skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One bit of pedantry to complain about: this (really clever) essay is really only describing Fourier Decomposition, the idea that any function can be described in a vector space of sinusoidal basis functions. The Fourier Transform is an algorithm that exploits some (also really clever, and obviously of critical practical impact) factoring representations to compute that sum of functions in N*log(N) time in the number of data points instead of the naive N^2 summation of products.
"Scared people do irrational things" makes it sound as if the overall reaction was somehow reasonable at the time or that the priorities were organic. Most of the fear and panic was stoked by the mainstream media, in support of traitorous politicians seeing an opportunity to act on longstanding totalitarian wishes. Propaganda is a powerful weapon against Free people.
Ada could have enforced those at the type system level, it has bounded types, but those checks were disabled.
PageRank is not an important signal anymore, but Google still uses links in other ways.

https://moz.com/blog/2019-study-on-link-ranking
I'm 47 and thinking of starting up! Nothing magical has happened either.
A big part is that it was not a social revolution. Nor did it seek much material restribution which is a feature of many revolts and rebellions.

After the war, Americans ended up with a government and distribution of material wealth very similar to what they had before.
How is Slack not suing Uber for uChat? The images on the link look like an exact copy.
I don't need motivation. I have a mortgage.
Wow...that is pretty wasteful
It's one of the top two VPNs in China/HK. If they're coming for PIA, it means all the VPNs will be blocked soon or already are. In other words, full GFW lockdown for HK, removing one more of the last remaining freedoms that HK still had over the mainland.
Are the iPhone 8 and 11 not decent? Neither costs anywhere near $1k
What zakki said, and also for people who travel somewhat often and need to get sim cards for travel.
Is it fair to say that democratic socialists are communists? I've met more than a few self-described democratic socialists who would object to that characterization.
> plus 4k video support

iPhones don't already support 4k video? Good Android phones have had 4k cameras for years.

> Dual SIM cards (a must for the Asian market)

Obviously not a must if they're only adding dual SIMs now.
To be fair, though, that's 100% Spotify's fault. I remember when there was a watch app for Spotify and Spotify bought out the company and removed the app from the App Store. Now, they refuse to release a new app because of their little dispute with Apple regarding purchases. Makes me hate Spotify because it only adds to the list of really silly things they've done that spites customers but might make them a few dollars in the long run.
When a Human Liver Is Supercooled to -4 C
> Even after 12 months of making 4-6 payments for the entire credit limit throughout the month (we max the card out every week at least), they still won’t give us the limit we need.

Had the same experience with the same card, asked multiple times for a credit increase ... which they denied. Then they increased it months later when I didn't ask. Go figure.
Formality, a (proof)gramming language featuring optimal reductions
I have to agree. The upgraded camera is enough to get me to want to switch, but the keynote itself was rather dull. I generally enjoy the Apple launch events, but they’ve been sliding lately and this just made me feel “that was a waste of time to watch”.
But the Spark isn't electric (despite its name). You can however get a used Nissan Leaf EV for under $10K, too.
Hasn’t every iPhone just been a speeds and camera improvement over the previous? With a few random things like TouchId, FaceId, and 3D Touch... but most of what matters is speed and camera.
Virtue and a mixed government: Goslicius’ republican theory in context (2017)
I want a small iPhone, been waiting since the SE

There are tons of people waiting. Maybe they can do same as last time and release it in January!

Until then... I am disappointed in you, Apple! First you said the iPhone 4 was the perfect size. Then the 5 was taller and you said THAT was the perfect size. What happened to that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O99m7lebirE

Oh yeah what happened was you copied Microsoft phone's flat look and you copied the large phones and forgot about what you said. Just like you did with touting the PowerPC RISC set and then switching to Intel. Oh well. I like Apple anyway :)

PS: The Apple SE is like the Cadillac Ciel. They tease people, everyone loves it, but they never release it, to their own detriment!
Awesome announcement. They should release a ring that helps you control the volume, play, pause, and scroll when reading a page or book!
What specifically did you change in your eating habits?
They skipped 9 because it was the tenth anniversary phone, hence iPhone 10.
Thanks your
The thing I have found to be extremely helpful is to very carefully curate who who I follow - in particular I don't friend/follow anyone I have any sort of regular f2f interactions with - family, coworkers, neighbors. I use it exclusively to keep up with out-of-state friends, others involved with the same sort of niche hobbies, that sort of thing. Avoids sooo much drama.
It feels like they're trying to vendor lock your vocabulary.
My Series 3 watch easily lasts more than 24 hours on a charge. The 18-hour battery life, I think, is being very overly conservative.
20% faster processor over what is already the best in the cellphone world. If intel or amd did the same, lot of the same people here would be cheering their hearts out.
Do I see Voeglin on HN?
What I Learned from 1000 Days of Meditation
1) Sharp corner in a material - creates a weak point.

2) when set on a flat surface, it creates an unstable bridge, meaning downward pressure on the phone is not supported. Think of how a piece of cardboard would react to being pressed down in the middle with only 3 of its corners supported.

3) It creates a point that can be snagged when moving the phone around, either on clothing or surfaces it's set on.

Personal opinion, it's really frustrating to have a phone that doesn't sit flat on a surface, to be unable to easily use it without some kind of case or holding it.
I quit Facebook for a few years, it didn't do anything to my life one way or another, except maybe put me in a group of people others had to reach out "out of band" to invite to things, which practically meant I had to hear about events second hand or not go to things.

The emotional vitriol inspired by social media is completely unfounded. You can make it whatever experience you want; people just like to complain.

This article should be titled, "I don't know how to use social media so I gave up on it."
I am pretty sure that's a typo and they mean 2018.
They got used to dual sim in android devices. There are multiple use cases like keeping one number for office and can turn it off after office hours and another sim for personal life all in one device. Another use is have data plan in a cheaper provider and voice with another with better reliability or coverage etc, yet another is have a sim with international roaming or local one without using a separate phone when traveling!
trying to explain what i mean further:
Stories that portray an idealistic image of ourselves against a negative portrayal of others are intoxicating.
Nationalism is a state of dwelling within those intoxicating stories, and what makes nationalism so frightening is that in that state, people will do terrible things to others, I believe, in part, to sustain the immersion in the story.
This same thing happens in protest movements too, being part of a movement, especially if the cause is noble and good, the sense of yourself in a grand narrative is exhilarating.
Even if you believe the protests are good, intelligent and brave - as I do - it's unrealistic to think there would not be people in the protests who view the conflicts in racist terms. When I said people are lazy, what I should have said is that we are limited, we can only comprehend reality through simple models, and it can be very hard to remember that the models we use to navigate reality are only models.

So many of the squabbles on this an other forums seem to begin with people who have models of reality, perfectly suitable for navigating their own lives, and assuming with no evidence that their model is also adequate for describing other peoples lives, shouting their models at each other without a lot of listening.

There's well deserved disapproval here of the 'whataboutism' approach to debating, but a some whataboutism is necessary. You need to be able to see the ways in which Tiananmen square and the Nagasaki bombing are similar events in order to get past a cartoon view you, your group and the other.
Leadership Transition Announced for MIT Media Lab
> the sole reason I have taken photos is to share them via social media

That's quite a realization. I think it's true for a lot of people though and it's part of why people experience the best times of their life through a 6" display.
Those are good points. While I can see rust flying within the next few years, I dont see it in flight controls for a while yet. That said I'm aware of c++ flight control software which seems insane. And that seems to be the trend. Rust does target embedded so there is no reason not to try and move it in that direction, though ada seems a much better choice.
Check out some screenshots of Discord, that basically looks like "Slack with a dark theme."
Can genetics explain why some people thrive on less sleep?
> Or just thicker so the new camera is flush against the back casing.

SERIOUSLY! Why does the <1mm thinner matter so much to them to have the fugly camera bump instead? That space surely could be used by a slightly bigger battery if nothing else.
While it seems like nothing, the peace in my life is much greater with less influence from the gamified social media emotion casino. I am closer to where I feel like I need to be, whatever that may mean. Ymmv. Enjoy life.
Hooks are great! I can sympathise with those suffering from JS fatigue, but I don't think they are merely a prettier/different syntax for doing the same thing, they are a significant conceptual simplification. This:

`const { data, loading } = useFetch("/query", {page});`

is not only shorter than the corresponding slew of lifecycle method implementations that would be required in a class component, it's also much more direct and readable. Trying to recover the intent of code by reading the implementation of various imperative methods is painful and error-prone, whereas it's hard to imagine how the above could any more effectively communicate the intent - every single token is meaningful.
I literally quoted the linked article.

The author has written a number of articles on white flight. He's just couched it in different language for this publication, because the Atlantic is left-leaning and the readership likely wouldn't appreciate that term.

Also, on a factual note: every single Google search and a review of Census data and other counts of population show that LA and NYC increased in size during the time period covered by the article, which contradicts the title and summary of the article. The growth rate for both cities has shrunk because there's not much more room for either of them to physically grow, and as the 2 largest metro areas in the US, large %-based growth is extremely difficult.

It's very easy for Bumpkin, Idaho to grow by 10% over a decade if it's only starting from 50,000 people. That would be a rounding error in terms of NYC or LA population statistics.
Could getting strangled in it's crib be seen as anarcho-socialism failing on it's own merits? If it wasn't strong enough to protect itself, does it not then lack merit from a pragmatic perspective?
Learn to not need motivation in order to get work done. This is what my father and his father called "work ethic."

In short, the memory I always think back to went something like this: me whining about digging a ditch, followed by: "I'm paying you to dig a ditch. I don't care if you're motivated about digging the ditch. Dig it, and I'll pay you."

It's the same with anything. If you can't work without motivation then you really aren't doing your job. Everyone has up days and down days, up years and down years. You're paid for all of it, so you should be working for all of the time you're paid to work.

Once you surpass the need to be motivated, you really start to get good at something, in my experience. There's a pride in the finished work, which is completely independent of how much fun you had while doing the work.

I am not saying that motivated people do not produce great work that gives them pride, I am saying that you will be viewed as more reliable, more dependable, more capable, and more professional if you can simply push out those keystrokes even when you don't feel like it.
Would need to sue Discord too.
Fighting the Shame of Skin Picking
And isn't it plausible that the top X% of highschool graduates don't go to college because they found a lucrative position? Especially for men, hard labor still pays well without needing a diploma.
That's pretty awful.
Goslicius' Ideal Senator and His Cultural Impact over the Centuries (2009)
This does not answer my question though. Is the source code for the server available? If it is more accurate, and is open sourced, then I would like to run my own and make the extension connect to my server.
> a much smaller version of the iPhone. Like an iPhone nano

It exists, it’s called the Apple Watch cellular edition.
Preventing engineers who are working on it from working at the competition?
Check out places like Swappa, I've got a backup SE in mint condition for my current SE. Well within reason for prices compared to trust issues w/ Craigslist.
"I'm a 6'5" man with large hands who still swears by an SE"

It appears that the SE is 4 inches and the 6S is 4.7. I have a Pixel 3 non-XL and it is 5.5 which seems fine to me. But the Pixel 3 XL at 6.2 was going too far.

Anyway, a real Apple SE[1] has a screen which is a little over 8 inches...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_SE
The part I don't get is how

> hey, slack is way to expensive, we don't want to get 'locked in', and 'mumble mumble privacy cloud evil stallman'

gets followed up immediately (almost inevitably, in my experience) with

> so lets write our own chat application.... how hard can it be?"

...rather than, say, "hey, I googled and there are a few FOSS alternatives for 'group chat with history': Zulip, for one; Mattermost, for another. Let's see if either of those fit our needs. If they don't quite, though, let's also see if either one of them has a solid, customizable codebase to fix up!"
Because the American revolution was not a “revolution”, it was a split between the highest levels of management in the US and the higher level management in England. It was like PayPal spinning out of EBay.
> 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.

The Bolsheviks won in no small part because they were a particularly violent, insular faction. Revolutionary situations don't really reward being accommodating and adverse to violence, even though that might be very desirable post-revolutionary condition.

It's something of a problem with revolutions that the people you want running the show afterwards aren't the kind of people that revolutions inherently favor.
it was the privacy/legal/security types driving this strategic decision, I can't really talk about it in more depth. A lot has changed since the decision was made, and if I personally was to reassess the situation now I believe I would go with a 3rd party SAAS solution, but back then building a chat app was on balance the correct decision to make.
I guess this is why I have free to play games sitting on my phone but never play them. They take me through a tutorial full of tasks and menus and resources and I subconsciously feel intimated by all the work.
Offtopic, but the ”splitter” is called a surge protector in NA? How interesting. Seems like calling your car an exhaust filterer.
Yeah and why would anyone ever buy a tailor made suit when you can get them off the rack for cheaper?
The point of a trial is to have a better justification than your feeling of him being "an out and out terrorist".
sorry not from CA
Good point - didn't think about that at all. Did you mean think before I speak, or Uber?

In any case, yeah, in that respect it is a massively shitty and unnecessary thing to do to employees. They could have easily left it as "re-structuring" without a risk of tainting the reputation of former employees.
> The only logical reason I could figure for why this is done, is to make you feel bad about having a lower number than other people, otherwise why would they bother broadcasting this number, proudly at the top of your profile page, to other users?

The reason probably is so that people connect more and see more stuff from other people, and stay active on the network.

partialrecall: Of course it's motivated by profit.
I think this posts discussion of “why do we take photos” is really great and deserves more consideration. I’ve not had any form of social media account for over 8 years and something I notice is that I just take waaay fewer photos than everyone else I know. A few on vacation or when I see something stupid I can turn into a pun or a joke. Seriously maybe 3-5 photos per month.

I love living this way and consider it healthy and normal for a wide variety of people in most modern life circumstances. I think the need to take dozens of photos of vacation/meal/baby/lifestyle is seriously a universally bad mental state for humans, and one that people will stubbornly try in vain to argue is somehow acceptable or ok.

If sitting is the new smoking, then social media photo sharing is the new vaping.
It’s good that they link to 3brown1blue’s video as well. I was already decently well learned in DSP and information theory before I saw that video and it still managed to teach me a very unique perspective on the fourier transform.

These visualizations are very useful for those without an intuition built up. This is the exact way to think about things if you need to work in the frequency domain.

I do wish they mentioned phase. It’s always glossed over when teaching the fourier transform but is incredibly essential to describing a coherent signal.
There’s something completely whackadoo about charging an iPad and then discharging the iPad in order to charge the pencil.
Apple could have made ”mini Qi” if they wanted to, but they don’t want to. It’s been their MO for decades.
Yes I did. This is the main presentation from the reference web site.

http://nebula.wsimg.com/d0cadaec2cf44c9682cebb1610ce1a91?Acc...

If you look at the thermal analysis, it is incomplete. They are only considering the thermal noise of the reflector. The noise temperature of an antenna is a function of temperature AND aperture efficiency, with the latter set by the conductivity of the reflector. Plasma is not a great conductor (compared to metal), as is shown by the nested antennas. High performance satcom (e.g. NASA DSN) not only cool the electronics, they cool the feeds also.

There is another paper where they show a tube covering a LNB. Looks like some BS. I don’t see any actual measurements of noise temperature (which are very easy to do).

http://nebula.wsimg.com/48f10bd80f702313a1d8d094fc7d6b01?Acc...

I didn’t see any of the papers published in IEEE APS.

I design antennas for a living, and this sets my BS detector off, and it did 10 years ago too. They look fine for TX (the patterns look good), but the noise data is conspicuously absent.

Here is another noise analysis, but again it is incomplete. Just show some measurements.

http://nebula.wsimg.com/754ac5460a5e1531953c79dd1c4863b7?Acc...
Kind of a ridiculous statement considering the iPhone XS was essentially identical to the iPhone X.
Uh, yeah, so, for anyone who didn't realise: r/gonewild is very much NSFW. I have just been educated on this point myself.
Presumably you disable them. IMO that should be easier to disable, but it is possible at least and should remain so given Mozilla's history.
It’s the separation of concerns best practice extended to domain names. To not have to think to path collisions if the website and the API are in the hands of different teams is a plus.
As well, in this case, it’s a lot better to avoid the root domain which is less flexible then a subdomain. For instance, you can’t have a CNAME behind a root domain
Contrarian view: not your company or resources. Management was enabling it until now.

Since when did wanting to be a software developer mean there’s “one true way” to do software dev?

Why are developers supposed to be budget babysitters for a huge company with tons of people watching budgets?

I don’t owe my employer being an expert in all contexts to the benefit of their business. I am not their servant. I write code to serve contexts they want served.
At companies I have worked at, the employees being let go are often given the opportunity to apply for other available positions. Maybe the case here?
I think the watch + AR glasses/contacts will be what they move to. The same way the watch is now tied to a phone, the AR glasses will be tied to a watch.
> Better battery life.

That is the only thing I want; sure there are good feature phones (I never use my iPhone for normal cellular calling) that have long battery life, but I want a high spec smart phone with at least 1 whole day (let’s say 24 hrs; when travelling, and that is often, I usually spend whole days working only on my phone; browsing,
dictating, writing and doing conference calls; it is just empty after half a day like that) while using it the entire day. I do not need it to be so thin; I need it to last all day while using it with screen and 4g on.

I even tried out Oukitel monster phones; the k10000 first version actually made this but was bad otherwise (way too heavy, any kind of drop would shatter the screen; not very good specs besides the battery) while the next version did not make it (really cannot understand why).

So with my 7 plus I now carry an external battery and am contemplating the Chinese approach to battery life; carry 2 phones instead. I really wish they could fix this.

The watch helps when not travelling; it allows me to leave my phone off for long stretches but it it not an ideal solution.

> iPhone nano

I did not try the latest watches but do they not have a SIM and basically are a tiny iPhone?
> As a small business owner, what I like about the Chase business cards is rewards come back in the form of points that I can easily transfer to my personal cards. It sounds like Stripe applies them towards the statement, i.e., benefit goes to the business, not to me personally.

Extracting a thing of value that was remitted to the business to a personal account for personal use sounds like embezzlement, but IANAL.
Imagine if DO had lambda.
I live in Portland. I switched to being a software developer when my son was born, starting a new career.

I make probably $20K less than my peers. (I make $82K a year as a fourth year C# software dev. I've got a law degree and am willing to travel around the country a few weeks a year for stakeholder meetings.)

I'm home every day by 3:15. I take my son to the library, to the park, to the forest, to OMSI, on weekdays. Some days he and I just sit on the couch reading and talking about superheroes for two hours until dinner.

Do I feel envious of my peers who make more? Yes. A lot. The urge to keep up with the Joneses is strong. Do I second guess my decision? Never. My job is relaxed, I come home and party with my son and wife with energy. I cried reading this story, but it only affirms my decision.
Every existing iPhone user has a lightning connector, and the cable(s) or charger to charge with it.
http://archive.is/ZSM4x