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I've always wondered why they can't just build a fingerprint sensor into a capacitive touchscreen. After all, a fingerprint sensor IS just a really high density capacitive touch sensor right? Or is that not right?

Google gives me no answers and I assumed it was not fundamentally impossible, just that it was two separate companies with two separate production lines making touchscreens and fingerprint sensors so it was hard in practice due to the realities of supply chains.

Many existing fingerprint sensors, like TouchID, were glass, and I wonder why they can't just make it bigger and put an OLED under that glass (even if it was only dense enough for fingerprints at one spot).

Yet here we are, 4 years after the downgrade too FaceID, and still not a single phone in existence with a capacitive fingerprint sensor in the screen.

Am I wrong about the technology or what?
Obviously no one would ever notice.

Horoscopes are the archetypal example of a thing that doesn't matter. "Filler" is the newpaper term, also said of the stories laid out between the ads (which weren't). Nowadays we say "content".

Winning didn't mean you were any smarter than average; the other guy was an idiot. But despite horoscopes being maximally random before they got to you, to which you therefore added exactly none, they have a purpose and a valid use that you failed to perceive, year after year, since. I don't use them; but people who do are not, thereby, wrong.

So, your smugness is a case of imagining yourself smarter than you turned out to be. In life, few will explain your mistakes to you so carefully.
> if you make 200.000/yr

Ok. Let's rephrase this. If you are in that category, you should take the loan on the lambo and invest whatever the principal WOULD have been and come out ahead instead of paying for the lambo in cash in one shot. Also goes for less frivolous purchases.

All I'm saying is your suggestion is a poor protip for the wealthy, and a better protip for the middle class e.g.

Also note that economists are mostly in the wealthy category and a good chunk of our socioeconomic woes come from economic policymakers (often implicitly [0]) normalizing harmless or good advice for the wealthy onto other stratas of society.

[0] e.g. "inflation is good because it decreases the real value of debt and lower classes benefit from that"
Blue Origin should have iterated on New Shepard until it was an orbital rocket. They could have lengthened it, increased the diameter and added engines to make it a functional orbital rocket and potentially had an orbital capsule with a parachute recovery system to boot. They've spent a lot of time and money developing New Shepard just to throw it all away.
It's all about the harmonics man: https://github.com/calebmadrigal/FourierTalkOSCON/blob/maste...
One conspiracy theory is that tech companies have lobbied to prevent real action on robo-calls, in order to get people like you to hate calls and migrate to online services.
I followed the attempted GME short squeeze on reddit and on the traditional news (like Associated Press and all the news sources linked to by yahoo and news section of financial apps). The reporting in traditional media was inaccurate and misleading to the point I doubt that was just poor job at reporting.
In her videos, etc, she talks about how she couldn't get a job because she's Monica Lewinsky, the lady that the president had an affair with in the 90s. It's been nearly 30 years.
It doesn't matter on Windows.
You probably can still get a real phone, but plugging a plain old phone into an optical network terminal, which converts to VoIP, has most of the virtue of POTS. I use a regular POTS device with Sonic fiber service and it sounds fantastic, with no noticeable latency.

Most of the problems with voice over mobile networks is caused by frame drops and wacky inter-arrival times. A wired IP network just doesn't have those problems.

Going back to the article/paper, I'd love to hear more about how Lyra interacts with Duo's machine-learned voice interpolation that fills in for dropped frames. Do they complement each other, or interfere?
Download the Mind Candy 2 DVD for Amiga demos: http://www.mindcandydvd.com/2/ It's a fantastic DVD that was released about 10-15 years ago as a physical disc and is now available for free. The demos were captured from real hardware and they went out of their way to ensure it was the highest quality capture at the time. It's a trip, and many of the releases have commentary tracks with their creators.

The volume 1 DVD on PC demos is equally good. The blu-ray #3 is great for later 2000's era and early hardware accelerated demos (I don't think this disc is a free download though).
I appreciate that Taibbi and Greenwald keep pointing out the revolving door between mainstream news media and the intelligence agencies. I don't think this gets nearly enough attention, or the idea of manufacturing consent in general.

Roberts' defense of mainstream media - the idea that they are pinnacles of trust and ethics - is threadbare at this point. She's fantasizing about an industry culture that doesn't exist (and may never have), demonstrably.

Spending $50/yr on Taibbi and/or Greenwald is some of the best investment you can do in journalism today.
There's also been an increase in violent hate crimes. https://www.npr.org/2020/11/16/935439777/fbi-report-bias-mot...
> bad math teaching is frequently authoritarian math teaching

I think the framing you mention is part of a broader effort to understand that in the U.S., authoritarianism is, overwhelmingly, racism. If you can think of a large, structured system in the U.S., you can usually think of ways that it (for some reason...) has worse outcomes for non-white people.
I submitted a patch to support decimal commas when parsing timestamps in Go in 2013. I thought this was a slam dunk because while major users of decimal dots include USA, China, India, and Japan, the decimal comma is used by pretty much every other country in the world. Going from ~40% support to ~99.9% support seemed like an obvious win.

Rob Pike politely declined the patch, commenting "I might prefer to leave it unaddressed for the moment. Proper locale treatment is coming (I hope soon) and this seems like the wrong place to start insinuating special locale handling into the standard library."

Three years later another Go team member commented that "Date localization is definitely still in the planning."

We're in year 8 now. The issue is still open. Rob Pike is still hoping.
The paper starts with a series of snippets designed to show off the unique abilities of C that are chock full of undefined behavior, and then argues that C can be used safely if only programmers and compiler writers were to agree to stay away from undefined behavior. I'm getting mixed messages here…

And the title, to me, evokes William Blake: "Some are Born to Endless Night".
Thanks for the question. We work on several traditional nlp and bionlp task, and a variety of models from SVMs to transformers, really what gets the job done.
I noticed the loudness, too, followed by a bit of a letdown with the subsequent odd artifacting. I was wondering whether that was also a factor in the user-perception ratings similar to how FM radio stations all started deploying compression to sound louder because it increased the odds of people favorably picking out their station while scanning through the spectrum.
I studied free expression in grad school and worked on advocacy in the tech space related to free expression, it's a topic I'm qualified to teach, and I have a lot of theoretical and practical experience to share with students. However, out of the most basic sense of self-preservation I would never consider teaching the topic and barely delve into it, even when teaching tech policy. I think the students are worse off for it, but it's not worth taking the career risk.
Sure, but this is an effect of people getting upset about it.

Start from any perfectly neutral expression X, and if people insist enough that it should not be used because it's offensive, then using it becomes a statement- either of indifference for the supposed offense or of active participation in it. The only way to use that expression innocently is to be completely unaware of the controversy around it- otherwise the expression has become tainted whatever your intention in using it.
Ever experienced european ISDN to european ISDN at 64kb/s ?

I know americans said 'I still don't need(it)' but I still do miss it :-)

Funny thing was I had better(and cheaper!) calls to the US using calling cards, dialing into Frankfurt, and from there to the US than using the native offer of my telco.
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> 1. Fixing/avoiding UBs requires discipline (and time) not all programmers have 2. Many programmers pointed to UB in their code would argue that it is not a problem at all

These points aren't wrong, but it understates how pernicious undefined behaviour can be. As I stated earlier, even well-resourced high-profile codebases like Chromium and the Linux kernel play cat-and-mouse with security issues originating in undefined behaviour. It's not just a matter of hiring diligent coders and using the usual quality-control processes (testing, code reviews, static analysis).

It's possible for C/C++ code to be entirely free of undefined behaviour, but in practice this only seems to happen when formal methods are used, or when people use code-generators/transpilers to avoid writing C/C++ by hand.
That’s C++17 you are talking about.
Liberals accuse leftists of working for Putin, being secretly pro-Trump (and therefore subject to all the same canceling as a normal Trump person), they actively blacklist and smear leftists. Ban their social media accounts, dox them, harass them...

Look at what the liberals have done to Tara Reade for instance. There's a group on Twitter called KHive that's dedicated to taking down leftists.

You just don't hear about this stuff as much because again, the neo-liberals control the media and they don't want to show you how much they punch left.
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If a virus/malware was running on your system as your user, it now has root access to your machine by doing nothing more than accessing the shell.
Sounds ideal. I really like the isolation of separate DB files per user.

In more complex systems though it feels like it's going to require quite a bit of orchestration.

The big option that SQLite opens up though is portability - I imagine one day just saying to customers that they can download their database and interface with it themselves or shift it to another provider.
How far should we push this? I was watching someone (an American because I guess it's relevant) narrate a game on stream and he wouldn't say "niggling" out loud.
I mean, there's a dude who ate an airplane.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito
Goya's CEO, this weekend, continued to push the lie that Trump was cheated out of the election which directly lead to the 1/6 attacks.

Is boycotting Goya in response to that a bad thing? Should #boycottgoya hashtags on social media be deleted, for example?
Heh, we generally cover all of that with a direct debit across the pond, both in the UK and EU (through SEPA). There isn't really a notion of an 'automatic bill paying service', you offer the provider the mandate to take payment from your account. This mandate is fully transferable and revocable and encoded in a standardised format.

You wouldn't be able to run a bank without it. Most monthly outgoings will be through such an agreement.

(I've worked on such systems. XML up the wazoo but you're expected to be able to cryptographically verify a mandate years after the fact, for auditing purposes, so the format works. And it's all API'd up.)
The difference now is social media makes it easier for media outlets to publish libel as fact from unverified accusations solely interpreted as fact
We really need a right left coalition of Anti-Cancelling advocates, calling out both close minded rural conservative communities, and close minded liberal communities living on Twitter. Ideally, with those on the right calling out the conservatives and those on the left calling out the liberals.
Does that really mean that the rate of thinking is slower though? I would say it just means that the rate of conclusions from all of the thinking might be slower.
I've just taken a minute to confirm what my ears told me in Audacity. Please have a look at this screenshot: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/Qma41RMzieQ6ZGdGem9rLxnxEL1...

The Lyra version is clearly much louder. This is a serious problem and it borders on being reasonable to call it "cheating".

It's well known in the audio biz that if you ask people to compare two experiences, and one of them is a bit louder than the other, people will say that the louder one was better, or came through more clearly, or whatever it is you're trying to market for. For the purpose of comparing artifacts in two samples, it's absolutely crucial that they be the same volume. You might as well compare two image compression codecs where one of them "enhances" the colors of the original image.

Note: I took the clips for this comparison from the "clean speech" examples at the original source on Googleblog, not the blogspam.
It's one thing to get cancelled for writing a song making fun of the president and pissing off a ton of the neoliberal and neocon establishment when you're entertainment superstars who are supposed to know a thing or two about not pissing off the establishment.

It's another thing for some nobody to lose a job as a stock broker because they made a joke about the 3/5ths compromise that was funny enough to go viral on TikTok where it then pissed off some other nobodies and then all the blue checks piled on.

The Dixie chicks were playing with fire and they knew it. Some rando isn't.
Thanks for posting this. I was unaware they had shifted their strategy towards reusability.
This seems like an old bug of iCloud I had experience years ago. Where if you had some sort of non-perfect iCloud Backup restore process it would take up so much space for no reason.

There is also the iMessage bomb and iCloud Photo bug. But those were a long time ago and I haven't heard about it for years.

So yes best to do Factory Reset. And I know it is a pain. I have lots of people around me who just refuse to update apps and iOS anymore. ( But Apple is now actively courting them to do so )
They do in those communities.

And Donald Trump and Fox News have a heck of a lot of cultural and institutional power.
It's not the same and it's not represented as strings in Lisp, but I'm not going to commit further. You can read up on homoiconicity and Lisp on the internet, then you will see the difference.
It's a choice between being spied on by the West or the East.
The extension retrieves a (few) Bloom filter(s). In case you're unfamiliar, Bloom filters are data structures approximately equivalent to condensed representations of all of the post URLs.

The code uses GitHub Actions to generate Bloom filters once every 24 hours, corresponding to the update frequency of the Hacker News BigQuery database that it pulls from. The 16MB Bloom filter for all stories ever has about 4M entries at the moment. As far as I know, this is every single story that has been previously submitted to HN.

Since Bloom filters are just long bit strings, you can OR them together to add stuff. This means you can download a smaller Bloom filter to update your current one, rather than downloading 16MB files all the time. The extension also auto-adds any stories linked on news.ycombinator.com pages you visit, so that stories too new to be in the Bloom filter are still added.
A password can be stolen by looking over someone's shoulder, a fingerprint can MAYBE be stolen with advanced technology and high-resolution photos of the person's fingers
Yeah, I think java had the right idea, but the ergonomics didn't turn out great, so they didn't get the buy in they'd hoped for. Having both checked and unchecked exceptions (ie, NPEs) meant it doesn't offer the same safety guarantees as something like rust does. The implementation of exceptions can also have some implications for the runtime, whereas the enum method of error handling allows you to run in very minimal environments and easily see what's going on. (Exceptions could be implemented this way under the hood, but they often aren't)
I wonder what the OP means by "globalists" and "internationalists". Are there any other words that he or she could use in place of those? Hmm.
I have a suspicion that “safe” and “secure” are two different things.
I can’t explain why, but having the top bezel be thicker than the bottom just looks pain wrong to me. Outside of that, I think it looks fine. The running joke is that it’s called the UltraFine because it’s the most “ugh, fine” monitor you can get for $1200.

Appearance aside, anecdotally I’ve seen numerous reports of quality control issues (dirty screen effect, backlight bleed, pinstripes, wobbly stand, etc).
Can't comment on how the taxes are spent but having US citizenship can give you access to their job market, in tech this can be a valuable benefit. Op's kids will be able to renounce their citizenship should they wish.
I was commenting on the stuffed title. Not the content. That is why I specified that I had only read the title - because the comment was about the title.

My point was your point - pretty much exactly. You just assumed malintent, which is a problem HN seems to have.

If you want a title to be meaningful, stop stuffing it with words that don't accurately describe your tech.

"Bastion - Developer-friendly actors in Rust" would be a simpler title that clearly explained exactly what the library aimed for, with the details in the readme. From that, I would be interested in exactly which guarantees the library provided.

"Highly-Available" and "Fault-Tolerant" are the two most common of the three basic dist-sys principals chosen by projects (the third being netsplit tolerance, which is very rare compared to the number of other dist-sys technologies). Therefore, they tell me little.

"Distributed" can mean a number of things by itself - concurrent programming, GPUs, etc. are all "distributable". Of course, though, it's a buzzword, and thus could mean just about anything here.

A "runtime" when applied to a language usually means a standard or official supporting library runtime. You don't call ncurses a "runtime". To me, it meant that it took the Rust standard library and somehow made it "distributed", which made very little sense.

So yes, I read only the title. And I had something to say about the title. Shoot me.
Ooh that's a really good idea. I'm gonna try throwing something like that together for the dev team. Thanks for the inspiration!
I think this is a perfect example of the difference, in fact. The first, corect, example could be either, but the second example shows a kind of mistake that couldn't really be made by a language model. Your son used (faulty) inference to deduce (1) silence:sound as clear:color, (2) distance => silence, therefore (3) distance => transparency. Premises 1 and 2 may be in the language training corpus, but conclusion 3 is definitely not, but still he produced this sentence.

Another example is that human language use is clearly related to non-verbal situations. You can show me two fruit and I can say which is bigger without any language prompting.

It may be true that our language faculty is in fact acting similarly to these LMs, but the overall human mind must somehow include a component that translates from our senses to language and back to motor control. There may or may not be other components as well, but this part is definitely required, and highly non-trivial.
Looks like the new rocket will be made from stainless-steel rings, like Starship.

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I don't think I would want to be friends with him, or socialize with him.

But I think there has to be a different, higher, standard to run someone out of a profession.
No, because the number of people who participate in an action influence its justness.

When 1 person decides to make a new law, that's autocracy, and it's a bad thing. When a supermajority of voters decide to make a new law, that's democracy, and it's a good thing.

When a couple dozen editors, CEOs, and DJs decided to end the Dixie Chicks' careers by banning them from access to all channels of outreach to the public, that was a bad thing and also censorship.

When tens of millions of people decided they don't want to go to Louis CK's shows anymore and he's finding it hard to find an audience as a result, there's nothing wrong with that. Lots of people independently deciding that they don't like you is not censorship.
Sadly floppy disks will lose their magnetism over time. There will be a point in the not too distant future that all original copies of computer work on floppy are dead forever. If you have any old disks with old data, now (or realistically 10 years ago) is the time to get them backed up somewhere safe.
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If you're going to cite Snowden, please be accurate.

Remember that one of the leaks was that the NSA tapped unencrypted Google backhaul in transit without Google's knowledge.

There's a difference between panopticon fearmongering and citing specific information we should be wary of. The former leads to apathy. The latter leads to action.
Exactly correct.

"If you or someone else enters your password, security questions, or other account information incorrectly too many times, your Apple ID automatically locks to protect your security and you can't sign in to any Apple services."

There is then an immediate unlock option with a trusted device or recovery key etc. There are other recovery methods if you don't have 2FA. If you don't have 2FA you are in security question land, which is more heavily rate limited even beyond this for recovery.
Connection with the Clinton Impeachment doesn't seem like a cancel culture thing. That's just normal infamy, and while it sucks it's not relevant.
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