skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AT&T is also reducing their autopay discount unless you switch from a credit card to a debit card or EFT.
I am curious if they will go back and look at apps that are accessing these API's or will only look at them when there is an update?

I am wondering if we will be seeing another situation where certain apps delay updates like with the previous app tracking permissions.

Also curious if they would ever go so far as to add a notice of something like "this app could possibly be fingerprinting you" in the App Store or if they are confident enough in asking about these permissions that they will feel they won't need to alert users.
You know where it's going dude...to the military and law enforcement. It's completely naive to think otherwise. Advanced robotics might be used to unpack your dishwasher, or save kittens stuck in trees, but we know where the $$$ lies...
You can’t disable regen? Even on cheaper EVs putting the car into neutral disables regen.
> In any normal/half-way good designed application, no row should be duplicated within a table...

Sure, but there are plenty of poorly designed databases out there!
when I finish one of these calls with these UK recruitment agencies I feel so sick to my stomach. they really are hustlers and grifters in the worst sense of the word. never again...
Python client library is coming in a few weeks.
True, but affordability and word-of-mouth can go a long way. It's not a foregone conclusion.
Due to ideological coherence, ie people voting along party lines... why believe it would make much of a difference?
> Also, I guess you could write some values into UserDefaults to uniquely identify users.

I already said this: "UserDefaults is more or less glorified key-value storage. It's true that you could store a UUID in there, but you could just as easily store a UUID in a text file in your app's container, an API usage that is not covered by this."
Plugging one hole isn't useless just because there's two.
I used local recruiters to find me jobs most of my career (1999, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018). I met them in person either at their office or for lunch. I met one in 2012 who found the perfect job for me in 2018. We stayed in touch all of those years.

My first job in 1996 was based on a return offer from an internship.

In 2008, I did the random submit my resume everywhere thing and in 2020 an internal recruiter from $BigTech reached out to me.

With remote work being more of a thing combined with my much stronger network and resume, I will probably lean much more on my network and resume the next time I’m looking.
BRICS bank NDB says not considering new projects in Russia
Not realtime is fine. Waiting a minute or so for it after resuming from sleep to sync the state (where at some point it will show you new message notifications but prevent from switching to those channels) is not fine.
That's just a re-stating of the same ridiculous source data that declares any issue, no matter how trivial, to be of equal weight. It's also effectively punishing the carmakers who acknowledge and fix problems.
that's not true at all.
Google is the only top five smartphone brand to show growth in the US market
Why is it wild? They are not telling you to not use UserDefaults anymore. The only thing you have to do is say “I store the users preferred sort order of the thinger list in UD” or whatever your non-malicious app does.

There is no magic here. I see a lot of complaining here but for 99.9% of devs it is a one time two minute check mark exercise.
Isn't that just a team of people now called a different word?
Launching a non-trivial app requires so much back-and-forth to get Apple's blessing these days:
Special entitlements, business verification, app review, mandatory marketing website etc...

It's not a big deal if you're GoogFaceSoft and can throw people at it, but for a solo developer the list of things to deal with is ever increasing.

Feels sadly like Apple don't care much about indie developers anymore.

The beauty of the web still remains that you can launch something to the world in minutes.
This tends to be true. But not in this case.
I have worked with people who have 8-10 years of experience and are still mid-level in both skill and professionalism, know that they are, and are fine with it. They get their joy from other things in life and are totally fine coming into the office and doing the bare minimum to get by and going years without raises or bonuses because of it. Again, this is a conscious choice these people are making, they're not being taken advantage of or anything.
In November I was getting ~10 inbound emails a week from top-flight shops, that had been typical for at least 5 years. In December that was zero and has been since. I was an L7 in ML infra at a FAANG a few years ago.

I did some marquee loops in Jan/Feb, and my “fuck this” point was when I did a coding screen at $KNOWN_COMPANY highly recommended by a former colleague and ended up with a 24 year old in a hotel room on a MacBook Air looking at his phone for 45 minutes and the back channel was that he had flunked my trivial 50-line Python program less than 10 minutes after the interview was over.

After that I was like, I’m consulting for a while, catch you all in 2024 once Powell gets brought to heel for the geberal. :)

It’s not just you.
Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it
I agree with the author. I write personal chat systems that use my data on the backend (the last book I wrote is on this topic), but I am not so interested in third parties doing this for me.

What I am interested in is having the simplest possible experience with my digital devices while getting work, writing, and play accomplished.

I want to emphasize something: when I wake up in the morning, I have intentions for that day on stuff I want to accomplish and for pleasurable activities like meals or hikes with friends and family. Unless something hugely unexpected occurs during a day, I want to meet my intentions for the day.

I want my devices and the distributed software systems I interact with through my devices to meet my intentions for a day to all work smoothly.

In general, I think Apple, Google, and Microsoft are on the right track. That said, it is a necessary time waste to monitor these companies and make sure the power dynamic is not too grossly in their favor.
(I'm not the parent commenter), but I believe a defining quality of a senior developer is someone who I can give any problem/project to in the business domain and they return with a solution in the technical domain.
As far as I've heard, the rationale is that it's still federally illegal. Many dispensaries get around it by using some kind of "ATM mode" on the keypads, where they round up your purchase to the nearest $10 then give you change.
Honest question: if we can enforce limitations on a person's liberty, freedom and so on when they drive a car, why couldn't we do the same when they hold public office?
they call it bleeeeeding-edge for a reason ;)
Also, there's an error in that table, the first model "Bloomz" does not have an open source license, on the HF page for the model it shows a RAIL license which is a restrictive license that limits you to "approved" uses. The license link goes to the github repo where the code is released under Apache 2.0. I didn't review the rest but I'd say it calls the ranking into question.
If Costco had an Apple computer in the configuration I wanted, I would buy it from Costco because Costco offers 2 year warranties on computers, whereas buying from Apple would only get you 1 year.

https://concierge.costco.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1001211
You aren’t subsidizing McDonalds labor cost. If McDonalds paid them more, they would be paying more than the revenue that’s attributable to them, and creating a net loss by hiring them and they simply wouldn’t do it.

As a society we have decided that people deserve a livable wage. That is a good thing. Minimum wage laws are a distorting way to accomplish this because they put a cost that should be borne by society (no-skill workers should have a livable wage) and force it on industries that employ workers with no skills. Subsidizing the income through government transfers is frankly a more equitable means of achieving that goal.

That being said, in such a regime however minimum wage laws are necessary, not because McDonalds is exploring the workers, but because they are likely to exploit the government.
Not sure I understand why implementing EXCEPT ALL is hard. You just do +1 for every row in the left side and -1 for every row in the right, and then consolidate. Am I missing something?
> hundreds, if not, thousands of acres

Sections (640 acres)
That aspect is disputed. It’s not entirely clear how much of that story is self-mythology by the mafia.
Bankers gonna banker
I don’t really understand what eSIM is. Does it act _just like_ a SIM card, but is software rather than a physical card? Does it modify how the phone acts on the network? For instance, if I put a Canadian SIM in my phone, I’ll probably be roaming. I’d have a local (eg: Verizon, AT&T, etc.) mobile ISP IP range, but be roaming from the provider perspective? Or, would I show up as coming from the Canadian mobile ISP’s network?
I get it, and do too sometimes.

For me, this most often comes up when acting as a reference for someone. The hiring person will ask me stuff, and often a 'senior' label question will come up. Almost invariably the person I'm acting as a reference for is beyond 'junior' connotations, and I think have to ask what the hiring person mean by 'senior'. Getting their definition helps me answer most effectively.

"Yeah, AB is pretty close to what you class as 'senior'. He's going to work well in a larger group with defined roles and a set schedule, which it sounds like you have."

"Well.. SJ is not 'junior' any more, but does need to have someone more senior to help mentor/check in on more advanced topics. If you don't have that - if this is a 'lone wolf' role, they may struggle some".
As an app developer, I have to say that Apple has made it increasing more difficult to provide a seamless user experience to our users over time. Yes, there are plenty of bad actors out there, and they ruin it for the rest of us who collect data only for the purpose of driving the experience forward.

The biggest recent pain point that comes to mind is cracking down on accessing the pasteboard without prompting the user for access first. The pasteboard was an essential piece for enabling seamless universal links in many apps. Universal links allow us to give our users the best possible first impression and make things easy for them. Mind you, most users _need_ to be guided along most experiences, don't read things, and blame you for when they can't read. At some point the value prop of apps is going to be completely negated by how difficult they are to use.
I have been curious about that as well, as there does not appear to be anything precise about what Slotin was doing. The impression I have from what I have read so far was that he was still in the set-up stage of the experiment, which required an assembly that was close to criticality, and I'm guessing that, once that had been achieved, that actual experiment would be conducted with much greater precision. In this case, he was merely demonstrating the procedure to Alvin Graves, who was to take over Slotin's work, so there may have been no intention of making precise measurements.

Raemer Schreiber, who was present in the lab working on something else, wrote "At first Slotin said that he didn't have the proper materials for one. Then he remembered that we had the 49 cores there so he said he would do one 'in about two minutes' in a beryllium tamper after we (Schreiber and Perlman) had finished our counts. I remarked that if he were going to do it in two minutes I was going to leave but would stick around if he took a half hour for it. This was not intended seriously since we all had confidence in Slotin's ability and judgment." In the context of what else I have read about the experiment, I think the "about two minutes" comment referred to how long it would take for Slotin to set up for the experiment.

He also wrote "I had assumed that the approach to critical would be rather slow so continued to work on the initiator, thinking that when the multiplication got to an interesting point I would turn and watch." A near- but sub-critical assembly serves as a multiplier (amplifier) of any neutron flux it is exposed to, with the gain asymptotically approaching infinity as the assembly approaches criticality. Again according to Schreiber, Slotin was using a neutron-producing "driving source", and my guess is that setting up for the experiment involved adjusting the assembly until it was producing a sufficiently large multiplication of the driver's neutron flux.

As to why this experiment had to be repeated, I get the impression that, at this stage, each bomb was custom-built (or at least the ones for the Bikini tests were), and its fissile core and the surrounding tamper had to be individually calibrated and adjusted.

Beyond the description of what Slotin was doing at the time of the accident, I have not seen any description of how the experiment was performed in terms of what measurements were taken, or of its precise purpose.

https://www.halflifeofgenius.com/slotin - thanks to toomuchtodo for the reference.
Only by half? I thought traffic on Threads was off by 90% a week after the launch when "one hundred million people joined"... then again they probably joined just to see what it was, were unimpressed, and went back to Mastodon or Twitter.
Basically, decompile the Facebook and Instagram apps, and any tricks they are using to circumvent privacy should be squashed.
This seems like a troll post, but I will bite in the spirit of hn and consider it very serious. The brain drain idea is a fallacy. These aren't doctors who will flee to private practices away from Medicare spot where they can earn more money. These are elected public representatives of the people. More power translates to more corruption and tyranny, and I'd be 100% opposed. Our government would be approaching near complete erosion of trust and values if we further empowered these people to become elected privateers. That may be silly to say given how low trust and value are at the present time, but this notion of empowering them to earn more money feels like it would be a defining catalyst moment in future history books to where it all went wrong for the American Republic.
What a silly quote. The same happens to me in my ICE car. As I'm driving along the estimated range keeps decreasing. Because that's the whole point.

I'm confused how anyone thinks it should do otherwise.
Subscription based apps and locked devices are the future. They've built the moat and now they'll withdraw the bridge. S/w industry will become just like any other, where cost of entry for an average person will be prohibitive. The big advantage of s/w was it was inherently a level playing field, but only in the abstract. When it meets the real world its just another rent-seeking industry.
I recall playing this back in the day. It was super cool.

My Dad pulled it from the DEC internal file sharing service and brought it home. I long believed that it was a figment of my imagination until I heard that ID had developed a demo for Nintendo that must have gotten leaked
Israeli Dependence Day
It sounds like you’re working with a number of services right now, so take this with a grain of salt.

Joinrelentless.com does resume review and coaching and then gets people first interviews. Not cheap, but it’s nice to literally just have interviews put on your calendar by someone.

(Not a customer, just no the CEO)
There's a company-public thread that 2 people participated in and nobody else has read it. Both have left the company. A new hire wants to read that thread. Where do you get the encryption keys from?
Someone else mentioned sims - Mujoco is pretty common and you'll want to learn ROS anyway. Also robotics doesn't mean just arms, you can play with navigation and perception algorithms with a single camera.

Good off-the-shelf arms are low thousands last time I looked. You can DIY for $1-2k https://www.anninrobotics.com/robot-kits
At some point, I've just come to hate app development. Everything's been ruined by the collateral damage from unscrupulous developers and the war the app stores wage on them, the rent-seeking the platforms engage in, the bullshit rules and shitty review process. The general rot and entropy of it all.

UserDefaults... really?

Let's give Google more control over the web so they can finally the destroy it in the same way and there can no longer be anything for me to care about.
> The problem being that when you muck up the interview, you get outed as a quack to someone you know.

The downvotes you got were undeserved. For most job markets: If an ideal candidate is interview-disabled, their odds of being hired are dismal.
Practices?
All of what you wrote is nonsense? Ok then.
It's fraud and it's terrible but.. Another way of looking at this is that a lot of that $200B was likely put back into the economy. Would the government claw that back, for example returning the fancy car and demanding the cash back?
You're reading analytically. The intended audience does not. Spread the fear, retract the wealth.
Yes, like any skill, communication is something you can practice and get better. The key is that it’s very hard if you can’t get out of your own head. And when it comes to communication with executives and other very busy people you really need mentorship with situational context unless you really are a natural.
At $2k it would sell today. The condition looks great could easily go for more then double that to the right buyer (Environmentals are prized but obviously limit who has room for them).
How playing Jar Jar Binks led to abuse, near death – and saving Baby Yoda
I'm glad it seems to be working for you, but it's kind of unnerving to be asked a technical question by someone who doesn't understand the question and cannot actually evaluate your answer.
My Chromebook is not available for purchase anymore but it's just some Dell laptop. 4 cores, 32GB of RAM, SSD.

I run my development stack in the debian VM provided by ChromeOS.

Absolutely handles developing node/react.
Of course it won't.
Polarization is not solely the product of social media echo chambers, despite how comfortable it is to claim so.

In the (largely American-dominated) western anglosphere Polarization is on the rise because of a cultural conflict over the solutions to the problems of the next 50 or so years.

Namely:
Climate change and climate migration.

The shrinking marginal utility of the average person.

Unequal outcomes between groups.

Adaption to rising challengers to American global military dominance.

It's not some irrational thing produced by consuming different flavours of news - it's a fundamental schism in group orientation between two largely incompatible approaches to future challenges (largely a fight between bottom-up designs that seek to minimize harm and middle-up designs that seek to maximize growth).

We can't just lay this at the feet of media companies and their intermediaries, that's far too naive.
Taking up photography as a hobby made me notice and appreciate good shots and colours in films much more. So the opposite effect.
> Cheesecake was the best overall in our assessment.

Lol, yes, exactly, that's the consensus opinion (not "surprisingly," except among food snobs), and it's why the place is packed every night while many of its competitors have gone out of business. Sorry it took you so long to realize it.
https://archive.ph/MdMdE
Funny, this is how I (and I think most people I've worked with/for) describe a mid-level dev. "Doing the thing" is a pretty low bar but we don't really expect that from juniors, who typically need hand-holding. To be a mid-level you should be able to operate independently and provide optimal or near-optimal solutions most of the time, but your work is still going to be just focused around you. Most of what you're doing is individual tickets, refactoring, etc., nothing that influences or impacts the broader team. When your impact is beyond your individual work is when you start moving into the realm of senior, and it's part of why it takes time (not just skill) to get there.
File timestamp and free space are likely to be used by just about any app that imports a caching library, e.g. for images.

I predict a flood of app rejections due to developers unknowingly using these APIs as part of a dependency.

Things like stat() are so fundamental that you'll pretty much always find them somewhere in a moderately sized code base.
It's not on the roadmap for the next 6 months. But priorities can change depending upon the demand. One thing to note is that BlazingMQ client libraries are very stateful, and implementing a batteries included library is a non-trivial effort.
Tesla's Dieselgate
It's been a while, so correct me if I'm wrong, but a "Share -> Copy" action doesn't require permissions, does it? That's the conventional way to do this in Apple's own apps and a user should be able to be expected to follow that if they want to copy a link. (Doing otherwise would be nonstandard and surprising to me, regardless.)

Otherwise, accessing UIPasteboard should require permissions. Sorry for Your Flow, but like--the app needs to be transparent about what it's doing, and dirtbags exist, so.
> It just means you’re uninformed.

I'm glad to be corrected. What is their other data source?
Hi, no plans as of yet. Please also see my response to the Golang client library request above.
One remark.
Kea doesn't have some of functionalities provided by ISC-DHCP.
If you use a lot of dhcp-eval and make decisions based on different dhcp options content kea is still a no-go since there is no workarround. Usually at ISP level dhcp is one puzzle of much more complicated system.

I tried if few times and every time I stuck on something and messagefrom developers was: this isc-dhcp feature is not supported.
This was huge national scale ISP and bypassing those limitations means a lot of $ to adapt surrounding systems providing input to isc-dhcp LDAP DB in its own config style.
Potent anti-cancer therapy created using ‘click chemistry’
You might be right but you haven't provided any arguments. I remember MPI from my C times and it definitely had its quirks.
You've already invested a huge amount of time in learning something which became obsolete (like jQuery), then you got over it instead of giving up in frustration, and spent a huge amount of time learning something else (like Angular or React), and you've finally come to grips with the fact that it too will eventually become obsolete, and you'll be fine moving on to the next thing (like Svelte).

If you only know one system and think you're going to be able use it forever, then you're still a junior developer. If you're afraid to move on and learn something new, then you shouldn't be a developer at all.
Polestar does the exact same thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3P32TyLMMM&t=644s
I'm the last person to stand behind Adobe (where my linux apps at?), but:

- procreate - yes, I agree. They do compete there and procreate is iPad only. Pricing is what sets them apart and Adobe being a bit stupid there

- Figma - yes and it's Adobe now.

- Blender and Maxon are in different space. Unless you consider Blender's subpar video capabilities and Maxon's buying of video plugins (for Adobe programs). Also, Maxon.. come on, talking about stale. C4D "light" is also part of After Effects.

- Blackmagic is in hardware business. Their Fusion (bought) is stale af. AVID might be a better comparison.

- Autodesk - only overlap is between Flame and Lustre. Flame is in another space where they don't compete and Lustre has been stale (just like Adobe's CC offerings, seems both ceeded to free DaVinci Resolve)

- Stability - look at how wonderfully Adobe actually did put out AI and integrated it well with Photoshop!
I took this as a tongue-in-cheek remark akin to "dead patients are stable" - the implication being of course that "stable" doesn't mean "good" or "healthy".