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It's not only women's pockets, in recent years the average pair of male pants has had the depth of its pockets decrease to the point where the pockets are becoming useless.

I've lost mobile phones after I've sat down and they've slid out, especially in theaters etc. where the seats tilt backwards. When sitting in cars I regularly have my keys and coins end up on the vehicle's floor after they've slid out. It's gotten to the point where I'm a bit paranoid about checking the seat and floor after I get out of the vehicle.

Surely, I'm not the only male who experiences this problem.

At every opportunity I whinge about it and no one (male or female) seems the slightest concerned other than me. I cannot understand why males everywhere aren't up in arms over it—after all, losing things like an expensive mobile from one's pocket is no small deal for the average male apparel wearer—just because some damn greedy manufacturer wants to save a few inches of cloth.

I've some old army BDs (dungarees) designed decades ago which have side pockets that are 33 cm (13") deep and they're wonderful—nothing ever accidentally escapes them. They are even tailored with a curved contour at the bottom so that when one sits down the stuff in one's pockets sinks down along the side of one's thighs rather than tending to pop out of the pocket. Once, not that long ago most pants had pockets this deep. (I'd buy more of these ex-disposals BD pants but I cannot get this type anywhere these days.)

Same goes for the flimsy, stupidly-small pockets on shirts not to mention the overly tiny buttons that are used to button up shirts, then there's the overly short zippers on the fly of male pants—which nowadays open to a length of at least two inches shorter than they did some decades ago.

Why on earth aren't more males complaining about their stupidly-impractical clothes?
Well, they keep breaking on me and (a) DC barrel connectors (b) headphone jacks (c) XT30U (d) BNC (e) DB9 and a bunch of other connectors almost never break on me.
Nope. Many 2FA setups have a way to workaround the second factor if it’s missing. Recovery codes, emails to secondary addresses, faxing an ID, etc etc.
19 years to hold such a grudge is pretty long :)
Thank you for your reply.

Turning a blind eye to existing knowledge may result in reinventing things that already exist. Nobody expects students to follow the same concepts as their teachers, the point is just to leverage existing knowledge.

> I could even imagine a stumbling AGI being very stupid compared to just about any machine learning solution thrown at it - yet being undeniably AGI. Like a dog not being very good at DOTA, Star Craft or Chess, yet it undeniably possesses some kind of general intelligence.

People have debated whether animals are intelligent for ages. This is another type of problem, how to define intelligence. The most famous attempt in recent times is the Turing test.
When does a 14" mbp come out?
Tough crowd. ;)

R/German was worse today. I deleted my comment when it hit -11 points. 0_o

Then I unsubbed. Good grief.
But what if your relative suddenly pass away? Then you'd be pretty screwed, wouldn't you?
I think it depends on the offense. I'm still upset with Sony over the rootkit scandal. It's actually why I chose to buy an Xbox One over a PS4.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...
USB-C is a train-wreck for those of us who work in electronics design.

USB-C's chipset support isn't all that good, it seems like. With USB 3 type A, you pretty-much just run your USB lines to the ports on your CPU. Simple, straightforward. Manufacturers are happy to do it, because it's dirt cheap and requires nothing except the connectors and maybe some ESD protection.

USB-C is a different beast entirely. Just to use the USB 3 lanes, you need to put down a high-speed mux just to deal with both connector orientations.

Want to support USB Power delivery (transmitting or receiving)? That'll be another set of chips to put onto the board. Plus software to deal with the PD negotiation.

Want to support Displayport? That'll be _another_ mux chip. Plus more software to advertise the functionality.

The cables are also much harder to manufacture, and this is reflected in their average price after you chop off one or two outliers.

Is your item a USB host? A device? Does it accept or provide power over USB? Does it support Displayport? Thunderbolt? Analog audio? Something else entirely? There's no way to know from looking at the connector. And no standardized markings that I've ever seen.
But you assume the alternative is to keep the whole building. If the alternative is to keep nothing, then this is great. (Although some of the examples work better than others, of course.)

Much of the feeling of the streets is about the first few stories of the buildings facing them. And big new buildings tend to be terrible at this, and are widely hated for it. Better to have strange hybrids than a whole city frozen in time by preservation.
So the creator of Doom wants to get into artificial general intelligence .. what could possibly go wrong :)).
This is an example of "unpopular" post. As expected, it received no counter arguments.
Can it dual boot?
Person2 is out of line by chastising Person1 for commenting on the limits of DeepLearning. Person1 therefore is completely within their rights to call out Person2. I am not familiar enough with Person1's history to know whether they are universally a jerk or reserve that behavior when commenting on women's tweets.
It however has a huge bias towards human-like ai. Maybe it's not smart to narrow down to copying us so quickly.

I mean: maybe it's more efficient to have it read all of wikipedia really well before adding all the other noisy senses.
As you are saying, B misses a column to be square. That column is filled with v_n. B and v_n are simply concatenated.
Ok, my point stands exactly the same. Spain DOES NOT OWN any land in the American continent, the spanish empire is long gone, October 12th should NOT be the spanish national celebration. Focus on the present, not on the past.
To be fair, pretty much every single place I've seen docker in use there have been custom automation systems in place. Docker creates artifacts, not automation, so it really doesn't help solve that problem. Kubernetes on the other hand, does help, though you'll never get away from some custom parts in a delivery system, as all systems are different. That's not a bad thing.
I can't believe they build new buildings behind the façade where the windows don't line up.

London's bigger problem is the shoddy quality (at all stages) of new construction, in the unbound race for profit.
He shifted a whole industry towards a new paradigm. Look at Germany, they are desperate to catch up with Tesla, finally moving into electric cars. Without Elon they would keep selling their Diesel scam for the next decades.
It's also interesting in the context of how we build our technology in general: we constraint our environments just as much we develop tools that operate in them. E.g. much as cars were created for roads, we adapted our communities and the terrain around them by building roads and supporting infrastructure. A lot of things around us rely on access to clean water at pressure, which is something we built into our environments, etc.
John Carmack is a genius in at least 3 different things and probably more: business, tech and expression (written or oral). He can explain very complicated things in such a graceful way. I personally consider anything he does to be newsworthy.
You can make Display Link (DL) work with Linux, there are drivers from the vendor and an adaptation script for Debian based distros [1] (and variants for others IIRC). You may have to fiddle with the configuration to avoid issues like minor display corruptions or cursor glitches. I made it work clean once, but in the end I returned the dock. DL is to me a bad idea, except is some specific cases.

The way DL works is that a driver on your PC creates a virtual frame per screen, composed on your PC. Then this screen(s) content is compressed and send to the dock DL chip using a proprietary driver. The chip on the dock reconstructs full images and send that to locally attached screen(s) using local HDMI or DisplayPort interfaces. Now yes, those local interface(s) may run at 60 Hz and be 4k. But the bottleneck is not there, it is in the compression and transmission over the USB link. In my experience, any use-cases with large changing content (e.g.: full screen video) will give a bad experience on a laptop (which is what I used, and is natural with a dock). The compression will ramp up the CPU load on the laptop, the ventilator will get noisy, and the display content was choppy too. It's definitely not the smooth experience you expect from 60 Hz.

I guess DL can provide very good results with a laptop for use-cases with mostly static content: reading documents, spreadsheets, word, etc. Just don't expect to have a nice experience when most of the screen content changes quickly.

So I returned my DL USB-C dock, bought a super cheap one as actually I only have a 1440pt external screen for which any cheap dock will support true 60 Hz, and I have a nice experience. For 60 Hz with 4k it'll have to wait, and it won't be with DL as far as I'm concerned.

[1] https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/displaylink-debian
Have a look in to how the skin can pick up the slack from stressed or under performing kidneys.
My previous two phones were motorola, the moto x force was a workhorse for three years with a pretty much unbreakable screen, the joy of not having a case can't be underestimated. Regualar OS and security updates and very close to stock android and reasonably priced.
> Nostalgia

It's true, I was so excited as I scrolled down the page and convinced myself that I'd get one just because I loved my RAZR from 2005. But then I got to the $1500 price tag.

Now, I bought a $1350 phone a couple months ago so it's not that I wouldn't pay $1500 for a phone. The problem is everything that this phone is not (and that my other phone is). The folding screen is cool, and this is the perfect application for it. But, I think they're going to have trouble getting $1500 for someone's main phone if it only has one camera lens.

There will no doubt be some diehards, and if they can get the price of this down to typical Android flagship pricing then they might see some traction. But at $1500, it's going to be a very limited market (and maybe that's their goal).
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Modeling everything realistically is super hard - any interaction with the real-world is so full of the weirdest unexpected electric and mechanical issues. Who hasn't tried it first-hand can't imagine the half of ways that will almost certainly go wrong on the first try :) ... but as you've said for developing the AGI as a concept simplified worlds should work just fine.
I think in future devices are supposed to support as many popular functions as possible. Due to trend of thin devices we need smaller ports and fewer of them. Multiple possible use of same ports helps.

> As a user there is no easy way for me to tell the 12-inch Macbook's USB-C port is different than the Air/Pro unless you explicitly search for it in the tech specs

Seems like manufacturer failure.

> If you see an HDMI port on a laptop you can be sure it's going to output some kind of video signal over that.

But even HDMI/DP have versions. It's especially visible now, as we have >=4k HDR high-frequency displays.
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> I'm using a password manager and my password should be safe.

You may have forgotten that it doesn't matter how you store your password, but the problem is that it is a single factor. Once compromised, one can gain access to anything within that account. You may be compromised by phishing, keylogging or other means. 2FA can help with making these types of attacks more difficult, although not impossible.
Protecting the smartphone screen by folding it inside itself is a good solution for durability. So, I can see why they went this way. But, then they went and put a screen on the outside too, so that negates part of that benefit. At least the large screen is protected though.

Also, flipping your phone open/closed used to be fun. I'm not sure if it will still be, but it used to be.
If the "game" is survival and selection for attention (to get compute space, so literal survival) from humans, "interestingness" is what will matter and I think what people will end up finding most interesting is NPCs that feel like other identities they can empathize with and interact with -- work with to build things, spend time in a community with, fall in love with and so on. This really is about virtual world construction more than simple competitive games. I think it may not end up looking like any particular sense of "AGI" we can currently imagine (I really think we can only properly imagine it exactly when it exists, and it seems not to yet), but it will probably be "distributed" enough that the interfacing may not feel like anything at any one particular site.

The game may even be played by saying things on Twitter and becoming interesting enough that people DM you and try to build a relationship with you, while you're a bot.
Dirac’s Equation and the Sea of Negative Energy, Pt 1 [pdf] (2002)
I think that ideal device would be able to wirelessly connect to PC for best performance, but also work standalone for simpler games.

Quest with Link is actually pretty close to that.
But they were definitely in touch with them more then 4 hours a week.
> We just don't recognize the problem because it's too easy for us old folks to write off the symptoms as the "foibles of youth".

We also don't recognize it because our salary literally depends on not recognizing it - when both parents work, school times have to match the typical workday, with an extra offset for commute.
The top AI labs don't widthold graduate student funding. Almost nobody does this, as funding is often required before taking students and reviewed on a semester basis (typically planning forms) , and the checks are obviously issued by the university.
We build 3D scanners for dentists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5jKnxEyrbU
Strongly agreed. In my daily job, the exciting, shiny machine learning work is superfluous compared to the strong keyboard smashing of having to parse millions of rows of excel sheets with incomprehensible organization and column naming.
Innovation doesn’t have to be 100% hard tech. Tesla built a product using a mix of existing technologies and improved ones, great product design and great marketing, and together all of that changed the industry. The innovation is the whole package.

Docker had the right mix of existing tech, good packaging, great user interface, and good marketing. And together that made a product that made developers do new things in practice, and it changed the industry.

I think it is important to remind people that in order to disrupt an industry with a new thing, you need the whole package. Not just a good tech.
If these are the worst examples they can find in the entire city of London, I'd say things are not going so bad.
That’s not true, human beings plan ahead when opening doors more than many things — should I try to open this bathroom door or will that make it awkward if it’s locked and I have to explain that to my coworker afterwards? Should I keep this door open for a while so the guy behind me gets through as well? Not to mention that people typically route plan at doorways.

Doors are basically planning triggers more than many things.
Oh nice, I had no idea. I might pull the trigger on black friday then.
Not all NPCs have to be part of a script. They can just be additional characters that add life and realism to the simulated world.

A weapons maker with a unique backstory and realistic conversations that reference it is more interesting than a bot, and opens up the possibility of unscripted side-quests.
> Sounds like the start of a truly horrifying Black Mirror episode

That episode already exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_the_DJ
The square is defined as a union of lines, and the line integral of a whole shape is the summation of that of the curves it is a union of with open intervals not including the "corners" (points of 'infinite curvature' as you say). I think this definition would suffice because we just need to show that the sum is closed over cutting, no?
Avoid that one. There is a reason why it's so cheap on ebay.

Sure, it's a Thunderbolt 3 dock, but the two displayport ports aren't using thuderbolt 3. The are actually connected via USB displaylink.
I have a Maine Coon that weights 8kg and he's not even a particularly large example of the breed.
So I've been trying to buy my-name.org for years, but it's held by some domain squatter. No idea where or why they are holding it and paying for renewals for at least the last 15 years.

Maybe now they'll think it's cost-prohibitive?

It expires next year, any idea on how to buy a domain these days?
on StackOverflow it is entirely normal, even expected, that you post a well thought out and reasoned question and its instantly downvoted because, well, who knows why

Hmm, not my experience, at all. Though I heard this more than once, so I see a couple of possible reasons (or combinations thereof):

- depends on the community/tag; I've mainly asked questions tagged with the languages starting with a C, some git stuff and some more obscure things

- depends on the poster's reputation points i.e. maybe there's a bias to not downvoting/closing questions asked by people with 10k+ points?

- the questions were not actually well thought out/reasoned even though you think they are

Any ideas?
Because he could not care less?

He flies first class, I'm sure he wont miss the frequent flyer miles.
Unlike the iPhone which is really stale (coming from an iPhone user), this is actual innovation. This is the bleeding edge.

If the concept succeeds, I’m sure prices will drop eventually.
The next arena is multi task learning. Sure, I lose to specialized intelligences in each separate game, but I can beat the computer at basically every other game, including the game of coming up with new fun games.
I feel like putting a screen in a place that's prone to get quite warm may not be a good idea.
Or secondary click on them and open them from the menu that pops up.
TLDs aren't private property, they're a concession by ICANN.
It's mostly minor things

+ settings for screen-lock-on-idle aren't saved - sometimes I want the screen to be always on, but it doesn't work

+ screen brightness goes to 100% every time you unlock the screen (and to lower it again, you have to increase it first)

+ and a few other things in that ballpark

Maybe they fixed it, but a while ago the whole update process broke because of a bad Open Office package.
I'll switch to Android / Kali Linux (which wasn't supported in the beginning) soon.

EDIT: But yea, I would still recommend it if you want something super portable with an actual keyboard.
I don't know if I would pay the retail price, though.
Totally off-topic, but:

> Runner up for next project was cost effective nuclear fission reactors, which wouldn’t have been as suitable for that style of work.

What would a (high-level) carreer path for that event _look_ like ?

(Disclaimer: I'm not Carmack-level smart. Not sure I'm anyone-s-level smart. Asking for a friend.)
> Then Kubernetes, Rocket and all the other container platforms and tooling came along and ate their lunch. Why did people adopt them so quickly?

Because Google of course.
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> I can't believe they build new buildings behind the façade where the windows don't line up.

That surprised me also.
Here (germany) we got the trend of "facadism" too. But usually they try to properly integrate the old facade with the new structure.
Bob Iger is magical but I am not worrying about Disney's monopoly per say.

Yes, Disney is dominating Hollywood like no one had done before.

But Hollywood itself is as irrelevant as it has never been. It no longer dominates the world's attention, and the audience's choices are more abundant than ever.
It can triple boot :)

Any of the following, if I'm not mistaken:

Android / Android rooted / Debian / Sailfish / Kali
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It's certainly listed on that webpage as a feature.
I'm completely ok with it being complicated to design and cost 10 euros more if it delivers.

And despite all its flaws, USBC does. It's small. It's reversible. I can charge all my devices on it: my samsung tablet, my oneplus phone, my logitech mouse, my jabra headphones, my switch and my XPS 13 laptop, which I can also dock to my screen/ethernet. It's amazing.

So yes, I had to take the time to find the proper cable, and I bought a few before finding brands I can trust to work with all my machines... and not fry them.

It sucks, but it will improve with time, like it did with early USB and HDMI (too many people forgot how terrible THAT was). It already has, in fact, improved a lot, and it will keep it up.

Meanwhile, I have only one cable and one dongle in my bag that do everything. I don't even have to get them out most of the time.

This is imperfect. This needs fixing.

But this is better than what we had before. Way better.
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Do you still have to register an account with Microsoft?

IOW, as updates can go through the MacStore, can you use the permanent License of Office 2019 on the Mac without ever connecting to Microsoft?
Software products can be layered into 3 parts -

- data collection (frontend, APIs)
- data storage (database, backend)
- data visualization (dashboards, analytics, reports)

To bootstrap a startup, the primary people you need would be - a frontend person, a backend person, and a product person. In the beginning, you would be dreaming about the possibility of using ML but would not invest in hiring a data scientist at that stage. The second stage would be to hand over the reins to operations people and let them optimize the internal and external processes and get ready for the launch (growth). These phases can take-up any amount of time, from 2 to 5 years. Finally you handover the reins over to the salespeople and go back from product to services mode (especially true for enterprise software). During this stage, you would be hiring a data scientist and a team of data analysts. After, around 6-8 years of bootstrapping a company.
Unless your product relies heavily on the ML algorithm, it can and would always wait.

Figuring out where to first use ML is another challenge. Hiring a data scientist and ask them to tell you what to do is a futile effort.

ML is a useful tech and if you have to keep thinking about utilizing this technology to improve your product and processes. It has to be a part of your long term efforts.
Looks pretty awful. I see a lot of old buildings that can be modernized and saved but the costs are probably higher. Extending the old building with new constructions can definitely be done better than this. At least make use of all outer walls and the roof.
The video linked by the direct parent to my comment is a prank video.
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That also partly explains the expensive prices of Supreme streetwear, coveted by a customer base who is now old enough to actually buy limited edition skater clothing.
Ask HN: Is the current 16-inch MacBook Pro the most commented thread on HN?
I'm curious if current MacBook Pro thread [0] is the most commented thread on HN, what are top 10 most commented threads here ?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21523780
How? When there's light you work, when it's dark you sleep. Only sunday's free.