skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went from a 5.2 inch phone to an SE myself, largely for size reasons. Those big phones are just too cumbersome, even if the screen is nice.

I'm very disappointed they didn't use the edge-to-edge screen ability to reduce the physical size and keep the screen size the same. A 4.7 inch screen in an iPhone X design would be perfect for me. It would be barely bigger than the SE with a much bigger screen.
From my experience, "intentional obsolescence" is myth. I got my iPhones since iPhone 3Gs in perfect working condition. My mom used iPhone 4 until I gave her 6 last month. Oh, by the way, iOS12beta is working quite well on (almost) 5 year old iPhone 5S.
That's what I'm hoping for. You may notice I mention "quality" electric car ... and from what I can see, Tesla is the only producer of quality electric cars, period.
> The kind of system described (though only very vaguely) in the article is a rule-based system, possibly an expert system. These hand-crafted systems were the norm in AI up until the '90s or so and are still in widespread use in various domains (e.g. in finances, or air travel bookings etc).

this is wrong at least for UNOS (united network for organ sharing)-which is the main system in the article-the current computer program used to find matches is an integer linear program. I think it is an interesting question if some kind of rule based system could replicate their ability to find the matches. I tend to think not.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0837/80a157a7f8ebfa44dce0bc...

page 16
"To our knowledge, there is no solver that would scale to the nationwide steady-state size—
including the CMU solver used by UNOS. This solver is based on the work of Abraham et al.
(2007), with enhancements and generalizations by Dickerson and Sandholm, and uses integer linear
programming (IP) with one decision variable for each cycle no longer than L (in practice, L = 3)
and constraints that state that accepted cycles are vertex disjoint. With specialized branch-andprice
IP solving techniques, Abraham et al. (2007) were able to solve the (3-cycle, no chains,
deterministic) problem at the projected steady-state nationwide scale of 10,000 patients"

edit: wait wait this comment could be out of date. The google scholar for this paper says 2018 but the paper says 2013??
Much as I love Clojure, I agree that clojure.spec, while very powerful, has a mess of a UX. That's why – shameless plug – I wrote Ghostwheel [1], which, to me, turns it into a whole other thing, especially when gen-testing, spec-instrumentation and tracing are used together.

Having inferred types in addition to this would be even better, but types are no replacement for generative testing or vice versa.

They really complement each other quite nicely, but also have a large overlap in terms of how much they can reduce the need to do manual debugging and enable clean changes/refactorings with minimal effort.

[1] https://github.com/gnl/ghostwheel
This is an embarrassment and totally changes the colour of my view of brexit in one fell swoop.

I would not want to be a member state of an organization that thinks this is remotely ok either.
Inbox so far is the very best email client I used.
It is not an email client, rather a task manager.
Mails, reminders, auto reminder, auto-grouping, oh, and TRIPS!

Oh man, trips, every incoming email related to a trip is automatically merged into the bundle, airline tickets, car rentals, hotels, flight schedule changes, you simply need nothing else, it was all there.

The new Gmail recently introduced is not getting close to Inbox.

I can't believe they do it.
These last few days I was very surprise to hear repeatedly on France Info (big national news radio) the side of the artists against Youtube and not once hear about the consequences for the Internet.
For me, it’s because I can’t stand having meaningless ‘5,423’ badges littering the icons on my home screen.
How do you manage the state if multiple people try to change the same thing at the same time?
by "fat-free body weight", do you mean people that have a low body percentage already?
That must have been several boards at least, even at TTL scale integration and using components like adders and decoders as the building blocks.
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The loss of 3D touch on the Xr seems pretty disappointing. I use that feature quite a lot on my iPhone 8, especially for moving the cursor around in text messages. It seems like the Xr would be a lot less efficient for that, unless they have found another good UX for that.
No, it is the same size as the XR.
FDA approval doesn't hold much water anymore with things like a study of 25 people is enough to get transition contacts approved [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16864566
How is it an "end-run"? Your CC chargeback agreement isn't sacrosanct or a law. It's just another private contract, on par with your contract with Steam.

The real problem is that a Steam "purchase" are fundamentally an undefined-term rental. When you "buy" a gsame, you are buying nothing, and then Steam might let you access a game if they wants you to.
Because Microsoft is a tier 2 company these days when they used to rule almost the entire computing world with an overwhelming marketshare.
The U.S. federal government can accumulate only debt, it cannot accumulate savings. Why? Because any surplus it generates is stored in Treasury bonds, which are also counted as debt.

Things are different for the federal government. It's an institution of last resort, so the normal ways of thinking about personal finance don't apply. It can't open a "savings account" anywhere, because every other institution on Earth is smaller and less reliable.
Out of curiousity, how did you come by this definition? I can't say I recognise it!

Like I say in another comment, most of AI is not about machine learning, but rather about reasoning in complex domains, very often using hand-crafted procedures.

For example, most of the AI systems of the '80s and '90s, which were in fact hailed as great successes of AI, were of the expert system variety: in short, a large, hand-crafted database of production rules elicited from domain experts, coupled with an inference procedure.

For instance, an early expert system was MYCIN, used to diagnose bacterial infections. It was one of the earliest AI systems to perform at least as good, and even better than, experts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycin
You are getting downvoted, but it's true, as an European it's appalling to see Europe constantly sabotaging itself when it comes to tech.
Spotify raises limit for offline downloads to 10,000 songs per device
I find it fascinating how Apple delivers 7nm processors, while reportedly Intel is struggling with 14nm and delaying 10nm.
You didn't use the words, but if saying that community discomfort eclipses all the different types of the work involved (with your point being that they might have been better just doing the work) isn't a trivialisation of said work, then I don't know what is.

EDIT: Actually, I take that back, sorry. If we both have different estimations of what the community discomfort actually is (both the discomfort currently and the discomfort that will be caused technically), then I can't make that call and say you were trivialising it.

My point is that a lot of the more vocal elements were definitely trivialising the work involved, going as far as suggesting that the maintainer is an asshole for not just doing a find/replace.

It's hard to take that in good faith, as if it were just a find/replace, why don't they offer to take care of it along with any ongoing technical consequences?

The answer is that they're both ignorant of the technical implications, and ultimately, more comfortable shouting from the sidelines than rolling up their sleeves, preferring instead to make innate character judgements about the maintainer.
The important difference is that the only "license terms" for paperback copies are laws designed to protect publishers, whereas digital licenses can be as arbitrary as a publisher chooses to as long as they don't conflict with laws designed to protect consumers.
I believe he asked for numbers :)
Maybe the term for this is "unfluencing" - where you take a product used by many influencers and drop it, making them mad and hostile and reducing trust.

It's the opposite to "influencing".
I think it's more like morale was low within the company due to stack ranking and other bad management practices. But then we regularly hear about atrocious working conditions at Amazon, for both their fulfillment center employees and their corporate workers, while Bezos is viewed as a visionary.
Though Azure Dev Ops was discussed elsewhere, the unlimited private Git repos part was not really discussed.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/repos/git/limi...

The limit of 10GB per repo is pretty generous.

However, the pricing page (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/devops/azu...) doesn't mention unlimited private repos. It just mentions unlimited public repos.

It would be great if any of the Azure people on Hacker News can clarify if private repos are indeed free or not!

Also, are free private repos limited to only 5 members or unlimited number of project members are allowed to access the free private git repos?
I love to invite the two of you to try the desktop builds; we recently announced the developer preview builds of our brave-core version (on track to be our 1.0 release). This version will also bring some unity to the desktop, iOS, and Android versions.

You can find this version online at brave.com/download-dev

Also, thanks for the bug link. If there are any other items on iOS and/or Android that I can review, please do share.
That's odd. The gwfp.com link says:

"the Permian region in eastern Texas and western New Mexico,"

that's got it backwards actually (western TX and ...).

And the _current_ EIA's Short-Term Energy Outlook (reference by gwpf.com) says nothing about either Russia or Saudi Arabia.

I'd question the gwpf's research.

The latest weekly US production figures are here:

https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/weekly/crude.php

(3rd chart down - look at number immediately below).

In the most recent wk, 9/7, production dropped back from 11 to 10.9.

Production for SA, Russia and the US have been nip and tuck for a while and (provided capital and markets hold up) the US will likely surpass the other two - but maybe not just yet.
You can download your existing collection when you have the opportunity, and then put the device on airplane mode.

I know that doesn't address the main point, but ... quibbles.
yay BJJ! Been doing this for about two years, and it's the best thing I ever started. Really enjoy both the physical training aspect of it, and also the "human chess" aspect of it.
Hum, clicking on links from emails. How that could possibly go wrong?
Because charging points don't have the same environmental concerns as gas station fuel dispensers and storage meaning they can be anywhere. So why would you want to single purpose the land as most gas stations are. The convenience stores attached to most are designed to serve people in the time it takes to fuel a petrol vehicle which is five to six minutes max.

So chargers can be at places that encourage longer stops and since there is no real environmental impact that means they can be placed about anywhere a parking space already is.
Which story? I mean, Orwell's 1984 comes to mind frankly, but that's from the mid 20th century, not 10 or 20 years ago.
Since 1 million is totally meaningless to me, this is roughly speaking 17 semi trucks full of water per million.

It's obvious that it's a failure of logistics, but missing 17 semi truck loads doesn't seem insane to me.
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Apart from the other problems in your comment, `purchase` !== `own`.
Perhaps, yosito meant what the purpose of the whole command was, rather than what <() meant. It looks like a diff of diffs and commit info, but I've never used branch@{n} before. Looking into gitrevisions(7), it gives the nth prior value of branch, so doing a regular commit would be represented as an addition of a commit and its changes and doing a `git reset @~` in that branch would be shown as a deletion. Doing a `git commit --amend` appears as a modification of that commit. It seems useful.
The grassroots movement helping football rediscover its soul
No, it was owner content. Of course, for some sites, like my personal Geocities page, the owner frequently was the sole user too, but the concepts of "one entity who owns the site builds the content" and "third parties visiting the site build the content" are different.
This is a political story, but then so is most of tech these days.
Me too, and I hate face id. It forces me to essentially try to take a selfie to open my phone, or read notifications. I feel it's gotten better over time, but it fails very often and I find myself having to type the passcode all the time. Of course, it doesn't show the passcode option immediately either, you have to wait till it gives up on face id auth so there's a second or so of delay. I often have my phone lying down on the table next to my laptop while working, and face id NEVER works then, unless I look straight at it from above.

Conversely, touch id was perfect. I could just put any one of my registered fingers on the button and it'd more or less instantly open up. I didn't have to look at the phone, I didn't have to pose. It just worked. Face id is a terrible step back, and now there's no option but older phones if you want touch id. I got the touch bar MBP just so I could have touch id on it too, it's great.

I was really stoked about the iPhone X when it was announced, ordered it the second it became available. I didn't like it very much at first but figured maybe it just took some getting used to, but now after a year I honestly think it's a step back. Was waiting for a new iPhone 8 style device, with touch id, but since they've given up on that I guess I just have to get an 8 or get used to the new selfie normal and weird overloaded touch gestures everywhere.. sigh
Brave doesn't do that. Brave blocks ads and trackers. In some (half a dozen or so) cases, we might load an internal resource (known as a siteHack, for fixing broken experiences), but we don't substitute network requests.
Price anxiety and maintenance anxiety. I buy 2-3 year old cars and drive them for another 10 years. What is maintaining a 12 year old electric car going to cost? Nobody knows! When Tesla has been gone for 5 years, will a 10 year old model 3 still even boot up?
You purchase a revokable license, since it's a one-time payment, not subscription, and since it's not a product you are purchasing.
Nobody really knows what Saudi reserves are. Including, very possibly, the Saudi's themselves. Moreover, very old fields and, I believe, little in the way of new discoveries.
49 top level execs have left this year. After a while, patterns begin to form that make us question their underlying causes.
Basically what I developed was a local engine that could use characteristics like browser history, programs installed, computer usage stats, etc. to target ads. It had a scripting language so that instructions to implement new targeting criteria to scan the computer for could be sent down without changes to the underlying software. For example, if Netscape wanted advertisers to be able to target Microsoft Office users, we would include instructions for the software to search the computer for Office and watch for future installs of it. No data ever actually left the user’s computer, as is the case with your model - the fact that they matched a given characteristic was simply stored in a local database.

Websites that wanted to place targeted ads on their site could then do so with some special markup indicating exactly what criteria they wanted to use. They could specify an almost limitless number of different creatives and corresponding targeting criteria right in their HTML. My thought was that they could pay Netscape for the privilege of enabling highly targeted ads.

The privacy downfall here, at least in Netscape’s opinion, was that sites could extrapolate whether or not someone matched the criteria by watching to see which banner their browser downloaded. I countered this by having an option for the software to download 5 or 10 other banners in random order in addition to the one that actually met the targeting criteria in the background, but that wasn’t good enough to overcome the perception of privacy issues in their eyes.
i still have the feeling that the next big bust will come from the fracking industry by 2020. The reserves are vastly overestimated, profitability muddled by financially wizardry, and capital flow about to get squeezed as interest rates rise.
This part jumped out at me:

> Apple wrote back to him that “the content provider has removed these movies from the Canadian Store. Hence, these movies are not available in the Canada iTunes Store at this time.”

So, if the person in the article used a VPN to pretend to be in the U.S., would he have been able to redownload his movies? Or is the account itself tethered to the Canada iTunes Store?

I'm not sure how the country attribution for iTunes accounts works.
So you're saying if you can't sell the local-data-processing feature as "privacy-preserving", then you can try to sell it as "it'll work without an internet connection" - tunnels, trains, planes, cars, hiking, underground, deep-inside buildings, power-loss, or many other situations that you don't have WiFi nor 4G.
I don't believe in copyright or patents, those are solely institutions of the government and primarily tools of the well connected political class.
> 0 is truthy

Nope. 0 being falsy only makes sense in pointer-oriented languages where NULL is a null pointer at address 0. In Lua, 0 is a number. It's not a pointer address.

Which leads to:

> a={1} a[0]==nil a[1]==1 indexing starts at 1 but a[0]=1 does SOMETHING

So does -1: should -1 be falsy, too?

> if undefined … -- treated as nil

Pardon? It is. Are you asking for an undefined keyword? Why? In the Lua C API, you already get `lua_isnoneornil` to begin with.

> function pseudoclass:new …

Lua is a prototypal language.

> but by far the biggest complain is the packaging.

You know, thank God. Because JavaScript is probably the closest thing to Lua and look how that turned out.

The only thing holding it back is that the community doesn't need or want it. It's also small enough that perhaps no one has made a good package manager for Lua yet. But the `package` module in Lua already provides search paths, so it's fairly low effort. Frankly, I've never had a need for it. I don't want npm for Lua.
This, a million times this. Face ID is such a leap back from Touch ID.
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Yes and no.

I have a MacBook pro with full ports. It should last me a while (like a tank). But Windows has generally been far better about supporting older hardware (though MS isn't generally thought of as a hardware... )

My coworker needed a new battery for her Air as it wasn't keeping power long enough for her teaching (it wouldn't make it through her lecture). Apple labeled her machine "vintage" so no official battery replacement available. She was not happy.

Making components non-upgradeable also lowers serviceable life.

They're better at supporting iOS devices, though I have a iPad1 and a iphone4S.

Hopefully this new initiative will help.
Interesting - so with 5 people, your memory slots are clearly exceeded, even without considering the possibility that edges might not be the same in each direction.
(the previous poster was making a phone pun)
From what I've heard the Homepod had an amazing speaker but it was paired with a second-rate assistant (Siri) while most people that buy Alexa products care more about the assistant than it's included speaker.
I still post my content to my own site. People still see it; mostly finding it through search.
> At no point in any of this does any type of governmental authority have any say whatever concerning how the company should be managed and for whose benefit (government has a role in a technical sense only in providing a state charter giving the corporation a legal existence and in non-management aspects such as having the power to tax the entity and to enforce broadly applicable criminal and regulatory laws against it, e.g., laws against securities fraud or illegal securities offerings).

The proposal looks like an attempt to model interactions between corporations and people with more nuances.

Obviously corporations don't exist in vacuum. Government provides states charter not as a matter of tradition. The corporate registration has its uses. What this proposal does is more accurately reflects interactions between corporation, existing in an environment governed by the government (country), and that environment. Corporation interacts with the country when hiring employees, selling goods or going to courts. Since all of that affects the country in various ways, it seems natural for the country to look for ways to consider its interests.
It’s not just about privacy. Having to go over the Net to process simple voice commands makes Siri almost useless. After a few times of giving a command to Siri, only to be confronted with a long delay or an outright error because you’re driving, or in an elevator, or under a bridge, or whatever, it stops being a tool you reach for instinctively.
Almost every executive tasked with showing you the financial numbers is leaving or has left what should be one of the hottest/sexiest startups of our time. Many of them have left with stock options still on the table.

That should say more than the numbers do by themselves.
I can imagine it sucks working for Musk. I think he burns his people out. But yeah, makes you wonder if it's anything beyond that.
Tech developments in Vancouver over the last 4 years
> high land prices impose private (i.e. paid into the private sector) taxation, rather than public

Agreed, though I'm not sure that's much consolation to the ones paying it. With public taxation at least you can hope you're helping to fund something useful.
I second the Yergin recommendation but don't understand this:

> Right now the US seems to be using oil exports to weaken other countries, rather than banking the oil and exploiting it when supply starts to dry up. I also think that some methods aren't long-term a good idea.

The US is still a net importer. It exports some because its refineries are more setup for heavy grade imports. The light, sweet crude from its newer shale efforts command a premium price on the world market from those refineries that are less able to handle heavy crude, so are exported.

See for example:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/17/shale-oil-has-a-refining-pro...

What reason do you have for saying oil exports are being used to weaken other countries?
Does anyone know where we're heading next? Will there be a slowdown of performance increase the next years? Did we hit a barrier?
Cheers. Just as you were posting this I read your comment and noticed, in the link, the reference to MIP. However, it does sound like early matching systems where simply hand-crafted rule-bases encoding experts' decision-making process, so expert systems:

One night in 2000, tired of delivering the heartbreaking news to patients and their loved ones that no suitable kidney could be found, a US nephrologist named Michael Rees lugged home several crates of files and spent the next few hours scrutinizing blood, antibody, and tissue data, and comparing patient charts. The work was mentally grueling. Eventually, he realized he had no viable matches—but also, that if the pool were bigger, pairs could be made. Working with his father Alan Rees, a computer scientist, Michael Rees created a simple computer program that did the work of pairing up donors and recipients, introducing AI to the matching process.