skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People who don't want to buy an iPhone because of it should just not buy them and stop hammering away at this dead horse.

That's exactly what I'm doing. I'm already not buying iPhones. The only reason I'd ever mention it anymore is when I see comments like this.

> You might as well give up on the headphone jack bud.

There's no reason to give up on headphone jacks.

> Finally, it has to be pointed out that people who complain about this omission underestimate how much internal space a headphone jack wastes in a phone.

I can't be underestimating it if I'm not estimating it. Some phones have jacks. Some don't. I buy the ones with jacks. I don't notice a difference in size.
Study: No evidence of efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients
Something like this "addresses" it, it's just an inferior experience.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07YFMNZ6T
Cross-reactivity is an issue in the ELISA test (the actual antibody test).

But they validated their results with a second step, the "pseudotype neutralisation assay". This test is highly specific for SARS-CoV-2 - as I understand it, they essentially introduce the virus to the hypothetically immune blood samples and then test that it is indeed neutralised by antibodies.

So, I think this Scottish serology test is pretty robust and accounts for these issues with cross-reactivity and specificity of the testing. In addition - they used a control sample from December 2019 none of which tested positive.
Unfortunately the French courts don't seem to understand this. The only people meaningfully hurt by this will be French citizens employed by Amazon
Indeed, there are definite bad actors as I alluded to, but just... don't work there.

If your company starts to go the route of evil, you can find another job with people who are less morally bankrupt.
Visit Faroe Islands does virtual tourism through remote-controlled humans
What YouTube channels do you subscribe/follow/often return to?
They could be about anything. Either niche or mainstream. Either with millions of subscribers or a mere few.
I care about absolutely none of this except weight, which they're not announcing. What a mockery of a successor to the SE name. I guess I'll hold on to my current SE until that's absolutely untenable and then abandon the iOS platform - really hope there's some more secure Android option by then.
It's the same for all kinds of work outside of academia.

I studied aerospace engineering and day-to-day it's exceedingly rare to need any math beyond basic trigonometry. 80% of the time it's useless meetings, emails, paperwork; only sometimes it's actually useful or fun. Some people study business for years and end up splitting their days between sitting in meetings and updating Gantt charts.

That's just how work is.
> I have to disagree regarding asyncio. If existing code uses it that you need to interface with, your sensible options are basically to rewrite all of your code to use asyncio, or try a hacky third-party library that'll try to bridge them.

Yes, this is true. I don't think there's a lot of existing code using it at this point since it's still a fairly new feature. But of course that will change as time goes on.

> I'm personally not a fan of it

I haven't tried it yet in an actual project, but my initial reactions just looking at the specifications and examples were mixed. I like the idea of the await keyword to label call sites where your code might be suspended, but I don't like having "async" cluttering up function definitions, for loops, and with statements. The way generators were handled when they were first introduced in Python 2 was much cleaner IMO: one new keyword, yield, and any function that had that keyword in it automatically became a generator. I don't see why a similar rule couldn't have been implemented for the await keyword: any block with await in it automatically becomes an async block.
> we no longer use engineering as a means to an end to solve a business problem. Instead, engineering became its own thing

I hadn't though about why we over-engineer things this way. But I agree

I might add, based on the over-engineered (and, in general, badly designed) software I have worked with, that it usually comes about because it's never possible to change any aspect of the underlying architecture with the purpose of simplifying things.

We wind up with over complicated 'solutions' because we are simply unable to go back to simplify anything ever for any reason. The 'stake-holders' just don't think it's priority.

So all that's left is keep stacking clever solutions on top of bad decisions such that every new clever solution makes it even harder to go back to simplify.
Same. I'm seriously considering making this [0] my next phone when my current SE croaks, though I really don't want to go back to Android.

[0] https://palm.com/pages/product
> Why is that even a question.

Why wouldn't it be. As I'm not a user of CJK scripts it seemed like a fair question to ask.

> You keep using the word 'style', so you agree that α is a style of a?

I didn't have a better word for it. Oddly alpha is getting different renderings in the text input box than in your comment.

So Han unification makes CJK as hard to read for you as mixing Greek and Latin scripts would for me. That's what I wanted to understand. Thanks.
I hope it comes with that brand new contact tracing feature so they know where I am all the time.
One of the biggest advantages of the first gen SE (aside from size) was its sub 120g weight - my SO has one and even with the protective case it's very easy on the hands - especially when lying down and holding it in the air.

The current gen weights almost as much as my Galaxy S8, which is objectively a rather heavy object to be held for extended periods of time.

All in all I was meaning to get her one once it's released, but given the weight of the device that won't happen.
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What do 70-75 year old torpedoes (look at the manufacturing dates in the articles you cited) have to do with modern torpedoes?
> You can buy cheap Android but if you go much below $399 you’ll be replacing it a lot more often.

Not true - I've been using using a $100 Motorola G6 for the past 8 months with no issue. I bought it as a "temporary" replacement when I cracked the screen on my $399 X4 which I had used for 2 years with no issue (silly me, with a price that low I decided to self-insure). I ended up using the G6 as my primary phone because it's pretty good phone and does everything a modern flagship can but with expandable storage via microSD - the only downside is that the camera doesn't take amazing pictures
Tomacco is the produce made by Homer after (accidentally) mixing tobacco seeds and tomato seeds and then using plutonium rods to help the plants grow by putting it in the ground near the plants

Are you familiar with atomic gardening [0] already? Since it mentions Cobalt-60 in the Wiki article - here is a picture of a Cobalt-60 source [1] for fun.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening

[1] https://twitter.com/nuclearkatie/status/1249917284098981894
Everyone should be carrying pistols on them - California laws be damned.
I don’t see a clear definition of what is included or not for “vital” goods. That ambiguity just gives France or whomever the ability to be dissatisfied with Amazon no matter what they do.

It’s hard to cast Amazon as the villain here if France won’t provide a clear definition of vital.

Off the top of my head they could use Amazon and Google’s product taxonomy to explicitly identify categories that are allowed/not which would scope this further down to a, still challenging, classification and content moderation problem.
A person at home with enough food and toilet paper to last a couple of weeks might have fewer contacts with other people over that period than a person who is stuck in a hotel in another city and constantly needs to have things delivered to, and taken away from, their room by other people. If the difference is large enough, it makes sense to send that person home.
Operation of a silicon quantum processor unit cell above one kelvin
aren't "the libs" outspending trump atleast 2:1?
I have the latest iphone, but only because I switched carriers and got a good deal. FaceID is fine, but touch ID was way way better... but why don't they put it on the back of the phone like Android phones do? It's so much easier to use it and then you don't have those huge bezels.
Do you have evidence that risk reduction outside is very small? I haven't seen any, and I think it would be nearly impossible to collect such evidence.

A plausible rule of thumb seems to be: if you could smell someone's cigarette smoke, you could inhale their viruses. I certainly smell smoke from smokers I pass on the street.
Relative change, old SE to new SE, in three forms.

Percent — Height +11.8%, Width +14.9%, Depth -4.0%, Mass +31.0%

Metric — Height +14.6mm, Width +8.7mm, Depth -0.3mm, Mass +35g

Imperial — Height +0.58in, Width +0.34in, Depth -0.01in, Mass +1.22oz
I think I might agree. I've been experimenting with making NixOps piggyback on terraform providers (https://github.com/NixOS/nixops/issues/1242#issuecomment-607...) in my spare time. I think this is the same mechanism as Pulumi uses now that I'm reading up on it. Perhaps I should create a Nix frontend for Pulumi instead... Interesting.
WhatsApp runs on KaiOS feature phones, which are marketed to developing countries. Google Maps and YouTube also have official support: https://www.kaiostech.com/explore/apps/
Doesnt poisson distribution require no correlation? Is it correct to use it for an epidemic with chains of transmission?
If there were a quick way to switch over to pin input, and furthermore the pin input would constantly be looking for your face rather than needing to switch out of pin mode to try for faceid, it might be okay.

Two situations make faceid unusable:

1. I’m in bed and bedding materials occlude my face.

2. I’m using my hair to purposefully occlude my face in areas with public surveillance

In both of these situations touching the home button would be much easier.
> Therefore they are not recommended for NAS use cases featuring significant random write workloads.

Emphasis mine: a NAS featuring "significant random write"s, is not the usual NAS, and might not actually be best described as a NAS at all.

In WD's terms, they'd tell you that if you've got e.g. your /var partition mounted over SMB to your NAS, then your NAS is receiving a Desktop workload, and so you should use their Desktop drives in it, not NAS drives. (Consider: the drives backing Amazon EBS—which receive Server workloads—are certainly not "archival media" disks, despite being nominally "network-attached storage" disks.)

The use-case for WD Red (NAS) drives is online archival media storage. Like S3 without the high availability. In other words, the thing most people buy a NAS for: backups and home Plex hosting.

This is why, I assume, WD don't literally call these drives "WD NAS", but instead just call them "WD Red." Just because you put them in a NAS, doesn't mean they'll function well there. You have to be using them for an idiomatic NAS workload. (Which also means that WD Red drives fare just fine in a desktop or server, too, if you're using them there purely for an idiomatic NAS workload.)
I have an LX3 too. It's still a great camera.

If you shoot RAW and use a fairly recent Lightroom equivalent application that has good noise reduction, etc., you can still get the LX3 to shoot above its weight.

One thing in particular that I like about the LX3 is that the black and white mode is a surprisingly fun mode to shoot in. In fact, one novel way of using the LX3 in 2020 would be as a dedicated black and white camera.
All The Talks is provides a platform for the talks that have been cancelled
For me it’s all about the camera, so I upgrade as often as I can. Everything else is a distant second.
Kinda reminds me to the legendary Canon 50mm f/0.95.
Manual focusing at f/0.95 is not that easy and with that reaaallly shallow depth-of-field, making interesting composition is hard.
> I was itching for this announcement, not because I want to buy an iPhone, but because this will finally mean other manufacturers will start to make compact phones.

There are plenty of compact and competent phones. A Samsung A40 for example is barely larger than this new iPhone SE, but has a 5.9 inch display. A friend wanted a smallish smartphone and she's quiet happy with the form factor.
I've been curious about emacs, and tried it once without know what the hell I was doing. But I've heard enough good things that I'm considering trying again.

I run i3 and vim, so I already have my tiling WM dialed in, and I'm good enough with vim that I don't struggle with using it. I have almost 0 interest in learning Lisp, beyond what I'm willing to learn to make emacs fit my use-case.
I spend all day in terminal windows. I've heard about ORG-mode, and wondered if it will help me become more organized.

I killer-feature of vim that I've edited into my work-flow is that I have it auto-save a backup copy+time stamp of any file I save. It's a VCS-style hack, that 'works for me' and I think it is a better fit then git would be under the situation. (i.e. httpd.conf_2020-04-15_14:10:01)

Can a similar hack be incorporated into emacs?
How about massive civil disobedience such as going back to our physical work places?
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Works perfectly fine in every pair of sunglasses I own.
I miss the days of books like that. They seem much rarer for today's technology.

By "books like that", I mean a book that is well-written, detailed, gets you will up to speed on the topic, and does not assume you will be reading the thing while sitting at a computer.

For example, in college I got a part time job doing programming for the physics department in C. I bought K&R, and read it in the evenings. Maybe every couple of chapters or so I'd go to the computer center and write a program to test out what I'd read.

This was before personal computer were common, so the authors could not assume you were at a computer while reading...thus avoiding the fate of far too many modern books that end up more of a "how to use this particular tool set to compile and run X code" book than a "how to write programs in language X" book.

At a later job I was going to need to write router and bridge firmware. I bought and read the Stevens books and Tanenbaum's computer networking book. That got me sufficiently up to speed to cover most of what I needed for my firmware and gave me enough background to read specs and standards for whatever more I needed.

In the '70s, '80s, and much of the '90s that is how it went for every technical thing I needed to learn.

It's harder to find those kinds of resources today. Two things have changed.

First, as computing became more mainstream, a lot more people jumped in to do books. Instead of only one or two good books, like K&R and Harbison & Steel for C, there would be dozens of books and most of them were poor at best. The good books were still there, but harder to find.

Second, as more and more documentation moved to the web authors and site designers seem to have forgotten that we read and learn linearly. I want the site to tell me a good starting point, and provide "next" links on each page that will take me through the whole topic in a good learning order.

Too often each article just has a set of links to various related articles, and it is easy to end up in some closed subset of the articles and no idea you've missed anything unless you remember that the article you read 10 articles back had links to X, Y, and Z, you followed X, and Y eventually came up again and you read it, but you haven't seen a link to Z for a while, and so you go back to the top of the site and start looking for Z.
All of these examples are large independent companies that operate without Amazon network. Very few French companies use Amazon to ship products, and only small ones.
...as someone who absolutely loves big phones - I am on the other side of this argument.

I read and watch shows on my phone constantly, and screen size is a major factor for me. I specifically buy clothes with larger pockets to accommodate.

I agree that choice would be better - but I imagine that economies of scale sometimes means having only one size for everyone if you want to keep them cheaper than the competition.
In my experience, in the job market right now in the US, universities are positively salivating at the chance to hire experienced tech people into teaching roles. This is because lots of students want to study CS, and not a lot of people want to teach it (being that qualified people usually either go into industry, or go into research).

The salary may not be great, if you have experience and good student evaluations, you are in a strong negotiating position.

Some caveats: getting a university teaching job is a lot easier than getting a university research/teaching job. Previous teaching experience is a big plus, as is previous industry experience. PhD is nice, but not required (I don't have one).
> almost as large as ... iPhone 11

See https://www.apple.com/iphone-se/specs/ for a comparison. It's at least a quarter smaller in both dimensions.
> When was the last time you plugged your phone into anything except to charge? And when was the last time you needed to charge it and listen to music at the same time?

It's been a while, because I dropped my adapter down somewhere in the center console of my car, past the hand brake, so it's gone. I've been burning CDs instead. A CD burner only costs about as much as 3 of those adapters and the media's dirt cheap.

[EDIT] before that, daily.
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How have things improved? What makes you feel happy to work in tech?

Derived from this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22876241
When you include these kinds of incidents in the tallies of "shootings", the picture looks even worse for the US as a whole.
I guess I missed that. Seeing the 4.7 inch screen spec made me think it was smaller than Apple's other current phones, closer to the original SE.

Original SE:

123.8 mm (4.87 in) H

58.6 mm (2.31 in) W

7.6 mm (0.30 in) D

New 2020 SE:

138.4 mm (5.45 in) H

67.3 mm (2.65 in) W

7.3 mm (0.29 in) D
The USPS doesn't deliver to every address in the US.

I lived in a place with an address but no USPS mail delivery. UPS and FedEx got there.
your answer is very contradictory, can you please clarify your advice?
Git for Windows with all the Unix tools it installs works great for me. It's nice for working with Docker, writing and running bash scripts etc.

I have WSL1 installed, but very seldom feel the need to actually use it.
> they allow using a single identity for both private and corporate use cases at the same time. That's a use case their user facing interface actively encouraged.

This seems to me to be the root of the problem, because to me this is obviously a bad idea and should be actively discouraged, if not prohibited altogether. If Atlassian, or some predecessor owner of Trello, did actively encourage this, then I agree they bear some culpability.
I think it comes down to this: the purpose of human languages is communication (i.e. two-way), while the purpose of programming languages is instruction (i.e. one-way).
Why is this strange? A low f-stop IS better because it let's more light in, meaning I can record more information using my sensor in less (shutter) time, resulting in sharper images (less shakiness/improved stabilization).

There are lots of things that can remedy higher f-stops to some extent, but nothing really substitutes that big aperature.

The big appeal if low f-stop lenses from high end lensmakers is that they have reduced aberrations/distortions because they use a shit ton of glass to improve the image, which in turn is why they can be so incredibly expensive. A $50 f/1.6 is going to be dogshit. The $5000 lens is going to have additional optics to remedy the large ROC and high-angle rays.

The trade-offs are often worth it.
My car doesn't have bluetooth, so Monday?
Two obvious things:

- Schools weren't opened for most of the month

- Article is pushing an anti-gun agenda (not surprising for CBS)

What is glaringly omitted: how is a "school shooting" defined? The article mentioned some event that happened on campus (in the football field), which probably counts as a "school shooting" knowing the source of the data is an anti gun rights group. I wouldn't be surprised if the definition is quite broad so as to boost the stats.

So this is obvious narrative-pushing. But I might counter with, "See, this is a great reason to keep the schools closed. Look at the reduction in school shootings!" Which would fit right in with the level of discourse in American politics.

On a meta level, I'm genuinely curious how people's attitudes have changed throughout the COVID pandemic, not only about guns, but about homeschooling, privacy, surveillance, time with family, etc, etc.
Lived off savings, studied new programming languages, deep learning, leetcode, etc.
I also think this is a stupid statistic, who the hell is counting the first March since blah year?
Spending time with my friends/family in person doesn't typically involve a third party deciding whether or not I hear my friends saying specific things, which of my friends I hear the loudest, recording our conversations, or shoving advertisements in our faces while we hang out.

We also don't tag our in person conversations with permanent ratings for each phrase uttered, or invite an outside audience to listen in and rate us or share bits of our conversations with the general public.
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In my case the problem is less about changing things because the product became over-engineered after several years, and more about products starting out over-engineered because some idiot wants to put React and Kubernetes and "managing a large team" on his resume when the business problem at hand could be solved by a handful of PHP files sitting on a shared host (not saying you should go to such extremes, random PHP files and shared hosts are bad for other reasons).
If the iPhone SE is the difference between being in the out and in groups, then you have much bigger problems.
I hadn't seen this since high school. Thank you for reminding me. :)
How much of the NAS market is "media storage" and how much of it is "file server in a small/medium business"?
Hello HN! After unveiling The Program audio series on HN in June 2018 [1], and officially launching in November 2019 [2], I wanted to give the community a quick update how this unusual fictional podcast was doing. So I wrote a blog post containing the numbers and the story of the show's reception so far. Hopefully it helps someone (thinking of) undertaking a similar endeavour.

Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback, either regarding the blog or the show itself. The discussions on this site are a constant source of inspiration for my writing, and I would be especially curious to hear of any submissions you think would make fertile fodder for future episodes (fun fact: episodes 8 and 10 contain comments that have been incorporated into the show almost verbatim!)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17425278

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21704417
Off camera, smart phones produce better photos; the on board software is much better.

But once in the hands of someone who knows how to process their photos, dedicated cameras win every single time.