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Is it really true that larger pixels are better, or is it really only true that sensing more photons is better?

Specifically, what is the reason multiple sensors with smaller pixels could not perform as well or better if their combine total sensor area was larger?

The L16 is an example. It had issues, but they mostly seemed like implementation problems rather than inherent limitations.

After all their challenges seeing that they still apparently raised 100MM in capital, it would seem to suggest something better is possible. https://spot.light.co

Also they have bigger hardware that today’s smartphones would want, but in principal I’ve never understood why smaller pixels are inherently worse as opposed to total photons collected.
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How available is biodiesel in the US? I"ve never seen it here in the UK, so it's not a consideration for me.

The DPF should be self cleaning if you do an occasional high-speed trip (such as on a highway), so it shouldn't be wasting fuel unless you're doing exclusively city driving (in which case I agree; petrol or electric is better in this situation).

Our 2016 Golf Bluemotion gets at least 50mpg in normal driving, usually over 60mpg, and occasionally we crack 70mpg.
I must be stupid, but what does "Short Tesla" mean?
America land of the free.
Used thinkpads on ebay.
I would take it further and say “why touchscreens for most devices don’t work”

(hifi/stereo, thermostat, desk phone, etc)

Who really wouldn’t rather use a 1970s-80s silver stereo with buttons, compared to a cloud/digital player today?

If clutter is an issue, check the book “Dieter Rams: As little design as possible”

Obviously the overall experience on an iPhone is better than a blackberry, but the sheer speed and “lookahead” actions, where the input speed can exceed the UI state, is on another level.

The same holds true for a console type order entry screen (think old school pizza parlor unix). Of course the features are lacking, but using hotkeys and not waiting on UI, is an entirely different experience in regards to speed.

Preaching to the choir here I realize. More related to the story, I have a 2017 Honda Civic and every time I change the volume, my dev hat activates, thinking just wtf from a safety perspective.

Full disclosure: I’m 35, not too old and cranky yet
Yes, stupidity is a weakness that is ripe to exploit. Thought it was obvious I didn't mean physical forte.

Your average street level transaction will degrade if you smile or even too polite.
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Facebooks out-of-memory handling approach is open source
Our eyes are not really that good, a lot of your visual experience is due to the processing in your visual system.
If Google seems scammy, it might be better to reach out to friends for referrals. Otherwise feel free to get in touch if I can help; I added my coaching website link to my profile.
Aren't eyes actually quite bad and most the brain is doing the heavy lifting? We all have a huge blind spot yet we don't perceive it.
Sooo adding a field to a struct is supposedly a non-code-breaking feature (yeah, right) but tweaking a constant isn't?

This does not fit with my experience of the world.
I've noticed the UI to be a bit schizophrenic. The list view has one way of displaying a ticket, but a ticket's details has another way of displaying the ticket. It's slowly becoming standardised, but I always have to hunt around to find the fields I'm looking for (often having to go into the details view).
As a foreigner you stick out in thousand tiny details that's true. As a grumpy looking foreigner you're better off though.
Are you planning to write an article about it? Would make for a very interesting read.
Does anyone have time to ELI5 WebRTC?
Really! Which elementary school did you go to?
It's an experimental Fedora Atomic Workstation install - GPU drivers are the least of the problems on this system ;)
I wonder if the information he got from his calls helped in this case.
How do you reconcile this with Gonzales v Raich?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich
There doesn't technically have to be a way to register new sites. There is, but theoretically there never actually had to be, given keys are generated deterministically on-demand, using the website's domain name effectively as a salt. There's no system with a list of websites.

The signed challenge-response you give to the phishing site cannot be forwarded to the real site and accepted, because you used the domain name as part of your response, and as part of key generation, so it doesn't match. That's all that meant. 'Credentials' included the use of a public/private key, not just the typed password.
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When was the last time you took a picture that didn’t come out how you wanted it, and it was because you didn’t have enough megapixels?
> It depends. I have a friend who used to work on banking systems. They had full test coverage of every dependency. Even standard lib functions and language features.

these are not dependencies anymore then, they are part of your code source and should be vendored with it. I don't know what language your friend is using but I'm pretty sure most std libs and languages already have tests with very good coverage.

> One time they found a bug in the md5 implementation in a minor version of a popular database.

Every piece of code can have bugs. 100% code coverage doesn't eliminate bugs, it just says all code path are tested, an algorithm can still be wrong for some values even if 100% code path are tested.
Other distros may have this differently and return NULL. It's not portable and also just bad to not check for it.
It litterally changes nothing. I've had to fork a lib to bump a dependency version just recently.

The only things that protect elm from knowing dependency hell are the age of the ecosystem and the fact that there are not that many common package publishers outside of the core team.
Sure health and energy are helpful when raising kids. But what about wisdom and perspective? I would think it really depends on the person and how prepared they feel with respect to having kids - mentally and physically.
As someone who has no practical experience of Kubenetes, and have read a few documents this is a pretty useful to me.
> I know the case. If he was literally only “growing wheat for himself” as a subsistence farmer, the commerce clause wouldn’t apply. The reason it applies is that he was already operating a business that does interstate commerce.

Are you sure about that? I don't know that much about the law, but I've always heard of this case specifically because the excess wheat he was producing was for his own consumption.

Wiki seems to agree with this, not mentioning anything about his having a business that I see (although I only skimmed the article and may have missed something).
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I forgot the specific term that describes this, but basically each pixel on a sensor is going to have a threshold for whether it activates (much like a neuron's action potential). Say its 20 photons. If it gets less than that, it is unable to see anything at all. Meanwhile a larger pixel will see something because it will be able to capture more than 20 photons in a given unit of time. On the other hand, the aggregate of several smaller pixels across many sensors will each fail to reach that threshold and thus see nothing.

The L16 has some low light and dynamic range problems, I believe owing to this very situation.
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Ask HN: Where are we with meltdown and ME? Does an Intel CPU not make sense now?
I'm in the market for a laptop. (Actually, as a quick side note - if you have a specific linux laptop suggestion, by all means bring it.)

Now, obviously both Intel and AMD have security concerns that come with a purchase of their products. But is Intel materially worse?

1) Is it better to avoid Intel until the Management Engine issues are worked out?

2) Is meltdown a specific concern to take into account?
Since you have expertise, maybe you can explain why this seems to happen in the US only, while SS7 (which many commenters mention as the culprit) is used all over the world.

I live in Europe, but do not receive robocalls at all (zero), while when I enter the US, and put in my US SIM, I immediately start getting multiple per day.
> Nobody says "I got my iPhone repaired cheaply and now the touch isn't responsive"; they tell their friends "God my iPhone sucks these days".

Are you sure? People love to blame problems on the last person that touched a thing, even when they are unrelated.
One really useful application is better digital zoom. I've definitely found I wanted to crop or zoom an image on my smartphone to frame a distant subject, but the resolution of my camera becomes apparent when I do it.
There is a principle (some claim it holds true in pretty much every case) that in a company of N people only square root of N are doing all the work. So if you are a 4 person company you need to hire 12 more to double your output. if you are a company with 10 000 employees you will need to hire 30 000 more to double your output :)
Exactly, every change is breaking for someone: https://xkcd.com/1172/
On a tangental note, another HN user posted another visualisation a few months back which I quite enjoyed:

Why do buses bunch?: http://setosa.io/bus/
That's what's done in Australia.

I'm not sure of the specifics of how the tax money is doled out, but all my income tax and sales tax goes to the federal government, which then divvies it out to the states.

There are additional taxes in some states though, which are collected by the states, such as payroll tax, but I don't see that on my payslip.
How much is it worth and who will pay and how will I collect it.
I switched to Linux Mint (Cinnamon) last year for this reason. I couldn't be happier. Even the non-technical users in my household are fine with it.
In the UK we left it to the free market for the last 30 years and the market completely failed to meet demand.

Admittedly there were some planning constraints but even as those have been lifted the developers continue to make large expensive homes rather than the dense housing we desperately need.
It's actually illegal in Germany to do this. And yeah they sometimes get extremely low temperatures. In modern cars you are supposed to drive immediately which will warm things up more quickly.
At the zoo years ago, my kids and I saw a bunch of monkeys playing in their enclosure — and pissing and shitting wherever they felt like it. Of course, it was the zoo staff who had to clean up the resulting messes.

I think of those monkeys whenever some executives and their political allies complain about the regulations that keep them from making big messes for the taxpayers to clean up.
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It's nice argument that hands are the future of good design.

It seems like clever combinations would be useful. Hands, feet, even arms and legs. Everything appropriately seems like what could design could look like.

The worry in my mind is whether good interfaces are the future. Perhaps the future is "good enough" interfaces. Once basic usability is achieved, the software developers simply have other agendas and no particular reason to further empower their users. Instead fluff, branding, corporate egos or whatever will prevail - look at the evolution of PC interfaces as an example.

So as long as the horrible Prius touch screens don't cause actually large numbers of crashes, they'll stay around in all their annoying "glory".
Say what you want about cryptocoin, atleast it doesn't have this problem:https://getmonero.org/
You accidentally hit the core of the coffee problem. Woman in your story is secretary and coffee and baby sitting boss is her job description. Bank (industry) professionals are not expected to make coffee nor write boss mails. The women who complain about the coffee requirement are complaining that they are treated as secretaries and expected to do secretarial work, despite being industry professionals.

It is also dominance game - there is that thug-of-war among professionals over autonomy, leadership, ideas, credit, blame and what not. A person that should have no authority to order her around is ordering her around in front of third parties, which makes him look more like a boss and her more like secretary. Both request and complaint are office politics. Not coincidentally, secretaries (unlike industry professionals) are supposed to act rather submissive and manage boss emotions rather then propose ideas, argue or fight for them.
Don’t worry about girlfriends/boyfriends, focus on yourself. Plenty of time for it later.

Put energy into:

Being fit

Building your creds (either a big name firm or prestigious degrees) in case you fail at the next step

And then jump into a startup if you are so inclined, or just keep climbing the ladder at a nice company.

Studying whatever you like for the hell of it

Learn a language and travel somewhere, drink coffee/beer and talk to people in said language

Meditate, go within, introspect

Cook yourself and some friends a nice meal, with a good glass of wine

Don’t give a shit about anything and just enjoy a bit with some friends who you can be yourself with and just clown around a bit (or a lot)
You have to at least account for differences in base rate of accidents.
The typical normalisation would take at least published accident total to synthesise data for the other cars.
(By using sales numbers of cars.)

What he did there is statistically unacceptable.

The medical equivalent would be to compare side effect profile of current best of line treatment done in general populace to results to your new treatment's phase 1 trial results which is done in healthy people only.
Then advertise that.

Regardless, can we have the raw data please? Are the rates even meaningful when the incident counts are low? Vehicle years are not the right unit as this counts cars that are not being driven. Actual range driven is the right unit.
They don't come from your area code, that's just part of the spoofing.
> Well, if you actually read into the case, the screens that originally got him in trouble almost certainly were genuine parts that had "fallen off the back of the truck" or whatever excuse someone gave for trafficking in stolen components

If they're stolen, that's bad, sure. But that's only one possibility for where they came from.

> the guy's defense was "there's no way I could be infringing on their trademarks because the Apple logos are all inked over to make sure nobody sees them before I put them on the phones, and once they're installed you don't see them either!"

When someone accuses you of infringing a trademark, pointing out that you don't use the trademark is a completely legitimate defense. I honestly don't understand why you imply that's a bad argument.

> Which is not exactly the tale of plucky indie DIY repair hero people wanted it to be, and probably quite close to the "illegal importer trying to spin his way out of it" Apple accused him of being.

What is an "illegal importer"? You shouldn't need Apple's permission to import anything.
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To be honest, it didn't get my attention yet, since I don't know what useful thing I could do for example with exporting all my Facebook data. I would only be slightly worried with how to protect them from theft, and basically their usefulness is tied to the Facebook web and mobile app.
Ah this is an interesting idea. Passengers already have to request when they want to get off. I'm assuming you mean if no one wants to get off, a bunched up bus skips a stop because a bus behind it says "I'm behind you, I'll take this stop."

That would mostly work, but the problem in Pittsburgh at least is the bus bunching happens between related but not quite identical routes. For example, the 61A, 61B, 61C, and 61D all run down Forbes Ave, and frequently get bunched there. But then later in their routes, they fork: two go one direction, and two go the other direction. For many passengers, it doesn't matter which one they take. But for other passengers, it has to be a 61A etc.
Still has the same issue. You will have to look at it to see if you are fingering it right. There should be audio cure for everything
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It's a standard way for browsers to engage in real time communications - most often used for video calls, but not necessarily limited to them. WebRTC is implemented in all the major browsers, and offers push button peer to peer video calls. Ghangouts and jitsi both use WebRTC. Slack and Hipchat use it. Skype is gradually moving over (from the MS proprietary oRTC), so even Microsoft Teams will use it soon.
As another comment noted, even if the stops aren’t unconditional the probability that no one will pull the cord for any particular stop on a crowded bus is near zero.
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> While nobody likes the cost of investment, our lives and prosperity and everything else depends on it.

Yes, taxes are an investment. In the same way that putting money in your savings account is also an investment. But I wouldn't recommend that anyone keep all their money in a savings account.

Every dollar that the state takes away from people, in order to invest in itself, that is one less dollar that each person has to decide how THEY would want that dollar to be invested.

So higher taxes is not higher investment. It is a reduction in private investment, in exchange for a increase in public investment. Whether the world needs more private or more public investment is a matter of debate.

> For example, nobody would suggest you minimize investment in your home unless you were leaving soon

Well, that depends. If my choice is between paying off my credit cards, or investing in my house, I certainly believe that paying off my credit cards would be a better investment. Every dollar that I personally invest in my home is one less dollar that I am able to invest elsewhere. And those other investments may be a more pressing concern. Or they might not.

Also, even IF it is "proved" that a public investment has better returns than a private one, you also need to take into account that you are taking money from someone else, and there are moral questions about how much money we should be taking from other people.

I believe that it is OK to take some money from people, but certainly not all of it, regardless of how much better the public investment is. What that level should be is matter of debate.

To take it to the extreme, even IF the government had some amazing investment that was better than all private investments, I would STILL oppose it if the government decided to take a full 100% of money from everyone.

This is because I believe in private property, and that people are entitled to at least SOME of the profits of their efforts.
Irrelevant?? That is the most relevant question that a developer could ask in this situation.

Often, there are ways to work around bugs in an API. And, just as often, those workarounds will break as soon as the bug is fixed. The API developer is in a particularly poor place to judge whether a bug fix is breaking or not. Sometimes, they can talk to users to see if a change will break their code, but other times they can't. Thus, it comes down to how well a developer can predict whether a fix will break projects in the wild.
Dangerous in what way?
I'm European and baffled by this sentence.
Then prepare to be shocked
As someone who's also pursuing a PhD in CS, I feel your comment doesn't reflect my situation, or my colleagues'. It's true that I started working on one of my advisor's projects, but the difference between the industry and academia is that I can discuss whatever I want about the project with him, and he will care about it. I am in lead of the project and my advisor acts as an advisor, not a boss.

Of course it all depends on many factors, just my personal experience here.
I wouldn't quite agree with your statement about there being no substitute for pixel size. The trade-offs between pixel size, dynamic range, and noise, when making fair comparisons is complex. Not to mention that today it seems that every phone is taking advantage of computational image processing in order to give a more "DSLR like" image, while ILC cameras aren't implementing this at all. I'm sure in many cases a cellphone camera will shoot a better image than something like your RX100 due to this.
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After one year working serverless, I've summarized the top approaches for observability in modern cloud systems. It is featured in Hacker Noon.

https://hackernoon.com/five-ways-to-gain-serverless-observability-406e5cab51af?source=linkShare-943bc330228f-1532413050
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Enclaves (e.g. SGX) get you there without the need for fancy math. And you get to maintain normal computation (i.e. x86).

Enclaves have the downside of being a bit of a pain to use. But hell, FHE isn’t any easier.
No, you didnt. You got a list of places that will try to upsell you on a new device. Apple authorized service program PROHIBITS actual repair, they are only allowed to mail in repair jobs to Apple "repair" center (somewhere in Texas afair), whats even funnier actual Apple place doesnt repair, they replace whole units (say goodbye to data if you haven't backed up recently).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD51CF0W93U
Right, what's hard is faking it, or moving just partially.
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The lesson learned isn’t about code coverage or oaths tested. It’s to not blindly trust 3rd part anything, even “languages already have test with very good coverage” when the stakes are high.

If billions of dollars are riding on your code, you better be damn sure you trust everything it relies on.

Fun side note: every piece of internal code was always developed in parallel to the same spec by 3+ teams so they could cross validate. If all 3 functions don’t return the same value for the same input, every team gets to build it again until all implementations behave the exact same.

High reliability engineering sounds “fun”
This is from Sep. 2017. Please update the title.

Also, a link to a talk they gave on USENIX 2017 conf:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=xpT6L8htINU

The Cothority is a weak link in the chain - you need to incentivize as large as possible, and diverse, Cothority -
One popular means of doing this these days is tokens/incentives to people to add machines and reward their work.
(Apologies for buzzwords coming:) A crypto, blockchain-based token sounds like a good fit.
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Well, if you wrote stable code in the first place, there wouldn't indeed be any need for updates!
I think having an assistant would be a relief even if I read my own email.
Yes but they shouldn't be doing it near people's houses. Concrete mixers are supposed to go directly to the construction site and deposit their load on time.
The dangers do increase... if planetary spaceflight is a reality, and common as, say shipping in the age of sail, then the danger of some nutter or terrorist tossing a rock down a gravity well becomes a real threat on an existential level. See Nemesis Games in the Expanse series, among others.
- She knows how to take fast, accurate dictation with steno. They don't teach that anywhere anymore.

Of course they do, usually it's directed at court jobs, but anyone can take a steno course.