skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the same problem. The iPhone later even randomly shut off a few weeks afterwards because the battery started to curve. I went to the Apple store and got a brand new one for the cost of the reduced battery replacement. It‘s apparently a known problem for the S6 to Apple
My understanding;

$14 billion is revenue

$3 billion is their earnings after driver costs.
Commentbait, I smell it but still will say this.. A good side project takes one or more known solutions and applies it to a niche. There's endless niches out there if you stand still and squint a bit.
I think it's a configuration option when embedding the map, so it varies from site to site.
You might be confused by bad marketing or misleading click bait? see https://www.bretfisher.com/the-future-of-docker-swarm/, see their SwarmKit repo commits, see that they keep open sourcing new tools built on Swarm like https://github.com/docker/stacks and https://github.com/docker/app
My interviewees wrote code by hand, but on a paper on a desk, seated opposite me. Surely you can ask for this less stressful alternative?
> We don’t need to know the marital status, gender preference, dietary restrictions, previous relationships, etc.

I agree, but a lot of science reporting and especially TV/movie documentaries are going down the path of "telling a story" and focusing more on the process and characters involved rather than facts. This is particularly true from outlets like the Atlantic, so if GP went in with the expectation of that kind of article I can understand how they got confused.
You make a good point, nice catch. Technically we don't know what the fastest possible algorithm is yet.
But even when I'm on an embedded map it's super annoying to have to hold control... I pretty much never want to scroll if my mouse is hovering over the map. It's how it works in every application isn't it? Scrolling while hovering affects the object under the cursor, not the object with the focus. I feel like it might be better if the page has logic that checks "if you're already scrolling, then keep scrolling the same object instead of shifting focus to the embedded map"?
This bug?

https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/6o50aq/i_dont_thin...
Perhaps Trump can meet Barr in his private plane to discuss grandchildren prior to Russian collusion being found to be an inconsequential "matter" not requiring prosecution.
John Titor is that you?
I've heard that theory before, that individuals gain no political power by owning guns, and I'm not convinced. Tyrants are never apathetic about who has weapons and who doesn't.

Also, the details matter a lot. What percentage of civilians? Absolute numbers? Pistols or rifles? How are loyalty lines drawn geographically?

There are also all kinds of other political games the people in power play other than direct military confrontation. Leaving you unprotected (e.g. strict gun control and long police response times) amongst criminals is one way to make your rights useless.
I could never go back to using a small phone like that after moving to the max-sized iPhones. I think if my hands were smaller..
The fundamental problem with S-expressions is that they are intended for (1950s) machine readability and human ergonomics takes a back seat.
On the bright side, it's probably less likely to have an input impacted by a mouse wheel on mobile, so just changing the input type between mobile and desktop might be good enough.
I believe you're correct, although I'm talking less about embedded maps, where I agree that having the map take over scrolling is aggravating, and more about the map interface in general.
I thought it looked kind of cool, so I derived a lettering style from the one shown on page 17 and made a kludgy bit of Common Lisp to print strings in it[1]. I tested it a little bit, but, caveat emptor.

As written it only supports spaces and 26 lower case (input) letters from a-z.

[1] https://github.com/dwringer/line-lettering
He's the director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children's Research Institute, and a professor at the School of Medicine of the University of Washington, who has published over 170 research articles and also a pediatrics textbook, and whose research has focused on how early experiences impact children and their learning environments [1]. That seems like it should qualify him to offer a meaningful opinion on the topic at hand.

OK, to be fair, they didn't mention all that in the Times article, but they did mention that he is the lead author of the American Academy of Pediatrics's guidelines on screen time. As far as I am aware, the AAP has a good scientific reputation, so one would expect that they wouldn't get someone who doesn't know his stuff to author their guidelines.

The Times also has a good reputation, so I'd expect the journalist to have looked up Dr. Christakis and seen that he appears to be qualified on this subject.

You are right that we shouldn't unthinkingly trust...but we also to avoid being excessive about it, because no one has the time to personally check everything. This is why reputation matters. If you get your information from reputable sources, you can delegate more of the checking to them without much risk. This is one of those cases, especially since they gave enough information to trivial look up more about him if you don't want to go by the Times and the AAP reputations.

[1] https://www.seattlechildrens.org/directory/dimitri-a-christa...
I highly recommend the C J Chivers book. The section near the middle that discusses the issues with early m-16 usage is particularly good, and relevant here.
I agree; the most charitable inference is that the 48% inluded the largest employers, and thus covered "an overwhelming majority" of employees - but it would have been so much better if they had said that specifically, and as it is, such an inference is pure speculation.
Interestingly, he just wrote an article-length piece going into the same topics, but keying off of recent mass shootings instead: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/world/ak-47-mass-sh...
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My impression of Python is that it's a Fisher Price Little Tikes coupe with a few GE90 jet turbine hardpoints mounted on it.

It's a very simple language. Literally when things get made to be complex Guido says do it the simple way, because when unbreakable things break it's just that much harder to fix. This makes it very easy to debug, very easy to fix/patch, very easy to onboard new/junior developers in, and very easy to start using in production. It's literally a baby.

But man, you can do some crazy things in Python if you want. You can write C/C++ extensions sure. You can also use things like orchestration with `py4j` and `jpype` in order to execute IPC with a JVM dedicated to the Python process. In that sense all Python in your application becomes a request layer with the JVM or a binary acting as the data layer, and request layers don't require as much in performance because you only need to issue so many requests. Request layers may also need to change faster than data layers/pipelines, and in that Python's great because it's so flexible. Based on some performance testing our team did there's absolutely no reason to simply switch away from Python, though that may also be due to legacy reasons.

I'd like to stick to Python and maintain my Python proficiency going forward (though with Guido out as BFDL we'll have to see how the language evolves). I'd like to maybe add Rust or Elixir to my repertoire and see how they extend my capabilities in ways Python/C/C++ may not. But Python will always be my Swiss Army knife turned combat shovel. It gets the job done.
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What led you to that general rule?
It's unbelievable this is getting downvoted, because it's 100% true and a very major problem in society. I've taught lots of young players and success or failure has 0 to do with intelligence. It's a matter of who can stay focused and actually do the work it takes to improve (which at that age/level is tactics tactics tactics). The second they "discover" social media or the endless stream or inanity on e.g. YouTube, it's game over.

It's a big part of the reason I stopped teaching. It's so disappointing to see somebody make such rapid progress, start getting distracted by digital entertainment including social media, and then see all their potential (alongside extensive wasted effort on my part) just flushed down the toilet.

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A sharp but, in my opinion, very related tangent is the Flynn Effect [1]. It was the observation that IQs were increasing over time. IQ tests are always normalized such that the mean is 100 with a standard deviation of about 15. However, Flynn observed that the absolute score of a 100 in e.g. 1950 was higher than it was in 1920 and similarly on forward. Until the 1990s.

Sometime in the 1990s this all changed. In numerous developed nations the Flynn Effect has reversed. Now, for the first time ever, a 100 IQ score would be less today than in e.g. 1985 in many developed nations. And the declines have been quite dramatic reducing on the order of 1-2 points per decade. Keep in mind that 1/15 = 0.07. Somebody who is at the average of 100 would be ahead of about 50% of people. Reduce that by just 1 point he's dropped 0.07 sigmas and is now only ahead of 47% of people. And that's a population level event recurring each and every decade!

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
It turned itself on because the battery “couldn’t deliver peak power” and shut off at 12%
91% now.
That play time seems to have been more valuable than what the defunct European computer industry focused its energies on.
Yes -- see pytype.
Good for Uber, but I'm disappointed as a customer. I did extensive travel overseas in Qatar and the Careem app was excellent. They had a clear local strategy with local customization to capture users. For example

- [Local flavor] Using a button called "Yallah" instead of "Go"

- [Local Knowledge] Pre-coding airport pickup locations (unlike Uber which had you try and figure it out directly with drivers, who often did not speak English.)

- [Local Knowledge] Understanding that many parts of the world do not have street addresses!
They didn’t for me when the first one was having trouble - I had to use the $29 replacement offer after a lawsuit to get this one. Am not thinking a replacement will actually improve it.
An Idealist’s View of the 4 Challenges to Quantum Computing
Put another way, "people vacationing in Taiwan" have no more than the background level of interest in the Tiananmen Square Incident, and that level is so low that it doesn't need to be suppressed.

Whereas people searching the internet for 6.4 or 天安门事件 can be expected to have a much higher level of interest in 天安门事件, and need to be suppressed.
>Pretty sure my next device will be a Nokia or iPhone due to the long term software support.

Wouldn't rule out Motorola (Lenovo) as well. They are the only manufacturer selling parts for their phones directly, have models in the android one line, and offer bootloader unlock (so you could move to a custom rom once they discontinue)
This was regulated in the EU at some point. You’re no longer allowed to sell locked down phones.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfair_Commercial_Practices_...
SoftBank and Amazon in Talks to Lead $100 Mn Funding Round in Drivezy
Clojure's answer to that problem and a couple of others is clojure.spec
holography? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
As a Phone, a Communication Devices, and Social Network, I could may be want the iPhone SE had an Edge to Edge Design, but other than that I agree it is perfect.

As a Media Consumption devices, that is mostly video and Gaming. The iPhone SE size just doesn't work.

Sometimes I kept thinking if I just ditch gaming and I could have a smaller phone. Hopefully Apple will come up with a 5" Full Display SE size iPhone, and thinner too. They could have an extra $100 BOM budget for some insane battery tech.
Was that an Apple concept? I think it was common quite some time before the first iPhone, at least in the US market.
Yes (technically the lower bound would be the small-o(n log n)). The conjecture is that it’s possible to do in O(n log n) time, which this paper proves, and that it’s not possible to do any faster (which is still an open problem).
I love reading these sorts of things. Working my way through the stock ticker article now

It was a nice touch seeing some of the comments:

> Expect lawsuit from Shiva Ayyadurai.
What about all of Google's other trackable properties like googleapis, fonts, and 1e100?
Power Circuit Teardown on Arduino Uno and Mega
I grew up in Benicia. I always found the mothball fleet to be somewhat creepy (granted I was 5). A fleet of unused ships anchored just out of town, sitting dead still. Never moving, always waiting.
Do you really have that many occasions to work in an environment where you can't ask for/install a package?

Limiting yourself for such rare occasions just sounds wrong.
One thing I'll tell incels is: Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Sartre, Schopenhauer etc all died childless and NOT married
>And do today's civilian AR15's generally have the manual bolt closure?

Most still do, but that is just inertia that is slowly dying out, it is not uncommon for civilian AR rifles to not include a forward assist, i.e. manual bolt closure. I don't keep up with military rifle configs to know if they still continue with forward assists.

>...like the original rifling etc as indicated in the article?

There is quite a lot of variety in barrel rifling these days, 1-in-7 isn't uncommon today and with the variety of rounds available, i.e. heavy bullets/light powder(slow) and light bullets/high powder(fast), barrel twist is also highly variable depending on what works best for your barrel length and cartridge selection.

Overall the AR platform has moved far beyond Stoner's original design, from the Marines recently adopting a "light machine gun" version of it, to the very short length M4s that is the standard today for the US military. Add into that the huge variety of uses and configurations that civilians use the rifle can wear so many hats. There is actually a really interesting series if you're interested from InRange TV, a firearm YouTube channel, that takes a look at what the AR15 might look like if designed with today's material advancements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI5NPiicXjE
It depends on where you think your gaps are, but some of the soft skills of communication are discussed in these books that I've learned a bit from each: It's Not All About Me by Robin Dreeke an FBI Social Engineering expert, How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie, Crucial Conversations by Patterson et. al. Not to say you should change your techniques to be "convincing" or salesman-like, which some of these books seem like, but you may learn some of what you do today that can be altered to help with communication.
From researching video poker +EV people, their lifestyle and their expected earnings, it seems a terrible terrible way to make a living - at most you’re getting like $40k a year, sitting in a casino in front of the same game for 8-10 hours and making no real choices. It’s pretty close to one of the worst lifestyles I could think of.
Have they upgraded their facilities to handle dangerous substances? I remember the French had to find a different place to scrap their warship because the public said thousands of poor people with acetylene torches swarming the hull at low tide couldn't handle asbesthos properly.
I used to hear the exact thing about Python, incidentally. People would complain about how horrible significant whitespace is and how it causes all these problems, yet everyone I spoke to that used Python said the same thing: that it fades away into the background very quickly and ceases to be an issue. This was also my exact experience with significant whitespace.

Lisp parentheses are the exact same way, in my experience. You hate them until you spend a few weeks writing a Lisp and then they just fade into the background, never to bother you again. Then once you learn paredit, it becomes painful to use other languages again! (And now with parinfer, I think about them even less still) Incidentally, in my experience, Clojure typically has the same amount of parentheses as typical OO languages, in some cases fewer, its just that the opening paren is moved one word to the left.

Also, to anybody new to Lisp: try an editor with rainbow parentheses.
what are your rates and why are you qualified?
Alibaba Acquires Israeli VR Startup Infinity Augmented Reality
I have yet to encounter an embedded map that could not have better been

- a static image

- a table of addresses with an external map link

It's not just the idea of wheeling around in some 256x256 box added at the last minute to a Contact Us page, the entire concept of an embeddable map is shit

Their main purpose seems to be to add 1 second to page loads across the web, and feed more clickstream back to the mothership

The main exception to this I can think of right now is Flightaware, but even that does not require such detailed rendering
Is this (or any of the other, off-brand alternatives) any good at all? Does the battery last more than a few hours?

I'm not sure how I'd answer these questions, if I was in the market for a small Android phone. And frankly, it's more likely to be crap than not.
you can also `go get google.golang.org/api@master`
I wouldn't equate all wastes. Most forms of play have some derivative benefits. Social media and trash content on YouTube seems to have no benefit whatsoever. Of course we had TV whereupon the same critique of unbeneficial waste applies, but I think one big difference is that it became boring quickly. By contrast things such as social media and YouTube provide practically endless entertainment.

Even video games have lost their benefit. When 'we' were younger, games tended to be difficult which instilled perseverance and required the development of skill. That or you got frustrated and went and did something else. Now games, and by this I mostly mean AAA type stuff, have become far more passive forms of entertainment with most of all challenge removed.

This feels like a 'back in my day' rant, but one major difference is that there is quantifiable data to indicate ongoing negative changes in society such, as mentioned in a peer post, the contemporary reversal of the Flynn Effect. [1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
I read the headline and I thought may be Cloudflare will be getting into Email Space too.

And but doesn't seems to be the case. And none of Cloudflare's product or services has anything to do with email.

So what was the purpose of the article from CloudFlare's perspective?
I added "one of" to nip this sort of argument in the bud but I guess it didn't work. Let's just agree to disagree, there is no such thing as "the best" so if it wasn't clear my comment was calling out that this rifle platform has been hugely successful.
Or a laughter yoga group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter_yoga
I mean, I wasted hundreds of hours playing online games as a middle-schooler. Got so addicted that I decided I wanted to learn to make one, so I taught myself C, then C++, then Java when it came out. One thing led to another, I got a few internships, then a job, a CS major, another job, and 15 years later I was one of those Google engineers gaming dopamine cycles for a buck. And the cycle completes!
https://github.com/rogpeppe/gohack is great for this.
iPhone 6s Plus here - I don’t want to give up the button, Touch ID, force touch, or the headphone jack.

Edit: added force touch
Interesting... what are the chances something like this gets implemented in Silicon and actually speeds up computation or is this purely of theoretical interest?
should this work on Firefox (60.6)?
This isn't limited to just smaller sites. Many slower-moving organizations, e.g. government and banks, aren't yet up-to-date with zero-downtime deployments.
I’m going to add to the dogpile here and add: I am really not sure how I can vote with my wallet more than I currently do.

I had a 5S; upgraded to a 6S and spent a year with it, but I really hated the size of the phone and realised that small phones were entirely gone by the end of my time with the 6S.

I tried Android for a while but it was Samsung’s Android and was not for me, I was frustrated and annoyed after every interaction with my phone. After a year of that I went and got an iPhone SE. I’m still very happy with my choice. (Although my AirPods sometimes cut out and I think its due to the size of my Bluetooth antennae)

I buy a fair amount of Apple stuff, I’m on the highest iCloud storage tier, I have AirPods, Mac Pro’s, MacBook Pro’s etc; if they have /any/ customer profiling at all they must realise that I certainly have the means to “upgrade” but doggedly refuse to do so.

When I picked this phone up I bought apple care for as long as I could. I will attempt to extend Apple care on this phone (or buy a new SE if it’s available) before support on this expires.

How else can I show my support to the small phone factor?
LOL. Clojure is actually one of languages with a terse and minimal syntax, pragmatisized to its core.
How to Debug Rust with Visual Studio Code
InRange and Forgotten Weapons are both fantastic channels to lose a day learning about guns with! In particular, the (linked) "what would Stoner do" series was really interesting to me.
I assume they'll combine this with their new social credit system to assign you a seat accordingly?
I never suggested LOC was an estimator of complexity. Heck, I’m not saying anything about complexity at all. Nor did I indicate there was any need to write a single line of code to figure out a problem space. You may be taking my statement either too literally or out of its intended context.
The rifling has generally gotten more extreme. IIRC Stoner wanted 1:14 and the army went to 1:12, but the modern rifles are moving to a 1:7 twist rate. The ammo is different, it's heavier and does better at low velocity so the twist rate doesn't matter much for lethality.
Apparently, the full movie can be found on YouTube[1]...for the time being.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir0FAa8P2MU
Timely announcement.

The battery on my (year old) Sony Z5C running LineageOS has recently decided to start failing. I had a Z3C for two years before it too decided to start failing on touch input (you'd think I'd learn my lesson by this point).

I lament the absence of compact Android phones with long-term security updates. Maybe it's time I just bite the bullet.
so... the real problem is the crappy apple's magic mouse?
Having worked for att I can say this is definetely not the case, the sim card will work with any imei.
Security and privacy are what Apple is betting on these days.

Not much else that makes an iPhone special anymore.
My point is that society strictly benefits if we made a ‘filter bubble’ that teaches calculus instead of antivaxx theories or Shakespeare instead of polical radicalization.

We’ve seen many, many examples of people picking up new concepts from their filter bubble, stuff like pizza-gate, that they wouldn’t have thought up on their own.

The same click-reward feedback algorithm can be applied when teaching more virtuous knowledge. The algorithms that create filter bubbles are disturbingly good at teaching, as in really disturbing and really proficient.

(And besides, let’s not pretend western and Confucian education aren’t indoctrination processes to some extent in their own right. Western education is predicated on building ‘virtuous’ citizens according to what I remember from the Socratic/Platonic dialogs. Also I feel like a dickhead for saying “according to the classics”.)
But what of the second best chess player in his position? What if he doesn't become famous? This "gofundme" model of social welfare is terrible. A few people get coverage and have their prayers answered. Everybody else starves. That's not sustainable.
Yes. And perhaps I'm cynical in my old age but if I were Google, I would prefer that people used my extension so I could more easily line-up their browsing habits.