skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be a technological issue: standards (GSM, CDMA) and allowed frequencies vary a lot from country to country. The chip in this Apple Watch might be too specific? If it's a purely contractual issue, it should be gone soon (for a fee): too much money to be made from international roaming.
I guess this can't be repeated enough: press the side button 5 times and it'll require a passcode. You can do this as you're handing it to the officer.
Wonder what the liability of that will be?

In WA, it's now illegal (a primary reason for a stop) to use the cellphone when you are in your car, unless you are in a parkinglot, pulled over.

Say with this new feature, you disable it, and you are found to cause an accident while being distracted, are you in more trouble because you knowningly disabled the phones safety features?

Also, I commute by bus everyday, so I will definitely be disabling the "are you sure you're not driving" warning.
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at least he knew the password and wasn't relying on the face recog to get into the phone, that could have been rough
> Yes and no. You're right, a government should provide mainly for its own people. However the stability of the whole world is important for national security and national prosperity.

Again agreed, I think Nixon was the greatest recent president because he opened China and we are all still alive today.

> The main problem is that mass immigration isn't a real solution, Europe and the US/Canada can't support the entire world's population.

Agreed.

> It's because the money isn't generally used as an investment, but rather minimum wage workers from the US/Canada send back money to their families, which merely supplements their income. On a whole the influx of money drives up prices, without contributing much to development.

I'm not sure I see the logic to this. I guess the extra flow of American dollars into the country would make industrial exports more expensive, so perhaps that 1 job in America would cost the developing nation a fraction of a new factory job at home. Not really sure I see the net downside though (from POV of developing nation). Also this sounds like it would cause deflation in the developing nation, not inflation.

> If you look at statistics as well, it's not the countries with the most ex-pats (and I mean as a percentage of population, not in absolute numbers) that are growing the quickest, but rather countries with a stable rule of law which make investment more attractive (and re-investment by those within the country).

Are these two things mutually exclusive and how are they correlated? That's what I was trying to suggest, wondering if expats get to vote.

> The problem is that as capital (and land) gets concentrated in fewer hands, the income earned from capital outpaces the income earned from labour, resulting in lower relative wealth for the labour side of the equation. Thomas Piketty explains this well, and has amassed a seriously impressive set of data to back up all his assertions.

I can't dismiss Piketty's work but his data was all collected in the context of the current economic system, which I think has several flaws that negate overreaching conclusions (IDK if they are his conclusions or media's reporting). Namely the exponential-without-limit monetary inflation of fiat currencies by western governments.
Also land is a fixed resource so the appropriate way to fix this is really simple and well established: property taxes. If technology advances to the point that capital is basically free and labor is basically worthless...it doesn't really matter if the ratio stayed the same, IMO. At that point it will just matter how attractive, funny, creative, and good at sports you are.
Yes, but it's behaviour people have come to expect, and one you should replicate when you're replacing an existing system. I see no reason to break established behaviour of the single de-facto implementation, unless there are significant performance gains to be made. Even then I would rather add an option to turn off the expected behaviour for those who know what they're doing.

SystemD is following a standard, while people are relying on an implementation. One that has been stable for a long time and has become a de-facto standard. Think of e.g. memcpy on BSD - even though the standard says memcpy between overlapped regions is not defined, the implementation does memmove in that case, because that's what people expect to happen. If you're replacing a system that has historically provided guarantees above and beyond those given by a bespoke standard, you should emulate them, or you'll cause users a lot of pain.

SystemD devs have chosen to inflict pain on their users, hence the users are not happy.
How is that any different than them forcing your finger onto a TouchID sensor?
Seems like we need to increase the visibility and prestige associated with disproving published results.

Right now, submitting data that contradicts a published paper is likely to be ignored, treated with hostility, or swept under the rug. At very best, you'll get a small publication of a retraction.

Disproving published results needs to be at least as prestigious as producing novel results.

If we can't swing that - it would be great for graduate student research work...
Let's not forget who to blame for this. Pharmaceutical companies and Doctors.

It's almost certainly not true. This massive susceptibility to addiction is a larger social problem of alienation, lack of community and purpose, not getting a couple of pills from your doctor.

Prohibition worked to some extent and would work tried again but it does not address the root problem.
So did they just tell you guys that you weren't allowed to participate?
I don't know how many of you have read "10% Happier", but it was a bit ahead of the curve with the current mindfulness / stoic fad that's been floating around the Internet.

Toward the end of the book, Harris talks about how being zen is great, but also not terribly effective in the modern world, specifically in the modern workplace. So it's ok to be chill about some things, but there are other things you absolutely can and should get mad about. Otherwise, you're not living your life, you're just being a zombie.
Lisp is one of those languages that, once I learned it (Clojure in my case), I started wondering why every language wasn't more like it. Once you get used to the parentheses and whatnot, it's actually an incredibly beautiful language that gives you the ability to augment the language without waiting for updates via its elegant macro system.
Why do you ever need to plug your iPhone into your mac?
Aside: You are using "resolver" to describe the wrong thing. RFC 1034 employs "resolver" to describe the entire subsystem that user programs use to access what it calls "name servers". It theoretically allows, because it isn't intended to be Unix-centric, systems where all of the query resolution mechanism is potentially in some form of shared subsystem that runs inside each applications program.

Strictly speaking, what you are talking about here, in RFC 1034 terminology, is a "stub resolver", the Unix model where there's a fairly dumb DNS client library running in the applications, talking to an external program that actually does the grunt work of query resolution by making back-end transactions and building up the front-end response from them.

A "resolver" actually very much does "shop around for answers", amongst content DNS servers. There's even a (slightly faulty) description of its shopping around algorithm, in RFC 1034 section 5.3.3.

"resolver" is such a confusing term, and so often used contrary to the RFCs in the way that you have here, that years ago I took to explaining the DNS to people using terminology borrowed from HTTP: proxy servers, content servers, and client libraries linked into applications.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/dns-server-roles.html
> I think it's weird that so many people seem to think that Tesla have made such a significant technology leap ahead of everyone else that they're comfortable with putting their lives in the hands of their Autopilot system while other manufacturers have no such thing available in production.

Don't they, though?

From what I understand, Tesla's "Autopilot" doesn't do much more than lanekeeping, adaptive cruise control, and emergency braking, which you can buy on a wide range of vehicles today. For example, I drive a Honda CRV that does all of this - on the highway it really does drive itself. You don't even have to buy the top trim levels, just one up from the bottom.
It's been years since Apple has started sitting back and raking in the money by letting other players mostly test out technology on smartphones before they adopt.

My only major concern with iPhone X is that I don't think FaceID is actually a valid replacement for TouchID from a usability/convenience perspective – I'll leave security concerns to the experts. There's just too many situations where it will definitely be slower and/or someone next to me wants to use my phone while I'm driving, etc etc
Airpower is exactly that and they said it during the keynote. They promised to work to make some of it a part of the standard eventually. You know how that goes...
> Your face is now your password

no, it isnt. and neither are your fingerprints. none of this publicly available data is a password.

a password is something i can change if it gets compromised. a password is secure from others.

biometric data is a username/id.

why do companies insist on getting this shit backwards?
Having grown up and Oregon and lived in Los Angeles for the past 7 years -- up north it would be "I took I-5 from Seattle to Portland" while in L.A. it would be "I took the 5 from Seattle to Portland." Neither dialect uses just the number on its own.

True for more than just single digit numbers too, e.g. I-205 vs. the 405.
Hard to produce is not the same as hard to reproduce.

Genuinely new results require developing new insights, new techniques or just making new guesses that happen to be right. All are rare enough. But once that is done, the information gets out and the experiments should be easily reproducible.

Some dispciplines get a lot of reproduction as a side effect of using last year's breakthrough research as "mere" technology for implementing next year's expriment. But I guess that sort of thing is less natural pyschology and sociology.
Well said sir!
What's relevant is that this wouldn't have happened with any of the other semi-autonomous systems from other brands because they force the user to be keenly aware.

Had it been the same for all systems then the argument could be made that the current concept in general is flawed in this iteration but because the others demand a lot more driver involvement the problem pivots to being a Tesla problem, not an semi-autonomous driving problem.
Ideas deserve to rise or fall independent of the people who utter them.
Yes, because I don't like slippery phones. Let's wait for the drop tests.
I've been considering making the switch as well, can you comment on a few things for me?

1. "Play album x____" used to work in google uh... assistant? Now? Whatever it's called now. Now it doesn't. I remember it working on my iPhone 3gs waaaaay back. Does it still? How about "next song" and etc?

2. How is Google app integration? Even if I make the switch, I'm not going to be using apple suite of calendars and whatnot, my company uses google suite, and I do not like spotify and will continue to prefer Google Play Music. Do those apps work well? (Calendar, Google Play Music, Inbox)

3. You ever hear of someone with a google voice number successfully using an iphone for SMS? I have to use the Google Voice (good) or Hangouts (shit) app for texting, and I need a data connection to do it. I have my reasons for this, is it possible on an iphone ?
I loved c# 10 years ago but have a few issues with it these days:

* functions not really being first-class citizens
* great collection methods with LINQ, but why did they give them such weird names? (map = select, filter = where, reduce = aggregate?)
* took them a while to come up with a great async model (async/await), so legacy c# asynchronous code can be hard to figure out at first

Just my opinion but it seems like more recent languages like Swift have done a better job implementing ideas from functional programming. It's still light years ahead of Java to me though.
Sure, but that's the choice of people electing anti-government wreckers and crass opportunists, like that guy charging his security detail to stay in his own hotels. It's also the country that went to the moon. Your choice.
For Samsung, nope. You can just open someone's profile picture on Facebook on your phone and show it to their phone and It'll unlock (or not, just like with their actual face).
Tried VSCode. Thought Atom was still a cleaner experience.

Package system doesn't get much better than Atom. I think my code looks better on Atom (still not better than Sublime). I also ran into setup problems with VSCode git support on Linux.
It gains linguistically from using the same script as Turkish and other Turkic languages. These enjoy a considerable degree of mutual intelligibility (similar to, and in some cases closer than, Spanish and Italian, for example), so using a shared alphabet would help.

However, looking at the draft, they did their own thing, instead of taking e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Turkic_Alphabet, or at least using something similar to it. In particular, they decided to use letter combinations instead of diacritics. Their mapping for regular Latin letters is also very different (e.g. U/Y/W).
In the Midwest, it's common to refer to short interstate numbers by the letter "I", as in "Drive I-96 until you get to Detroit" (pronounced as 'eye-ninety-six'). Which kind of solves that problem.
Especially for groups of people who are less likely to be represented in the training data. Someone with the last name "Tillekeratne" for example is Sri Lankan, and Sri Lankans are probably underrepresented in Apple's training data. If you harvested images of Sri Lankans online you would probably need less than a million to get a false positive.
> Regardless of marketing pitch, resolver is no job for systemd. Or any other init/pid 1 process.

Correct, which is why it's not part of /bin/systemd or any other init/pid 1 process.
I grew up in a time when "Magnets + Screens = NO! BAD!" Is this not the case anymore? Like, I get freaked out when my girlfriend attaches her magnetized Surface Pro pen to her SP4. Even the macbook magnetized chargers freak me out. Is this just poorly learned behavior that's no longer relevant?
It's called buying low and selling high :D You can buy a few hundred dollars worth of BTC and see what happens if that's not a huge risk for you.
Perhaps an open-access Disprove Journal?
I agree that soft sciences are much more likely to be seriously flawed.

That said, working technology absolutely is experimental validation of the underlying science on which it is based (if any).
I'm bothered by the move to TouchID and now FaceID from a "the government can make you unlock your phone" standpoint. Legally, the precedent is that the government can force you to use "something you are" like your face or fingerprint to unlock your phone. Currently there is at least some ambiguity to the precedents that say they can't require you to unlock your phone with "something you know" like a pin or password because of that could be construed as self-incrimination and forbidden by the bill of rights.

If you're worried about law enforcement requiring you to unlock your phone DO NOT USE TOUCHID OR FACEID.
> When you use a service with good search that just works, chances are that there's been a lot of engineer hours devoted to identifying exactly which signals are most useful in your corpus

I imagine at a place like Google, your "corpus" is just about everything under the sun, as are your queries. (i.e. less chance for a subject-specific tuning)

What happens then?
Can anyone recommend a standalone camera that's as easy to use and takes photos as good as an iPhone 7 plus? Camera is now the only reason for me to have a phone rather than a watch. Difficulty: I really like live photos and expect future-me to be super happy with present-me for taking so many live photos of my kids.
The phone is definitely 2017. But I would like to condemn those who say its futuristic. Whats so futuristic about it?! is it foldable? Is it wearable? Does it generate holographic images, Does it at least project to wall for larger display? Does the battery lasts a week? They could have placed a touchID on the back(well, may be next iPhone). You might say, I am asking way too much in 2017. Yes I am! Thats why its not futuristic.
We have 3-4 people that take care of that and that works with closing. But sales is not their primary role.
That's not always how it was though. Lastpass used to hand out all your data to pretty much any website that asked nicely[0].

I imagine password managers on mobile devices will have their own teething problems. I will just be patient and wait for them to mature

0. https://labs.detectify.com/2016/07/27/how-i-made-lastpass-gi...
On phones, their FIRST copy/paste version worked between apps, worked with pictures as well as text, etc.
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On what authority does the author of this site tell me what things mean in my own native language?
Windows Hello was one of the first things I disabled on my surface. When I was working with someone, it annoyed the shit out of me to have to turn the laptop real quick to log back in, etc. Sometimes I just wanna activate it without looking, and it had to "wait" a couple seconds to realize I wasn't looking and wanted to just spend .3 microseconds to throw my PIN in.

Much easier to just 100% of the time splat out 4 numbers.
That’s a bad sign, usually good sunglasses also block IR and UV light, as the eye only closes the iris based on visible light, but can still be damaged by too much exposure in IR or UV bands.
I agree; the cutout steals my attention each time I see it since it's so stark when the background isn't black. I would have rather it just have a small forehead.
Perhaps the UX needs to be felt in person but it feels like a way worse UX than before. It seems Apple is losing sight of the question which IMO should define the choices we make when it comes to technology. Does it make peoples lives better? I don't see how this phone does. It feels like apple made something for the purpose of making people want it. It's un-apple like.
I think they'll be supporting older devices with iOS updates even longer going forward. The 32 vs 64-bit CPU was the line in the sand this year. And the iPhone SE has the same CPU as the 6 but is still considered a current model.
Typically I am the first to pile on systemd - but this one is silly.

There is absolutely no guarantee that dns resolvers will be queried in order. The implementations of this vary drastically - some implementations make the request to all dns resolvers configured and simply use the response that comes back the fastest.

The implemented a hack that seemed to "work" but made poor assumptions as to why. This is not the correct way to implement split horizon DNS.
I don't actually know the answer to your question. My experience with image stacking is daytime landscape photography. I've found that stacking can greatly improve the shadow detail. The ETTR technique gives nice blue skies, and restrains other highlights, but naturally, with shorter exposure times, the darker portions of the scene get less exposure than they would if you allowed the skies to blow out.

I'm only guessing, but there must be a minimum time for the exposure. Stacking won't change that. My assumption (and I'm not a statistician) is that the noise floor moves lower with stacking. Taking multiple images and stacking them is basically taking multiple samples. The random (Poisson shot noise) is averaged out across multiple images while the signal (the star) is a constant across the images.

As you can see from the linked article, there's an amazing amount of detail that can be recovered from the shadows if you know how to get to it. In a dark sky environment, you'd be limited to the camera's sensitivity (the analog gain applied using the ISO setting), but in the city environment, almost certainly the sky light is the limiting factor.

I have not experimented with custom cooling. Aside from some moon photos and photos of the recent partial (in my area) solar eclipse, I'll leave astrophotography to others.
Yet we're posting in a thread relating to a massive replication crisis.

The geocentric model of the universe was equally obvious and functional to our ancestors in the context in which they used it. We are the same creatures as them and are subject to the same basic epistemological limitations -- just because we have seen further does not mean that we have seen everything. The whole concept of science is exactly to that point. It is implausible under currently available information that we could be missing some fact that would fundamentally change our understanding, but that is not the same thing as saying that there is no possible fact that could cause such a rupture.
you're shouting "what the holy fuck" in a starbucks becauseIOS didn't black out the screen near the notch.

You earned those looks.
And a big SoC difference.
Front load your jumping jacks, do 200 jumping jacks before driving to Costco.

Or just park in the way way back.
You mean like Peter Sellers?

http://cinetropolis.net/the-many-faces-of-peter-sellers-part...
I always feel like around the 2 year mark my phone feels very different compared to when I bought it. Battery feels worse, everything feels slower, and crashes start to accumulate. Are you not running into this?
I would not be entirely surprised if Apple sees smartwatches has having the potential to kill smartphones down the road. Siri will need a lot of improvements, but in 3 to 5 years I think we will be at a place where people start to switch.
I built a number of robots that use infrared distance sensors for object detection and collision avoidance. Sadly the stereo cabinet I had made myself and painted flat black appeared invisible to them. Several robots ran into the cabinet at full speed :-(. The mitigation was to add another sensor (ultrasonic) which was better at seeing solid surfaces (but same problem as the bats for off angle approach).
I always wonder what would happen if caffeine/caffeine containing products (coffee, tea etc.) were illegal. Would people go to the same extremes for a caffeine fix?
Lisps have properties that are not so common in other languages:

- Homoiconicity: Code and data are the same (s-expressions)

- Lisp code is basically the AST in itself

- It's trivial to implement lisp in lisp (eval)

- Continuations (call/cc)

- Macros

- etc...

It's a truly fascinating language.
I never really did any Lisp coding outside some university projects and I still obsess and read about Scheme all the time.
But Kazakh is not in any way, shape or form related to Arabic. Nor is there widespread knowledge of how to write Arabic among the population.
The only thing I'm interested in with this new Watch, is the heart study. I'm VERY interested if they have this monitoring mastered without the chest strap. Super useful for me.
"Turn left on the road before the house with the bright yellow door, and then drive about 5 minutes and it's the second house on the left".

Oh how I hate those directions. "Ok, there's a house with a yellow-ish door, but it's kind of a dull yellow. Is that the one? Should I turn here or keep going?"
you're bending the word propaganda to the breaking point.
HN: What is it with the BuildZoom story?
I keep seeing a story "Buildzoom AI for the Construction industry" but with no link for comments. Is this some sort of ad?
The 7 touchid is much, much better than previous versions. Near instant