skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see a much more diverse display of beauty these days than I ever did in the 80's and 90's. There is a conscious effort by a lot of people to broaden beauty standards in recent years, and a larger appetite from people to see different standards in media. I think a lot of this is due to more women in positions of influence and power across fashion and media, including a lot of women who grew up on the hyper-narrow standards of the late 20th century.
What do you think of vertx. It seems pretty lightweight set of server side libraries along with activej which also focuses on speed.
This has been the case since 2007 with "iPhone"...which mimicked the naming for "iPod" since 2001 [0]...which mimicked the naming of "iMac" since 1998 [1].

All of these, of course, go back to Steve Jobs' introduction of "Macintosh" in 1984 [2].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN0SVBCJqLs

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHPtoTctDY

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B-XwPjn9YY
> Web browsers, to start. Why are Apple and Google not liable for zero days of Safari and Chrome? How is it sane?

Is is even possible to make a browser without 0days?
About the same if not less pollution than every other rocket that's launched into space... For a fraction of the cost plus we get to reuse the materials.
Increasing production takes years.
Apple still makes the least cringey presentations of any of the big tech companies. Microsoft and Google are incredibly out-of-touch when they try to do similar things.

I recall the Windows 11 announcement event had speakers talking about how the new version will "enhance how you engage with the product"
According to who? I checked the edac module for a year on my work machine, and it never detected a single error. I know I'm just one anecdote, but I doubt I'm that lucky.
People need to look alot closer to the data in America before they simply blame individual freedom for the deaths

A HUGE percentage of the deaths in the US are from people institutionalized in government facilities. They had no freedom..

Another HUGE percentage of the deaths were people that were already unhealthy, and what I know about Australia you guys do not have them levels of general unhealthy people.

America also has a much high percentage of the population over 65, a group that makes up the majority of COVID Deaths

There is more to the story than simply "American did not impose enough tyranny on the citizens to combat COVID"
They always have a bit of fun kicking sand in their opposition's face as they lap them again.
Is it even possible to make an airplane that does not crash?
Not sure the world needs another ad-monetized browser. We need less ads on the web, not more. And what is the point of shipping a browser with an ad blocker only to serve your own ads built into the browser?

My personal experience with it is that it is slow to start, bloated, the ad-blocker doesn't block Google ads by default and it fills home screen with some kind of crypto sites by default. It looks like it is trying to be a general purpose browser but judging by the choice of default options it looks more like a very niche browser for the crypto community.

The most innovative thing they have right now is Search, hopefully it doesn't end up being ad-monetized too.
Excuse me, but does anyone actually have pockets large enough to fit an iPad mini? Those ads were a bit, much.
It's taken directly from the source press release title, following HN guidelines
> What I can tell you, unequivocally, as that these are the End of Days and whatever it is you are here doing it is more consistent with a discriminatory policy of something like the Anti-Christ than anything actually just.

This might be the craziest thing I've ever seen in a support email.
I have no hope of finding a cite for this, but a long time ago I read some command line UI research that found if you had a system where commands ranged from instant to taking a small but noticeable time and you introduced delays in the faster commands to make it so all commands took the same small but noticeable time people would think that the system was now faster overall.
And yet, somehow, they're still making billions in profits. That implies that sales are still sufficient to pay back the development and marketing process, and still make profits.

My example I've used elsewhere in this thread: God of War, a game without microtransactions, making $500M in the first year for under $100M in development costs.
One thing I found curious from the event was that they added a "find my" feature to the mag wallet. They advertised it by saying something along the lines of "find where your wallet was last detached". This was likely a response to just how bad the magnetic attachment for these wallets was. It just slides off when you put your phone in your pocket. You can see how much these slide around in these clips:

Low grip strength: https://youtu.be/HNX1v-mJmEA?t=141

Coming off when pocketing: https://youtu.be/HNX1v-mJmEA?t=225
Norm Macdonald has died
The nopsys/CogNOS project is more recent (commits in 2018): "CogNOS is actually a third iteration of the orginal SqueakNOS project ..."

https://github.com/nopsys/CogNOS

There is a conference paper about it, also from 2018:

https://charig.github.io/assets/papers/SCDE-DLS.pdf
Jon Prosser leaked a hole punch design for next year.

It’s always remarkable to me when I remember on these launch days that Apple probably has a working beta 14, proof of concept 15 and somebody working on 16. What a pipeline.
It seems the lenses are sufficiently spaced that it’s not really an issue. Also the ridges themselves are quite slippery, and don’t tend to cling onto dust.
Why wouldn’t they add Pencil support to iPhones, come on.
Replace "id" with "Carmack". This is discussed in Masters of Doom; Carmack's programming was so far ahead of their competition and he was willing to live at the office nearly 24/7.
Ditto for online pornography. And unlike chemical drugs that have to be transported and administered, these images and videos fly through the wires into childrens' bedrooms.

I know, because like most children, I was exposed to online porn at a young age and was addicted to it well into my adult life. These companies need regulation, because they are bad actors.
I was also a little confused and bought the cheapest router on the list, the Asus RT-N12. The underpowered 2.4GHz radio meant it was completely overwhelmed by competing signals.

I now run this on an RT-AC68U, which has a dual radio. Is it the most recent router? Probably not, but it gets the job done and has a USB port for printer sharing (no clue if that works, we shall see.)
Face ID is extremely useful, and the real depth scanning capability makes it better. It's your right to elevate subjective aesthetics over functionality of course, but a significant number of us do not agree. If Apple is able to do the IR scanning, cameras and so on through the display in the future I'm sure they will take advantage of it, but a hole punch is not it.

And short of that it's not clear what a flat out superior biometric identification system would be feasible in the near future (a return of Touch ID in-screen say would be complementary, not exclusive) in a bar form factor? Some sort of short range penetrating scanner that can read bone structure in your hand or something, if that's possible? Just hard to think of many degrees of freedom there, we have lots of other attributes to our bodies which represent useful bits of entropy, but not ones that are easy, fast, convenient and low power to gather from a bar in your hand. Wearable displays of course could jump straight to retina scanning, but that doesn't help phones. So even though I do expect the iPhone form factor to get disrupted by wearables, I don't really see Face ID ceasing to be important for the iPhone itself for a while, or Apple stepping backwards the 3D scanner.

So the notch will probably stay until/unless they can do it through the display or something genuinely surprising/cool becomes available. Would be very cool if others who follow the field more closely can point to some possibilities I'm missing though.
I would much prefer if the front-facing camera would just be embedded into the screen, so we can achieve near-bezel-less screens.

I'm probably not their target audience if they want to keep all that camera power for selfie-taking such that it can't be embedded into the screen.
How about numbers / net outcome?

If we trade 10 good things for 10 000 terrible, then is it worth?
Apple promised not to scan your photos with disabled iCloud. I don’t trust them to hold that promise, but may be you will.
No. They crash all the time. You're suggesting that we hold airplane makers responsible for any and all crashes.
lol this is a great point. Go's attitude is tribal towards these things -- "if you can't see why this is a good thing, the language is not for you". I say this as a huge Go fan and daily practitioner.
Well if race has biological basis and also if race is inherited, there is no way around a genetic basis. Also there is a more than hundred year history of scientific research and no genetic (or other) grounding for race has been found. So yes, that is the source of my bias.
When the iPhone first introduced the notch I hated it, HATED!!!

I ended up on the iPhone 11 Pro Max due to the low light photo function to take photos of my daughter, and after a day never noticed it again. I think I've come across 1 game which didn't optimize for it and caused it to overlap on the game controls, but apart from that it's not noticeable.

I think we make a lot of fuss over silly design things like this which are non-issues.
I hate self promotion. We have to do that even for our year-end stuff. I think it creates bias toward people who are good at telling management what they want to hear. I hate the term visibility because most of it is done just for the sake of getting one's name out there and ignores the impact (even better if one brags about the fire they put out when it happened to be caused by themself).

I thought managers where supposed to help eliminate this sort of procedural and political overhead so the ICs can increase productivity by focusing on value-added work? Instead they just push the work down the org chart.

I've given up on promotions. The system might as well be rigged for all the reliance subjective evaluations. It would be far easier to move to a team with a manager who had a high opinion of me than to change the current one's opinion. The "standard" document lists 41 skills to evaluate - 41! I know plenty of people who have been promoted that don't meet all of those. Their manager's opinion is all that matters. Even if I were to get a promotion, 7% is practically nothing when making under $100k, and then I'll be evaluated against even higher expectations.
I would love to see Adam Sandler do a Sandlerized Don Quixote, with Rob Schneider as Sancho Panza yelling, "You can do it!" as he barrels down on a windmill.
Well it looks like the Brains Trust inside Stripe has found a way to duke your OKRs, because this guy's appeal was denied and he was cut off anyway. No wonder your "incorrectly identified as fraud" metric is trending down if your staff are simply doubling down on incorrect accusations instead of copping them. Sounds like Goodhart's Law in action - do you happen to tie bonuses to OKRs?
Going to be the same per month cost so I'll upgrade in January when I'm eligible
There was a hard-scifi manga/anime about this almost 20 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes

"The story of Planetes follows the crew of the DS-12 "Toy Box" of the Space Debris Section, a unit of Technora Corporation. Debris Section's purpose is to prevent the damage or destruction of satellites, space stations and spacecraft from collision with debris (so-called "space debris") in Earth's and the Moon's orbits. They use a number of methods to dispose of the debris (mainly by burning it via atmospheric reentry or through salvage), accomplished through the use of EVA suits."

Basically space garbage men =)
There is no "concern". Think about the other part of your comment rather than the gender bit. Good luck.
I thought this was some expert-level trolling at first, but your post history suggests you’re acting in good faith, so:

Blood types are categorized as A/B/AB/O because of the presence (or for O, absence) of protein markers on the surface of blood cells. A/B/C/D would be a much less descriptive system.
I wish they'd have gone to USB-C for charging. I'm a recent (2 years ago) convert to iPhone and don't have a lightning ecosystem built up. Everything else in my life uses USB-C. Life would be so much simpler if they'd just convert the iPhone. Or even offer separate skews, where one had USB-C
> Steve Jobs with his distortion field used to say RISC was better than Intel right up until they switched to Intel, then the story switched.

What are you talking about? He never changed his story about RISC, and guess what Apple is using now? The only reason they switched to intel was because nobody else was manufacturing a chip that was competitive.
Are you positing a close ancestral link between Africans and Australian natives, say closer than between either and northwestern Europeans?
> In physics, the energy–momentum relation, or relativistic dispersion relation, is the relativistic equation relating total energy (which is also called relativistic energy) to invariant mass (which is also called rest mass) and momentum. It is the extension of mass–energy equivalence for bodies or systems with non-zero momentum

Those are the first few sentences in the article I already posted.

> The invariant mass, rest mass, intrinsic mass, proper mass, or in the case of bound systems simply mass, is the portion of the total mass of an object or system of objects that is independent of the overall motion of the system. More precisely, it is a characteristic of the system's total energy and momentum that is the same in all frames of reference related by Lorentz transformations.[1] If a center-of-momentum frame exists for the system, then the invariant mass of a system is equal to its total mass in that "rest frame".

Those are the first few sentences in the article he already posted.
My iPhone 8 Plus has landscape mode
> They sometimes escape, but it's the exception

That's... kinda my point!

Zoos keep large animals in significantly smaller areas that are easier to control and maintain. I can see someone making "Jurassic Zoo" where you're keeping a few fairly docile dinosaurs in an area of a few acres. I don't have hard data but the territories in Jurassic Park look like they were measured in square miles.
Never had a problem with it. At least once a day I wash my phone when I wash my hands
Similarly, I remember taking a handful of courses there many years ago. They were very high quality relative to what was available then.

I wonder if their particular niche of online education is tougher nowadays. There seems to be a wealth of online platforms tailored towards the "professional skills" edge of the market—if I ever need a course on migrating to Azure using only a TI-86 calculator while respecting HIPAA, I'm sure Pluralsight has a course—but when I think of the more general "learn to code" style courses, I don't think of Treehouse anymore.

In particular, having watched multiple family members/friends transition into software development (coming from no real background in code) over the last couple years, I've noticed they swing between two extremes:

1. Completely free resources, like FreeCodeCamp, CodeAcademy's free plan, or App Academy Open.
2. Going all-in on an immersive bootcamp, typically with some kind of job placement assistance program at the end.

I wonder if more middle-of-the-road premium options like Treehouse are losing marketshare to this. Though obviously, this is big time anecdata.
I don't totally get this concern. I have a Series 6, I don't leave the always on display on as that is a factor here. But I use mine throughout the day, put in a solid 30+ minute workout every day and wear it to bed. Throw it on the charger in the morning, it has ~50-60% battery left and fully charge. Good for another day and then some.

I realize some people may use their watch more, or may do much longer workouts (or more of them) but I do use GPS with mine as I don't carry my phone with me when I run.

Battery life is never a problem for me. I know that sounds like "works for me" or whatever, but I don't see how people are struggling given I have tons of battery to spare at the end of the day.
Probably the same dies with one GPU core disabled. My guess is the GPU cores are large (== relatively likely to have a defect) and also easy to isolate. Apple has done the same thing for previous processors and it's pretty common practice across the industry. Eventually yields will go up and they might either make a pure 4-core version for lower end products or they'll just remove that from the line entirely.
To release Doom 3 as OSS, Carmack had to rewrite patent encumbered parts of the code.

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/136614459887202305
Great to see the Mini still lives:

https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/?modelList=iphone13mini...
> they don't want to cannibalize App Store revenue by letting people type in code to solve their problems.

This seems implausible as a reason for keeping dev tools off iDevices, because 1) what percentage of their users would do that in the first place, beyond using spreadsheets, which are already available? Would it even be 1%? 0.1%?, and 2) they've made moves to add features like Shortcuts that enable that sort of thing, but which productivity-nerd non-programmer project managers and such are able and willing (and eager) to use, unlike dev tools—and those aren't just toys, they can absolutely replace certain kinds of what might could have been paid apps, before.

I think it's more likely that it's hard to add them without opening up security holes and making it easy to bypass the App Store and/or offer a 3rd party store, without making the tools so crippled that they're insufficient for actually developing & deploying serious software for oneself (in fact they've already released something so-crippled, in Playgrounds), coupled with their expecting extra sales of iDevices from adding dev tools to be tiny (so, not worth the cost & risk).
They seemed like strong iterative updates to me? I also appreciate all speech recognition being done on-device
.NET 6 Release Candidate 1
Maybe nobody has to starve, work, or even die from anything besides a freak accident ever again, but not all the 100 billion humans who want to can possibly live in Neo-Manhattan (at least until the Mega Dome is finished in 50 years, but then not everyone can live on the Upper Rim). Not everybody can meet the coolest celebrity in the metaverse, or all have the same clever instagram handle. Not everyone can control who is allowed to visit and build on holy sites or nature preserves.

I think people can always invent or discover new things that are functionally finite, and their claims on these kinds of things and the way they decide to distribute it can always theoretically be quantized into something we can understand as currency or wealth. Even if it's not done explicitly, it will simply be done in something like an extremely advanced algorithm or even an opaque shadow economy of networks of favors and patronages.
They stole much of their initial content from other people and ripped all attribution from it. I found two of my blog posts on their site, without any attribution or permission.
> find people that have the same values as you.

That would be a very interesting startup.
I was looking at getting a used 12 the other day, and it was hardly worth it. Almost new prices. Does Apple continue selling old models at a discount? Will the used prices crater now?
I really think Apple is trying to force us into this mag-safe charger instead of switching to USB-C. :( I seem to only have USB-C cables now... EXCEPT for the iPhone.
They're still selling the Series 3? Last I heard you cannot even install regular updates on the thing without factory resetting it each time.

I get selling older stuff for price differentiation, but only when it is being supported fully. I'd feel bad for anyone who purchases a Series 3 in 2021 and expects to get a normal lifetime of usage out of it.

Plus no price reduction ($200) for a four-year-old piece of hardware that is suffering badly from age, no longer represents good VALUE either.
Not having Bluetooth 5.2 and still having Bluetooth 5.0 is a shame. I am definitely looking forward to Bluetooth LE Audio.
> How does their content get on google's servers?

Same way it would get onto Apple’s servers: the customer chooses to upload it.

The difference is that with on-device screening, Apple wouldn’t have to take delivery of CSAM to detect it, and it doesn’t have to scan anything that’s not destined to be uploaded.
There's a University of Oxford study that confirms EU migration has had negligible impact on wages in the UK. The study appeared to be focused on wage decline. What I'm less convinced of, and what is much harder to measure, is what impact it has had on wages rising.
Could minorities who need connection still find that connection via forum-based communities (i.e. pre social media)?

Social media was helpful for me to connect with lost acquaintances (which was novel at first, but now I barely continue to converse with them if at all).
Obviously they edited the video and made careful shots to show off the feature in the best light, but it was really impressive. If nothing else, it made me curious to see it work in person.
It’s the system language, not the keyboard settings.

https://ke-la.com/lockbit-2-0-interview-with-russian-osint/
Fairphone did exactly this with the Fairphone 3+: they emphasised that they were just upgrading two components of the Fairphone 3 that had attracted criticism (the camera and speaker) and otherwise didn't want to change anything about their super-easy-to-repair phone with promises that replacement parts would be available for many years.

Fairphone's marketing is rather unusual in the marketplace in this respect.
Catch up to what? The JDK 17 JEP list reads like a list of things that were added to dotnet years ago.
There was a little bit of information on the chip, but not much:

A13: 8.5 billion transistors.
A14: 11.8 billion transistors.
A15: 15 billion transistors.

A13 neural engine: 5 trillion operations / sec.
A14 neural engine: 11 trillion operations / sec.
A15 neural engine: 15 trillion operations / sec.

A13: 4 core GPU.
A14: 4 core GPU.
A15: 5 core GPU.
That was one of the more curious announcements. Presumably Apple will release a new SKU that has an integrated AirTag?

EDIT: Yes they did add a new SKU. https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MM0Q3ZM/A/iphone-leather-...

As replies note, there's no new tech, just tracks last detached.

Weird footnote:

Requires iPhone Leather Wallet with MagSafe and iPhone 12 or later with Find My enabled in iOS 15. Not supported on Clear Case with MagSafe.
I wonder how much the fear of 13 is going to impact sales https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskaidekaphobia
Casio
It’s kind of crazy how fast American politics went off the rails. Really seems like it really kicks off with Reagan but I’m not versed enough to be sure if he’s the cause or just one of the symptoms (most likely both really in the end) but it’s always wild to see just how many of the ‘big government run amok’ agencies came out of the Nixon admin.
Tesla Autopilot’s emergency vehicle problem is getting bigger
Ooof, one more death that hit me hard this year. Norm's humor was not for everybody, but I loved how weird, absurd and off-putting it could be.
We exclude people who don’t publish. Papers tend not to publish stuff that isn’t a positive result.
What would you improve about the iPhone or iPad? I think these products are just mature and there is very little to improve other than iterative updates. The true test of whether Apple has entered their Ballmer era will be if they fail to launch a new product category in the next 2-3 years.