skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I upgraded to the 13 Pro Max from the 8 Plus and I’m still annoyed several times a day by interactions that are strictly worse without the touch sensor. Today it was because you used to be able to unlock just by holding your phone with your thumb on the sensor. But now you have to raise it to your face, hope it works after a couple of goes with your sunglasses on, and then even when it does you have to swipe up to see what you were last looking at. It made checking a map on a webpage repeatedly feel like torture. It’s a tax on every single interaction with my phone and while I love the storage and the screen I have thought about ditching it.
Totally agreed, some people just gloss over the state space model aspect of control systems which is pretty much the foundation of all these type of filters
> But your RTG will decay while the spacecraft travels (Voyager's RTG has already lost 30% of capacity).

So just bring 50% more? I don't think the weight of the Pu-238 is a key limiting factor on this mission.
I actually did it myself with instructions online. The screen is a bit of a pain because everything sits on top of the screen, so every component need to be removed and then reinstalled on the new screen. Battery is only 10 minutes.

As for how much, I think $20 for battery, $50 for screen (iirc)
Absolutely. The Kalman filter has many uses, and filtering a single stream of data is only one of them. Sensor fusion is an important application, which I believe is mentioned in the first footnote.
A16Z Leads $50M Seed Round for Gary Vaynerchuk’s NFT Project
> Most film employees are blue collar workers making not that much per hour and doing 16 hour days to pay the bills / get medical care for their families.

So are most telemarketers (maybe not the "blue collar" part I guess). Doesn't make them not scum.
> i'd prefer to keep the headphone jack, but that's probably asking too much of apple.

Yeah the headphone jack being removed pissed me off too. However the lighting to 3.5mm adaptor isn't as bad as I thought it would be. Sure it was an extra £9 I wish I didn't have to spend, but was also a figure that I didn't lose any sleep over when ordering it.

The adaptor just lives on my headphones as I use a differnt pair at my desk. The only reservation about it now is "Will it fray like all other apple cables do with time?"

EDIT: Also had a 6s. Had 2 battery changes and the phone was due for a 3rd before recently just swapping the phone. First was done by Apple for free (excluding the cost of travelling to the Apple store and turning it into a shopping day :-P), the other I did myself at home with a 3rd party battery.
I 100% agree, the iPhone 5 form factor was and still remains the closest to the perfect phone.

> I’m hoping and praying that Apple will someday make a modern 5G phone with the dimensions and features of a gen 1. But until then this is my phone. It is literally perfect and there’s nothing on the market remotely similar.

That's probably not going to happen realistically; the mini and iPhone 8-form factor SEs are still pretty good phones.

I bet in the future though the current mini iPhones will probably end up being a future generation SE.
Yes, they use the flash loan to exploit the oracle price.

This has been done many times before in the crypto space.

Literally the exact same exploit.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/inverse-finance-exploited-aga...

https://cryptobriefing.com/deus-finance-suffers-3m-oracle-ex...

https://medium.com/valixconsulting/twindex-full-incident-ana...

Just Google "flash loan oracle exploit" and you will see just how many time this has been done before lol.
if apple would have moved to usb-c, I would have jumped ship to the iphone 13 mini when I needed a phone. Sad that they won't be making them for a while.
I had no idea. Your English is better than a lot of Web posts from Americans, who can't even spell "too."

While I agree that the SE is Apple's best offering for the money, the new one fails hard in one main way: ergonomics. While the original SE (which I still use) has flat sides, the current SE went back to the dumb rounded slippery edges. This is a vestige of Jony Ive stupidity: make the phone ever-thinner, then round the edges so it wants to flip sideways out of your grip at all times. Oh, and make sure the screen isn't recessed at all, so when it does flip out of your grip it is sure to break.

Notice that Apple returned to the flat sides on all of its current phones except the SE. It's almost as if they wanted make the SE less appealing.

The lack of a Home button on the new iPhones is a massive pain in the ass and a stupid regression, mainly for the lack of Touch ID but also for app-switching.
Beef is an extremely carbon inefficient source of calories. They require a large amount of land, either directly or indirectly (e.g. from corn fields). Pastures and farmland are not effective carbon sinks. Most land used by cattle was earlier forestland or other land that served as a carbon sink. For example, one of the major causes of rainforest destruction in Brazil is cattle ranching.
It isn’t a real button for like three versions now (since iphone 8 or so) - it’s a haptic sensor which i think also plays fake sound through the speaker. Since it’s the only iphone that even has center “button” now it’s still the best phone imo
Really like stackblitz.That said, I happen to be working on it at the moment (in FF104) and have been having a bunch of issues (as of very recently).

Biggest one is that I had to disable Enhanced Tracking Protection to get the preview to work. Only a new relic analytics script was listed in the panel, but reading further I found ETP probably still presents other gotchas for their container setup (see below).

More of an annoyance, but I'm also getting "Service workers are disabled by Firefox on this page[...]" message logged persistently to the console, with a link[1] that goes some way to explaining the ETP issue above. Everything still works. In fact, the log appears to be associated with a firebase service worker, as the subsequent message (every time) is an error due to a firebase long poll getting blocked for CORP header issues.

I'd add that it was working perfectly last week, possibly prior to a browser update. They seem to be somewhat aware of the issue (see [1] and per instructions printed to the non-working preview panel).

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1668408
No, we were talking about architechts making decisions that you characterised as poor. I was pointing out that your statement was over-general and that there are many instances where making the informed decision to ignore HA is a completely reasonable thing to do.

By your last sentence, it appears you agree with me.

If you meant to say that your statement only applies to cloud architects who are attempting to maintain an uptime SLA with multi-az/region redundancy, then sure, AWS has lots of levers you can pull and those complaining really should spend some time studying them.

As for legacy applications, I would not have brought up them up at all if you hadn't suggested pushing things into lambdas as a solution to multi-az. Once again, there are many many situations where this is not appropriate. Not everything is greenfield, and re-architecting existing applications in an attempt to shoehorn it into a different deployment model seems a bit much. Unless I'm misunderstanding what you meant.
I don't think phones are bad. I don't think having it with you all the time is bad. I think what's bad is letting it draw you in constantly. Install all your dumb apps, but also turn off notifications for anything but direct messages. You'll feel better.

But speaking of "dumb apps"... I specifically resist using my phone as content consumption. Even with a big screen, it kinda sucks compared to a laptop or tablet. Fidelity matters to me.

But also... I like having a small phone because it fits nicely in my pocket. I like having a small phone because I can use it with one hand. It's not even about friction, just ergonomics and getting the hell out of my way.
Amen! I would give you a 1,000 of my HN karma points if I could.
Original SE for me, also six years old. One screen replacement, original battery.

Only things I'd change about it if I could would be more space and a better camera.

I suppose the OS upgrade treadmill will move on sometime in the next year and I'll have no choice but to replace something that's otherwise perfectly serviceable, and it's too bad there will be nothing with a headphone jack.
I'd expect a significantly different scale. Specifically, I'd expect normal tiers ranging from "instant" to "several seconds", then a huge gap, then a rock bottom tape archive.

From a more zoomed out look, you could simplify it to only two speeds. The fast speed taking 0-15 seconds, and the slow speed taking minutes to hours. Any content that's been accessed once or twice in the last week or month would be on the normal tiers. Extremely dead content could fall to the tape tier, but it has nowhere further to fall, and it would take only a tiny amount of activity to rescue it.

I don't really see a reason for there to be a continuous falloff in speed. There's not really anything between hard drives and tape for responsiveness, either existing or proposed, that I'm aware of. Nor is there anything slower than tapes.
Thanks! I agree with that bit of confusion, I'm trying to think of how to make that detail more clear.
The best is still the 6s because it has a 3.5mm headphone jack.
> The article also doesn’t show any confidence bands which is a huge part of Kalman filters too.

The figure does show confidence bands in pale blue, although they're hard to see because the data points kind of obscure them. But since the covariance deterministically converges to a constant within a few samples, regardless of the data, the confidence bands are not very interesting in the example in the article.
Well, some iPhones work with masks — my girlfriend's iPhone 11 doesn't.

Gloves aren't necessary here :) I live in the (allegedly) Brazil's coldest state capital, Curitiba, and you can get through winter here without them.
Thank you for the input. I doubt anything will help.
I am also heavily invested in Apple gear, but any feature dealing with Siri/HomeKit gets a big doubt from me.

I have two HomePods setup in stereo mode configured to an Apple TV 4K, and I cannot reliably get it to tell me today’s date, start a timer, play a movie, and not even pause or resume the Apple TV 4K.

It is so bad, that recently, if you say “Hey Siri, resume”, the audio resumes playing from the Homepods, but the Apple TV 4K still displays the screensaver until you press play on the remote. I do not even understand how that bug works (and it is a new one, the software continuously gets worse).
Not really. As costs go up, you can mitigate by pushing more of your data out to slower mediums, like hdd.
Feels kind of disingenuous though. The article makes it seem like you’re suggesting you can measure angle with simply a gyroscope + a low pass filter. But in reality, that method does not work at all (hence the famous NASA problem that Kalman filter solved). You need multiple input state space model to see the magic of Kalman filters.
I don’t know about everyone else, but as a professional in the film/video world having a new-ish (I upgrade every 3 years or so) iPhone actually helps me do my job.
That could be anything. And saying, "It's common practice to post douchily obscure titles" isn't an excuse.
The real draw is the camera. The ease of taking videos, especially of your kids, is worth the price tag for many. And the camera is a differentiating factor between the lower and higher tier models. Is the state-of-the-art camera needed? Debatable, but once family and memories are involved all economic rationality goes out the window.
And when the typical voter who owns their own home votes in their best interest, they vote NIMBY. If you incentivize scarcity, scarcity is what you will get.

Change needs to come from above the system, not within.
1st SE was 2016.

But it is in fact a fantastic design. Still am using mine. :)
Stop changing things so much and using so many animations and design fads.

This complaint is more about the designers than the devs. They seem to be designing for their peers rather than the user.
U.S. citizenship comes with benefits (voting, etc) as well as drawbacks (taxation). If you don't need those benefits and you don't want the drawbacks, renounce citizenship.

That said, I was being a little loose when saying citizenship. The U.S. has various laws many of which are regarding taxation of business within its borders, with entities housed in its borders, or citizens abroad. They will seek to enforce those laws. I think that's for the most part that's fairly standard.

There are of course a myriad of ways in which the issue becomes more complicated, and I'm not trying to claim the government can do no wrong and all their actions are justified, I just think it's important to look at the issue holistically. The government should be capable, which appropriate checks and balances, to enforce the laws. People should have the ability to have some expectation of privacy from the government unless there's a specific reason the government seeking otherwise that's valid.
As someone who held onto the iPhone 5S for years after its EOL and then held onto the iPhone SE first gen for as long as possible (until a cracked screen and second shot battery forced an upgrade) I can confidently say this guy is missing out.

I held on to the old phone because of my thinking of the "stability and perfection" of its old design.

I avoided the iPhone 6/7/8/SEv2 era like the plague because of just how unfinished it felt. It was slippery, it felt uncomfortable in the hand, and I hear it was not the best at repairability. It also just does not look good in my opinion.

At the time THAT phone felt like the one was was unfinished. Now this guy is saying its the one that is "like a well-finished product". Its the same design that I felt was unfinished. I conclude that this talk of finished vs unfinished design is just a matter of taste and perception. There is nothing that fundamentally changed from iPhone 8 vs iPhone SEv2/3. It still inherits my complaints from above.

In reality he just hasn't put in the time to give the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini designs an honest chance. They are the current "unfinished" designs. A few years down the line he will be saying the same thing about that design once it comes out in iPhone SE v4(or 5/6/7 whatever).

Now to be fair there is something great about small cheap phones that pack a lot of value. It is just what it is. Last gen design that some prefer while others do not. Its not anything special nor "perfected".
Eh, I don't think that actually changes my point. Even as a reframing, when looked at with respect to how well it communicated its point and fostered understanding and discussion of that point, it was poorly executed.
Hmm, I'm not trying to make that suggestion at all. How did I make that impression? I'd like to correct it.

My goal with this article is only to help readers who have wondered how time-domain approaches like Kalman filtering relate to frequency-domain approaches like low-pass filtering, and to connect those dots. It's not a comprehensive article about the magic of Kalman filters.
As a potential customer I looked into these, but products were few and far between. More importantly, they weren’t competitive with ordinary DRAM for either capacity or price.

The promise was that we would be plugging terabyte sized XPoint DIMMs into ordinary servers and getting massive capacity benefits at a small performance hit compared to DIMMs.

In practice the sizes available weren’t anywhere near that large and cost more.

So… what’s the point?
Thanks!

Yeah, I also prefer the flat sides (miss my old iPhone 5), but SE's rounded one isn't much a problem for me. Maybe I'm too zealous, but in seven years using this type of phone, I've never dropped one. (They dropped for another reasons, such as sliding from a uneven table thanks to the glass back. It survived without any scratch, anyway.)
US banks are generally required to report all cash transactions over $10K. However, they're also supposed to report smaller cash transactions that look suspicious. Like if you deposit $5K cash today, and then another $5K cash tomorrow, then it's likely that the bank will file a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) with FinCEN.
After 9 years, finally Web MIDI is ready on Firefox.

With that joy is mixed a sadness about the design decision. I've been following the discussions and developments on Bugzilla eagerly, and suddenly right before the release it's announced that the feature will be behind a gate: it will require both developers and users to go through a bunch of hoops to prompt/install an additional browser add-on for "Site Permissions" to enable Web MIDI. This is too much friction, and will prevent wide adoption.

At least I can use the feature for myself on localhost, but it does not seem practical for production/commercial work.
You may as well ask if least squares is just a way to draw a line through data.
but... your pixel was more than $100 new. the phone you use does not normally fit into the category you describe. the only part that makes it work is the "second hand," bit.

cheap/expensive is relative, and $400 is cheap for a phone (for north american audiences).

fwiw, i find even pixel phones to be sort of slow after a couple years into software updates, mostly between multitasking/app switching. so I think that the compute actually doesn't really scale well into the future as you imply, which is a separate unfortunate fact.
I tried reading "A Canticle for Leibowitz” recently.

Didn't love it. Not alot really happened in it.

It felt like a response/commentary to the sort of apocalypse that was envisaged in the 1980's, like nuclear war. I feel like there's a much more sophisticated post apocalyptic vision of the future now.

As an alternative, I loved "The Road" - now there's a really great post apocalyptic scifi.
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Optimizing Facebook's Algorithms for Human Values Instead of Clicks
Not quite a dystopia, but of you (like me) also loved those books, then a highly recommend CS Lewis' Space Trilogy. One of my favourite series of all time, especially the last one.
The delivery apps here have people at hotspots. I don't know if they're actually told to wait there by the app or if it's their own personal initiative. But McDonald's and malls often have riders camping there.

It might be deliberate as we see some of them riding bicycles for short range deliveries.

Uber has been very poor at optimizing logistics here, which is why they lost. I talked with drivers who were pissed at having to drive 30 mins for a 15 min delivery, and not be told where it was. But it could be a mix of paying drivers too little, resulting in too few people and long waiting times, resulting in people buying from the competition.
Chronic hypocerists implementing more “rules for thee and not for me”,
Suburban parents are fighting book bans because of the threat of censorship
> trade secrets can still exist

How can trade secrets exist if we are “just sharing ideas openly with each other”?
In the tech industry, you'll probably find a lot more engineers making $600k/yr than sales people.
Text recognition in the camera also works on the 2020 iPhone SE, along with blurred backgrounds in portrait mode.
The SE is great, both my parents received one each for their birthdays this year. Nice bright display, a button to help escape any stuck programs, and a great new camera for them to take pictures of caravans, cactuses, and kids. I’ve got an iPhone 11 and will probably sidegrade to an SE in the next year or two, and the space in my pockets will thank me for it.
I'm sad cuz I really believed and felt excited when working on them

Maybe it was too early for Optane and it'll come back later? I hope
A wonderful book, one of my favourites. This intersection of science, religion, dystopia, raw humanity - it makes for an enthralling reading experience.
You are not. And the camera in the pixel 6a is the same as it ever was and they made it worse by replacing the rock solid back fingerprint reader with a junk "under the glass tesla AI is coming next year" reader.
Yes, that's a fantasy world. I explored this using the Exacycle system at Google and we did actually do a couple things that nobody else could have at the time, but even that extraordinary amount of computing power really is tiny. The problem is the "force field" isn't just the enthalpic contributions I listed above, but also depends intimately on much more subtle entropic details- things like the cost of rearranging water into a more ordered structure have to be paid for. Estimating those is very expensive- far worse than just enumerating over large numbers of proteins "in vacuo", and probably cannot be surmounted, unless quantum computing somehow becomes much better.

Instead, after spending an ordinate amount of Google's revenue on extra energy, I recommended that Google instead apply machine learning to protein structure prediction and just do a better job of extracting useful structural information (note: this was around the time CNNs were in vogue, and methods like Transformers didn't exist yet) from the two big databases (all known proteins/their superfamily alignments, and the PDB).

Note that this conclusion was a really hard one for me since I had dedicated my entire scientific career up to that point in attempting to implement that fantasy world (or a coarse approximation of it), and my attempts at having people develop better force fields (ones that didn't require as much CPU time) using ML weren't successful. What DeepMind did was, in some sense, the most parsimonious incremental step possible to demonstrate their supremacy, which is far more efficient. Also, once you have a trained model, inference is nearly free compared to MD simulations!
Retool PM here. This sounds like a good use case for Retool! (I built something similar to join performance data with metadata using Retool in my last role).

While we don't currently support using Python or R in apps, we do have something new shipping soon that'll make it easier to run heavier statistical lifting server side. If you're interested in a beta access, or even pairing on a build session, let me know at jane@retool.com.

Also, I think pre-calculating values and storing them in a database table is a smart idea if your velocity is increasing and you want folks to be able to access reports themselves. Your users will get a snappier app and you'll have a historical record of experiment results to reference.
I could be wrong but I think qualcomm is the biggest obstacle for google in supporting older phone versions.

they won't ship updated drivers for new android versions for old phones.
Genuine question, what's the best phone to look at currently if the camera is your main focus on a device? I'm past the point of caring about speed or storage, as its all much of a muchness now I feel... But I want an actual camera that just happens to have a phone attached to it.
No SafetyNet, so useless for some of us.
^Yes, this! Got a mini too as part of my mission to reduce phone time. I still use it plenty, and haven't once missed having a bigger screen.
Curious about this quote:

> The only feature that Apple has denied for any reason other than technical is night mode when taking pictures at low light, absent here.

I was under the impression that night mode more or less required the 2+ camera package of the current phones in order to gather enough light, depth, etc. information for it work well. Given what the author said, I guess I was wrong about that... anyone with some image processing knowledge able to elaborate a bit on how night mode works?
Radflix: All of your favorite extreme sports movies in a single place
Those are good, but kind of strange and hard to get through, especially the first one.
Teacher was coerced to give lazy student an “A” so she gave every student an “A”