skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple is consistently better on privacy, actually, than competitors.

Among Apple, Amazon, and Google; only Apple's phones and tablets send your location to Apple every time you use GPS (even if you're not using an Apple app like Apple Maps!). Among those three companies, only Apple requires you to tell Apple every app you install. Among those three companies, only Apple requires you to further associate your banking details with all that data collection if you want to develop apps for your own device.

That is not an honest commitment to privacy. The other two companies let you opt out of all data collection entirely on your devices.

You're absolutely right that it's not a close call.

To millstone because downvotes prevent me from replying: that is data that the users voluntarily gave Google (like their email and documents), and Google collects that data from its services on iOS as well. On Android, you don't have to give Google any of your data at all. It even makes it easy to not send data to Google by letting you choose a default maps application, browser, etc. Compare to Apple, where you must give your location data to Apple if you want to know where you are on iOS, and there is nothing you can do about it. One is clearly worse. Making light of not being able to develop apps for your own devices without handing over banking details is something I never thought I would see on a forum for technologists.
If you prefer a book, take a gander at "The Perfectionists" by Simon Winchester. If you enjoy the pedantry of accuracy vs precision (or wish you did), this book is for you.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. It's definitely important to be aware of potential biases.
I wish the Vitamin D science was more nailed down.

I am currently taking 7000 UI daily, because medic told me to do so, thing is... even the same medic, sometimes told me to take another dose, because he forgot I was already taking it, when I told him what I was taking, his reply was... "huh... that I think is about right".

My experience with other medics weren't better.

Also some were AGAINST me taking Vitamin D, because 7000 UI is viewed by many medics as toxic, but I have hypothyroidism, and one of its issues is that some people show vitamin D deficiency symptons even with correct blood serum levels (and the symptons go away only after forcing the levels go higher than normal), telling that to medics also resulted in mixed results, some said they would read more, some got mad at me, some agreed with me.
Eh, I mean Apple's entire business has been to do what others are doing, but 10x better.
Japan's central bank's assets are 690 trillion yen... Their GDP is 505 trillion yen. 136% of GDP. Ouch.
I doubt this will happen but I’m sure there will YouTube videos on how to eradicate your tv of this plague
You're right about not being able to pair as a Bluetooth speaker, but there are some advantages of Airplay (if you're using an Apple device). No pairing required (just shows up as an output device), no wrangling of Bluetooth connections to switch devices.

Surprisingly, it also supports peer to peer play if you don't have a wifi connection.
These new sanctions are for interfering in the 2020 elections, on behalf of the Trump campaign, who didn't adequately punish them for their interference in the 2016 election. Which might go to motive for why those first sanctions were so unevenly enforced.
I was comparing the 12 and 12 Pro to the base 11 and XR, not the 11 Pro. Base 11 and XR had the same 6.1" screen size as the 12 lineup, the 11 Pro has a smaller screen (5.85", identical to the X/XS and not present in the 12 lineup anymore).
I get an extra 5mm bezel from my case ;)
You are dismissing the paper's authors when they say "exposure levels and durations in our studies were greater than what people experience" by assuming they're ignorant of exposure levels and durations that people experience.
Outdoors. It doesn't propagate through walls very well.

I wonder if there isn't going to be an outside 5g to inside wifi bridge as a thing.
Beyond routine vitamin D supplementation, there is an intriguing letter from Dr. Gerry Schwalfenberg claiming success in treating respiratory viral infections with high doses. Hopefully someone will conduct a clinical trial to see if that treatment protocol has any effect on COVID-19.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463890/
"Just following orders" - literal nazis

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders
I'd argue that technology like that has a habit of encoding ideological biases in a way to the point that a CIA-Thiel joint venture is probably not the best base for a socialist economic infrastructure.
Apple unveils Intercom feature for iPhone, iPad, HomePod, and AirPods
we've got one and have never used it for anything other than plugging in the laptop via hdmi. it just happened to be a decent deal and nice picture - the "smart" aspect was completely ignored.
This is why I occasionally take vitamins, but not everyday. It's easy to over do it and cause more harm than good.
I get ~100mbps at home over LTE, which is the same as my cable connection.

Edit: In the US.
The best camera is the one you have on you.

I almost always have my phone, whereas I am not carrying (lugging) my dslr or even my mirrorless around. No thanks.

Unless you are printing these photos, the iphone's cameras are more than adequate for posting online.
I think what you're seeing is the end of that.
Iphone uses orignial kinect style lidar which throws IR beam and captures back results (apple bought primesense which was the manufacturer of original kinect) , These lidar don't work that good under direct sunlight, So cannot be used in cars.
Embedding Tableau is becoming very popular too.
> As a starting point for establishing clarity, do you recognize/understand that one of the core ideas of his theme is human agency? ... Eg, the question he discusses in the talk you link to: if AI could (someday) do everything (some very broad range of things), then what is the point of human life?

Yes, and I disagree with that framing of humanity. It is at best fundamentally nihilist and at worst reduces human value to its ability to do work and produce value (ironic given is Marxist interpretation of data annotators). AI is a threat in Jaron's framing because is displaces humans ability to do work and therefore devalues human life. Existence in of itself is meaningful and I believe we define meaning for ourselves. I find his framing of humanity deeply problematic.

>If your answers are going to emphasize convenience & improvements and opportunities for better consumption, then you are ignoring the fundamental premise of the question... Are you saying you’d prefer he stops asking inconvenient questions?

I don't see why having a pragmatic critique of his position misses his point. I have critical theory background and its been valuable for framing the world and being self-reflexive in my work as an AI researcher.

The problem with his framing is that there is no space for engagement in the present. He seems resigned that world will overtaken by AI (he's literally said that both in the talk above and elsewhere). I live the present and believe (perhaps naively) I have some agency to impact the future. I rather see critical conversations converge towards helping us create a better future (specifically have discussions on how to do AI research ethically).
It looks like a 5G array puts out about 120 Watts[1], and that's not attempting to calculate drop-off due to distance, while the sun puts out an exposure of 1,000 W/m2[2] on the Earth's surface at much much higher frequencies (5G tops out at 3Ghz, light starts at 430 THz - we know that the greater the frequency the greater the harm). Really, if we are worried about 5G then normal sunlight is in most measures orders of magnitude worse.

[1]https://www.grandmetric.com/2019/03/26/5g-health-issues-expl...
[2]https://ag.tennessee.edu/solar/Pages/What%20Is%20Solar%20Ene...
I still use a 6S because of the headphone jack, lots of long conference calls where my Airpods die and being able to quickly switch to a plug-in headset (while the phone is on a charger!) is such a convenience.

If they can have a camera bump for the cameras, why not a little bump for a headset jack???
How did he get to 22%? The fed balance sheet is 7 trillions now, it was about 4 trillons at the beginning of the year. I’d say it’s more like 40%.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
Do note that "custom allocator" can often just be "take what malloc gives you and carve it up yourself" rather than "interpose malloc"; there's usually no need to drop the system allocator completely. This lets you experiment with your own custom pools or arenas without having to go all in and make something general-purpose that works for every object in your program.

> Over the years, I’ve wasted many hours debugging memory issues. With just a hash table and a set of linked lists, you can track the history of all your allocations. That makes it pretty easy to track down use after free errors, double free errors, and memory leaks. Using guard pages around your allocations, you can detect overflows.

No, just use address sanitizer–it's meant for this. Odds are your custom allocator might have a few bugs in itself and they will make you life more annoying if you're trying to use it for only this.
Actually, that it's not how it works in practice.

The credit department of a bank, doesn't check if the bank have enough reserves before lending. They only check if the new lending make senses from a business perspective. If it does, it concede the credit to the customer.

The bank is legally obliged to have the reserves, so, a posteriori (and not before) the bank will try to get the reserves in the inter-bank market (from other banks). If there are not enough reserves in the system the price of the reserves will go up. That's the interest rate.

Central banks don't target the quantity of reserves, they only care about the interest rate. So, if they want to keep the interest rate in their target, they have to create new reserves. So, it's the lending what create reserves, not the other way around.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m...

http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=6617

http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=14620
The AI way of thinking is: AI is better than humans, and that it will replace our labor and our decisions. Therefore we must focus and invest in AI, as well as fear it, because it is taking over.

The damage done is obvious. We discount human agency and human labor in the face of this idea. Products are being sold based on this idea. Foreign and domestic policy, security and privacy, and private and public funding are being redirected by this idea.

If one were to simply replace "AI" with "machine learning", which is the name of the actual technology in most of these cases, in most of these contexts the hype and ideology would go away. And with it take away the attention and the money. We would then be able to focus on better things.
do you always trust the government's definitions of things?

Suppose the government defined "eastern time zone" to be a geographical area. And you live in western indiana, and commute to work in chicago.

Suppose the government defined "torture" to not include "waterboarding".
"pay that much for such complexity"... FWIW, we shaved 50%+ off our compute bill and lowered complexity by moving from servers to serverless.

Just because it doesn't work for your situation doesn't mean it doesn't work at all.
Yet again I'm glad to have unlimited Google Drive storage on my university alumni account. (You might too; check and see!)
Thanks for the feedback. Agreed that the platform will get adopted based on what it helps people do.

The goal is to create a direct link between the people on websites and the people building them, website maintainers.

Where that ties in with the purpose is that if all this information about how websites are doing well by their users (or not) is in public view, maintainers have an incentive to answer directly to them.
人 is 2 strokes tho
Or if you have 3.1 (or better) stereo set up, you could probably just turn the center channel higher relative to the rest to increase dialog (which is usually on the center channel).
The English and Chinese Wikipedia articles about the dialect will usually have at least some useful information e.g. about the phonology and maybe links to other resources.

You can also try Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:About_Chinese#Abou...

https://xiaoxue.iis.sinica.edu.tw/ccr/ has IPA pronunciations for single characters across many different dialects.

https://forvo.com/languages-codes/ may have some recorded vocabulary.

https://github.com/laubonghaudoi/Chinese_Rime has input methods for many dialects that can also be abused as a dictionary (associating romanization with Chinese characters you can look up).

https://xefjord.wixsite.com/xefscompletelangs/courses#comp-k... may have flashcards if you're lucky.

You'll probably also want to make your own flashcards. https://github.com/ppwwyyxx/wechat-dump is helpful for getting voice messages out of WeChat.

If you want to practice by passive listening, you can try http://phonemica.net/ , searching on https://youku.com/ or check whether there's a local TV station that has programs in dialect.

Reading material will be almost impossible to find, but maybe there's a bible translation from the 19th century or something.

Also check whether there's a local language preservation group.

Finally, https://zhongguoyuyan.cn/ is supposed make a lot of material available to the public soonish (right now I get a certificate error in Firefox, but you can see the landing page in a less strict browser).
Same. I'm not klutz, but at least 4x per year I drop my phone in a way that it really wouldn't like without the case.
Which I can get as admin by installing a program to read your key presses
Yeah, that'll be a differentiator for me. We have a few Echo Dots, which are pretty neat devices, but I'm not a huge fan of providing audio to Amazon and Google. Also, my neighbor was getting swatted and narrowed it down to his Echo Dots.
Nearly every other cloud storage provider did the same thing. The only difference is the timing.
My organization narrowly avoided a business-crushing event a few months ago. Years of optimistic promises were finally put to rest and the sobering reality came to light: our legacy migration is, at best, going to be done in 3-5 years.

We were just barely within the window to order a pair of new servers before the Itanium order book closed forever. Naturally, our old servers are too old for VSI to support, so HP was willing to sell us a license to give us time to migrate from the old legacy servers to the new legacy servers. It came with a warning that THIS IS THE LAST OPENVMS LICENSE YOU WILL EVER GET FROM HP AND YOUR CEO MUST SIGN THIS BEFORE WE GIVE IT TO YOU.
The lens is better, yes, however the sensor on the pro max is significantly larger, so I think it's basically a wash.
According to Spotify, it’s Apple that’s making life hard for them [0].

And here is Apple’s rebuttal [1]

[0] https://www.timetoplayfair.com/timeline/

[1] https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/03/addressing-spotifys-c...
It's obvious - your magsafe iphone becomes part of your keyring! GREAT...

Knowing my luck, the phone will pull my keys out of my pocket and hold on JUST long enough for them to fall into a sewer grate
How many of those washer/dryer units do you think they sold? Hundreds of thousands? If it's a super common model, maybe millions?

Google and Facebook each have 3-4 orders of magnitude more customers. I'm not sure manning phones is realistic.
And this article is about Finland. Seattle is 47N LAT, Helsinki is 60N. That's around how far north Whitehorse is in the Yukon - very little Vitamin D is possible from sun exposure that far north.
I haven't read that book and I'm not going to pretend that I have. I'll take that as a reading suggestion.
No easy way to charge per viewer, so they gotta price it once-sized-fits-all.
It was once thought that the money supply was directly related to inflation, but they were never the same thing. The classic equation was MV = PY, and M (the money supply) and P (the price level) are different. They are only proportional (according to this equation) if everything else remains the same.

In any case, the "money supply" is an abstract macroeconomic variable with multiple possible definitions. Why do we care about it? Because it might have a real-world effect on us via price changes.

Gathering data about prices directly is a better way of understanding price levels (and inflation) than mucking around with less measurable quantities.

To the extent that the money supply matters, it's because it might result in higher prices in the future. But this doesn't seem to happen in any mechanical way. Just because people have money doesn't mean they want to spend it. In the classic equation, V (the velocity of money) can slow down.

This is particularly true when we are talking about institutions and rich people who already have savings. Higher numbers in their bank accounts doesn't automatically result in more spending, either by them, by the banks, or by companies whose stock prices get bid up.

It would matter more if the money went to people who actually need to spend it.
Tuisto, the legendary ancestor of the Germanic peoples
What do you mean by the last part? Swatted, as in having a SWAT team called to his house? What role did the Echo play in that?
A calculator cannot write a novel or learn to do a new task

There is a fundamental difference between an AGI that can perform any human task and a tool that can only do one task.

So far there has always been something only humans can do, so they get hired. But when the true AGI can do anything, humans are obsolete.
I spend a fair percentage of my recreation time outside in California and as far as I can tell, if you work indoors and wear sunscreen outdoors it's probably hard to get enough vitamin D from the sun, anywhere.
Okay, that is a valid point. There's clearly a lot of unnecessary overhead with the expand button in issues.
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> A similar scenario is sceen in India where most antibiotics are available OTC, something "unthinkable" in the US.

That seems very dangerous, and extremely bad public health policy. There are major concerns with anti-biotic resistant bacteria. I came across an article from 2017 suggesting the government clamped down on this. Is it still the case that anti-biotics can be purchased without prescription?

https://www.outsourcing-pharma.com/Article/2017/01/16/Indian...

Also, I'm confused, I can easily buy over the counter Vitamin D supplements in the US. Is the dosage of those not large enough?
Hmm, interesting. And a "Misconceptions" section might also help immunize readers too. I wonder if the WP community would find that acceptable? K-12 teaching has been increasingly dealing explicitly with misconceptions, so at some point it might become unremarkable. I'm afraid a sentence or paragraph in isolation, would eventually be edited out.

Checking my personal touchstones, WP currently has the color of the Sun correct, yay. Though there's a bogus " spectral class. As such, it is informally and not completely accurately referred to as a yellow dwarf (its light is closer to white than yellow).", misunderstanding what spectral class "yellow" means, and then creatively flailing to reconcile that. On Stellar_classification, the Vega-relative chromaticity background colors look wrong, which perhaps doesn't help.

One challenge is handling incorrect graphics like [1] (that Planck curve isn't going through white, either from broken code, which used to be common, or there used to be some incorrect math on the web). The graphic is used in many articles. But there have been several such over the years, correct and incorrect. So adding comments to the graphic won't help long-term. I suppose a Misconceptions section could be added to the Chromaticity article, in the hope that the next person to swap in a pretty but incorrect chromaticity diagram, might notice that, as they haven't noticed the associated Talk. Might work? Or, hmm, setting up some later reader to recognize the problem, and giving them the confidence to fix it? Focus on facilitating repair, rather than on prevention? Intriguing.

Correctness seems socially hard. I saw an high-profile OER intro astronomy text, that was obviously written thinking the Sun was yellow. All the graphics have it yellow. But text sections dealing with color, were seemingly edited just enough, that through ambiguity and incoherence, the authors could say "we didn't say that - we don't have it wrong", even if there's no chance students were surviving that minefield intact. As was pointed out to them, on their nice public errata ticket system, and closed as WONTFIX. An important part of why science works, is people fearing being embarrassed in front of their colleagues, but for reasons I don't understand, problems like this don't seem to trigger that, so even long-term, they don't get fixed. If one could figure out how to dial up the embarrassment, that might have a broad non-trival impact on the quality of science education content.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PlanckianLocus.png
That seems like a poor design in apt. Does any other package manager allow such a thing? I know Arch's pacman has no autoremove - you have to gather a list of unneeded packages then remove them as a separate step. And Gentoo's emerge builds a dependency tree rooted in the @world package set, so if kde-plasma/plasma-meta is there it will never be removed by an automatic depclean.
This Planet money episode addresses the whole topic of where the Fed is getting all the money from, and how inflation fits into the picture. I found it pretty helpful.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/821787090
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There are any number of videos of people who swear dowsing works, who swear that dowsing works for a given test environment, for which it indeed works ... until they don't actually know where the water is.

There's a famous series of such challenges as part of the $1 million dollar paranormal challenge - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Million_Dollar_Paranormal_...

Here's a (long) example video, from many years ago in Australia: https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=122 . The test starts at https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=764 . You'll see the 12 testees were confident that the test system was valid, and they would be correct.

And after they failed (110 test runs with water, brass, and gold) - https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=1947 - they came up with rationalizations - https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=2242 - for why they failed - exactly as Randi predicted.

Randi at https://youtu.be/cqoYrSd94kA?t=1030 says he did this to persuade people like you that dowsing doesn't work.
There is obviously a market for big phones, though it was always odd to me that Apple went from a normal sized (now small) phone to big and even bigger.

There are obviously various profit motivations. Bigger phones are easier to throw more tech in since you're less constrained by physical size while also making the devices thinner. There was also no risk of losing market share since nobody makes smaller phones anymore. And lastly, most people still bought the product that was available.

I am excited to see this return to a smaller form factor. I hope we can get a Pro model eventually and decouple budget and size.
looks like a video game