skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>All-day battery life is based on 18 hours with the following use: 90 time checks, 90 notifications, 45 minutes of app use, and a 60-minute workout with music playback from Apple Watch via Bluetooth, over the course of 18 hours. Apple Watch Series 5 (GPS) usage includes connection to iPhone via Bluetooth during the entire 18-hour test. Apple Watch Series 5 (GPS + Cellular) usage includes a total of 4 hours of LTE connection and 14 hours of connection to iPhone via Bluetooth over the course of 18 hours. Testing conducted by Apple in August 2019 using preproduction Apple Watch Series 5 (GPS) and Apple Watch Series 5 (GPS + Cellular), each paired with an iPhone; all devices tested with prerelease software. Battery life varies by use, configuration, cellular network, signal strength, and many other factors; actual results will vary.

From "Apple Watch Series 5 Battery Information" (https://www.apple.com/watch/battery/)
Fair, just that in the pictures there it's only shown extended or without perspective.
It's also slower because it hands LLVM a boat-load of IR and relies on LLVM to optimize it (instead of doing it itself).
That was in the previous announcements by MIT, their hiring of an independent law firm to investigate what happened and all previous potential grants, and upcoming changes to how donations work.

This is about leadership transition, not everything to date. Don’t over sensationalize.
1M Revenue, 0 Employees with an Amazon FBA While Traveling the World
Was it a twin airplane? I was doing flight training out of San Carlos around the time that happened and yeah, it was sobering. I haven’t flown since my daughter was born.

This one: https://m.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/NTSB-Engine-failure-in-...
This should have Ask HN: in the title
Capitalism doesn't wither away, it imposes artificial scarcity to allow its uneven power dynamic to continue. At some point the cruelty itself becomes the point. I would argue we're already past the point where we have to deny resources to anyone, we could feed and shelter everyone if we had the will to do it.

Actually I think that right now, when we are facing the potential reality of AGI not many decades away, is when we have to collectively make the choice to become the society we truly want to become.
I want a smaller size phone as well. Give me something the size of the original iPhone.
Alternatively, management could be inclined to not give piles of wealth to people who had zero hand in its creation (shareholders, modulo some employees who also own shares [rounding error]) and use it to pay engineers to do interesting things.
Blind is one of the worst. Useful for information, but super toxic for comparison. The problem with social media is not that it's 100% useless, it's that it's hard to walk the line. In the example of Blind, it is good to be informed, but it's bad to compare.
I'd like to draw your attention to this eerily prescient comment I noticed on a related story only 3 days ago (downvoted heavily, presumably due to disbelief?):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20902283
Any way to leverage negative interest rates from developed countries into renewables? Very interested if someone knows how to facilitate such a bond issue.
The complexity of reactors needs to go down and they need to be smaller. Big reactors can only be cooled if they are near the ocean, otherwise they have to be shutdown when the flow rate of the river is too low, this usually happens during heatwaves. It's easier to achieve economies of scale with 16 identical small scale reactors instead of designing a custom reactor for each plant and then building only 2.

I don't see this happening. Relying on new reactor designs to save nuclear power isn't going to solve the problem in time. Right now governments are busy with massive power plant designs that suffer from multi billion cost overruns. After that experience they will probably stop building more power plants and funding for new reactor designs will be reduced.
The recent Boeing debacle was a systems engineering issue. AFAIU, there was a jammed sensor, and the systems corrected based on incorrect input from this sensor. Additionally, it is my understanding that some indicator that showed that these sensors disagreed with each other was not always present.

Regardless, this entire incident was precipitated by boeing, and the carriers, not wanting to have to retrain pilots on the new systems.
Counterpoint: Having the free time and energy to participate in culture war theatrics is a much greater expression of privilege.

If you're doing something productive, though, good on ya.
I used to work as a contractor on the base by the lighthouse, and can help explain this. The Navy is doing all kinds of radio experiments there, and (what I was told), it hugely impacts reception in the area.
>Are they going to spend billions to purchase and maintain a fleet of their own taxis?

They'll likely lease them, obviating much of the start-up cost involved.
You're optimistic about there being history in 1000 years, or hell - even people to read it!
It does not in the US:

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/a-02-18.pdf
Good plot summaries of Worm to catch you up (Spoilers for Worm!):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm_(web_serial)

https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/worm-chapter-synopsi...

You can skip the Glow Worm part of Ward if you want, it's bonus chapters for people who like reading really deeply.
I’m LGBTQ, and I am not a federally protected class. It is legal to fire me for my identity in many states, and the current republicans in power are continuing to make it legal and condoned to discriminate against LGBTQ people at the federal level- rolling back several policies that benefited marginalized folks along this umbrella. These changes happen with very little fanfare or any notification safe for observant reporters and the spread of social media.

I find this comment overtly dismissing that there might be very real, legitimate reasons to be keyed into social media and the news.
Surely it was going to be the rise of class consciousness that overthrew Moloch? Though if we're all involved in the process ourselves, and only gain this consciousness through work, the end of Capitalism isn't so much a violent overthrowing from outside as much as a growing, positive realization of what was inside it anyway.

Maybe that's exactly what things like UBI point to: life as an adventure rather than a slave camp. The paranoid part of me then wants to find a bigger and more evil capital to criticise in the Marxian manner.
Audio quality on that model is not great
Rust does have the same switches C compilers have, that do the same things.
Anarcho-socialism is a broad term that describes a lot of different possible configurations of society, anarcho-syndicalism is an approach towards it.
The "Thucydides Trap"

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/09/the-thucydides-trap/
There haven’t been any improvements in energy density in the last 4 years? That would be pretty surprising.
Unlike ngrok his doesn't "expose" anything. Its just a lazy way to add DNS to a test environment.

If you already have a cloud provider, why would you leverage this instead of just creating real DNS records w/ reasonable TTLs?
The point is to demonstrate what's inherently overhead and what isn't. Rust has effectively the exact same inherent overhead as C does; that's the point.

> Nobody wants to play with their compiler to get a small binary... If rust can produce small binaries, then it must produce small binaries.

Everything is a tradeoff. Smaller binaries may or may not perform better than larger ones. This is something you need to play with, just like in C. If one single setting made everything the best in all circumstances, it wouldn't be a setting. C compilers have these settings too.

> Languages are typically judged by their defaults.

As I mentioned, the defaults have also been adjusted to help out too.
401k's are only government backed in a weird circular way. If there were no government, they would work fine as a retirement savings plan. The government backs them only by protecting them from the government taking more of the money in taxes.

And as the other response mentions, this was more in about the idea of the government funding and controlling it.
Imagine a future where 'this abstract was generated by the model' is in the training material for future papers https://twitter.com/jonathanfly/status/1171551688668471297
Well it at least shows what they intended. :)
> Anarcho socialism hasn’t succeeded yet, but I still believe it must succeed in the future ... to avoid near total destruction of the Earth’s biosphere.

Why do so many people seem to act like some form of socialism is required (or even useful) to avoid environmental issues? It really doesn't help fight the right's narrative of "all this global warming stuff is just the economic left seeking more control over the economy" - in fact it plays directly to it. Are people just trying to attach their particular goals to a crisis they think might propel them forward?
I think well designed safety critical bare-metal stuff and well designed browsers have a difference in complexity placement - within bare-metal work you need to be aware of and account for the full domain range of values any systems you talk to can produce (including error output) and account for those - while browsers[1] tend to be more emergently complex with relatively secure and safe input but a lot of complexity in how those inputs are handled.

One system is taking a complex world and trying to reduce it to a safe and simple system - the other is taking something safe (some rando user inputs and a pile of HTML) and turning it into something complex - a rendered website.

Granted, I think value domain identification is one of the only ways for complex software to at all survive growing into a legacy system - so maybe the core difference is the nice stress free life of a system where the worst outcome of a critical failure is someone not being able to post on facebook ;P

1. Lets ignore firefox and JS and just assume we're in the 90's downloading HTML sites...
You still have to pay money to maintain the grid.
Yeah I always enjoy jumping onto 91x all the way up at the north end and keeping it all the way to the border.
Not to say Rust is ready for prime for safety critical systems, but both crates.io and the standard lib are optional for Rust.
Orthogonal to the main point of this post, but was anyone else struck by the part about "he had kissed multiple girls" (by age 8)? I find that fairly incomprehensible.
Designing and Interpreting Probes with Control Tasks
with a huge amount of difficulty?

Most computer users still don't use middle-click/scroll wheel click, or even the back/forward buttons and they're almost twenty years old.

By simply pointing at another hard to train piece of hidden functionality and saying "what about THIS?!" you haven't really proven anything, except that with enough forced training anything can become common knowledge.

3D Touch is exactly like right click, but they're also competing against implicit training via passed users of Apple's own products, other touch devices, and even other computing (since no other platform has anything like 3D Touch).

They offered no on-screen guide or tutorial when it launched.
Most news isn't even actionable. If you feel like you're a bad person if you're not paying attention to the news, it means you're listening to the wrong news. Focus on bigger picture issues. Give precedence to numbers and detailed analyses. If it's still keeping you down, then just turn it off because it's wasting your time and draining your life force.
That could indicate they don't find the discussions of political systems very interesting, or particularly relevant to HN. I'm one of those people -- I find a plot to kill Orwell interesting and I couldn't care less about the discussion of anarcho-* interesting, except very narrowly if it contributed to the context of the article.

(Edit - not a downvoter however)
Well actually we are all victims of the lawmakers as noone dares to punish the CO2 polluters. All this talk of privilege is meaningless compared to what we will all have to endure if we keep destroying our enviroment like that.
Agreed. The PicoRV32 mentioned in the article's "WHERE TO GO FROM HERE" section has its own crate:
https://docs.rs/picorv32/0.1.3/picorv32/

C/C++ have been great for embedded work, but Ada and Rust are better alternatives in my opinion. They are safer, more powerful, and more secure.
Don't you mean "One more camera"?!?
Because violence is power. Nice communists -- along with nice capitalists, nice anarchists, nice feudalists, etc. -- wind up purged.
Banning processing fees is anti-consumer, because it means that consumers who pay by a cheaper method have to subsidize the consumers who pay by the more expensive method (since companies will have to raise the prices for everyone).

Credit card companies won't fight bans on processing fees, because it actually helps them (the extra cost of the credit card is now hidden, and reduced, which means more people will use credit cards).

Additionally, this is a regressive policy, since it's easier to access financial products like credit cards when you're richer.
The Boeing debacle is an example of software performing exactly to specification. The spec was the problem.
If the CSS was omitted from my website it wouldn’t function very well either.... But I still think I should be able to hire a web designer on a contract basis to setup my CSS.

This is exactly why I think the ABC test is so disingenuous. It papers over the whole reason contracts are great — providing a single well defined service for a fixed price, and then moving on with life without worrying about a million regulations and forms and paperwork and insurance and hiring practices and workplace blahbity blah.
I think AIM / MSN Messenger etc. don’t remotely qualify as social media, but already it feels like we’re veering into unproductive debate. My position is that “healthy” and “social media” don’t mix. There is no positive subset of Facebook. The entire conceptual value proposition of the platform is unhealthy from first principles. It requires you to trust a provider with data in such a manner that this trust is, literally by definition, unobtainable. Just can’t be done. The type of draconian HIPAA-like legal framework (plus untold billions spent on enforcement & compliance) that represents the minimum requirement is just not compatible with the existence of a corporation that makes money from being a repository and sharing platform for this data.
Probably the worst written press release from Apple that I can recall.

Pro this, pro that, it sounds like some low end brand trying hard to make their new middling product sound amazing.
Yup, totally agree.
The English-language Wikipedia used to take an... interesting approach to nofollow, not sure if they still do. External links to most websites were nofollow with the exception of cross-wiki links to approved wikis including links to Jimmy Wales' commercial website Wikia. So the net result was that the trusted sources which Wikipedia heavily relied on got no boost but Wikia got a substantial boost in ranking.
Even better, newspapers often benefit from having a couple hours at least between when the story breaks and when it goes into print for at least rudimentary sanity checks on the details.

It doesn't work 100% of the time, but it's very handy in scenarios like mass shootings where seemingly every one has initial reports of "multiple gunmen" only to have that evaporate within a few hours.
Great. What website do I go to to make sure I'm not on the list?
Socrates Was Against Writing (2011)
I'm going to adopt this strategy. If you follow politics people will demand you pick a side which they can then use to attack you. If you just pretend to be stupid, it's harder for them to find an opening. Plus, pretending to be stupid is a lot easier than pretending to be smart, so it'll save energy. What I really need to do is stop posting on Silicon Valley gossip boards.
The thing is a lot of Apple product owners have a lot of Lightning cables and chargers already. For them, they're not paying any sort of tax. Changing to USB-C would be a tax for these people as they'd have to buy all new cables.

Yes, in a tech forum the majority of us have many USB-C devices. But I personally don't have that critical mass of USB-C devices compared with Lightning or microUSB.
How to improve your communication skills and work remotely
It's late, I read as web. 0/10.

I probably should have added more detail anyway, but the net prior to 1990 was a gently regulated, and self-regulating sort of place almost entirely consisting of scientists, geeks and techies. Adopt netiquette before posting to newsgroup, read the FAQ - and people actually did, etc. Even arguments could often stay mainly civilised. Bix, Compuserve, AOL were (partially) walled non-free and moderated venues of speech.

The early nineties changed everything. TBL gave us the web, the NSF ended the ban on any commercial activity, AOL let its hordes out onto the wider net in Eternal September, ISPs started including web space with every connection. VR was having its last hype phase, people were talking about virtual communities, and writing books about it. Suddenly this net thing was an uncontrolled space where anyone could have a free space to say anything...

Which led to the discussions of the net's anarchy, what it is, and the declaration I mentioned above.
What about Elixir? Dynamically typed like Node and functional.
You've got to admit that "Immanentize the eschaton" is a great phrase. I ran into it first through Robert Anton Wilson which I'd bet is typical of HN readers who know it. But mostly I'm finishing up The House of Government so the issue is quite on my mind.
> one of them make me WANT that device

You could have said the same about your iPhone 7. What features of the 7 made you WANT to switch compared to earlier models?
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I find that catching up on what’s going on once every week or so provides enough information to make the decisions I can. Social media, in contrast, serves up a sub 24 hour news cycle that prevents focus and produces emotional exhaustion and constant anxiety.

I’m sure there are people for whom it’s valuable (e.g. if immigration raids could affect you directly), but for members of most groups, being plugged in all time probably does more harm than good.
> I still see zero reason a company like Uber should be based in San Francisco. We landed a man on the moon with parts built all over the United States, so it's not "that's where the talent is".

It's exceptionally difficult to get investment money if a tech company isn't located in the Bay Area or Seattle.
Great job on the article! Really succinct and a good introduction to the topic. Would've really helped me in undergrad when I first was learning about the Fast Fourier Transform.
Who really needs this phone over an iPhone XS? I'm trying to understand, besides those who want the latest product, who this product is appealing to.
Of course the ramifications hit me, just like everyone else. Why do you think I get upset about the news?. The question is whether I should accept those negative ramifications or spend energy protesting against them.

I wouldn't care about politics at all if I didn't think I and/or other people were being fucked over.

If you have any political opinion at all, then at some point you'll think that you or others are being treated unfairly by society or by the state. Isn't that the whole point of expressing political opinions?
well a problem is that lgbtq doesnt belong together anyway because what are you fighting for? sexual orientation or gender identity? those are really different and are people really being fired for it?
Supposedly, but it gets cloudy in right to work states.
I'm sure the 1000 days of meditation he experimented with, had a lot more impact on his mind/body/soul than his Social fasting. But a blend of both for most I think would be ideal.
https://joshcsimmons.com/2019/05/21/meditaton-practice/
> Were these actual concerns that were raised by the actual legal council of the company, or were they issues invented by engineers who are not lawyers but suffer from engineers disease and think that knowing to code means they are experts in everything else? 'Cause I know plenty of those!

the general counsel and thus the entire legal org required for any company approved comms system a way to automatically by default destroy chat logs after 7 days (and to turn that off for folks who were on legal holds). slack in 2016 did not have that capability.
…for CS instruction.

I've never come across any indication that Dijkstra wrote actual code (in the sense of something executing on a computer) after 1970 or so. The algorithms in the EWD notes are all written in ALGOL style pseudocode.

Dijkstra was the CS equivalent of the Patent Law concept of a "Non-Practicing Entity", which gave him great liberty to troll all programming languages without exposing his own choices or designs to corresponding scrutiny.
I don't see the analogy here. This is Lyft's core business. Of course they'll go all in. On the other hand chat is not Uber's core business. They didn't have to reinvent the wheel for an internal tool.
> Learn to plan better and prioritize aggressively instead of just hiring and getting everything done.

I often wonder how accurate the roadmap prioritization can be. I do agree it’s pretty silly to build a lot of infrastructure that will never effect your clients.

If you have for instance a billing process that needs to be automated, custom infrastructure is needed. Manual approvals of all transactions is a lot even for banks. Operations can always benefit from something that cuts their overhead time down a significant chunk. Operations approval on transactions seems like an operations problem but clients having to wait for approval means now the problem is shifted.
My deepest condolences to the family. I hope no parent goes through that experience the author and his family had.

On the other had, I met a lady at the gym counter. She looked very tired so I enquired about her. She said it was third job. She said that she was doing that just to barely put enough food on the table for her family. I think some of the benefits IT folks enjoy is not what rest of the world experiences. She too complained that she doesn’t spend enough time with her kids. Life is difficult for so many people that they to make such compromises. The rest of us who can take time off a little should put it to best use.
Context (icymi):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20901572

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20891907
If you don't change the case style, how will anyone know you have the newest model!
Link to the actual paper https://www.cs.vu.nl/~herbertb/download/papers/netcat_sp20.p...
> This is thrown out all the time. How exactly does this save them?

I agree 100%.

There's a lot of evidence that self-driving cars will be MORE expensive that paying people to drive their own cars. Particularly since the R&D costs are just prohibitive.
His films are also really amazing. Me and My Brother is a classic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_and_My_Brother_(film)
The anarchists didn't need to invent it, it described what people were already participating in. Anarchy is simply the natural state of man without an imposed hierarchy. The scientific community is an anarchy.
I’m in the US and I pay about $550 a month for health insurance. I’m a 34 year old white male. I factored the cost of insurance in to my bill rate when negotiating this position.

Maybe some day we’ll get universal health care.
What’s your backup strategy? I’m paranoid of losing my pictures. I have one regular backup drive, one offsite backup drive I sync once a week and several cloud backups.
Silly question, but what does he mean by the iOS lock-in? I have both an Android (personal) and iphone (work) and don't find anything particularly appealing about the iphone wrt to a much much cheaper Huawei (besides a faster camera)
Well it's a hardware event. The software doesn't really have to change in lock-step with the hardware.