skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They probably could make a killer camera. But, DSLRs are pretty much dead. Canon and Nikon are both investing in mirrorless now and IIRC Canon has effectively stopped development of their SLR line. And the camera market in general isn't great - compact cameras have effectively been replaced by cell phones and mirrorless systems are largely a pro-sumer product.

FWIW, I bought my iPhone Pro specifically to replace my second mirrorless body. I'll keep one body around for "real" photography. But the phone is good enough for random snapshots.
They’d need to come up with a new pairing mechanism. Currently you can only pair them by either plugging them in (the gen 1 method) or using the magnetic charging spot on the side of the later generation iPad Pros. AFIAK there’s no other way to put the Pencils into a pairing state that would work with phones for the newer ones so you’d be selling people more of the Gen 1 devices which I bet they’re looking to obsolete ASAP.
And yet nothing that can match something like Citadel or Infinity Blade has been produced.

Those "bleeding edge" features, are all GPU hardware advances since GL ES 3.0 was released.
Thanks so much for the edit, arbuge, just updated my typo.

For the first point, that's actually quite an embarrassing oversight if I've misunderstood. In the books I read, I understood that the expected return was total, not yearly. So the standard math is that you get 20% of $500k PER YEAR? If so, gotta update the math on this one - the outcomes are radically different than what I report.
Not an ethicist, but I don't think this is how ethical evaluations work in most frameworks.
The doses in the countries they're at now aren't likely to go to a different country, and are more likely to expire before they could be shipped elsewhere, so people in those countries may as well get them. For other places, the problem is manufacturing and distribution, and lifting patent restrictions would help too.
Nobody knows what dose was delivered to the “natural immunity” group, how many times, or when.
Sure. Make it all screen and blank on the pixels on the edges. Then when you want the full screen they light up.
The argument seems fine to me. Let people with natural immunity have the same privileges as vaccinated people assuming they have a piece of paper from a federal entity to prove it.

The only argument I can think of against it is: Certain vaccine skeptic people might be incentivized to catch the virus on purpose.
I can’t admit I have any qualifications to speak about biology, and I know HN is known for proposing reductive “solutions” based on oversimplified models of reality.

That being said, it seems to me that it makes sense that a species would include the entire connected graph whose nodes are members and whose edges represent the ability to have fertile offspring.

I found [1] which is an interesting example of a very large graph, but nevertheless, all the examples seem to be within altogether very similar groups.

I think a reasonable definition for casual use doesn’t need to require the graph of a species to be fully connected, only fully reachable.

There are certainly leaks to any abstraction of species, but they are empirical cases of exceptions. They don’t inject arbitrary social categories into the definition. Definitions of “race” have no empirical basis on which to be proved or disproved in the first place.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species
- Dual SIM

iPhones are Dual SIM. You can use a physical SIM + and eSIM. I have used my iPhone with two different plans/phone numbers for a while.
I'd assume that a lot of it is the existing polarization over the issue. It's easier to lie and say you already had COVID, and there's a bunch of people who'd probably do so. (Plus a lot of people who don't even know they've already had COVID, because of asymptomatic cases.)

The state of medical records in the USA is... not great, so it's easier to show evidence of the vaccination that can at least theoretically be verified.

EDIT: man, the rapid-downvoting is even worse here than in the Apple CSAM threads. :D
non paywalled link: https://archive.is/W5SfK
Yep, I'm hanging onto my Pebble until that happens. The battery life is deteriorating, but I can still get 5 days out of it if I put it in airplane mode overnight.
*unless one of the iOS updates surreptitiously re-enabled "upload to Apple servers" as they are notorious for doing...
I'm in favor of vaccine mandates but if there was a better way of quantifying immunity I'd be all in favor of letting people with natural immunity get a waiver.

As everything with COVID, the lack of hard data and the poor communication of federal and state agencies has enabled politicians, con men and sectarians to exploit the confusion to their benefit.
Orbits are circles or ellipsoids, not spirals.

It takes a ton (possibly literally) of propellant to change your orbit from a circle in GEO to an ellipse that intercepts the atmosphere. If you don't have enough, you've not put it in a deorbiting spiral, simply an oval that will stay up for about as long as the original satellite's circular orbit.

Rocket scientists work in terms of 'delta V', meaning an amount of energy gives you a particular change in velocity. GEO to LEO takes on the order of 6 km/s (oversimplifying because orbital mechanics are complicated), meaning you need a rocket engine that's capable of accelerating your satellite from 0 to 13,400 miles per hour.

That's really expensive and difficult.
Is your claim that the vaccines don't themselves have any risks or side effects associated with them? "The vaccine, on average, will reduce your risk" is one claim that is correct for most people, but "the vaccine can only reduce your risk" is a much stronger claim that is not universally true (if you don't agree, consider whether one should get a daily dose of the vaccine).
Well, when you say something is a social construct it opens the door to find explanations for why that social construct has arisen. You open the door to questioning why those specific categories have been chosen. Why is it that in the early 20th century Italian was a race and now those people would be considered white (in America). It turns the conversation away from what is distinctive about a group and towards why we regard those distinctions as important.
Seems we should be able to test for antibodies though. Why aren't we?
No, it was garbage in 2011, no wonder they’re out of business.

My first “smartphone” through Verizon was the 96xx berry, the first time I did OTA update for OS it wiped 90% of my contacts. On crackberry they told me it was a “computer” and you need to update it tethered to a computer.

Then one time I tried to download a local bus schedule with it in pdf format, it wouldn’t open pdf natively and pointed me to some $40 app - all in the meantime my friend’s “iToy” 3GS opened the same pdf in browser with no issues.

As soon as Verizon got the iPhone4 I never had anything else.
That is unfortunate about your blog posts. But customers pay for their video lessons, which (at least in 2014), were all created in-house.
Graphene electrode could help sodium-ion batteries displace lithium-ion
If I recall correctly I think there's actually a company[1] that has added a camera to the apple watch. I have no idea how it works though. Maybe the camera wristband + cellular Apple Watch would achieve what you need.

[1] https://www.wristcam.com/
Records are orthogonal to value types (now called primitive types).
What else are they going to spend $2.5T on?
Another point is a lot of the big sites don't even bother with SEO (or standards for that matter) when they get that big.
Gamers do not have a more intuitive sense for this than movie watchers, video/voice talkers, not to mention users who type text into bloated web browsers or lagged remote login sessions.

I would rather have a rock-steady consistent 500 ms reponse time when typing text, than to have a 100 ms average response time which randomly spikes to outliers that go past one second.

A rock-steady, though poor, event rate in a paint application is better for drawing a freehand curve (especially if the program interpolates well) than a really fast rate that suddenly has a glitch in it, spoiling your work.
Interesting! Do we actually need any of them apart from all zeros? Are the tags retained when converting?
Spent several years in venture capital investing and averages were always misleading - as Nassim Taleb says "Never cross a river that is on average 4 feet deep"
> It'll be fun to look back on this comment in three years.

Despite over a decade of smartphones, screen size and resolution is often touted as the number one or number two feature.

Screen size, quality, and ease of use for watches will still be one of the biggest factors in three years.
Finding the same values is a bad solution for anybody who is right of Biden and wants a high paying valley job.
That's all I have at the moment.
Maybe it is?

Many other countries are fine considering documented prior infection as equivalent to vaccination for compliance purposes. There are some results hinting infection-recovery alone is better than vaccination alone, especially versus later variants.

The US CDC etc seems slow-moving on key scientific results, in ways that are unnecessarily increasing social conflict. But they’re not even paid by the click!
https://www.keyvalues.com/ ?
> Bitcoin doesn't do this any better than gold, real estate, company ownership through stocks, or even toilet paper.

VS physical gold it has a lower storage cost, lower transfer cost, faster to transfer, easier to divide, harder to steal, etc. Houses can't be divided up very easily, have high transaction costs (listing, agent commission, paperwork/mortgage, etc.). Stocks can't be custodied, can be frozen, diluted, etc. Toilet paper can be printed at will.
A recent study from Israel said that natural immunity is an order of magnitude better than vaccine-induced immunity against delta variant. I don't know who to believe, but if that's the case, then the narrative of "well they should get vaccinated anyway" is really freaking suspicious. We need deeper research on this, and the fact that they haven't researched this is truly scary.
Ditto for online pornography.

Nah. That's been studied heavily. Here's an overview from the National Institutes of Health.[1] Wikipedia has an overview.[2] The overall conclusion is that most of the research is of terrible quality and there's no big measurable effect.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6352245/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_pornography
The current data suggests that's true, which is why it counts in other countries, and the US stance is seen as anomalous.
I've thought about that before too. As soon as something is no longer actively supported, it should become open for people to maintain themselves. Unfortunately, there's a lot of companies that would fight that with as much money as it takes, so it would never happen (at least not in the US)
"In the future" is a long time.

Short-term, more likely that they would build integrations with existing stand-alone sensors. For example, glucose readings from Dexcom G7.
Is this some kind of Norm MacDonald joke?
>Anecdotally, I know someone who has been infected twice

How does he know he was infected twice?

Saying that a PCR test returned positive values two times isn't a great answer - since by its nature PCR is only counting the existence (above the programmed threshold post amplification).

Serology is the only way to know for certain you were/are infected.

This highlights one of the bigger issues we have: PCR test are a very cheap and a useful way for getting estimates but their failure rate is high enough to make it pretty poor basis for doing large scale data analysis.
...and this only works at LEO where, I hear, it is less of an issue.

Though it seems maybe still an issue, judging by all the shenanigans that the ISS has to do to avoid being shot down.
To what extent has the efficacy of natural immunity been characterized? There should be some minimum bar of understanding that must be met before something becomes a policy even in extreme cases such as these.
Be careful translating percentiles of requests to percentiles of users; if less than 10% of your requests take over 1 second, but a typical user makes 10 requests, it's possible that the majority your users are seeing a request take over 1 second.
there are very similar issues with the vaccine - the same dosage of the vaccine will not behave the same in everyone

but this is a good point I hadn't considered, thanks
Can you be more specific, who does it protect? That doesn't seem to apply to this article.
I'm sorry for the digression, but why are these investors guys called angels? Can you imagine an angel that gives you an offer: a bit of help with your difficult situation right now for 25% of your soul?
What is wrong with fighting the liberal professors with their own weapons ? Yay for YAF!
Natural immunity is durable and long-lasting, perhaps moreso than the mRNA vaccines. What's the issue?
Even if you've already had covid, the vaccine is still a safe and effective way to even further reduce your odds of transmitting it in the future
IMO it’s not much of a mischaracterisation. Apple has always led with features, not tech specs. New features and designs tended to come one year with performance improvements the next. That feels very much iterative to me.
> Pardon my ignorance, but does this mean by contrast that vaccines are designed to induce a uniform response across immune systems?

Also not an expert and curious, would that not be a (the?) design goal of any vaccine?
Some companies don't want to do business with drop shippers, maybe because they will often be unable to fulfill orders or because customers will often be upset that their order took a few weeks to arrive. As a manufacturer, we anticipated that some people would resell our products on their own storefronts.
Edit: goddamnit, I see this is being downvoted despite being 100% correct. Yes, infections generate strong immunity. Here is a study: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...

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It is pretty useful though. Studies have found it compares well with vaccines or better.

However like vaccines it also fades. And prior immunity + infection is way better than prior immunity, so being infected no reason not to get vaccinated.
Actually, I think the reason they're still selling the S3 is because it is quite different visually. If you don't mind having a watch that has a much smaller screen (which affects usability and isn't as 'prestigious' among Those Who Care) then you can get an Apple Watch for a price point that rivals Fitbit etc.

Note: I am not one of Those Who Care — I still rock my Pebble Time Steel!
Is the reason for an underwhelming update related to supply chain issues? It seems like such a lackluster update compared to all the rumors.
It just seems really weird to assume that switching to Android involves switching to Google services. There were weeks of threads with people discussing which version of Android (Calyx vs graphene, etc) they were going to switch to.
I have a magsafe cradle on my desk. But its too bulky to fit in my bag.

Its funny, the last time I flew I was in a pickle. I had my M1 MBP, its charger, a USB-A to lightning cable, and a USB-C to micro USB for my headphones. Only when my phone was down to 20% did I realize I had nothing to plug the lightning cable into.
The A15 details were pretty tame, so maybe the "easy" wins are getting a little harder. While traditionally Apple heralds performance improvements over the prior generation, this time they seemed to stick purely to "versus the competition". We know that the A## are much faster than the competition, not to mention that the majority of prospective iPhone 13 buyers are considering upgrading from a prior generation(s) of iPhone, so the competition isn't a good frame of reference.

As an aside -- came to make this comment after seeing the thread but had to jump away for a sec, to come back to find this submission on the fourth page, clearly having been flagged off the front page. ROFL.

Sidenote - XCode 13 Release Candidate was just made available.
It is not the machine learning that has media bias, it is the media bias measured by machine learning. Article’s title:

MIT: Measuring Media Bias in Major News Outlets With Machine Learning
we are testing for antibodies but antibodies aren't the only immune system response and depending on who you ask might not even be the "main" defense against covid.
OK, at first I thought this was just a bad programming language created by a person with no taste, but the more I read into it, the more I understood that it is actually a giant joke-programming-languages. I didn't find it too funny though.
Only a problem for people who are trying hard not to think. You can just ignore those people. They're not doing any harm believing their beliefs.
Yes, the screen aspect ratio changed from 2048 x 1536 (4:3) to 2266 x 1488 (roughly 3:2), same DPI. The outer width on the short side has remained exactly the same (134.8 mm). So they traded off 48 pixels for the wider bezel along the long side, while reducing the bezel (and adding 218 pixels) along the short side. The outer long side is reduced by 7.8 mm.
It seems clear that if you just, instead of blurring the image, set the images (or the part of the image with the x-ray scan) to the same image, then that would work to evaluate whether it is getting the information from the image or from some other source.

Seeing as this would be easy to do, I imagine that if it is at all plausible from what they know that it is getting information from anything other than the x-ray scan, that they would have already tried this?

I do wonder how good of a predictor something would be if it just went off the average brightness of the image. Probably very bad, but maybe better than chance?
Well, better than chance on the training set is to be expected, the question I guess is whether it would be better than chance on the test or validation set (I’m not confident in my understanding of the distinction between testing set and validation set. Is the idea that if you are using the score on the testing set to decide when to stop training, and maybe what hyper parameters to use or something, and other things to determine which model, you only try the model on the validation set once you have decided on your final version of the model?)
yep I had to implement t-digest in a monitoring library. another alternative (although older) that the prometheus libraries use is CKMS quantiles [0].

[0] http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/~graham/pubs/papers/bquant-icde.pd...
Sorry that you had to experience something like this.

While it never happened to me, but apparently one of my colleague's manager got a direct phone call from his manager because "he was not responding to slack messages fast enough."

I suspect places that house managers like yours and mine has no interest in dis-incentivizing these behavior and will stay that way for the foreseeable future.
> Video games are interesting in terms of usability. I thought a lot about this the past couple years after a UX course. A lot of UX principles are about making things easier, like large clickable areas, not moving clickable areas, contrasting colors, proving plenty of time to react or undo, and making things obvious and as easy as possible. But in a game, many of those principles are flipped. In a shooter, the enemies are smaller and move. They may be difficult to see. Solutions are not always obvious, especially if they are extras or hidden power ups.

The goal of usability is to be able to accomplish your goal. In a lot of games, the feeling of getting better or overcoming an obstacle is part of the goal. So the UX is not surprising, it's following the goal of the product.
We are well past that. It's not that hard to say:

1) If you have natural immunity already, great! Provide evidence of your positive test

2) If you don't have evidence that you've been SARS-COV-19 positive, go get a shot so you don't have a severe hospitalization.

3) No, we don't suggest getting infected on purpose over the shot. Go read #2

Instead, the US federal government is being purposefully ignorant of how effective natural immunity is.
That isn't accurate. The media doesn't disagree with me, the country is ripped in two over COVID and vaccines, there is no denying that.

Why do you say they disagree?

Edit: capitalization

Second edit: I didn't say the WAR united the country. You're twisting my comment.
It's a waste of resources to figure out whether someone has natural immunity (its quite hard to do logistically). Much easier to just give them the vaccine, then your bases are covered. These are public health decisions -- they don't occur in a vacuum with unlimited resources.
My last sentence was not relevant to the topic of the article. It was my jaded summary of how much tech hiring I've seen works. Maybe an edgy non sequitur that didn't belong.
It's a blood test, and I suspect that it's even harder to motivate everyone to get a blood draw than to get a vaccine.
I have no issue with a capital gains tax. Nor do most people. The bigger issue is with just taxing capital.

Also, this focus on capital is too narrow. It hides other forms of power that have captured our system: military, legal, media, etc... These forms of power obscure their power by redirecting attention to just capital.

Lastly, if you are concerned with external effects then tax the external effects directly instead of an indirect thing. So tax pollution rather than production in general.
Yes, places like NYC are creating a system of getting entry to many places only if you present government authorization. Then they can start adding more conditions to that authorization. Maybe a red state later adds not being a felon or a blue state adds not being on some red flag list. After all, you can still eat, so it's okay. They represent systems for excluding certain classes of people from society.
remember firewire?

you don't get to 2 Trillion without generating a ton of e-waste in your wake
Except that if the cheaper chips have ECC, they probably couldn't go up much in price — that price is limited by how much people (who don't care about ECC anyway) are willing to pay. So if prices for the low end went up, people (like you) would instead go without (meaning Intel doesn't get your money), or try to get second hand (Intel doesn't get your money), or go with AMD (Intel doesn't get your money). But Intel would really like to have your money, or at least generally more money.
The only thing I see from iphone 8 to whatever this is, is that ugly notch and owl camera!!
I agree that university costs have gone up, and that costs for housing in some areas have gone up far too much.

The first is mostly an American problem, the second can be solved by living in slightly less desirable areas, where you can have houses for much, much less. Those areas require a car, but those aren't super expensive unless you have to have a Tesla - and the car you can get will be better, safer, more fuel effecient and more comfortable to drive than the car your parents drove.

Your opportunities for entertainment are much, much better, more likely to suit your tastes specifically and far more convinient.

Electronics and communication is so much better that you cannot compare it in any meaningful sense.

So yes, your life is much, much better and the system didn't fail you, except in a few specific cases which we can and should remidy.

When my mum was a little girl she could draw on the inside of the windows in winter because the window panes were only a single layer of glass. Today I have central heating and triple layer panes that barely feel cold in freezing temperatures.
They look pretty much like the bezels on all the other iPads with no home button, just not scaled down to the form factor of the iPad mini.

Which makes sense if the purpose of the bezel is to provide a gripping surface.
>the fact that they haven't researched this is truly scary

Can you clarify who you mean by "they"? I don't suspect you mean Israel in that context.