skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How often do people find in practice they have to think about specs at all? I'm typing this on an SE. It is, of course, literally last year's phone (two years) but both when I bought it and now, there's nothing except the camera that doesn't feel well above adequate (and the camera, while missing some neat low light features, is adequate) and there's a few things that feel optimal about it that simply aren't available in current models (form factor, headphone jack, and price).

I never think about specs/performance... much in the same way that I haven't thought of specs for the mid 2012 MBP I bought years ago. What are people doing with their phones that drives a sense that last year's specs aren't good enough?
I don't think the Chinese market slowing down is news for anyone who was paying attention last year.

>The global smartphone market has suffered a drop of 6 percent in overall sale numbers, according to a report on the third quarter of 2018 from the International Data Corporation (IDC).

Similar to the drop in smartphone sales in the first quarter of the year, the IDC points at a slowdown in the Chinese market as being one of the primary factors for the global slump.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/samsung-slumps-in-smart...

This has already impacted Samsung's smartphone sales much more strongly last quarter.

>Operating profit in Samsung’s smartphone division dropped 33pc from the same quarter last year to 2.2 tn won.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/10/31/samsung-re...
Does everyone here who's read this have a subscription? Or is there one without a paywall?
the audio sounds good to me too even with headphones, are you sure you haven't got broken headphones?
Wow totally forgot about Aether. I still have it installed on an old laptop somewhere. I remember I really enjoyed posting on there but then I'd have trouble connecting to the network and stopped using it. Will have to check it out again
Because it wouldn't be a free service. It would be funded by your money. How mad are you going to get when your money goes to host those views you find repellent?

When the inevitable happens and the content needs to be monitored (can't have government funds used to host things like doxing blog posts, for example), then how much will you pay?

Governments don't hand out free stuff. They take your stuff to pay for it.
thanks. i hadn’t looked into the detail of these libs and had made some incorrect assumptions. will definitely look at their usage for a project historically suffering with side effects on the data.
I don't see any mention of termites. Wood is much less attractive when you live in a termite-prone area - they're hardy little buggers, they can chew through concrete to get to your timber framing, and if you don't catch them early enough your entire house needs to be rebuilt.
How not to launch a startup or product
I have a copy of Maxwell's two volumes on electromagnetism and what makes it difficult to read for me is that his "equations" are actually a long list of disparate equations that describe a unified theory. It's not a simple "answer" such as E=mc^2, it is a series of such descriptor answers.

Mathematically, it is easier for me to focus on one aspect and study that aspect's equations (at a time).
fwiw, pbrt can be read online for free since earlier last year: http://www.pbr-book.org/
I’ve always thought the best argument against nuclear is a political one. It takes a well-coordinated state to maintain and regulate nuclear power. You need regulators completely divorced from the profit side. I mean, we assume that we’ll be stable in 40 years time, but will we be?

I don’t know too much about this particular aspect, but I imagine that even the risk management part of paying for insurance gets tricky once you’re projecting out 10+ years.

All this being said, it’s the best argument in my view, but still not prohibitive. I still find myself believing in nuclear power, especially more research into advanced tech.
Thanks for sharing! Deep learning related to the machine learning methods based on learning data representation. This gap initiates the requirement of the machine learning, to automate several tasks. Here I read an article about Machine Learning, The Main Driving Force Leading Innovations at Uber: https://justinevans.quora.com/Machine-Learning-The-Main-Driv...
> Greg Joswiak, Apple vice president of product marketing, told CNET in an interview Wednesday that the device has “been our most popular iPhone each and every day since the day it became available.”

https://www.cnet.com/news/apples-iphone-xr-has-been-its-top-...
Yup indeed. Not sure why you are getting downvoted but it’s not by me.
Even Amazon's music search sucks. It can never find the song unless you provide an accurate name. Its fuzzy matching sucks too, doesn't even account for regional trend in songs.
it sounds great for me too. you must have headphone issues.
Newer projects have quick version bumps after the success of Chrome's accelerated versioning approach.

But for software deeper in solutions, fast version changes appear confusing. I like Apache, nginx with very small bumps. Most newer JS frameworks live fast and die quick. It's also very confusing for developers to decide to jump to newer versions.

Expecting 11.20 version around 2037.
Can I use this to convert other articles? Could I pay to get 32kbit Opus?
Here's a Socrates reference:

"When his advice was asked whether to marry or not, he said, 'Whichever you do, you will regret it!' "

- Diogenes Laertius, Life of Socrates, from Lives of the Philosophers, ~200AD
They also support a mode where they will use WPA3 when supported and fall back to WPA2 when there isn't device support.
Wood framing is not the same as a building built of cross-laminated timber. The architect must get a few details right, but it is straightforward to meet "only able to hear neighbors when jumping off a table on to the floor". OTOH it's not much more difficult to do that with standard wood framing, but they don't usually.
Apart from the specific technology used, it's important to change the way applications are designed and implemented. I saw many projects in trouble because they merely split a monolithic application into small pieces, without applying a new model of design and thinking. If you approach micro-services development without changing your mind first, you will fail.
Wood tends to burn quite slowly and retains structural strength at high temperatures that would compromise steel.
I didn’t even know they were doing a paywall thing. I got into medium last year for a while because it seemed like this perfect place for people in different tech sectors to share wisdom. But not too long and I realized that most of the writers are talking out of their ass and playing the “use strong language so people will believe you” tactic while being wholly absent of meaning.

It’s honestly like reading one of those subreddits where people get to ask and field questions about an industry. You realize pretty quickly that the sub is filled with wannabes (still in college or otherwise) who spend their days fantasizing about what an industry is like while they have literally no experience. They’ve just read the tropes enough times that they can echo “good sounding” advice with no basis in reality.

That’s what medium is to me. A place where people pontificate over things they really don’t know anything about other than reading other online posts.
I use this and it's like ripgrep gui for Windows. It's awesome.
For all of its simplicity, the syntax for complex types in C is pretty horrible. Yes, I know the "inside out" rule, and can usually read these, but that doesn't make it any less bad.
This is awesome! Downloaded the binary and runs with no issues on Ubuntu 18.04 x64.

Two questions:

1. Any plans to support OCR processing similar to Evernote?

2. Any plans on offering a paid service for syncing the encrypted notes to? I'll gladly pay $5 / mo for a more secure, open source Evernote if it means I don't have to manage my own server.
Here's an easy way to understand how these things work: in C, the type of a pointer/function/array mess is declared by how it's used. For a declaration like "int ( * ( * foo)(void))[3]", you can read it as "for a variable foo, after computing the expression ( * ( * foo)(void))[3], the result is an int."

So one way to read C "gibberish" is to ignore the type at the beginning and parse the rest as an expression like a normal parse tree. First we take foo. Then we dereference it (so foo is a pointer). Next we call it as a function with no arguments (so foo is a pointer to a function that takes no arguments). Next, we dereference it again. Then we index into the result as an array. Finally, we reach the end, so we look at what the declared type and find that this type is an int. So foo is a pointer to a function that takes no arguments and returns a pointer to an array of 3 ints.

You can also use this to go backwards. What's the syntax for a function that takes an integer argument returns a pointer to an array of function pointers taking no arguments and returning integers? Well, we want to take foo, call it, dereference it, then index into an array, then dereference it again, then call it again, then return an int. Or int (* (* (foo)(int))[5])(void).
The worst part is its arbitrary. I don't get why Linus is so bent on keeping a three step version number when the first digit has been meaningless since 1996 (or maybe 2011 if you want to be pedantic and call the version change from 2.6.x to 3.x a major revision). For the largest free software project in the world it sure doesn't do much to advertise good practices when informing your user of relative newness of kernels.
Quicken asks me for my login credentials to my bank and in their policies, says they store my credentials in their infrastructure. How does QFX actually help here?
Huawei Rolls 7nm ARM Server CPU
I really like how most of the non-sexp syntax is optional in CL. Anyways, I'm also a bit ambivalent about the merits of [] vs. #(): I like how the latter syntax is more "standard", since the # dispatching macro character is used for a bunch of things. E.g. multidimensional arrays #2a() #3a() complex numbers #c(1 2) character literals #\space, pathnames #p"/foo/bar" etc.: it adds to the uniformity of the syntax, ime.
Need this for bash and by proxy regex.
I know some people who sell cars and don’t have a college degree but pull in close to six figures. They enjoy it but they also work for higher end dealerships and get to take fun cars (like a brand new WRX STI...) for a spin sometimes.

Cooking or baking is another option. Some great chefs out there never graduated from college or culinary school.

Running a business also doesn’t require a college degree. My wife owns a café and never graduated from college.
Its seriously just Linus doesn't like counting past 20. We only got 4.20 for the weed meme.

3.19 -> 4.0 and 4.20 -> 5.0 just because.
I looked a bit more, and found this demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwNjwP9DMAc

It seems pretty great, but there's no code available as far as I can tell.
Parent said: “company slowly lost its way”.

They didn’t. They’ve been down, they’ve been up (so did Apple btw), down and up again, but as of 2019 Disney is as strong as ever (though we are in the “endgame” of this cycle).

The narrative of vision lost with founder’s death, just doesn’t work for Disney’s history.
From my understanding, proxying is the ability to work with lower-resolution video -- so it's faster to edit -- but still be frame-accurate to the original, so the output matches what you've been editing.
From 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12317217
Right, of course it's not free, but it would be cheap to provide and a universal good for all US residents. I also don't really mind the taxes they can come from the rich anyway.

So long as the views expressed don't cross the line into violence or ethnic cleansing, I'm in favor of the first amendment. Yes, some manual curation will be necessary, but it's irrelevant to me if society as a whole pays for it or a company. It seems to me a free service for everyone is a better deal that has knock on benefits for public debate.
XS reminds of an extra small version..
1: Isn't the Metaverse trademarked by Neal Stephenson? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse

2: Is anybody actually asking for any of these "features"? Virtual avatars appearing in your car? Uploading a constant stream of data to "the cloud"? Sounds terrible.
https://outline.com/KuHx2U
I've seen the same behavior with my kids. Sometimes the reason is clear and correct and sometimes it's clearly not.

One strategy I've found that can sometimes work is to engage with them in problem solving. Asking them what they think would help or if you have a guess, an action that corresponds with that guess. I've found its usually a more reliable source of information.

The internet is a boon for these things too. I know the author didn't have Google 23 years ago, but now there are a lot more resources to get on the right track with many strange kid behaviors, so it's like parenting in easy mode now.
The tallest wooden building allowed is only five stories.
Wood framed buildings higher than that need special approval.

http://www.woodworks.org/experttip/what-is-the-tallest-wood-...
The version.patch notation is still meaningful to Linux because each version increment means new features and support. If the latest is version 50 and you are on 48 you should be suspicious if that unsupported PCI device works on that newer release.

Its just the major version that is always redundant because Linux never breaks userspace compatibility.

But of all software projects the Linux kernel is definitely not a poster child for having a reasonable methodology to versioning. Just some choice released kernel version names: 0.95, pre2.0, 2.2 and 2.4 but no 2.1 or 2.3, 2.6 lasted 8 years, 3.19 - 4.0 because Linus felt like it, and 4.20 -> 5.0 because Linus felt like it.

The only consistent number has been patch releases.
You mention your evidence for this assertion further down (
https://ibb.co/2Zm11RL https://ibb.co/zmYVP6F ) but apearson points out "That is the connection speed from the device to the router. Not what it's actually transmitting."
Consulting is a lucrative career path that relies less on college pedigrees and more on networking/reputation.
Neat old story. Sean rocks. Bellheads lost except in lobbying. IP Everywhere is real. Screw the bellheads. These fools want you to put 5G uplinks in your house.
Please don't be a jerk on HN, regardless of how wrong someone is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Tried it on this gibberish but it complains about syntax:

((void(*)(void))0)();
Those public records are the Commercial Register:
https://sz.chregister.ch/cr-portal/auszug/auszug.xhtml?uid=C...
Here is some background reading:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6942145

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7017160
I added it to an old unused part of my website.

https://www.folj.com/lateral-solutions/

Apparently my javascript doesn't play nicely with programmatically injected elements. The Show All Solutions button still works.
It is best to find something else, especially if you are a male. It is essential for tech companies to make sure women consist of at least 51% of the executive level and the same for the non-executive staff. As you know male domination of technology is why there isn't much innovation anymore, men created a toxic world with technology and now women must clean it up and run it properly. 2019 is the year of women.
He made observations, sure, but what are some actual experiments he did? (Or where to read about that?)
people like to point out the weaknesses in this every time it is submitted, but the fact is: it's the only example in its class, and that makes it interesting.
it would be amazing to see a funding drive and some experts improve it, but for whatever reason, that is not happening. it seems like any kind of desktop skype alternative takes a back seat to mobile apps
There have been plenty of Linux releases with triple digit patch series. I'm familiar with 3.18 reaching 131 and I know 3.0 and 3.2 got over a hundred each as well.

Also, by any reasonable definition, there is no meaningful difference between 4.20 or 420. You just put a period in there. The major number has no real significance.
Anyways, I guess I like CL's approach where #[] #{} [] and {} are all specified as reserved to the user and then, using named-readtables, you can pick an appropriate implementation as you see fit.
I have been using this for ages. The most underrated windows tool ever.
The laptop has enough mass to be a seriously harmful object when unplanned motion happens. This is most likely to happen during take off and or landing.

Same thing goes for your bag.

Technically, in the seats where there are no rows in front, your bag should be in the overhead bin, right along with your laptop, until the aircraft leaves the take off part of it's flight plan. Prior to entering the landing part of the flight plan, both items need to be in the bin, and for the same reasons.

I'm kind of surprised it can just be at your feet in those seats. I never pick them for these reasons. Having to get up, deal with the bin, etc... isn't something I feel like doing personally.

A lot of this basic stuff is the result of simulations and other accumulated flight / empirical data, and the intent is to maximize everyone's safety during high risk flight times.

This is also why trays up, seats not reclined are also required during those two known high risk flight times.

https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/cabin_safety/media/Cab...

There is the long form word on all this. Links to the appropriate Federal law are just a click away.

Frankly, the flight attendants are required to do what they do, and you as a passenger are required by Federal law to comply with their directives.

I'm not entirely sure you are presenting as a model passenger, however your perception of increased safety and it's overall value, like everyone's, can and will vary considerably. No worries on any of that.

The authority on those things has already made the calls, and in general, those are made to maximize safety as much as can be done.
Besides what others have said kernel releases aren't special. They are just quarterly. There would be no "big" release each year because any arbitrary release can be "big" or not. Nobody is going to keep major functionality out of the kernel just because they want to wait for a bigger number to go up.
It's not about being lazy, it's a huge help if you are multi-tasking and are time poor ,like most parents are. A pretty normal scenario for me is trying to get the kids out the door, whilst doing their shoelaces you tell Alexa to turn off the tv, turn off lights, tell you the weather forecast and when the next bus is due to arrive out the front.
How many of them are working on tagging manually the audio tracks for machine learning?
It's on iOS. Not sure about desktop Safari
https://write.as ftw. Clean, minimal design. And you can auto-publish to medium/twitter/mastadon etc if you want a wider reach.
Carl Icahn on corporate America
The iPhone XR is failing because of Apple's arrogance. They shoved in a 720p display into a smartphone in 2018. They even dismissed concerns about it[1]. The other reason is there are too many models in their lineup in a desperate attempt to capture market share - something Steve jobs was against.

The desirability is not there as it used to be, since they're now almost pushed into a price war with other makers in the segments who were already well established before Apple.

Finally, there are simply too many issues surrounding iOS. Either the wifi stops working, or the phone is made to perform too slow in the pretext of battery throttling or something else is compromised. This is unacceptable from a company that reached $1 Tr. I am not kidding you when I tell you guys I know sweatshops that can do better quality code than Apple's iOS. Get your shit together, Apple!

[1] https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/iphone-xr-screen-issues-...
While the tool been showcased here is great, there's really no substitute for doing it yourself and getting your hands dirty. Too many people (not saying you) use these kinds of tools as a crutch instead of learning the basics themselves.

This is a great guide on how to set up SSL on localhost https://deliciousbrains.com/ssl-certificate-authority-for-lo...
what the fuck is wrong with you
History of the Plan 9 kernel (1990 – 2003)
Eh FreeBSD and *BSD suffers from the shiny disease as well.
Personally, these last two iPhone generations were a bit overwhelming, confusing and strange. I did upgrade to the X but I honestly say, I didn't even look at this years' offering with any interest. I like the X. I'm happy with it but here's just simply not enough interesting things going on to make the new ones worth checking out. Maybe it's just these two generations -- but this constant push to raise the prices on the higher end to astronomical levels is leaving a pretty sour taste in my mouth...

The Android market on the other hand is something I couldn't resist checking out, it's like the wild wild west out there: all these various companies are constantly in the news with loads and loads of weird and quirky ideas. Now, granted, I did end up switching to iOS because I found the Android offerings inferior, I still can't help but sometimes think about trying out the newest and most interesting on that end. "The grass is always greener on the other side", as they say.

It's also the case that the killer apps are simply not there. Unlike the 2018 iPhones - I really did look at the new iPad Pro and thought to myself that I'd love one since I've been using the first gen 13" Pro ever since it came out and the redesign is cool. On second and third thoughts, though I had to admit to myself that even with the 120hz panel, I wouldn't really gain much in practical terms. And the entry price, which in my country is almost $500 more than the first generation's, really doesn't justify something that's that much of a hard sell..

Now, granted, this is all just my personal opinion and might even change this September if Apple has some surprise queued up for us, who knows?

For now, though, I can't help but feel like that $1500-$2000 for a new tablet and smartphone every year or two is better served as part of my savings account.
Nice, is this similar to ngrok?
At the limit of Moore's law: scientists develop molecule-sized transistors
IT, you can learn it by yourself, you can contribute to open source and get recognized and on the end run get the experience and recognition as an IT professional
So many people wish it was extra small!
Apple's music search sucks too, especially if your music tastes are even slightly outside the mainstream. It simply doesn't personalize per user, so when I search, I have to wade through a list of unfamiliar band and musician names until I type almost the whole thing. For a company whose motto once upon a time was "design is how it works", this is inexcusable.
Keep in mind that the iPhone XR launched on 10/26, a month after the iPhone XS on 9/21.

What Greg Joswiak says is likely true, but you have to account for the fact that peak demand for the XS has already passed by the time the XR is launched, so total XS sales to date could still be more.
Doing OS updates, taking pictures and storing stuff on limited storage.
The Author is Andrew Appel, who wrote "Compiling with Continuations" (92). He's still publishing: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/
Hello,
Very interesting. I've been using Edge's built-in voice reading a lot more recently for the exact case you mention on your homepage: listening while working.
I have two questions for you after reading your TOS and Privacy Policy. I was expecting to see "you" scraping data from each site or otherwise monetizing the service, but nothing stood out.
Either your TOS/PP is incorrect, or you don't have an obvious income stream for the service you are rendering.

So the questions: Who are you? and How are you doing this for free?

Thank you,