skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple specifically avoids building solutions which put them in the position of being able to do lawful intercepts. I am convinced it is an explicit checkbox in their development process now.

If you’ve built the solution for commercial purposes you obviously don’t have any real moral concerns that can allow you to refuse a lawful request, while “build us a backdoor to unlock this iPhone” or “build us a backdoor to disable advanced data protection mode/e2ee mode” would be compelled speech.

The things they have complied on are fairly minor stuff like making airdrop not work with non-friends for more than 10 minutes at a time.

There are obvious privacy problems with streaming every user interaction to the cloud, which is why they’ve already avoided this for things like photo tagging etc. Maybe you could do anonymized inference similar to the way maps work (let’s say, apple hosts a session for an anonymized user identifier but they don’t know who) but it’s still very intimate information regardless.

On device really is better… not to mention the power concerns. Like I just do not get these objections at all, other than whining because it’s apple, and I think the same people would be whining 100x harder (with good justification) if apple was really steaming every user interaction to the cloud. We’d be hearing about the sham of apple marketing on privacy while sending your sexts to the cloud etc.

same thing for the whining about copilot. Like yeah if it’s on-device it ultimately is going to be a file on disk somewhere (omg SQLite, we hate that!!!). The whole disk is protected by bitlocker, and the file is additionally restricted tightly to the system user (not just admin, the kernel privileged user). The file has to be open during normal operation, so “double encrypting” the file an additional time and then storing the encryption key inside the PC is security theater, because the file has to be opened anyway, and everyone knows this and would immediately spout off if anyone did it in any other circumstance. Yes, if you force your way to system user you can read the file, because the system user needs to read it, but at that point the system user can also just keylog you and screenshot you directly.

The complaints people are raising aren’t technically cogent, but they don’t need to be, because they’re not technically based in the first place. People don’t want the feature and they find reasons to complain. You can 10x it anytime apple is involved.
There has to be some alternative besides "elect Donald Trump" (who will only accelerate inflation and the growth of inequality), and "everything is peachy, even though real wages have stagnated, asset prices are to the moon, and it's not unusual for 40% of workers' take-home to go to rent". That is what Bernie represented. Still does.
How hard would that be to extend that to include PKCS#11?
The GDP measurements include rents. The US happens to have a massive financial operation at its core. It is not necessarily a measure of productive capability.
If it's any consolation, the Luma website is so laggy and poorly-designed that I don't think I could recommend their service simply as a matter of principle. The Pollinations site is much more static and doesn't have any distracting or finicky on-scroll effects, which at least makes it enjoyable to read.
Sounds like they outsourced the inspection too.
Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Website: https://taiwodamilare.framer.website/

Technologies: Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, Framer, Marvel, Proto.io, Principle, Webflow, Canva, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), HTML/CSS

CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YgZU_jb5uxBLAkaoL1xi6TjjAt9...

Email: taiwodamilare14@gmail.com

I am a Product Designer and UX/UI Designer with over 5 years of experience. I have worked in health tech, fintech, crypto, logistics, music, and social media industries. I use user insights and research to create easy-to-use interfaces. I pay attention to detail and love making visually appealing designs. I am open to remote work and willing to relocate.
Sorry, it's a mistranslation, I translated 'libraire' by librarian. I meant bookstore teller (I think). And yes, the average age at the bookstore actually came down a lot imho.
>"There is no “international law”. It’s just some term western politicians made to give them legitimacy."

Indeed all law is just some terms made up by politicians. Yet it is given power by those who enter into contracts willingly to abide by them, as you do when transacting business with the west. They knew the rules, and decided that deliberately breaking them was worth the consequences. We will see if that pans out for them.
This is the result of a decades-long campaign of branding. "Democrats - socialist commie perverts who are bad for national security and the economy".

The convicted felon can schtoop a pornstar while signing an executive order exiting NATO and promising to build gulags for his enemies, it doesn't matter. All that matters is the perception, and perception is all about marketing.
Genius for technical presentations.

I must admit, though, I’m always turned off when entertainment mediums do this (fiction novels, TV Shows, etc.). If the action sequence doesn’t need any background info to make sense, I argue you can just skip the background info altogether. Don’t ramp the pace up and then drop it back down to nothing so quickly.
> but that doesn't undermine the legitimacy of the need for safety.

I think even using the word "safety" over and over like you're doing is part of the problem. Find a new word, because we've spend 200 years in this country establishing that the written word is sacrosanct and not to be censored. All of a sudden, ASCII text just became "dangerous" in the last year. I simply refused to accept that any written text (regardless of who wrote it) needs to be censored. The written is just the embodiment of a thought, or notion - and we cannot go around tricking people into thinking that "thoughts" need to be regulated and that there are certain thoughts that are "dangerous". This is a toxic 1984 mindset.
I mean surely you don't require that many "specialists" to address all those concerns. It's like saying I need a chef to salads, another to make condiments, one to work the grill, etc.
I gave a talk at PyCon a few weeks ago where I was really struggling to fit my content into the time slot.

I ended up editing out the first couple of minutes of the talk - the bit where I ramped up to the topic, gave a little bit of background about why I was qualified to talk about it, that kind of thing.

Instead I launched straight into my first point (which included a good joke)... and it worked.

A lesson I learned is that if the topic is interesting enough you can skip the intro and jump straight in to that material, and if you combine that with a joke you can capture the audience's attention just fine.
> Russia is doing quite well getting around the dollar. Others are following their lead.

"Quite well" is debatable. There's large amounts of overhead and complexity involved and Russian energy is being sold at a huge discount.

> Also, rule of law in the U.S. just isn't what it used to be. Many other countries have seen what the U.S. has done with Russian money kept in Western banks.

Seizing money isn't against the rule of law - that would be like saying a country doesn't have freedom because criminals can be locked up. There's due process and some sanctioned Russian Oligarchs have gotten removed against the US government's wishes because of that - same in Europe.
DEI?
That doesn’t mean they’d have ceased to exist.

Likely shareholder equity would be wiped out and they’d reorganize. Isn’t the whole deal that investors get the upsides for taking the risks on the down?
I agree with you in abstract, but uMatrix solved this problem for me.

Also, it's funny how people often say "the stupid cookie banners are there because of GDPR", but actually GDPR requires that the Reject button be as large and as easy to click as the Accept button, and somehow most companies do not care about this part.

(Also, GDPR does not require a cookie banner when your website does not place cookies. Seriously, why do you need them for the users who are not going to log in?)
No attempts at generalization to larger numbers of digits?
Not only that, almost all RSS feeds only feed you a crumb of content and expect you to load in their page for the full meal, which basically nullifies most of the benefit of centralizing your feeds in a single app / tab.

I understand why though: very very few people will directly pay for content, and inlining ads can’t track the engagement with said ads.
Europe decided to value workers rights' and quality of life over the ownership class' demands of efficiency.

This is an unpopular take that will probably give me a few downd00ts but the reasoning is obvious to anyone that knows how executives think.

Businesses are like water, they will go the path of least resistance to make a buck up to and including going to low labor rights locales.
The membrane's evolutionary justification might be to force pollinators deeper into the flower, guaranteeing that it touches both the pollen and the stigma. It's a relatively common adaptation in flowers.
> In our most successful projects we are able to reach 95% accuracy

Is this the 95% of issues that are common between customers that could be and are handled at scale with a FAQ/knowledgebase that is surfaced to a user automatically through prompts?

How does it actually do on the smaller percentage of questions that are complex?

And that 95% is on the most successful projects. But what does the distribution of accuracy look like across all projects? If 2 projects out of 1000 are 95% accuracy that doesn't mean much to me.
> It's rare that your data analysis will just be one-liners, it'll be some mess of steps and you want to go edit one in the middle (but not re-run the whole script.

And that's why I use elpy to execute codeblocks marked by comments in IPython. VSCode supports this workflow out of the box (but you don't get the matplotlib windows out of the box ;)) - although it is very, very liberal in using screenspace...

> One big thing that any replacement will need is the easy ability for the code to actually be running on a remote machine

VSCode remote (proprietary sadly). Also tramp + SSH-X-forwarding likely beats whatever ergonomics jupyterlab offers.
Yes exactly that's why I went back right away to edit - if the whole screen is white but one pixel is off and you can spot it, then my logic holds.
The onus is on you.
And the sync is locked behind their offering, if you use other software to handle the sync, you're out of luck if you want the data to be available on mobile since you can't dynamically choose the location of the vault.

It's still miles ahead of other offerings when it comes to having the data be "open", but I found this limitation frustrating.
A Bicycle Could Never Carry
We allow early-exercise too but I (possibly, incorrectly) assumed that this was the standard for newly incorporated startups - at least within the last 2-3 years it has become significantly more common.

"secondary sales restricted only by a short right-of-first-refusal period"

I really like this as well, I've always found it confusing when private companies are anti-secondary for former employees especially. I'll look into adding something like this to our stock plan, ROFR protects against any hostile take over weirdness and I'm confident we could add something like this to make it relatively easy to sell on secondary under a certain % threshold.
Power Saver [box] Scam [explained] [video]
"The most common class of 'less suitable' problems is characterised by performance being a prime requirement and constant-factors having a large effect on performance."

FAQ 1.4 What sort of problems is Erlang not particularly suitable for?

https://www.erlang.org/faq/introduction#idm53
In that case, is the "first slide" even that important?
Get a sleep study done. Lofta will ship you an at-home test. Sleep apnea will leave you feeling unrefreshed no matter how much sleep you get, and it will only get worse without a CPAP or other aid.
+1

Getting out of caffeine is the most important.

Regular exercise, daily walk in a forrest, good sex and right diet also helps but it’s the caffeine that keeps you anxious and tired. You should be getting 7-9 hours of deep, regenerative sleep on most days….

Trazadone is a good sleep medication. It basically lowers your anxiety and helps you fall asleep. But it should be taken with minimal dose (like 1/3 of a pill) when you really can’t fall asleep. milk with glycine also helps fall asleep…
Change how we elect presidents so it's some sort of ranked-choice mechanism and then we have more than two choices.
Can it be any politician and Felon? I'd still elect my dog though. Tuna wouldn't put up with any of this crap.
You don't get satisfaction from reading merchant transaction coding? #favaBeancountLife
"men still are men and not the keys of a piano, which the laws of nature threaten to control so completely that soon one will be able to desire nothing but" - Fyodor Dostoevsky
I agree - but where we are with LLM is even worse than your hypothetical knife. The knife is a real object - what we're talking about is the censorship of thoughts and ideas. What else is the written word but that? How did a society that was established on free-speech just decided that the written word was so dangerous all of a sudden? How manipulative is it to even use the word "danger" with respect to text. The distain one must have for free-speech to even think that danger enters into the equation.
Well if he is responsible for Tesla's market cap, which even now is crazy high for a car company, then why not?
Even NYT admits that 'the world' is literally with Russia.

That's very clearly not what the article says. Its key themes are that the world is "fragmented" and "ambivalent", and that Western sanctions haven't helped as much as hoped. At no point does it paint a picture of a world that is plainly "with Russia". In fact the article's most telling chart (the one that aligns abstaining UN votes with population) speaks directly against this assertion you're making.

Your establishment has gone from "Ukraine will get to Moscow in 3 months"

This is simply nonsense; absolutely no one has said anything about Ukraine getting to Moscow.

to "Ukraine doesn't need its territory to win"

That's the view of that one opinion piece. It's definitely not the consensus view of the political leadership in countries supporting Ukraine.

You people are delusional and speak delirious.

You are clearly misinformed about a lot of things -- and even when an NYT article is right in front of you, you can't seem to read its main points correctly.

Whether that means you are delusional or speak delirious -- is up to you, man.
In 1981 my sister was just out of college and worked on the PC as her first job. She said the loss of Estridge was devastating, and IBM changed some of their policies around executives traveling together because of it.
It's not it for you, but it sounds like you are more of an edge case. I think it is true for a lot of people.

I don't see any activity myself, I don't use Twitter any more. I had an addiction which peaked with the UK 2019 election and I had to quit after that. It's an awful drug which gives no high and terrible side effects.
Only on the same filesystem
Ha! Yeah, he’s not wrong. But you do need to keep in mind that his main audience is 18 year old boys with tons of T running through their veins. Us old guys need to make adjustments to his plans.
The "lets get a huge tax break done" was absolutely his goal and plan and part of his election campaign, I didn't say anything partisan, simply stating that trump was absolutely part of the problem.

You wont find me defending any president :)
The problem with focus groups is 1) people say they want different things than they actually do, and 2) it's rarely representative, you'd need thousands of people. Then, once scaled, you lose details because it has to be more survey-like. Add in the leadership team's "vision" and you have a recipe for only making products for e.g. white men and ignoring the black woman haircare market.

It all has a place - but actual real data is probably the best way to figure out product market fit in my experience.
In the UK, the loss of subsidised childcare and tax free allowances creates an effective marginal tax rate of over 100% for a parent earning £100,000-£125,000.
I appreciate your appreciating my targeted metaphor. <3
>The US pumps up its economy with the IRA

Europe has its own equivalent of the IRA in the form of the European Green Deal, that should be doing something.
Shame and fucked up, although everyone is doing it. The Canadian government is currently having a big kerfuffle about foreign influence (1) and seems like the USA conveniently blames all domestic political strife on such interference. The obvious ethics of this aside, it's a good reminder that anything geopolitical is an active propaganda war these days. I notice it less on HN but honestly can't even read Reddit anymore there days because of this re: other current events.

1 https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/foreign-interference-trudea...
Productivity isn't life's purpose. Life gets a lot better when one realizes that.
I use Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst in my day to day. Slightly different management philosophy but one that works well for me.
> most notably LINQ

That's the culprit and most libraries use the hell out of it. I mean it's a widely touted feature of C#, it makes sense to use it.

Which is a problem once it becomes one of your dependencies and starts hogging your memory.

What to do to offending library:

A) Rewrite it?
B) Work around it?
C) Cry?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._R._Kaprekar

A similar constant for 3 digits is 495.[7] However, in base 10 a single such constant only exists for numbers of 3 or 4 digits; for other digit lengths or bases other than 10, the Kaprekar's routine algorithm described above may in general terminate in multiple different constants or repeated cycles, depending on the starting value
P.S. "Financial quant" FTW!
I went down the rabbit hole of pretending to be Taiwanese citizen preparing for an invasion and asking for support to defend the country by means of materials science and technology.

The safety system in place prevented it from answering a lot of questions around defense.

I thought it was an interesting example of a safety system causing societal collapse for a sci fi soon to be reality.
One of the major benefits of being a American is that even though our politicians are garbage and the science of central banking in the USA is to economics what mercury pills and blood letting is to medical science... Everybody else has at least slightly more incompetent leaders and policies.

Take the dollar, for instance. One of the major reasons it is still dominance reserve currency is because major contracts in other countries often peg the value of the contract to the dollar rather then local currency. Even if the contracts have nothing to do with international trade or USA. The reason for this is because the local currencies are far more likely to fluctuate in value thus putting long term projects at financial risk.

This sort of thing isn't so much because central bankers in USA are brilliant, but more to do with that central bankers in other countries are far stupider.

Since the 1970s the USA financial policy is one of exporting debt in exchange for importing goods. Bizzarely the rest of the world has allowed this to work. The upside is that this allows Americans to benefit from making foreign goods much cheaper for essentially nothing. The downside is that it has made industry in the USA much more unprofitable and thus annihilating it.

But it continues to work. China continues to use financial manipulation and central control of the economy to produce massive amounts of goods at a great loss to the wealth and well being of the Chinese people, which keeps the USA economy afloat. EU is obsessed with protectionist policies and using their economy to project "soft power" in a bid to maintain some semblance of European Empire-era policy controls over its former colonies... which makes it even less competitive then USA industry. So much so that it is fairly likely that in 50 years people will be trying to go from Europe to Africa to get jobs.

This isn't what winning looks like. The reason why USA seems like a powerhouse economy compared to EU is because its leaders don't fail as badly.
I work on a platform team at a SaaS company, and one of our core drivers is holistic application performance. However we’ve heard everything from “it’s fast enough” to point to what I would consider “wrong-headed” react docs to push back against suggestions on increasing performance. The one that really gets me though is that they’ll “do another pass, but have to get this out now.” Of course that second pass never actually materializes.

Right now, it takes almost a full second for our TTFB.
The noises... the noises!

Which are actually voice lines of people in torment played in reverse.
Probably Airbus single most important supplier is CFM who is making most of their engines. CFM is a JV of Safran and General electric. How do you insource that?
News stories do this a lot, particularly sports or politics. But I suppose they lead with the most important part of the story so there's a reason for it.
Lyra goes against the design goals of MLow though, by using machine learning techniques, and thus possibly not running on the devices that Meta is targeting with MLow.

Google claims SoundStream can run on low-end devices, though, so indeed I would like Meta to show that it still doesn't work well enough for their usecase. Specifically, I would like to know if it's possible to get SoundStream running in very old Android versions in low end devices, before a lot of APIs related to NNs in Android came around.
Congrats! :)

BTW, instead of max(min()) when I wrote mine I used this equality: V'(s) = 1 - V(swap_players(s)), where swap_players(s) switches X and O pieces. And I only need to do max(). Don't know if that would make your program simpler.
But even now the LLMs absolutely have limited problem solving capability.

For example, yesterday I asked GPT-4o to write multiple alternate endings to the short story "The Last Equation". They weren't dramatically compelling, but they were logical and functional.

How is that not problem solving? And so help me, before anyone tells me it's just stringing together the next most likely tokens - I don't care. Clearly that is at least a primitive form of intelligence. Actually it's not even apparent to me that that isn't exactly what human intelligence is doing...
Zoom has had it for ages, it's called the waiting room.
When I present, I just go through the introductory stuff at lightspeed. Who am I? Why am I here? What do I do? What is the history of this topic? Why should you care? All that takes about 30 seconds. If you aren't talking like Ben Shapiro for this bit, you're talking too slow.
I dearly hope it becomes a movie.

It reminded me of Naval Ravikant idea, except Ravikant was talking about money and Chiang wasn't:

"In 1,000 parallel universes, you want to be wealthy in 999 of them. You don’t want to be wealthy in the 50 of them where you got lucky. We want to factor luck out of it." (https://nav.al/rich)