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“Everything being subsumed by TensorFlow” doesn’t seem to me like a particularly worrisome outcome. The status quo is “everything being a Python library,” and people generally seem to view that as positive. The PyData movement brought another level of interoperability to the ecosystem, so you can combine elements from Pandas, SciPy, sklearn, etc with good runtime performance and low cognitive load. Bringing everything into TensorFlow abstractions makes more optimizations possible (especially on heterogeneous architectures), and perhaps even more importantly, makes it easy to run end-to-end gradient descent on compositions of parts from across the ecosystem.
> The UI informs the user directly that they're disconnecting from a network.

I'm honestly confused... Do you really believe that most users have distinct concepts in their mental model for "wifi off" and "disconnected from a network"? They look at the button, it's not blue anymore, it's off. Then later they think... "Wait how did this randomly turn on again?" I believe this will be the experience even of the majority of tech savvy users, let alone typical ones.
Those vending machines look so /comfy/. :)
FriendlyData already made this: https://friendlydata.io/
Every vertical has its outliers. Wonder if Clooney ever saw all those tech billionaires from the 90s and thought to himself “and I did general hospital for this!?!”
Xcode is just an app (minus some bits shared with iTunes). What problems are you having updating it?
They probably made this exception because unlike the pencil or watch, this is something that “takes control” of a system component (your audio output). It likely made more sense to disconnect them in this case.
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I enjoyed this one: https://practicaltypography.com/
The monospace font ligatures turn 2 characters into a double-wide single character, so you can still align to your heart's content!
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Besides fancy programming fonts (which I have mixed feelings about), ligatures and other complex text shaping features can also be necessary for legibly rendering string literals in some non-Latin scripts, like Arabic script. Even if your code is all in Latin letters, you might have test data, UI text, etc., that's in something else.
I'm definitely in group 2. Possibly in group 3 if that's a thing.
Much of the voting system is an exercise of trust. The most reliable part of it, besides the fact that election officers are publicly known and accountable, is that officers from both parties oversee each voting center. Your trust is that the adversarial nature of the political parties will raise alarms if the ballots are tampered with.
Fair enough. It was just an idle thought.
It’s possible, depending on your carrier, that it uses Wi-Fi for calls, but doubt that’s what he meant. Either way, in your specific use case, I agree, turning off Wi-Fi would save power, I just don’t believe it’s 2x difference though.
If you can bootstrap yourself into being George Clooney you too can sell water with additives to people for megabux.

Or perhaps there's so much loose capital sitting around with no purpose that it's just driving up valuations of companies to ridiculous levels because then folks would just be dumping fake money into questionably valued ventures.

"But you guys make toast, on-demand, in only one city."

"Exactly, toast on-demand!"
Are you actually sure it affects battery life that much?

I'm a bit dubious about this - in fact, turning off WiFi would actually harm battery life, surely, compared to LTE?
> At this point I’m not sure there’s a need for normal users to actually turn off Wi-Fi.

Battery life, esp. if the battery is low and you need to ensure you'll be able to use it until you can get to a charger.
What non-fringe authorities or publications are claiming that the election was hacked?
Thanks! I'll be doing this soon too then. Most of my apps don't rely on too many obscure packages and / or really large scientific computing packages, so I doubt I'll run into many problems either.
I'm going to go against most advice here. Go for the job.

I've been in your position. I moved to the USA from Australia to work my dream job. While there I met the girl I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with. She decided to move to the UK. I dropped everything to follow her.

I lived in a city that I did not find interesting.

I worked a job just for the money (you can imagine how quickly I burnt out).

I was surrounded by people every day that I couldn't connect with.

Over a year later and now I'm finally getting back to what I want to do with my life. We're not on this earth for long mate, make the most of your time.
I just looked it up and found the official page on Wifi calling[1], but yeah, that option isn't there on my phone.

[1]https://support.apple.com/en-nz/HT203032
No, the scope will be a few aggregators, news websites, blogs, twitter, and a few others.
I recall the incredible hype on Slashdot surrounding the release of Phantom Menace. Lucasfilm released few details and Slashdot seized on every little thing leading up to the release.

I worked at the New York Times then (just a web programmer) and lucked into an advance screening two weeks before the film's release. I came right back to the office and wrote a review (in plain text!) and submitted it to Slashdot but it never got posted.

Rob, if I spoiled the film for ya, sorry about that! It seemed in the last two weeks before Phantom Menace was finally released you were a lot less enthusiastic, and I wondered if my early review put a damper on it.

I grepped my ISP account and found the original file:

http://www.panix.com/~swain/review.txt
> The problem underlying identity theft is not the existence of social security numbers, but rather, how little authentication is done for a person requesting credit.

> Why don't they do [stronger authentication] for credit card requests? At a guess, it's because these stronger schemes are too inconvenient, and will drive away consumers who are trying to apply for credit.

> If that guess is correct, it suggests that the real solution is regulatory: make credit providers liable for the full damages, including ongoing inconvenience, suffered by victims of identity theft. SSNs are not the problem; authentication commensurate with the risk to all parties, including especially individuals, is.

Doesn't sound that hard to me...
Scandal is probably a bit sensationalist. It's doing what every other bit of modern software does and sending off telemetry - is that really scandalous? It even has a fairly easy to find "don't analyse me" button.

Besides, installing this browser on a smartphone for the purpose of regaining some privacy is like ordering the biggest meal McDonalds sells, but with a Diet Coke because you're "watching your weight" - pretty pointless.
This use case should be solved by enabling the “Wi-Fi Assist” feature (which I believe is on by default) or avoided in the first place by turning off “Auto Join” for these networks - then you don’t even need to toggle WiFi.

In the same vain I regularly visit shopping malls. If I go in the week the WiFi usually works no issue, but at weekends when they are busy it can be very slow, so I usually turn off WiFi. With this feature I can still get location accuracy without using GPS (which saves battery) and don’t need to remember to turn it on when I’m home.

I don’t think there is anything wrong with the feature, but more the UI and feedback surrounding it. Someone else suggested pressing the button shows a pop up asking if you want to disconnect from the network, or turn off WiFi completely.
The communication isn't great, but the "off-ish" setting is visually distinct from the true off setting (the latter showing a struck-through icon.)
"Hopefully not a trend of everything being subsumed by Tensorflow."

Why?
“Tutorial: Blockchains and Databases” at the 43rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) in Munich on 29 August 2017:
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Compare that with creating a table right from csv file (using fdw) in postgres without importing data. Very neat
Awesome! Played Airport Tycoon a bunch as a kid, just need to see if it has the distorted PA sound effects too, haha
If by LTE you mean mobile data, I have that off too as I don't have a data plan. I can say the battery definitely runs down a lot faster with WiFi on but I don't have specific hard stats to back that up.
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They certainly may be more popular. I feel that the sublime ecosystem is superior personally. I personally also prefer the Sublime API over Atoms or VSCodes
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Correct, but that is still in line with it being an appropriate use of language.

In Iran Ayatollah Khamenei has the unofficial title of "Supreme Leader". This is a very specific title within Iran, and has a specific ideological connotation. And yet it is also a perfectly normal and accurate use of the word "Leader".
Don't they all? Not criticizing the article, just the title.
I believe when they changed the behaviour from turning off WiFi to disconnecting from WiFi, they added the text "Disconnected from networkname". But I don't entirely disagree they should communicate the change better
That's interesting. I've come to the opposite conclusion.

I'm curious about your story, care to share it?
Exactly. The average iPhone user is oblivious to the change.
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You may have just discovered how prolific Apple fanboyism is on HN. If Google did this it'd be a much bigger deal on HN and people would be pointing out how this is why they use Apple products.

All smartphones are a privacy/security shit show, Apple is no exception.
I'd think "experiencing failure" is only a problem if a parent persistently tries to push something inappropriate. Otherwise it is just part of life and of growing up.

The (minor) failure is still a learning experience, just a moral rather than mathematical one.
> there's no one there to build them because there's no food or water.

Surely there are still 3.4 million Puerto Ricans on the island?

Are they all starving and without water?

Might you possibly be exaggerating?
This is Vice, everything is hard for them. Hey cover interesting stories with glorious incompetence, the Dunning-Kruger daily...
> And we work hard on algorithms?

There are mathematicians (and scientists) who work harder than most programmers and are poorer than most programmers.
I used desktop Linux for 10 years, and finally I switched to Windows in 2015 because I was tired of "a simple google search and spend five minutes fixing their machine".

At a certain point, you want things to just work out of the box. You want to outsource the mental effort and time required to "just search and fix".
Eh, compared to the “shit show” I just witnessed in the supposed “dark UI” around the new control center toggles, I’m inclined to believe that both sides get their side of crap.
I can only speak for me as someone who really loves the aesthetics of code, but there's something super enjoyable about things like arrow functions rendering as actual arrows in Java / JavaScript. It's so clean!
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I saw some tractors delivering stuff to some of the huts and vending machines. There are also some police and ambulance services available. That was about 9 years ago.

The mountain is only officially open for a short time each year. I think most of the employees at the huts and other facilities are college students taking summer jobs.
No, I forgot JWZ did that. Sigh.
It's more than a hidden feature though. Pressing the wifi button (where you would normally expect it to turn the radio off) literally brings up a text saying "Disconnected from {SSID}"
A couple of assumptions here. The first is that our solar system has habital planets from their perspective, I wouldn't completely rule out that there chemistry could be very different to ours. The second is that they need habitable planets. The idea of living in under ground tunnels isn't palatable to us because we evolved in wide open savanahs, an underground, underwater or nocturnal species might not feel the same.
Can you show me the use case for turning it ack on at 5 in the morning every 24 hours even though you have not changed location? Until then you have nothing, in defense of something that shouldn't be defended. Would it kill you to say "yeah, Apple should make it more obvious" and move on? What's with the kool-aid?
This story, by chance https://slashdot.org/story/06/02/21/162204/nyt-on-paul-graha... ?
""More people may know more about dogs than ever before, but it is often a shallow sort of knowledge that is easily exploited by self-styled dog experts for personal gain,""

Whenever you start seeing somewhat obscure or at least not quite mainstream knowledge take flight in infomercials or get celeb endorsement you know there is snake oil selling going on.

But I'm intrigued. Sounds like a solid book.
Yeah this is a bit of a weird feature. I understand it’s a kind of mental barrier to prevent you using your phone while driving, but it’s weird you can’t keep it on and still use your phone - especially when you aren’t moving as you say.
You may have already done this and if so ignore my advice. :)

Get her to sit down with you and have her just say everything on her mind. Don't interject with solutions or if anything she says is incorrect. Just listen.

Once she's completely expressed herself then let your brain digest it.
Why is it regarded as weird to use IMAP for this? It seems like an obvious use for IMAP.
> I got lost on takao mountain once and was utterly hopeless of ever finding civilization again.

Wait, what? Takao mountain is in Tokyo! Yeah, not central Tokyo but still, it's like a 45min train ride from Shinjuku. You make it sound like it's some remote place full of bears. :-p
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Optionals are also "applicative", but Haskellers used them for a long time before applicative functors became popular. A concept can support a certain way of thinking about it without everyone needing to think that way :)
Big time, mind you.
Wasn’t Lyft also showcased at that event?
The phone network is useful because you can call all other people on the phone network.

Network Effect "law" says that the network's usefulness rises exponentially with its reach.
When I was younger I thought that Slashdot's moderation was brilliant, and every time that I tried to think up something better I invariably came back to that model. When I first stumbled across Reddit I thought to myself that it couldn't possibly work: too simple, too accessible, too easy to game. And yet over the years I kept reading Reddit and stopped reading Slashdot, and it dawned on me that Reddit's comment rating system miraculously was better than Slashdot's somehow, in a way that I couldn't put my finger on. Somehow their algorithm for knowing which comments out of thousands to place above the fold is basically perfect; even when I click on the "load more comments" links at the leaves of comment chains I nearly always find that the originally loaded comments were exactly where I wanted to stop reading. And of course Reddit still gets plenty of visibly-upvoted bullshit, but the difference is that on Reddit the top response to that comment will be a refutation that is just as upvoted, if not moreso. In contrast, on the rare occasion that I visit Slashdot these days, I wince at all the confidently-asserted yet blatantly wrong comments marked with "5, Informative", while the informed refutations languish invisibly below with a score of 1. Maybe Slashdot's moderation would work better on a more focused site, but in practice it just seems like the people selected for moderation just aren't often enough experts on the topic being discussed to distinguish the signal from the noise.
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It's weird that when I read the article I form a picture of an immense response of very determined, brave, well funded, well trained, responsive professionals out there saving lives in a post-apocalyptic environment.

But your takeaway was that this "shows no signs of taking their plight seriously"? I honestly do not get it. Did we read the same article?

Did you read about Dr. Melissa Stein leading the DMAT team? About Commander Thorp responding to the false report of a disaster at a nearby hospital? About the conditions they are working in?

"In telling team members coming here we tell them it's going to be an extremely austere environment," she says.

No power, no air conditioning, no local water, no local food, no Internet and very limited communication. Hurricane Maria falls somewhere between Hurricane Harvey in Houston — where teams stayed in a hotel — and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, where they created a field hospital in Port-au-Prince and slept outside.

This is a island with 3.4 million people which won't have power restored for 4-6 months. From what I'm reading we have seen an overwhelming Federal response starts days before landfall.

No signs of taking their plight seriously....
Question: Is there some reason the phone can't have some mode where it automatically determines which of mobile data or WiFi is providing the better connection at the moment, rather than having to manually toggle WiFi on and off as using the internet becomes frustrating?
But Broadcom fixed all their bugs this time. Really.
Also, how do they still have it if it’s not needed? First cardinal rule of elevated privileges is to immediately give them up when no longer used.
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"If you can bootstrap yourself into being George Clooney"

Actors are the truest of commodities. Many can do it, and it's not hard.

When Hollywood 'invests' in an actor, they create the actors Brand, which the actor - then owns.

Once an actor becomes familiar with American/Global audiences, then their Brand is worth a lot.

Surely, it requires some hustle on the part of the actor - but were it not Clooney, it could have been any one of thousands of others. He was more or less 'chosen'.

Think of how many people's very intelligent work goes into creating big films - and that the surpluses mostly go to the person with the easiest job. And FYI - I understand there are such things as 'great actors' who are not commodities.

Alba and Clooney are products created by Hollywood, who just happen to own the 'IP' to their own faces.

At least with athletes ... at least there is a fair amount of credible competition for those who make it to the top.
I love the idea of ligatures, but I don't find Fira Code very comfortable. Any other recommendations?

EDIT: Some fonts I like are Courier New and Droid Sans Mono.
iOS' stability and quality have declined as well. I've encountered a number of glitches and bugs on the iPhone that I don't usually expect from Apple.

Some of them are sloppy glitches in functionality or display, others have to do with poor stability (force closing more often). Never encountered any of these issues on iOS a few years ago.
Probably because there is an unfortunate trend when Google enters a product category: Everything around it dies.
Dithering trades sample resolution for sample frequency to convey the same information. For images, the underlying sample frequency usually doesn't change but the apparent spatial sample frequency becomes lower in order to achieve more than one effective bit per (coarser) sample.

For one-dimensional signals like audio, the underlying sample frequency is usually increased while decreasing the sample resolution (often to 1 bit per sample). This keeps the effective Nyquist frequency where it needs to be while pushing noise much higher in frequency where it's very easy to remove with an analog filter. Delta-sigma modulation is perhaps the most common method of audio dithering (although the delta-sigma literature rarely uses the D word).

The reason images and audio usually use dithering in opposite ways is that images are usually post-processed for lower true sample resolution (and higher effective sample resolution) after sampling, while audio is often sampled initially at much higher than the Nyquist frequency because dithering is a planned part of the audio processing chain. But not always! Those are merely common use cases.
The same code compiled by the same compiler with the same settings compiles to the same binaries. So you can indeed verify that what you're running and what you have the source code to are indeed one and the same.

For that matter, they could still do that to this day. Pick the time frame that the alleged hack happened and examine the source. And again you can compare the binary output to ensure that you actually have the real thing.
Exporting data incorrectly isn't a missing small feature. It's data corruption.
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Once genetic manipulation advances enough we will probably have much longer lifespans. I haven't completely given up hope that I'm part of the first generation to live forever.
I'm sure they know their own numbers... that said, how is it cheaper to have warehousing run by your sellers (who distributed as they may be, do not have the efficiencies/automation AMZ has) and, as it pertains couriers, I had thought the likes of them had vertically integrated into warehousing services for their customers? Or have they been outflanked by AMZ despite having decades of logistics experience for very diverse industries?
In the UK, some Amazon deliveries were sent via 'Amazon Logistics', which was usually someone in a little car full of packages. I think it's been going on for at least the last 3 or 4 years?
I would expect BT devices to be turned off. BUT Apple’s rationale for faux turning off in control center is so they can maintain Apple services, so I would expect EarPods to stay on under their new ridiculous regime of “Off means On”.
I don't have anything against Tensorflow, but I've learned over the years that it's good to have competition in numerical libraries and software so there's replication of results. Try your analysis using one library, and corroborate it using another one. When a field is dependent on one major piece of software, it's more susceptible to bugs--a programming bug becomes a misguided line of research for a whole field.

Edward has been a promising addition to the PPL landscape. I actually preferred using it with Theano when I used it but that was a year ago, and it seems to have been developing rapidly. I have mixed feelings about this announcement, although to be honest I don't totally even really understand all the implications of it. In some ways I'm not sure how much Edward incrementally adds above and beyond TF; it has occupied a niche between something like TF and Stan or PyMC which is fine enough but I've sometimes wondered if it was sustainable in the long run. I have appreciated it being around, though, and have hoped it would continue to develop.
A simple utility doesn't need that much hardening against corner cases, and in this instance the bug is a main use case.
The problem with blockchain is that the number of transactions are too less than the needs of current “scale” world. For example, when you consider a scaling database, probably you need to process millions of rows per second.