skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Somehow it’s coincidental it shows up right as the downturn does?

The whole production line, capacity and forecasting started way earlier than the "downturn". Reusing component doesn't mean it can be done within weeks especially when you are talking about tens of millions of additional units.

Not to mention the iPhone SE 2020 has been known to be in the work for a very very long time, and it is the exactly same strategy used in the previous iPhone SE in 2016.

The only surprise for me was that they continue to use Intel modem and not Qualcomm X16.
Looks like only python2 is being removed:

$ /usr/bin/python2
WARNING: Python 2.7 is not recommended.
This version is included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software.
Future versions of macOS will not include Python 2.7.
Instead, it is recommended that you transition to using 'python3' from within Terminal.
the state of this technology after being called 'too dangerous to release'
> Over a statistically large sample of hands or games, skilled players will almost always dominate unskilled players.

> It would be almost impossible to quantify odds of winning a given poker hand before any cards are dealt.

Not directly relevant, but it just occured to me that, if you're playing poker against someone you know is more skilled than you, the best strategy is to not look at your cards.
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> with the fastest internals you can get, plenty of longevity and competitive screen and camera at a midrange price

So improved CPU which most people do not car about, old design and not great camera.
The go approach was not well known at the time, maybe would have worked. Water under the bridge.
pathetic ecosystem
This reminds me of TDD arguments.

If I'm working within a system I like to code the minimum golden path, add a tests that passes, then add more checks or a new test and go back to the code, etc. Usually the constraints of the system point the way to an obvious skeletal implementation and you can learn as you go along.

On a greenfield project it is especially valuable to have discussions beforehand if people have done something similar before but talking about code at a high level tends to become nebulous rather quickly.
it’s puzzling that the central reason for SE iphones to exist wasn’t spelled out with respect to commoditization: apple shifted to a focus on services, first with ipod and apple music, and now with everything else, apps, files/backups, video, news, games, iot, AR/VR, etc.

the hardware is commoditized and sold at lower price points specifically so that the addressable market for services is expanded and revenue can be harvested from those offerings.

note that services and secondary devices are the parts of apple’s business that’s driving its growth, not hardware.
you're not wrong to be. I think the problem is that there's this perception that you must be authoritative to get people to do things, and also this perception that science is authoritative. As a former scientist I think both are wrong, and especially science under duress is likely to be even wronger, for many reasons. We don't live in star trek where you can boop boop a console and magically get answers.

I wish we had leaders that had the chutzpah to say things like, "look the science is inconclusive, so we won't arrest you, but please do the right thing and wear masks". But we don't. And also we have people spouting completely non-evidence based assertions like "if you don't force people to wear masks, then they won't". Which of course fuels assholes to flaunt not wearing masks, because now it's not about doing the right thing, it's about freedom.
We run Dependabot in our CI pipeline to flag security upgrades, and then action them. I'd much rather have that manual intervention than non-deterministic builds.
I'm guessing it means they sold at least one licence to someone at Google.
Prescription maps and Precision Agriculture are most certainly alive and well.
So basically, the idea is to substantially shrink people's worlds in real, day to day terms, reducing the distance it's practical to travel to work, socialize and shop? Why even live in a big city anymore at that point, if you're only going to be able to interact with a small corner of it?
It's the "for starters" that concerns me. A lot of us were always saying that official case counts are much too low, and antibody surveys were supposed to be the definitive proof that we were responsibly waiting for. Now they're starting to come out, and still nobody believes it. I worry it's a moving goalpost, and no evidence will ever be enough to make people start reconsidering their beliefs.
People don’t care about the CPU, they care about the fact that the phone will remain fast and snappy for many years to come.

And many of the same people who don’t give a shit about the CPU don’t care about the design and not-great camera either.
Probably not, but I’m still glad they did clean up. They could have done more.
We, the Netherlands, got it under control because we went into stricter lockdown against the advice of the RIVM. Above assumptions led to advice against a lockdown.

Only under pressure of the IC doctors on Sunday the 15th of march did the prime minister close all schools and restaurants. (A high school is like a festival every day)

The policy and advice of RIVM has been wrong and misleading from the end of February. For many of us it was already clear they lost control beginning of March.

There was one hero in the North of the Netherlands who went against RIVM and the Minister of health: https://eenvandaag.avrotros.nl/item/het-gelijk-van-microbiol....

This article in the Volkskrant describes how the RIVM was panicking beginning of March, but the prime minister wanted to present "good weather", and they also send their stock of masks to China beginning februari:
https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/nederland-stuur...

Even now they are not testing healthcare people with symptoms in elderly homes and also not providing any sort of masks. Claiming the available masks are not of sufficient quality, they prefer to send healthcare people to work without masks then to get high quality masks even if it is without the preferred certificate.

Last point. Under control is relative. The IC capacity reached a higher number then we ever anticipated, still more IC beds are occupied by corona patients then we had in total beginning of 2020. https://stichting-nice.nl/

For most of the hospitals in the Netherlands most operations and treatments are still postponed. For instance for many cancer patients the date of their treatment is still not sure: https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/chemo-uitgestel...
Ramson smells like garlic, anything herbaceous that smells like garlic when cut fresh is Allium. Is a pretty unmistakable genus.

Something that does not smell exactly like garlic can be Allium also, like Onions.

Convallaria has runners also so it forms thick mat roots. Leaves stand in a different angle. In Bear's garlic each plant is individual.
Do you know how DWM disables the hardware mouse overlay? Is it an IOCTL?
In addition to the other comments, there's also thought to be differing impacts by infection location.

Covid in your alveoli is very bad. Covid in your throat not so much.
From Wikipedia there was a link to the SUPERball robot[1], pretty cool. But I wonder about the longevity of it, I assume they could use multiple wires per "strand" in case one breaks, but dust and sand seem like they could be big issues over time.

Still, pretty cool!

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkzeE6BVNIk
Strange to think something as powerful and seemingly primal as a volcano could be triggered by rain, a phenomenon we dont consider as nearly the same level of fundamental primal power
I’m not jumping through hoops for those to lazy to find easily google-able and commonly known economic history. Any freshman economics books has the statistics too.

The 1937 recession almost cost FDR the election. The unemployment rate didn’t reach normal levels again until the US entered the war.
Same here, I'm typing that while having it running in the background along with CLion. Some of us benefit from a free license to their entire toolbox via the work on Colour (https://www.colour-science.org/). Their support has been helping us for over half a decade.
Generating SQL prepared statements with JavaScript tagged template literals
I've seen "Ready Player One" but never "The Shining", so I'm sure there's a lot that went over my head.
To be fair, what you actually accomplish there is not to ban gambling, but just to limit it to table stakes. Though that's probably a more useful goal anyway.
Users flagkilled it, but anyone with 'showdead' set to 'yes' would have been able to read it until you went in and deleted the content.

Moderators, in case anyone is wondering, didn't see it.
I don't think this "time saving" argument is only applicable to productivity. It works when applied to happiness as well.

You can't deny that there are many things we have to do in modern society that we would rather not do (e.g., taxes). If we can minimize or remove doing these things, then we can spend more time doing the things we enjoy.
I miss a site called ebay.com that was full of people selling second-hand goods. It was replaced by a site selling Chinese knockoffs of the thing you want to buy.

Then there was this other site that sold books and CDs called Amazon, they did a similar thing. I really enjoyed browsing suggestions back then.

Finally froogle, superficially similar to google shopping that replaced it, but it actually helped you find things at a good price.

That is the internet I miss, the one where the products provided a better experience than the high street.
If you put a LCD display next to a OLED display, the difference is striking. Pretty much every Android phone has a better display, and is easier on the eyes.
Really sorry about that one. I've added the link a few minutes ago. I just did not expect this to be notable at all to anyone. Thanks for pointing it out!
Write for the future sounds great until you remember hindsight is 20-20 and predictions aren't.
I do this a lot too, it works great. For any non-trivial work, we don’t really consider a design doc “good” unless the author wrote a proof-of-concept demonstrating the feasibility of whatever approach is being advocated, specifically focused on whatever is novel or risky with the project. Iterative development starts before the doc is ever reviewed.
Variolation

"The procedure was most commonly carried out by inserting/rubbing powdered smallpox scabs or fluid from pustules into superficial scratches made in the skin. The patient would develop pustules identical to those caused by naturally occurring smallpox, usually producing a less severe disease than naturally acquired smallpox. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation
Yeah! Ive done some of this with neural networks to identify certain species of plants from UAV flyover. It's definitely a thing. The DOT here is about to use it to identify phragmites, which they then spray and kill.
Yeah, as I understand it there were some fairly nasty BIOS compatibility issues with keyboards that try and do full spec-compliant NKRO, and some older OSes might have had issues too. The specification says that software which requires the special boot protocol need to request it, but in practice it often doesn't, so most keyboards only support that format and are limited to 6-key rollover plus modifiers. A few hobbyist keyboard designers have tried doing this the proper way and quickly regretted it once they sold enough keyboards to be exposed to real-world systems and their behaviour.
If I were to teach a professional programming class, I’d automatically fail the most concise entries, whether they worked or not.
Better in what way? I've in Paris for decades, people are jammed together all the time. Horrible conditions during a pandemic. Let's face it, cars are better in this case. Biking in Paris where it rains all the time and gets really cold, good luck with that (I'm a biker myself and use it all the time, just not feeling good about this knowing Parisians).
The cheap Chinese keyboard I have over here emulates NKRO by simply reporting 5 different keyboards. Although the idea makes me cringe from a engineering pov I've to admit it works really well.
They exist, but Python, being a dynamic typed language, at least by default, runs a higher risk in automated conversions. Just because it compiles after conversion doesn’t mean it isn’t broken.

Unless the code base has a very very good set of unit tests, which is unlikely in practice, it is very risky to do automated conversions.

Whereas the same situation with Java, Go, Rust etc would be slightly better. Sure you would still have bugs but lower probability.
PHP is one of the few languages that advertises itself by default in server headers, so I would take that data with a grain of salt.
1. GPT-2 was built for generating text, not music nor programming languages. So this is pretty impressive.

2. The "too dangerous to release" refers to the text generation mode of GPT-2 and was mainly targeted at spammers etc.

3. Of course there was a hype component in it. They wanted people to start thinking about the question before it's too late, which they did. I doubt that we'll get any kind of attempted world control takeover by AI (unless someone explicitly tells AI to do it, at which point it's a guy trying to seize world control with the help of an AI tool), but even if the chance is very small, if you multiply it with the damage, you should at least start wondering about countermeasures.
This is misleading - the city controls supply, not demand.

By cutting service in specific routes, they're probably just going to increase density on them.

The issue is less about 'net capacity / ridership' as much as literally density on each ride.

Paradoxically, reducing density comes with increasing capacity.

Cities/central planners do this kind of thing all the time, they change some thing over here and think that people's behaviour will change. Sometimes it does - but people still need to get to work, pick up their kids, etc. and if the choice is not public transport, it's often 'car'.

Again, creating 'more supply' of biking routes may move the needle but it doesn't change the fact you live 12km from the office and biking is not practical for many people in those circumstances.
I saw it suggested on Twitter yesterday that the political polling firms should be doing some coronavirus polling, tracking trends in self-reported cases the same way they track public opinion.

I'm not sure if that would be scientifically useful in any way, but it sure would be interesting.
Ok, we've disambiguated the bejesus out of the title above.
I remember when in late 2009 I wanted to pick up Python and was conflicted whether I should learn Python 3 or 2 - obviously I wanted to try the new and shiny, but was put off by the lack of compatible libraries at the time.

Eventually settled for none. I didn't know that at the time, but later it proved to be a career defining moment.
It feels ironic that at a time where I want to use contactless payment as much as possible my Face ID has stopped working because I’m wearing a mask. I’d take Touch ID back in a heartbeat!
That's how I understood it as well. This idea seems to be gaining popularity in a lot of places. I wonder how much this is going to cost their local economy in the long-term.
Thanks for the engaging response, it helps me think more clearly. I actually agree with all of your points.

I would actually love to have a formalized utility framework. I think cognitive science is attempting at this from first principles.

I also think the sense of your use of the word utility here sufficiently encapsulates what I want it to mean. And I think we as humanity have been actually working on these problems for such a long time, though without the formalization as we aspire to. Fairy tales, myths, religions, other wisdom traditions, philosophy schools, states, nations, they’ve been all trying to formulate some part of this utility maximization problem, albeit with abstract, indirect, symbolical etc language, and many many digressions in between.

The name of the game is wisdom; what is meaningful, what should we be doing in life, how not to get stuck in local maxima of our meaning making (i.e. bullshit ourselves).

But right now we have a discontinuity; we have long lost authority of religion, after WWII we’ve lost trust in power of the state, now we are only left with the market to make sense of our lives. For all the fantastic attributes it has, market can’t solve our general utility maximization problem, and that is why I was aversive to use it as a tool anymore.

As for your point on latent utility, I had dreamed about this too, but maximizing with imperfect information is an inseparable part of the game. Like you allude, there needs to be regularization to our maximization endeavors, simply because there might be inherent limits to its computability. There is certain information you will have only after participated in a situation e.g. choosing to be a parent, having a terminal illness etc, which also drastically changes your utility function. Or there are very weird components of the function like the nature of consciousness, problem of free-will etc. that again drastically changes the computation. Or mini-enlightenments after mystical experiences (e.g. psychedelic use) seem to change the utility function itself to approximate reality “better”, which would make that person’s prior computations faulty. In other words, what are trying to do is to actually approximate to that ideal latent utility function by getting more and more wise. And we might have exhausted what market can offer in this regard anymore.
I can't edit my comment any longer, and I appreciate the rope of moderators in maintaining civil discourse, but for the record I stand behind my use of the term "pseudoscientific". The comment I critiqued uses the trappings of science but not the content.

I also purposefully did not insult the commenter's character, but restricted my reply to the comment itself.
What is the shebang that one should use to run code that targets python3.8 on a system that only has python3.7 installed?

If you use python3 it might randomly fail, if you use python3.8 will fail with 'No such file or directory'
Yet, everything interesting happens on the border where things are falling but still not irreversibly so.

Yes, if you leave them wild options will overwhelm your code. The entire field of software engineering is focused on solving that exact problem; what people can do, with varying degrees of success.
Save $350 buying an iPhone SE instead of an iPhone 11, maybe get an Apple Watch or iPad to go along with it with the money saved. Oh, now I have multiple devices and Apple services are so convenient.

It’s a model only Apple can really pull off right now with their wide product range, vertical integration of services, etc.
I think the rationale behind this argument was a thought/hope that the disease was primarily being spread by sneezing or coughing, and if you weren't doing that then you weren't going to spread it.
Apple purchased Intel's modem business recently:

https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-completes-sal...
The Blackcoat's Daughter deserves wider recognition. Very good.
For me personally the camera was the reason I finally upgraded from my old SE. The camera in there was noticeably old technology. If they’d done a 2018 refresh with current camera tech I would have bought it in a heartbeat.
The fact that some state doesn't mandate medically sound guidelines doesn't absolve Target, as a company, of not setting a better example.

They're legally free to enforce whatever policies they want to put in place at their stores.

That they choose not to is their decision.
Lengthening Patent Terms by 10 Years Is the Wrong Response to Covid-19
Fun thing with building applications overusing npm is that you usually don't know exactly what packages you have. Not until you check for the specific package, so you probably don't "know at a glance" if you're affected or not.
Why the world's highest coronavirus death rate is in Europe's capital of Belgium
To save people the click: the youngest was a 33 years old.

> On average, the covid-19 stroke patients were 15 years younger than stroke patients without the virus.
Why not both? They've got all winter...
So half a year they have to get it from north or preserve in sterile tanks? :) I live near Urals above 99% of Canadians and there is no snow for 6 months.
I recently completed a survey conducted by NORC which asked a series of questions that seemed to test whether I had contracted Covid-19. I received the survey invitation in the mail so it must have been randomized. We'll have to wait to see the results.
That doesn't rule out a high false positive rate. The false positive rate can be even higher than the false negative rate.
The site is apparently doing this with other books too. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22980614

A couple of others as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=dbooks
? You're comparing a prison to a nursing home

Another data point, ~12k healthy foreign workers in Singapore have tested positive. The city-state has only 12 deaths total (all elderly, not the foreign workers). In Singapore the foreign workers may have already been asymptomatic for weeks.

Based on NYC data, LA city data, Stanford's Santa Clara data, Singapore, Danish blood donor data, a picture is emerging that the virus is not particularly dangerous to healthy people.
Because actual Computer Science is not writing a VBA script, or putting together your own PC. There is some common misconception that Computer Science = Being good with computers.

At RIT, the Introduction to CS cources (CSCI 140 & 141) were designed to be hard to get people who assumed CS was "computers" to switch to SWE, GameDev, IT, Security, EE, or Systems. The courses weeded people out who thought CS was just programming, because the upper level courses get heavy into math, science, and theory.

There is no easy way for people to figure out if they are just interested in computers (IT), like to write software (SWE), like to make games (GameDev), or are actually into the lower level concepts such as memory management (and others). You need weed out courses to get people to think about what they actually want to do.
Indeed. My mom lives on the other side of town, and has her water delivered by a different water source/plant than my home is. Her water is noticeably worse than mine, a lot more chlorine taste.

Water at my place is very good though, almost as good as some of the best bottled water, and way better than mediocre bottled water.
We're agreeing.
I'm perplexed by the comments here.

Some cities have seen greater business increases on pedestrian and bike converted through-ways because people in cars weren't just passing by.

Bikers and pedestrians stopped and shopped in the areas they were traveling through.

I, for one, look forward to making a choice to move to a place where I can live car-free and hope more cities accelerate plans like this.