skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends how you define and implement "athletics" IMO. Club sports, informal martial arts, swimming lessons, that sort of thing are great. I was required to take four semesters of "physical education" credits of these sorts in order to graduate with my CS BS. These big sports sports that some colleges have going on, though... If a student wants to do that on their own time and dime then I of course have no objection, but the amount that even the not-really-good-at-sports schools are shelling out for facilities and equipment and coaches for the few students who participate is simply not justifiable in 99% of cases.
I dream of a world where all my messaging takes place in Keybase for this reason.
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Why do you care? I have owned an iPhone for years and I don't even know how much RAM it has. It simply doesn't matter as long as the OS manages it well. Comparing RAM specs between different OS seems pretty pointless.
I certainly found on one occasion where I felt I had to break the laws of hooks, that it worked much better split into two components.
Right it makes me vaguely uneasy.

On the other hand, I like the weirdness of it.
Unless Travis could have pulled off a miracle with self driving cars, Uber would be in exactly the same place it is today. If anything the company is executing better than it did under his leadership. It just cannot win the battle against basic economics, which everyone saw coming.
Haha lol.

Even in equatorial Africa 48h is not enough. Neither for actual usage, nor for battery life (and no one ever got marketing-leaflet-aka-datasheet-stated lifetime out of them batteries). Two years max, and hope either the project dies, or the company dies, or someone steals the batteries.

Source: been there maintaning solar offgrid.

And then --- geodiversity can only make it worse, never better.
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I don't think the GDPR is anti-business at all. It's just pro-consumer. If your business model depends on playing loose with customer data, then that's a huge red flag about what you're doing anyway.

I try to shy away from blanket statements but this seems like a pretty good one :P
In day vs. night context, ~18 hours for day and ~6 hours for night - no comment other than it's an interesting way to frame it as "all-day."
> I bought my iPhone 8 two years ago thinking of it as a 5 year investment.

That's exactly what's wrong, that users don't feel compelled to upgrade. It's bad for business.
Yeah, part of me says, hey, buy the newest phone, and keep it five or six years. Though the other part says, if iPhone 7 is are free on contract right now. Get that, and in two years get an iphone XR or whatever for free on contract, etc. Because then I get that fresh new battery every couple years, and spend a lot less money on having that shiny new top-of-the-line-ness that wears off shortly anyways.
Maybe, but I have a mix, my partner has a large phone and carries a backpack(!?) with her everywhere, but her closest friend has an iPhone 5 (which she doesn't update the OS on because "it will get slower").

So in my circles it's already 50/50. But I do see iPhone 5's and SE's amongst my circles more commonly than I should given the age of the phone. I'm not 100% on why, though I often ask. And it's incredibly rare that it's a cost decision.
> About half of the people I help choose phones would be fine with 64 GB. There’s no point making them buy a bunch of flash memory they will never use just to get the better still camera that they want.

But would you be counseling these people to get the iPhone Pro in the first place? I would guess that most folks who want the Pro would want more than 64 GB.
I "love" how Google just throws in "rare diseases" in to this, via their press release, as somebody who lives with 2 rare diseases that affect my peripheral nervous system. Actually, one of the diseases I have was discovered in the early 2000s on NIH grant funds at the Mayo Clinic.

This sounds wild, but it is true: Rare diseases are an absolute cash cow, and everyone should watch this. Our healthcare system in the US will be unsustainable if orphan drugs are not regulated (Which is why I naturalized as an European Union citizen, in addition to being American. I fret and worry about getting proper access to medical care every single day.): https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/the-weekly/rare-diseases-...

(I do not believe that healthcare for all is unsustainable, but an unregulated free market will make it unsustainable.)

Just in case anyone was wondering, it is common to have a rare disease, and they are unfathomly expensive to have. In the US, the definition of rare disease (which really should be called "orphan conditions" based on the law) is tied to "orphan drugs" which in theory can collectively benefit 10% of the general population. There are a ton of orphan drugs being approved at the moment, which cost between hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to millions per year, in the US. The European estimate on rare diseases is more realistic and 6-8% of the general population has a rare disease.

So, do not think think that it cannot happen to you. You are naive to believe otherwise.
The startups are even worse when it comes to ageism, “culture fit”, and overwork.
You do learn framework of the day while job hunting. You do not have to learn every framework of the day while having a job.
Apple seems to keep 128 GB in reserve till the model drops to the base of the lineup. For example, the iPhone 8 is now available w/128GB at $499. Before today, it was available w/256 GB at $749. The 64 GB model dropped in price by $150 from $599 to $449.

Refurb pricing on the iPhone 8 is now $379 (64GB) / $509 (256 GB).
Except, say, using the phone on a crowded bus or train or any of the many other scenarios where it's inconvenient to use two hands.

I've no interest in anything bigger than a 7/8, myself. An XS might be borderline okay.
Is this the same as the 400 from a month ago, or a new batch?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20558490

Edit: Guess not, that initial group was just marketing. From the article:

>These layoffs come shortly after Uber laid off 400 people from its marketing team.
Maybe they did? If you are an engineer in San Francisco, switching companies is trivial compared to relocating your life across the country to a place where you may not want to live.
When the future arrives, we will build enough nuclear reactors.
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Imagine a Sci-Fi title with this scene: At the last moment, some critical battlefield information is transmitted by a huge, bright and colorful beam of plasma antenna that shines the ground like Sun at night. It would make a spectacular and impressive scene of SFX and CGI, just like the SFX of the wrapped engine in the new Star Trek..

> during the early days of mobile phones

Probably not a good idea, in its original form, it requires a lot of power from the mains to maintain its arc discharge, which is what turns it into an antenna, kind of like a vacuum tube that needs a constant heating power. But Wikipedia says antenna-on-chip is possible, which is quite interesting.
I think there is a cultural split here in the US. I personally hate branding and logos but you also have a large group of people that go out of their way to buy things with huge logos. To each their own.
Still on 6s. Battery life is my reason to upgrade. I'm at 3.5hrs browsing, 14hrs standby on a replacement battery <1yr old.
This is impressive. They trained it on 200k articles from arXiv, 130k from PubMed, and over 1 million each from Newsroom and BigPatent. They have comparisons of generated abstracts versus actual abstracts of some landmark NLP papers.

My only gripe is that I would have liked to see (maybe in an Appendix) examples on papers on completely different topics, say one in biology, one in math and one in physics. It would be difficult to pick good examples, sure. But it would significantly strengthen at least my impression of the transferability.
> it hasn't caught on

That's where you got it all backwards. Lisp (as an idea) after six decades is still thriving. There is a Lisp dialect for almost any platform. Clojure surpassed in popularity languages like F#, OCaml and Haskell, even though they are older than Clojure. There are more Clojure conferences, more meetups, more podcasts and more jobs. There are regular conferences in the US, Canada, Brazil, India and in almost every European country. Some of them have multiple Clojure-focused conferences. Emacs and emacs-lisp is still being developed and used by thousands around the world. Common Lisp is still in use. Racket is pretty popular in academia and beyond.

Again, Lisp is just an idea. If you grok the awesomeness of that idea you may someday find what makes it so powerful. Lispers often talk about "enlightenment" and call Lisp "a secret alien technology". They don't do it simply to justify their choices or to create aura with elitist attitude to scare outsiders.

Akin to the idea of Vim as a modal text editing - it takes time to get it, to learn it, to understand it. But one day you may realize the power behind it. Most people, being spectators don't get it. Sometimes people would learn just the basics of Vim, move onto something else and would be like "meh". But those who stick around, they soon may find an incredible new world that changes their subjective view and understanding of how things work. And they realize that there's nothing that can convince them to "unsee" this new world of possibilities. And just like there are many Lisp dialects, there are many ways to run Vim. You can do it in almost any modern IDE and editor.

Lisp is the same. It is a simple but quite powerful idea, if you don't see its power - perhaps because you haven't really looked.

Unfortunately yes, that's not the best way to "sell it", but that's the truth. You have to be a Vimmer to see the power behind modal editing, you need to become a Lisper to see true power of Lisp. That is why neither Lispers nor Vimmers have any illusions - they know, their way of thinking will never become mainstream.
> I once (once) managed to have the "Kundalini" experience. It was wonderful. No drugs involved. Yet it was easily as psychedelic as any drug.

Do you say this having semi-substantial first hand experience with psychedelics (your relatively conservative comment suggests perhaps not)? If not, then how could you compare, but if so, then I'm interested. Well, I'm interested anyways, but I'd be super interested.

> With caveats about the exact definitions of "they" and "results" and "comprehensively", I will go ahead and claim that the kind of results that people go to therapists to get can be got without using any external drugs at all, at all.

Depends what kind of a therapist visit you're talking about of course.

> Psychedelics just get you "high as a lord". They just shake up your thought-gland. Any therapeutic value they have is in the "set and setting", as Dr. Leary (the "LSD guy" himself) insists.

Maybe, maybe not. We don't know for sure exactly what they're doing.

> If you want to get high, or just experience your subjectivity getting all jangly, then yeah LSD is great. If you want to solve your personal problems you can do that without taking drugs.

Sometimes, sometimes not, depending on the situation and the individual.

> It's not impossible to use psychedelics as part of a therapeutic system, but it's important to realize that there's no magic cure in the acid tab or magic mushroom.

They're not a magical elixir, but thousands of people disagree on whether they've been a practically "magic" cure for their personal issues.

This Hawkins fellow sounds quite interesting, do you happen to know if there are any particularly good videos of him that you could recommend? I will check out Wilson as well.

Thanks for the interesting conversation and recommendations!
Right, because writing this sentence makes the technology exist.
Reminds me of the brain bug from Starship Troopers
It's definitely cute that the abstract was generated by the model, but I wouldn't give that too much weight because it's the definition of cherry-picking. In this case, you can pick your data (the contents of the paper) to match a desirable output from the model (the abstract).
No. Their quarterly losses are more than double their entire R&D spend.
I didn't realize Beddit kept going after they were acquired by Apple. I had the first couple versions as review units but I ended up just stopping using them because they didn't tell me anything I basically didn't already know. Which is sort of how I feel about sleep tracking generally. I didn't get enough sleep last night? You don't say.

(I do think they're potentially useful for someone who feels tired a lot and doesn't understand why. I'm less convinced by the value of ongoing tracking.)
Every one of those features appeared in Chinese & Korean Android phones 2-3 years ago. Neither are these "feats", nor are they unique to Apple. They're already behind the curve on these features.

The only commendable thing is scale, when Apple adds these features they reach 10X in unit sales per SKU compared to the competition.
Take a look at Withings. You can get weeks to months of the battery life with limited but very useful features set.
There's a big difference between admiring Kalanick as a person, and admitting he created the über startup. (I think) most people on HN realize that questionable ethics are strongly correlated with success.
I never quite liked it. Trello for example - with 3D Touch, it never quite worked nicely for the long press.
The other technical alternative is constructing a global network of electricity interconnects, though storage is probably politically more achievable and cheaper, given lithium batteries are already being used instead of upgrading existing interconnects.
iPhone is sucks
Now if that is true, that is one badass summary!
https://www.urbanoutfitters.com/shop/popsockets-tortoise-she...

Oh wow, this is horrible.
Cool idea. I use dnsmasq locally but seems like this would work well too.
Sure there is.

There are dozens of times when app developers say "oops" during a data sharing leak, either because they want to fake not having known that they were sharing data, or (probably more likely) they were using an SDK that itself was leaking tons of data that they didn't know they were signing up for.

Apple closes loopholes, the press cries about App Store dominance, app developers cry out, new rules are put in, and then they circumvent those rules. Rinse and repeat.
You don't need to use hooks there. You can just define your functions and be done with it.
Why would people boo for a bad thing? I don't know.

There's no excuse for under-speccing a $1000 phone and charging $150 to add a $40 NAND chip to it.

(Looks at Apple's profit margins and revenue)

Oh that's why.
Probably a lack of good marketing.
I don't have insider knowledge of their financials, but my impression is if they stayed lean and focused on their core product they'd have been a sustainable small company. Instead, they grew too big in typical VC-backed fashion and it wasn't sustainable.
I believe the % concentrations are apples and oranges when comparing a PG/VG based juice to nicotine salts. I thought the same when I saw how high the nic was, but I believe the actual % of nicotine absorbed is about the same for lower % PG/VG and seemingly high % nic salts
It is usually offet by the phone cover. It is actually quite clever: SINCE the cover needs to have a hole anyway for the camera, use that hole to sneak a bigger lens. All the while ensuring the hole is facing the camera, since without protrusion the hole may not be exactly in front.
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Uber laying off several hundred people is not a signal for a market recession. How is your comment relevant?
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Yes, you can instantly take a handle that someone just-recently let go of, as long as it was a username change and not a suspension or deletion.
bluejekyll does chastise the author for not including their favorite programming language and I don't think that's a legitimate criticism at all.

Yes, most systems programming is done in C and C++. Some people even use Rust, I've heard. Doesn't mean that an article has to draw comparisons to these languages. In fact, almost every article comparing programming languages inevitably does a poor job at it because the author most likely is more familiar with one language and then we'd have people criticizing the author because they got X, Y and Z wrong.

I have seen this a lot of time on HN. It's simply smart to not compare languages.
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While I am looking to upgrade to the Series 5 from a Series 1, I'm disappointed in the lack of native sleep tracking functionality... it's a glaring hole in the concept of overall health tracking.

Similarly, I'd hoped they would announce some standardization to weightlifting in HealthKit. The watch and iphone health options are very cardio-centric, and every weightlifting app has implemented their own internal 1RM tracking which should be at an OS-level instead.
Colleges themselves are not the only institutions keeping records about students. For instance, you can send people your transcripts and proofs of graduation through https://studentclearinghouse.org/, a nonprofit
They didn't mention any spec bump for the watch.
Nitpick: there is such a word according to MW [1]

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irregardless
I’d probably find some open source project to dedicate myself to. Maybe work towards sustainability in some shape or form, or at the very least invest in it. But it’s tough to ignore money.
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The non-pro model looks like the successor to the XR, no telephoto camera, the screen is LCD not OLED with lower PPI, and a cheaper frame (aluminum not stainless steel) and maybe one or two more things I forgot.
> Better computational photography

Basically catching up to the Pixel

> new immersive audio algorithms

Will have to try it out but it sounds very much like fluff

> on-CPU changes for optimized ML matrix computations

So faster matrix multiplies are a user-facing feature?

Other than the camera changes, there was no features an average user would be excited over. No new tech like face unlock, animojis, Samsung's audio focus, Pixel's Soli, or other real new features.
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The SE would probably also be better from an environmental perspective, since it would use fewer materials. Why are they forcing everyone to buy big phones, whether they like them or not?
Please give avc.com to someone who does video compression.
It definitely is - and if you're paid overtime it's fantastic because it gives the company a signal that yes, this is possible if they need it, but it doesn't come free.

I don't mean that it's bad to work hard, or long sometimes. But it MUST cause the employer some pain.

I'm talking about salary jobs where meetings scheduled to end at 6 routinely run past 6:30 (even though daycare closes at 6:30 too). Where you get non-actionable pages all the goddamn time because it doesn't cost the company anything. Where you say better integration tests should be a higher priority, but nah, it's all good we've got Datadog alarms set up so let's launch that bad boy! Where week-long work trips come with the assumption you'll fly on Sunday and Saturday with no time off in lieu, and people ask how they can reach you on vacation.
Sure, but I still don't think that banning candy flavors is going to result in a mass of people brewing their own, a la prohibition. People didn't make their own flavored cigarettes, when those were banned.
I've found that the hoop jumping type stuff, while potently annoying, can at least be abstracted into a custom hook (and then mocked in tests) easily so that the code is clean.
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You must hate the Nike+ watch bands... Apple seems to really like the circles.
I like to see it as the notch just being a big nice screen with additional screen rectangles added on each side. I don't think you find a lot of people who absolutely love the notch, but I like it now.
The actual device, while larger, isn't much. Like a half inch in length, and a quarter inch in width.
The sensors on the Pro model is still 12MPs. HEIC can compress the output of these sensors in an hard to imagine way. A movie takes around 60MB per minute in 1080p30. Photos are also somewhat negligible now.
This isn't new. Both the X and XS jumped from 64GB to 256GB.
This requires the network I communicate with to move from iMessage, a platform that already works for them, to Telegram or any other app for my sake.
first of all, the idea of having a meaningful certificate in something like history is sort of ridiculous.

second, there are currently hundreds if not thousands of independent history departments in the US. to reduce this to one government agency would be quite a large change. or are you suggesting that we create hundreds of government history certification agencies?
Because there’s more work involved.
>Are you getting in a pissing contest about how many shitty things the US Government has done? Because, let me tell you, that is a contest you are going to lose.

Hi from the UK. I think we are still in the running. Mind you, we did have a head start.
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A language doesn't make code automatically reliable, but it can certainly help.

Ada can do overflow checking, so choice of language can have an impact on reliability, but the software engineers deliberately disabled some of those checks to save CPU cycles on a computer that was running at/near capacity. Their reasoning was that it was impossible for the variables in question to overflow given the known flight characteristics... of an Ariane 4.
They use two hands because you give them a phone that's hard to use with one hand. And using two hands is not always an option.
Never saw a more boring presentation in my life. Almost everybody looked like they wanted it to end. They almost ran off the stage the second they finished talking. And the crowd was bored too...
You're not alone. But maybe its a good thing? Companies who use Twitter as a core part of their strategy in that way might not be a good fit, anyway?
You shouldn't conflate nicotine vapes and THC vapes, they're completely different.
(I work on Corporate Card)

It does not for anyone!
The utra wide angle 13mm lens will be awesome to have, been waiting a long time for that. One more reason not to carry a dslr.
I mean resistance to his ideals and methods are based on his relative carelessness towards anything but his and the company's goals.

Incredible leader, amazing CEO with the raw ability to move mountains for the company's growth.

Remarkably bad at human and helping humankind.

If burning the Amazon rainforest helped Uber's goals he would have it torched in the most efficient and rapid method possible by morning light. Perfect CEO for the shareholders and maybe for keeping the lights on, not so much for the rest of us.
Depends on the usage. My series 4 can easily last two days.
I didn’t know that. I’ll certainly research that.
I hate cases but Apple is making this less and less tenable over time. Not just the camera bump but also the lower quality glass they use on the screen that easily scratches now. I used to never have a problem up until about the iPhone 7
I didn't mention that because I thought it's obvious. Hooray for network effects.
Clicked, saw someone wearing clothes consenting to a picture taken of them. What exactly makes this a horrible place for women?
Sleep tracking would be cool, but don't most users charge their watch at night?
Is this a joke? https://phonesized.com/compare/#632,1182
> still doesn't come close to replacing my Pebble

Does Pebble have a sim? The biggest benefit of apple watch for me is that I can take it anywhere without my phone, play sports, shopping, running, the sim card in the phone is the best thing that keeps me away from staring at my phone screen while I am going out.
Android is equally disappointing.

There has never been a successor to the Nexus 4.