skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
18 hours is a practical level for smart watch battery. That way users will recharge it every night and never run out during the day.

24 hours means that people will sleep with it and forget to charge in the morning -> annoyed users.

36 hours would require charging every other night, but then you'd miss every other night's sleep tracking -> annoyed users.

There's really no way for Apple to win, unless they jump up to full 7 days or something.
Do you have any justification for this belief that war is just a stage that humanity will get over?

There has always been war. There will always be people who think it's their destiny to rule over you, that you'll really be much happier if you're conquered, and if you don't meekly comply then maybe you just need to be ... liberated.

For as long as some people think they're better than others, there will be wars, and I don't see people not thinking that any time soon, do you?
This looks really neat! I'm interested in hardware design but don't know where to start - any pointers/resources?
Exactly. I think I end up doing a long press any time I mean to do a "force press" anyway.
Still waiting for xcode for iPad. If iPads are to be taken seriously as a laptop replacement we have to be able to make software with them. I'm confident Apple will eventually get there though.
But it is a concern for bringing Ada into more domains, which seemed like the point of the article.

EDIT: on a second read, it's not clear whether the article is saying we should use Ada the next time we are building a rocket, or the next time we are building an OS.
Is this still written in Bash?
Was making more taxis on the road with more downtime and increasing congestion really an improvement in cities?
A Recent study found that 50% of all cars in lower manhattan were rideshares. Is that really a better world? Ridesharing in cities has been absolutely proven to increase pollution rather than reduce while carpooling in rural areas helps reduce pollution. The problem with rideshares is that they are jobs based on time rather than efficiency. You drop someone off and then you are available to pick someone up, so you drive to them, drive them where they need to go and drive to the next person, the points between passengers are reductions in efficiency vs single cars and add to congestion in high congestion areas. In any case mass transit is much better in cities.
As owner of an i5 Pixelbook, I was really surprised at how hot and noisy the thing became after 10 minutes playing Egg Inc. It's an interesting device (with Crostini) but not a very good tablet.
this is very true.

Also, the US has a corporate structure which is brutal in terms of competition. (and it has a less equal society as a result).
Most people arent plugging their phone into a computer, even weekly.

Apple also has created a super terrible backup system, where iCloud and iTunes cant work together. Its very dumb that once I switch to local, that I lose iCloud. Maybe I want to go on vacation for a week, without my computer, and then come back and resume local backups. Why cant iTunes use iCloud as part of its version history??
Oura ring is a wonderful sleep tracker. While certainly a tad pricey, its incredibly effective at its given purpose. I didn't realize 1) how much quality sleep impacted my overall health and 2) how consistently quantifying sleep quality impacts daily decisions (working out, drinking, eating, etc). Highly recommended.
Native sleep tracking would mean increasing the guaranteed battery life to multiple days, or make charging a lot faster.
I've noticed this: web apps for mobile and even iOS apps seem to spill over. Is there a tool for helping you to develop for the varying screen sizes? (SE surely is an outlier here, but still, the question stands).
Perhaps the next question is, what do 4000 engineers do? Not aimed as a troll-y question: an informed idea of what the breakdown of that many engineers do would be enlightening. For example, there were about 200 iOS engineers the last I heard. Assuming similar levels for Android, that leaves 3,500-3,600 engineers.
So, can one say that they... Autobahn?
You can dump them all via the iCloud.com website if you so desire, the iCloud software on Windows can do the same.
Drinking some beer helps at first then it gets ugly
I feel strongly opposite - Spotify UI is a reason why I cancelled subscription. Queue management is just awful, other elements are much less intuitive than in Apple Music.
Mine has been great since I got it changed under the replacement program last year. Usually around 60-70% when I get home from work.
Does anyone know yet how this will affect their open source work, such as react-vis and deck.gl?
The world's biggest rogue traders in recent history(2011)
Unfortunately I continue to be asked these kinds of questions in programming interviews...
I'll never buy another iPhone without the analog Home button. Having a hardwired "I'm stupid" button makes me feel safe. Keeping it in software means that, when my phone inevitably slows down or crashes, I have no recourse but to wait for the phone to be responsive again.

I know they do it to keep the repair costs down and I appreciate that but the analog button is just that important to me.
Makes me think of "Hook" by Blues Traveler:

It doesn't matter what I say
So long as I sing with inflection
That makes you feel I'll convey
Some inner truth or vast reflection
But I've said nothing so far
And I can keep it up for as long as it takes
And it don't matter who you are
If I'm doing my job then it's your resolve that breaks
Swissborg Airdrop
I suspect when the economy takes a downturn luxury purchases like this will be the first to go. If I think I might be laid off do I spend 10 dollars to Uber home or walk the 5 blocks and have one less drink? I would personally have one less drink and walk, or take the train/bus... Those 7 dollars Starbucks venti iced white chocolate mochas with 5 shots will slow also.
I heard in this case, both Proximus and Telenet, the main operators in Belgium, run their fibers in the same conduit. So every company thought they were redundant by buing both, but weren't.

I also heard the railways are the main fiber provider: They have long stretches of rail between all major cities, so they are ideal for fiber. But very bad for redundancy
Yes, they are.

Temp workers are part-time employees that can be performing any task your business requires, including your primary business activity. While working for you, they aren't working for someone else (though they might be working for someone else when their shift ends for the day).

A contractor is someone with their own client base who handles a specific project that is not your primary business activity (though the project may support that activity). While working for you, they could be working for someone else as well (as long as they're not billing both clients for that time if the contractor bills on a period-basis).

These distinctions above are generally how the difference between employees and contractors are laid out internationally, and especially when dealing with cross-border worker classification issues. These distinctions have also been part of US jurisprudence for many decades, though they've only been formally or informally codified relatively recently.
The question is, are they selling in large enough quantities to justify a market for software.
I think that's the joke. If they added more cameras such that they covered the back of the phone, there wouldn't be a bump.
I feel confident that any major state actor could completely disrupt the bitcoin market. In traditional banking the government wants to maintain the value of its fiat currency. But the government doesn't care one iota about the value of Bitcoin except potentially for its own nefarious purposes.
Related discussions that might also be worthwhile:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18903886 "Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself to keep working on a project?
"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19777976 "ask hn: how do you stay disciplined in the long run?"
I wouldn't even call the SE compact. It's just normal. It's the size that Steve Jobs said fits comfortably in your hand, and since hand sizes haven't changed, it's still true today.
The iPhone 1 is like comically slow by today’s standards.
In this discussion, Rust is actually relevant, nearest comparison I can think of.

It's not necessarily as much Rust as the desperate need to get something safer than C/C++ without compromising performance and interoperability.
> unless they get added as part of an official HTML specification. Maybe they are, but I don't see them on this list of link types [0]

Extending link types is in the html specification:

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/links.html#other-link...

> Extensions to the predefined set of link types may be registered in the microformats wiki existing-rel-values page [http://microformats.org/wiki/existing-rel-values#HTML5_link_...].

where "may" is defined in the usual way (they aren't in there, but the page hasn't been updated for over a year, so I'm not sure if anyone cares about it anymore after already adding so many extension values).

It's common to have user agent (in this case googlebot) specific rel values.
Yes, that's fine. Boo that too.

Why are you against booing bad things? Are you an APPL investor making a lot of money on these choices? If not, I really can't understand your position here.
Everyone ssys this but this has never once happened... not a single time.
> But it won't charge that quickly. :(

Long time Apple Watch owner, currently using the Series 4 - charging while in the shower is exactly how I charge my watch. It has never run out using this way.
Your appraisal of the denizens of that highway is far more generous than mine...
And all of that requires 2 Cray supercomputers, unlike, say, the Apollo flight computer, a 2mhz cpu w/ 2048 words of ram and 36k of rom, in 1966
I think Apple's answer to that is a watch with LTE. Seriously.

My GF controls her apple watch by voice, glances at imessages on the screen and replies by voice, and really only pulls out her phone when seated or waiting-while-standing.

I doubt a modernized SE-sized device could meet Apple's margin needs.
More reason for people to protest. Now they're deploying the firewall to censor information that people already know? Doesn't make sense... Why are people using a VPN in HK?
are you being sarcastic? If that is the case, you are a really good writer! you got me until I did a second lecture of your text.
if you routinely copy a portion of your music to your phone, of course it makes sense to get more storage. I just don't bother doing that, because of the inevitable frustration of trying to play a song that isn't actually on my phone. rather than switch between streaming and local music all the time, I've just given in to streaming.
I wonder about Uber, they have spent lots of money branding and getting everything in place, that they overshot the whole making money aspect and now playing catchup. Problem is, will they reach that balance before they bleed beyond the point that they become vulture targets for another large company to step in, cherry pick what they want and discard the rest.

With all that said, I wonder if maybe Amazon or some self driving car startup steps in and buys them up for a lot less than it would to build that penetration. Can imagine your Amazon owned Uber driver bus picking you up, with half a dozen stops on the way, some people, some packages, doing the rounds. Things change, how will Uber adapt and more so, all those drivers on zero hour contracts, are just as easily laid off and much cheaper as well. Self driving cars are a case of when, not if as so much being done in the field, progress has become a hot competition and slowly getting there.
Apple is on a 3 year cycle now, probably to help accelerate development on their AR project.

Redesign -> CPU leap -> Camera leap

iPhone 6 -> 6S -> 7

iPhone X -> XS -> 11
Would be cool if it included lensing from gravitational bodies using general relativity. Einstein crosses would look great rendered by that software
https://www.quora.com/How-many-times-can-you-interview-with-...
Has anyone experienced more frequent RSI or carpal tunnel syndrome (or any hand pain) as a result of using the larger iPhones? It might just be me, but ever since I transitioned from the old iPhone 4's to the iPhone Plus', I have had more instances of random hand-related pain.
The iPhone 7 can be gotten for quite cheap these days and it’s a nice size IMO
Uber should just increase their rates dramatically, increase the driver’s share and offer discount subscriptions to loyal customers. Spontaneous riders pay more, others pay less.
> “I’ve taught public school teachers, who were incredibly bad at formal mathematical reasoning (I know, because I graded their tests), to the point that I had not realized humans could be that bad at math”

Is it just me or does this come off as incredibly rude? It’s one thing to say people are bad at math but the phrasing of this seems insulting without reason, in my opinion.
Hopefully next year. I'm very happy with my 8+ and don't plan on upgrading until Apple gets rid of the notch and has a 128 GB base model. I could live with the 64 GB base model if they figure out how to bring back Touch ID.
Zooming that graph out to start in 1980 shows that there is a trend there that did not start in 2009 but closer to 2000.

Also, that specific graph is of limited utility because it is the over-16 labor force participation rate, not the prime-age one. Which means that as the age distribution skews more toward post-retirement-age people it will automatically drop. Which is exactly what's been happening, by the way, as the baby boomers have started retiring. This rate will also drop as more people go to college instead of starting work immediately after high school.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2017/employment-population-rati... has a chart that lets you see a breakdown by age group, sort of, for 2007-2017. Note the huge differences in the rate between the age buckets and where the overall rate falls compared to the 25-54 rate.
The house is literally falling apart, I had thought it was abandoned until I happened to see the sign the city installed. If it's history, it's already well past being preserved.
Stamina Succeeds
Don't know why you are downvoted. I used to run solar powered sites that would have 5 rainy days in a row in which only about 10% of solar generation was delivered during daylight hours. We started with only enough batteries to last overnight and ended up with 10x that. Then we added 33% more when the first set of batteries had a short life due to getting so deeply discharged.
I would absolutely through money at a better phone, but I'm holding out with an iPhone 8 because anything bigger heavier is uncomfortable. There are rumours to 2020 flag ship will be smaller, I'm looking forward to that.
6S is great, I still love mine.
The kind of treatment I'm having isn't so bad. Its just the time it sucks up plus the inconvenience of travel. I haven't gone on an out of town vacation is ages because of all the equipment I have to drag along. The best I can pull of is weekend trips and stay-cations.
I recently inherited a gen1 iPad Pro (9.7in) and did not realize the Pro models were originally released in 2015/2016. I can see it being relevant for quite a while, especially considering I don't use it for anything "Pro" in nature.
It can be annoying if you just want to switch between a small amount of apps or web pages without having to reload an app or a page every time. More RAM would remedy that on a normal computer. I don't know how iOS or Android handle that though.
You mis-quoted your source, which says September 12, 2018, which in my mind does count as the tail end of 2018.
With floating-point code, you will slowly lose precision in your numbers. (How quickly is a matter of what calculations you're doing, if you're doing them in an error-tolerant manner, and how bad the initial error is in the first place).

Single-precision floating-point starts you off with about 6-7 decimal digits of precision, and the intermediate rounding will mean that you're constantly introducing error in the 7th digit. Computer graphics are pretty tolerant of error--you only need about a 1-2 digits of precision generally--and achieving higher FLOPS is more useful than higher precision. Engineering tolerances are usually going to be tighter, perhaps 4-5 digits for particularly tight tolerances. Furthermore, you're more likely to use nastier equations (logarithms and exponents are particularly bad for precision), so single-precision could well introduce error with real-world consequences.
> At the very least, I think you have to assume we won't be more efficient than Europe in terms of getting healthcare spending down to a lower percentage of GDP.

At the same share of GDP, we’d still be vastly less efficient per capita.

> If we get healthcare spending down to 11.3% of GDP like France, we still have to find about $2 trillion per year in taxes to cover that cost.

No, you only have to find a bit under $0.8T, because public healthcare spending is already a little over $1.23T of the $2T it would be under that model. And I think people would be happy to lose ~$2.3T in private bills for ~$0.8 in additional taxes.
As Jobs said: you're showering wrong.
I always mentally translate "up to" as "strictly less than."
The world is full of defense attorneys. They play a necessary role in our legal system, and I would generally hope that they defend their clients with zeal. This doesn't make them noble and good by any means.

But to claim that a defense lawyer being lawyerly means they are >50% likely to have committed the same crime as their client is questionable, to say the least.

The human tendency to direct our ire and malice in an ever-outwardly expanding circle of blame-by-association is exactly what feeds lynch mobs.
> Indentation and semicolons don't impact the number of things your mind has to remember at one time.

I disagree. It didn't feel like impeding factor back in the day when I was writing Python, C#, Javascript, Typescript, etc. But working in Lisp I realized how many things I used to deal with, constantly shifting my focus to properly style, indent and punctuate the code so it would work and look easier to reason about.

Writing Lisp is more like writing poems without having to worry if it rhymes or not. You can write code just as you would draw prototypes on a piece of paper. Except you can evaluate any part of it without any preceding ceremony. Some prefer to start with smaller pieces and compose them, some would just write it "imperatively" and then break it apart. You don't have to worry about operator precedence, about reserved words, semicolons, all the unnecessary garbage. At the end of the day you realize - the visual garbage that's what it is. It supposed to make code more readable - but in reality it does not, it distracts more than helps. Human brain is fascinating, it plays tricks with you - once you see a dot in the middle of a visual illusion, you lose the ability to "unsee" it. But most people may still try to convince you that there is no dot.
I’m optimistic too; remember the iPod and iPhone required a computer to get them set up initially too.
Just for you: iPhone 8, $450.
I feel like the best compromise would be to utilize the new, larger camera bump to add a slightly larger image sensor, even just 25-50% larger than the current sensors. I feel like it would make a noticeable improvement to the image quality, and justify the giant bump on the back of these devices.
I am an iPhone user who refuses to upgrade from my 7+ until this silly notch business is removed. It does not "disappear completely and immediately", especially when viewing landscape mode video content.
Well those stuff are greattt
I dunno, the home button on my first ipod touch (1G) broke, which basically killed that device for me. Meanwhile, I've been on Android for a long time now, and the on-screen home button has never really been an issue like I thought it might. After all, slow software can ignore a hardware input, too.
I'm not looking forward to setting an alarm for 5 am on Friday. I understand those on edt didn't like a 3 am time but it seems that there could have been a different compromise. Like 8 am pdt. Is that so they can say everything is sold out before the morning news cycle?
>Oneplus One which is quite old by todays standards; and I distinctly remember it being called a "Phablet" due to it's obtuse stature in comparison to its contemporaries

Wait what? This doesn't make sense. I remember getting OnePlus as well (bought it for a friend in Europe) and the screen size was pretty mainstream at that point. It had 5.46" size. It got released the same year Apple released 6+ which had bigger screen, and in US it doesn't get more mainstream than that. In no particular order a list of other pretty successful smartphones released in 2014:

- Galaxy Note 4 (5.7")

- Google Nexus 6 (6")

- HTC One (M8)(5")

- LG G3 (5.5")

- Droid Turbo (5.2")

Where do you live?
well hope their balance sheet looks better now
I'm using it in order to talk to different backends without touching the nginx config.

server_name ~^(?<sub>\w+)\.127\.0\.0\.1\.xip\.io$;
root sites/$sub;
Which place in it was this? I mean, there's just so many, would be good to know so I can avoid it.
Intel chipset exploited to sniff SSH passwords as they're typed over the network
Now do Uber.
That is interesting. I've only used AmEx Corp cards with a personal guarantee and wasn't aware there was any other way.

For anyone else who stumbles across this comment: AmEx offers Corporate cards both with or without a personal guarantee, depending on what the company wants to do. And (also mentioned farther down in this thread) they also give the option to give the card rewards to each individual employee cardholder, or give all the rewards to the business, again depending on what the company chooses.
Whilst I agree with your premise, the problem is that they explicitly made the distinction that this was for professionals. I can't remember the precise verbiage but when Cook introduced it he said that this was by and for professionals.
Bad for business but good for customers? I'd just assume that most of us are customers.
I guess with a metal antennae you have a permanently reflective surface, AIUI once one of these are disabled they become basically radio-transparent again, which means less of a blip on radar
I charge my Apple Watch 4+lte every 2 days. I use them on bicycle (workout app + music over bluetooth, around 2-3 hours) and take them off before I go into the bed. 35% charge is enough for one day.
Yep, and that's the feature I'd turn off right away. Well, I guess no upgrade for me this year from S3.
can't you tell who's the horniest using their period cycles?
I think he's talking about the use of the all keyword in VHDL. Although, the Ada use is odd too.
>In order for an intelligence to be called general it would be necessary to be effective in all situations.

So, basically, the author made a contrived definition of their own, and hand-waved about how humans don't meet it...
The Dallas office is an administrative office and will not have eng roles. Also, these are all "promises", we really have to see how it plays out. Promises are cheap. Remember how Foxcon was going to hire 10k people in Wisconsin