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These are examples. If its not board games its going to be knitting. If its not knitting its going to be skydiving, and if its not that it will be something else. At the end of the day, to thrive in the current world on a social, cultural, and emotional level, you need to have SOMETHING getting you out of bed that isn't work/kids/eating/drinking.

If the only thing you live for is going out to the local bar's happy hours with the bros, yeah, you probably will have some social issues later down the road.
there’s something wrong with Apple lately. They ship hardware that’s worse than what they had five years ago, and their software has more and more embarrassing bugs. Seems like management problems.
Or... none of those things. LMAO.
So they would have you believe...
Most science isn't accurate, that's why it's filled with p-values. They're often only reporting the mere hint of an effect which allows them to distinguish between a control and experimental population.

Polygraphs are almost certainly not reliable enough to convict someone on, but it's not admissible in court. That doesn't mean it can't be used to help coerce a confession or help lead an investigation. And the fact that you won't face up to the extraordinary amount of evidence showing that it can be useful suggests stubborn ignorance on your behalf.
>Haven't they already?

3D motion design was actually quite Mac centric, because many people came into it from 2D graphic design where Macs are widely used. Folks just kept their old Mac Pros and went with fat GPU's for rendering in the last 5 years or so. But with Nvidia dominating in the GPU rendering space and Apples stance against Nvidia it's kind of a roads end for professional 3D people.

It's not that it would cut into Apples profits directly, but good artists and designers are taste makers, it hurts Apple as a brand going forward, 3D is only getting more popular with AR.
iPhone sales continues to decline (down another 13% vs this quarter last year), but services are making up for it
I supposed due to branding and recruitment and legacy issues, this is a non-starter. But I see no need whatsoever to have separately named branches of the US military.

It just gives people a reason to split into groups and compete and fight. They already have overlapping capabilities anyway. Seems like we should just get rid of the names and everyone is a part of the "U.S. Military".
How can this even happen, technically?
> Google Site Search, which can be used to power the search for websites has started showing Ads (miserably even competitors ads).

Indeed. It is unbelievably bad! I was recently trying to integrate Google Site Search into https://share.cocalc.com/, and on many test queries I would see an entire page of ads for our competitors (or completely irrelevant) products. E.g., if I searched for "julia" (thinking of the programming language), I would get a full page of ads for jewelry! I ended up just building a little search box from scratch myself that pops up another browser tab with a normal Google search that has "site:share.cocalc.com" pre-pended to it. This seems to work surprisingly well -- there can be ads (it's just a normal google search), but they are at least completely blocked if you have an adblocker installed. What is the drawback of this approach of just using site: rather than Google site search or expertrec.com?
>because no one cares about that use case, and the resources wasted on making it possible are better spent on supporting the things that photographers expect cameras to do.

No one except all the people who are using smartphones instead of DSLR's, causing a decline in sales?

And what do you mean "no one cares"? The use case I've provided are precisely ones that "real" photographers care about. The amateur non-hobbyist photographer isn't going to want to do stacking on photos. The serious hobbyist/professional is.

CHDK and Magic Lantern are great. My problem is that I don't use a Canon :-) But even if I did, I assume these are all unofficial? The idea is for the manufacturer to have official APIs. Now of course, it does make it more likely one will reduce the lifetime of a camera with a poorly written plugin (e.g. one that wildly keeps using the focusing motors), but they can simply say the warranty is voided if you install custom firmware/plugins.
I just visited a local shop where I tested different smartphones including iPhones. Lots of similarly looking models, most with Android. Most are below 300 Euro. An average buyer cannot probably see big difference between phones priced at 1000 and 200 Euro.
That last point depends strongly on the camera. I almost never have to take my D500 away from my face when I'm setting up a shot, because it has physical controls for the exposure parameters and displays in the viewfinder to show changes of setting - not just shutter speed, aperture, and ISO, but even down to stuff like bracketing and flash exposure compensation. Granted, a lot of DSLRs, especially the prosumer ones, don't benefit from such thoughtful (and expensive!) design. But you absolutely can get cameras that are ergonomic to operate.

(Well, if you buy Nikon, anyway. I don't know who does Canon's UI design, but whoever they are, they could be a lot better at it...)
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What software is being used to create virtual personas? Am I right in understanding that this work isn't being done by Western companies?
>How it is appalling that people disagree with you?

They didn't say they were appalled at people disagreeing with them. They said they were appalled at the lambasting. There is valid criticism raised here, but the majority of the criticism is based solely on the fact that its P0. Not for any technical reason. Not for any security related reason. Just because it's Google. If you think "Google is worse than China and Russia" is a worthy criticism... So be it.

>I tend to find it appalling to when hacker news argues against for example a free press

Huh. Can you expand on this, in the context of this thread?

>Arguing against arguably the most powerful software company in the world because you disagree with their practices?

Very few of the legitimate criticism I have seen here has been about P0's practices - and the ones that have brought up P0's practices have brought it up in the context of the security industry as a whole (i.e. what responsible disclosure should be).
Patients Paid Billions More Because of Alleged Price-Fixing by Drugmakers
This seems more like an individual opinion rather than market data.

The Apple Watch is the world's most popular watch.

AirPods have exploded in popularity among youth as a status symbol.

Both are selling relatively well, even if you may think they're inferior products.
> They are too fast and too perfect.

IDK. The android emulators I run on my Mac sure don't seem perfect. For one thing, scrolling a RecyclerView up and down using the mouse doesn't always work right. Gesture detection seems to lag or miss events sometimes. Working with a physical android device is often more stable and "solid" IME.

OTOH android emulators do seem pretty fast.
> I can write for Node and use everything v8 supports without ever touching Babel and Typescript.

You totally can do that--but you probably shouldn't, because writing TypeScript is better for you and for future you. ;)
I feel like this is a sort of meta joke.
This is what people get for ignoring local politics. If you don't attend village/town/city council meetings and you don't speak up, you end up dealing with idiocy like this. Worse, if you let petty tyrants get away with befouling local government, they go on to become bigger tyrants and befoul state and federal government as well.
Nobody? I see AirPods everywhere. I’m not aware of the actual sales numbers but I’m sure that they’re among the best selling >100$ headphones. I think that you are underestimating the popularity and appeal of wireless headphones. I like my wired seinheiser pair at the office but while commuting, running or walking wireless is nice.
Why set it lose in the ocean when you could contain it and measure it in a more controlled environment?
I meant specifically when using a viewfinder on a mirrorless camera, it means looking at a tiny LCD/OLED screen inside an eyepiece that simulates the classic view vs through glass lenses/prisms for an actual optical view. I like optical viewfinders not little screens in tubes.
TBH, while I think the iMessage service is invaluable, the app itself is often buggy for me. On OS X, it often hangs w/ the spinning beach ball when attempting text input, the iCloud sync can be spotty, and the cardinal sin, on my iPhone X, there are inexcusable screen draw bugs w/ orientation rotation, or w/ the keyboard popping up to type....so I am not entirely surprised. It is an app in need of a good overall bug hunt.
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Furniture? Wood products? We already do a lot of that.
Yes, this is one of my pet peeves.

Pivotal R&D has struggled with maintaining context. For multi-megaSLOC codebases with many moving parts, organic memory begins to fall a bit short.

Different teams deal with this differently. Some write design notes, some keep architecture design records. But IMO it's one of our weaknesses.
Looks like various reports coming in stating that you're able to "@" mention people outside of your organization in Microsoft Teams.
I don't think that is the point though so much as that Google has one standard for their internal findings and another for project zero, which also deals with other companies with the justification that it is better. Mozilla doesn't audit other companies so what they do with their internal finding isn't relevant for that argument. One can of course argue whether it is good, or justified, or not. But I don't think that changes that their is an argument there. If someone wanted to sue Google (ha!) over a project zero disclosure that is likely something they would try to argue. That Google knows that disclosing has consequences.
Media mail. Which definitely had a higher loss rate but the savings made up for the lost items.
That's a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of carriers today and going forward. They're not primarily for fighting a war with China or Russia.

The reason China is building them and looking to add more in the coming years, is for the same reason the US has them. China knows the US could sink a carrier and yet they're building them anyway. Why?

It's about global force projection. The point isn't to set them up in front of China or Russia as convenient targets and let them get sunk. You mostly want to use carriers directly against weaker adversaries. A war with China or Russia that involves sinking a US carrier, would be the start of WW3, and millions of people would probably die. Carriers getting sunk is not a primary concern at all in that scenario (it's down the list, with nuclear war jumping to the top).
Nice, I was curious what repo it was in since it doesn't seem to be in Debian Unstable anymore.

Anyone interested can get the Debian package here:

http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/s/steamlink/
“most popular watch” is not really a high bar, is it?
Alternative for those not subscribing to any particular religion: we prove we're worthy of survival by surviving. If we actually figure our way out of this conundrum, go us!
Yes - as someone who works in the field (on the academic side), Neuralink has an approach that will in theory work once the engineering is all in place.

Facebook's approach of "quasibalistic photon imaging" is attempting to be a higher resolution signal like FNIRs, but struggles from the reality of physics and the challenges of imaging through a LOT of opaque dura / skull / skin / hair. They have a goal of decoding 100 words per minutes of speech, but that's going to be incredibly challenging with a noninvasive approach.
There are multiple tribes represented in HN. I know, having been on here for years. I've met face to face with other HNers who might today disguise themselves and punch me in the street. I also continue to have productive and (at times) civil discussions with them, even in today's crazy climate.
China is on track to beat its peak-emissions pledge
An artmaking tool like the DSLR will still outlive Instagram. There will be a reaction against oversharing, ad-adjacency and other social media that leads to its demise, but nobody will oppose the mechanical, mirror viewfinder for any political reason.
Most of the stuff you wrote can be done with modern cameras.
Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji et al have mobile apps with a variety of functionality depending on model. But all basically allow you to connect via bluetooth to GPS tag pictures and download them via Wifi to your phone, where you can 'directly post them to Instagram'. You can charge most modern cameras (Canon EOS R, Sony A7(R)III, Nikon Z6/Z7, Fuji XT-3(0) etc) with USB-C.
Canon and Nikon have great touch screen support, Fuji so-so, Sony horrible.

I am not saying everything is perfect. But it seems you haven't done research on modern cameras.

Trying to put a whole phone stack in there isn't the core competency of any of those manufacturers (except barely Sony, though a different division). It's not just "slap a SIM and a beefier CPU" in there. Camera CPUs are highly specialised. So you'd have to essentially put another phone in there. That adds BOM cost plus reasearch and development of folks without core competency. Issues with software updates, compatibility, let alone battery life. All so you can edit a picture on a tiny 3" screen to post a 4megapixel version of a 24-45Megapixel original image directly to instagram?

Zeiss is coming out with a phone just with everything you've described. They're late. It will be huge. It will be incredibly expensive. Not sure I'd want to go that route.
Enough is enough. Any pharma company caught price-fixing should be dissolved. Its assets should be confiscated. Its patents should be placed in the public domain. Its executives should be subject to criminal charges.
I was actually looking through the comments to see if someone would reference DFW videophony.
Good comparison. I compared to Gedit which just has unusual UX conventions. As soon as I heard of vscode, I switched over.
> But...the product team at Doritos does the same thing.

I get awfully suspicious any time someone so clearly on today's side of the digital divide feels the need to hop the fence back to yesterday to elucidate an ethical argument. (And esp. on HN where you'd be hopping away from the place we're all standing.)

What's the threshold of addiction beyond which a digital streaming service becomes unethical in your opinion? How about dangerous?

I ask because you unequivocally refer to the product you worked on as "addictive." I can't imagine working on such a product without a clear sense of what the boundaries are.
Thanks for that link! I missed that thread, and the topic is super-interesting to me.
Except for the fact the stock is up 270% since his death not accounting for any dividends.
Sure. And there is no way a stack of paperwork can prove you are -not- using human remains.

Check the box that you understand and expect possible, random inspections.
Math is a subject that you don't understand why you need it till you see real-world applications for it, especially higher-level math. Rather than teaching math in a way where you solve equations, students need to be taught to 'think' mathematically, similar to mental models. In fact, a good number of mental models have a strong grounding in mathematics. Seeing the world as a set of mathematical problems gives you a leg up on a number of things.
Would be nice if Google finally came out with their own iMessage-like service that texted over the Internet instead of 30 year old SMS
Many of them probably also didn't set the ad blocker up themselves - they have tech-savvy relatives handle their computer stuff, and those tech-savvy relatives have realized that fewer ads means fewer malicious social engineering ads means less malware to remove during the next visit.
I think it would be a good use of space to include some default assets (models, textures, etc.) for beginners to play with, even if it doubled the size of the download
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Math things that you think are convoluted (at least as you’ll find in refined undergraduate/graduate material) usually have a very good reason for being that way in my experience...
From the abstract, these seem to refer to the physical duality (left hemisphere vs right hemisphere) which Jaynes does postulate. Personally, I look at his philosophy at a more abstract level - I think it's less important to pinpoint the spatial location (and more prone to be wrong given his 1975-era knowledge, although he was IIUC more right than wrong with his predictions that later became testable); rather, the idea that there's more than one "self".

This was taken, in some ways ad absurdum, by Tony Wright in "Left in the Dark" / "Return to the brain of Eden" - which is also an interesting read, though I can't decide if it's science or science fiction.
If your front-end is within rails, you can't really at the moment. We're only focusing on the front-end design/implementation use case right now, so seeding databases etc isn't our priority.

If you have your front-end in another project, and use rails only as a backend, you can use environment variables in your front-end to point to rails. That's what we do for our FeaturePeek dashboard app as a matter of fact.
Sounds like our IT department.
Yup. How many times does this engineering mistake have to be made?

"Let's save time and money by not building a prototype and do our testing of the system on the actual ship itself!"

Whenever someone thinks: let's cut corners on "x" to save money and time, it has always come around to bite me. And now they are far behind schedule, and they ended up having to build a carrier replica at the drydock to do testing anyway.
One big factor is that defense contractors have been consolidating.

With fewer and fewer contractors that they can go to, and a revolving door where the people approving purchases today get plushy jobs tomorrow with the company that they approved, the incentives are to approve giant projects for lots of money that require a lot of integration, and turn a blind eye towards failure. The result is that we are spending more, but getting less for our money.
For anyone looking for an alternative point of view, consider reading https://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines...
If nobody wants them, how can Apple sell millions of units every month?
"they will be increasingly vulnerable to attack by high-speed, maneuverable missiles that can be bought for a minuscule fraction of what a carrier costs."

Except that assertion is far from proven. Missiles of that type have been around since the 70s and 80s, and the Navy was planning for it then. They are a threat, yes. But they're not assuredly effective. Finding the carrier and then delivering a missile that has the range, sensor coverage, lethality, is not a trivial problem to solve, and there's trade-offs in every area.

Discussing all of this in context is not easy, which is why this article is a nice one. Places like the NYtimes and others, while great in many areas, consistently seem to oversimplify defense issues. That's not to say that the threat from missiles to carries is one to be disregarded. But it needs to be understood that the defense against a carrier is not an easy one either. And while anti-ship missiles is a logical direction as far as cost vs. effectiveness, success is far from guaranteed.
"Dr_Jefyll" works.
Many many years ago I was at an investment bank. Our branch was in NYC, but the bank was based in Europe (it's not important which bank). Our department was principle finance, investing in synthetic CTOs. Our team was responsible for building the real risk reporting system....

.... porting from Excel.

Those spreadsheets had been so tortured. There were custom macros that loaded data from a multitude of other systems that had everything including quotes, ratings, LIBOR curves. The whole thing would be loaded and an XML file was generated. Then the quant tool ran against the XML generating a second XML file. This would be loaded back into the spreadsheet, where everything would be summed up and generate a series of CSV files that were then FTPed to some central reporting system. All of it was run by Excel macros, and the whole thing took about 2 hours, not including the quant work which could range up to 20 hours.

Historical records were just a series of copies of the file on a shared drive that everyone had write access to, so be careful, and make sure you copy the file locally if you need to look at it. Of course there were errors everywhere. The spreadsheets had formula copy/paste errors often. and sometimes you had to figure out when it was fixed or introduced by finding the correct copy of the file.

This was the system of record for about $50bn in assets.

We built a system to actually process this stuff in a real system. I was pretty proud of it. We got the imports running in under 15 minutes, and then we'd shard the work out to a farm of quant machines, so that we could generally get runs done and loaded in another 15 minutes. I learned a lot from the process, but in particular I learned that Excel is extremely powerful as a prototyping tool. And when I have a one-off job or a prototype to build, I'm much more likely to reach for a spreadsheet than an IDE.
I sometimes wish I had a better foundation in college level math when encountering proofs in algorithm books. This is probably the biggest hurdle to me just buckling down and studying the various complex algorithms.
Yeah, I mean, I do exposure stacking sometimes too, when I'm goofing around trying and failing to get good at landscape photography, for example. Sure, it's a bit of extra work to produce a finished shot. But it's not so much extra work that I've ever wanted to write code against an API built into my camera to do it for me, especially not when software tools already exist that let you load a set of images and then more or less automatically stack them for you. The same is true of macro focus stacking, which is a lot more work when done by hand. And I'm a lot happier with the idea of paying $50 or $100 for an application I run on the general-purpose computer I already own to do this kind of work, than I am with the idea of cramming a general-purpose computer into a camera that will not be a better camera, and may well be a worse one, for the addition.

(I don't shoot Canon either, and yes, the homebrew firmwares are homebrew and thus not officially supported. I don't really know what effect they have on the warranty, but based on things I've heard, I think people just reflash bodies with stock firmware before shipping to the service center and it's basically fine.)

It's also worth noting that smartphones and ILCs don't compete directly any more. They never really did; once smartphones with good enough cameras to take casual snapshots and family photos started happening, ILCs were done in that market. Since then, they've been specializing toward those markets where they don't have to compete against smartphones. You're more or less suggesting that they do the opposite, and I don't know if you realize that the reason they're not already doing that is because they got murdered the last time they tried it and they're not in a hurry to get murdered again.
So real news continues to make their content harder to read, while fake news does everything they can to spread far and wide.

Journalism for profit is fundamentally broken.
Yes, we would see that occasionally. Once tracking got better with USPS, we would track packages that would loop back and forth between two hubs at least a dozen times before disappearing.
It seems that the endgame we're unwittingly asking for is WALL-E.