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Why is it unfortunate? Because of what meritocracy attempts or purports to do (give power and status to those who deserve it, e.g. because they did a good job in the past), or because of imperfections in practice?
How is Apple holding back the web? Is there an assumption that every application ought to be on the web and that a browser is the best means to use an application?
Ah sorry. So there are three coloured buttons. When you hold one, the site takes a series of photos from your webcam, and assign them to that "class". Then it'll train and start classifying your video input live.

It's a pretty neat way of creating a reasonable training set of 3 classes.
> That's not my point. My point is why do you want to live forever?

From an emotional point of view, I do not want my parents to die.

They're in 70s, but I think that the time they have left is too short. I'd like them to live to see their 80s, their 100s, their 200s. I would like them to be there in 20 years when the last of my children graduate university. I would like them to see their grandchildren get married, and celebrate the birth of their great grand children.

I do not want to see my friends die. I have been with them since we were 4 years old, and I'd like to celebrate life with them for more than the 30 years have left according to actuarial charts.

I do not want my mentors to die. They're already in retirement homes, but they have so much more to experience, but many won't see their life's work come to fruition.

I would like everyone I know to live to see their 300th birthday, and I would like to be there with them.

Is that forever? No.

Forever may be too long, but 70 years upon this earth is too short by far. If living to see 500 healthy years is within the grasp of our technology, we should seize upon it.

I do not think this view is egotistical, or selfish. A world where no one dies except by accident or deliberate choice would be a much better world than what we have today.

Too often 'live forever' posts focus on the greats of history, theorising what would happen if they lived longer... but I challenge you to think of it in a more personal respect. Do you want your friends and family to die when they do not want to?
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So you can arrive to your destination with 50% battery.

There's really no argument that paints headphone jack removal as a net positive. Samsung has proved you can waterproof a phone with one (and an SD card!).
I have the iPhone 7. I've been using Bluetooth headphones since about 2014 (started with the JayBirds, but use the AirPods now). I use my headphones pretty much all day.

Not once have I noticed the absence of the headphone jack, nor have I felt the need for it.
> more akin to an auto mechanic than a scientist

Keep in mind that society has chosen to have physicians carry social and often moral authority. They are the modern priests and priestesses of our secular world.

What stings when a physician is impatient or misses something obvious is the disrespect people feel because of the physician's venerated status. It's as if a person of faith is visiting a Bishop and the Bishop mutters a profanity during the blessing.

The irritation and accusations of arrogance toward physicians that are found in this thread are (if read carefully) reflections of the unique, clergy-like role that physicians play. A physician's opinion can get you decades of workers comp or can deny it to you, it can make you feel responsible for a health problem or vindicated, it can result in the removal of pain or the continuation of it. Physicians let some people get high every day on any number of drugs, declare others bad surgical candidates, and instill (or withhold) hope in those whose life hangs in the balance.

It's a deeply moral role, and the trend toward free healthcare for all is analogous to publishing the bible in languages besides Latin. Physicians are gatekeepers to redemption and this makes some people very angry.
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No way. The food investment would be massive, by the time you'd have nurtured your first elephant to the point of growing big tusks it would be a massive target for violent theft, back to square one.
I always read that as the default behaviour for the language. C is usually compiled but there are exceptions. Perl (<=5) is almost always interpreted but there are tools to turn Perl code into an executable. I agree it's a somewhat arbitrary distinction given the above but when I first learned any programming at all having it explained this way helped my understanding of how languages can differ from each other.
Edit up top: The identification is done on-device. The Verge article didn't mention this.

> And this year’s Pixel will take advantage of the phone’s always-on microphones to listen for music (not just the phrase “OK Google”) and display what you’re listening to on the screen, even if it’s something on the radio.

This sounds creepy. So now when excessive microphone data is seen to be going out to the cloud, they can just say "Oh, the phone thought there was music playing and was trying to identify it. Simple misunderstanding, nothing nefarious!".
I actually had those in mind as close to what might make sense. Though agent responsibilities might be assumed by the guild as well.

However, the organizations you list have gone in strike as leverage in collective negotiations. That is an aspect I doubt makes sense for tech outside of basic health or ethical concerns. Both the collective bargaining and the striking.
It's great that they work well for you, but AirPods and the like don't work well for me at all. The audio quality drop is noticeable to me; interference is a perpetual problem even when I'm just walking down the street or walking through my apartment. Bluetooth on both Android and iOS is clunky and annoying (and it's not totally their fault, the devices and the protocol have something to say about that) that the physical act of jacking headphones into a device makes unambiguous and easy. I very much want to be able to take the headphones I use on my computer and just go rather than play the pairing/reconnect dance or whatever.

If I don't care about what I'm listening to that much (podcasts etc.), wireless headphones are fine, don't get me wrong, but the usability across-the-board still sucks, while not in any way or at any level improving the experience for me. It is a strictly worse experience.
Sounds intriguing but I'm missing the deep technical info on how it works.

> All data you push is signed by your device's private key, which never leaves your device.

For the reference git already supports signed pushes (git push --signed): https://github.com/git/git/commit/a85b377d0419a9dfaca8af2320...
I don't know what Apple actually does, but I'd suggest, for apps that don't explicitly handle the "notch" (including the web browser), they should just square up the edge in landscape mode and leave the bits around the notch black.
Some people feel that humans have evolved over millions of years to do well in hunter-gatherer tribes and we have not genetically adapted yet in 6,000? years of civilization. If we think returning some habits of hunter-gatherer tribes would be beneficial, then we need to know what they are/were and not just wild-ass guess based on the Nobel Savage myth.
I wonder what they'll remove next? Volume buttons? "Oh you can just turn it down with software already on the phone!" Well I could, but damn would that be inconvenient...
I'm very disappointed they didn't drop the price of the 1st generation Pixels more. There was a 1 day sale on the Pixels earlier this year (that included a free Google Home device) that was much lower than what they have dropped them to today. My wife's Nexus 5 recently died. I had hoped to get her the 1st generation Pixel to replace it, but I'll probably get her the iPhone SE instead.
Having looked at their frontpage recently, it's amazing how far it's fallen. Not that I every considered it a reliable source, but it genuinely had some interesting articles in the past. There was one article about the actual story that inspired True Detective that really stuck with me. Now it's just another place to vent about the President.
I mostly use my headphone jack to connect to stereo systems at home and in the car, so wireless headphones don't really help (nevermind how much more expensive they are and issues with sound).
Cool... haven't seen that. I guess what I'm asking for is for this stuff to become standardized. Once that happens if someone wants to write a web app around it that's fine, but it'd have to be run locally where the content can be decrypted and made sense of.
I was being facetious about the "poor saps" to hint at the point you're making.
Except it doesn't send any data to the cloud. They mentioned that explicitly. There's an on-phone database of songs that it is matching against.
I do, I tried Luigi before Airflow and I rather liked the simplicity of Luigi's checkpointing of jobs (files vs a db with airflow), but Airflow has a nice UI, charts and graphs that are handy and nice to look at. Both describe DAGs using python, Airflow has more options and executors as I recall, but we only really run bash to run python jobs.

The trouble with Airflow is it uses a database for state, and you can get in situations where a task is failing, so the dagrun fails; so you clear the state after fixing the task using the web ui and it'll usually run and everything is fine. But sometimes you get into a state where it says the dag is deadlocked and doing this doesn't work.

But, steady-state, it works pretty well; I think among the things I've tried (cron + python, luigi, airflow), it's the best I've come across.
Found this interesting, and relatable:

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2014-111
I agree the fact that a huge majority of headphones are still sold with the standard head phone jack - means the move is too early. Last release they even mentioned the head phone jack as a feature (and it was)..

I'll be sticking with my pixel xl
No opinion on the surgery, but you might try a CPAP machine! I have a family member whose epiglottis was damaged in surgery, and she developed really bad sleep apnea as a result.

It took her a solid year of being a zombie before she figured out what was happening and why. She bought a CPAP, and it's made a huge difference in her quality of life.

So if you're looking to try out a non-surgical fix while you ponder a surgery, consider buying/renting/borrowing a CPAP!
Then don't buy this phone. Headphones will soon all be either wireless or use USB C or lighting anyway. And if there are headphones that do not, use an adapter.
This site is entirely unreadable on an iPhone 6s. Not exactly a credible source. The problem seems to be the code blocks.
Hi, member of the vast majority of people here. I don't want to have to carry a dongle.
Putting up a fake sales page isn't a sales strategy and wouldn't prove anything. If anything, it could add to the distraction.

Sales and being around long term are more complicated and won't simply be proven to you because it's what you want. It requires more vision and coherence than that.
I currently use a Pixel C for removing back to my home server(s) when travelling. It's fanless, compact and it just works. I don't think the Pixelbook is worth another $600 over this but for me it ticks all those same boxes.
It's funny: over in the comments about a healthcare article they say that Singapore has it easier because it's smaller. And here we admire them for pulling things off despite being small.
I understand that's the case now - I did say "the way of the future". I believe wireless will become the standard everywhere (for everyday use, at least).

Any transition like that is going to be awkward at first. If people tried to wait for perfect conditions, progress would never be made.
Many of the African-origin animals in well established zoos are the result of captive breeding programs run in cooperation with hundreds of international zoos. The rest are animals taken from the wild due to injury or environmental circumstance, who were then unable to be returned to the wild for some reason.

China is building cities at a tremendous rate, and many of those cities are building zoos. The existing captive breeding programs and animal-swap programs are simply not capable of supplying those new zoos with the larger animals with slow breeding rates. In any case, going out to poach animals from the wild is cheaper.

It's not bad because Chinese, but bad because it's going faster than the existing systems can handle.
Big difference between "not exactly at the border" and 100 miles away from it.

Also not very helpful that the search is illegal if you haven't crossed a border and have to get relief in court against a federal agency.
> Interesting fact: git doesn't check the validity of sha-1 hashes in your commit history.

Isn't the commit sha1 determined, in part, by the sha1 values of the tree it refers to as well as the sha1 of the parent commit? If you fetch a branch from a compromised remote, all the sha1 values of the commits that were compromised would be different.
The average occurrence of that sort of mentality across the population suggests most PhDs would have at least that majority view as being a subset of the larger. There’s also no reason to assume the factors that lead someone to obtain a PhD counter an elitist attitude. If anything, it certainly bolsters the odds through sunk cost and other psychological factors.

Put another way, it’s been my experience that nearly everybody has a view that they’re better than average or different in some positive, unique way. The worlds full of hostie personalities as well.
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This is a fantastic answer, and I wish more folks were this dedicated to making sure they have something great before trying to hawk it. That said, I do wish I could pay for (at least) a TB of Keybase storage right now. :D
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The difference is that for cellular phones to be effective, they all must use the same standard. Companies agree that for their inventions to be part of the standard, they will license their patents to all comers at FRAND. The patent holders are basically granted a monopoly by the standard setters in exchange for fair licensing terms.
This goes to "comments shouldn't describe the code, they should describe the reasoning". Especially if there are external reasons why the code is structured that way. On straightforward programs you should need hardly any comments at all.
As if that's the only consideration. The survival of the race? Turn that around you can justify just about anything, like killing <human group here> because you believe it's better for 'survival'.

I think the moral takeaway is not that the lives of these people is worth less than that of an animal. It's that they are breaking knowingly and are often murderers themselves.
Google Pixel Buds are wireless earbuds that translate conversations in real-time
The genetic variability of humans seems large enough that simple rules about sleep, like nutrition, are probably wrong for many people. Get more sleep if you are tired all the time? Maybe that would work.
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> They mentioned that explicitly

Okay? The submitted article certainly didn't mention that.

The Anadtech live blog does indeed state "01:05PM EDT - On device machine learning. Local music identificat (sic)"
I'm included to agree but, I have no idea what you mean by "unemployed".
What sort of privacy guarantees come with a Google Device?
best way to learn vim:

(optional) first, go thru vimtutor (just type vimtutor in your shell and press enter).

second, get a vim cheat sheet (google).

finally (most important), code a few things using vim. keep google at the ready to look up "how do (etc)?" to speed up things you're actually doing.

once comfortable with that, maybe watch a few vim tips videos.

after all that, you will probably find vim much more comfortable than gedit, textedit, notepad, etc, just for the power. if you favor ides, you'll probably need to do a lot of tweaking to love raw vim, though or course some ides offer vim keymapping anyway.
The Bluetooth Advanced Audio Distribution Profile doesn't have a standard for loseless audio, which means that you end up crappilly re-encoding the audio to send it to the headphones. The reference codec (SBC) is particularly crappy. Shipping MP3 or AAC over Bluetooth is not mandatory and may or may not work depending on the sender and receiver.
Signing a commit does not encrypt that commit's contents, just adds a signature to prove you wrote that commit.

From the Keybase FAQ:

> So is this signing my commits?

> No, this is happening at a lower level, (1) to allow encryption, and (2) to ensure no unsigned or unencrypted data makes it in. Intuitively you can think of it as you and your teammates using a cryptographic secure storage layer for your git origin that doesn't really understand git.

> Your commits themselves are untouched from git's perspective, so if you mirror your repository elsewhere, it'll be a regular checkout.
Cosmos DB from Microsoft Azure seems to be a much better choose, because it provides tons of useful features, but it also compatible with MongoDB, so if they decide to increase prices or shut it down some day, you will be able to use regular MongoDB instead. With Firestore it's not the case and you are locked with a proprietary solution.
Google has voice-based functionality pretty deeply embedded into Android - I really don't think it's going anywhere.

By contrast, I chose a Google Home over an Alexa because I think Google is better at AI - I am consistently surprised by how many random questions the Home can answer.
I love and use our 2 google homes on a daily basis, but they get significantly more useful if you are in google's ecosystem and have home automation.

For me, i'd give a super rough guess at my usage like this:

* 60% home automation (turning on and off lights when hands are full, ensuring doors are locked and garage door is closed, running "shortcuts" like "i'm leaving" which will lock up and arm the alarm in 5 minutes, etc...)

* 15% playing and controlling music/tv shows on various devices in the house (tv's with chromecasts, the home itself, etc...)

* 10% as a shopping list (it makes a damn good shopping list and it's nice as hell to be able to just yell at the thing to add "frosted mini wheats to the shopping list" the second you run out and have it synced to the whole family's phones)

* 9% as a "day planner" of sorts. Generally each morning I tell it "good morning" and it tells me the weather, things on my calendar, and starts playing some news snippets I setup.

* 5% for timers/alarms (really useful while cooking to be able to shout at it to start a timer for 15 minutes then walk away)

* 1% for the dumb trivia lookups/random information. Stuff like "how many calories in X?" or "when was the Apple II released?"
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VR is pretty legit right now.

lots of fiddling for the current best experience but totally can blow you away. you can't imagine what it's like - you have to experience it to understand.

also... tesla/spacex... and tons of other things. tech is evolving very quickly. Tech history is being made much faster than it was back then
Honestly I find the dual tone design ugly. Does anyone else find it ugly too ?
it's kind of annoying how people abuse the term "blockchain" nowadays whenever there's something remotely close to distributed systems.

"Distributed Ledger without the Blockchain" is just a distributed database, which has been possible forever. Check out couchdb/pouchdb, etc.

The innovation of Bitcoin's blockchain was that it introduced distributed ledger that didn't require centralized trust. If you take that way, you're just a database no matter how you try to spin it.

This is like saying "We've built orange juice without the orange!" Yeah, you've built bottled water.
Or maybe they're just moving to where the money and career- building jobs are.

I think the causality is at least more complex than the aforementioned meme implies.
Wait till you have kids, then you realize how much time you had to just have a life...
Well, for some reason the ports on my phones would always kind of stop working at some point unless I held the headphone jack in at just the right angle. It wasn't the headphones because they would work fine on other devices.
Do something about it bro. If you want something you gotta take it. Nobody is gonna come offering you a dream work week. But the catch 22 is you gotta lose some sleep to find time to develop some systems to make passive income
You didn't miss anything, it's very easy to deploy a bug in a smart contract and why anyone using it for anything important should have their contracts be audited by a third party professional(s).
This was an unnecessary change no matter how you slice it. Just look at the other options: bluetooth or an adapter. With bluetooth you have to pair it and remember to charge the headphones. With an adapter you have to remember to bring it everywhere if you want to listen to a podcast or music or audio book. They say they're making a simple device but they're making my life more complicated. This is one of the few times where I'll get upset over such a simple change, especially since I was planning to buy a Pixel 2 until they announced this.

I'm not an audio professional and I think there's far more like me that you can't ignore.
> Why can't we let the markets regulate themselves?

Because this is a synthetic market the government explicitly created and maintained through patent legislation.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15401973
The new iPhones would like to file a disagreement with you.

Sure, it's slower than a quick charger, but in a lot of cases you don't need a quick charge.
consumer network speeds aren't increasing much every year.
Ask for headphone jack.
It's a overblown concern for many, considering that the major clouds are massive companies that will likely be around far longer than most of their customers (or will acquire them). Every new client actually contributes to the longevity of a cloud provider. There's also lots of competition to offer similar features and many services can be mixed/matched easily (eg: we run on GCP but use Azure event hubs).
Good point. There's more to the preferences of executives than they might care to acknowledge.
I don't agree with that assessment. I've been using Android since 1.0.

The default experience is simply just that. No frills. No skins. Just Google apps. What exactly did they pull from HTC or Samsung that is now in the Gapps package?

Android comes without Google apps as well.
Gapps package installs Gmail, Maps, etc but not much in the way of frills.
That doesn't work everywhere. This was my dealbreaker with Spacemacs. To remap hjkl to jkl; (imperfectly at that) I had to do the following:

(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "j") 'evil-backward-char)
(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "k") 'evil-next-visual-line)
(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "l") 'evil-previous-visual-line)
(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd ";") 'evil-forward-char)

(define-key evil-visual-state-map (kbd "j") 'evil-backward-char)
(define-key evil-visual-state-map (kbd "k") 'evil-next-line)
(define-key evil-visual-state-map (kbd "l") 'evil-previous-line)
(define-key evil-visual-state-map (kbd ";") 'evil-forward-char)

(define-key evil-motion-state-map (kbd "j") 'evil-backward-char)
(define-key evil-motion-state-map (kbd "k") 'evil-next-line)
(define-key evil-motion-state-map (kbd "l") 'evil-previous-line)
(define-key evil-motion-state-map (kbd ";") 'evil-forward-char)

(define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "j") 'evil-backward-char)
(define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "k") 'evil-next-line)
(define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "l") 'evil-previous-line)
(define-key dired-mode-map (kbd ";") 'evil-forward-char))