skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Now, Apple has taken steps to publish its own numbers, revealing that in the first half of 2022 the company fielded a total of 13 geofence warrants and complied with none. The difference? According to Apple’s transparency report, the company doesn’t have any data to provide in response.

13 geofence warrants for Apple vs. ~3500 (21000 from 2018-2020, averaged to 6 mo) for Google. That's a pretty stark difference. (I do wish they had/gave the numbers for Apple over the same 2018-2020 time period or at least covering a couple years for a more apple-apple comparison).

While Apple isn't perfect (plenty of fumbles along the way and still), seeing stats like this make me feel a little more comfortable with my iPhone compared to my Android.
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2.5 minutes seems short for every application but it's literally mindlessly re-entering information that's literally already on your resume. It's definitely the frustration more than the time IMO...

PSA: I built a browser extension that autofills your job application so you don't have to manually re-type your resume on every job -> https://simplify.jobs/copilot (we're also YC backed!)
Does this handle tasks in different timezones? Is there a map interface? Like, say I've got to manage multiple drivers over multiple timezones, and I need to know who's got an hour left on their shift, what they're hauling in their truck, and where they are on a map.
OR maybe build more houses?
IANAL but I'm curious if intent is the deciding factor. Maddoff got 150 years because he knowingly operated a criminal enterprise and admitted to the whole thing eventually. His sons even testified against him when they found out. Maddoff went to great extents to construct his criminal enterprise, operating a small boiler room out of the front office.

If prosecutors can show that actual malice and intent were part of his motive then logic would follow he'd get a Maddoff-like sentence. If he's just the worlds biggest bumbling idiot that people put too much faith and money in then it'd be lesser. I'm not quite caught up to when SBF knew he'd started a criminal enterprise versus when he was making reckless decisions.
Food for thought. I remember in 2016 when Vermont was going to force food producers to label products as genetically modified, and Congress could not move fast enough to outlaw it.

https://www.vermontpublic.org/vpr-news/2016-07-15/congress-p...
Please don't cross into personal attack. If you know more than someone else, that's great, but in that case please share some of what you know—without putdowns or snark—so the rest of us can learn.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
macOS mouse bug with multiple users
> chance for EU to compete with China was to move all manufacturing to cheap post-soviet areas

Which areas in EU (or even Europe) would that be?
Baltic states hardly cheap anymore (or won't be soon), Caucasus is hot mess and -stans are nowhere near the EU as well as their neighborhood is unstable as it can be
It's not that it's an "not very accurate" loose relation; there is no relation at all. The two numbers concern different forces - gravity inward due to mass vs. centrifugal force outwards due to spin.
This looks seriously awesome. Favorited it for later.

As a side note who / what narrates the video? ;)
To me it seems pretty clear that the parent is saying "opioid [side effects] are terrible" after seeing how much suffering they caused their father.
Not parent poster but my reason is that I use my job's workstation as my personal laptop as well; so as to avoid getting yet another laptop (minimalism and all that).
I'm quite impressed by the performance of the web UI. I wonder if they did any specialized optimization
Real understanding of concepts has been replaced with step by step methods that allow you to arrive at a solution without needing to understand what you are doing.

This is exactly what happens with multiplication (and simplify fractions and taking derivatives). That’s been exactly my claim all along.

Virtually no 16 year olds know why the procedure they were taught to multiply 123 x 456 produces the correct answer. Not today, not 20 years ago, not 50 years ago. They know how to execute the algorithm. That’s it.
I think that the phone industry matured to a point where if people would buy a premium luxury phone, they would never pick anything else other than a special iPhone or Samsung.
"On the whole people commit crime because they are desperate"

Great comment, but this line demands a response. When so many consensual acts are considered crimes, we end up with a situation where most people are commiting crimes because... they want to. They aren't "desperate" to snort coke, or pay for a blowjob, or play an illegal card game, but they want to do those things and will do so regardless of the criminal status of that act. The only way that changes is by using extreme state violence under an authoritarian regime or, my preferred option, by changing the laws so every Tom, Dick and Harry isn't committing a crime simply by living their lives.
> That's crazy to me. Why would someone put ANYTHING on their resume that is not factually correct?

I have dealt with my fair share of resume embellishments. I _will ask_ questions about anything that you put in your resume. Anything at all. It's fair game. That's part of my sanity check. Better have a pretty decent answer as to why something is in the resume relatively recently and you can't even give me an overview of what it was (I assume people forget details and it's fine).

However, have you ever seen 'proxy interviews'? In those cases, it's not just a case of 'embellishments', the candidate interviewing has zero experience and the resume is not even his. Had this experience a few months ago.

People go as far as lip syncing. It's horrendous.
> Why would that portion of demographic vote against their own asset?

For me, taxes. As housing prices rise the taxes I pay increase making it more and more expensive to keep my home.

I wouldn't mind if my house never appreciated in value or even lost a little, so long as it kept its place in the rest of the market. So long as I'm not underwater on my mortgage and it's still about the same value comparatively when I eventually need to move, I don't necessarily want it to go up.
Yes, I can see that working early in a career. Now that I think of it, my best friend did exactly that too when he was 19, and he managed to get his foot in the door.

For what it's worth I think your current strategy of applying for relevant jobs is the right one, particularly if it's a difficult market where you are. Tangential skills are also good possibilities. I hope you find something that works for you.
+1 on this; one of the best books to intro one on the subject
Cory Doctorow disagrees (1) that the consumer welfare theory of monopolies is valid and (2) that monopolies which dominate industries are economically desirable [0]. I found it interesting to realize that most modern antitrust theory - that consumer harm is the only reasonable basis for government intervention in monopolies - appears to lack historical basis in the law. For instance, the consumer welfare standard severely downplays the importance of free and fair competition among businesses as a means for class advancement.

> This is the “consumer welfare” standard, a theory as economically bankrupt as it is historically unsupportable. Let’s be clear here: The plain language of America’s antitrust laws make it very clear that Congress wanted to block monopolies because it worried about the concentration of corporate power, not just the abuse of that power. This is inarguable: Think of John Sherman stalking the floor of the Senate, railing against autocrats of trade, declaiming that “we should not endure a King over the production, transportation, and sale of the necessaries of life.” These are not the statements of a man who liked most monopolies and merely sought to restrain the occasional monopolist who lost sight of his duty to make life better for the public.

[0]: https://archive.ph/aTv47
Superblocks can absolutely be used to build something to solve this use case.
I’m not sure I understand your point. If the model is predicting the probability that police will make an arrest in a location then I think it could perform well on rudimentary classifier metrics without working well in the more general sense of resolving crime. If police could make drug arrests in a location, but tend to do it in ZIP codes with low socioeconomic indices then the model will predict more arrests where socioeconomic indices are low. Police acting on this intel will turn up true positives, and the classifier will get high marks. But because you’re not able to assess the false negative rate properly (the volume of crimes that police didn’t make arrests for) you’re unable to holistically evaluate its performance. I guess in that second sense the model isn’t actually performing well, but because it can’t be measured it doesn’t really get monitored.
He’s being self deprecating, yes
A discussion of particles in triangular potential wells and the QHO (2019) [pdf]
Also the entirety of the Montreal Metro, which was inspired by the Paris Metro.
It is an AI voice generator https://genny.lovo.ai/
Probably IPFS desktop is best for them. There is also a browser extension that hooks into (brings with it?) IPFS desktop
That's true. But assuming the required memory bandwidth is not already maxed out by this, there might still be a narrow but workable "Goldilocks zone" for this technique to be useful.
Are you saying you don't think deterrence works? I am curious what you're learning about SBF though.
Drug crimes are something of a special case, in that drug laws in the USA (which did not exist in the 19th century) were largely implemented in the early 20th century as a means of population control, with racist overtones (Chinese immigrant use of opium, Mexican and black use of marijuana, etc.). Since drugs were widely used (as was alcohol) across the entire US social spectrum, but enforcement was targeted at specific groups and individuals for political reasons, it's reminscent of what Stalin's head of the NKVD, Beria, said: "Show me the man and I'll show you the crime."

This is a standard tactic of authoritarian states: create enough laws such that everyone is guilty of something, and then use selective enforcement of those laws as a mechanism to control the population. Whether or not the USA's promotion of drug laws of this nature qualifies it as an authoritarian state, well, that can be left as an exercise for the reader. The fact that the USA has the world's largest prison population, and that a very significant fraction of that population is there on drug charges, and that wealthy politically connected people rarely get incarcerated on drug charges, are all factors worth considering.

As far as harm caused by fentanyl, if it was legalized and passed out to addicts in the form of transdermal patches in conjunction with addiction treatment and counseling (the original fentanyl formulation for treatment of cancer pain[1]), most of the violent crime associated with fentanyl would vanish. Note also that alcohol itself is far more associated with violence than the opiates are in terms of the direct effects of the substance.

[1] https://www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S0885-3924(97)00361-8/fu...
Lumber prices down 11% YoY
Just to complement what I said above, here's a link to a presentation I made a couple of years ago about performance optimizations in simulation:
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1052654/contributions/4521602/

We also have meetings dedicated to performance, some of which are not public, but this series from ROOT is:
https://indico.cern.ch/category/14122/
If you search above, you will see many discussions about performance. The CI for ROOT also has a set of benchmarks to catch regressions, and Geant4 has two systems to track performance, a CI job checking every merge request, which I've set up myself (not publicly accessible), and a more complex system to track performance run by FNAL:
https://g4cpt.fnal.gov/

These are just some examples from the projects I've worked on. There are also efforts to port stuff to GPUs and HPCs, and many other projects like event generators that are also undergoing performance work for HL-LHC. If you Google you can probably find a lot more stuff than what I already mentioned. Cheers,
> Can’t compare. Apple is way too ahead on that front

What do you mean? The whole point of a comparison is to show what is better in what categories. If one was WAY ahead in performance or price that would be heavily talked about and graphed and compared.

It's an important point that absolutely should be compared.
ctrl+f woke, 21 matches.
“After trying to trap British subsurface vessels” in that headline is substantially misleading.

“After becoming caught in a trap set to catch etc…” is a more accurate description, IMO.
117. 472% of grade school students are unable to readily convert between fractions and percentages.

38.157% of informally provided statistics are made up on the spot under the assumption nobody will actually check.
You broke the site guidelines egregiously in this thread—way over the line at which we ban an account.

Moreover, it looks like you've been primarily using HN for flamewar and ideological battle. That's another line at which we ban accounts, regardless of which ideology they're for.

Moreover, we've had to warn you about breaking the site guidelines multiple times in the past.

Normally I wouldn't ban an account without giving someone another warning first, but the sheer nastiness of how you behaved in this thread is so awful that it actually takes my breath away. You simply can't treat other people like that here, no matter how wrong they are or you feel they are, regardless of how right you are or feel you are.

Therefore, I've banned this account, at least for now. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
That would just depend on a whole host of specifics. Incidentally, the same specifics as for regular statistics as ML is also statistics, and is sensitive to experimental design and sampling just the same.
2.5 is extremely long if you just filled out the exact same information 2.5 minutes ago and 2.5 minutes before that and…
>What exactly is the problem in there?

It's not that someone who is "for" something can't be objective, it's just that there is a strong likelihood that they ~aren't~ being objective. It doesn't mean an advocate doesn't have valuable perspectives, it just means that you should perhaps take them with a grain of salt.
I’m going to butt in and say that yes, I agree with you that Fairphone hasn’t completely succeeded in the goals they have set out. The price is definitely still a problem, but at least they are trying.
Yikes, I immediately thought of exactly the same thing, sending all that data to third parties? no thank you my browser should be my safe space not leaking things itself
> or a bunch of fan blogs talking about Harry Potter?

Doesn’t actually matter here because those fan blogs are also derivative works. I may have read “Call me Ishmael” in a blog, but the quote is from Moby Dick.

ChatGPT can argue for a fair use exception, but combining lots of derivative works can be copyright infringement even if none of the things you directly copied where. IE: If you copy a lot of excerpts from a poem and recreate the poem that doesn’t mean you can now use the poem.

Being able to say Harry Potter isn’t directly in their training data is at best useful to arguing something was unintentional copyright infringement rather than not actually being copyright infringement.

> Blasphemy laws

That’s a criminal not civil issue and there aren’t a huge number of treaties on the subject. If a US company is sued in Australia for copyright infringement they don’t get to move the case to the US.
I suppose it wouldn't be PC to mention immigration.
Your goal is to have enough keywords that the automated tools pass you onto the hiring manager. You can find these in the job description, so make sure all keywords that even somewhat fit are there (don't claim something you don't have! - that might get you an interview but will kill your chance even if otherwise you were fine).

The real goal is when a human reads your resume they decide to call you in for an interview. That human doesn't have time for your whole CV, so even though it might get you to that person, it won't get you an interview: forget about the cold applications to a program, you are just wasting the other person's time if you get past the machine. If you have a job only apply to jobs you have looked into enough to know they are worth accepting an offer if you get one. If you don't have a job you can't be as picky - but you have a lot more time to investigate potential companies and design a resume to get their attention.

So my advice as someone who might read your resume: read the job ad and then modify your resume to make it fit. Don't remove unrelated jobs, but make them a couple lines, while jobs where you did things more inline with what they want get more attention. I only glance at cover letters so I wouldn't recommend you spend much time on them. Note that the above is focused on me - others are different but I can only advise how to get my attention: you get to figure out how/if it generalizes.

Honestly, finding someone worth hiring is hard. I want to know if you can do the job and nothing about the process is very good there.
I was not aware that such a thing existed. I've only ever seen dongles which don't let you charge. So thanks for the info, that's good to know at least.

As to why you'd disconnect - shit happens. Maybe you have an iPhone and the other person using your car has an Android phone, so you each need different dongles. Maybe someone accidentally removed it, who knows? The point is that dongles can, and will, get lost or misplaced so they aren't a good solution.
Oh no! A secret algorithm?!

I really don't mind that I don't know how Amazon's pricing system works. Even if it was public knowledge I doubt it could be adequately explained in a paragraph of a Verge article.

I do mind if they're engaging in monopolistic practices (thankfully the Verge also talked about this).
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Europe has been building houses for thousands of years. How do you think we got so many people? It didn’t solve the problem. It only encourages population growth. Building more roads doesn’t reduce traffic, and building more housing doesn’t reduce the demand for housing. It does hurt the planet and remove a lot of green space, though. Look at India and China.
The "main" cause of crime are laws against victimless, consensual acts. The number of times drug laws are broken every second in this country absolutely dwarfs the number of violent and property crimes being committed.

I'm breaking one right now.
> it turns out no one used them

Can you explain what this means? E.g. Debian very much sticks to LTS kernel versions in their stable releases. Were they not working with upstream, you? If they'd be doing their own maintenance, there's no need for them to stick to LTS versions, but clearly they didn't tell you. Any idea what's going on there?
The study finds a statistically significant correlation but that’s hard to disentangle from all the factors that make it possible for people to work remote or hybrid. It also would be interesting to see how this result varies across number of days spent in the office. My guess would be that seeing coworkers 1-2x a month would get most of whatever social benefits hybrid has if any.
You can pull it from composer here: https://packagist.org/packages/erikthiart/dbease
Grammatical nit in the voiceover: "sit or lie down", not "lay down."
Something you don't want to learn post-graduation: if you don't have the connections to get a job, you simply don't have a prayer.
When I go into the office, I have an extra hour of my day taken from what would typically be my personal time.

When I work from home I can log off and immediately go for a run in the sun, especially important as the winter approaches.

I have a gym I can access at work, but then I'd be on a treadmill staring out the window at a parking lot and the concrete ass of a big box store.

Guess which one I'm picking every time. Its crazy how fast that sun starts falling when you're stuck in traffic.
This is a propaganda fiction written by entertaining sensationalists pretending to be journalists.

Scroll down, you'll find more enertainment.
Zoning codes, building codes, and grandfathering.

Many places have extremely specific rules about building housing. You need 'X' ft around the outside of your house which means lots must be massive to have a house on them. So you require that people need to purchase a large amount of dead space to add character to the home.

We also don't retroactively apply building codes to houses. So you have a house that would cost $500k to replace due to building code, but it doesn't meet code. But you can still sell it for nearly that price because the alternative is the $500k new house. If people were forced to follow building codes in as-built buildings they would be much less likely to press all costs on to other people.
No questions here, just wanted to stand up as another person who still keeps holy the letters I through N.
John Scalzi also has DRM removed from his every book on Google Play Books (and some other ebook platforms supporting this). I always respect him for that.

(And also for someone who is not native in English, I found his book easier to read compare to some other other authors.)
I'm not totally following, but it sounds like you're extrapolating my opinions. Lyft does not have to assert anything they do not have confidence in. Logically, the minimum statement they could make is "we don't know how the cat got out and are investigating."

> Lyft doesn't have the ability to investigate without speculating

They do: If they ask the driver what happened and quote him, or report that he could not be contacted, then they are not speculating.
They are all USB-C as far as the physical interface goes, but their protocol capabilities are different: the rear ones are USB4 (actually full TB4 AFAIU, except Intel refuses to certify AMD systems), the front ones are USB3.2+DP and USB3.2. The fundamental reason seems to be that a “mobile CPU” is more of a SoC, including built-in USB capability, and (unlike the Intels) the AMD ones only do two USB4 ports, which on the Framework are routed to the rear.

This, then, is done through USB4-capable retimers, which turned out to draw noticeable power when a USB-A card with a pulldown is connected and idling; but no better retimers could be substituted. The front USB3.2 ports use different retimers and don’t suffer from this. (Why do the Intel motherboards not have this problem? No idea, but if I had to guess, Intel probably makes the retimers for those and is refusing to let them be used with AMD processors.)
Retired people still pay property taxes on their homes.
From the book “The Winner Sells All” on Project Nessie:

>The focus on matching Walmart on price also created some issues, like when Amazon's pricing tool would repeatedly lower the price on an item to match its competitor, leading to what insiders dubbed a death spiral. Amazon created a specialized team to try to determine how and when to decide that its pricing tool should pull back and no longer match Walmart's lowest price on a given item, but instead match the next-lowest price from a competitor. The initiative was called Project Nessie. In the end, the program was scrapped when it was determined that the tool did not lead to more profitable outcomes.

This sounds like a trends/spike monitoring algorithm that Amazon used to figure out when to give up trying to price match the very lowest competing offer.