skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The original comment practically said "they are Democrats, and the media is liberal-controlled, so obviously they get a free pass."
Police presence seems to be mostly contained to the street level.
Xiaomi Mi Air 12, 13 and 15.
I have no idea - you would have to check with Dell Support
> - cyber security

Absolutely. The world will always need pen testers and associated crew.
They could easily mitigate this with a de-icing heater around the perimeter of the roof.
decentralized web, or, any semblance of escape from ad-based monetiztion models
This absolutely works, but not quite the way GP described. Instead, unit motions on the bayer pattern are used, to the effect that every logical subpixel is sampled by every colour channel (therefore giving you a full pixel). Hence, no demosaicing is required. Hence, higher spatial frequencies can be maintained without incurring aliasing.
I have been on the verge of buying a Pixel C or Pixelbook for my parents :

- They currently have an aging nexus 10

- my dad does not want an apple product

If Google had created a new Android tablet instead of the pixelbook, I would have bought it.

The pixelbook looks really nice but I am not sure that the mix of Android and Chromebook will be easy for my parents to pick up.
How have the economics worked out for MS? Have they gotten a return on their investment?
Oops our servers couldn't keep up right at the point in time when this coin exploded/plumetted.
You realize you are locked-in into a proprietary ecosystem. Clearly, that is bad for you and customer-unfriendly. But I wonder why you don't take action, and get alternatives that don't lock you in. Is this an example of the sunken cost fallacy?
> A lot of folks would buy  stuff because they TRUST Apple to provide a stable and reliable product.

Just wanted to emphasise this.

I put my parents on iPhones because I wanted to minimise them calling me for technical support. I taught them to update the phone's OS for security reasons, but iOS 11 came out and was dogshit for six weeks until 11.1.2 came out and my mom (a layperson) exclaimed "A[?]'m never updating again!".

Tim & Craig need to stop making their customers beta testers. That's why we paid the premium.
The title draws the opposite conclusion of the paper itself (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/...):

> Conclusions and Relevance: This study overcomes past limitations of studies of BLL and crime by studying the association in a place and time where the correlation was not confounded by childhood socioeconomic status. Findings failed to support a dose-response association between BLL and consequential criminal offending.

The author of this Mother Jones article, a long-time supporter of the hypothesis, re-analyzed the raw data himself and concluded that (surprise) the paper reinforces his pre-existing beliefs.

I really desperately want to read scientific information about the world that I can trust isn't being filtered through the biases and passions of humans. I want to be able to trust that people are following the data to wherever it may lead. In our hyper-partisan world, that seems harder and harder to come by.
From the statement...

"All rechargeable batteries are consumable components"

If they are "consumable", why aren't they user replaceable. As far as I'm concerned any company that seals consumable parts inside a device isn't acting the interest of their users.
There's quite a bit of work into recycling those, and Apple has already has the means of recovering much of it - pity people don't generally return their used phones to them, though. Your replacement battery is unlikely to be recycled better than when it's done in an automated manner on a fairly large scale.

Of course Apple can get away cheap because of that "people don't even try to recycle" thing. Forcing the industry to do the same thing that happened with bottles (everyone has to accept bottles over certain capacity they sell, and _pay for them_ — though right-wing governments are shuttering those programs) would work wonders, and likely be far better than the romanticised "repairability."
After the galaxy note 7 disaster and the apple throttlegate I think it is time for us all to admit the fact that we have reached the limits of lithium batteries. We need to compromise the size of our smartphones if we want to continue seeing progress in their performance and features.

Or wait for a miracle from the electrochemists.
No. They did what was best for their bottom-line.

It was common knowledge that lithium batteries chemically degrade over time. It was not common knowledge, even to those with technical backgrounds, that the iPhone compensated by degrading performance. That was only made recently public by user research.

Many consumers have been buying new iPhones after at least 1 year because of this performance degradation. Had Apple been transparent about its performance degradation strategy from the beginning, people would have spent far less money.

This will have a substantial effect on Apple's revenue next year as people buy new batteries instead of new iPhones.
> If you invite a friend to your house do you expect them to show up with 50 other people?

But if you say no, your friend has the choice of whether to come alone.

Anti-anti-adblocking systems prevent your friend from making that choice.
> Early in 2018, we will issue an iOS software update with new features that give users more visibility into the health of their iPhone’s battery, so they can see for themselves if its condition is affecting performance.

So depending on the implementation of the feature iPhone users would be able to see how fast the battery degrades due to its low capacity. Apple could do what every other manufacturer did—provide phones with higher capacity batteries to start from for phones not to burn the battery with too many recharging cycles in the first year. The thing is Apple deliberately supplies small batteries for them to require many recharges and degrade fast. Androids now have on average 3000 mAh batteries. I got 5300 mAh. Small iPhones—1800 mAh.
I think the problem with Chromebook is that they are too reliant on connectivity. The disk are too small and I would like to run real desktop apps.
Maybe you were in tourist areas (if not, where did you see them)?

I would complain that I don’t see enough cops on the street (live in Brooklyn, work in Manhattan)
A few things that raised my brow:

1. The press release for the study and this article have completely opposite conclusions. At least the author is relatively upfront about this, but he characterizes it as if the press release is just a cautious, sciencey take on the results. By the way, it's not just the press release, but the abstract/paper has pretty unambiguous language saying findings "failed" to support such hypotheses.

2. There's a Mother Jones chart that uses data from the study, but it's cherry picked. They take a few cohorts, ignore the (very valid) adjustment the study authors made, and the chart itself is IMO misleading because when you scan it, you're likely to mush up the highs and lows of each cohort to make it look more linear than it is.

3. Looking this guy up, he's clearly an advocate around the lead crime hypothesis, so it should be understood this guy has an angle.

So, yeah, this headline sucks.
Is disabling autofill really a solution for the majority? These publishers are handing over their users' credentials to a third party. If enough people disable autofill they will just move the script to the login page and capture their users' credentials as they are manually typing them in.

The top Polish sites need to clean up their act.
As the ultimate cause is a bad design where they have underprovisioned the battery with little margin for degradation, presumably in order to fit it into a thinner phone, it becomes Apple to handle the issue in a transparent way. The right action for Apple then is not to degrade the performance to hide the problem under the rug, but to make it clear to the customer how they can have the phone serviced in order to make it work like before.

Apple is so lucky that this got noticed and they got called on it. The alternative is that millions of customers would continue to get an inexplicably bad user experience, which would chip away on their reputation in a more indirect but not less dangerous way than facing the press.
I will say first that as it concerns the Pebble: I react my statement. (Can’t edit now, sorry.) Ugh, I made a decent effort to find what I was talking about, but you sure wrote a lot of mentions about Pebble. :-) All I have to go on is an increasingly faulty middle-aged memory, despite your giving me a handy list of posts, so I’ll leave it be.

As for the weather app, it might very well have been sponsored. But here’s the thing: despite my critical comments above, I still take you as a person of integrity even for sponsorships. Now maybe that’s just naive of me (I grew up on Paul Harvey, I should know better), but even if you’re paid I just assume you tried the product and said, “yeah, I can sincerely praise that.” Naive or not, I just know that when I downloaded it, my first thought was “no way Gruber’s seen this running, it’s horrible and I’m not nearly the font and design nut he is. That, and the forecast looks like it’s for Florida, not Seattle.” Again, maybe that’s on me: it was an ad, clearly labeled as an ad, caveat emptor. Made a good faith effort to find my purchases in the App Store to back this up, but Apple apparently isn’t going to make that easy on me.

Finally, had I even suspected you might see this I probably would have not used a Dvorak comparison. I meant it to mean “can go on a rant, but a rant that’ll be worth consideration; whether you agree or not”, but that was Dvorak 30 years ago. I truly do enjoy reading what you write, and do read every post, and that comparison was unfair.
This is in no way a fair reading of Drum on the lead stuff. His basic point is that the rise and fall off crime is due in large part to lead so you should ignore politicians who try to claim credit for it with their policing programs and that we should scale back programs that were initiated during the 80s come wave. He does not support things like The Bell Curve at all.
In the history of humanity was never a case when technological advancement was doomed by a lack of a resource. Aluminium was extremely limited and valuable and no one was givinf damn and for a good reason - it does barely cost anything due to the massive technological paradigm shift. In fact, if people think about it more then five seconds, then pretty much every particle on this planet is limited and can be a potential bottleneck. Breaking news, let's all just die to protect our previous mother Earth.

I don't care about doomsday scenarios, because I kept hearing them every day, if there is anything more irresponsible then it's blind alarmism.
You're right on not being able to beat be the build quality of the Macbook.

Full screen mode was annoying because you couldn't put windows on top of the full screened app. Might be that I have a particular uncommon use case, but I often use basic utilities like notepad or calculator on top of my main apps. Additionally, the top menu bar would auto-hide. Often, when I would move the mouse to the top of the screen to change what tab I'm on, the top menu would reappear. This is fine, but the animation would take years to disappear and doesn't detect if the user's intention was to show it, leaving me waiting idle for a few seconds for the menu to hide again.

Complete dock auto-hide is too much of a nuclear option. I want the dock visible when there is nothing on the screen.

I mean, most people aren't as bothered by UX problems as I am. I'm probably a bit pedantic, but I feel it's reasonable to feel this way when the product costs somewhere around twice it's competitor's price.
I had to disable my ad blocker today to try out another plugin. The sites were 2-3x slower to load. There is no way anyone can convince me to disable my ad blocker again.
One possibility is to configure ad-blockers to allow only a tiny amount of data to be loaded from 3rd-party domains (i.e. can’t be a 2MB blob of JavaScript, giant animating image or video but a nice text blurb would fit within the limit).

Though I probably would trust it more if it were directly embedded in the site.
Exceeds the utility to user obviously
Recycling old phones in bulk may still be cheaper than individual phone repair.
> Ads appearing when you don't block them isn't really an issue.
When you are blocking ads, do you click on them? I wouldn't: I'd instead be annoyed that I'm seeing ads when I have an adblocker running.

Yeah I do, that's literally what I'm saying. I've clicked on ads that have slipped through.
Oh... I, like most people, am actually intentionally blocking the ads.
I Increased my conscientiousness.

I feel like it moved a full standard deviation, but with no real way to measure it, no controls and no documentation it's all guesswork. Still, I can point to certain behavioral changes that haven't regressed in the last 6 months (and a couple surprising ones at that) when I made the change.
Advertisers tend not to be willing to give that much control to whatever medium they're advertising in. More often than not, they can dictate terms because they drive revenue.
It's a real word, but one that doesn't seem to fit in context nearly as well as the similarly spelled "ludicrous."
Exactly. Last thing we want is the EU type of heavy handed influence on free markets.
How is the current web not decentralized?
Chicago apparently has greater concentrations of poverty, particularly among African-Americans:

edit: forgot the URL for this story https://www.thecut.com/2016/07/why-is-new-york-so-much-safer...

> A 2015 study by Rutgers University public policy researcher Paul A. Jargowsky found that more than a third of all poor African-Americans in Chicago live in census tracts with poverty rates above 40 percent, compared with 26 percent of poor African-Americans in New York.

The headline news about Chicago homicides and shootigns (e.g. "WAR ZONE: 10 Killed, 28 WOunded in Chicago Over MLK Day Weekend [0]) don't convey how concentrated the violence is in specific areas of the city. I visit (middle-class) friends who live downtown and uptown (along the lake) and it feels as safe as any of the nice parts of Manhattan when I lived there.

Chicago Tribune does an excellent job tracking shootings [1]. You can easily see -- after zooming in a little -- on even their overplotted dot map that areas other than Chicago's west and south sides, shootings are virtually nonexistent:

[snapshot] https://imgur.com/gallery/uPfSG

FWIW, according to the Tribune's tracker: In Chicago, 3,543 people have been shot this year. That is 784 fewer than 2016.

[0] http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/dsp/search.htm?frompage=...

[1] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/data/ct-shooting-victims-...
Very helpful, thanks, that does sound quite different from Dragula which makes a big point of how it automatically manages rendering of the being-dragged components.
In "Casino" Robert De Niro's character puts $2M in jewels in a safe-deposit box that even he doesn't have the key for (he naively gives the key to his wife- but that's another part of the plot) He narrates that the jewels are "in case he got in trouble". Ostensibly so he could pay off kidnappers.
Deep Neural Network Energy Estimation Tool
>> cops aren't always eager to take reports

Well, that’s not new, so it’s not like cops suddenly stopped reporting even more crime
I recently saw one site that said "It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. So you must wait 10 seconds.".

And had an overlay with a countdown.
Were you on a version of iOS 10 before 10.2.1?
Whilst I'm not going to apologise for Apple's building designers, last time I was in Chicago (March '17) I couldn't walk half a block without tripping over a "watch for falling ice" sign. So it seems very few people can design for snow in Chicago. Is this a local problem, or are these "falling ice" signs common throughout all snowy US cities?

(I'm a UK resident, we handle snow by bringing the country to a standstill for 48 hours and complaining a lot...)
Under River, Outside Time: The Woolwich Foot Tunnel Anomaly
You'd never want an instantaneous shutoff of your phone, which is what you'd get from a brownout. That's just asking for data corruption.
Fascinating. Some tidbits to save others time:

> The worst situation is keeping a fully charged battery at elevated temperatures.

> Avoid so-called ultra-fast chargers that claim to fully charge Li-ion in less than one hour.
Radar is never going to be public. There’s too much sensitive information in there, and tons of bugs submitted every day that contain sensitive info. People include all sorts of info, such as closed-source source code, that they wouldn’t do if it was public. Not to mention a lot, if not most, of the reports are filed by Apple engineers and those definitely wouldn’t be public even if external ones were.

But not being public doesn’t mean filing reports is useless! Even duplicates are useful. Bugs are fixed all the time using information found in duplicates.

Regarding Xcode, it’s got bugs, but it is a pretty good IDE all around, and it’s constantly getting better. Hell, Xcode 9 has a brand new awesome code editor (though it’s missing my favorite feature, focus follows selection, and I hope that comes back soon!) in addition to a lot of other improvements, and you’re trying to claim they’re not investing in their tools? Just because you apparently can’t use Xcode 9 for ill-defined reasons doesn’t mean they don’t care or aren’t using their tools!
Disabling javascript is the best anti-anti-adblock solution. I wish chrome added an option for tampermonkey scripts to be run with disabled js, that would make this solution perfect.
paper: http://www.rle.mit.edu/eems/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017_...
Managing automation: Employment, inequality and ethics in the digital age
Have you looked at GPD Pocket? It's a fun and useful device.
Bitcoin was released at 2009. Since then, this is the first kidnapping probably linked to cryptocurrencies. Yeah, this is definitely a trend. Since people are publicly boasting about their crypto fortunes and kidnappers has published their demands... /s
Where are you from? We never had it better.

A lot of top chefs don't want the pressure of a star. And all michelin restaurants are fully booked in Belgium.
>'What I mean is that "N-sigma" and local p-value are being used interchangeably, which you can see from this plot. There's no "number ... calculated without including info about any theory/evidence regarding the Higgs boson".'

Sorry, I still don't see what information is being used that requires theory/evidence regarding the Higgs boson. Whether or not anyone knows about the Higgs boson they could be plotting p-value by mass for these experiments.

>"The model used to calculate the background are unphysical in the sense that they set the Higgs production cross section to zero without changing anything else. There's no physical Higgsless theory."

So they actually change their model to be surely false, then go on to prove the known false model they just created... is false. This is pointless.
I don't think anybody really cares that much, except for I guess the biggest of Apple fanboys. There are fanboys for everything: Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc. There's also the inverse, haters for everything. It is interesting, however, how MUCH hate Apple gets proportionally to other companies. Especially around this story, there was a lot of misinformation around what was really going on. There just seem to be a lot more people willing to bash Apple for everything, moreso than there are people doing the same to other companies. And especially more than there are Apple fanboys.

I do use Apple products, but every company and product should be scrutinized equally. Not that it matters if Apple gets hate, they're still a billion dollar company, but I do find it interesting on why they get that hate at times when it's not really worth it.
Host ads as first-party content?
> * New growth lumber is inferior to old growth lumber *

I totally agree that many products are not "made to last" anymore. A fancy blender can do amazing things compared to an old one. But it will probably not last as long, and that's a problem.
too bad you didn't read what it said since the most interesting is that they are looking to trace out members of these groups by analyzing their bitcoin transactions and have announced they'll be releasing the list soon.

For all you know I'm posting this article as a warning that "authoritarian" groups like SPLC are seeking to "out" law-abiding racists and nazis. Which of course is not true. SPLC is not a government organization and has no "authority" whatsoever over anyone.
> Do you go into stores and demand they take down the displays that you don't like while you're shopping?

No, but stores are usually happy for me to not look at the displays if I don't want to. Staff don't follow me around putting up displays in front of the shelves I'm looking at, sneaking things I don't want into my basket, or following me after I leave the store to keep showing me displays. Nor do they outsource these things to unvetted lowest bidders, and swear off responsibility when the people they've contracted steal my car whilst I'm in the shop.
Hey Noah :)

Glad you think so. I haven't tested it because conversion volume is so low (going for quality > quantity). I opted for the simple site so that:

a) I don't spend time/money on designing or nitpicking, which can turn into a real time-suck for me.

b) It loads super fast. I'm using Netlify for static hosting.

c) Reader's attention is focused on the copy.
Face ID makes use of a front-facing IR sensor and dot projector. I hope those sensors make their way to the back of smartphones too. Could enable some very neat apps.
Why Hospitals Need Better Data Science
Thank you! It means a lot to me hear its impact on you -- stories from readers are what keep me excited about doing this work.
And how does WeChat do that?
Sometimes it's good to document what the automated tests are doing too, especially for clients.
You might also try setting primarycache=metadata, to avoid double caching the data. From what I have been told, this can help reduce memory pressure of the ARC competing with postgres' own caching.

Are you also setting a max limit for the ARC? You don't want postgres and the zfs ARC to compete for memory. I wonder if this impacts FreeBSD's poor performance in the read intensive tests.