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Just because the display diagonal is rising does not mean, that the phones themselves are getting bigger. It is due to two factors:

a) the phone displays are getting wider; with widening of the aspect ratio, the diagonal is rising faster than the surface of the display.

b) the ratio of screen to body rises (you are getting smaller bezels).

That means in practice, that for example the 5,2" Sony Xperia Z5 (with ~70% screen to body ratio, 16:9 display aspect ratio) is 1,5 mm narrower and 4 mm shorter than 6,1" Samsung Galaxy S10 (~88% screen to body ratio, 19:9 aspect ratio). Subjectively, thanks to the rounded corners of the S10, it feels smaller than Z5.

Based on the screen diagonal, you would not say that you are going to have such impression, the difference is 0,9" after all.
> Google could send their whole profile to law enforcement.

I would venture a guess that law enforcement won't do a damn thing. Law enforcement will claim it's not their jurisdiction. Or they'll claim that it's too small of an offense to worry about and too busy to do anything about it. Or, damnably, law enforcement won't understand the technical aspect and just file a report and do nothing anyway.
Nuremberg, Germany: I once found a wallet with most of the cash already gone, but loads of cards and ID cards in it, and other stuff, pretty thick. I went to the police - and they were not exactly happy. They would have preferred to send me elsewhere but admitted they were the only ones open at the time. I can understand why they felt that way - it took well over an hour, every single tiny item in the wallet had to be catalogued, an arduous procedure for sure.
I have one of these machines and they are great. My battery was already replaced in a repair, with just under 500 cycles on it.

The battery is the key replenishable that would wear out and so the replacement program effectively adds several years of life to an great computer.

To get cycle count: check under (Apple symbol) > About this Mac > System Report > Hardware > Power
Last paragraph:

> Yonatan Zur, Regulus Cyber CEO and Co-Founder, [...]: “We designed a product to protect vehicles from GNSS spoofing because we believe it is a real threat. We have ongoing research regarding this threat as we believe it’s an issue that needs solving.

So they're selling the cure to an ailment they insist is a very big problem.

I'm not saying GPS spoofing isn't a problem, just that this is hardly unbiased research.
It's a term of art in journalism, it has nothing to do with anything related to the circumstances behind the study or its release
Broadly speaking, you should attempt to minimize the intrinsic cognitive load (through training, good choice of technologies, hiring, pair programming, etc.) and eliminate extraneous cognitive load (boring or superfluous tasks or commands that add little value to retain in working memory). This will leave more space for germane cognitive load (where "value-added" thinking lies).

The whole point of design is reducing cognitive load. Whenever you are looking at a given thing, you shouldn't need to keep more than about 10 things in your head to understand it completely, preferably less. Programming hardly ever blows up your brain with one fantastical concept. Instead, you're worn down with a hundred thousand cuts.
Terrible comments like this make me worried about HN. Seems like the worst of the worst on Reddit are finding they're way on here.
Those leaders are gifted with a lack of intelligence. People with lower IQ don't necessarily appear less intelligent. In fact they can be more charismatic and appear more intelligent.

Steve Jobs was not an intelligent person when compared to Woz. Yet Steve is often referred to as a genius. I don't think Woz could ever come up with the design ethos that Steve Jobs had around products and this is due in great part to Woz's higher level of general intelligence (IQ).
Right, the thing about applications like the digit set and similar OCR problems etc., is that we can independently generate a model of "acceptable" translations/rotations and validate it reasonably easily because we understand the domain well (not that you can't cause trouble this way). This certainly isn't true across data sets.
Interesting! I don't live in the house anymore and I just bought some socks. Otherwise, I'd have to give that a try.
The Hart & Risley book that's kinda the foundation of all this is a pretty good read. Not exactly a page turner but nowhere near the sleep aid one might expect, either.
Shouldn't this fact ring all kinds of alarm bells at appropriate agencies, e.g. FTC?
And in the US, a lot of upper-middle-class HATE mixed income dwellings.

At least in dense cities, public housing can be mixed into free market housing.
Try responding to the logic of my argument rather than phrase 'wealth redistribution.' What's to stop this universal income from being pushed higher and higher to the point where it is a large fraction of income for most people rather than a small fraction of income? Do you really think that UBI will replace welfare?
You'd love his DEFCON talk! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSWqx8goqSY
The World's Wealthiest Cities
I feel the same way, because the iPad is dramatically more useful. I’m a gamer so I have a ton of PDFs on it, read comics on it, program on it in Pythonista, write in Google Docs, create charts maps and diagrams, all sort I couldn’t realistically do on a phone.

One of my daughters loves drawing and ‘painting’ on the iPad, I got Procreate for her and she spends hours on it. She complains she’s started tapping to undo when she’s sketching on paper.
I've used contracts any time this type of thing was necessary. https://github.com/egonSchiele/contracts.ruby
To each their own. I’d hate chat and other things intermingled.
Of course. My only point is that it's not the job of anybody to cover for the incompetence of their superiors.
More likely sleep with lock.
70 year olds wouldn't be so decrepit if it weren't for the lifetime of smoking.
Disregarding ethical concerns, how challenging would it be to artificially provide signals to nerves going to the brain and get output through other nerves? With some kind of device like an ECMO connected directly to an extracted brain, the optical nerves connected to a computer somehow, and some fine motor control nerves connected back to the computer, a brain could operate completely outside of a body.
This isn’t news to anyone who has used Google maps. Sure this was happening a decade ago.
Would you mind explaining the difference between a market order & a limit order?
You're right, there is a segment of HN that has these opinions, but it goes beyond that crowd. I'm a big fan of Dilbert for example, and was excited to read Scott Adams' (the cartoonist) autobiography.

In one of the first chapters, he himself talks about how he missed out on some promotion at the bank he worked for because "upper management wanted diversity". Very little detail is provided about this policy, so we have to take him at his word.

While I don't really question his interpretation of events, I have to wonder about this unicorn bank that was promoting minorities wholesale over white males in the 1980s.
It had the right form-factor (4:3), good high-res screen and a completely underpowered CPU/GPU. The modem-slow flash-storage sure as hell didn’t help either.

I ended up selling mine after little use.
I don't think of lasers as having a large angular width.
“We should all want pilots to experience these challenging situations for the first time in a simulator, not in flight, with passengers and crew on board,” Sullenberger said, adding that “reading about it on an iPad is not even close to sufficient.”

This is the one quote attributed to Sullenberger. Is that enough to claim that he "slams" Boeing? Headline hyperbole is annoying.
If you're ever in Cuba, Hemingway's house makes a great visit. You can't go into the house itself, but it has been preserved as it was left and has many large openings, so you can see basically every section. You can also walk around the extensive grounds.

I enjoyed looking at all the book titles Hemingway had, and his arrangement of typewriters, and other small elements of daily living.

It's an easy drive outside Havana.
> I mean, that’s a pretty common theme in the Bible

Actually, it isn't. The book of Ecclesiastes, which you quoted, goes very much against the grain of the rest of the Bible, which generally tends more towards the idea that man is distinct from the animals, and does have a higher purpose, which is to serve God. Ask any Bible-thumping evangelical and they will be very quick to tell you that all do not go to one place, because their whole raison d'etre is to persuade you that if you don't follow exactly whatever particular flavour of Christianity they are pushing, then you will end up going to a very bad place indeed whereas they, of course are already assured of their entry into a not-so-bad place for all eternity. They will also tell you that the Bible never contradicts itself. I leave you to draw your own conclusions.
It would raise the bar a little bit for spoofing, but not really change the set of people to whom the spoof attack is available.
I know this is an apples and oranges comparison, but I just find it fascinating how value is derived in society.

The current stock price, Slack's market cap is half of Tesla's. And, a lot of people think that Tesla is overvalued.
> (a basic implementation conveniently provided by the sun).

No. You need an actual clock and charts. The sun and stars are completely useless for determining longitude without a clock.

The Moon on the other hand is marginally useful because its phases can be looked up. But its resolution is poor.
Agreed, I really hope Dart gets more adoption now with the help of Flutter. I would especially want it to get some more back end love.
The mobile revolution really boiled that frog. For some reason a change in form factor caused everything to completely forget about freedom, openness, and privacy, because ooh shiny.
If you look you'll always find others doing wrong. You can look historically and find for most countries some rather big wrongs.

But the question is what is happening right now. The Chinese government has rather successfully made two ethnic groups minorities in their own homelands through an intense government-stimulated migration of Han Chinese to in particular Tibet and Xinjiang. Both used to be own states that were brought into China in the creation of the PRC. What you see in Tibet and Xinjiang is a direct result of that policy of forced integration/ethnic takeover.

Israel is a perfect comparison because the Israel conflict similarly stems from the creation of Israel itself: a country was declared by the colonial power (UK) of the Palestine territory due to a 2000-year old claim of that being the Jewish homeland. This was done without any care or concern for what the current citizens of those territories wanted. And those left in the territories are massively disadvantaged in all aspects of life. That is the source of the Israel-Palestine conflict and Israel's conflict with most Muslim neighbors. And the Uighur conflict similarly stems from the annexation of those territories - with different cultural and ethnic groups - by the PRC. The religious expression of this conflict is a symptom, not the cause.

Think of Chinese resistance against the brutal Japanese occupiers. Your people, from our perspective today, were fighting heroically against an outside enemy that wanted to assimilate them and steal the territory and resources. That's how Tibetans and Uighurs see the takeover of Han-Chinese and the PRC.
"Backup with a V" would be backvp to me.
With the exception of a few project config settings whose legacy variants are still backwards compatible, Elixir is absolutely stable as well.

So not sure what were you saying about Elixir.
The dependency on bazel is very off-putting to me. After having tried it for other projects and watched as rapid breaking backwards incompatible changes were made to the tool, I'm opting out of anything requiring it.
Shows how important first impressions are. Apple maps was terrible on release and Apple deleted google maps from people’s phones when it came out.

I was visiting Costa Rica at the time and the small town I was in which was thoroughly mapped in google maps didn’t exist in Apple maps at all. An infuriating experience that made me never want to use Apple maps again.
It's really the only business model that ended up working for the Internet at a large scale, at least on the consumer side.
Yes. 4-5 years after they abandoned their loyal Nexus-customers.
I have a bit of a contrary view on a few of the items, not that I am defending web components, I have my own issues about them but my point is to offer a different perspective on a few of these items:

1. Progressive enhancement - but I think that websites should work without JavaScript wherever possible

At a certain point, backwards compatibility becomes more a of hindrance than a help, in an effort to support an ever shrinking demographic. Now I will give the author the fact that they used the word website, where my frame of reference is building modern web applications, falling back to no-javascript to me would be going back to server rendering and the dumpster-fire of page-post AS/JS/PH/P's.

2. CSS in, err... JS

Separation of technology, is not separation of concerns. This has been argued over JSX and it has been shown to be a huge productivity improvement. If everything for a component is internal to that component and does not need to be reused in a way other than using that component then there is no reason to separate the technology. As both of their concerns are the UI component. In that regard, where everything is encapsulated to the component (HTML, CSS, JS) it is actually a better pattern to not separate technologies as it makes the component easier to reason about.
Isn't this half the fun of using JavaScript frameworks?
FTA: Affected units were sold primarily between September 2015 and February 2017 (emphasis added)

Given that, ‘early 2015’ still feels early to me, but it isn’t necessarily impossible (certainly not if you mean April or May)
Their instance on using Play services for location rather than the GPS API.
I haven't done front end work for about one year. Looks like I'll be re-learning everything at some point, because this looks like a fairly major change. I'd strongly prefer backwards compatibility over a breaking change.
Oh yeah, I'm totally okay with it too. I was just offering a possible explanation for why fraud was less of an issue for YP than it is for Google.
Now I suspect you are not commenting in good faith, but trolling. Existential ennui is great to grapple with, but out of scope for a public forum discussion about whether Mass Effect delivered on the promises it made or not.

"But none of our choices matter, ipso facto the premise of this discussion is pointless" is something you could say in any discussion. If people enjoy the shift and engage, you talk about it. If they don't, you don't dig in your heels and accuse them of not understanding your viewpoint.

EDIT: You can enjoy the journey of a game and still be upset that you were sold a lie. You can enjoy the journey in part because you believe there will be a story-based payout. If you do this, the natural arc of the views enjoyment of the story is to be angry that the payout never came. Maybe you enjoy that feeling of being betrayed by a publisher, it's is a story experience. It's not the kind of twist that satisfies most audiences.
If you use Google My Business they absolutely do verify your address by mail. Went through this process a few months ago.
A market order is "I want to buy 10 units, no matter what the market price is" and a limit order is "I want to buy 10 units at a price no more than $50" or whatever.
Hundreds of the best papers have been posted on Hacker News over the years. Some of the rare gems too. Look through people's posting history for inspiration. And use Google Scholar [1]. At some point you may discover you're searching Google Scholar more than you're searching Google Proper.

[1] https://scholar.google.com
You dismissed my claim without any numbers, so too shall I. Of course it was slow, extremely so. Pointedly, Objects were Especially slow, and even a performance cliff in V8 in many circumstances. Take a look at a React flamegraph, it’s incredible how deep and wide the callstacks are, for things that can easily run 60 times a second. You couldn’t do that years ago.

IE6 and 7 were so slow in both JavaScript execution and DOM that it’s silly anyone would ever claim JS execution was “fast enough.”

The art of fast JavaScript was once arcane, but its clear we’re so far into fast JS execution that nobody even remembers how awful it was. Especially when you had to support IE.

Oh, and let’s not forget the incredible increases in CPU speed. Even a later Core 2 Duo machine I have is awful for browsing the web, basically unusable without uBlock Origin.
Do you have examples of companies that come close to having low cognitive load?
How many years until I can swim in the sea/ocean without a mask?
If you run the numbers and assume that whatever you’re putting into the mortgage will be invested instead once it’s paid off, the house catches up over time.

Of course, this is varies a bit depending on the numbers involved.
"Apple Maps on Android" will be the next "iTunes on Windows".
> As I understand your definition toxic masculinity is the pressure society puts on people to conform to negative masculine roles.

> My personal definition would be people expressing there masculinity in a way that is hurtful and belittling of others.

It's both. The cultural norms, and people expressing them are both definitive of toxic masculinity.

The belittling is often a product of people internalizing those norms. They then ostracize or punish others who either fail to meet them in the eyes of the belittler, or are evocative to the belittler of the ways in which they, themselves, fail to meet them.

In fact, that kind of behavior is what the term "virtue signaling" is actually about: behavior that is performed to signal affiliation with and enforce the norms of some group. It doesn't actually mean the "you're all talk" kind of thing that it's broadly become.
Until he finds one with a bitcoin wallet on it, I guess!
Next thing you're going to do is tell us that Apple, Google, Adobe, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, and eBay were making explicit back room deals to rig employee compensation and using the threat of patent litigation to force competition in line, resulting in the transfer of literally tens of billions of dollars of wealth transferred from employees to shareholders, considering the secondary effects of depressed wages industry wide.

Give the conspiracy theories a break.
They hate it because it became a one stop shop solution for everything. (Especially the mental illness problems are troubling without any of the very much needed therapy, continuous follow ups, visits from a social worker, etc.)
Because results are tricky are measure. "Butts-in-seats" is much easier for lazy and clueless managers to keep track of, so that's what they do.
It's also not clear if any of these numbers are %ages of the total property value, land + house, or just house rebuilding costs (which are often over $400/sqft in California after a disaster).

My worry with CEA is in "the big one", will they have enough money? They have $17 billion in assets, which is theoretically enough. However, the Northridge quake caused over $10 billion in damage, and the 1906 earthquake was over $8 billion in todays dollars. (Although I question that number too. 500 city blocks were destroyed in 1906. Would it only take $8 billion to rebuild 500 SF city blocks?)

If we see a major San Andreas quake that devastates LA, the CEA could run out of money.
Reminder (motivated by taway69's post questioning Sully's credentials): prior to the Hudson river incident in 2009, Sully was already an aviation safety expert, having participated in multiple National Transportation Safety Board investigation, and having founded a safety related company in 2007 (so at that moment in 2009 he was kind of the perfect man for the situation). So yes he's very much qualified to testify in front of Congress.
I find it funny the article talks about have the right people with the right frame of mind and training to be parking enforcers. Yet, it doesn’t seem the same thing applies the police. Cops can be pigheaded aggressive bullies who go through less training than a plumber.
Someone has to define what a "part" is. If a transistor in your CPU is broken, then is the "part" the transistor, the CPU, the board+CPU, or the entire phone?
I always saw VueJS as a successor to AngularJS in that it followed a lot of the same concepts/syntax/etc. that made it really easy to jump into.

Now Vue is maturing and becoming more Angular/React like...so it's only a matter of time before another framework comes out that replicates VueJS2/AngularJS in being super easy to jump into and just write code and the cycle repeats.
Is it really that easy to get access to the exploits of the acquisition program? Throw them a bunch of money and it's yours?
The project I'm currently working on has a QA lag of 4-5 days for code to reach production.

I'm seriously impressed they were able to deploy mitigations to product twice in the same few hours, especially given they are a bank (and a small one, at that), and the consequences of fucking up are enormous.

It's been said here many times already, but I'll join those saying "well done" for handling this so well, and for the extraordinary level of transparency!
"But if you trust your car, your reaction may be delayed by the cognitive dissonance between what you observe and your belief that the car will do what it has always done under what you believe to be the exact same circumstances."

The other thing that causes confusion is that once you recognize something is wrong, you now know that you can trust some parts of the system and not others, but you don't know which. Even in aircraft, which often have minutes between recognizing a problem and a crash, people often cannot figure out what the problem is, because they need to have a theory of what is wrong before they can decide what to trust, to decide what is wrong. It's a catch-22.
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There are a million hypothetical security issues you could worry about. How would you weigh the risks of Javascript against the loss of basically all online productivity apps?
Related, Square wrote a great article: "RubyKaigi and the Path to Ruby 3"[0]. The section titled "Static Analysis" high level compares Sorbet to Steep

[0] https://developer.squareup.com/blog/rubykaigi-and-the-path-t...
I've been impressed with Apple Maps lately - like how whenever you scroll, the temp and AQI are auto updated! So killer.
Jason Scott is a treasure. People will be thanking him for his preservation efforts for millennia.

If you're not familiar with him and his work, check out his website (http://textfiles.com) and the excellent _Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It_ podcast (http://ascii.textfiles.com/podcast).

Per the quote in the article, "people who are moved by them should consider donating to a worthy cause of their choice", if anyone is moved by these photos and doesn't know where to make a donation, you might consider supporting Jason's work on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/textfiles/posts) or making a donation to The Internet Archive (https://archive.org/), where he works.

(I'm not affiliated with Jason or The Internet Archive in any way, but I am (as you can probably tell) a big fan of both.)