skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple (and Google, in their own way) seem to think they can push users towards a lowest common denominator use case. It just doesn’t work. - But this is not that case though. My non tech friends expect the wifi to off when its off. That would be the lowest common denominator.
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I don't buy that. It may not be as facetious as in the US, but it's still facetious. Most manufacturing companies, and all the large ones, have replaced a large fraction of their fulltime blue collar workforce with temp workers whose contracts last for 2-3 years. The mothership will _subcontract_ out work to subsidiary companies (for example, software development work) so that they can maintain their lockstep pay/promotion schedules in the mothership, but pay the subsidiary employees less [1]. Companies in Japan are just as profit motivated as their US peers. True corporate empathy ended a very very long time ago, if it ever existed (probably existed a few hundred years ago)

It's just a matter of what kind of marketing is acceptable and believable to the general public.

Also keep in mind that Son Masayoshi is a master PR user. Nowhere else have I seen someone use PR towards the general public to lobby for things like wireless spectrum auctions and solar energy government subsidies.

[1] most of the time, unless it's a special case company full of researcher types.
That isn't fair. My microwave "doesn't work" until I press some buttons. I leave my bluetooth, wifi and data on most days because I have bluetooth headphones and I want people to be able to send me messages and stuff. Sometimes I turn them off to get the battery to last longer. It seems like it could be quite reasonable for a large group of non-technical users to be quite happy with a phone that turns off the radios when the screen is off.
Chanting "Lock it up!", and then not locking it up.
That is such a sensible idea that it will never catch on anywhere else.
Meh. Appsee lets you record user screens without any sort of backdoor.
> Actors are the truest of commodities. Many can do it, and it's not hard.

That's peak HN for the day.
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Yes, that’s a great argument for Linux, but much less so for macOS. Apple and Microsoft are roughly comparable these days (and that’s not a compliment to either), but after many years of “next year is the year of the Linux desktop”, Linux is still a pain to install on most consumer hardware in comparison to either macOS or Windows.
Big Data Can Help Us Evolve to the Internet of People
If you are explaining too much then it would mean that its not communicated properly.
Gal Godot - a decent actress - was paid $200K for her role as 'Wonder Woman'. Huge film. But she was paid just like any other of the 'talent' on the crew.

But in subsequent versions of 'Wonder Woman' - she will be paid millions.

Has her 'acting ability' magically improved?

No. But 'her face and personae' are now existentially linked to the character 'Wonder Woman'. Audiences want to see that.

So she'll be paid millions.

Are there actors 'better' than Gal Gadot who could play WW? Of course there are. Probably many. So why not pay them $200K instead of paying Gal 'millions'? Because it's not 'talent' that's the issue in the equation.

The #1 deciding factor in the investment of films over $10M is not the script, not the director, not anything else - it's the actors that are involved.

You need to have 'highly recognizable' actors on board (or the budget to do so) otherwise it's not investable - because audiences want to see familiar faces.

Do you honestly think that 'George Clooney' is such an amazing actor, that there aren't 1000 other people 'as good as him' that could have played his roles well?

Of course there are. There are tons of great actors out there. But they're not household names.

So the question is: given that there are tons of actors better than Brad Pitt out there - how does Brad Pitt even get a single role? Because he's the 'living brand' of 'Brad Pitt'. The living brand of 'Brad Pitt' is what audiences want, which was created by putting the actor in previous roles.

Most athletes are paid very commensurately relative to their actual skill, of course, it's easier to be objective in measuring that.

What matters in film is 'the recognizability of the face/personae'.
https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf appears to have quite a few fans.
Just anecdotally I find they are are better than most delivery companies in the UK!
How the elderly lose their rights
For me it was the hot milk tea. Almost impossible to find in the West, every morning at near freezing temps I could cling to a metal piping hot can of sweet milk tea. I can't go a day in .jp without grabbing a can.

What really surprised me is how in a place like Tokyo the machines seemed to only reliably function using change, whereas in Norway you pay for bus station lockers and public toilets with credit cards.
In Poland, government started paying monthly for each child after first one (and for every child if you are a low income family). It's hard to predict if it would work like in Japan as it started a year ago and there are still no official stats available but I wonder if one-time payoff, like in Japan, would yield better or worse results than paying monthly (or would there be any difference at all)?
I am not sure about MIPS, but other processors have moved away from either software TLBs or hashed page tables (POWER9 supports tree page tables). Hence the past tense.
There's a really good technique for getting rid of the wormy or snake-like textures in Floyd-Steinberg: add another term to the threshold proportional to (some monotonic function of) the distance to the nearest preceding dot. This tends to make the dots very nicely spaced. These ideas were, among other places, used in Gutenprint.

A bit of description, and ancient but working GPL'ed code here: http://www.levien.com/artofcode/eventone/

A paper containing the basic output-dependent feedback idea: http://levien.com/output_dependent_feedback.pdf
You shouldn't accept mediocrity instead of correct software. They are worlds apart.

There is a significant difference between a bug and a severe security error regarding basics.
The article doesn't put enough emphasis on the need for gamma correction. If you dither a pure gray area of level 128, it will become approximately 50% white and 50% black. But when you display that back on the screen, because of gamma effects it will look closer to a level of 186!

A few years ago there was a need for 15-bpp or 16-bpp color images on phones rather than the 24-bpp images we usually work with, and dithering was a great way of producing them. No idea how much need there is today though.
> > In addition you have to be able to program in Python, Java, JavaScript, C.

> This is objectively false. To expect a junior developer to know all these is unrealistic, plain and simple. If you have working knowledge of one or two programming languages and have an appetite to learn you are good to go.

Still in school, so haven't had even begun to look at jobs yet, but I know python, java, and c (and a few others), and have a basic knowledge of js. Does that give me an edge, then?
When you have fast byte addressable storage you can just go to plain old binary trees. But b-trees still have some advantage in the amount of storage needed.
NYT reports FEMA is spending $200 million per day. Whitehouse has requested additional $29 Billion on top of the previous $15 Billion (which is still being being spent, now mainly on Maria recovery).

Then we have lower level efforts like the FCC approving $77 million in aid to restore communications.

And every one of the brave professionals deployed there will have stories like Dr. Stein's in the OP.

GDP of Peurto Rico is ~$100 billion, by comparison.

What the United States is doing for the people of Peurto Rico is exactly the extraordinary compassion I love to see from my country. I think people are blinded by politics on this one.

This isn't about Trump. America is responding to Americans in need, and I think we can actually be proud of the response. I'm not saying it has been perfect, but it certainly is immense.
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There are tons of great actors that you can hire to do something for peanuts. They're such a commodity that tons of talented actors don't even do it full time.

I live across from a 'Community Playhouse' in Montreal. Some of it is terrible, but some of it is magnificent. Almost zero of them are employed in the industry full time. It partly has to do with the fact it's all in French, and that means 'smaller market' - but it could just as easily be in English and the same would apply.
Is there any way to get the imgur mobile site to load the full res version?
360 degree Spacewalk Video from the ISS
I get the same thing when someone calls me "friend" the second I meet them.
Contact amazon and tell them to mark your account to not use them. I had to because for some reason the drivers couldn't figure out the entrance to my apartment was around the corner and an unmarked emergency exit wasn't the entrance. Would get called early in the morning demanding me to go meet them on the street.

The Amazon rep I talked to was able to make sure all my packages came from the "old" services and haven't had a problem since. Guess this is what happens when you hire people that have no experience with delivery goods and are not paid what real delivery people are.
Honest Tea's name comes from how their ingredients are sourced. They never claimed for it to be good for you.
Lots of horror stories with Amazon courier deliveries but it can't be as bad as the Amazon Sunday delivery via USPS.
Imagine all of the "no fucks given" attitude backed by the efficiency of an un-uniformed USPS weekend contract delivery driver. I've found packages in every conceivable location in the 30ft between my door and the street - in the planter box by the sidewalk, underneath the flowers in the landscaping, in the middle of my walk, in front of the neighbor's door, in the middle of the staircase up to my door... I'd like to know when I signed up for the Prime Easter Hunt delivery add-on and how to disable it. It's so bad that if the checkout ever says guaranteed Sunday delivery, I wait another day to order.
High Sierra was a simple upgrade. Nothing seems to be broken for me. Usually some command utlis would be broken.
Who's the numpy competitor? Are we suffuring due to lack of one?
What's mailspring ID? Why do I need such a thing?
> but was told they don't have a smartphone

Every time they've delivered to me they've had their phone out with the Amazon app with directions and a button to mark delivered so someone was lying to you.
And Magit wipes the floor with them, so I guess all Atom and VS Code users should migrate to Emacs ;).

People judge editors along different dimensions. E.g. I have tried Visual Studio and Atom, but for me they (especially Atom) are simply to slow compared to Sublime/Emacs/vim.
and if it got into a messy transformation, just reload the page.
> If I want it off I’ve got to dig through Settings.

Or just say "Hey Siri, turn off WiFi."
I'm not sure I follow. To me dithering comes from quantization. I don't think you should think of dithering in frequency space.

https://bjango.com/images/articles/gradients/dithering-extre...

Illustrates the same signal dithered or not. No sampling rate involved.

And please correct me if i'm wrong, but you can not trade sample accuracy for sampling rate.
There are no Linux download links. The download page just shows image placeholders.

But if you send an invalid download request like ".../download?platform=foo" then you get back a handy JSON error string indicating that the Linux downloads are:

https://updates.getmailspring.com/download?platform=linuxDeb
and
https://updates.getmailspring.com/download?platform=linuxRpm

Maybe Ben or someone will see this and comment why the links aren't there, since it looks like the github repo has issues filed for this.
There is a company called Ontrac that Amazon subcontracts delivery to in my neck of the woods.

The one thing you can be guaranteed is that if they send it by Ontrac the package is most definitely not on track to be delivered on time, if it is delivered at all.

Occasionally they have even sent me notification that a package is delivered the same day Amazon ships it out.

I let Amazon know when a package doesn't show up and they refund or replace it and deliver it with a real carrier (aka UPS).

Ontrac apparently attracts the ire of many other frustrated Amazon customers: https://www.yelp.com/biz/ontrac-anaheim
I'm not the OP or the person who made this comment, but I totally agree with his sentiment.

There is more that goes into it than this, but I want to focus on two main factors that really define your choices.

1) Your previous relational success/failure. If you struggle, we tend lean back into things we are good at = job. Just because it's natural, doesn't mean its right.

2) your current age (you become more self aware over time). I can speak personally that 23 year old me would take the job, but 33 year old me would go for the girl. There are soooo many good jobs. Finding someone you want to live with is much more rare...depending on the person ...extremely rate.

Regret over relationships sucks... most the time it's gone forever. Regret over job ...just quit.
The asking questions side is in Google sheets (and analytics recently).
> At least, every implementation of email snoozing I've seen had relied on a third party server.

At least on Mac there are some client side only ones:

- https://sparkmailapp.com/

- https://canarymail.canny.io/

- MailTags for Mail.app has a “tickle” feature that meets all the requirements

That is from a few minutes searching.
> social cohesiveness

Also known as xenophobia.

>For example, I read somewhere it gets less than 100 asylum seekers a year.

And this is by definition a good thing?

Don't forget the awesome working hours and working culture! It's so good that they even have a word for the awesome overworking: Karoshi [1].

I wouldn't romanticize Japan this hard as you are doing right now, it has it's own sleuth of problems just like any other country.

[1] Karoshi (Overwork Death) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi
Open problems in mathematical physics
Mattel Thinks Again About an AI Babysitter
More evidence supporting this: the new Disk Utility.app seemingly has absolutely no way to recover from a fusion drive being split up into an HDD and SSD (made a mistake partitioning it) -- you have to do it from the command line.

On the contrary, I booted the exact same machine into internet recovery (which gave me the Mavericks-era Disk Utility.app) and it literally had a huge warning that the fusion drive was partitioned incorrectly, and a repair button.

Why remove important features that still (have to) exist in the underlying utility? Like this is literally an operating system designed to run on only a handful of hardware, which is why people like it.
Related (and very good) read. https://medium.com/invironment/an-army-of-ocean-farmers-on-t...
Reality check: is automation worse for men or women?
"So not so bad for either company.. and unless Amazon opens it up to other companies to use, they aren't going to rival UPS or even FedEx in revenue."

Seems they will at some point in the future. They already allow any packages to be delivered to their lockers [0]. So it's not too far-fetched they'll soon allow any shipper to use their "delivery" service.

0. https://thehub.amazon.com/
OK, so you're saying it's just as facetious.
I think you're rebutting yourself here, because like you said, "bootstrapping yourself into George Clooney" is equivalent to building George Clooney the brand, which is not trivial.
> MySQL is nice but will just silently eat your data from time to time. Auto truncate is evil, as is missing enums. These have both hit me multiple times in production. Note: Not sure if this is still the case since I avoid it now for this reason.

Looks like I am forced to use MySQL (or some of its variants ) in the near future. This thing about MySQL eating data is a statement I have read about occasionally. Is there any way to identify and beware use cases where this could happen? Would there be any more thorough documentation of this issue anywhere?
It seems that PostgreSQL is becoming an ideal solution for early startups: full-text search, well-designed plugin architecture, replica, partitioning, Large Object storage
It's built on top of Tensorflow, so it doesn't seem like a terrible idea.
Unusual Events in GitHub Repositories
Man who sued over Facebook childbirth livestream slapped with $120k in fees
I recently had them mark a package "undeliverable" due to my apartment complex having a gate. When I complained to customer service, they discovered that my package had been lost.
> Same way as I can say something is obviously a heap of sand without pointing out exactly at which point it turned into one from it's beginnings as some grains of sand (Sorites paradox)

But that's not the situation here. You're saying that there is some scale at which something is "obviously wrong" implying a convergent consensus of observance. Tying it to sorites, it would be like you claiming that there's a fuzziness beyond which the heap should be considered "obviously too big" by everyone, while to others there's no such concept as a heap that's too big (or even merely disagree that you've entered "too big" territory yet). You can't argue that it's too big, without pulling in something external that they might share.

> Regarding moral relativism, I don't buy it

It's not that morals are "relative", and I agree that's a terrible label, but more that morals are held as axiomatic. There is no and cannot be justification of morals themselves, they simply are held (or are not held) by a person as the foundational root clauses from which all their other justifications are derived.

So there's no possible way to argue or justify root morals to others who simply don't share them. You'd need to link them to morals that the other does hold for there to be any worthwhile concept conveyed at all. Otherwise it's just yelling that others are not following your particular flying spaghetti monster. If one fundamentally believes that animal suffering matters, and another fundamentally believes that it does not, what possible justification or persuasion would cross that boundary?

> You are right that pure moral arguments don't change anything, but I don't think the reason is that people don't share morals, but rather have to do with people being extremely good at rationalizing away the immorality, or never questioning it in the first place.

Re-read what you said, and consider it in the initial discussion of animal rights. You're saying that there is a morality held in a person that is invoked in an observed situation that is being rationalized away, implying that they fundamentally subscribe to the same morals as you. I think this convergence (and I'd simply call it a projection) is an extreme claim, going against the observed variety among cultures & schools of thought around the world and throughout history. That's simply not an accurate picture of humanity.

In particular, sensitivity and callousness to specific situations of harm are very trained, and degrees of harm in varied directions exist in absolutely everything, all the way down to entropy. Just look at governmental overreach to see how the concept of "harm" can be all encompassing, bringing a justification for involvement wherever they may choose, from economics to surveillance.
I feel it's unjust what happened to Tibet since 1950 but practically speaking, what can anybody outside do?
It does not revoke your license to use RN if you sue Facebook.
I understood that for a hobbyist, who doesn't hand-optimizate preprocessing, good single thread performance is better with numpy. From that front Intel is better.
Exactly. Also: auto-joining open WiFi networks—especially generically-named ones—is a pretty serious security risk. So easy to spoof an SSID and capture everything that's traversing it.
Trump administration turns NASA back toward the Moon
As a working sound engineer in the 80s, I depended on the NS 10 to give me a sense of the room, as a standard reference or metric. I would play something like Steely Dan's Babylon sisters, which I knew intimately, and how it sounded on the NS10 would tell me something about the accoustics of the studio I was in.

It probably could have been any other speaker of the time, what was critical was the fact that it was in every single studio without fail. It was a constant variable in an equation where every other variable was in flux.
Bypassing VC's and going for an IPO
Not if it uses copyrighted MIT licensed code.
I imagine ideally Amazon.com would prefer merchants use "fulfilled by Amazon" and leave the logistics of shipping from Amazon to the customer up to Amazon.
That only tells me I'm no longer connected to the wifi-network I used to be.

And that's the expected outcome of me turning off wifi. Something I deliberately tried to do through clicking the on/off toggle.

I agree with parent poster: Either apple has been miscommunication the whole time, or they are miscommunication now. You can't have it both ways.
Where I live - yes. I was told so by a police detective, who ran a gun safety course. It's very silent, easily available, but still has enough power to make a mess inside a skull if shot from the back or side of the head. Sure, in USA where combat rifles are readily available, situation might be different.
The how are Facebook and RedHat different?
"My unsolicited advice"

Actually - it's the opposite. It's super solicited :) .....(and it appears super relevant as well)
I'm hoping this translates into more budget for NASA, so it isn't just a pipe dream.
Try "Hey Siri, turn off WiFi."

Five words isn't much beyond a simple toggle. :)
I have the same issue, and I don't have instructions to solve it. All I know is that every other delivery company has managed to figure this out without my help.
Good update from WaPo on ship deployments [1] including deploying USMS Comfort (which apparently PR officials initially declined).

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/10/04...
Even if monospaced fonts have that ligature, I'm sure they make it as wide as two characters, as the ligature is simply a single glyph representing two characters.
I have a friend who sells containerized solar+wind+battery power systems, which is pretty handy in places where there's no grid. But still, given that PR does have a grid, repairing it plus sending in diesel for hospitals/cell cites is probably more cost-effective than sending in containerized solar now.
> I think you completely missed that you can indeed actually turn them off via 3D touch

My iPhone SE doesn't have 3D touch, or if it does, I have no idea what it is.

So as far as I know, no, I don't have that option.
> What their mental model is for what "Wi-Fi off" is doesn't matter

It always matters if you're trying to minimize user frustration and confusion. The mental model determines what the user expects their actions to do.

> because the user shouldn't be responsible for managing the radios in their phone.
> The new control center behaves in the way that most people actually use the buttons. More importantly it solves a major problem in that it no longer requires the user to know what radios need to be on for various features they use to work.

I don't think anyone (certainly not me) is arguing that this isn't a useful feature for the phone to have and is what many people want, at least some of the time. The argument is that the feature's behavior should be clear rather than misleading.

> Apple probably has all the support call stats they need to decide this was a better behavior.

Again, fine, but don't suggest one thing and silently do the "better" thing. Either allow the user to confirm the behavior, or create a UI that clarifies the behavior so people aren't misled into believing that "off until 5am" or "off until you move" means "off."