skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The simplest implementation of this would be to block all outbound traffic for all hosts by default, and allow only web traffic out through a proxy. Then for other specific services poke holes for specific src<->dst.
I sleep with it on (sleep tracking app) and use it all day -- I charge it for about 15 minutes twice a day while I shower in the morning and as I get ready for bed only.
Perhaps Ives met severe resistance internally regarding this feature and the lack at least on iPad can be explained by internal politics? (The SE exception can be explained by cost cutting rationales.)

XR - I dunno.
Do you mean 2,000?
The most fascinating thing about React Hooks is the perceived false dichotomy of hooks vs old class API. The old class API was pretty bad and could have been improved without changing the paradigm. Take componentDidMount and cdUpdate: they could have been replaced by this.onMountOrUpdate(fn) : that would have both solved the ergonomic issues and allowed multiple event listeners to be set up by multiple custom 'component enhancers' (the equivalent of custom hooks).

The market is ripe for a React like framework that keeps JSX and first class components but goes away with hooks in favour of a couple of event listeners and stuff like this.getContext(ContextName). Maybe also add MobX to easily solve state management. Vue is pretty close except JSX / first class components are an afterthought.
The press release mentions the hires were the result of "decentralized hyper-growth".

That is basically code word for political fiefdoms seizing power.

No cloud-hosted or SaaS company should allow silos or redundancy around communal services.

This is long overdue and Dara is making the right move to clean up.

But to your point.... should the Engineers be reallocated to a bench until properly utilized? Yes. Moves like this can be poisonous to culture long-term.
If your SE breaks, just buy another one off craigslist.
I don't believe Uber is buying a building, rather leasing out space, which can always be re-negotiated. There have many examples of companies promising a certain number of jobs and never fulfilling them, because who is looking. For example, Foxcon. Also, Uber once committed to build a HQ in Oakland and signed a huge lease. Soon after, they abandoned that plan and started building a brand new HQ in SF
like a Nintendo Switch, but for laptops/phones...I like this idea.
HIPAA anonymized data sets can be combined with any other data set(s) to reidentify the individual, and it is 100% legal to do so. In fact, data brokers (there are 4,000-8,000 of them in the US) will sell lists of people with, for example, 150 columns of data tied to them, with one of the columns being "presumed medical conditions". Social media companies and other marketers use these lists.
"Accepted" by marketers, which I guess is your point. The term is meaningless
Also convertible laptops. I use a Yoga Book [1] as a laptop when traveling, which is basically just a 10" tablet (and thinner than my old iPad!). My daily driver laptop also folds all the way back (and disables the keyboard) if I want a hefty ol' 13" tablet.

[1] https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/51360191/...
Something to keep in mind is the growing trend of electrification in the 2020s. This will be both electric cars, and heat pumps for heating.

> “Our story for gas plants is, if you build it, they won’t run -- they won’t run at their expected capacity factors,” said Mark Dyson, who co-wrote both reports. “And that filters down to pipelines, too.”

I suspect that the demand for electricity will mean that we'll need gas plants much longer than the article believes.

This will be a good thing, because electric cars and heat pumps running off of natural gas generators is much less carbon than gasoline cars and natural gas furnaces.
The last 1% of corner cases is the hard, potentially decades long problem, that also happens to kill people, that is unsolved.
I would almost prefer the daily charge over even weekly charging. My Kindle lasts for what seems like multiple weeks, and I have it run out of battery pretty much every cycle. Yet I almost never get anywhere near low battery on my smartphone.
> It's been clear for quite some time that terms like "Extreme", "Pro" and "Max" are marketing terms. They are not accurate classifications of how they will be used.

The new iPhone Pros appear to mark a shift; it's the same shift the Mac Pro announcement did in June, and was also a source of contention on Hacker News.
There's something that has deeply irked me for many years about these MWI probability constructions, and that is the largely glossed over fact that there's sort of a non-local numerical awareness and computation within the wave function necessary to construct the number of branches in proper ratio required to maintain self-consistency in the MWI universe. Additionally, this number of branches is incomprehensibly larger than simply splitting the universe once for every quantized event, and results in unwieldy levels of duplication of identical branches.

The reason for this is that if we take the most improbable outcome of a given wave function and say “This highly improbable branch occurs once”, we are immediately contradicted, as the next least improbable event is virtually certainly a non-integer ratio to the former. So, we give the wave function numerical factoring / self-resolving capabilities and instead, the least and second least improbable branches occur the number of times necessary to maintain status as whole integers with correct relative ratio. But then, that only resolves two possible events on the wave function, and so with the third least improbable event, almost certainly not an integer ratio to the first or the second, we must repeat this step again of multiplying the number of branches for the least and second least improbable, to maintain a consistent integer ratio for our types of branches. As you can see, as you follow this up through all the possible branch outcomes, to express their corresponding probabilities in whole integers counts of quantum outcomes, you essentially have to engage in a massive computation of finding common factors all the way up. Further, even the least improbable event will require an incomprehensible number of duplicate branches, and the most probable events will have an even more innumerable count of duplicate branches still.

The only way I can see to escape this madness with MWI seems to be give up on the notion of truly separate branches, and instead treat these “many worlds” as a stream of overlapping world-ish-nesses in which discrete outcomes don’t actually even exist, but then you have seeming contradictions in observable discreteness and it’s not clear it’s truly even MWI anymore.

Disclosure: I’m not a physicist, and it's quite plausible that I don’t know what I’m talking about.
I legitimately haven't laughed this hard in years. Thank you for introducing me to this sub.
Since the "how could we know!" bullshit is already out full-force in this thread:

The dinner was organized by John Brockman, literary agent for many of the figures who bragged about his ties to Epstein to his clients (e.g. https://newrepublic.com/article/154826/jeffrey-epsteins-inte...).

Brockman organized the dinners as part of his running the Edge Foundation, a foundation funded substantially (reportedly some years entirely) by Epstein.

> As Brockman himself put it after one such dinner in 2004, “last year we tried ‘The Science Dinner’. Everyone yawned. So this year, it’s back to the money-sex-power thing with ‘The Billionaires’ Dinner’.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/07/jeffre...

"How could they know" he was there? Because this was _Epstein's dinner_.
Doesn't look like it's on the website anymore, so try and pick one up from BBY or similar.
So now we have a camera bump on top of the camera bump? No wonder Ivy resigned!
I hope they're retaining the 4:3 aspect ratio. Samsung IMO shot themselves in the foot by switching back to 16:10 for their recent tablets after going with 4:3 for the Tab S3.

16:10 on portrait is far too tall and narrow to use comfortably, while in landscape it's far too wide. 4:3 has a nice balance, and is shaped like a piece of paper, which is extremely useful when reading PDFs. Websites also render in their desktop view in portrait, whereas you get a weird semi-mobile view in 16:10 on portrait due to the breakpoints that have been set on most sites' CSS.
So one should learn Ada because it doesn't coerce integers? Plenty of modern languages won't do that.
It was still ugly when Uber was small.
When watching landscape video content it literally disappears completely as it goes black (and on an OLED that really means black)
It's funny because Google created this monster by attaching a value to links.
Well I guess the good news is that you can get the newly lowered price Watch 3 and have a major upgrade! :)

Sorry about your watch though, I'd be bummed too if that happened.
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I generally agree with you, but I think the difficulty here is that much of Epstein's ability to commit the crimes that he did at the level that he did comes directly from the willingnes of other wealthy elites to associate with him.

The basic idea is that we do expect some degree of moral responsibility from our leaders, elected or otherwise. Most of them absolutely operate with and require some public support.

People are just setting a higher bar for what that support requires.
Does Uber have different pay scales depending on location?
Totally agree. I know most people put cases on their phones, but it bugs me that mine won't lay flat on a surface. It seems very un-Apple-y. ;-)
That's why we have batteries and active development on ways to manufacture hydrogen without emitting carbon.
Looks kinda like an electric shaver to me.
I have to echo this comment. The Xs, never really notice it.
Only a small subset of the population has any lightning connectors at all. The present standard is usb-c. Using an out-of-date standard is worth booing. It's like if a monitor continued sticking with dvi and never made the move to displayport or hdmi or usb-c.
Possibly nicotine.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553893/

>Tobacco use is considered the single most important man-made cause of cancer that can be avoided. The evidence that nicotine is involved in cancer development is reviewed and discussed in this paper. Both tobacco smoke and tobacco products for oral use contain a number of carcinogenic substances, such as polycyclic hydrocarbons and tobacco-specific N-nitrosamines (TSNA), which undoubtedly contribute to tobacco related cancer. Recent studies have shown that nicotine can affect several important steps in the development of cancer, and suggest that it may cause aggravation and recurrence of the disease. TSNA may be formed from nicotine in the body. The role of nicotine as the major addictive component of tobacco products may have distracted our attention from toxicological effects on cell growth, angiogenesis, and tumor malignancy. Effects on cancer disease are important aspects in the evaluation of possible long-term effects from sources of nicotine, such as e-cigarettes and products for nicotine replacement therapy, which both have a potential for life-long use.
But who's classifying it as PRO? Professionals definitely aren't, and that's what matters. They aren't walking around with any phone as their main tool. Let Apple call their phones rocket ships if the name fits; astronauts won't care.
"Pro" probably works great to bring in people trying to elevate their social media quality. It doesn't necessarily mean (in Apple's marketing terminology) actual, legitimate professional industry anymore.

I'd imagine people getting into vlogging and such, or even people who just want to be "that cool and popular" (especially younger people) that would buy in to the "Pro" moniker.
I nitpick a little but failures were at launch 1 and 14. Partial Failures at launch 2, 10 and 97 so the current effective success rate is much higher than 95,2%.

(4 failures in the 14 first launches, but only one partial failure in 91 launches since).
The same way it currently works. You don't get paid while you're logged into the app. You start getting paid once you accept the ride and stop getting paid once you've dropped off the rider.
I have an even older iPad 4 since 2012; I use it for a single purpose, flying (LSA planes) with a specific app that has no comparable (good enough) version for Android. I will not upgrade until the app will no longer work, I guess you will do the same.
The driver's share is already something like 110% of what they charge.
Fair point. Once you start listing it out, you see how confusing they made it for users:

- OS X = "OS ten"
- iphone X = "iphone ten"
- Xcode = "ex-code"
PragmatIC – Logic ICs printed on flexible plastic (2017)
I can't speak for Germany, but in much of Eastern Europe the Adidas logo and 'three stripes' are almost a type of uniform that people are very keen to be seen in. To me, it seems wearing brands conspicuously is a reasonably global trait in many demographics (or in certain product categories.. who debadges their car?)
I do care unfortunately... when I switch from a game to Safari to look up tips on how to get better at the game, that game is often force-closed by iOS and I just lost all my progress. If I'm playing a game and I get a text message and switch to Slack to copy a message into iMessage then back to the game, the game has restarted. If I switch from Safari to the camera app to find a picture then back to Safari, I'll find Safari reloading the page, losing my progress on the web form I was filling out. Actually that last point is why I don't use PWAs and prefer the app, because a PWA will almost always handle being closed worse than an app will.

Most apps handle these things gracefully and it's no problem, but when it's a problem it's a real problem.
I think you're reading way to into the naming scheme. They simply ran out of letters and went with Pro to designate the more expensive model. It's still a smartphone, it's not like there is a large market out there for people who make and edit feature films with phones.
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Excellent point. This should be the top comment. Buying up cheap solar and wind power during peak supply times and storing it for peak demand times should be more cost effective than building expensive gas/steam plants which would only operate for a few hours a day.

It doesn't mean that we've found a solution for base load yet.
Ok, sure. To you, maybe. But that's a far cry from saying they won't run anymore.
I have slightly smaller hands, and holding my old 7 one-handed was a chore - and besides, I don't want to double tap for reachability and disrupt how I'm used to doing things when I'm holding the phone with both hands.

I downgraded to an SE recently and the only thing I miss is the screen size; traded that for headphone jack, smaller form that fits my hand nicely, and a design I like better.
I mean, the Nexus 5 and 5X weren't /that/ much larger than the 4.
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Hopefully, we get specific information about what Google Cloud will be doing with Mayo Clinic to better patient outcomes - the article is filled with handwaving.
Have you tried the new Withings with ECG? I'm curious about that, this winter I'm going to switch to something new and it's basically between the Withings and the Apple Series 5
Thank you and reassuring. That feature alone will sell this by itself for the older generation. Even those who do not travel will appreciate it for that, people like that reassurance that such an option is open to them, even if they don't utilize it. More so the older you get, least what I have noticed.
No one said it was new. They said it was big for Apple. Yes, Apple is always behind their competitors in many things, but that’s not why people buy Apple.
An interesting factoid I ran across when researching this stuff a while back is that no one has ever built a new reactor in a deregulated electricity market. Period. The time frame of nuclear reactors is very long - like 50 years. So they're very sensitive to capital costs, and capital is sensitive to risk.

Now, if you were doing the risk analysis on financing for a multibillion-dollar nuclear project, and you just saw the cost of a major competitor (solar) drop 80% in a decade... well, how would that factor into your risk analysis? How much would your interest rates increase?

The only safe way to finance a reactor is government-based guarantees for price regulation - the nation will consume X megawatts for Y dollars, no matter what the market thinks the price should be. And do it in such a way that some government two generations down the road can't just throw it all out and screw you.
I love my mid-2012 MBP. I expect I’ll have to replace it next summer if I want to run the latest Xcode, which will make me very sad. It amazes me that it’s seven years old, as it runs as well as it did they day I bought it.
I wouldn't call it a headline feature, since it's not on this page: https://www.apple.com/watchos/watchos-6/. Honestly, did they mention it at all?
I switched from 6S to XR, and I wasn't expecting much, but oh boy, you don't realize how much of a difference a boost in processing speed and screen size can make. Massive productivity gains, even though I'm primarily a desktop person. That plus the huge battery on the XR fundamentally changes how you think about your phone.
not even remotely the same feature set, display quality and size. Garmin doesn't have magic batteries. It's all about trade off.
You can create SSL certificate with a domain name but not so easy with an IP.

See https://blog.filippo.io/how-plex-is-doing-https-for-all-its-...
You are assuming Apple will let you turn it off :)
On a 6S myself but it's in dire need of replacement (survived multiple drops fine, but a flip on my desk broke the glass and now it's progressively getting worse).

The 11 looked like a fine-ish option (with a 128GB version), but god it's half an inch wider and taller again, and 30% heavier. I guess I'm getting an 8.
Interesting. Never knew that, it seems like it's almost a normal part of the process to be told to "try again in 6 months".
https://blog.filippo.io/how-plex-is-doing-https-for-all-its-...
I have the same problem as the comments above
When the right to be forgotten becomes plastic surgery.
Yeah, what force exactly would bring the cost down?
Buy this $1000 phone, and you can always have it along if you replace your entire wardrobe!
Crain's says WeWork is a threat to the NY tech sector. I say that's all wrong
What horrendous software quality? Uber consistently puts out some of the cleanest mobile experiences for a mass market app, and their research teams put out great OSS work.
Me?

I personally like the design, it looks futuristic to me. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
If Apple made a Pencil charger that looked like one of those old electric pencil sharpeners (just put your Pencil in the hole to charge it!) I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
>Galaxy Note series is original phablet line and the OnePlus One was bigger than the contemporary iteration of that line.

No it wasn't, check the specs. My point is at the point when majority of phones were released in "phablet" sizes no one considered them to be odd anymore. 3 years earlier, perhaps but not in 2014. I remember getting zero strange looks walking around with 6 plus.
I assume you mean any $200 android phone?

The most I've ever gotten out of an Android phone is 2 years, and at that point it's crawling, not receiving updates (OS or security) and seemingly just abandoned by the manufacturer. This thread is full of people declaring no reason to update to this latest batch of iphones. To me, that speaks volumes about the iphone ecosystem.
I don't use mine as a tablet (and mine is one of the ones where you can fold the keyboard right around), but it is good to have proper android support so I can use mx player to watch videos (with all codecs supported, unlike the chrome player), play lichess offline etc.
Depends. But wind doesn't really need storage... a broad-based wind grid delivers a pretty consistent base load, as we've learned from early adopters like Iowa and Texas that have over a decade of wind data at scale.

edit: There's enough variation in wind farm output to maybe make some storage financially beneficial - production costs could actually go negative when there's enough wind.
Thanks for the comment; hopefully I can clear a few things up:

- Mercurial is similar to git in that way, but "fully featured" is supposed to contrast to other systems like SVN; the point is that there is a full git repo on every developer's machine - you're not just connected to a single central repo. So when you commit locally, you're actually committing into a repo that has all the power that the remote repo has

- Correct, HEAD is a special place on the tree, but I included it because you'll see and hear all three terms used nearly interchangeably.

- I could have explained stash a little better probably, but the "crash" course was already getting fairly long ;) Stash is a place to put work in progress, and some developers use it more than others. It's a bit of a "special" place (even though it's technically part of the local repo)

- I agree with the last point: mostly, this guide is for devs who already use git and know what 'pull' and 'upstream' mean, but are perhaps confused about the exact mechanics of how to "get files down" other than just cloning repos and checking out branches.

Hoped that helped clear a few things up a bit! Thanks for the feedback
Comparing it to Android, sure. Comparing it to last year's iPhone though? That's a comparison that will tell you something.
“Pro” is not just for productivity but comfort of use as well. As an analogy if you sit on a chair 8 hours a day you’ll want a super nice chair, even if it wouldn’t have direct effects on productivity compared to a just decent one.

For most people relying on a smartphone for work, be it 700 or 1000 the device will pay for itself in a few months at most, so I think the price difference won’t matter much. Better battery performance could be significant though.
Vertex’s next act: a billion-dollar bet on a cure for type 1 diabetes
> But the camera upgrades alone are usually worth it.

That assumes you have any sort of use for the camera, otherwise it just makes the phone look freakier and freakier for no reason.
They've definitely expressed this as a goal, and have moved in that direction, but they're not there yet. Maybe next year. Or the next.

It took a while for iPhone, too.
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I've got to say I think this is a really bearish sign for Softbank. Softbank is meant to be so big that it can pick winners and buy shares of entire markets so they can own the future returns of all these tech companies. One of the big advantages of Softbank was meant to be that if you have softbank money you are going to win through capital spend and expansion.

But the fact that Softbank can't walk away from We seems to indicate that they actually are a lot more sensitive to the market than they claim to be. It really changes the dynamic if Softbank can't afford to hold all these companies when the next recession comes. You don't want to be a Softbank owned company during that fire sale.
He probably means his corporate proxy servers, not firewalls.
I have a similar problem about the question "mention 5 advantages in you and 5 deficiencies in you".
An incredibly heart-breaking story. I can't relate as I'm younger and just graduated from college last year. However I've lived away from my grandparents and my mom for the last 3 years and I'd like to move back home so I can spend as much time as I can with them.