skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just adding my voice to the crowd of people willing to seriously shell out for an updated SE. I have a tablet and a laptop, what I want out of my phone is portability and phone, in a one-handed form factor. For now I just replaced the SE battery and I’m waiting for trends to shift again.
They are self-competing. An iPhone 6 is good enough for me for a fraction of the price. The problem sadly is their older products are of good quality, so there is less obsolescence there. The sad bit is that if they made crappier phones they'd sell more of the new ones.
Why do Tesla cars not charge over 90 percent by default then...?
If you're repairing a Samsung phone, you can log in and order a part. The price list is at https://www.samsung.com/au/support/screen-replacements/, for example.

Meanwhile, Apple does something like https://boingboing.net/2018/10/20/louis-rossman.html
An email client that doesn't have a mobile companion app is an immediate thumbs down for me. I want a consistent experience for something as important as email, whether I'm on a laptop or on my phone.

Sigh. That probably means Thunderbird mobile is going to take till... 2021? 2022?
Tim Cook: People Bought Fewer New iPhones Because They Repaired Their Old Ones
I would say as far back as the iPhone 6.
Relatedly, here's what Asimov predicted for 2019: https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/12/27/35-years-ago-i...
Electric car subsidies are generally regressive [0] and Norway is no exception.

Even worse, Norway subsidizes electric cars, in part, by defunding public transit. This seems silly from an environmental perspective, but it's nice if you're a wealthy Norwegian and want to avoid paying tolls while owning a luxury car.

"[The environmental spokesman for the Labor party] estimates that Oslo loses about [$30mm USD equivalent] a year from electric cars avoiding toll payments. At the same time, about [$80mm USD equivalent] from toll booths goes towards paying for public transport each year."[1]

There are much more effective ways to decarbonize transportation than subsidizing cars, electric or otherwise. The most compelling policy tool we have is a Carbon Tax. There is near universal consensus among economists on this fact. [2]

[0] https://www.vox.com/2015/11/24/9792474/energy-tax-credits-in...
[1] https://www.ft.com/content/84e54440-3bc4-11e7-821a-6027b8a20...
[2] http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/carbon-tax
I have never found any pair of Bluetooth devices which can play audio all evening without at least one click or stutter.
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They increase the price in US, they also increase the price in local currency ON top of that, to hedge the currency fluctuations. In the end, the oversea consumers pay much more even in terms of us dollars.

So US probably has the cheapest iPhone in the world.
Not because $1300 was more than they were willing to pay?
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How would this impact the sort of incremental app updates that Chrome (for example) does using Omaha? eg. would dynamic linking result in smaller or simpler deltas compared to static linking?
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likewise, replaced my SE battery before Dec 31st. Would shell out money for an all screen OLED SE size iPhone with the latest silicon.
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My advice is to ignore everything about Kali Linux. It’s a pen-drive distribution loaded with every “hacking” tool imaginable. As far as learning goes, you won’t gain anything from installing it and clicking randomly through the options in Zenmap or other tools. The best you could learn from this kind of “education” is how to be a script kiddie who presses buttons and gets in lots of trouble for causing damage. Penetration testing requires more skill than simply using Kali Linux and most penetration testers don’t use it.

Instead, focus on something that you have an interest in. Do you want to find bugs in data file handling libraries (like libpng or libxml2)? Do you want to reverse engineer software and hardware to find previously-unexplored attack vectors, that could be sold to bug bounties for lots of money? Do you want to help companies find errors in their software configurations that could lead to security breaches? Do you want to hack hardware?

My point is not that Kali Linux is useless. It’s a convenient hodgepodge of most every penetration testing tool in existence. My point is, however, that you should find an interesting niche and get experience finding real bugs and solving real security problems. You’ll build up a portfolio this way that could help you get hired in a more senior position. It sounds like you’ll want to focus on defensive protections and mitigating attacks, if you currently work for a regular company as a cyber security analyst.

Good luck!
Unsuccessfully tried to order my third pair of Sibley's last week but they were discontinued. :( Got the Wilkie instead but just not the same. Too large and a white line I didn't notice online. Still ordering through them is a great experience.
Could you say more about why that is?

For me it's like a Swiss Army knife versus my full kitchen. I use a basic email client on my phone for on-the-go stuff (seeing what has come in, making quick replies). But for doing anything serious, I want a full keyboard and reasonable screen real estate. I don't think it's possible to have a particularly consistent experience, so I'm fine with using a different client on my phone.
That ignores the privacy threat Google itself poses. There's a lot of things I don't like about Apple, but using a phone whose operating system contains unlimited amounts if closed source Google code is really scary to me, simply due to their business model and their disrespect of privacy.
A fundamental principle of competition is that consumers – not regulation – should determine what they buy and how they buy it. Consumers may benefit from the ability to buy cars directly from manufacturers – whether they are shopping for luxury cars or economy vehicles. The same competition principles should apply in either case. States should allow consumers to choose not only the cars they buy, but also how they buy them.
If you’re talking about the i9-9900, it’s a very high clock frequency part with “only” 8 cores and part of the consumer line (no ecc support). I’d actually think most people who have it run Windows and use it for things like gaming.
I recently purchased a nearly new condition 128GB SE and it feels performant with iOS 12.
The actual numbers are in Google's quarterly reports as "traffic acquisition costs".

That figure bundles in the costs paid to Dell and hp to have Google the default search engine on those machines, but I think we can be pretty sure that is dwarfed by the amount paid to Apple...
"IQ tests simply are not used at any scale that would be required to study such a correlation" I think you are wrong about this. There are a huge number of social scientists who study IQ. Also, IQ tests are very frequently given to children, and to everyone who wants to join the U.S. military.
To Tensorflow JavaScript or not?
> Unfortunately there are no widely adopted open standards that seem suitable?

Then leave the legacy behavior in place. Telling your existing users that they aren't important enough compared to mythical new users is pretty poor behavior.
Web archive link (because the site seems to have been slashdotted): http://web.archive.org/web/20190102213301/https://scratch.mi...
Maybe a crowd-sourced replacement board, like the neo900 project?
I don't think that's inflammatory at all. I tend to agree with you that a very good engineering organization would enforce data-first design and maintenance practices and build types around that. But unfortunately a lot of places don't operate that way and so my comment was meant in more of a general sense, not in a "types cannot possibly be useful at a systems level" way.
MetalLB is a load-balancer implementation for bare metal Kubernetes clusters
>How would fallout from Huawei have anything to do with fewer people walking into Apple stores and buying a new Apple product?

Some Chinese people and organizations are reportedly boycotting US phones (which is mostly Apple phones) and purchasing Huawei phones instead.
Please don't break the site guidelines by going on about downvotes. As they say, it's boring.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do we have iPhone XS sales figures?
Addendum: Real experience (presentations, papers, blog posts with real issues and real solutions) as described above is likely more valuable to a future employer than completing certifications and courses.
You're not being charitable with your interpretation of parent's comment. You quoted the first line, then ignored this:

> Everyone is responsible for their actions. And some people have a long way to go to before they've healed their traumas. But pretending that some are evil and others are not isn't solving the problem.

It's not a rationalization of child-killing. It's a partial explanation as to why some people do that. There's no value judgement being made, just a clinical evaluation of causes and effects.

People who commit terrible crimes are responsible for their actions. But it's far too convenient to just label them as evil and move on. Something made them evil. Something wired their brain that way. We are not the authors of our own personalities.

Don't misunderstand me. I'm not claiming that all people are redeemable. Some aren't. There are cases where the only rational (and ethical!) thing to do is separate the perpetrator from the rest of civil society, for our own protection.

But we do ourselves a big favor if we allow ourselves to question and study the origin of these behaviors. And if we allow ourselves to advance the study of rehabilitation and reform.

Just as it is morally correct to protect the society at-large from predators, it is also, I think, a moral requirement to find better ways at fixing broken people. Just like we do with cancer, AIDS, or any other ailment. Expand that to include mental disorders. The brain is another organ.

Right now we suck at verifiably correcting for psychological disorders. (Hell, we can't even agree on what constitutes one). Because we're bad at it, we take the safe approach of caging dangerous people. That's fine. It's the best we can do with our current state of knowledge. But we should strive to learn more, so that we can make more accurate decisions on who should remain caged and who is eligible for reform.
iTunes/iMessage/iCloud will all become available on Android if it looks like the iOS platform is failing.
Right but we're talking about the whole battery, not individual cells. I thought "prevent the cells from charging too high or dropping too low" was standard practice these days for everybody, and so at the battery level the "don't charge to 100%" advice is obsolete.
If you are willing to take total control of your mobile environment, Android can give you very good privacy. Arguably better than Apple.

Simply buy a Pixel (or any other device that supports AOSP). Build your own AOSP image (which is quite easy). And you are ready to go. Use applications from F-Droid only.

Admittedly it's not as straightforward as running your favorite Linux distro, and there are some caveats, but it's quite close.
See, common law somehow worked for UK and US, but apparently is not applied constructively in some African countries with British colonial past.

I'd say that bribery "for the family", and building government structures that facilitate bribery, is a part of culture, of what is seen as normal and proper.

Changing that seems to be the key to economic success.

So I very much agree with making education accessible (and elementary education must be free and lavishly dispensed on anyone needing it). I also agree with inviting highly skilled people from everywhere, so that their work culture could be emulated and built upon.

Bribery can be overthrown with a concerted effort. There is an example of a small country named Georgia (not the US state), where corruption was utterly widespread and deep. They have mostly eliminated it. They had to take on some drastic measures, though, such as firing 100% of their traffic police, and even building police stations with glass walls, so as to make attempts at corruption inside them hard to conceal from onlookers.
We will teach you :)

What's most important is that you've used your topic in production and you have some "earned secrets" that don't normally appear in API docs that you'd love to share to others. I always say that we're writing the books we wish existed when we were learning.

We have some internal training on how to think about outlining, how to evaluate the audience, and how to refresh yourself on the things beginners want to know. We'll also work with beta readers before we launch, so you'll be able to test the material against a fresh audience.

Basically, if we decide to work together, I'll be working with you closely through every step of the process: outlining, drafting, coding, revising, editing, marketing, etc.

If this interests you, please apply.
The problem with good Dictators - and dictatorships... is a good one is one step away from dying to a bad one.
They said ‘quality’.
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The driving experience and handling is waaaaay better than my wife's Mercedes. I can’t really say from a passenger perspective.
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I have been buying glasses from my optometrist for decades. A pair runs about $500, after insurance.
Dropped by Warby Parker on a lark (they have a store a few miles away). The glass tech looked over my glasses and told me the optical center was wrong by a bit; OK for 99% of prescriptions but that error was significant due to my prescription. (my corrected vision is 20/50 in both eyes)
Ordered 1 pair. Noticeably better eyesight. For about $200.
Including being murdered.
The underlying rendering engine is in C++, of course. As is the JS implementation.

Which is to say, exactly like Electron. The only relevant difference that I can see between XUL and Electron is that the former had its own non-HTML-based markup language for UI.
They should make a "miss me yet?" meme for Itanium.
Robocalls & spam texts silently deliver fake news at scale but are hard to study
I have a background in mathematics and am currently studying Machine Learning in a Master's program. Soon after I started I came to the same conclusion as the author of the article. It is becoming very easy for someone with some basic coding ability and shaky mathematical foundations to do some online courses, emulate a few tutorials or maybe even sign up for a bootcamp and, voilà! 6 months later they are more than competent enough to quickly put together ML solutions that are close to an 'optimal' solution which requires much more in-depth knowledge and engineering time. Close enough that the quality/amount of data and feature engineering (basically, domain knowledge gained through general problem solving skills rather than ML skill) is far more important than the details of any model.

This is why, when I start applying for jobs soon, I plan to maintain and frame my skill set as a quantitative problem solver, not an ML specialist (as I had thought I would do when I started this Master's degree). Soon the value of being able to build a good ML model will decline, but hopefully the knowledge and skill set of those with a proper training and understanding of this field (mathematical ability, computer science/programming ability and problem solving ability) will still be valuable.
Just a correction, but it's a project of the European Space Agency, not NASA.
It's supposed to improve it. I don't really know, there's little scientific study on it, and some people claiming it's tosh vs some people saying it worked for them.

I did it for about a week before I started seeing images, so it does take some practice and some time. I found recording myself while I did it helped me to keep speaking, which helped the process. The first few days were frustratingly without any progress, but things did start to come together about day 6 or 7.

At the time I had a ridiculous amount of projects I was trying to do, realized I was overwhelmed and this was one of the ones I have parked until a later date. I will try it again as it did seem to be working.
I largely agree with you, but you have to consider the flip side: if Norway won't supply oil, countries won't just switch to green alternatives. They will be forced to go elsewhere because there just aren't any viable alternatives at the scale of global transportation. Whether they go to dirtier fuels, go to more dangerous regimes for their oil, or just straight up go to war, it's a big risk for the entire world. We've only recently found out from Kido Koichi's diary that oil was one of the primary reasons Japan began to encroach outward and the oil embargo was the reason Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

I'll admit that argument doesn't sit right with me on a personal level, but on the scale of geopolitics the stakes are just that high. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, died last time the US cut off oil supplies to a major country.
You'll need to cite cite evidence for the Android claim.
"<-" as the assignment operator. That's cute.

I have also seen "_" as the assignment operator in some old Squeak code though.
The shock hazard is the 5A, not necessarily the 18V.
Brake pads are pretty bad, in addition to the auto emissions. Electric vehicles help a lot there too.

Are there brake pad emission standards? I don’t know.
IMO Tim Cook did a good-enough analysis but deliberately omitted the rather insane prices of the XS and XS Max phones. Just look at the prices of the 256GB storage models.

My wife's brother has a 6S Plus. My mother has 7. They work amazingly well and fast. To them X / XS / XS Max are basically "spend 1300 EUR to get a bezel-less phone and nothing else"... and in a way, they are correct. Many people don't care about FaceID or OLED screens.

Smartphone market is nearly saturated. It's time for more realistic pricing. And I am saying this is a loyal Apple user.
> the verbose syntax of COBOL programs also allowed for the use of longer identifiers

Virtually every Cobol site out there also requires programmers to prepend their user-defined names with some mnemonic, e.g.

pg5005-this-paragraph
lv-this-local-variable
acpr7502-all-variables-in-programs-in-accounting-system-payroll-subsystem

This also means they never confuse user-defined names and program keywords.
Indeed; OTPCL already diverges significantly from Tcl in very important ways that would be very hard to change while still maintaining some semblance of compatibility with Erlang and the broader ecosystem thereof; if I were to literally integrate Tk itself, that would indeed be... involved.

I do like the idea of delegating to actual Tcl for a Tcl/Tk bridge, at least for something quick-and-dirty; a run-of-the-mill Erlang "port" written in Tcl ought to be an effective first pass at going about that. It should be easy to do.

In the longer term, a toolkit geared specifically toward Erlang's strengths (e.g. each widget having its own process, message passing instead of callbacks, etc.) seems like it'd be a more valuable contribution to the Erlang ecosystem, even if it'd be harder than even trying to bridge OTPCL with Tk directly. Ideally OTPCL/$TOOLKIT should be as dead-simple to use as Tcl/Tk (and should be straightforward even if you swap out the "OTPCL" part of that with Erlang/Elixir/LFE/Joxa/LuErl/ErLog/etc.).
Oh, that might explain it. Thanks for the tidbit.
Nice build! Thanks for the xinput trick. I'm actually surprised it went so well.

If you're not a fan of putting this whole thing together yourself these guys in Taiwan make a really nice mechancial keyboard called the Tex Yoda 2. Kinda hard to get though...
Similarly MongoDB. Many commercial examples, too.
Not sure why all the down votes but we still haven't found 14 years in how to use it in a consumer device.

http://www.mining.com/these-are-just-15-ways-in-which-graphe...

"But after 13 years since researchers first created the revolutionary material from graphite, consumers is still waiting to see some of the touted applications in the market." 2017
Might be applicable to Wisconsin and other similarly sized states.
As was Duke Nukem 3D. Here's a video about making a simple demo engine based around the concept, which shows off a little non-Euclidean geometry: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HQYsFshbkYw
> On Android your phone simply shuts off on high load on old batteries

Except, no, it doesn't.
It's over. What about it?
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And it will be their undoing, since now that people are not upgrading their iPhones continued growth will depend on how well they can transition to become a services company, which, for the most part, you can only do phoning home the way Google and Facebook do. The only reason Apple touts privacy today is because they suck at services, and they figured they might as well sell it as a feature. But that won't last if Apple is to grow.
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Very much agreed. See my comment in this thread. The value of being able to build decent ML models is decreasing rapidly, so the difference maker will be acquiring better/more data (which you often have little control over) or better feature engineering (which is basically gaining domain knowledge through better skills in mathematics, problem solving and reasoning). You showed that you were the better problem solver against 5 other consulting companies with teams that became used to wow-ing naive companies with little effort.
Cross platform

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I'd pay $1000 for an XS Mini should they ever decide to make one. Until then, I'm sticking with my SE, which is the best iPhone they've ever made regardless of price.
Just to get this out of the way, I see Apple shares currently presenting a huge buying opportunity. A good Christmas quarter will regain that lost 20 percent, and I don’t see any reason why Apple shouldn’t have a good Christmas quarter.

Yikes...
So how were you doing it? I'd like to try.
You just described me. I am still tempted because I want a bigger screen (I read a lot on my phone) but I cannot justify the ~1450 EUR price that the XS Max at 256GB storage sits at around here in Eastern Europe.
Perhaps... a sandboxed webmail[0] app capable of sending and receiving encrypted (or cryptographically signed) emails without being vulnerable to client-side attacks stealing your private key(s) or the cleartext?

There may be similar use-cases for tamper-proof (or at least tamper-evident) browser-based games.

[0] I'm specifying a webmail client in the browser rather than a desktop email client.