skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I cannot comment on the rest, Face ID has proven to work surprisingly well for me, beating even the wildest expectations.

The unlock time seems to be less than half a second, so as I look at the phone, it is already unlocked.

And the detection is really good too. After I shaved my long beard and went fully clean-faced, FaceID had zero issues unlocking the phone with zero hiccups for me.
It's an item that was paid for and not delivered as promised. It's not like anyone is expecting them to find a book in a coffee shop and return it to the owner for free. Postage is on them. And they claim that they do. Their claim is that they look through the items to find any identifiers to find out who to return it to in all cases. But in reality, they only do this with insured items because they effect the bottom line.

I will also say that the USPS is rather amazing at what they do when everything works as it should. As a test, I once sent myself a postcard from the other side of the country. The only thing I put on the back was my first name and my zip code.

It actually made it to my mailbox. Of course, in most cases that wouldn't be enough information. But I am from a small town and we were the largest single shipper, so the postmaster knew me by name.
I’m even older than you apparently, but I just don’t see the attraction of the bezel-less design. I like bezels, they:

- let me hold the phone without blocking the screen

- act as a buffer for cracks: a smaller crack in the corner (the most common kind in my experience) won’t affect your experience.

- mean I don’t have to deal with notches or curved displays

Privilege check: I have large hands, I can single-handedly operate my iPhone 8 Plus with little difficulty. I could see bezel-less allowing greater ease of use for people not like me. If that overcomes the points above... so be it. I’m keeping my 8 Plus for now though.
To be fair, Biosphere was a bit of a planning disaster. It was not meant to be a trial run for a self-sustaining greenhouse per se. It was more of a 'save the earth in a nano-way' project. They had a rainforest section, a desert section, etc. They did learn a LOT about plant biology, weather interactions, and microbiota, though mostly via failure, which was still SUPER useful.

However, just building something like Biosphere was incredibly difficult and laor intensive. Trying to do that constuction on Mars would be a LOT more difficult still.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2
Where do you get the impression that it's a minority?

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/technology/most-americans...
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> If multi-threaded code is too easy for you, try multi-threaded code which is executed in a different order than written!

Most multi-threaded code works this way. Even safe languages like Java permit this. I believe the exceptions tend to be interpreted languages like Python, using green threads.

At the assembly level, most modern CPUs are permitted to perform out-of-order execution. I believe the exceptions are pretty rare these days. The custom PowerPC chip in the Xbox 360 guaranteed in-order execution, for instance [0]. GPUs are a different beast.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon_(processor)#Specificatio...
Oops! Wrong industry! /s
I haven't touched C++ in ages, but wouldn't there be standardized linters that can ensure the use of newer safer constructs?
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Smart speakers and IoT might make the future a lot worse in terms of privacy.
Waiting for Optional Chaining. It's in Stage 3 already.
And they will continue to decline as long as a $200 Android phone can do literally ~95% of what a $1400 iPhone can do.

Seriously, there's just no good reason for a general consumer to purchase an iPhone today. Build quality on the Android devices even in the $200 realm are damn near what the iPhone offers.

For the record: I've used iPhones since 2010. I've never had an Android until this year. It came time to upgrade, and I did my research. Simply put, there's nothing on the flagship iPhone that most vastly cheaper Android phones can do. I'm not a fanboy, I vote with my dollar.
>My guess is that sinking a US carrier would be treated as justification for opening a bottle of tactical nuclear whoopass.

A problem appears when you don't know who sank the CV. I think the possibility for such a scenario exists with submarines and torpedoes. The US can't exactly nuke someone based on circumstantial evidence.

Combine that with disinformation campaigns by less-friendly nations and it's difficult to tell what the populace would think.
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Thanks for the well considered reply!

> Around some of the specifics: we've no intention of pivoting.

I'm afraid I think this is a naive approach, and I'd encourage you to design for the assumption that the company will fail to deliver on the original promise in some sense, not because I don't believe in Dark, but simply because of the realities of running a startup.

> Our intent is to be "within 2x of running the same app written in Node on AWS".

This is a nice goal, but as someone who writes Python/Django/JS/etc and deploys on a mix of bare metal and AWS, I know that we have very significant savings over the average AWS-native deployment (with all the costs that come with lock-in, the spending culture that AWS encourages).

The thing that would encourage me most here would be a self-hosting or partial self-hosting solution. Maybe you provide AMIs for AWS, or docker images, etc. If we can run where we want, and optimise costs in ways we want, that's great.

Being hosted brings other complexities when you start to add more complex services. If for example we want to add an instance of Postgres (perhaps the Dark database doesn't have great spacial data storage options and we want to use PostGIS, perhaps we want something that takes different options from CAP), we need to deploy that somewhere. I'd hope we can write Dark code to talk to it, but we ideally want that software on the same network, same region, same datacenter, etc. We can't do that if you host it, so being able to self-host would have a number of advantages.

> Would it solve your problem if you were able to export a mostly similar working node/python/go app from your Dark program?

Maybe, but again, we have ~500k lines of code in the business currently. If there was any difference in business logic, or any unexpected behaviour in any of this, that could cause significant damage to the company. Maybe if you export tests too that might mitigate the issue, but tests are just code, and if the transpiler isn't perfect (for what definition, who knows?), then tests would be subject to the same transpilation bugs.

An export of Dark code, a working version of the Dark runtime (minus tooling and some secret sauce perhaps), a set of tests, a basic CI/CD pipeline (not a 50ms one), and a set of Kubernetes configs... that might be enough, as it would work the same and essentially be just another regular web app. However, that would lose the benefits of Dark and its ecosystem, and so may end up just being more tech debt. It wouldn't be bad for the case where Dark the company shuts down, but for a company who need to transition off Dark for some reason, they still end up with a monolith of tech debt.

All of this is a long way around to say that I think I would be more excited about Dark if it were fundamentally an open platform. I don't know how you make a business model out of that (consulting? enterprise? support? none are a slam dunk), but knowing that the technology stands on its own without the company, and is still convincing with the features touted regardless of what happens with the company or if the technology took a different direction, would be much more reassuring.
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Nothing you said is easy; it's all a massive PITA and incredibly user-hostile.

1: Scroll to bottom of iTunes screen. 2: Click the flag. 3: Choose new country. Doesn't sound that dramatic to me.

I don't even use iTunes; do I have an account?

If you don't have an Apple account, then what is it that you're complaining that you can't make a purchase from? iTunes and Apple accounts are the same thing.

I can't add my UK CC to my account

The account that you say you don't know you have? You're going to have to make up your mind when you rant.
I think none of this will work in the long run. There is too much content available for free. I have a digital magazine subscription (access to 1000s of magazines) but I hardly ever use it because there is so much alternative content. I might cancel in the future.
For most people it goes something like: Take off the earbuds and never worry about charging them because the case they go in does it for you and continue on your day without thinking about it or being concerned about imaginary scenarios where one of your random products fell down a gutter/drain in the middle of the office because who has the time or energy to worry about storm drains stealing from you?
I was an early adopter of iPhone X and the following year with XS Max, from my experience any unfamiliarity with FaceID is extremely short-lived, I wouldn't go back to a home button which feels archaic at this point and unnecessarily takes up valuable real-estate that should go towards a larger screen. The gestures also become fluid and second nature after a while.

Even the next Pixel4 is moving to using FaceID, going back to a home button or fingerprint scanner would be a step backwards.
FWIW I was similarly skeptical. As others have mentioned, swiping up becomes a very natural motion. And I have sweaty fingers that confounded the fingerprint reader, so Face ID was actually a huge improvement in recognition rates for me. Looking squarely at the phone becomes second nature (because what else are your neck and wrist muscles doing?), and the only times I need to type a passcode are when I need to unlock the phone while lying down.
Who knows! Antartica used to be super moist and wet, so the oil resources may be there. I mean, if you can find a way to get under the mile of ice, there is likely to be a lot of resources just sitting there for the taking. It is an entire virgin contient afterall.
Some of the systems might be unique, if not new technology or specifically designed and made for this use case, with the R&D sponsored as part of the project budget.

There might not be a prototype, because the delivered item is the prototype.

Sure, it should be tested before being shipped, but it doesn't help when it ultimately doesn't perform as expected and there is no alternative at hands.
Pretty sure airpods have been one of Apple's most successful and top reviewed product. Sure their was negative press before they were released, but everything I see now states how good they are and everyone one I talk to loves them.
The autorelease optimization actually regularly breaks, because not even the compiler engineers remember it exists, and it relies on libraries tall-calling -autorelease which they also forget to do.

Even without it, there isn't a pausing problem because you can clear the pool at the end of the runloop tick, when the app is idle anyway.
> there's just no good reason for a general consumer to purchase an iPhone today

* iOS (I prefer it over android)

* customers already tied into the apple ecosystem

* more of a focus on privacy (admittedly, this one is probably debatable)
I think most people will take this video as a joke, but most people underestimate the long-term dangers of a lot of good intentions.
A good article on this hierarchy (if you can forgive the low-contrast style):

http://concurrencyfreaks.blogspot.com/2013/05/lock-free-and-...
I can't believe they went for an aluminum hull after the Royal Navy's disastrous experience with the Type 21 frigates.
I disagree its nostalgia. I prefer composing that way and don't use it "because it's there", rather because I like to. It's more comfortable for me. It's also not bothered by sunlight washing out the display. It's not some impractical relic used for old times sake.
Uh, TV is unending, constantly "scrolling" to new content meant to addict you as well, correct? How does this differ from having the TV on and just consuming what's on it versus Netflix autoplay feature? Is it possible to distinguish autoplay (auto-continuation) from just regular TV streaming over the airwaves or cable?
I like to keep both for developers and separate the external ones for users.
This is more about the author than Forth.

> What does this say about Forth? Not much except that it isn't for me.

> I still find Forth amazing, and I'd gladly hack on it upon any opportunity. It still gives you the most bang for the buck – it implements the most functionality in the least space.

> As to using Forth as a source of ideas on programming and language design in general – not me. I find that those ideas grow out of an approach to problem solving that I could never apply.

Anyway Forth is one "existence proof", Arcfide's APL compiler is another.

To repeat: We could get the same value out of much less code than we do. If we had 1/100th of the code we could use the time and mental energy thus liberated to do other better things.
If somebody has designed a digital system to throw away data instead of recording it, that doesn't excuse them from recording it when needed for tax reasons.

And I understand that in cryptocurrency land there's always a future thing that people will use. Wake me when that happens, as 10 years in I've stopped holding my breath. Especially since, as I said upthread, other technologies in the same period have found widespread adoption.
I knew Mike as an undergrad at Johns Hopkins. I'm still sad about his untimely death.
Which can be circumvented by sophisticated hacking techniques such as pressing escape before the page finishes loading all the bullshit
It's interesting that they've found denormalizing their log data so useful. I'm suprised to hear that that performs better for practical queries than a database with appropriate indexes, and that they've been able to build more ergonomic interfaces to query that than the standard relational approach a lot of people already have experience with. But I don't know much about log management at scale, so I'm only mildly surprised.
At this vintage of machine we're talking about things like pulling individual RAM chips which have gone bad, and hardware that is just too slow to even keep up with 9600 baud datastreams - despite the fact you wrote it all in assembly and hand optimized it.

Not to mention the fun of playing with front panel switches. I built an emulator for one long before I acquired my IMSAI. They did not behave at all how I expected. Even more interesting the front panels are not synchronous on these "hobby" machines from the 70s but instead are timed by RC circuits that are supposed to be "close enough" to the CPUs clock.

Not all of these problems are from age (although that has an effect), the hardware was pretty flaky even when new.
Backwards-compatibility means you shouldn't actually have to upgrade large codebases. If the codebase isn't changing much, then you can leave it as is, and it will continue to work with new compilers. If you are making changes, then you can add C++11/C++20isms to the parts of the codebase that you're working on, and leave the rest alone. No need to bring in a consultant to change the whole thing.
Mainstreaming desktop (and laptop) UNIX was a kind of amazing achievement (and a sort of strange side-effect of Jobs returning to Apple with NeXT in tow.)

Though original Mac, LaserWriter, and iPad are also big on my list.
It is security theater but it's set up that way for good reason. The long winding lines are intended to let cameras get good images of you from multiple angles and have time to run those images through a database. Anyone flagged is standing for several minutes in a heavily guarded area with no electronics, no shoes, not even a belt: they're in no position to run, hide, or fight.
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That's $200 a year for a newspaper I read about once a week

Seems reasonable to me. Important journalism isn't free. If you want free trash, Buzzfeed is your friend.

that doesn't even get me their cooking section.

Lucky you! From that same link someone else posted above you can subscribe to the cooking section for $40 for a whole year ($3/month). And then you don't have to have the newspaper that you're not going to read anyway!

But go ahead and move the goalposts again. We'll wait.
Like you, I suspect, I am not in a position to do this sort of analysis. But I would note that Qualys didn't release a PoC with their announcement of the Exim bug, the RCE takes 7 days to trigger (you need to send a keep-alive packet every 4 seconds for 7 days as a step in the exploitation), and within 8 days of it being published it was being exploited in the wild. So the bad guys move fast, even without a PoC.

Based on evidence like that, I don't think that a PoC matters that much to the most dangerous bad guys. The script kiddies, maybe it does matter, but there are enough NotScriptKiddies out there that'll own you just as hard with Shodan and their own code that the marginal effect of releasing a PoC is probably pretty minor.
I'm friends with a fairly well off single guy who has admitted a great deal of his spending to me at times. Keep in mind he's a steadily working guy in oil field inspections which pays close to $300k a year, which is pretty damn good in our poor area in the southern US.

According to him in the last year he's spent $18K+ in clash of clans alone and its not the only mobile game he plays. I've watched him drop thousands in a single night on cam girls when he strangely invited me to come along for the private viewing. He's paid for cam girls to come over for a week or more to his house. (nice house, nice looking guy tbh). He's dropped $30K on legos along in the last two years because he wants a lego room in his house. This is just a few of the things he's admitted and shown me the spending records on.

As a single guy in his 30's he has extreme amounts of expendable income for how cheap it is to live in our area. It blows my mind the money he spends on things. The Lego purchases alone were more than my last year's take home pay. I can't really fault him for using his money as he see's fit given he's a self made man who worked his way up from an extremely poor area.
This is actually cultural too. Stalls in China don't have doors.. nor toilets for that matter.
> the US Navy accepted delivery of the Ford and commissioned it when it was non-functional. This should be ending swathes of careers at the top of both the US Navy and Huntington Ingalls Industries.

It'll be bonuses at Huntington. "Congratulations, you got the Navy to sign off even though it's not complete!"
from what ive learned about encryption and cryptography in general, it seems like you dont get to put this cat back in the bag once it gets out.

You can hold all the meetings you want. pound fists to table, elegantly restate your problem, but the mathematic fundamentals of it are your immovable object. your only option is to block it throughout your nation. this just makes room for a new, or an updated version of the fly you swat last week that gets around your flyswatter.

Sure, you can try to poison the code base, or inject some kind of malware, but this trick only works once. its not a silver bullet.
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> Why have a launcher at all? the USSR's Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier solved the aircraft launching problem ages ago and for far cheaper. just slope the deck.

Catapults permit heavier payloads, higher takeoff rates, aircraft that wouldn't be able to take off under their own power from such a short runway, and a number of other major benefits.

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/32828/what-is-t...
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I have a late-2018 ThinkPad X1 Extreme, and while I love the feel of the keyboard, the keys around the mouse nub (GHBN) started becoming increasingly unresponsive after only a few months. Last week, the whole machine died horribly (unrelated), so I'm hoping to get the keyboard replaced as well when I send it in. I love the machine, and overall it's well-built, but I'm going to be wary of the keyboard. One of the main reasons I bought the ThinkPad was because I'd gotten fed up with MacBook keyboard failures.
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Disagree that iPhone users are going from a previously $700 phone to a “free when you switch carriers” Android.

More so that someone with a 6S or better has little reason to upgrade; the improvements have been incremental.
It seems that the only way is to do a serious video tutorial series, something pro. Both 3D Max and Blender look huge things you cannot start learning on your own.
It's pretty amazing the amount of money they make on services. It's almost 45% of the iPhone revenue, while I was under the impression that it was more like 3-4% of overall revenue.
Yep. And if the price of two cups of coffee a month is too much of a burden on one's wallet, there's always Blendle for 40¢ an article.
1. If you have enough money to throw around $2,000, you should be able to invest in yourself enough to get real attention, not buy it. If you can't, due to some dysfunction, that's sad. Not sad in a derogatory sense, but sad in the sense that you are so *cked that even $400,000/year can't fix it.

2. If it's not play money, it's sad how irresponsible the person is.

This isn't exactly complicated.
I would like that "simple auto-mode" to be enabled with the power switch. When I turn the camera on, I might not have time to mess with settings.

That mode should turn off bit by bit as I make manual adjustments. If I adjust ISO and exposure, then the camera is left with aperture and shutter speed under auto control. If I turn the focus ring, then the camera stops doing autofocus.
Agree, new UX sans home buttons is amazing. I was a sceptic but ended up buying XS outright as it didn’t make sense to spend so much money on a XR and not get the camera. It’s an amazing device.
Not to my knowledge. At least not in the US. CCPA (coming into effect Jan 1) does give users the right to be deleted, which presents some challenges with this sort of data but nothing insurmountable.
And my Toyota can literally do 99% of what your BMW can do. BMW is obviously screwed.
Denormalization typically improves performance. Normalization isn't done for performance reasons but for consistency reasons, i.e. so that data isn't duplicated and there is only one source of truth
Very wrong: https://www.amazon.com/CASE-MARS-Robert-Zubrin-dp-0684827573...

Everything they object to can be dealt with, including radiation and low gravity. If close to 1 G turns out to be necessary for human health, we could build cities as inclined racetrack centrifuges.

Given enough energy, we could not only make fuel in-situ, we could even make plastics out of the Martian atmosphere. In addition, Mars had geologic processes which would produce mineral ores. An entire human civilization could be started on Mars. Historically, this would be analogous to the founding of the United States, just without the smallpox and killing-off the people already there, also starting from more desolate conditions. (Instead of just starting agriculture and industry, we would have to start biospheres.)
Still using multiple iPhone 6 devices in the family. The newest one is iPhone 8 and it will last hopefully another 5 years. Even iPhone 3G is used almost weekly with another number for ads. The phones are durable and get updates many years after purchase date. New original battery replacement costs 49€, not cheap, but it gives at least another 2 years of life for the phone.
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