skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been so long since I've used anything other than my AirPods I'd forgotten this isn't the usual experience.
Then think of how much scientific inquiry has been discouraged because people don't want to work under those conditions. It just weirds me out that the article quotes people about terrible behavior from professors, but doesn't put any blame there or with the authorities who could do something about it. It just blames everyone who responds for doing it wrong.

When authorities aren't doing their jobs, we're left with vigilantism or nothing.
1970 - Germany pops out of nowhere straight to second place.
We think the Russian Trolls are still out there: identifying them with ML
If it's not too off topic, what is it about the watch that you like so much? I've still got my iPhone 6 and was nodding my head in agreement until you got to the watch part, so just curious, what makes it a compelling product for you?
Some samples from repo: https://github.com/google/filament
well, they get it right just for their systems. could sony try to make their stuff work 'the same' on multiple different windows installs? possibly, but it's a lot of work, and they can't guarantee the same bluetooth radio chips or versions, etc.
Moving AirPod pairing from iOS -> Mac works well, but going the other way is always a struggle for me. I nearly always have to go into my iOS device's Bluetooth settings to reconnect. It's tolerable, but an annoyance.
Steve Jobs was not perfect and what he set out is not doctrine. Apple can be successful without following what he has done in the past. Simply computing has moved on, people own computers for different reasons and the pro / consumer split is not as clear as it once was. Devices can be fashion accessories. Where / how does that fit into the Steve jobs pro / consumer split?
Crypto was never designed to be democratic.

From the very outset, it's explicit that the system is designed such that network security and correct-operation-as-designed was based on making that behavior optimal for those with the most to lose.

In other words, miners make the most money when they operate the network as designed. Potentially malicious actors get less return behaving maliciously than they do otherwise. It's simple, dumb, brutal, and effective.

What's important is that the design of the system allows anyone with an internet connection to participate, and is in that sense open to all.

BTW, ownership of currency literally doesn't matter in a proof-of-work currency (other than the ability to affect trading price). Only in proof-of-stake systems is that a possibility, and it may be possible, through careful design, to avoid that.
> It's insane that serial abusers are protected by their institutions and allowed to continue their abuse without suffering a dent in their social standing.

I like to call this the Mangino effect. At my alma mater, the University of Kansas, there is a football program. It is bad. There was a blip in the success of the program: when Mark Mangino, a gargantuan hulk of a man, was hired as the head football coach in 2001. Within two years, the program had a bowl appearance. The program's performance began to increase culminating in back-to-back bowl victories in 2007 and 2008. Everyone loved the jolly fat man.

In 2009, the football team lost all but one of their regular season games. And what do you know? It turns out that Mangino had been physically abusing the players (for example ordering a player to "bear crawl" on asphalt that was literally too hot to touch without suffering burns). Everyone had known this for years and it was an open secret. It was only when Mangino stopped bringing home the bacon that they ousted him, using his transgressions to do so. But not until the point that he stopped delivering results.

To be fair, the administration and boosters enabled and condoned his excesses and behaviors not only because he was delivering victories, but because no single individual could go against the pro-KU-football crowd without facing social penalties themselves. They can't afford to punish or be seen to punish their superstars until their light begins to fade.

Here's a quote exemplifying the Mangino effect:

"The Kansas Jayhawks are softbellied pussies for firing Mark Mangino. He was a great coach--probably the best thing that happened to KU football. In over a century. So what if he ranted and raved, swore like a sailor, belittled players, chest-poked, grabbed facemasks, and instituted unreasonable punishments. Jayhawks football wouldn’t be anything close to the team they are today if Mangino had coached in a kinder more gentle manner. Sheesh. The whole university needs to grow a nutsack."

I imagine there are similar sentiments going on in academic and technological bureaucracies not only in regards to abusers, but to anyone with both power and skeletons in the closet. Utilize their human resources despite their kompromat, then when they've been thoroughly wrung-out and fading, get rid of them because of their kompromat.
Swedish ISP Protests Site Blocking by Blocking Rightsholder’s Website Too
What about just using it as a package manager inside Debian until you can get a hosting provider to support NixOS?
Complexity in the names of devices has nothing to do with those devices being innovative, or Apple being inventive.

And from sales numbers, clearly the naming of the new iPhone lineup hasn't deterred people from looking at apple.com and figuring out what device suits their needs.
What's the purpose of this question?

I've had big salary bumps before. My experience was that I made more money and could afford to invest more and buy more stuff with it. What did you expect?
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Well if it's not what they're doing already they really ought to think about it. Twitter is supposed to be the "safe" micro-blog social network, where one gives up complete free speech in exchange for being shielded from extremist hate speech. The supposed benefit of using Twitter over complete-free-speech alternatives like Gab or certain Mastodon instances is, users are supposed to be shielded from the extreme hate speech that is permitted on those other platforms. If they can't deliver on this to the point where users are seeing "Kill all Jews" trending, then the only edge Twitter has over its competitors is user count, and that is subject to change if they fail to deliver on their other supposed advantage.

Basically if you tell me the reason Twitter is better than Gab et al. is that you don't see hate speech on Twitter because that's their policy, yet a user logs in and sees the most blatant stereotypical hate speech possible trending right there at the top of the page, you're not really selling me on what you tell me is supposedly better about your service.
Transparent object like glass are also a problem for path tracing. Bidirectional path tracing can improve this but it's hard to predict which rays from a light source will be visible to the camera.

It's amazing we can now have photorealistic images in seconds.
But I think it will take some more years before studios can render the latest Avatar in realtime.
My understanding is that best practice for writing crypto libraries these days is that you avoid any data dependent jumps and always execute the same instructions every time, using cmov or similar instructions to make use of one calculation or another. In that case the port usage should be the same regardless of input data and you should be immune to this attack and many classes of timing attack you might be otherwise vulnerable to. You've still got to worry about data dependent power draw but that's hard to attack even if you have the chip on a bench in your lab. So would this attack actually be workable against crypto libraries designed that way? Not that the ones in the wild are necessarily but this might be an impetus.
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Yes. For years I haven't been able to use my Bluetooth headphones with my Android phone :(
I’m not really sure I buy the premise - Apple has never been much of an inventor, instead being more of a “competent executor”. It’s true that Apple is likely to continue to increase its service offerings, but I don’t think that fundamentally changes the nature of the company. Since Apple has historically focused on executing extant ideas well, it’s quite possible that we won’t see any massive new markets until we know what the next “hot new tech” will be. AR maybe?
People keep complaining that Apple isn’t bringing the next iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch level innovation, but honestly no one is pushing them so why should they? As far as moving markets they’ve done enough to coast a bit. Noone is complaining that companies like Ford and Toyota are “just making new cars instead og innovativt”
please demonstrate. this was a browser extension it had nothing to do w/ facebook security
Blain: “What Is Apple Hiding?”
This assumed that it is easy to get a job that pays enough above living expenses for the leftover money to be enough for health insurance. If getting such a job is hard, I'd argue that the money that ensues from said job would be hard too.
https://lobste.rs/s/ebmcvk/x_hole
> I just wished websites wouldn't need to draw from ~200 untrusted sources

That's just how it is though. Even if you're using vanilla js.

Don't get me wrong, I know what you mean... it's just that it's really hard to actually find arguments for that... philosophy

At this point, I think it doesn't really matter as long as your site has a good ux.. which is obnoxiously hard to measure
The new iPad Pro already benchmarks as high as some of their recent laptops (Yes, I know the thermals are different, etc but bear with me here)

My bet is that over the years iPad Pro will expand to do more and more of the jobs that people traditionally use MacBooks (or laptops in general) to do. We'll eventually see a world where most people have iPads, not laptops - thereby relying on A-series chips, not Intel, to get their work done. iPad sales are already encroaching Mac sales, and Apple already acknowledges that for most people, the iPad is enough to be their primary computer or soon will be (you can see this in their communications and commercials).

I know it might be difficult for a somewhat technical (and maybe a little bit older) community like HN to imagine, but this is one of my strong beliefs with regards to Apple's product lineup. I truly think the iPad Pro is the dark horse that no one will see coming (especially given that Apple themselves hadn't really focused on iPad deeply for the first couple years of its existence).
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This is not a big deal; the exploit code is new, but the vulnerability has been known for 13 years -- and doesn't matter since any code vulnerable to this is also vulnerable to other attacks.

https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1058424239156412416?s=19
This is true and in reality most Nix users are package authors. You will probably find things that are not packaged and you will have to author them.

Just wanted to add that Nix currently has the most software packaged in any distribution, and almost the same number of packages as AUR:

https://repology.org/repositories/graphs

If you want to use a Git repository for something, most of the time you can just 'override' a packages source code input to a new version. In Nix, even source code is actually an 'input' (a parameter) to a build script (a function), so you can just provide a new copy of the source code (pass a different parameter to the function) and rebuild.

Though you have to be careful with overriding derivations with the same name on which a lot of other derivations are dependent, since it will rebuild every transitive dependency as well. Of course, if you are using a overridden derivation just for your own projects, you could give it a different name.
Glad to see this as a top comment. So frikin true in the USA. When I started my freelance/contracting business, the first thing that came to mind was "oh shit, how will I manage Health Insurance". The fear factor is huge.
SMT is like a shared kitchen. Even if you're unable to see the other person in it, if you go to use the sink, oven, or microwave and have to wait because it's in use, you know some small bit about the other occupant. Knowing how long you have to wait tells you more. Knowing what is already stocked in the fridge from the other occupant that you can immediately use tells you a lot.

Separate cores are more like completely separate kitchens. Sure, the grocery delivery service might take shorter or longer some times, but it's hard to tell much beyond general area business from that. What's in your fridge is what you put there.
I'll wait until the AirPods has noise-cancelling. I can't wait until Apple enters into the NC game!
They didn’t stop selling the $999 non-retina “old” MBair because that is Apple’s single best-selling computer. They sell a fuckton of them every September.
I wonder what this model would suggest if used to guide interventions aiming reduce anxiety/violence. Would it be more effective to e.g. introduce more helpful similarity-based influence into each group, or reduce cross-group incursions? (There are obvious connections there to political debates.)
Or, you know, changing the authorities.
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what about Fedora?
The idea that people think there is no better / equivalent alternative is an issue. Why people are willing to begrudgingly spend thousands on something without doing research doesn't make a lot of sense.
It's a decent article.

But in general conservatives have an incentive to attack universities (since they are independent arbiters of truth).
More here, including how the Koches and other libertarians spend money to attack universities.
https://psmag.com/education/conservative-media-is-waging-a-w...

So there's often a bit of selective reporting. Universities spend a lot of time debating opinions, and the few times something like this gets discussed, it gets amplified by conservatives.

I generally like Friedersdorf, but he's a self-professed libertarian and does a lot of writing about university speech.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/06/liberta...
"Libertarians Aren't All Selfish Jerks"
CONOR FRIEDERSDORF
What I do is put them back in the case real quick and open it near my iPhone. That seems to do the trick though it’s arguably not much better than going into Settings.
Thank you. I'll keep maintaining the PR until then.
How do you figure? Please elaborate on this. I don't see how subsidized premiums and guaranteed coverage would be a detriment to freelancers... Yes, the cost of healthcare was cheaper back then, but it likely would have risen more without ACA.
Great job posting a nut-job shill publication.

They have a lot of interesting articles:

- The Democratic Party Is Working To Destroy The American Way Of Life

- ‘I’m Pro-Life But Wouldn’t Outlaw Abortion’ Parallels Stephen Douglas’s Argument For Slavery

- New Evidence Suggests Planned Parenthood Lied To Congress About Aborted Baby Part Profits

They sound really "Fair and Balanced"
The battery life and charging is arguably the best thing, and they do sound great, but they also have a high pitched electronic frequency in them that I've gone through a replacement and still had. Pain in the ass.

I love 'em, and I want them to be better :)
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Diaspora and Google+ and App.net really prove that funding and tech influencer press isn't enough to make a successful social network. Social networks are harder than they look.
This is obviously made up, as indicated by the metrics stated above.
Apple will no longer report iPhone numbers
Any platform that facilitates people saying what they want to say is going to facilitate hate speech, because some people are racists.

The platforms can try to prevent that, and Twitter does try. But it is simply not possible to catch everything unless every single tweet is reviewed by a human censor. That won't scale, but even if it did, the censors would not always be trustworthy.

Some people seem to be convinced that we can have large social platforms free of hate speech and fake news. It's not possible, because of the users.
Just riffing on that metaphor, which is true in a lot of ways, Apple could really, _really_ benefit the world by publishing "Apple standards for business" or something similar, a reference point for other corporations who will frankly never be Apple, but could at least kick things up a notch in terms of overall professionalism and impact.

A few very successful corporations have come to the point where they are practically worshiped and almost universally admired, but we are not getting all the cultural benefit from them that we can. That needs to be part of the deal--we give you our markets and cultural attention, you return to us your cultural technology in a more concrete form, at the very least by publishing standards that can be applied to other human organizations. This will help us accelerate human cultural evolution and we'll all benefit.
I do agree with this. When I was younger I would happily blow a whole weekend getting my window manager set just so or figuring out how to load load songs onto my Diamond Rio from RedHat. Now I’m middle aged and I’m willing to pay all sorts of $$ to have it just work in a sensible way. And work it does — nothing in android or windows land even comes close. It’s surprising how many comments I see here that are completely oblivious to this and insist on trashing apple for being “not free”. The market has spoken. Almost no one cares.
Economic factors have killed nuclear power
This drives me crazy with Mac products. Would it kill Apple to print the damn hardware revision on the case? It doesn't have to be big, just a tiny line of text in the back corner that tells you exactly what hardware you have.
Google is also milking their moat. Look at the 10x price increase for using map APIs in the middle of this year.
Dr. Usher received her Ph.D. and MA from the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and her AB from Harvard (magna cum laude) https://media.illinois.edu/nikki-usher

It probably helps to read the paper https://www.chronicle.com/article/Should-We-Still-Cite-the/2... and maybe her response to TFA https://twitter.com/nikkiusher/status/1058032795803639808
Senator Wyden proposes 20 prison sentences for CEOs who lie about data
Why do you think that "pretty much all spying at GCHQ" is related to business/politics? Do you actually have a reliable source for that?
4 video tricks that will increase your video quality [costless]
Wow, I’ve never met any faculty with the time to write code for fun.
This Company Made a 2W Laser Bong You Need to Wear Protective Glasses to Use
Blizzcon announcements: Destiny 2 full copy free if you claim before November 18
Like others mentioning here, for me it was just a change in company. Work on impactful projects, demonstrate that you know how to learn & work hard, and deliver results -- the rest will come with it.
> I could not get this experience ever before and honestly, even after I have had it for a year. I don't know of a better competition to it.

Real, wired headphones. Seriously, let’s address each of your points:

> If I open the case near my phone, it automatically pairs and shoes battery levels.

Whenever I plug headphones into a jack, they pair, and I needn’t worry about battery levels, because there’s no battery.

> They sound decent for earbuds (not in-ear plugs which I hate)

Headphones sound awesome, because there’re no wireless issues, and the DAC is a good, high-quality one in the phone.

> Lasts reasonable amount of time on its battery and quickly charges while in case.

Headphones have an infinite battery life. And they have a service life measured in years, about a decade or so.

Every time I see someone using AirPods in public, I make sure to make good, solid eye contact — and then I smirk. They’re even better than Google Glass at identifying folks who pay more for less.
The AirPods are my favorite purchase I’ve made in the last several years and definitely the best new technology product I’ve seen in a long time. I use mine for hours every day and have for the last year and a half. Before I got my AirPods I had used and returned multiple other wireless earbuds and none of them hold a candle to the AirPods. And somehow the AirPods are half the price of any of those others. I’ve kept an eye on the industry and all the new things coming out and I still haven’t seen anything that has the size, battery life, functionality, range, and audio quality as AirPods at any price point. Even if you use them entirely with android/windows and don’t get any of the benefits of apple’s fancy pairing, the size, quality, and battery life are still light years ahead of any of the competition. (by quality I mean the audio doesn’t cut out except for on very rare occasions, and I can hear everything clearly whether I’m using the pair or just one. I’m not an audiophile so I’m not going to judge on that metric, but they sound great to me for music, audiobooks, podcasts, and phone calls)
I remember a confused developer looking at a brochure that said: "when to choose WinForm and when to choose WPF". His question was:

> why do I have to choose?
Poor examples - Ford reinvented itself recently, dropped sedans entirely from its product line, doubled down on trucks. Toyota brought its hybrid power train to Camry and Lexus product lines. They're innovating all the time.
The thing that kills me isn't the photos/songs, those are trivial to transfer. It's finding suitable replacements for all of my apps.

Heck, I'm still on iOS 10 because I havn't found 64 bit versions of some of my most used apps.
Sharia law has now been inserted into the laws of member states
They've already started moving to .NET Core: https://twitter.com/nick_craver/status/1031858480888639488
Never mind all the technical issues, lets assume they are sorted.

For iOS, it will then cost you $100/year so that you can install your 'own' App onto your 'own' phone and not have Apple delete it after 7 days. That is of course, assuming that Apple will approve your App.

edit to clarify is an Apple issue
First, nothing was proven - it wasn't proven a lie - them (Elon and company) not admitting to guilt and SEC making allegations isn't the same thing as a proven lie, and that puts a lot of doubt as to whether that could be considered a lie, or if the SEC could even prove it; essentially there would have been some short sellers that were pissed and putting pressure on the SEC, so the SEC responded and then both sides settled quickly - because $40mm is relatively nothing (it's like a $40 parking ticket for most of us) and likely not worth their or their attorneys' time and attention.

Question for you. Do you have good credit where you could go to a bank and get a credit card, if you don't already have one? That bank would have access to your credit score, and you probably know based on your credit score what amount of credit you'd be able to secure, right? I could have used a different word than secure, however secure fits for this example. It's reasonable to believe similarly that the people who he had spoken to multiple times (and who we know have the available capital to invest) - who he trusted and whom trusted him - could have said they would provide whatever money necessary to take Tesla private. There's no proof contrary to that - and if there was proof of this then the SEC could have extracted a shitload more money than $40mm for the losses some short sellers would have had. Or we could just reference an article that doesn't have any proof (even though you're referencing it as proof) and pretend it's proof. So, so far you're not shown Elon has lied at all - and it's probably safe to say Trump lies daily about something - or more safely to say 90% of days he lies.
That's all just a bunch unsubstantiated statements constructed to suit the author's bias.
Did you know 'Moore's Law' is a nice idea, and not actually regulated by anything?