skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All Android phones (with notches) have notches in addition to an ugly chin. The lack of other bezels is what made the notch on iPhone X acceptable (to me, at least). The thought of a notch with a chin (or worse, a forehead, or both) is frankly irritating. Xiaomi probably did the best job building a near bezel less phone with their Mix lineup — except for the front camera. If Android phone vendors can’t work an iPhone X like display (no chin), why not just build phones with a narrow forehead and no chin? The forehead could be used for display connections and camera, sensors, speaker etc. Even a Galaxy Note 8 like design (narrow chin and forehead) would be preferable to this madness. Alternatively, they could do what Xiaomi did with Mix lineup.
It's likely that the places worst hit now by global warming are a) the Arctic (but few people live there) and b) the Middle East.
The GDPR was basically a legislative accident, in that the a member of the Greens and strong proponent of privacy and data protection was made rapporteur to the European Parlament for the proposal [0]. There is an interesting documentary on that ("Democracy", 2015, by David Bernet).

This new Copyright Directive seems to be an accident in the opposite direction, with Axel Voss as rapporteur.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Philipp_Albrecht
One of the presenters mentioned this, but a good use of the Apple Watch ECG will be for patients to take an ECG when they feel weird or bad, and then the doctor can review when they come in.

It's not at all uncommon for patients to say things like "sometimes my heart races" or "sometimes I feel faint", but unless it happens when they're actually at the office, the doctor does not have any actual data to go off of.
To be clear:
No one is violating the 2nd law of thermodynamics here, nor is anyone trying. The scientists have a mechanism which reduces entropy at one part of a system at the expense of creating more entropy somewhere else. That mechanism could be useful in quantum computing.
> By exiting China, except pleasing the those moral puritans, I fail to see what exactly Google achieves.

You don't even have to have much imagination to realize that by exiting China, Google removed the leverage the Chinese government had over it. If Google has operations in China that it values, the Communist Party can use those operations as a hostage to manipulate Google, just like it did with the airlines.

Do you want an authoritarian government to have leverage over the service that you use to search for the answers to your questions? It's not inconceivable that that the CCP might use that leverage to get Google to change the rankings of its search results to be more to its liking.
> it's that if you use any text of an article, including its title, you can be sued or made to sign a license.

This seems a great place to use automated translation technology, but into the same language. Link to the news article, but rewrite it using a similar meaning, with different words.

(I am an EU citizen and I think this is major overreach by the legislator who thinks they are saving the newspapers, but have no clue as to what effect they will have on the current system, but it still will not save the papers.)
Shhhh! I'm convinced Voice only stays because it's under the radar of upper management. Don't remind them it exists!
Did the jump from 28 to 14 mean more than 14 to 7?
It's creating a culture that is welcoming to more individuals, regardless of sex, race, and background.

It's not bullying. In fact, I'd say active code maintainers who receive these requests and don't _reasonably_ accommodate them are the real bullies.
Some parallels with Uber here (minus the extreme culture issues) - semi-reckless CEO with Godly following, series of departures, constant fire from the media. But unlike Uber I don't think Tesla will see a new CEO. And that is good.
Sure, but the only way to argue that is the premise that the the power of the government is unending and can grant itself more power as it sees fit.

Give the government power to take away your rights, that's indeed what it will do.
There are often race-related questions in job applications.
Yes China and the US are basically the same size in area. India is smaller. What, to my mind, gets paid less attention is that the US is, in fact, the 3rd most populous nation in the world.
Chicago is cheap because the city lost nearly a million people in the last 60 years. But if you limit it to the places folks moving to the city move, it is not cheap.

Chicago city average really hides the fact that the places most people would consider living in Chicago aren't super cheap; still cheap-ish when compared to other coastal cities
What is the fraud you're trying to reduce? I know advertisers think that not watching their ads is fraud. Is that what you mean?
EU to give internet firms 1 hour to remove extremist content
If you think Amazon will refund you 3000 dollars worth of digital goods in 50 years if they go bankrupt, you're dreaming. If you're very lucky, whoever bought them out might let you keep your stuff, or more likely, let you buy it again.
didgoogleshutdown.com needs an update
what happens to all the supercharging stations?
Paul Stamets is incredible. Don't miss the many youtube videos and podcasts with him. Every single one will blow your mind.
Yes, I'm not saying I deny it either. I just say not to jump to conclusions based on gut feeling and "back in my day" arguments.
I wonder how this compares to a native GCC build. I always build Firefox myself (as I do with everything) and is always been noticeably faster than the binary. I hope this doesn't mean there will be problems doing GCC builds in the future.
You can buy better speakers than any of them at your local goodwill or pawn shop. The speaker isn't the product.
The profits are a great reason. Not necessarily for your dad, but definitely for some people who couldn't care less about your dad.
And frames have a feature I love that's almost never implemented nowadays: You can click+drag the border to freely resize the frames and see the content better.
Glad it helped you then!
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That too, but they claim that it will keep getting better:

https://www.tesla.com/autopilot

> Tesla’s Enhanced Autopilot software has begun rolling out and features will continue to be introduced as validation is completed, subject to regulatory approval.
I find many can't separate the idea of government and society. Government should serve society, not control it. Every societal issue is not in the purview of the government.
Horizontal drilling and fracking are two distinct but related techniques:

* "Horizontal drilling" refers to drilling a non-vertical
(and often curved) borehole, to reach deposits that aren't
directly beneath the wellhead.

* Hydraulic Fracturing, "fracking," is the practice of injecting
water into a well to crack the rock around the borehole,
increasing its permeability.

Each can be used independently, but it's the combination of the two that has increased US production.
Was all of this to lie dormant until user consent was granted? Curious how that process would have looked.
Basically you think Bitcoin cannot ever be "the one that lasts the longest" just because it was the first implementation? That's a valid argument, but it makes no sense to think that all other arguments that claim the contrary are invalid and can only be made by people with evil intentions of enriching themselves.
Checkbox seems unlikely, but this would be a reasonable way to distinguish between the "home" version of the OS for normies and the "premium" version for power users.
I get the urge to block these news sources every time I see a tesla article pop up in my feed, but I have a personal policy of not blocking any news source, I just refuse to click them any longer despite the strong urge I get after reading the headline. It's one mass overreaction. I imagine Tesla pushing into profit with time to spare in the near future and is anyone going to call out these authors, publishers?

I wish there was a way to see who is paying these authors and who is donating to these publishers. If we could follow the money it may reveal some motivation beyond the click bait headlines, or maybe not.
Stock prices are about whether investors are happy, not about whether the company is actually doing well.
Is it even legal to allow the acquiring company to direct your activities before the deal closes?

It seems like it could run afoul of anti-trust laws if you are functioning as one company in a situation where the merger might not get government approval.

I also wonder if it could cause liability issues because, until the deal closes, you are obligated to do what your current owners want you to, not your hypothetical (but probable) future owners. Especially if you are a public company and those owners are shareholders that you probably have certain legal obligations toward.
How do you mark a large list of emails as archived/deleted in Android?
I question how many of those horror stories are legitimate. Many users who have made these claims have later been revealed to have been violating the platforms rules in an egregious manner (i.e. cheating).
He was great at maximizing revenue and profit on the current thing but absolutely terrible at positioning them for the next thing. The problem in tech is that the next thing is often your cash cow 5-10 years out.

Name pretty much any major tech trend that took off during Ballmer's tenure and look at how well Microsoft was able to capitalize on it. (think MP3 players, phones, tablets, search, social, web apps, cloud services, browsers, etc). His stated strategy was 'fast follower' and we saw how well that worked out. Microsoft has become IBM in that they are mostly legacy tech now and virtually no startups use their stuff in a significant way which doesn't bode well for where they'll be when the windows/office gravy train stops rolling.

Their new CEO has been working hard to fix things (they're no longer a complete embarassment with browsers and cloud services, for example) but Ballmer left them in a pretty inexcusable position given the resources he had at his disposal.

I actually think the Cook/Ballmer comparison is apropos as I see a lot of similarities going on. It's not about where the company is today, it's where the company is likely to be 10 years from now.
To quote Jobs: real artists ship.

I suppose that since TSMC makes both processors as others have pointed out TSMC is the first to ship with at the 7nm node.
Brave offers micropayments for content.
He (barely) kept up with the rest of the industry, while dooming Microsoft to irrelevance in the up-and-coming mobile market.

I don't blame Ballmer for that as much as I blame the board of directors. It's Ballmer's fault that he went on national TV and laughed at the iPhone, but it's the board's fault that Ballmer still had a job when he stepped off the plane from New York.

And Windows users like myself were certainly in better hands under Ballmer than they are under Nadella. I do have to give him credit for that. Episodes like the Vista launch seemed like critical missteps at the time, but in retrospect he could have done a lot worse.
We bought a 2014 leaf last October for less than $10,000 after tax and registration. FWIW Quality was much higher than the 2006 Civic I had previously. It is a great car and cheaper to operate.
You could easily make an argument that lack of proper zoning in California has resulted in people moving elsewhere and that invokes the interstate commerce clause.
"Local machine-learning will decide what willing users are interested in, and whether or not to show them particular ads."

How are you countering my claim? It is trying to establish a monopoly on the ad-targeting protocol. Brave is not a regulated party, and as well-intended as Brave could be, all it essentially doing is moving one part of the architecture to the client, and granting control over it to a single party.

Google used to "do no evil" what guarantees Brave will not?
If I understand the helper code part correctly, libraries are banned? That makes the challenge quite pointless, as it doesn’t even pretend to be equivalent to “real world” usage. All it can show is the julia language has it by default... but not whether the language’s design actually leads to something more clean, readable and sufficiently fast than what would “normally” be done in other languages.

It doesn’t really matter if python doesnt have as powerful an array syntax as julia, if I can pull in numpy (a standard, battle-tested library) and produce equivalent (and good) code.

But if I pull in numpy, and still can’t produce code as nice as julia (because of whatever limitations of python as a language), then there’s an argument to be made for switching to julia.

But going purely off what the language gives by its initial installation... its just an arbitrary limitation to give the question one answer.

The article claims that it proves the point ... "This can be unfair since Julia has lots of functionality for array algorithms built in, but also illustrates the point" ... but assuming good intentions, I'm not sure what point that is? At best, you might be comparing APL languages to one another, but nothing broader than that.
This is not entirely accurate. One thing that doesn't seem to get much publicity, is that this law also fixes the broken DMCA process.

Platforms are expected not only to avoid taking down the wrong content, but they are obligated to have stuff (not computers) that rapidly examine any complaints about unlawful take-downs and re-instate the content.

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20180906IPR...
Nice.

Can L-systems support random variations? The code in the example produces the same fractal each time as the L-system is deterministic.
Tapping and holding the spacebar moves the cursor in ios12, but selecting text becomes much more awkward without force touch..
>> edit: wait wait this comment could be out of date. The google scholar for this paper says 2018 but the paper says 2013??

Chill! Your refs are up-to-date :)

There's two versions of the paper, one published in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, in 2013, the other published in 2018, in, er, Informs PubsOnline (??) in 2018. The latter appears to be an online journal- sorry if I messed up the name, I don't know the journal.
It depends on the role. If you rise into a position where you are managing customer relationships or otherwise have a P&L that is directly attributable to you, your hours become - not necessarily shorter - but not the primary thing you are judged on. An M&A banker who spends two days a week on the golf course and only rolls into the office once a week on a Thursday afternoon to tell his colleagues about the new mandate he secured for the firm isn't going to get shit from anyone. On the other hand - above a certain level, no sales = good night, sweet prince.

Juniors are judged by long hours and making sure their commas are perfect (in documents rarely read by clients) because there is nothing else to judge them on.
Yep - warranties are pretty much voided if the manufacturer goes bankrupt. Unlike bond holders, warranty holders are last in line for being remunerated.
You can't archive all in one swipe.
Yep. UX is our jobs (as devs), it should be our main focus and sacrifices of it made minimally.

For better or worse, does seem the days of Apple engineers working weeks on perfecting an animation behavior are largely over.
Is that the worst chapter?
Who ships a phone with the 7nm chip first? I’ll have to get the exact quote but I think Apple said first 7nm chip in a phone. When is Huawei’s phone shipping? Apple’s is here in 2 weeks.
What Is DevOps – Facebook's UseCase – DevOps Tools
Someone can correct me if wrong but I believe tracking can be as simple as monitoring the IP address doing a GET for even a static ad image, which you then save with information such as the referer header to track a person across the internet.
I heard it also was streamed on Twitter. That’s the next level of progress.
Perhaps they are on HN, but Microsoft is the third most valuable publicly traded company in the world (behind Apple and Amazon).
More than a huge deal, simply astonishing to this retired long-time neurosurgical anesthesiologist. To have 1)shrunk the giant oscilloscope/monitor (1-1.5 cubic feet/±50 lbs.) atop my anesthesia machine AND eliminate the long tangled lead wires connecting to the never-available sticky gel pads that sometimes came loose in the middle of a sitting craniotomy, necessitating the anesthesiologist's equivalent of the death crawl under the stifling drapes without disturbing the surgeon, glued to his operating microscope in which every movement, even the slightest, appears like Mt. St. Helen's; 2)eliminated the need for an electrical outlet and extension cord; 3)included the capability to store endless ECG traces without needing paper for the oscilloscope printer, which more often than not wasn't working, and when it was only recorded on demand such that if you missed ectopic beats, you couldn't show them to a colleague in real time to get a second opinion: this is a magnificent engineering and design achievement. Using a thumb from the opposite hand to close the loop and act as the third functional lead is so sublime, I'm gobsmacked. The red ring on the crown is perfect as an accent for this function, along with its acting as a cellular capability indicator. Knowing just what this device has accomplished in the terms above, I might just get one just to marvel at the greatness of American engineering. "Designed by Apple in California" — indeed.
I have purchased many movies on Google Play that are no longer available for purchase. They are still available for me to watch.
So is most of the new oil coming from shale then? Or is a lot of it coming from hydraulic injection (fracking)?
Ah, that's right, thanks for correcting me.
... Guess what makes investors happy?
>Do owners have any recourse?

No. There may be some enormously expensive, 3rd party service that springs up to fill demand for custom fixes with the machines, but warranty holders get nothing if the company goes bankrupt and dissolves liabilities.
Have these actually been tested in court? I believe if someone actually decided to sue it would go about as poorly as non-compete clauses in employment contracts.
Only if you pay more than $7,500 for a 2 year-old dromedary bull.
As is what you say. We choose to do that because we live in a society that pressures people to value having jobs over having rights. And there aren't enough jobs to go around because technology has made production so efficient.
So? Gee. Where is it written that you have to remember everyone's name? It's normal to forget, everyone's brain goes on holiday. It's not so important, is it. It's just a name. If later you want to know, say 'Sorry, I've forgotten your name' or something and smile, they've probably forgotten yours too. No need to stress out about that.
Well, much more than 100 engineers once worked at a lot of companies that vanished soon after. There are lots of arguments on why Bitcoin will last and not the others (and vice-versa) and I can't cite them all here, but the most important one is: in the end, there can only be one money.
PM chiming in here, but only for SaaS B2B. I work for a growing SaaS provider that caters to F500 companies. No PM I know of wants things to slow down, that's crazy. What I've seen though is that as a company gains customers, keeping them happy starts to raise in priority. Large customers customers in particular are extremely change averse. Some things I've seen:

- adding any bit of 3rd party software can be a nightmare, it might cause the entire contract to come under review again (like having a new analytics provider)

- some customers require 90 days notice of any material change in functionality, like moving a button to a new screen

- changes need to be communicated to marketing, CSM, and then to the admins of the customers

- and on and on

So I think that having many large customers, slowing things down just sort of happens. You can blame PMs or whatever, but it is just a thing that happens, at least with SaaS B2B companies.
> LineageOS is also supported on the Xperia Z5 Compact.

There's also unofficial support for the more recent XZ1 Compact.
It might depend on your size? I am tall and long-legged, so the effort of using the clutch is lifting my leg above the pedal and feathering it. Holding the clutch to the floor is no different than resting my foot on the dead pedal next to it. The only reason I would not want to hold the clutch for a long time is if I am worried I would be distracted and forget I was in gear.

I would never put my manual in neutral unless I am about about to set the parking brake. It represents a mode shift in my attention and vigilance. I always did this startup sequence (and its reverse for shutdown): foot on clutch, foot on brake, start engine, release parking brake, transmission into gear, foot off brake and over gas pedal, feather clutch to pull away.

Like many on this long thread, I eventually compromised and got an automatic because of the narrowing options in the new car market here in the US as well as to make my wife comfortable sharing the car.

I am learning to enjoy the extra gears and the aggressive automatic shifting program that gives a quiet, comfortable cruise. With a manual, I would never shift my way so close to the idle speed when cruising, because my ear would be telling me it is time to downshift. But, knowing that the computer is handling it means I enjoy the comfort and can be impressed by the fuel efficiency in this mode.

I do miss the engine braking though. I think automatics are tuned to an irritating preference for coasting. I'd much rather have to keep the gas pedal depressed in order for it to sustain speed, and to have it automatically downshift and slow the car when I start to raise my foot. I'd like the automatic to do this all the way from highway speed down to the slowest crawling speed in the lowest gear, without any other inputs.
Is there any Win/macos desktop app that works somewhat similar to Inbox?
Ask HN: Is there an industry preferred HIPAA compliance certification?
Hi HN, I run an Australian digital therapeutics company launching in the US. Basically, being HIPAA compliant is easy enough these days but the trouble is demonstrating this to clients (health payers in particular). Although you don't need certification to be compliant, I wonder if there is a preferred non-official certification that insurers and the like consider highly and would help to make their due diligence of our program more efficient. Any help appreciated!
No doubt they use different tech, but it struck me as untrue to say that never before has it been possible to change DOF after taking a photo. Isn't that precisely what Lytro enabled?
>unauthirized access

How exactly is it "unauthorized"?