skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly it's hard to hear you over the sound of the tinfoil crinkling. Could you please speak up?
larger screen, if you go for the 12.9 inch one
but for the smaller one? don't really know

also, no mention of the iPad Pro
I think the next iPad Pro will dual-boot macOS :-D
Livestock surrogates successfully made fertile
I look for a car instead of a motorcycle for a similar reason. Maybe you are not the intended audience/consumer for tablets?
Eric Schmidt Keynote on Ethics and Privacy
With all subscriptions in the App Store canceling them retains access until the end of your billing cycle. (Weekly subscription goes to the end of the week, monthly the end of the month, etc.)

No need to set a reminder. With free trials I'll cancel them as soon as I sign up to make sure I can't forget.
No it is not. Peloton is going to feel this once widely adopted. Brilliant service with Apple One to combine this with the other Apple service and all of Music.

Peloton or Mirror at the hotel. No. Outside. No. On vacation. No. Plus I thing this is a wider offering. Peloton yoga and weights workouts are really sub-par. I have no experience with mirror.

Disclosure: Shareholder of Apple and Lululemon. Not a shareholder in Peloton.
If (like me) you like the 12.9" form factor. That being said, I wouldn't buy a new iPad Pro right now.
Have you looked at the Pine64 PineTime devkits?
Is that it? According to that definition, the first FP32 unit is not a core either...

But, again, if you want to blame someone for this terrible, terrible marketing travesty, start with AMD. They started it all...

My point was simply been that, contrary to your assertion, Nvidia and AMD have never changed the definition of what they consider to be a core, even if that definition doesn't adhere to computer science dogma.
White or dark grey text on colored rectangles.
The camera bump is pretty benign. You can add a protective case which solves the problem. Also, I prefer to work with a tablet at a slight angle when drawing -- not completely flat -- so having a case makes double sense.

It's a paradigm shift from paper.
Isn't Apple Music a superset of iTunes Match? I believe Apple Music also includes the ability to match or upload 100,000 of your own songs.
As If Summoned from the Void: The Life of Alexandre Grothendieck (2004) [pdf]
I think out of all possibilities for the attitudes and practices of billionaire philanthropists, Feeney is probably as close to the ideal as possible[0].

But it still makes me sad to see this sort of thing celebrated. A small number of ultra-rich people should not be deciding for society what causes get funded, no matter how pure their intentions are. The fact that individuals are able to amass this much money in the first place is itself a problem.

[0] Then again, we can't actually know that he's ideal, since he's worked hard to keep his activities anonymous. On one hand I applaud him for not seeking fame for all this, but on the other, we have little insight into whatever impact -- good or bad -- he's had.
https://medium.com/@sklik.devops/our-journey-towards-slo-bas...
That's a gross exaggeration of how much pull Apple has. I'm no fan of it or how much data these new devices will collect but saying "the school you attend, the church where you worship" is some Twitter-comments level of hysteria. Yes, we should be worried about corporations owning too much and having too much power. No, Apple isn't going to buy up schools and churches.
Now if they'd just give the iPad Mini the thinner bezel.

A 9" screen on that would be my dream. I take my mini everywhere because of the form factor.

(Also, touch ID integrated into the top button is great)
I feel sorry for people who want their names on things. They are broadcasting their insecurities.
I'll echo this sentiment and add that during my career I've experienced a number of ups and downs. During the downs, when it felt like I've wasted years of my life for something that went nowhere, what always felt worthwhile to me was the time I spent doing charity work and volunteering. You don't need to be a Feeney to make a huge difference. Many of the people on HN are insanely well educated and knowledgable and have skills and traits that can be put to good use helping others or inspiring a new generation, especially among the less privileged. Just spending an hour or two a week over a period of years can yield tremendous results in the lives of others.
This. Most plastics can't be recycled; it was a PR play by the plastic industry decades ago. Using plastics for such things as medical devices and such makes complete sense to me. Using plastics for items which inherently are only used for a few minutes or an hour (see the F&B industry) makes no sense at all to me.
The middle class hasn't died at all. In fact it is larger today than ever before. It's just a bad narrative people have bought into. [1]

In essence what has happened as the upper-middle class has grown over the last 40 years. Poor, lower-middle and regular middle class percentage has shrunk to its lowest levels. We have fewer poor people than ever before. But because the upper middle class has grown so much, middle class people feel closer to poor people.

We have more well to do people than ever before. The middle class is smaller but the lower-middle and poor classes are even smaller. So people have generally moved up.

[1] https://www.aei.org/economics/the-us-middle-class-is-disappe...
I have maintained my fitness and saved so much money by switching to videos on YouTube. I think this stuff should at most be a category on Netflix etc it's not worth $9.99 separately. The trainers are all good, the only thing missing is being able to superimpose your Watch metrics when you want.
A lot of their competitors (like Peloton) do have actual real-time experiences though, and this is increasingly becoming more of a thing as the pandemic drags on and people want to do real-time classes with their favorite instructors back from the before-times.
Which one is easier to mess up and harder to debug afterwards?

A. "${label1} ${label2} ${label3} .... ${label 400}"

B. "%s %s %s ... %s".formatted(label1, label2, label23, ... label400) // Ooops, typo!
I'm a hiring manager and I start our technical interviews with coding problems. I have seen too many candidates who can't write code to ever be ok hiring someone who I haven't seen write code with their own hands.

I understand that you are highly compensated and may not want to spend time trying out for a new job when you already make so much money, but from my perspective: I have a team of highly compensated individuals who are evaluating a candidate for potential hire and I don't want to waste all of their time if the candidate can't even write a simple algorithm to rearrange the characters in a string.

Since it sounds like you're pretty happy where you're at you have the freedom to choose to participate or not. I am guessing that the only way to pull away a candidate like you is by referral anyway, so I am guessing there's not actually a problem here.

If I am getting someone via referral, then interviews can focus on what you find valuable - I can sell you on the role, I can ask you personality questions and make sure there is goal alignment. If I have someone to vouch for you. If you're a stranger? You better believe you gotta write some code.

I think that if you take a step back and ask yourself if you'd really like to work at a place where they hire people who they haven't seen code, you'd probably rather choose to just write some code for 30 minutes in an interview.
needs a (2015) tag
“Support our troops” ad shows image of MiG-29 Fighter jet
Recursive Backtracking [pdf]
I don't really understand why recycling plastic is not viable. I feel like this is more of a problem with ideology than actual process.

For example, I buy these "Green Toys" products that are supposedly made from recycled plastic and I love it. I have no idea why this recycled plastic is not used in other kid's toys, kitchenware, or random things like garden tools. This recycled plastic is tough, it doesn't decay in the sun like regular plastic. I would pay more for it!

I have actually tried looking for more items made from recycled plastic and it just doesn't exist.

My conclusion is that people don't like the way it looks, because it's very rough and the color is different, so there is no market for it. Most people probably prefer to buy the cheaper, "nicer" looking plastic.
> Why do you think that?

Because each source file on its own is a work subject to copyright, with a copyright notice and particular license attached, and the license attached requires retaining the notice.

The fact that they are also included in a compilation which, as a compilation, is separately subject to copyright and has it's own copyright notice and license attached, which happens to be the same license, doesn't change that one bit.
Not only is whether or not he's maximizing the impact of his donation a call he gets to make, whether or not he even wants to maximize the impact of his donation at the cost of other considerations is a call he gets to make.
Google Meet's new background blur feature is Chrome on Windows and Mac only
In 2015 when this was written, 90's kids with their millennial problems were now adults and became part of the problems they spent the last 20 years complaining about.

They also found out they're not any better at solving them.

So the rant is an attempt to kick responsibility to the next generation, while pushing the blame onto the previous one.

You'll find the aughties doing the same thing in like 5 years as the cycle continues.
I'm not sure you're talking about the same "this problem" as the thread you are replying to.
Conservative? We've had "f-strings" since 1979, at least.
Apple Watch blood oxygen detection feature found in iOS 14
Ironically, its just giving a lot of free advertisement to Zen.

Before this post I never knew Zen existed. Now I know it exists and am emotionally invested in it. And there's no such thing as bad publicity.
Totally OT I know, but Uber for street sweeper -- I want this. Give me an app to request a quick cleanup and maybe try to get my neighbors to chip in. Or to report roadway debris to the city. Or for driveway snow removal during the winter.
> The definition of a Millennial is someone who was born between around 1980 and around the early 2000’s.

Early 2000's isn't Millennial, that's Gen Z. That's one of my frustrations. I remember seeing an article talking about Millennial college students partying on Miami Beach during COVID, and I was internally screaming "THOSE AREN'T MILLENNIALS, THOSE ARE GEN Z!" But I digress...

Of course, really using years isn't a good way to define a generation. I think it's better to define them by behaviors, events, and especially technology.

For example, one of the defining factors for being a Millennial is the growth of the Internet. It effectively didn't exist during our childhood. Our first Internet experience was on dialup. We could barely stream phone-quality audio. Video was out of the question (Yeah, RealPlayer existed, but it was garbage quality). We got to witness the invention of the MP3 and used Napster (and later Kazaa or Limewire).

We were the last generation who would knock on a friend's door to ask if they wanted to ride bikes together.

Now, depending on where you lived and how quickly your family adopted new technology, you might not have had an Internet connection until the early or even mid 2000s. Or maybe you had one, but rarely used it. These "late bloomers" could make someone born in 1995 identify more with Gen Z than with Millennials.
Cambridge staff 'fobbed off' at meeting over Arm sale to Nvidia, says union
Gym equipment integrates with Apple Watch already, yes? At least that's what they advertise; I haven't hit a gym since I've had an Apple Watch. If true, I don't see a big leap from there to home equipment. We bought a NordicTrac rowing machine a few months ago, and it has a Bluetooth. I was thinking, "ya know, this thing is just a bit of software (and maybe silicon) away from just connecting directly to my watch."
For the particular typo you gave, it seems to me to be equally likely with either method.
But it is a computer. And it's no where near as dramatic as a computer vs. bicycle. I'd pin it more from nimble sports car to full size sedan in variation.

It may not be your definition of a computer, but it does everything my father wanted a computer for - without having the overhead of having to operate and maintain a general purpose computer. In that respect it's FAR superior to a general purpose computer.

If you want to call it an appliance - fine. I'm down with that. Still doesn't make it any less powerful for my dad and what he wants, and doesn't make it any less powerful for the majority of what I do either.

And honestly if text selection would have been better I probably would still be on my iPad Pro. Yes, now they have track pad support for the text selection but I'm not investing in a new keyboard with trackpad for an older iPad Pro. It will be interesting to see if I get an iPad Pro or new laptop first. Multitasking on the iPad is still a bit convoluted so I'm tending to remain in the laptop first for upgrading camp, but I vastly prefer the form factor and flexibility of the iPad Pro.

Thankfully most of my issues with the iPad Pro vs. MacBook are software and they have fixed the vast majority of them with the two iPad OS 13 & 14. It's nice to have choices!
Not buying plastic is a better solution. But is that realistic for you right now? If everyone thinks the same thing you do, and gives up without trying, then we never start solving the massive problem. Instead if everyone recycles, then we begin the process of keeping the problem from growing even larger than it already is.

I do think you raise a great point that it's a little silly to put this on the shoulders of individual consumers, and let the corporations off the hook. This is a problem that does need to be addressed with policy, and companies shouldn't be allowed to continue polluting this planet with no consequences. I don't know how what the solution should look like, but this is a specific example of where free markets can fail us - the costs of producing all this unnecessary packaging was externalized starting 60 years ago, and is now starting to catch up with us. Because the delay between market forces and outcomes can be a century, we need to be more careful about just letting things run wild.
Situational app marketing: how to deal with alarming trends?
"all screen design" is kinda pushing it. the bezels look no smaller than the side bezels on a nexus 9.
Doesn't come as surprising to me honestly. Besides performance reason, inlining everything also minimizes your dependencies as well, and now you can make sure what you send out is what user would be able to see.

I can also see how this makes integration testing magnitude easier/effective.
Comcast is my favorite example of this.

Cable originally started because people in valleys of PA and the like could not get antenna reception. So the CATV companies put up lines and started selling the service.

Sure, they were filling a 'need'. But I think when we look back at how the CATV Industry itself punishes 'piracy' there is more than a little irony. The only reason they started paying was because it was codified into law.

Also, the CATV Industry's general union-busting structure; lots of linework invovles 2-3 layers of contractor companies. By doing so, they help prevent unionizaiton (which is a thing in the Phone line side of things, their workers tend to get paid more and be happier in my experience) and also 'absolve' themselves of much of the responsibility when something goes wrong (especially in the contractor industry, that 'last layer' may not be around in 1-2 years.)
Brave appears to be currently ad based, so no not the same.

I guess the micropayment model failed, maybe because it used bitcoin?

https://brave.com/introducing-brave-payments/
It is not part of the codebase. I immediately reverted the commit in question[1] and then I fixed the bug independently[2].

[1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/commit/8ed88280a62f2a400d00b5...
[2]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/commit/9050a07540b7387dade818...
This is for glass recycling not plastic, but I recently found out that my county ships all of their glass recyclables to be dumped in a landfill of a neighboring state. In my state, waste disposal companies are legally obligated to recycle everything they can that ends up in a recycling bin. But with glass it's actually vastly cheaper to produce new glass bottles than it is to make them out of recycled material. So there isn't a market for the waste management companies to even sell the product they legally have to produce. To get around this regulation they just ship their recycled glass to a state without this regulation, and dump it all in a landfill there.

It seems like the only way to make recycling truly effective at a large scale is to make it economically viable, either through the creating of new recycling techniques that make using recycled materials the cheapest option, or through subsidies to artificially produce the same effect.
Thanks for clarifying — but this doesn’t seem particularly useful for many types of tracking. Measuring things like bounces, scroll depth, engagement on modules, etc, require logging post-load.
Galaxy S10 is first gen ultrasonic though. I have one while my sister has a S20, and it's significantly better on the newer model.

There are also many new phones with very large sensors that basically cover most of the bottom half of the screen.

Personally I still think a rear or power button based sensor is superior to under the screen, but hey progress is progress.
> JS/Python f-strings have not proven themselves long-term.

Are you saying that they haven't been around for long or that they failed? If latter, then I respectfully disagree. Any recent JS and Python code I have seen uses them extensively. They are also a joy to use, and imho improve readability immensely. Ergonomics matter. This is one aspect of Python3 I would miss the most if I had to go back to 2.
Why not "SF General Hospital"?
That's a bit of hyperbole to go from fitness classes to owning hospitals/churches/food.
It's just literally audio feedback telling to you go faster or slower based on your heart rate. It's no more dangerous than voice navigation while driving.
If I end up not buying a new Apple Watch, I will look into it! My Fitbit broke recently and I'm on the market.

The EKG is ... really tempting, though - that's about the only thing that's pulling me toward the Apple Watch.
It's even worse when you look at the big picture. The generational construct originates with Karl Mannheim in the late 1920s who drew from among others upon Marxism. Contrast that to today when generational identity has become one of the biggest distractions from class consciousness.
Givewell.org is another great resource for identifying extremely impactful organizations.
Another good point! Like I said, I was just going off of what I could remember offhand. :)
The guy who donated the most money explicitly wanted anonymity.
> But it's funny how, for many features that were added later, people were rationalizing their absence with such lines too

There's nothing wrong with that. If string interpolation is really useful, then Java will add it some years down the line.

It's cheap to add features but literally impossible to remove them. There's no way to undo a mistake in language design. That's an asymmetry. I'd rather err on the side of caution than kitchen-sinking it.
Please do. I really enjoy your objective criticisms.
Or just Apple Bike+
From what I'm seeing, most of the people asking are artists and musicians, and the apps they use are more RAM-hungry than the OS itself or the bundled Apple apps. However, I'm not sure what specific apps those are. Maybe they're ports from Windows, and their iOS-native competitors can make better use of GPU and ML hardware acceleration APIs, since those seem to be strengths of the A14 SoC.
That could very well be a possibility and something that researchers need to address if they wish to investigate this effect a bit further. We can make some educated guesses based on the supplemental table 3. Looking at the staging, grading, tumortype and the hormone receptor status, there don't seem to be any significant differences between the compliant and non-compliant groups. We know that those are the most important factors in assessing how aggressive a breast tumor is, with distinct treatment options and overall survival. So based on this information, I'm inclined to say the cause/effect is not reversed.

Of course, there could be some factors determining aggressiveness and response to chemotherapy that we do not know yet. Unfortunately I'm not in regular patient contact so can't say a whole lot about typical side effect profiles of chemotherapy, but I've heard some anecdotal evidence that for patients treated with immunotherapy, the more severe the side effects, the better the response.
No, the best response, if the devs truly felt the criticism was non constructive, was to ignore it.

Having read the posts, it seems perfectly reasonable criticism, with enactable improvement. The dev response seems immature (at best) to me.

To put it another way: if this was a commercial product and my team came whining to me about this, I'd tell them to grow up.
I’m personally not impressed much by Series 6. I was expecting a lot more on the hardware front, like longer battery life (beyond a day) and some more health related features (beyond blood oxygen measurement). I do expect the Apple Watch SE to sell very well for kids, since Family Setup lowers the barriers to having an Apple Watch.

Family Setup is limited to the cellular models and isn’t available for the GPS (non-cellular) models. I wonder how this works in terms of setup complexity. The current Apple Watch cellular has an E-SIM but shares the phone number of the iPhone its paired with. The Family Setup model would provide the ability to have one main watch sharing the iPhone’s number and the remaining watches having their own individual phone numbers.
The Computational Philosophy: Simulation as a Core Philosophical Method
"Not enough clarity about your role"

:-) Back when I interviewed at Google, this was their signature. If they made you an offer, it could be to work on any team, anywhere. Their choice.

"Consistent lack of interest or low morale from interviewers"

And this is why I never got a research job. Telcordia Research, 2004. The only group actually hiring was really doing product development. Everybody else left in the big, empty building were the people who hadn't already escaped.
There’s millions of people in this country that donate anonymously.

People’s ability to agree where money should be given isn’t great. Worse so when the people who are giving the most have less say in where it goes.

In my experience, most appeals like the above tend to be driven by the idea that they would make better decisions than the philanthropist.
Nouveau is only slow because about 5 years ago Nvidia started signing the card firmware, excluding Nouveau from using some features like setting appropriate clock speeds. They release some pared down firmware that Nouveau is allowed to use, but not after years from release have passed.

Before that mess (around the 900 series), nouveau was fast.