skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All authoritarian movements and governments are. By their nature, they rule by power, not by "consent of the governed". Those at the top always are few, and rule through others. And they know that if those others stop obeying their orders, it's all over. They fear that someone - anyone - will cause people to stop obeying and instead turn against them. Thus purges, paranoia, and violence. As I said, it isn't just communism. The Nazis were the same.

But the political theory question might be: Why have seemingly all communist movements and governments been authoritarian?
I suspect their strategy of rolling out a different speaker every 10 sentences might be an attempt at scouting for execs who can excite an audience. To whatever degree Apple is exciting anymore, that is.
May I suggest . . .

https://3dforreddit.com/r/shitHNSays

(I know, I know. But it is kind of funny to jump from HN to a museum of HN comments in 3D)
Instilling a culture of relentlessly outsourcing to open source is insanely hard. I’ve been trying for years.
Tangent: Could you explain why I might want PowerShell on MacOS or Linux, if I use those as my primary OS? (I usually only open my windows VM for checking that my websites work in IE 11).
Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of passengers waiting for and riding in vehicles.

The "data heavy" businesses often have the ability to cache their data in CDNs. Uber's data is realtime and dynamic, you scale that the hard way.
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Skills: UI design (ex-apple), Swift, Objective-C
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I feel like there is an alternative world that we aren't seeing, where instead of changing the paradigm, the react team redesigned the class API instead.

The class API lifecycle methods are kind of a mess, and useEffect() seems like a more convenient abstraction. But I could imagine replacing the lifecycle methods with hooks that are added at object construction and get similar benefits. I wonder if the problem is not so much classes, but just the API that happened to evolve.
I borrowed a friends Garmin Forerunner for a 2 week MTB trip to NZ, it was certainly capable, but horrific all uncomfortable and I had a small scar for a while where it had dug into the back of my hand.
I'm still using my iPhone 4S, but I have a Samsung S9 for backup in case it should fail. The power button is already gone, but I use the charging cable to power it on and pull the battery to power it off!

I changed the battery on the 4S three times.

Last year I meet a translator from Russia who had a 3GS with the original battery! That really made me regret I sent in my original iPod Nano when Apple said the batteries where dangerous and replaced them with a 6th gen for free, who's battery died only a year later!

Now we know why, you can't sell light bulbs that last forever because the customer won't come back... one gen later the iPad Nano was gone from the market.
I think apple "Pro" has been equivalent to "Prosumer" for years now.

More like "Prosumer" digital cameras, without removable lenses.

Don't know if the new mac pro will shake that up.
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If big binary works faster, I would prefer big binary any day. Nobody cares about disk size.
What about 16?

https://light.co/camera

Too bad their product came out 5 years too late and $1000 too expensive. Smartphone cameras have gotten so good it's obsolete.
Completely agree.

We use netlify a lot and don't pay, we'd happily pay if there was a reasonable middle way.
So are you saying you got a new phone and battery for free?
Exponential is a^x. Square is polynomial, i.e. x^a.
Condolences for your loss...

We should all focus on things that matter in our lives and not take as granted that we (or our loved ones) will be around for ever.

Stories like this remind me of a nice post about the “lifetime calendar”:
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html
Where do you get that?

"Third, the black population of both New York and Los Angeles peaked in the early 2000s and has since been in steady, and perhaps accelerating, decline."

And

"Chicago went from 4 percent black in 1920 to nearly 40 percent black by 1990. But this century has seen a “Reverse Great Migration,” as the metro black population is on pace to halve from its peak of 1.2 million by 2030."
I honestly can't put my finger on it. All those features you listed are great but none of them make me WANT that device. I used to want the new product they announced as soon as they showed it off. Maybe when I hold one in my hands that will change.
A narrator is performing art. Without true AI, you could program a given text to have dramatic pauses and inflection and tonal changes. You could probably do that with today's tech, though it would be very labor intensive to pull off. But for general narrate($book), I think it is as far off as real, general AI. This is something I don't expect in my lifetime.
- "immersive audio" (this is a maybe: I'll be impressed if a phone can pack speakers that beat my studio headphones, but the 2019 MacBook Pro 15" is 95% as good, so there's a possibility)

I can't figure out any way that this is not going to be mid-side "wide" mode, from speakers on each end when the phone is at landscape.

https://soundbridge.io/make-wider-mixes-mid-side-ms-techniqu...
What about all the other chat apps? Why wasn't the whole thing dumped into a pile of hot lava the second slack could scale to an org the size of uber?

What what does scale mean anyway? Just employees using it or employees + contractors?

It's easy to armchair quarterback on this stuff, but I find it hilarious how tech companies that employee supposedly smart people justify writing this kind of stuff. I'm sure some junior engineer did a cost/benefit that completely neglected the total cost of ownership for writing a chat app and focused on the sticker shock of having to pay tens of thousands a month for a chat app.
The "tax man" may actually represent the will of more individuals in your scenario, but those that are fighting against him are far more rich and powerful.

When the rich and powerful unite against the tax man and the "proletariat", they always win.

So, when you say "people fight against taxes", we should clarify what people we are talking about. Plenty of people supported the collectivist movements of the era, and they are also people.
3rd option. Running your own for incoming, using a service for outgoing. You get all the trust benefits of running your own server without having to worry about IP blacklists or any other crap. The nicer ones even generate your SPF, DMARC entries you add to your DNS.
Where is the new and wacky stuff that Apple is working on? Facebook has Oculus VR and those weird solar powered airplanes providing Internet access in rural countries. Google has its self driving cars. Where's Apple's research project?
I have purchased an iPhone every year since the 5. The XS was the first time I regretted it.

It's not bad by any means, but there really wasn't much of a change from the X (which I loved), except for the dual SIM feature. I may upgrade my Series 4 Watch to the Series 5, but I don't feel excited for the iPhone 11 Pro, and find that enormous camera module ugly, though the camera features are tempting.

Since the XS I've felt that Apple should switch to a biennial schedule, with new hardware every other year, while increasing the frequency of minor OS updates.

If they had XS was skipped then the 11 would have been a more exciting release. I feel smartphone tech in general has reached a plateau.
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Interesting. To be honest only used the language for a project!
1. The only thing that matters in engineering is the discrete Fourier transform (DFT). That’s what anyone who wants to calculate anything must use.
2. The fast Fourier transform (FFT) is used to to calculate the DFT. Cue up Matlab or LabView.
3. Knowing the units of the abscissa in sample and frequency space is next.
4. Studying the sampling theorem so hard you can describe it in a number of different contexts, rigorously, is critical.
5. Knowing what aliasing and antialiasing are is critical.
6. Knowing how to use transforms to interpolate is next.
7. Knowing how to mess around with the real and imaginary parts of the complex DFT to improve the S/N is a good achievement.
8. Convolutional filters.
9. Smoothing data sets with non-causal filters.
10. What windowing functions, and why?

Have I left anything out?
> But conversion losses will probably always limit those systems to 25-35% efficiency at best

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but the "alternative" energy storage systems you mentioned have about 80% or more round-trip energy efficiency: https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/energy-storage-2019#2

I quoted alternative because pumped-storage hydro accounts for 95% of grid energy storage in the world.
One of the benefits is you can keep one number unchanged and keep changing the other sim card when they have good promotion price especially for data.
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> Get an iPhone 8 instead, probably the best value out there for iPhones.

I have an SE and love it, but this. However, consider the deals out there for something like the 7. Metro PCS has the iPhone 7 for $50, I'm sure there are comparable deals out there too.
How?

Ada was designed for programming safety-critical, military-grade embedded systems.

Rust was designed as a memory-safe, concurrency-safe programming language, largely to overcome the shortcomings of C++.

Each excels at what it was designed for, but the intended use cases are very different.

Rust is not (currently) being used for aircraft flight control systems--Ada is.

Ada is not (currently) being used for high-performance web browsers and servers--Rust is.

While there are SOME similar design goals in terms of memory safety, concurrency safety, and error prevention, they do not "overlap almost entirely in use case".
Hah! Would we still get to watch them on TV news?
The daily limit on adventures is an example of trade-off #2. Their implementation is generous (40 adventures per day to a max of 200 means you need to check in every 5 days) but it still means that you can't take a full week off the game without losing adventures. The more +Adventure stuff you have, the sooner you hit that max.

Having a daily limit means that play sessions are artificially shortened, which prevents playing until satisfied. It encourages players to spend the time until next refresh planning how to use their adventures effectively.
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Here's a good example of something I worked on recently that I highly doubt is simple to implement with an out of the box solution. I could be wrong - I have no idea if Devise can do it or how hard it would be (it wasn't considered because the auth handling was already implemented):

You have a multi-tenant SaaS application that needs to support the following:

* Accounts may have different password, lockout, and expiration policies.

* There's a generic "login" button on the marketing site that 50%+ of our users use. This generic login page must implement all account specific constraints (probably via a 2-step login form)

* Some customers have SSO. For some customers, using SSO is optional. For others, it is required.

* Owners of accounts have a limited impersonation feature that allows them to see only certain parts of information in eyes of one of their account members
> predictable waiting times, ease of finding cabs in remote locations, ease of payment

As someone who used call cabs in various Polish towns and suburbs since early 2000s, is claiming this was particularly bad is short memory or is the US bad at not just mass transit but also taxi service? I could get a cab within 15 minutes pretty much in any agglomeration, and even close suburbs. I didn't even need an app.
Sure, but it still means that it’s possible to use your phone comfortably with 32 GB of storage.
Not trying to flame the guy since he obviously put in a lot of work on his own, but the original idea is from a lainchan thread [1] for the 3d anonymous imageboard 3dchan [2]. I'm only assuming they're not the same person since this project is not on the 3dchan owner's github [3]. Again, the two are quite clearly different, and parallel creativity does exist in the realm of possibility, but my personal guess is he used the same concept to build something similar.

[1] https://lainchan.org/%CE%A9/res/17698.html

[2] https://3dchan.net/dungeon/

[3] https://github.com/AlexKrunch/AnonIB-3D
One idea is to have more influence on the business decisions, take a more active role in the project. So push back on the crappy parts and bring new ideas to the table. Try to make it your own, be proactive instead of reactive. That might give more weight to the work you do and having more stake is also more thrilling. You could be the next team lead, architect or cto, who knows. And if it doesn't work out, at least you gain some valuable lessons.
Or just really, really long showers.
These issues can be triggered via javascript, yes.

https://github.com/terjanq/meltdown-spectre-javascript
Small Nitpick: You cannot reconstruct a square wave even if you use infinite fourier coefficients due to Gibbs phenomenon.(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs_phenomenon)
You don't really need them to release every 2-years for you to buy every second year.
Is 10x overnight demand close to 48h of average demand? If yes then original post was right.
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A few that I was hoping for:

- a larger screen option. 6.5 isn’t enough

- a mini pencil to use on that larger screen

- some type of integrated headset or device to use the new iPhone as a VR/AR headset

- Better battery life. I know they announced this, but the batteries need to be 10-100x better. I can’t use my phone all day without it dying. I should be able to use it for a week without dying

Thought of a few more that would have been good:

- a flip phone option, something really innovative (not a joke)

- a much smaller version of the iPhone. Like an iPhone nano

- a gaming version of the iPhone that had a gpu and could run steam

I know some of these sound like science fiction, but that’s kind of the point for Apple events. The iPod, iPhone, and iPad were all next level. What have we gotten from Apple in the last 5 years? Headphones? A notification machine for your wrist?
It doesn't help that they have clearly filled the audience with Apple employees who were instructed to whoop and holler and when to do it. I understand the motivations for doing so. A product announcement like this would otherwise be attended by a majority surly journalists, too busy taking notes to exhibit much excitement. But at this point, the whooping and hollering come across as extremely fake--too much so for a company like Apple, in my opinion. I think I'd rather the employees just clap. At least during WWDC there are genuine fans in the audience.
I have actually worked on safety-critical applications. ISO 26262, MISRA C, ASIL, etc. :D . I even own and drive a car that has my software in it.

I am obviously teasing the OP, but there's IMO a lot of truth to it. Safety-critical stuff damn better be simpler, smaller and fundamentally easier or it will fail and kill people. That's why stuff like https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=comp.lang.ad... makes sense. In a lot of aspects, mission critical-software is much, much "easier": easier to stretch the budgets, easier to not have competition, easier to justify why something can't be done or why it has to take another 3 years of work.

While a modern fully functional web browser is a huge pile of complexity, technologies, requirements and yet it is still needs to work under much tighter social, economical and performance pressures. Any bug being widely exploited, could lead to people literally dying or at least having their lives ruined. It's just not as spectacular as "missiles".

So I think the OP (and probably you as well :P) is being arrogant by dismissing "firefox", that's all.
Definitely share it with friends!

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By swiping (to the) left.
Charging stations are already far more ubiquitous than gas stations. Every garage with an outlet is a charging station.

A solution is still needed for people who park on the street. Chargers on the street is the obvious way to handle that.
This is really cool and elegant. I feel like I should start a project to use it somewhere. In fact, I'm running a Shadowrun game. Might come in handy.
The lack of 3D Touch on iPad was due to difficulty getting it to work on the large screen (obviously nobody knows that for sure, but those were the rumors years ago).

The lack of 3D Touch on XR was due to cost, and apparently their plan to ditch it everywhere.

The lack of 3D Touch on iPhone Pro...that's disappointing. It would have been a great "Pro" feature to offer. A "Pro" feature that allows you to be more productive on your phone. Aside for the video features (which I don't see being used by professionals anyway), what makes this device a "Pro" anything?
Open Source chat tools are sadly almost universally disappointing. I believe I tried just about every one of them before giving up and just using Slack. I detailed the reasons here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17623005

I have the impression that Slack has gotten worse. We're again having problems of notifications not showing up.
People say they expect more, but what, exactly?

I don't know about "people," but for one thing they only mentioned privacy in passing. Or how about IOS improvements? The world is probably waiting for ways not to have to touch the screen so much, and in a finger-mouse style. Let's see some cutting edge HCI.
Where could someone go (ideally online) to learn those things and practice them?
"Mystery Lung Condition" aka cancer.
We're really glad to hear that!! :)
There was no maize, but traditionally the word corn can refer to any grain.
The spec sheet for the new Watch lists an S5 SoC vs. the S4 in the Series 4.

Presumably they didn’t talk about it because all the performance gains were spent on battery life to make the always-on screen practical?
another issue was data domiciling and retention policies around 2016 when uber was evaluating slack.
From SoftBank's Son, the largest investor:

>It is rare for Son, who casts a wide net with his startup investments, to commit so much resources to a single company. But he said WeWork is more than just a renter of office space: it is "something completely new that uses technology to build and network communities."

>"WeWork is the next Alibaba," Son said, referring to SoftBank's early investment in the e-commerce company, which enjoyed meteoric growth as the internet took off in China.

>"I believe it will grow to a substantial scale and become one of our core companies," he said. https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Sharing-Economy/SoftBank-s...
I think it's pretty hard to write a hardboiled style noir now days without it feeling derivative. The tropes are now cliches and the dialogue can be cumbersome and hokey.

A lot of time it feels like someone imitating noir rather than innovating with the genre and that's sad.

You can undoubtedly do it and I'd love to see some examples of a great modern noir to read.
Charging times just aren’t that bad, and they continue to improve. Tesla has a battery swap station on the busy SF-LA route. They shut it down because almost nobody used it.
I see this too, with Unbound. Using Cloudflare over TLS as my upstream resolver.
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Unlike authoritarian communism, anarcho-socialism never got the chance to succeed or fail on its own merits. It was strangled in the crib.
> But the political theory question might be: Why have seemingly all communist movements and governments been authoritarian?

All communist governments (not all communist movements, and this is actually the source of many breaches between communist movements that aren't governments, particularly in the West, and communist governments and the movements aligned with them) are rooted in Leninist vanguardism, a specific and particularly authoritarian rewriting of Marxist theory to avoid the dependence on developed democratic capitalist society with broad proletarian class consciousness and grassroots leadership as prerequisite to communism.

But the French Revolution, which was ideologically far from authoritarian, had a lot of the same practical problems; trying to run a state with active counterrevolutionary forces tends to make people authoritarians for what they see as temporary and pragmatic necessity as a means to achieving a more free end-state (and defenders of Leninist vanguardism would probably see it as just that!)

Americans sometimes forget that what we call our “revolution” was not an anti-elite revolution but an elite-led regional separatist movement coordinated by the local governments acting in concert, and so avoided many of the challenges found in genuine revolutions.
We have no charging at our beach house, but there are over a dozen charging stations at the Target down the road, and at least some are usually empty.

It's simple enough to spend an hour charging while buying groceries, and as this model builds out it will be even easier to get a full charge while out running errands.

Even without home charging, it's still easier than stopping at the gas station...
This is super cool. How long did it take you to build it.
It's kicking a person (or rather, a company) while they're down. Seems kind of tactless and tone-deaf to gloatingly tweet out your company's failure is a "lesson" a mere day after disaster hits the news.
Thanks for the discussion. The information we are missing is what the percentage of total load can or would be willing to be shifted, and how strong the incentive (savings) is for the load to allow themselves to be shifted versus their inconvenience.
> a smartwatch I don't have to wear as a watch.

AR smartglasses.
The BBC make extensive use of the iPhone for news gathering. The photo, video and audio quality are all acceptable for online use (and broadcast use in many cases). LuCi Live is now almost the default option for radio outside broadcasts. The BBC have developed their own app to facilitate direct ingests of media content from iPhones to their asset management system. It's now entirely practical for a broadcast journalist to report on a story with nothing more than their iPhone.

I'm not sure how meaningful the "Pro" suffix really is, but the iPhone has undoubtedly become a piece of professional equipment in the media industry.

http://www.luci.eu/products/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/en/collections/smartphone-jour...