too find value in ads when I'm in a position to want to be exposed to advertisements. I don't understand why that should or need be the default experience. I pay for Kagi, it's quite nice. If I am feeling like I can't find a product I'm looking for and word of mouth isn't cutting it, then I may elect to expose myself to ads. I'd argue it's almost unethical to expose people to the manipulation that is consumer advertising without their consent.
> nothing else is truly sentient

WRONG
Now that is interesting. I didn't know that and will have to look further to understand what it means.

Wireguard seems to be written almost entirely in C, is that right?
Several of my relatives are Mechanical Engineers.

In that field, it seems typical to have both engineers and technicians working on projects. Engineers are responsible for design, and have degrees; Technicians do assembly and maintenance, and only need on-the-job training.

I’ve often wondered what our industry would look like if we adopted a similar distinction. In which case, bootcamp graduates would be a natural fit for a technician role.
The post-depression panic about share buybacks was uninformed and lacked evidentiary basis, as there were only very unique situations in which a company could actually boost its market value this way -- namely if it was fighting some kind of short squeeze and was also thinly traded relative to the number of shares purchased. I wonder whether you think shorting shares is also stock market manipulation? And is the selling of new shares -- something that was also liberalized by the SEC -- also manipulation? Or is it only the buying back that is manipulation?

The reason they were liberalized, despite all the sputtering about "Reagan", is that safe harbors were added that required the amount of issuance to not exceed a fraction of the average daily volume so that it couldn't be used to manipulate market caps. Merely the raising or lowering of the price per share is not manipulation if the market cap is unchanged: businesses are allowed to split and reverse-split shares as well -- or do you also view that as "manipulation"?

Watching some people obsess about share buybacks is truly funny, because you have the worst possible set of bad takes happening on this one issue. Of all the things to worry about -- e.g. Fed puts, the fact that banks have lower funding costs and yet can compete against retail investors, the fact that we have this artificial distinction between long term and short term gains creating big write offs, lawmakers getting rich via trading, etc. So many areas of reform are needed, yet there is this maniacal focus on share buybacks by people who don't really understand what is wrong with them but they just know it's fishy. It's truly the issue that has launched 1000 angry Mother Jones editorials by people who've never set foot on a trading floor -- when fewer things are more harmless in our shark-infested capital markets than share buybacks.
Being “intimately involved with suppression of speech at the behest of the government and political interests” exactly describes the job of removing child sexual assault content.
It’s not a problem of scale because it doesn’t happen in Tokyo which is a more populace city and I’ve never seen a rat there.
Ask HN: Apartment company wants personal info over email
I'm searching for an apartment to rent, and I've found one that I really like. It's being rented out by a small, local rental company that has a very good reputation, and their application process involves:

- filling out a PDF rental application (contains personal info like SSN)

- sending a screenshot of my bank account and other accounts

- sending proof of income (e.g. paystubs, W-2, etc)

In principle, this all seems reasonable, but it's all sent over email, and since that isn't a secure way of transmitting this kind of data, I'm very hesitant to apply for the rental. I'd really like to rent the apartment, so is there anything I can do to apply, but in a more secure way (short of asking them to use something like DocuSign or HelloSign)? The best I've been able to come up with is that I could upload the documentation they need to a password-protected Dropbox, and then send them the password via SMS.
> it registers as a good place to live

Kind of like with weeds. Go ahead and pull them out, but as long as there are a few or some seeds remaining and a whole whack of substrate to grow in… They will be back in a hurry.

The rats can’t live there if food isn’t so readily available. I’ve seen the terrifying videos of them eating each other, but presumably even that could only last so long. Poorly managed waste seems to be a huge factor in this, and rats on a symptom.
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I agree you can get something working. However, if 1% of the time, a customer is overcharged $100+ because they assumed the limit was guaranteed, you’d probably reconsider if you want to offer that service at all.
Having used Pleco for years, it really is the best dictionary type app I've encountered.
It has OCR, it can parse text from your screen (screen reader) or clipboard, has male and female recorded voices, handwriting recognition, has about 20 different dictionaries including Chinese->Chinese and Cantonese, character etymology, their own flashcard system, the UI is extremely good. The search supports wildcards but is really fast. They are really attentive too, for example when their userbase pushed back against their flashcard system saying they use Anki, the devs added an extremely powerful and customisable Anki integration too.

To be honest I'm not the target audience for your app anyway, I'm not interested in yet another Edict-based dictionary - there are tons of them around and the quality is not good enough once you get to a certain level.
People hire junior devs everyday. These people are at least a prepared as most of the folks coming out of CS programs. And are definitely more prepared than I was.
Funny thing, I just posted a tweet about my recent research on where are the good biotech hubs with low cost of living: https://twitter.com/pochekailov/status/1598088198995218437

I was hypothesizing similar conclusion as in the article.
I personally arrive early to everything. If you’re not early, you’re late.

Investors, board members, advisors, customers - they can all arrive late.

You must not.
You don't have freedom of association in America since the Civil Rights Act.
Where has time to market and productivity ever been a factor for C and the C ecosystem? My most "productive" languages have been declarative languages like Haskell (depending on how you measure that). I don't care if it takes an extra few minutes to compile either, amortized away in the long term when you don't have to deal with entire additional classes of bugs to deal with. Also why is security never an important concern? There are a lot of security issues which are self inflicted if you use C. Using something like rust means a lot of issues simply don't exist. The optimal solution.
We stopped using any toothpaste with Sodium Laureth Sulfate in it and our whole family stopped suffering from mouth ulcers.

There's a lot of commonly used chemicals that are irritants and disrupt how the body works, but are underneath the threshold of toxicity.
> There's no transparency or real studies if there's some effective malware filtering by forcing the app store model so at this point it's difficult to take it seriously.

Maybe look at the Android situation: Malware is at least two orders of magnitude more prevalent, and it's mostly because you can type "free fortnite vbucks android" into the search bar, get on a YT video that links to a shady site, that shady site tells the user how to enable sideloading and install spyware apps masquerading as coin generators.
I'm no expert but judging from what seem to be informed comments in this topic, the main attack vector might be restricted to the side-loading not of regular apps, but of system-level components. If that's true, the blast radius would be fairly small indeed (though still not good in those cases).
I've read almost all of his books and short stories. Quarantine, Permutation City, and Diaspora are my faves. Go find Egan and get a picture of him. There doesn't seem to be any on the Internet, which is pretty strange.
So what makes digital artifacts (especially those that don't have anything to do with Apple's platforms) different from physical products. Would Apple be wrong to ask for 30% of purchased made through the eBay or Amazon apps?
Musk has stated that Twitter interfered with elections. I'm not sure what evidence he's provided for that, but he did say it.
Rust apologists believe they are going to save the world. In order for them to do so, they have to uproot, destroy (deem it unsafe and insecure), and rewrite a lot of things they don't yet have influence over. A lot of people who are pushing back against Rust are doing so because they can sense this coercion, not because the language is ugly or "memory safety" issues aren't as significant as they are made out to be, or whatever other arguments the stupid "c-niles" always use.
Graduated from a boot camp in 2014 and I can confidently say I did not learn a ton(3 months 5 days a week) but it did reinforce my desire that I wanted to be in the field and that I wanted to learn more. In some ways the whole thing is a money grab, but when I went in to my first job interview after the bootcamp(which wasn't even a junior dev role, it was a bit lower on the rung), they gave 0 craps about my 4 year undergrad degree and we instead had a lengthy conversation about my bootcamp experience(I did end up getting that job).
APVI is Android Partner Vulnerabilities Initiative. It's a working group (?) that deals with security issues of third party vendors
If you want to model MAD via game theory, it would certainly be a repeated game. They faced each other day in day out year after year.

I agree that war, both cold and hot, is a non-zero sum game. That's why things like temporary ceasefires can work at all. Or Geneva conventions.
If 1% of the time a customer uses $100 extra, you don't charge that customer $100 extra. You charge them $0 extra because they had a bill cap and it was your job to enforce that cap. Then you raise the price of the service a very small amount so customers pay $1 more on average and that covers everyone's overages (that's what I mean by amortizing across your customer base). Then you go and improve your limit enforcement because you are actually incentivized to do so, unlike in the case where customers are charged for overages that aren't their fault, where you are actually incentivized to cause overages. Customers aren't dumb, they can see your incentives (see the comment by 0cf8612b2e1e in the adjacent thread).
Yeah I mean this is great in theory, but in practice it's very very hard.

Suppose I were to ask you to explain to somebody non-technical why your application shouldn't have 12 different databases. It's incredibly easy to provide hand-wavey claims about inefficiency, but non-technical people are rightly skeptical (after all for every good idea there are 10 developers claiming a complete rewrite in XYZ will 2x everything).

How can you really provide hard evidence that an application with 1 database instead of 12 will be easier to develop in? Are you going to have devs write code for both cases, and show how many fewer lines of code it is? Are you going to take a dev survey? You can provide your word that certain production bugs were caused by this, but that's again presuming this individual believes you.

Even if you could really spell it out in detail, it's likely they wouldn't have the patience to listen. A chess grandmaster could probably spend an hour explaining a crucial chess move to me, why couldn't an engineering problem warrant over an hour of explanation?

I find completely irrelevant details (how distressed you are by the problem, your race, your last performance review) often have an outsized bias on how persuaded people are.
The iPhone isn't a product. The Apple ecosystem is. I purchased it to ensure (A) nobody can take my phone, punch in my passcode and Apple ID and install malware that hides itself or otherwise flash the software to look like iOS but with malware on top, and (B) when I use native apps, the chance of having malware distributed to me there is almost 0.
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I'm also a fan of learning kanji only in the context of words, and not on their own in a vacuum.

I made the kanji decks in my other app Nihongo (https://nihongo-app.com) based on this philosophy. Basically, they teach you (1) the kun-yomi word(s) for each character, (2) the 1-3 most common words for each on-yomi, and (3) to write the kanji.

Don't try to learn the readings in isolation, learn them in the context of the words where they appear. And by learning a small set of the most common words using the character (especially if it has a standalone kun-yomi word), you'll internalize the meaning of the kanji itself.
If I make an online space (subreddit, FB group, etc) about a specific topic (eg hiking) and some clown comes in and repeatedly posts about unrelated politics, that person should be moderated away.
> The latter is a huge win for making media people want to watch.

I get that people like faces, but the news should be real.
Maybe I'm expecting too much of the BBC, but it seems pretty short-sighted to start carrying fake news, even if they are only starting with a fake face.
Their bootcamp should have added the caveat: at a FAANG
With full REPL support etc?

(Please say yes, please say yes, please...)
The issue is that it even lays on the street.

In some European cities an area the size of a parking space is a few chutes into an underground dumpster. It moves the trash (and the rats looking for it) out of sight.
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plan." - John Lennon

"Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change."- Tony Robbins
This really interests me, and I want to set up a similar system.

Can you describe the massive difference it’s made for family?
Most of the people I saw get successful were people were people doing like... extra stuff outside of the classes. They were taking what they learned and applying it. Others organized groups of people, and essentially formed a small support network of people in a similar position. I completely understand that not everyone has the time for that.

I think two things happened over Lambda's life span that effected the quality of the teaching. The first was the initial pool they advertised too. I think I saw the post on Hacker News before everywhere else. I'd wonder if you're more selective from already technical people at the beginning and then sorta widening the net as time goes on to include more people if you could get initial big numbers push followed by more ok numbers.

The instructors I met were all great. I think a lot of that flack went more towards later cohorts or alternative program from the main full webstack track.