skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to another comment watchos 6 actually will have sleep tracking.

I tried different 3rd party sleep tracking apps, but it was so inaccurate that it was basically useless. I assumed that this is reason that they didn't have it.
> uChat is actually built by a pretty large team

Which is even more scary. Why isn't uber laying all these people off and paying cash money for a real chat application? What competitive advantage does uber have maintaining a chat application?
LOL. As if popular demand has to do with anything.
"Its shiny, they'll love it."
Interesting, I hadn't heard of this yet.

I'm guessing nobody used it, because it was for the exclusively for the Model S, which has good range and few owners, and apparently you even needed to make an appointment for it.

It's not "refueling", it's "replacing" the battery, what Tesla did.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-shuts-down-battery-swap-prog...
I didn't know that there was an Apple event today.
The name is so silly I truly believe they are going all in on Asian market.
I agree. If you're using it for development within your company, you should just configure your own. There are a number of open source DNS resolvers (some mentioned in these comments) that can be configured to do this.
What’s the incentive for cities to have the ubiquitous street parking they have now?
And I’d wager a significant percentage of Windows users still don’t use it (or don’t understand when to use it).

And it’s vastly more discoverable than 3D Touch.
Matrix has been a better fit at my company, though it was a bit rough a year ago.

Bridging in Slack, Gitter, IRC and other platforms makes working with external teams a breeze, everything is in one place.
The premise and answer to your question depends on what you mean by "communist".
Even though it is true, it is dwarfed in magnitude by the repression in the communist world. The French revolution was attempting to terrorise a political ellite. Communism was aiming at terrorising everyone.
I was told by a Google HR that on average a candidate tries 4 times before passing the interview. That's believable because when any of the 5 interviewers saying "probably not" translates to a no hire, stars really need to align even for stellar candidates.
Thanks for this article. It had Fourier-transformed my brain-waves!
Most of the things you listed are evolutionary improvements rather than revolutionary improvements. None of them are radical bold new concepts.
Agreed. I tried to make it work (for a mix of systems and web development) and although it's possible, it's ham-fisted at best. I would love to see some first-class developer support for the iPad (or Pro only, not picky, although this seems like only a software solution).
> _Why haven't you already done that?_

With layoffs you want to apply “cut once” approach or at least as rarely as possible, in batches.

Constant trickle of layoffs is very bad for morale, no matter who is laid off. It is also bad for an external image of management.
Correct.

My point was mostly that the definition of “pro photographer” is much wider these days than many people realize. For many values of “pro” an iPhone Pro is going to be absolutely fantastic and a better fit than higher-end pro.
Mathematical Treasure: James A. Garfield's Proof of the Pythagorean Theorem
>Nobody cares about disk size.

Embedded people care.
Might as well mention F* then!

> F* (pronounced F star) is a general-purpose functional programming language with effects aimed at program verification. It puts together the automation of an SMT-backed deductive verification tool with the expressive power of a proof assistant based on dependent types. After verification, F* programs can be extracted to efficient OCaml, F#, C, WASM, or ASM code. This enables verifying the functional correctness and security of realistic applications. The main ongoing use case of F* is building a verified, drop-in replacement for the whole HTTPS stack in Project Everest. This includes verified implementations of TLS 1.2 and 1.3 and of the underlying cryptographic primitives.

> Its type system includes dependent types, monadic effects, refinement types, and a weakest precondition calculus. Together, these features allow expressing precise and compact specifications for programs. The F* type-checker aims to prove that programs meet their specifications using a combination of SMT solving and interactive proofs.

https://www.fstar-lang.org/
Nearly a half a day of battery life is what i observe the white corded Iphoniers clamor for.
Thin satisfies two goals: minimum fire risk, maximum pocket risk.
Not to doubt your own experiences, but if that was honestly true then Uber should also be scaling back hiring and not be opening new major offices with large hiring sprees.

There was some earlier discussion here on why trust between employees and employers is so low now, and this is a great example. Employees being laid off while new positions open up for that exact same role so that they can hire new developers at a lower cost or avoid having to promote other employees.
What fundamental rights did Guantanamo Bay violate?

The prisoners kept there were picked up after attacks on US/Allied forces on battlefields or in areas immediately adjacent. Non-state combatants are not protected by the Geneva Convention, and the treatment of non-state prisoners was historically battlefield execution.

Some of the (innocent) noncombatants were released after investigation. The remaining purported noncombatants chose to boycott their trials.
sure you can, up to a negligible set
The rumored folding iPhone would have been the wow-factor even if Samsung failed already in their first attempt. I'm not sure how it makes sense for someone to ask people what they would have been looking for to make the announcement worthwhile. Are you hiring?

"People don’t know what they want until you show it to them."
-Steve Jobs
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I can't believe we don't have higher refresh rates on iPhones yet. Apple got user experience with touch screens better then anyone else when the iPhone originally launched. Apple brought it to iPad, i'd like to see it in iPhone.
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I do; but I don’t think they look as good as this!
This was back when the Model S was the only Tesla available in any real numbers. California had a ton of them. They are long range, but not long enough to do SF-LA without charging. Long trips should be the ideal case for battery swaps, because it’s a situation where you really do have to wait for the car, and can’t just charge while you sleep or whatever.
From dragonwriter's post elsewhere in the comments:

> 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.
> Bill Gates’s constant companion is a tote bag full of books. He digests about one book per week, typically on topics that overlap with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s agenda. He says recent standout titles include “Prepared” by educator Diane Tavenner, about helping kids find a path to a fulfilled life; “Loonshots,” Safi Bahcall ’s book about nurturing creative ideas that may initially seem nuts; and “These Truths,” a re-examination of U.S. history by Jill Lepore.

Bill Gates actively blogs about his reading at https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books
Do you not understand how deadly cigarettes are?

~34 million people smoke cigarettes in the US. US deaths from smoking is ~500k/yr.

Meanwhile, over 10 million vape in the US. US deaths from vaping is... only 5 people since vaping existed? And those deaths are likely from vaping juice that contains oils, rather than standard vape juice.
Because communist governments (among others) exert high levels of control. You can not control without applying force and you cannot apply force without violence.
Some of the Guantanamo trials resulted in acquittals and charges being dropped against the defendant, with these defendants subsequently being released.

Contrast that with the standard European model of criminal jurisprudence, in which the judge deciding the case is frequently also the prosecutor, and there is no panel of jurors, and no threshold of proof.
I somewhat have to agree on the "I used to want the new product as soon as it was shown off" bit. I mean to be clear there are some nice improvements on the iPhone, and it packs a hell of a punch compared to previous versions.

For me, it was how the announcements were made, they did seem to just feel like they had a massive "Wow" factor.

Even way back on the first iPhone announcement - When Steve was on stage and talking about the Palm and Blackberry devices having "physical keyboards", and that he had merged it all with the iPod with touch screens, to me that seemed like a massive jump. (OK I admit, at the time I was very much in the camp of "my Blackberry's keyboard is the finest!", but I watch the announcement back again... there was a very Steve Jobs finesse to the whole thing!).

The more recent announcements have kinda been a bit "meh", and I think maybe it's just that - I think a new type of device that has not been thought about, would bring back the "Wow" factor again.

I think, just for me anyway, that jumping over the releases (so skip a release and upgrade), I see more of a jump, than say if I was going between each version.

Anyway, my thoughts - and I don't know - maybe others see the same with the announcements not quite as they used to be - due to the slowness of "upgrades" to the product.
You don't have to be "worth" a billion dollars to destroy a billion dollars worth of stuff. So eliminating billionaires doesn't solve the problem of people screwing up large things. You'd have to eliminate those large things, but that would mean a vastly poorer society.
I personally think the sleep tracking is being held back while they validate it. They’re going to look to categorize your sleep phases, and will probably try to get FDA certification of some sort. The play is to make the watch a diagnostic device, cover a lot of the basics for healthcare providers. My guess is that sleep tracking lands next year.
I started building out the product in early July, so it's been about two full months of work.

I recently quit my full time job as a software engineer because I really believe this problem requires my full engagement and devotion!
> Same in Slovenia, yeah. Call, wait 15 minutes, cab shows up... or not

...I had that happen _once_, and:

> at least they tell you immediately if the driver cancels.

...exactly that happened. Amazing, it's like they ask you for your phone number for a reason. This wasn't much of a problem pretty much since cell phones became a mainstay. I am not sure how Uber improves on that, guesses from the travel path that the driver gave up even if the driver decides not to report?
The danger is/was absolutely real. Counter-revolutionaries (both internal and external) in general and anti-communism in particular have always been a formidable force.
> That sounds like the government is all about accounting, not accountability.

It's sad but true. Many government projects happily spend 2X or more just to know exactly where all that wasted money is going.

This is likely a result of the fact that taxation is mandatory, whereas investing in a company is not. If you are forced to pay for something, you're more likely to scrutinize how that money is being spent. If it's optional, there's a much greater degree of trust.
Lyft is no better, spending $8M per month on AWS to process 1M transactions per day.
The X, XS, XR, and now 11 don't have a home button. They all rely on Face ID to unlock.
Chopin sometimes requires the thumb to play two notes, e.g. Prelude in C minor, bars 2, 6 & 10.
This should have a (2012) label.
I've been hoping for something like this for a long while now:

https://ibb.co/yF5FSbp

Is there any use case where WiFi + Bluetooth hotspot makes more sense than enabling each separately. Bluetooth is a huge battery drain. To avoid this as it is now, I have to select Wifi + Bluetooh, wait for my device to connect via WiFi then go back to settings and disable bluetooth. If I forgot to do so, my battery is gone in a few hours.

With battery life being such a priority, I'm genuinely puzzled as to why this hasn't already been implemented.
> very clearly established as safe for human consumption (propylene glycol is commonly _injected_).

Consumption, injection, and inhalation are very different routes of introduction to the body, and safe for any one does not imply safe for the others.

Many things that will cause no problem if injected or eaten will cause problems in the lungs.
When Ada came out it was a large intimidating language. The saying was "to learn Ada, it's best to know Ada first."

I haven't touched it in a long time, but I remember some of the impressions it made on me when I first used it.

The type system: I think you could do some really fancy things like:

speed := miles_traveled / elapsed;

You could use types to make speed type mph, miles_traveled be miles and elapsed be hours.

the thing is, I think you had to create some conversion stuff for the "/" so that it allowed two types to be divided, returned a third type.

unchecked conversion: no matter what you did, you had to interface with hardware. So there was a lot of unchecked_conversion() stuff to convert between basic machine stuff.

argument lists: You couldn't have a printf() or any other varargs type stuff that I remember. This made interfacing with external libraries that needed this kind of stuff lots harder. (maybe there are ways to do this)

there were things I really did like

the package and package body stuff: You could implement a bunch of interfaces, and compile against the prototypes before the implementations were written.

the attributes, like foo'Size and the system package let you write your code to be correct even if system types or machine types changed

A lot of Ada is really tedious, but once you got over that, working with an existing project was usually really nice.
Meta nitpick: the Gibbs phenomenon is a statement about any arbitrary finite decomposition. The limit of the wave form as the number of terms goes to infinity is in fact exactly a square wave.
> I made a resolution in September of 2019 that I would quit social media indefinitely.

good start.
There are several reasons for the paranoia, but not "the taxman wanted 100%". That's more of an American liberal way of seeing it, and hardly what was going on for the masses at the time.

Characteristic of the paranoia is that the worst purges after all were against party members and top party elites themselves.

Not because any of them resisted the "tax man" (heck, they had wealth and preferential treatment), but because they could threaten Stalin or limit his control.

Similar with Mao in China. The bloody cultural revolution wasn't some mass murder of people resisting the party rule or the "taxman", but party elites splitting the people into factions and using them as proxies to fight internal party power struggles.
I'm honestly not even sure where they're getting 18-ish hours for the battery life. My Series 3 watch still gets me 30+ hours on a single charge and I only charge it when I'm in the shower/putting my clothes on.
Not at all, most democratic socialists like the Fabian society are willing to change their approach when they try something and it doesn't work. The result is mere inefficiency, not corpses piling up. If the SRs, say, had won the Russian Revolution things would probably have turned out basically all right.

But it was the Bolsheviks with their plan of communism immediately, not in 20 years, who won. They treated their political philosophy as a millenarian sect with "the dictatorship of the proletariat" substituting for the kingdom of God. When the eschaton fails to properly immanentize it can only be due to the opposition of sin and the Devil, by which we mean kulaks, wreckers, and traitors.

The problem isn't communism per say but a belief in having absolute truth and a vision of a perfect good that can justify any means.
Hey, I work at DiviPay where we are trying to solve these kinds of problems for Australian businesses. Shout us a message at https://divipay.com/ and someone will be in touch to help you and your startup out.
Yeah, two orders of magnitude are a lot. So are three orders of magnitude. ;)
it is hard to give a satisfying high level explanation but i would love to see someone try.

a Dirichlet kernels proof I just looked up that works for integrable periodic functions is accessible to a really smart high schooler, but still involves a lot of minutae. http://math.uchicago.edu/~may/REU2012/REUPapers/Cuddy.pdf .

You can define a function called a "n-th order Dirichlet kernel" which when you convolve it with f yields the n-th order Fourier series approximation for f.

I guess the missing intuition is that Dirichlet kernels behave more and more like a delta as order goes up, which you can prove using algebra and calculus.
Intuitively you know what convolution with a delta looks like, so it is easy to believe that convolution with something near a delta is numerically similar.

There is a nice visual on the wiki article for a sequence of Dirichlet kernels looking more and more like a delta.
And for most compilers, changing whether you care about binary size or performance, is a single switch away, not a series of enhancements you need to refer to a blog page to ensure you're doing it right.
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Your link seems to contradict you?

> Informally, the Gibbs phenomenon reflects the difficulty inherent in approximating a discontinuous function by a finite series of continuous sine and cosine waves. It is important to put emphasis on the word finite because even though every partial sum of the Fourier series overshoots the function it is approximating, the limit of the partial sums does not. The value of x where the maximum overshoot is achieved moves closer and closer to the discontinuity as the number of terms summed increases so, again informally, once the overshoot has passed by a particular x, convergence at that value of x is possible.

> There is no contradiction in the overshoot converging to a non-zero amount, but the limit of the partial sums having no overshoot, because the location of that overshoot moves. We have pointwise convergence, but not uniform convergence. For a piecewise C1 function the Fourier series converges to the function at every point except at the jump discontinuities. At the jump discontinuities themselves the limit will converge to the average of the values of the function on either side of the jump. This is a consequence of the Dirichlet theorem.[11]
Right, I understand that, but I was just commenting that it is odd they didn't built it on top of Nginx. I would have expected that rather than switching to Envoy.
Uber operates in many more countries than us. Enough to necessitate ten times more engineers per driver? I can't really say without more insight into what they're doing.
The athletics craze is an US-only thing as far as I can tell.

Other countries (at least Europe and Latin America) basically don´t have athletic scolarships and any athletic program is a strictly extracurricular activity.
As paranoid as it sounds, it's a bad idea to pin so much of your business to one vendor / service provider. If they decide to ban you, you aren't just locked out of payment processing but also the other services.

For the same reason, I wouldn't use Stripe Atlas (their company formation solution) or other services.
I'm not into games at all, but this really captures my imagination. I can imagine enjoying interacting with the web this way. Maybe even coding this way if possible. Thanks!
Not all iPhone backups are walled gardens. I can back up to my computer, and back that up to various local/cloud drives. I don't want another thing that's wedded to an ecosystem that I might leave at some point.

Also, if I'm already paying for generic cloud storage services, why should I pay for Apple-specific cloud services, at a more expensive price per GB?
Still no tiny phone with a 4" screen. Guess I keep using my iPhone 6.
"~13 stops of dynamic range"

Sony A7RIV has now 15 stops of dynamic range with a single sensor. The progress of camera sensors is amazing indeed
There is a business school cliche: what gets measured gets managed
Why the weird extremes? Did the Iphone 8 or X or a android flagship from 2017 stop being nice? Is that your standard for an "IKEA particle plank"?
Good point. I didn't have that perspective in mind so the wording was off.

My sentiment was that if a company is losing money consistently and egregiously, they are on borrowed time and a borrowed dime in very real terms as the trajectory is towards 0 - but the context is largely psychological. To your point, waste is waste. I agree wasting cash generated from profits is equivalent to wasting it from earnings.

I'd insist there is some practically relevant difference in there though.

Wasting money during a trajectory to bankruptcy creates a narrative of negligence that accelerates failure, while wasting it during a consistently profitable trajectory seems like sub-optimal management. The kind of thing that is theoretically identical, but in the real world of behavioral economics, the former seems more certain due to how easily the trajectory to failure can be estimated. The latter creates a weak narrative because of hidden information - nobody will ever know what "could have been" and so can never quantify how sub-optimal the management was.

E.g. nobody is dragging GE executives out of retirement/the grave to answer for long-term effects of sub-optimal management, and further nobody could prove at the time it was sub-optimal, only hypothesize. On the other hand, everything Elon Musk does at Tesla is torn apart and front page news, because they have a trajectory towards failure a high school student could easily calculate.

So "management's responsibility" to optimally allocate capital is sound in theory, but in the real world of imperfect and outright unknowable information, nobody ever really knows what optimal is. Sub-optimal comes to be expected as normal, but accelerating a trend towards failure is a powerful defining narrative. Somehow this matters.
My experience is that many areas along San Diego's coast have weird deadzones because of its topography. When I was on Verizon, any time I went to the southernmost parts of Point Loma, my phone would roam to Tijuana and throw up warnings about extra charges for placing calls. There's no land mass between the lighthouse on Point Loma and TJ's hills.

Last week, on T-Mobile, I stumbled into a few spots along Sunset Cliffs that resulted in a complete drop of coverage. I suppose the center of Point Loma's hill blocks wherever the nearest tower is? I haven't noticed any fake palm trees in residential areas like that.
Thiz is false, there is not evidence al Awlaki renounced his citizenship. The Obama administration didn’t even deny the fact of his citizenship.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/09/30/was-anwar-al-awlaki-sti...
The French revolution terrorized everyone, including its own leaders.
Even tough the internet is an invention of the anarchist movement, like any cool stuff it’s now filled with people who are just trying to make some quick and big money. And these people don’t want to argue with you because time = money.
Just out of curiosity, is that in production mode, or just in development?
Remember that Netflix was that cheap at one point in time. It's all about the long game.