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Show HN: The Mindfulness Behind Assisted Graphics Engineering Toolset for GLSL
Talking about security inevitably triggers fear. That’s fine for some products, but absolutely unacceptable for large consumer brands with positive reputations.
The first and last thing I do in every rental car I'm in is delete the stored contacts. You're all welcome.
It adheres to convention. "We will no longer be providing complimentary dessert" etc.
Porsche CarPlay is fantastic.
Last time I was on a flight and the infotainment screens all rebooted I saw the familiar Linux boot screen, Tux and all.
Thank you for that package!
This would be super helpful! thanks for sharing!
I have a collective solution but not an individual solution: pressure Mozilla to change.
If she did Xerox the disclosures, walked out, and said "please call the cops" when challenged, at least it would be a matter of public record
Wasn’t last year’s XS the mid cycle refresh?
Well then the states better get on fining Uber!
I honestly don’t believe anyone would look at the phrase “we will no longer be supporting X” as awkward. The meaning is immediately obvious, and the construct is used frequently. Calling out a trivial style problem like this in a technical review is amateur.
Harlem (140th give or take) was the only place I could find a decent grocery store that wasn't outrageously expensive. I was fortunate enough to live about 10 minutes from it, though I was not pleased that that's one of the few places left on Manhattan that still has significant hills.
so ... nobody wonders about the obvious rammification: then any ML scoring systems ... must detect child abuse signals!
Agreed on the Ridgeline, it packs neither capability nor efficiency.

OTOH, a Lexus GX or Land Cruiser should do fine for modest towing duty, reliability, and low-ish depreciation.
A whole lot of people who are the target market for this article would likely have experienced the same hurricane. Not giving the peanut gallery easy reasons for dismissal is something to be considered.

It wouldn’t hurt but it’s not urgent like I said.
Raising minimum wage might reduce the number of jobs, but 100% * ~0$ < 10% * 15$.

Many companies have wages low enough that people receive significant public assistance while working full time. That’s a terrible trend, either the work is valuable enough to pay a living wage or or does not need to be done. Allowing companies to pay below living wages is simply an inefficient drain on the economy.
It does exist. It is a 'bitch' but those others are bastards.
They are not small though. Gojek is big in Indonesia specifically
I recently did some 'lock-in' consulting with a company who had heavily committed to an open source database. The database had two versions, community and enterprise, previously both were open source with the enterprise version optionally being supported by a service contract. The company then changed the license of the enterprise version to a closed source pay only subscription model with a HUGE yearly license fee. The tech team are now eating major crow from the business side of the company. I ultimately recommended that they rewrite the data access layer to use PostgreSQL. Which they are doing, in the end it will result in a more modular and extensible application architecture. Lock-In is something that should be avoided.
I’m just speaking from personal experience as someone who defended Chromium for quite a long time and finally hitting my peak. I’m sure I’m not alone.
I’m glad this came out. It’s easy to forget that weed causes harm. Just from my own experience, when I’m on it I can’t think straight, can’t track a sentence from beginning to end. I can’t imagine where I’d be if those effects had applied long term as my brain was developing. Actually I can imagine. I’d be incapable of doing the high-paid, satisfying work I do now. I’d be stuck doing toilsome work with nowhere to go and a feeling that there’s more but I can’t quite grasp it.
'Don't Vape. Don't Use Juul': Juul CEO Issues Stark Warning to Non-Smokers
The two illusions that tricked Arthur Conan Doyle
I'll throw my hat in as one of those that has been smoked out practically 24/7 for the last seven years and haven't experienced these symptoms working at various big name tech companies as software engineer. I am glad to hear things are going better for you now!
It's amazing/depressing what patterns of living these megarich metropolises end up creating. There are people who live in Ireland and commute by boat and train to London for half the week in order to work.
That does not make Waze the default mapping app. 9to5mac is wrong. Changing the order of the apps is only cosmetic.
> but there could be many developments, which, together, provide the order-of-magnitude improvement.

He says very clearly that this is likely at the remaining of the text.

> the improvements may take longer.

I imagine the point of posting this on HN nowadays is because in 3 decades there wasn't any. Still, something could appear tomorrow, but I imagine it's very unlikely, for the same reasons that are on the article.
Those two statements are not equivalent.

And the "fact" that is usually printed in the news is 97% of scientists.

The distrust, of the media at least, is well earned.
From your website...

By 2020, we expect Flow to be a competitive rival to Python or R for 80% of data science tasks.

That's incredibly ambitious. Checking in -- are you within 4 months of reaching that goal?
Let's completely neglect in those "facts" that Google offers the best search engine and that people want to use it
I think machine learned grading of papers is insane, but at the same time I don't think we should be training or encouraging students to speak in AAVE (as the article suggests).

I think the right approach for machine learned systems is to automatically "whitelist" essays rather than "blacklisting" them. Students in the middle of the distribution of essays aren't really interesting, so whitelist them, give them a pass. Those at the extremes can be either exceptional or terrible, but usually terrible. The judgement of those at the extremes should be decided by a human, not a machine. You wouldn't want to blacklist the Einstein of essays because he did something genius that is indistinguishable from insanity.

However, I think there are some essays that can automatically be blacklisted. For example, those with:

1. Plagiarism (perhaps human moderated)

2. Extremely low word count

3. Extremely high count of fake words

And at the end of the day, these essay assignments aren't there to judge whether a student is the next writing sensation; they are given to judge whether the student can write legible sentences and words, to ensure they are prepared for the future. So perhaps it is at least possible to automatically blacklist on sentence structure and spelling (you should just lose points for invalid structure or invalid words, you shouldn't gain points for big words or complicated sentences). To make this fair, the student should be informed of this requirement. If they are informed and still fail, then they need to be remediated. If we discover that a disproportionate number of minorities are getting blacklisted, then we should investigate why the school is failing to teach them proper sentence structure and spelling, not pretend we can change the world to make AAVE an acceptable dialect of english in the workplace.
Family health insurance costs $24K/yr. Rent is atleast $24K/hr. Those 2 alone will kill you...
> dissidents

If nothing else, that would be a pretty good guess, given that amateurs don't have the skill to come up with "five separate, complete and unique iPhone exploit chains", and a professional team with the skill to create them is either going to report the vulnerabilities (white hat) or sell them on the black market, or at least try to infect a large number of people. The specificity of putting them on a single website with only "thousands" of views per week suggests that someone wanted to target visitors of that site specifically, not just for financial gain.
i either missed the joke or missed the perl6 spec about :} notation. can you explain?
Uh huh. You should visit the Building 17 courtyard sometime, it's basically a graveyard for defunct MS products.
Any sources for these bold claims?
Second? We’re heading to #3 — fully cyclical
That's just an observation and is there is nothing in the article to indicate it's not covered under "other than their time spent underwater using their eyes" is there?

The title of the research paper is "Visual training improves underwater vision in children".
>From where would this curiosity and desire to find analogies and to use knowledge across domains arise? Are you saying it would spontaneously appear?

From the perspective of an AI it wouldn't at all be some new desire or curiosity for something outside its defined domain. It would be something squarely within its own domain that nevertheless has applicability outside of it.
This is the direction I'm currently on.
Can you point to anything beyond anecdotes?
> The method we developed images the eye multiple times to see whether it’s actually responding to changes in brightness

This is new? In 2019? Really? I find that so hard to believe.

> the process takes about 3 seconds

WHAAAAT? WHY?

> For comparison, even iris-recognition systems that require just one snapshot usually take about that much time to make an identification.

I feel like Robin Williams fresh out of Jumanji yelling "WHAT YEAR IS IT?"
That doesn't sound like what they were trying to say.
This may be the most valuable innovation out of Silicon Valley in 10 years. Talk about solving a pain point!
Well, you don't necessarily have to jump from one to the other. If you currently do financial stuff on your phone, just enabling 2FA and only browsing them on your laptop is already an enormous step up. There are cases where additional precautions are warranted, but there's no reason to let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Sure, I'm just saying the argument above was fallacious. That an argument against X is fallacious does not mean X is true.
I hope we have self driving cars in 10 years...
I feel everything you're saying.

When people call it a crutch, it's so disparaging and judgmental. I think if it makes your life better (like it clearly makes yours!), why associate guilt with the benefit?

Maybe in a vacuum, "crutch" _is_ a good term. Literal crutches help people after all! But there is definite stigma attached with the mindset.
Kuandinsky Bridge in Russia
> It is not skilled work so its always going to be a race to the bottom, the bottom has to be set by some governmental body.

It's not actually a race to the bottom because it's still a competitive market. Even unskilled people have a choice between being Uber drivers or janitors or stock clerks or fast food workers, or anything else that someone will pay them to do. If Uber pays less than Walmart then people can quit Uber and go work for Walmart. That creates a floor for the pay of Uber drivers independent of anything the government does.

And if the government is going to do something, it's much better to raise that floor, which minimum wages can actually do the opposite of because people have non-monetary job preferences. If a $21/hour minimum wage appears then you have to pay Uber drivers $21/hour, but suppose they have $15/hour in expenses (fuel, wear and tear), so that's really only $6/hour. Meanwhile a work from home job might have paid $10/hour -- a real $10/hour -- but now that's well below $21, so is no longer available. So now you're paying $15/hour to make $21 instead of paying $0 to make $10, which means you make less, and Uber gets to pay $21 when they would have otherwise needed to pay $25 to actually be competitive. And the same thing (to various degrees) with ordinary commute-to-work jobs vs. stay at home jobs, or jobs with longer vs. shorter commutes or in higher cost of living parts of the city or that require some training or other expense that ultimately has to be paid for out of wages, or the job is just downright less of a grind and people are willing to accept less money in exchange for easier work. By removing options people used to have, you only make them more desperate for the remaining ones and require them to accept worse options even if they're better on paper.
I like your car engine analogy; car's have the same level of widespread use as computers, yet I would wager a large percentage of people would struggle to perform much in term of car maintenance. Anecdotally, I know a multitude of people who have no idea how their car engine works, so much so they would not know how to check the oil level.

As a further point, drivers are (with edge case exceptions) not kept away or locked down from performing any work on their vehicle, yet in most cases they would still prefer to pass the responsibility on to a trusted professional.
Whilst article is accurate in terms of the US tax situation for Apple, it doesn;t really explain how it keeps it's foreign tax payments to ~$2B off ~$40B in revenue.

That's where some people are disgruntled about companies such as Apple paying their fair share.
Yeah I can bring things into focus. I’ll have to jump into the pool this weekend and test it out a bit more. Also I’m very nearsighted. Without contacts in I probably see like the average person does in water.
It would be something squarely within its own domain that nevertheless has applicability outside of it

Why would it step outside its own domain to make this realization?
The cruise control recalls were great. Basically, the engineers figured it would be a great idea to route power through a cruise control switch at all times (even when parked). Then to really make the design awesome, they put the switch next to hydraulic brake lines. Over the years corrosion does its thing and would cause cause the switch to arc into the brake fluid.

A neighbor of mine had a Ford Explorer affected by it, he ignored the recall notice. It eventually burst into flames one day while parked in his driveway and the fire department had a great time smashing his windows while putting it out.

Anyways Ford knew about the problem in the mid-90's but was in love with this design so much that they kept it in place until 2004. Check out the list! https://www.autosafety.org/ford-cruise-control-deactivation-...
I totally agree that "AI" grading is totally bullshit. But, I also have plenty of experience teaching/TAing large courses, and after reading too many essays they all become semanticically saturated meaninglessness. One can not help but skim them, and grade according to a few quick heuristics. At that point one tries to be self-consistent and defensible in one's grading, but careful consideration is right out. I suspect state graders are dealing with way more than 100 essays per person and are probably on a tight schedule too. It's quite possible that a ML model is better than an exhausted human grader, as their cognitive strategies are mostly identical.
Please do not repeat unsourced, unsubstantiated claims with further unsourced, unsubstantiated claims. You are making bold proclamations that are not generally accepted and need extraordinarily high quality evidence to back them.
Teaching human-human communication by removing human inputs and having computers decide about quality... call me a skeptic. I feel bad for the students. Essay grading was bad enough before this

Narrowly for grammar however - is even that a good thing? It probably helps scale grammar help to more students, but if those tools became ubiquitous in grading and editing then unique voices would just disappear and a lot of potentially “great writers” might choose different careers because the machines don’t like them
When I lived in SF (Nob Hill) I had at least corner grocery stores within a 10 minute walk. One full service grocery store, and 2 more full service grocery stories if I extended to a 15 minute walk.

The corner stores were small and had limited selection, but had a decent produce selection, and the store closest to me had a daily meat delivery, so I could ask for pretty much any cut of meat and they'd have it for me the next day. I'd usually make a weekly trip to the full store for staples, and then stop by the corner store for daily needs.

But nowadays, proximity to grocery shopping is moot for me since I just shop online and have it delivered.
I just bought a 2000 4runner yesterday. I already can make any adjustments I need without taking my eyes off the road.

I wonder how many collisions/deaths are caused directly by drivers needing to look down at their “infotainment” to do anything at all.
How much do EMTs make in San Francisco?
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>They deliver a signal that’s more like a million track audio recording. It doesn’t become imagery until interpreted by the brain.

For many on HN, that's the way they are used to thinking of imagery, as a big array containing information about how strongly a grid of sensors was stimulated.
Honestly, how many companies DON'T rely on some proprietary cloud provider at some point?

* SMS - You can't just interface directly with some cell company (which is proprietary anyways).
* EMAIL - Have you tried to send your own emails in the past decade? Just use a provider.
* Push Notifications - Have to use Firebase for Android anyways.

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Your core stuff should limit proprietary stuff. Edges are going to change over time no matter what, might as well use stuff that makes you faster now.
Switching from an iPhone to a laptop is a huge step down in security, even with 2FA.

Orders of magnitude more 0-days on whatever software is running on that laptop than on iOS.

This is bad advice.
It’s funny how people will complain specifically on Apple just because they don’t have longer than industry standard warranties.

Do you complain to your car maker of the same issue?

Or maybe do you dump your car whenever warranty wears out?

Yeah if you want to keep products longer you’ll have to deal with maintenance. Yeah it could improve but that should be an industry wide regulation not something Apple specific.

As far as I now Apple guarantee genuine parts availability for ~6 years after last sell of a product. This is way better than most. My wife once tried and failed to buy a genuine HP laptop removable battery for a 2y old product.
If you use Firefox, ads pay for your browser experience. It's just one extra level of indirection (Advertiser -> Google -> Firefox vs. Advertiser -> Brave).

With regards to original argument, my impressions was you didn't assume good faith and respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what the Brave developer said, as the Hacker News commenting guidelines suggest you do. Take that how you will.
Right, I just mentioned that sometimes I got irritated eyes specifically in overly chlorinated public pools or swimming in indoor pools. Since I know that is a common complaint.
I wonder if this is an american thing then. I'm Canadian, have lived in several cities here plus several more in europe. I'm in Montreal currently.

The cities I've been in in those places are pretty much all as I described. Manhattan and Brooklyn are the only US places I know well. Those have lots of grocers, but are very expensive, which I chalked up the fact that everything in NYC is expensive.

It could be that this is just a difference in how American cities are laid out and regulated. I have noticed that when I'm in most other American cities they seem either very small at their core, or very car centric.

For example, Boston's historic core is incredibly small. Washington seems to be a ghost town during the evening, except in georgetown. Pittsburgh has a tiny core. Santa Monica was hard to walk instead with all the traffic lights at each block.

I haven't been in any of those places enough to have a definite view though, or at least I didn't grocery shop there.

Rereading your initial comment, I realized that all the cities I lived also had excellent mobility. You could bike or transit easily to any other part of town.
That's not how capitalism works and that's not why companies exist. Companies pay you what you worth to them. A company is not a human, it doesn't care whether you have a family and are struggling or not.

The primary purpose of a business is to maximize profits for its stakeholders.
This problem is a first class demonstration of the difference between "can we?" and "should we?"

The fact that it's being implemented in society is insane because anyone who is paying attention to the state of AI today already knows how it will go wrong: without reading the article I already guessed that it systematically discriminated against certain demographics. Which was in fact what the article claimed.

It's interesting that it's possible to predict what the scorer would decide, but the moment you actually implement it is when all of the known problems become relevant, and the intellectual wonder must take a backseat to the human problems.
Come work with us but if you fancy someone then prepare to upend your work just to see if that relationship is worth pursuing.

"Fancying" someone doesn't oblige you to pursue a relationship with them any more than fancying some cake obliges you to eat it.

Are we adults or are we children?
Interesting. Wonder if this is going to be a valuable public service in the long run. For sure the monetary incentive is for Twilio to operate this like an "acceptable ads" type shakedown [1], where companies pay Twilio to mark their calls as "valuable information" rather than spam.

Arguably this should be administered by some trusted third party, like EFF.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adblock_Plus#Controversies
It’s strictly true but not colloquially true. Like how Amazon is in DC, but really it’s new HQ is in Arlington, Virginia.
Talking about Marijuana as this singular substance is demeaning the details. Different types, strains, turpen profiles, cbd levels, cbn levels all change the effects.

Does a higher cbd amount change the data? What about changing the levels of thc. Does hindu kush provide less anxiety vs purple haze over time?

It feels like it's way to early to draw grand conclusions.
Preventative tech inspired by action/spy movies. Neat
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I generally find third party repair is less in all sorts of cases. I'd sooner take my car to a mechanic I trust than an actual Hyundai shop where they'll tell me every expensive thing needs to be replaced. Just like a car manufacturer, Apple has incentive to inflate the prices, direct and third party, to their benefit and consumer detriment.