skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pencil was intimately tied to the generation of iPad. The iPad had to have specific support for connecting to the corresponding generation of pencil. They could only enable the new pencil as they redesigned the iPads. They are now going through their iPad line and updating the designs which allows them to switch to the new pencil.
Punished for the Sins of Their Fathers
To me I was never a huge Norm Macdonald fan, but that clip just shows how great of a comedian he was. I mean, the joke itself isn't anything special, but his delivery is so good that he has you just waiting with anxious anticipation throughout the whole thing that when he got to the punchline I really lol'ed. Mad respect.
They're adding Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE but not, for example, Sweden, Norway or Denmark. I don't see anything plausible in that.

That's not even to mention features like ECG that are certified EU-wide, yet only available in half of the EU countries, 4 years after launch.

These country limitations are truly mind-boggling. It's as if they put a map on a dartboard when making these decisions.
About to go from a 7 to a 13 Pro, and expecting a nice bump in speed...
You've described the view of most nationals of any country about their country's foreign policy.

Remember '03 when two thirds of Americans seemed utterly convinced that Iraq was an existential threat to the security and prosperity of the United States? Or '21, when half of Americans have suddenly remembered that they actually want other people's children to continue fighting a forever war in Afghanistan?
Basically groups may have physical characteristics. European nations starting from at least the 1500s began using these physical/religious groupings to mark certain groups for predatory expropriation and premature death.

To quote Ruth Wilson Gilmore: “The racial in racial capitalism isn’t secondary, nor did it originate in color or intercontinental conflict, but rather always group-differentiation to premature death. Capitalism requires inequality and racism enshrines it.”[1]

Cedric J. Robinson (among others) have discussed how capitalism and racialization are continually co-created.

1. Abolition Geography and the problem of innocence, in Futures of Black Radicalism.
Personally, the wallet, health tracking, and music w/o phone is enough to justify the purchase for me. Actually, jogging / exercising without my phone is enough to justify the cost.
Maybe it’s a cover-up for a company-paid party week in Ibiza? Who knows… ;-)
I know you meant this as nothing more than a dig at the US (yawn), but if anything that lends credence to his argument. They've seen the playbook and they're gonna try their hand at it now. If they're successful, then it becomes yet another chapter in the book on the rise and fall of empires that my grandson will write a high school essay on.
Your argument has holes.

- If the vaccine is safe.

- If the vaccine is cheaper (directly and logistically).

- If tracking the vaccine is easier.

Why add the natural immunity workflow? It doesn't make sense. You've just added a bunch of complexity for no stated payoff. Again, this entire argument hinges on the first question being answered "no" or "maybe not."

You yourself admit that that is your actual reason:

> Furthermore we literally have ZERO data on the long-term effects of the mrna vaccines. Plenty of drugs have been found to cause harm 5, 10, 15 years after being approved.

The "but efficacy" response is confusing at best. If the vaccine does literally nothing for natural immune people, it can still be the logical course of action at population scales for the other stated benefits (logistical, tracking, and cost).
That's really interesting. What's this effect called? I'd love to learn more about it. This topic fascinates me to no end!
> researchers discovered what is known as an inverse square relation between the number of people in a given urban location and the distance they traveled to get there

The found that the frequency of visiting a place, multiplied by the distance traveled (rf) forms a stable parameter which can be used as a single dependent variable. There is then an (approximate, statistically fitted) inverse square law involving this combined variable. Or two square laws.

If we hold frequency constant (say "once a month" or whatever), then the number of people visiting some place drops off inverse square with distance. If 400 people are willing to visit some place once a month that is 10 km away, about 100 once-a-month visitors will come from 20 km away.

Or if we hold distance constant: if 400 people are visiting some place that is 10 km away once a month, about 100 will be visiting twice a month.

> It accurately predicts, for instance, that the number of people coming from two kilometers away five times per week will be the same as the number coming from five kilometers twice a week.

It doesn't predict this; rather this frequency-distance product being a stable parameter is a discovery from the data, on which the formula is then based. I.e this frequency-distance product becomes a model assumption baked into the formula, not a prediction.
600/1.2 = 500

I think it’s correct? Now I’m confused too

Edit: yup was wrong. Read reply for right calculations.
If only they had solved this pairing problem elsewhere, maybe like the airpods.
I was always curious about how people fill up all that space now that most of content is streamed... Can you share what's your use case? Do you shoot a lot of video or something like that?
Portfolio diversification? Staff engineers already have plenty of exposure to tech through their jobs?
This guy was so funny :(
I think there's potential for a whole new category in this space for wearable EEG's which really only 1 company is playing in at the moment. There's a million possibilities with the right hardware and software.
Probably - iirc FSA regulate that stuff and can be quite pernickety about what they'll allow.
If they continue to sell the older versions they have usually a very light discount (50-100$). However you might get bigger discounts if you get one with a contract from a network operator, which wants to clear stock of those.
> I watched some of the youtube, and in the thought experiment she proposes she take a continuous trait(height) and arbitrarily splits it into two buckets. And talks about how this is kinda silly.

Something can be continuous but still very clustered, and the extent to which it's "silly" depends on the uniformity of the distribution. It can still be useful to label the clusters in the distribution.

Another reason to subdivide a continuous dimension is that there could be a threshold after which some other dependent variable begins its inflection point (think of a hockeystick distribution). For example, there's probably some blood pressure value beyond which we begin to rapidly see serious adverse health effects--it's useful to call this "hypertension" or something. For another example, there's a threshold for the average temperature of the planet beyond which global warming "runs away". These are useful thresholds even though the dimensions are continuous.
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I agree and apparently it's finally being removed in on the 14.
His interview on Conan with Courtney Thorne-Smith is one my favorite videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F6dXcW-_Fc
For me, I love it. It's even more useful when using Apple Maps' directions for walking and not having to pull the phone out of my pocket.
"Trying to work across party lines" went out the window when the Republicans decided that "prevent absolutely anything the Democrats want to do, no matter how objectively beneficial it would be or whether it was fully supported by Republicans in the past" was a viable and acceptable method of getting re-elected.
Git was created to be distributed. Endorsing an account-required, closed-source platform is not the best play for Git as platform (nothing wrong with it having accounts, and the account providing an improved experience). IMO, it is important regardless of what platform's in vogue to use a more generic term here.
yes, an underappreciated aspect, splashy advertising has mutliple audiences, not the least of which are (potential) shareholders. tim's (and many others') comp literally depends on it.
Woz being the good guy again
This is a good thought, but for all of said group to have the condition would be concerning.
We’re in 2021, why wouldn’t a watch last a month. I don’t know, use e-ink, use something else than bluetooth, have a solar panel behind the screen, innovate!
It charges to 80% in 45 mins. I don't wear it overnight, but some friends who do, charge it in the office without much of an impact to usage.

For me it's never been a problem, it wouldn't have changed my usage pattern to have 1 week of battery.
Also relevant: Single-Pass Online Statistics Algorithms

[1] http://www.numericalexpert.com/articles/single_pass_stat/
You can turn off turn notifications in the watch settings if its distracting. I find that I never look at the car screen and I miss turns and I have the gps audio muted to not interrupt my podcasts. The watch vibrating on upcoming turns is super useful to me.
Marketing links have no place on HN, but until the mods recognise this fact, it's actually refreshing to see people call out marketing bullshit.
Right but is that, shines red light on your gums, or kills bacteria with red light?
GPS, fitness tracking, music, calls, text if I'm out on a run (LTE required), 2-factor auth, Apple Pay.

It's not a must have, but it has a lot of good uses for me.
I focus heavily on continuing education, as schedule and energy allow.
Isn't this the same story the CIA pulled out of their asses as cover while trying to secretly salvage a sunken soviet nuclear submarine?

[…°] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer

And very probably destroying all sorts of marine ecosystems while being at it? In an industrial way, I mean.
reminds me of that tragedy
if (transactionInvalid > 5) {
if (accountPossiblyFraudulent) {
sendAccountCancellationEmail(accountid))
stripeBackEnd.closeUserAccount()
}
}

It's disgraceful that there isn't multiple layers of careful analysis and INCLUDING personal reachout before canceling an account.

Big companies like Stripe need to be reigned in with legislation because they wield the power to destroy businesses and they do it without care.

Where is Stripes ombudsman - a customer advocate - an independent person with CEO level power within Stripe who's primary duty is to customers and is a channel of last resort when your normal support channels have failed? Why don't you have this?

How can you allow Hacker News to be the channel of last resort?

You're running a financial services company and doing it as though it's unimportant to cancel someones ability to invoice.

The lack of protection for your customers is why companies like Stripe need much tougher regulation.

In fact, you as the co-founder of Stripe should NOT be answering here on Hacker News. You should make it a point to NOT personally resolve such issues because if you have to, then you are acknowledging serious failure in your companies systems and serious letdown of your customers. In fact you should be appalled that Stripe so fails it's customers that they must go to social media to solve valid problems. You should simply be able to rely on some lower level person in Stripe finding this and posting a short message saying "please contact our ombudsman", and being assured that your ombudsman will give it due and fair consideration.

So surely this is not the only time Stripe has mistakenly cancelled an account - but this is the one case where the person who's account was cancelled was able to get their issue on the front page of Hacker News. Therefore is can be said that many people have their accounts mistakenly cancelled by Stripe and have no recourse - again where is your ombudsman?

This is serious systemic failure of Stripe. And the worst thing is it is not just Stripe - this is what people have now come to expect from giant companies that are a critical part of business - such as Apple's app store - people now expect that the company might one day send a random email saying, in effect that your business is over. You can't or won't fix it, so the law should.

Stripe founder need to hear this: "sorry" ain't enough.
Notifications on my wrist let me receive phone calls/alarms without waking up my partner. That is probably my big reason, but since I use it for that, I also use it for run tracking and fitness+ app.
Show HN: Blink Counter (to help with dry eyes)
Yearly deltas sure, but if you upgrade your phone every 3 or 4 years, it can feel like an improvement.
Poor phrasing on my side, I apologize. Your argument has not been debunked, it's still a bad one.

1. You are responding to a comment that didn't talk about mandates under an article that says nothing about mandates. You are the one who brought it up.

2 and 3: In isolation you are right, we should probably take more measurements towards healthy living. But if you only bring that up as a counter point to COVID measures, you are at very best making a flawed analogy.

My point is: if there is anything feasible measures we can take for healthier living, great we should do that. But we should ALSO do something about COVID.
NB: Post author here.

This is interesting and I totally get at least some of the problems you're facing. I wonder if you could take some of the strategies from t-digest and modify a bit to accomplish...I'd be interested in seeing some sort of implementation of this and would love to see if we can get it into our toolkit if you do...or you can also open up a ticket for us and we'll see if we can prioritize to work on something like it ourselves.

I do think there are some interesting ways you can cut corners if you know things about the "SLO" or other sort of cutoff values, but I'd have to think more deeply about it to say more. Essentially we want a variable error rate based on the distance away from a known value, where you have little error in the values relatively close to the known value, care little if at all for fine distinctions on the low end and, once you get past some high end value you could probably bucket everything above it into a "large outliers" bucket or something too...meaning you p999 could get out of hand if you start getting lots of stuff above a threshold, but, if that starts happening, probably everything's already burning down, so might not be that useful to know it's burning down in a very specific way...
Thanks (and to mseepgood as well). TIL :)
Ask HN: Software Management Certification?
I’ve been working as a Software Developer for the last ~20 years. I’m currently leading a small team as a freelancer/consultant.

I’d like to continue to work as a freelancer but would like to take more responsibility as a leader/in management.

Does it make any sense to get a certification? Which one? Any ofher recommendations?
> i don't need it

Yes. You do. Even if you're asymptomatic, the virus will still mutate with a small chance of becoming another variant, and if you're unvaccinated in such a case, that means you'll spread it to others.

By not being vaccinated, you run the risk of spreading a variant around that is a "breakthrough variant" - a mutation of the disease that is hardened against a particular vaccine brand.

Thus, you will be contributing to healthy people getting sick despite being properly vaccinated.
I've mailed.
Who works with someone _through code_ using a whiteboard?!

Drawing an architecture diagram or so, sure, but code? I would definitely prefer to work with people who know how to do screensharing and work over a problem in the code using an actual editor.
"Whataboutism" remains one of the most self-destructive inventions of Cold War propaganda. Dismissing context because it makes "your side" look hypocritical or undermines a narrative (in this case, "CCP is uniquely evil") is no way to understand geopolitics.
If the iPhone 13 had TouchID, I would buy it in a heartbeat.
Ask HN: Trace Linux system calls for a network call (HTTP)
As a tiny research or an itch to understand how a simple `curl -XGET http://httpbin.org/get` is performed in the linux land

I am interested in tracing the path it took from the moment it was command was executed
for example:
1. System softwares (pieces of software that are interacted in achieving it)
- curl source code that
- open a socket
- initiate a request
- `recvFrom` socket
- `write` to IO
2. Hardware (how processor, bus, network card) is also involved in the process

Is there an existing resource that explored this subject? would love to be linked to.

Apologies if this isn't the right place to ask this.
> Maybe FM radio

I get why a few years ago there was a push for this, but in this era, why? There are so many music / news / talk streaming options that traditional radio might as well be dead. You turn on the sports radio shows and they are deliberately advertising and directing you to their podcast over their radio show.
Agree with this and the following FTA:
'Norm was a pure comic. He once wrote that ‘a joke should catch someone by surprise, it should never pander.’ He certainly never pandered. Norm will be missed terribly.”'
Nitpick: the 12 mini uses OLED, so there's not a "backlight"
Sinus flush after positive Covid test reduced risks 19 times
Norm Macdonald Dead: Comedian and 'SNL' Star Was 61
Well, if they are black people with white ancestors(or white people with black ancestors), then they aren't the people I was thinking about. Almost certainly, the only reason your black friends produced a white baby, is because they had white ancestors at some point.

If two doberman pinschers had a puppy that looked like an English bulldog, it would be strange and newsworthy. But, if the two doberman's actually had grandparents that were English bulldogs, the mystery would be fairly easy to solve.

At least part of this confusion is associated with the culture of race(at least in the US) as opposed to the genetics of race. For example, we consider Barack Obama black, but he is equally as white as he is black. There's no genetic basis for making that kind of determination.
Damn. Always enjoyed his work. I especially like this moment from Conan. Seeing him in the zone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F6dXcW-_Fc
I just use GraphQL and freeze the queries at compile time so only known queries can be used. That stops worries about misuse from the frontend.

On the backend, for performance we have two choices:

1. Over-fetch. It's relatively cheap doing that from a cache. Most queries don't use too many different variations.

2. Optimize what data we fetch based on the node's children in the GraphQL query received. I don't think people do this often enough but... GraphQL gives you the full query as an AST, so you can use that at runtime to know what your node's children will be rendering before they're hit. Because we enforce #1, we don't have to build some general-purpose query-builder a simple check of "Are you X named query?" is good enough. Internally it looks kind of like JSON RPC.

Am I doing it wrong? It seems to give you the best of both worlds because GraphQL APIs have great tooling and documentation behind them, and if you cut out all the 'general' purpose aspects in production you can be fairly efficient (e.g. our GraphQL API is about 5% slower than the JSON API it replaced).
How dare you shine a torch on our blindspot!
Indeed, it's all rectangles, all the way down. (For the most part.)

I implement a lot of QML (with C++ viewModels to back it).

My UI designer actually issued a challenge to me, to see if I could get "Debug Rectangles" to toggle on-and-off without a rebuild. I'm so grateful for that challenge, because once the seed of the idea was planted, my thirst for this "nice-to-have" feature grew until I couldn't NOT solve it.

I now have:

```
DebugRectangle{}
```

https://github.com/219-design/qt-qml-project-template-with-c...

... which I place inside any item that needs a highlight. I then leave this code in place (nothing to comment-in/comment-out).

I hijack an environment variable for the toggle. The icing on the cake was seeing that this works both when running a compiled binary executable ("my Qt/QML app binary") and when viewing my QML with just qmlscene. https://github.com/219-design/qt-qml-project-template-with-c...
WhatsApp Will Soon Add Voice Message Transcription Feature for iOS Users
"Artificial scarcity" - which here is code for in-game ads and DRM - helps encourage people to purchase the game and guarantees revenue even in pirated copies. It doesn't mean guaranteeing the game will eventually break, but it does mean guaranteeing it will get a certain number of sales/revenue for a period of time.

I was active in gaming in the early-mid CD-ROM era and saw this in practice. If something can be trivially pirated (copy the files on the disc to a new one) it will be copied like wildfire. If it takes a bit more effort (bad sectors that make naive copying fail, etc.) then piracy won't go away but will become rarer. As the effort to pirate becomes more intense, if buying it is easier people will. If ads let you drop the price to a point where it's more affordable, more people will choose to pay it. Etc.
Typically "20% savings" would mean that you save 20% of the initial value. 20% x $600 = $120, not $100. I.e., you should multiply by (1-0.2), not divide by (1+0.2).

Edit: That has the undesirable property that common English sentences don't cancel out like you'd expect -- if you lower the price by 20% then raise it by 20% you don't end up where you started. Unfortunately, that problem doesn't go away whether "increasing/decreasing by x%" always refers to the former or the latter price; you'd require that it target's the former price in one direction and the latter price in the other, which IMO is even less intuitive than the status quo.
It seems like the solution isn't to abolish bosses or hierarchy, but to simply make them more accountable and subject to scrutiny or replacement.
(CoLab - https://joincolab.io)

Is one that's doing Community/Cohort style learning by pairing Devs, PMs and Designers together to learn.
Apple doesnt sell chips at all. Next.
If there's such a thing like decentralized education, what would it be? And no homeschooling isn't the answer, not for parent with a typical 9-5 employment (who may enjoy their jobs).
Yes, if you don't milk them after they wean their young, they can dry up. However, modern dairy farms let cows choose when and if they're milked, and the cows choose to be milked twice a day, and seem to really enjoy it.
Yes. I am so sick of hearing straight people talking about their spouses and children in a professional context.

Political correctness has reached such extremes that we were expected to make contributions to a gift for one of my straight colleagues after he announced to the whole team that his opposite sex partner was pregnant. I really wish people would keep their sexual predilections to themselves.
I have an iPad Pro and would not like to give up FaceID for TouchID. FaceID is much more convenient and reliable. I can see your issue with masks in classrooms during this pandemic, but in other scenarios, that is not an issue. I suspect that the Air with Touch ID is more popular among students due to the price.
He was one of those comedians that wasn't affected by the whole "wokeism" movement, because he existed outside this PC vs. non-PC humour hierarchy. The reason he could do that is that he was genuinely funny, wasn't trying to "sell" an ideology, and didn't particularly care about other people's opinion of him. Oh and he wasn't someone who would "punch down" as an alternative for being funny.
Many times these Apple events listed "0.x mm thinner" as a new feature, but everyone knows you'll put it in a case, while the battery and screen stayed mostly the same until the last big improvement.