skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this a fair comparison? A floppy disk stored 1.44MB. The first imac was released without a floppy drive was 1998. There was other superior alternatives. Floppy’s where quite easily corrupted by magnetically or through other means. Sandisk Flash drives and other alternatives where much faster offered much higher capacity and improved reliability / integrity.

How is there a parallel to the headphone jack?
Who is flagging this? It's an amusing post and pretty much harmless.
Refridgerators are pretty low power. Transporting heat works fine for tens of km in district heating. But you probably have some better energy efficiency investments than building insulated pipes and a secondary water circuit + heat exchanger or running long stretches of expensive refrigerant in the pipes, for the fridge's 50 watts worth of heat.
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Show HN: New highly configurable raw SSL terminal
Both Swift and Rust have an unspecified structure ordering by default, which almost always boils down to "the compiler will lay them out in the order specified, except if you leave enough padding to fit a member, in which case it'll reorder the elements for you".
I think this is an example of the "everything getting worse" fallacy. We're far more sheltered and lead far less awful lives these days. There's fictional violence available in movies if we choose to watch it but compared to today, life was far more nasty, brutal and short.
No bait, just expressing my genuine misunderstanding of said "rage" or "anger" and using the "taken" terminology. It sounds to me like a bunch of people yelling at a car manufacturer for giving them keyless entry and demanding physical keys back. (and no, I don't use Bluetooth audio. Everything I own is wired)
This is where I originally learnt about it. Seems like it's called a continuous corner, or “squircle”:

https://kylebashour.com/posts/finding-the-real-iphone-x-corn...
Also, a raw server-side SSL terminal: https://ioninja.com/plugins/ssl-server.html

I am the author, feel free to suggest/discuss how to make the tool better for hackers/pentesters.
Very intuitive explanation.
There are almost certainly significant "Reopen All The Things" brigades running active on social media and nuking anything that might go against their agenda. HN is no exception.

You can see this in early and Layer 1/2 posts that go negative while later and Layer 3/4 thread posts that get high amounts of positive upvotes after the initial wave has moved on.
Chiming in. For me, caffeine withdrawl happens hours after not having coffee in the form of a splitting migrane. With nicotine, it was the exact same splitting migrane, only it started a half hour after the last dose. Both migranes lasted constantly for about a week, felt like I couldn't think, but afterwards I was no longer physically addicted.
I'm surprised to learn that animals like dogs (and I presume cats) are allowed on the Galapagos since there is so much at-risk fauna that is unique to those islands.
And London Breed was spotted at the beach as she orders people to stay in. It's nuts! https://giphy.com/gifs/free-combined-6q4yfAvVFDCCY
Absolutely. RHEL and CentOS are "years behind" because it is their mission to supply a stable distro; stability in this context meaning in the ABI at foremost. You can install a kernel driver via RPM that is years old, and as long as it's targeted to your RHEL version, it's supposed to just work. Same with every other application you might install.

Fedora provides the rapid-release as well as rolling-release equivalent of RHEL; Fedora is the upstream for RHEL after all.

Debian does much the same with the split between stable and unstable.
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This reminds me how Australia solved its beetle problem with a toad problem. One day, they were like, why are we letting all these beetles eat our sugar cane. Lets bring in toads to eat the beetles.
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There are some brilliant bits inside, pity the formatting distracted:

>> - That's Android. No support more than 2 months.

> - Actually, support 4 months.

>> - Who care? This press release. Just advertisement.

>- Can dang remove clickbait. What is one-eye anyway? Meaningless. Phone no have eye.

It is actually a reasonable summary of many corresponding entries, and also funny.
Engineers are worthless if they can't communicate effectively and don't understand the context of their work.
While I can see why this is down-voted, it's still a viable characterization of tech related discourse. Made me smile.
Yikes, please don't break the site guidelines like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think there are a substantial number of people who think COVID-19 is a beat up and who are down voting anything that appears on this topic.
Electric tankless water heaters draw a massive amount of power. A water heater with a tank is actually quite insulated and efficient. If I am not home and basically use no hot water it can go days without dropping more than a couple degrees. With the heat pump I think I spend about $7 a month on my heat pump water heater.
Religious flamewar is off topic here, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
HN forum software is inadequate to represent initial spacing. I replaced it with more hyphens. It wasn't intentional as you can tell from the first 'simulated post' which has no code formatting.
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Smalltalk and Mesa/Cedar also have their own share of features, I just listed what is somehow common to all of them.

After all I was asked for 5 and wrote 6, could keeping writing a few more.
As did non tech companies like Nike. Nike is affording it by not giving a cost-of-living increase this year to the full-time employees. I wonder if there is a list somewhere of all the companies that are continuing to pay their vendor staff.
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The linked website (https://www.cogconsortium.uk/data/) has hidden links which you need to hover over to know it's a link. if you visited the site and haven't found anything to look at, try hovering your mouse around.
The article/advert misses this information out; is this depth estimation a model in the OS somewhere, or part of the vision api, coremedia api (where the stereo->depth frames are), or just inside the camera app and not exposed to developers?
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Good thing that's not who staffs and runs public health departments.
World with IP: Expensive Range Rovers.

World without IP: No Range Rovers.

Your imagined world of cheap range rovers if we suspended IP only works once but destroys all future incentive to create.
You could simply film under water with a galaxy S8 and it had a headphone jack without any rubber caps. It's baffling to see the water resistance argument used against 3.5mm jack.
I understand where you are coming from but it’s not always about trying to get people to buy things right away, advertising can be used to create brand awareness as well. A positive brand image is worth a lot more than just making a couple bucks here and there off if impulsive shoppers.

If you have another solution apart from google ads, I’m all ears. Seriously.
Can anyone describe at a high level for a complete noob how this kind of thing works? Someone who is not going to be able to read a bunch of ASM and interpret it? I'm guessing that it is something along the lines of:

- the graphics "driver" reads values out of certain registers (AL and AH?) at a set interrupt (maybe every X clock cycles?) and writes one pixel to the screen of whatever color those registers had in them

- by writing values into those registers and aligning the number of operations the program does with the frequency of the interrupts, you can get animation?

Even achieving any sort of flow control so you can switch between the effects is mind-boggling to me.
In US TV series the people in cars tend to be white collar / upper middle class people. This is depicting supposedly relatable people who have choice and who never make a number out of it. So it's propagating a deletorious attitude.

Around my parts the white collar people tend to drive more than working class employees, because they get big houses away from the city where they work, and go to their cabins or whatnot every weekend, and are more likely to buy fuel-wasteful cars like SUVs. While non-white collar people more often go without a car at all or at least use it sparingly. Generally it's not like you couldn't choose a low carbon lifestyle if you worked in arts, blue collar industry, public sector jobs etc.
Wealthy people struggling without housekeepers during the lockdown
>I make a purchase and it normally shows up the next day. That's unreal (I'm near a distribution center, so that's not the normal 2 days stateside).

My Amazon.co.jp order got dispatched on Friday from Yokohama and on Monday it was in my hands in southern Finland. This is something I couldn't reliably expect from a store that was within driving distance of my home.
No, the Pixel 2 and iPhone XR do the same thing. They use DPAF. In the post, you'll see that the XR's depth map actually smoothly follows the ground into the background. The Pixel 2 will do that too and it will work for inanimate objects as well.
Yet that is one of the biggest complains in the latest Vulkan survey, lack of support for learning.

Those SDKs allow plenty of wanna be game developers to just be doing rotating cubes in less than a couple of minutes and go from there.

Sit in a room trying to go through NeHe tutorials and watch students motivation slowly fade away.
By now i think these are just troll comments. This is a pretty good phone for the money, it is still possible to connect wired headphones if that is what you desire.
Author was Brad Stone
You don't have millions of dollars for lawyers.
Sorry, can you explain the resizing limitation a little more? I do agree it’s worth owning Pixelmator or Affinity.

I also would like a second front camera that’s center top when in keyboard mode. It’s on the “side” because that’s top in portrait mode and Apple considers that the default orientation of the iPad.
Not sure what to make of the disappearing page. Someone pulled it.
There is no chance that he didn't understand there are cheaper ways to get a cup of coffee than a fancy cafe.
> it may be just okay to use the traditional way consisting of testing, log analysis, and visualizing that everyone is familiar with.

Not at all. I spent quite a lot of effort on debugging distributed deadlocks in a highly available system that was the best selling product in its category at one of the most famous (and loved) software companies based in SV and the amount of things that could (and will) go wrong is infinite, given every piece of infrastructure has its difficult-to-find/reproduce bugs. Things like sockets stopping responding after a few weeks due to an OS bug, messing up your distributed log, or unexpected sequences of waking up during a node crash and fail-over because some part of the network had its issues, leading to split brain for a few moments that needs to be resolved real-time, a brief out of memory issue that leads to a single packet loss, messing up your protocol etc. We used sophisticated distributed tests and that was absolutely inadequate. You are still in a naive and optimistic mode, though perhaps you as a designer will be shielded from the real-life issues your poor developers would experience as usually original architects move on towards newer cooler things and leave the fallout to somebody else.
> From a UI standpoint, it would be virtually just as hard for a JSX dev to implement a React app with purely `React.createElement()` as it would be to just write a native DOM application

I don't think that's true at all. I find react-hyperscript[0] and friends terser, more regular and just as easy to work with as JSX.

[0] https://github.com/mlmorg/react-hyperscript
Baffling comment. Providing rental property is a legitimate business.
There is an OS-provided timer interrupt that you can hook in to, making sure your interrupt handler is called every X time units. I think it was something like 18 times per second by default, but changeable.

I used this to slow down my computer so that old games were playable. Hooked into the interrupt, wasted cycles, and could enjoy the game. :)
I understand. Thank you for updating it!
Probably to be expected if your feeder organisation for hiring at the FT is Buzzfeed. Reputable media companies need to wake up -- they are killing their own credibility every single day the more they allow themselves to be dragged down to the base instincts of clicks-above-all.
I really wish there was an iPhone SE Plus. This is just too small, but everything else is perfect.
At the time of writing, on this post, there are approximately 3 comments about the name, 5 comments in this thread (plus this one), and 20(!) comments about a headphone jack. Only 4 comments are actually about the tech mentioned in the article.

Unfortunately it seems that this characterization is accurate. Read the article folks, its actually a pretty interesting read about the way the camera works on the new iPhone.
a "beat up" ?
Being a good landlord is not an easy job, but individual landlords (good or bad) are in the minority. The majority of properties are owned by PMCs, and the difference is larger when you look at MDUs or college towns.

By their nature, PMCs are after profit, and improvements are an expense to minimize. The nature of college towns mean that there is a constant supply of “fresh meat” in the market, often moving to or from other cities, further disincentivizing improvement or good behavior on the part of the PMC. Why bother to replace moldy carpet, if the tenants don’t stick around to take you to court for it?

Having rented from PMCs in the past, having worked in college housing, the idea that you would feel sympathy towards a PMC in a college town is pathological.
After I overcame my coffee addiction I switched to caffeine pills since I still needed stimulants to be productive. Some of the benefits I've experienced taking the same dose in pill form over a cup of coffee are cleaner teeth, fresher breath, no longer having to waste time making or drinking coffee (what started as an act of love turned into a chore then a latent hate toward my grinder and espresso machine), but best of all, no more awful coffee poops disrupting my day.

I always keep a few in my pocket in case I start dosing off in meetings. A few live in the car to deal with drowsiness while driving, which was the issue that kick started my caffeine addiction when I was 15 and learning to drive. Nothing seems to put me asleep quite like driving on the freeway :(
Is it a fair comparison? I don’t know, you tell me, on the basis of the actual facts. When the iMac was released without a floppy drive in 1998, it was launched with a CD-ROM (and, only in the DV models, with a DVD-ROM) drive, which meant it was not able to write to CDs or DVDs.

Flash drives were first released in 2000.

So... were “better alternatives” available? Yes. Were they incorporated onto the machine? No.

The idea was that almost all output would occur through the network, and that was a fairly prescient idea. If you wanted writable media, you had to add it externally — via a USB 1.1 connection, if memory serves (though maybe the machine also had a FireWire port, I can’t quite remember).

The point was that the floppy drive wasn’t removed because they replaced it with “better alternatives” on the machine, the point was that they thought that obsolete media had no place on modern almost-turn-of-the-millennium platforms.

I’d argue that there’s a pretty good parallel here.
Hard to imagine packing up and moving across the country into a dorm, taking the risk of being kicked out a few weeks later.
Such as? Doing anything meaningful would take up too many bytes. Regardless, dos doesn't really give you anything useful in the first place.
I've been using the adapter in my car for 2 years, twice a day, no problems so far. Lightning is far more resilient to this than USB-C ports in my Macbook for example, which have become pretty loose over the years of plugging in chargers and monitors.
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In practice, PMCs in college towns are bad actors. At least, on average. They are basically sitting on an investment (land) and providing the minimum level of work necessary to keep money flowing. It’s a legitimate business in the sense that it is “legal”. However, the profits do not correspond to the value that they provide to the economy.
You cannot even see what you are doing and are proving my point perfectly. You invalidate and minimize what I say. You turn it into something lesser to dismiss. You excuse the things I say bother me. You say it's MY fault there is no help because I am not LETTING that help happen...which is ironically classic and well studied victim blaming.

I am done. I am not going to continue to go back and forth. No matter what I say or do there is reason to interrogate, invalidate, blame. Nothing is every enough for anyone and every answer leads to more questions and more positioning to dismiss. I know you don't agree...don't "believe"...it doesn't matter. For you this is an opportunity to win a debate or show you are smarter or better. That's what people do. My only mistake is beating my head against that same wall of human ego because I am in pain and want to make noise to relieve it.
My pump heats my outdoors pool in summer and the house in winter.

Its more usual to have a small heat-pump just for the pool, though. These are surprisingly cheap, considering the premium on all pool parts generally. I mean, a pool roof made of plastic costs 3x or 4x more.
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My Pixel 2 XL I'm typing this on also has just one camera and does pretty amazing DoF for portraits, SE is definitely not the first phone to do this in software alone.
The corner radius is 39; you can find it by peeking inside iOS. CALayer has "continuous corners", which are very similar to but just slightly different than the app icon shape, which is a 16-part Bézier curve generated inside of the MobileIcons framework. This curve is as far as I can tell identical to the one that UIBezierPath.init(roundedRect:cornerRadius:) will give you when the corner radius is 22.5% of the side length. (Note that the app icon on the home screen, being of a constant size, is actually generated via an image mask rather than dynamic clipping.)
Totally agree on all counts. I run a more comprehensive course which covers the tech but then gets into hands on clinics with simulated outages where we break people into teams and have them troubleshoot under supervision and mock interviews, sample real world style projects they have to design a deploy pipeline for an app etc....
Humanities departments emit some of the most cryptic texts around. They should be worrying about that before trying to help engineers.
You didn't cede it to unelected scientists. You ceded it to elected executive-branch officials, who then pick staff to work for them. If you don't like that, you can try to recall the mayor and/or the governor.
> In Germany Amazon usually delivers next day. So does just about everyone else

YMMV. I order Amazon/Others about 70/30. The vast majority of shops I order from have longer delivery times, 3-4 days from the time of ordering is what I’m used to.

And then there is Amazon Logistics which recently started becoming a thing in Lübeck. They are on the level of DHL and sometimes surpass them, with other stores you sometimes have to live with the horror of Hermes or DPD. Hermes and DPD are high-risk carriers that only usually deliver and if they do, who knows when. DHL at least is good most of the time. Amazon Logistics is super fast, usually has live GPS tracking and when someone couldn’t find my entrance yesterday (it’s a bit complicated), I got a call, explained where exactly it is, and they set a marker on their internal app for my address.
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Interesting, I ran the math a year and a half ago myself. For my less than 10 year old water heater it was well worth the cost. Was like 3 year break even point. I did the install myself though, wasn't bad at all.
I understand the concept of an attenuated strain. I don't see why the deletion mutants have to be found in the wild - it's easy enough to delete or modify genes in the lab to create an attenuated strain. For example, some groups have replaced VSV's glycoprotein with the coronavirus spike protein.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16043204
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7103385/

And as I said, you can't know if the people who had mild infections did so because the virus was deficient or whether their immune response was good. It's not enough to have the antigen, you also need the right adjuvant to mount a response. The last thing you want is to have antibodies that recognize the virus, but do not activate the immune system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhancement...

https://jvi.asm.org/content/94/5/e02015-19

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340005309_Potential...

The fact that the live attenuated approach worked with polio doesn't mean that it'll work with coronavirus, and if we're not careful we could accidentally worsen the situation.

I agree that this is worthwhile area of pursuit, but one that will take a long time to bear fruit. Maybe you think that studying the variants in the wild will allow us to skip over some animal studies with the live attenuated virus, but I doubt they can be skipped.
Yes, the Dockerfile has serious shortcomings and makes it totally miss the mark on what it was promising, but based on some comments about how nix is hard, it probably helped with adaptation.

Seems like it comes much easier to most people to issue series of (often nondeterministic) commands that mutate state rather than learning a new language that allows describing dependencies and have it figure out steps needed.
> Mainichi on how Japan is underperforming its targets based on location data, and the expected struggles with upcoming May holidays

At least the important hotspots (Tokyo, Osaka, etc) have reached their 80% targets.

I live in a prefecture that had among the lowest reduction, but that's understandable because we have no cases. It's hard to convince people to stay home in order not to catch something that's not demonstrably going around.

But more importantly, they have closed malls, people haven't been going to bars/restaurants so they have closed just due to staffing costs, etc. Hopefully the fact that there's just nothing to do here will keep people from traveling here over the Golden Week holiday.
In all probability, there will be no true depth sensing capability in SE, thus developer would not be able to access the api.

The portrait mode is likely to be implemented with monocular depth estimation using deep learning.