skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In any other low-key metropolis (Dallas, Atlanta, Houston, Austin, Phoenix, Des Moines, whatever)

I'd wager the typical city in Switzerland is much more liveable (i.e. not being trapped in a car as you commute to and from suburbs or just get around the horribly laid out car-centric city) than those places.
It used to be expensive (in both time and money) to track people's movements. Now cell phone carriers (as well as Google, Apple, and a few other companies) can do it trivially.
A hardware button that presumably uses software to toggle the mic versus literally unplugging a cable to the mic.
What's the marginal value of hiring another fire-fighter? I suspect it's a lot lower than the marginal value of hiring another enterprise developer, since firefighting is already fairly well staffed and since hiring professionals cuts into volunteering firefighting organisations.

The same seems like it's true of teachers and nurses. They're seen as a cost centre to be reduced rather than a scarce resource to be fought over.
Python 2 is not a core package in rhel8. You can get it via an extra collection that will be supported for the life of rhel7.

So using rhel8 won't be a solution. Rhel developers are probably eager to drop Python 2 support as soon as possible. Which is when rhel7 goes EOL. Of course, it wouldn't particularly surprise me if customer pressure makes them support it for longer.
>Server linux and linux on personal computing devices are not the same thing at all

Umm... they literally are. They're the Linux kernel except the desktop versions have a window manager running on top of them that handles the GUI which typically isn't found on a server. Drivers, packages, and scripting is all done exactly the same way on both.

You don't know what you're talking about. Please exit the conversation.
Javascript: Hey you kids: quit doing cartwheels on the heads of 20 friends who are also all doing cartwheels twenty levels deep. No cartwheels more than 3 levels deep or someone's going to get hurt! You've been told over and over now.

Python: Hey you kids: sit in this cubicle for the entire summer and do 20,000 long division problems just to keep the school's lights on. And don't get too encouraged because there's no way in hell we can finish all the long division before the beginning of the school year. Some of your classrooms will be dark. p.s. our principal got burned out and quit.
I believe a large percentage of the network effect of meetup was showing up in google, bing, etc... as much as I told many people to simply go to meetup.com and start looking for random things to go check out, I sadly know it's likely any of them who actually went looking, ended up doing a google search for 'meetup.com <city name>" -

small data point from here, when I stumbled upong meetup, I was doing search engine lookups for things like '<activity group> <mycity>' - and found meetup to have what I was looking for and more - I enjoyed browsing it, using it, and appreciate the email reminders.

I think a wordpress plugin would be fine for getting much of the network effect if it had title tags (with city perhaps) and everything SEO right so events showed up in search results fine - a bonus if it could include a 'link wheel' I think it used to be called(?) in the footer showing other meets in same city - perhaps pulled from an API with this thing coming from freecodecamp - or some other apps that could do a same scheme or something.

I noticed buddypress (plugin for WP that adds groups and such) is now API friendly - so I would think these things could be mashed up pretty easy and quickly these days.

I really appreciate(d) what meetup has done for me in the past and I'd like to see that kind of thing continue to be an option for future humans and not have the burden for fees so it's only pay for play.
If the amazon product catalog depends on Aurora, then when Aurora has an issue, so does Amazon retail.

Because one-off internal IT never goes down? This isn't a good argument, especially since AWS wants to handle their other customers' availability.
Face detection doesn't need remote access... especially with every phone having an AI chip built in.
There are multiple particle accelerators in operation today that are teaching us more about the universe than scientists in the 60s could imagine. Poverty is decreasing across the globe. Diseases are being wiped out. Infant mortality and child-birth deaths are trending down. We have multiple rovers on moons and planets across the solar system, and are preparing for a manned mission to mars. Different races & genders have opportunities today that they couldn't even dream of in the 60s. Freaking cars are starting to drive themselves.

I can't imagine the thought process of someone who looks at all this progress and comes away with "damn liberals are ruining the world today with their political correctness".
I sold all of my Nest thermostats and moved to Ecobee.
> The facial unlock is less intrusive and requires the user to do less

Errr?

I just pick up my samsung phone and my finger naturally rests on the fingerprint sensor as I'm pulling it out, which instantly unlocks it in any conditions and the phone is ready to go by the time I'm looking at it.

Vs.

I have to tilt my iPhone up so it can see my face and make sure it's not blinded by the sun and then wait 500ms for it to think about whether I'm me or not.

Vs.

I get stopped at the border and they want warantless access to my iPhone. I say no. They just point it at me and unlock it.

Fingerprint ID is superior in every way.
I'm currently also tempted to switch over to the iPhone for the first time since 2012. Even though there's a pretty large number of Android phones, I'm not sure if I'd want to buy anything other than a Google or a Nokia phone. And unfortunately, neither of those has any offerings that I find appealing. With other Android manufacturers I just can't trust them to deliver software updates on time or for a prolonged period of time.
Author here, yes, It is now complete, or complete to the spec that was originally set.
*In select small areas of major cities, and sports arenas.
People don't realize that a commute in Switzerland is not a terrible or necessarily lengthy event, so living outside the city center is a reasonable choice.

A commute in California or New York or London can be a real drag.
It's more about questioning the system in which after certain point your bad decisions have no consequences like losing your wealth and becoming poor for instance. It's not about, and I don't see anyone arguing the point, me being unable to move up the chain without someone moving down.
Fingerprint also works with a mask on. Think cold places and big polluted cities. Almost everyone wears a mask in Shanghai if they can.
I wasn't commenting on "speaker" per se. Just observing what happens, a bit at a time, when an advertising company swallows a product company.

Also, just generally shared it in case skimmer types missed that.
> Quick Gestures uses radar to sense motion

WTF. I don't want more EMR coming from a phone. I just want a phone. All this extra technology literally noone asked for adding to the price of a phone, same with fingerprint readers, same with face scan.

Ultra-privacy intruding phones.
I can't believe this is so far down. This is exactly why I don't need to pay attention to someone's weird magnet arrangement or marble track geometry to create a proportioal motion machine, I know they're playing with conservative fields and it isn't going to work.

However in this case, there is some significant acceleration which implies GR which is not in general conservative. I suspect it is though if you restrict yourself to the special case of accelerations with no significant gravity.

In general, however, this is still the correct approach to thinking about such problems. If you can find a no-go theorem, then you needn't concern yourself with the complex details. That said, if you can find a weird place where it looks like momentum isn't being conserved, it probably is because you are inadvertently predicting an effect of the theory that will take care of that problem.
OpenAI Robot Dexterity Advancement, Rubik's Cube with Anthropomorphic Hand
Heh, ok neat! I did not use that then.
A lot of the comments here seem obsessively focused on Zach Dell. I can understand why, the author is (perhaps unfairly) hard on him. But the rest of the article seems to be ignored completely, and that's where the real meat of the article lies.

We live in a society where more and more institutions, both public and private, are increasingly becoming dominated by personal connections and family wealth. We are seeing this in academia, in government, and in corporations. I missed the memo on when meritocracy became a bad word, but the children of the wealthy and privileged are taking full advantage of meritocracy's retreat.

There is no one solution that will fix everything, just like there doesn't exist any one drug that can cure cancer. But with sustained effort along many different fronts, we can work towards restoring social mobility and equality of opportunity for all.
I often hear about how Vienna is a public housing paradise. (ie, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vienna-affordable-housing-par..., https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr_edge_featd_articl...)

Is it the market-rate units that cost 40-50% of your salary?
I miss my Moto X (2gen) with the infrared sensors to detect your hand and other stuff. It seems pretty similar to the hand gestures. Moreover I could personalize the external materials.
I only just now replaced mine (with a Mac Mini + an iPad Pro) because my graphics card died for the last time.
One thing holding me back from upgrading is how fast my 8's fingerprint sensor is. Sometimes it's too fast for me to use Apple Pay, as it unlocks faster than I can double click. It is so fast, it feels like I'm simply clicking the button to unlock, instead of clicking to wake, read my fingerprint, then unlock.
I think ORD is for Uber Freight, which is closer to profitability.
Concrete example of this: Mozilla removing RSS support because "[it has] outsized maintenance and security costs relative to their usage"[1]. I suspect that there's a high correlation between "power users" that used RSS and went through the settings to disable telemetry.

[1] https://www.gijsk.com/blog/2018/10/firefox-removes-core-prod...
IBM's comp isn't very good at any level, but they also don't hire much in super-high cost-of-living areas. Here in the Boston area I've only started making more than any of those entry-level salaries in the last few years (I'm 32) but don't live somewhere where buying a house is a pipe dream.

The real reason IBM has trouble attracting talent is that they have no idea what they want to actually be doing, from a technical perspective. They are a sales organization, and that's all that they are to anyone in a position to make decisions about anything. I took a bit of a pay cut to go to IBM--I needed to get out of consulting because it was impossible to get a bank to verify income for a mortgage--but it wasn't drastic. Even setting that aside, though, IBM was the worst mistake of my career. I left in five months because the job was so stressfully do-nothing (if that makes sense?) that I could literally feel myself becoming a worse person, not in a "technologist" sense but that of a human being, by being ground down by that culture.
> how else do they offer scholarships

With their massive endowments.
Pixel 4

2800 mAh

Ughh... why can't they make a phone with bigger battery?

XL model has a decent size battery but it is way to cumbersome to use as mobile device and 2800 mAh is barely enough to last day (not to mention degradation over time).

Is it that i am in a filter bobble? But most of my friends and family complains about low battery or agrees with me that they would love a phone that last more then a day.
So we should help a company that is known for gathering as much information on us getting into a different business line all the while giving them the benefit of the doubt that they will not spy on us with those devices ?

Those might be good devices but the downside is simply too dangerous to be ignored so .... Hell no.
Dutch family 'waiting for end of time' discovered in basement
Which tells you it can be tricked with just the IR picture.
It really depends on how your applications were designed. If you "go deep" with Oracle - and if you've hired Oracle DBAs, you probably have - you probably have a lot of your business logic buried in a large body of stored procedures that aren't version controlled and rely on Oracle-specific behavior.
Government services are suppose to help people. When States are staving for cash, how can this possibly make up the difference? Surely getting all these elderly or working poor people for a couple thousand here or there (trivial for the government and the well off or middle class; disastrous for those on fixed incomes) cannot even hope to clear the cost of the State workers and contractors hired to do the collections work and handling the bullshit appeal process (even if it is just rubber stamping things).

This is the problem: the State is turning to the enemy of the poor in the US, and if you crunched the numbers, they're probably not even earning that much off these people. It's fucked up.
> It's a bit like saying that because Kodak was a photography giant they should have been able to win digital photography when, in fact, other than brand it's not clear what real assets and expertise they had to bring.

This isn't exactly the best example seeing as how Kodak is the poster child for ignoring technology shifts and going bankrupt as a result. Their executives largely ignored digital for the longest time and put minimal resources into R&D even after it was clear digital was taking over. It's sad really, because Kodak was positioned to be a pioneer in digital but they failed to embrace change and that costed them immensely in the end.
That's quite a clock issue given the cert is valid from May 2018 to May 2020, so the entire year is wrong on their system.
VPN use is pretty obvious to the ISP.
"Amazon bots"... sure dude. Because all your opinions are popular by default. Otherwise is just "bots" downvoting you.

Why people can't admit that their opinions can be unpopular sometimes. That's not a bad thing. Not all the things you say need to be popular to have meaning to yourself and others. It sucks to be downvoted but that's part of having a healthy discourse in HN.
In some of those cities, sure, but if you want walkable city center you can find that, too, and just choose to live there.

Living in the suburbs is a choice and certainly not the only option in most cities. If you want to live near a real downtown, it's still way, way, cheaper than living some globally-recognized urban center. Maybe not quite as cool, but way more laid back.
OpenJDK is not stuck on 8, and is where all language development goes.
What's the valid output for question 2 on Unix Evolution?

I tried Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, 07974 & Murray Hill Computer Center, but both weren't accepted
> Oh, and your tax dollars don't support wars making the world a significantly worse place with all the rest of evil attached, if you care about such things.

I do, but unfortunately for Switzerland I also care about stopping Nazis.

> population that has most voting power in the world

and since the 70s even women can vote!

I'm obviously just messing with you, but I do have a point and that is that as an outsider the Swiss political system just seems messed up in different ways.
Having just switched from a Pixel 3 to and iPhone 11 I’m inclined to agree that FaceID is a step backward. It has a great high tech feel, but:

1. It’s much less reliable. Especially in bed when I get paged at night I almost always have to revert to PIN auth, which is unfortunate when I’m disoriented and seconds count.

2. It’s much slower. With the placement of fingerprint sensors on Pixel phones it is totally natural to have the phone unlocked and open by the time the screen comes into view. With FaceID I don’t even start that process until then, and it’s a several step process: assuming the screen is already on (this works well) I have to look at the phone, wait a moment... then swipe up to actually unlock the phone. Facial recognition aside, the act of swiping up alone is way more work than fingerprinting into a Pixel phone.

3. The thing I like most about FaceID is checking notifications - I can simply look at the screen and Signal messages unlock, etc.

I’m convinced that most of the hate iPhone users have for fingerprint unlock relates to the placement of the sensor, and (never having used an iPhone fingerprint reader this is speculation) maybe it’s speed or reliability. The implementation on Pixel phones was really great and I’ll be sad to see it go.
For some reason regular expressions have the lowest expiry date in my mind's cache. I had to relearn them at least 10 times. Watching that famous Udemy programming course where regex is explained in great detail with examples and state machine diagrams didn't help.
New grads naming their club involvements during college is pretty commonplace, esp if they held leadership position in them
In addition to the other comments, don't forget that most of the criticism about the current OS ecosystem is from the tech-adept demographic.

The vast majority of the OS consumer base is fine with OSX/Windows because they work well and are familiar. It's hard enough trying to get "average users" on linux, let alone a brand new OS.
We have some contradictions in our lives.

For example, think about computer releases. As someone who likes to build a PC and install my own operating system, I love how these two things are somewhat decoupled (albeit imperfectly.) So I was excited about individual component releases, of course the CPU and GPU in particular, not to mention the rapid advancement of storage technology! And I was happy to try out a whole new version of Windows. (I particularly like 2000 and 7.)

Computers, on the other hand - well I've all but ignored desktops and announcements about them my whole life. Laptops were more interesting, because I was excited when they started to have decent internal components, nice screens and usable battery life. (I've been less impressed with increasingly closed systems with fewer options for upgrades.)

So back to the point at hand? I'd like to think that new phones should be focused on performance, and in my dream world, decoupling from software. I don't want "new gadgets" to be a thing on a phone. If I want to use it a certain way, i.e. hand waving away my song tracks, I have to now rely on a specific manufacturer running a specific operating system on at least the minimum version. No real options there, though.

I'm still not sure "modular" can work for phones, or maybe it can but we're not there yet, or there hasn't been enough market success to push manufacturers to go that way. But even that feels mostly unnecessary. I haven't had any complaints about my phone hardware, except for batteries wearing out, and being difficult to replace. Cameras have been "good enough" for my needs for several years now. Storage and computing performance has been fine, too. (Of course, new features are compute-intensive and will require hardware to keep up.)

If I have a point, it's that this is a boring phone release to me, but I kind of wish all phone releases were boring at this point. I'm sure some of the imaginative features coming out will become important, but right now, I feel like I don't need them. What I would prefer would be an improvement in decoupling between phone hardware and software.
What are the odds that Google designed the Pixel 4 after the iPhone 11 Pro was announced?
Ohio Was Set to Purge 235,000 Voters. It Was Wrong About 20%
There are 5 CVEs for 2.7 so far in 2019 [1].

[1]: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1021...
It is hard to understand what you are saying. HN is not really an AWS loving place. Expensive in regard of what? If you end up saving 50% of your year over year cost across all the company than spending millions on this project and running it for 5 years is still worth the investment in the long run at their scale. Amazon is not looking for 1 month investments, their AWS endeavour is 13 years old[1]. They can spend a long time on something if they really up to it.

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/250520/forecast-of-amazo...
I love these articles opining the end of thr MBA. All grad schools see a drop in applications during times of low unemployment. Law is the same. This is not due to any other factor, as much as people would like to believe.
Yes! I've only used it minimally in a non high load scenario, but it's been a pretty smooth experience.
So move to Switzerland and have a lower quality of life?
The iPhone 11 has the second generation FaceID sensors which is much faster and has lower error rates (to the point that it's not very noticeable anymore). Also, while you do "lose" the TouchID sensor, all FaceID-equipped iPhones have tap to wake and raise to wake functionality which is much more useful than being able to unlock my phone in my pocket, IMO.
The short range and poor transmission of the higher frequencies leads me to speculate that the intended use case is micro cells that replace wifi. There will be a micro cell in every conference room and hotel lobby.
I'll second this. I've only experienced what the parent describes once or twice and, IMO, it's usually pretty easy to suss those groups out.
Wax Palms of Cocora Valley
Related: I moved to a new laptop at work with a zfs send over ssh of /home/myuser - and a mount+manual copy of what I wanted. Very straight forward - but not that different from an rsync to /home/myuser/olfstuff.

Zfs encryption was still a bit new, so both boxes uses dmcrypt on full disk plus efi plus /boot (technically redundant, but it works).

Looking forward to hopefully root on encrypted zfs in next Ubuntu lts.
I agree with everything you said but this:

> You have to be better than Tesla

If that were true, Tesla’s stock price would be higher, because realistically no one is going to get there at Tesla’s price points.

But I don’t think they have to. The other automakers just have to be comparable to a Tesla. They are already superb at making mediocre cars seem like great cars to buyers. That won’t be a problem.

That’s why the markets haven’t trashed the other companies. They know in the 11th hour Ford can throw a third-party electric drivetrain in a F-350, spin some hype and sell vehicles on brand loyalty.

Whether Ford can a) meet the basic performance spec, b) secure enough battery supply, and c) get dealers to sell them during an awkward ramp... now that’s a question.

I think 9 out of 10 of the legacy automakers are a write off at this point. They’re not investing in EVs because it’s wasted money. They’re going bankrupt either way so their only goal is to try to get one more year of ICE sales. That’s a lot of money so it’s as good a place to focus as any.

Executives will do OK if they succeed. Pensioners (both inside the companies and those whose pensions are publicly invested) will be fucked.
Meetup doesn’t “run” these. You’re just picking boring ones. The only meetup I attend is a bunch of random motorcyclists who go up the coast highway every week. Never felt bored.
start with https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/
I wonder, do you find that this tone and tactic encourages people to continue to discuss things with you?
Can't you build your own function using format()? f-strings are just syntactic sugar for format() so presumably you can
This might be a dumb question, but how does Face ID work with beards and other facial hair?
I know I'm repeating myself, but this should've been a static page - instead if you want to see anything you must enable 3 scripts and 2 XHR. Why, just why?
You need to have your eyes opened and pointed at the phone in order to do that and you can easily disable FaceID in the event that were to ever happen to you by just clicking the side button.

I won't comment on the other statements as they're a matter of preference that I simply disagree with.