skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very different things are in Indian semiconductor industry in comparison to China:

1. Availability of professionals

India: makes tons of electronics engineers and semi specialists, but very very few of them find employment in the country.

China: there is a somewhat ok amount of undergraduate cadres, but for anything above this, you have to attract people from abroad. And yes, Chinese fabless were hiring from abroad since the very beginning. In fact, people who make SoCs at Allwinner, Rockchip and etc are around 50% undergrad and 50% masters level people. In their early days they were eager to hire random college grads and teach them verilog on site.

2. Goals

India: a research program, all work in the past few decades was about delivering some kind of proof of concept level "national chip"

China: make money quick - 9 out of 10 Chinese fabless start with bog down standard, off the shelf "solutions" from ARM, and add some flavour: here you have 4 channel camera controller, here eDP on chip, and here 10G Ethernet for pennies.

3. Markets

India: with all respect, the truth is there are none. And from many people I hear the same criticism - even if the 10th in a row state backed effort to make the "national chip" will succeed, there will be no chances of it ever sustaining it with microscopic domestic market as demanded by political mandate.

China: foreign markets - even 15 years ago, Chinese fabless well understood that their value proposition is actually lesser in domestic market than for the export manufacturing. Most Chinese buying a PC 20 years ago were not deliberating whether their PC has Sigmatel audio codec or some cheaper domestic analogue, but for somebody making stuff for export, every penny saved on expensive imported chip mattered a lot. Even today, the pattern holds: Chines domestic market smartphone models have high-end Qualcomm or Samsung flagship class chips in their majority, and for export they do Mediatek, Allwinner, and Spreadtrum
Few things excite me as RISC-V. Hardware is in dire need of major disruption and it's starting to happen, a bit by bit. Hardware manufacturing as well needs disruption, but that's an ultra hard mountain to climb, for now.
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> What makes you think that? Stereotyping perhaps?

Look at the quasi racist stuff this guy wrote. He obviously doesn't like asians for some reason.

"Harvard and the other Ivies don't want to keep out asian people. They want to keep out boring, myopic applicants who spend all day studying to achieve the grades and scores they have and show little sign of interest in contributing to the outside world beyond getting a well-paying job as a lawyer or doctor and raising a family comfortably."

The guy claims to have been an admissions officer at an ivy league school. Doesn't seem likely.
Google cache for folks outside Australia: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bHy_90...

(I was redirected to us.sydney.com, in the manner of https://xkcd.com/869/ )
Doesn't work as well in languages where indentation is significant. But even in languages where indentation is insignificant you'll run into issues doing things like line splitting.
Homely means ugly. You mean cozy?
This is a pretty neat document. It's not so much a dry reference to the architecture of 1964 as it is a "how to turn your interpreter into a compiler" tutorial using 1964 code as the examples.
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There's the fantasy reality we wished we lived in, and there's the pragmatic reality we actually live in, and if you only ever act as though you live in the fantasy reality then the pragmatic reality will always leave you disappointed.

So unless you know of a way to force site operators to act against their best interests to service yours, I would much rather that we at least have this option available.

Also, let's not forget that Google itself has been guilty of letting toxic ads slip through their vetting procedures. It's not as though there's some 100% foolproof way of ensuring that you only ever run ads that are completely benign in every possible sense without doing away with 90% of the things legitimate advertisers demand to have (rich ads, tracking, javascript, etc), so again, unless you've discovered a realistic way for site operators to fund the operation of their sites without having to erect paywalls, the threat of toxic content will always exist.
> If you're not really sure you need this stuff then you don't need it. Plain and simple.

Goodbye software demos
Okay serious question, which has the larger negative societal impact - making it harder to differentiate between the top tenth of a percent of college applicants, or making it harder to differentiate between the bottom ten percent of college applicants?
If you have the chance, don't forget to taste the Korean "flower salt", which is basically salt in crystal flakes, as it naturally forms during evaporation. I haven't yet found a better salt for beef.
> I'm not sure how likely Mozilla is to develop it into a product

It's unlikely to become a standard desktop browser, but the roadmap [1] does mention investigating options like a standalone mobile browser [2] or perhaps to be used embedded in an app, e.g. for packaged web apps.

[1] https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap
[2] https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/20855
1. Yeah. That doesn't make it any less true. If you go so far as to get one that has no Internet connection, an attacker would need have to be super committed (short of social engineering) to gain access, for very little benefit.

2. Services that are intentionally designed to be addictive. That may be easy for you. It isn't for hundreds of millions of other human beings. A dumb-phone precludes the possibility of access, so you don't have to exercise any willpower.
Do they limit you to one viewing per movie?
I just ordered one of those, I'm pumped. To me, the biggest selling point of KaiOS phones is the fact that they have GPS. That was the main reason it took me so long to get rid of my smartphone in the first place.
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Great works! We are making a VR logic game combining Alice in Wonderland and The Game of Logic. Both were written by Lewis Carroll. Our preview poster: https://sciencevr.com/img/carrollsriddles_s.png
> And if the tool is meant to be used by devs, still describe your tool in a way a non-developer can understand

Why?
> This reminds me a lot of Firefox tab groups/panorama which was removed a few years ago

It's back: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/panorama-view...
I never switched. Still using my business class Nokia E72. It has a decent camera, sd card for storage, Opera browser for basic internet, HERE offline maps for navigation. And putty terminal for SSH connections to a remote system. Fits in my trouser pocket unlike the massive smartphones. I keep two spare ones in case it breaks. It broke once, i opened it up, cleaned the inside, put back together and it still works like new. Get them on second hand on ebay.
Of course there is. Harvard has a disproportionate number of students from New England, and more specifically Massachusetts, as well. Plenty of smart kids don't want to be too far from home or travel a long way to an unfamiliar environment.

As for CalTech's rep, I'm just one person on the East Coast and wasn't a Tech-type student but I forget it exists all the time. If someone asked me to name a West Coast school to compare to MIT, "Stanford" would be all I could think of.
Well as long as we don't nuke each other and kill every single person, there is no catastrophe, so the whole debate is pointless. Nazi could have won WWII (and they very much could) and it still would be cool by this definition. Communists could have won WWII and it still would be cool by this definition.

If WWI and subsequent WWII (which had a lot to do with world WWI created) are little impact, then "no catastrophe" is incredibly low bar. It means nothing, because "no catastrophe" still means we are all death or about to die in slavery.

> Pinker is not a historian, he is a scientist. I'm not claiming he's perfect, more that much of this criticism is ignoring the context provided.

Meaning, he studied something completely different. He is very good at that different thing. That knowledge and experience does not translate to other areas. That is general statement valid for all scientists in all areas in the world.

Enlightenment brought a lot more then just that. It was way more complicated (and interesting) then simplified easy "all the good things" framing would suggest. It also generated scientific explanation and defense of slavery which required scientific theory of racism. (Meaning the two ceased to be merely "I am more powerful or god wants me" and started to have harder to break theories behind them.) That is not to blame enlightenment, slavery existed before obviously, just to show that its own definition of freedom was not entirely like I would define it - and should be open to criticism and reflexion just like anything else.
> If the mother and father share the parental leave, the leave extends until 14 months.

However, "sharing" in this case does not necessarily mean equal parts. The rule is "max. 14 months in total, but max. 12 months per parent". So a lot of couples end up doing 12 months maternal leave and 2 months paternal leave (not all though).
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>Hardware context switching is quite fast and overhead free."

Everything I have read on hardware switching has indicated otherwise:

From:

https://wiki.osdev.org/Context_Switching#Hardware_Context_Sw...

>"Performance Considerations

Because the hardware mechanism saves almost all of the CPU state it can be slower than is necessary. For example, when the CPU loads new segment registers it does all of the access and permission checks that are involved. As most modern operating systems don't use segmentation, loading the segment registers during context switches may be not be required, so for performance reasons these operating systems tend not to use the hardware context switching mechanism. Due to it not being used as much CPU manufacturers don't optimize CPUs for this method anymore (AFAIK). In addition the new 64 bit CPU's do not support hardware context switches when in 64 bit/long mode."
Neat! I'm interested in visual programming languages, the semi-textual intermediaries like forced indentation in Python and frame-based editing [1] are fascinating, so I'm surprised I'd never heard of this. The first issue I see is there are some styles and languages where things are more naturally right-aligned within their "cells" (e.g. alignment against the left side of a column of :s), which starts to complicate things.

[1] https://www.greenfoot.org/frames/
Floating point numbers behave like rational numbers _with denominators that are powers of 2 only_.
Dupes with comments aren’t always dupes, it turns out. I hadn’t seen this before, so I’m glad there were comments on it to keep it from being duped! Thanks for saying something.
Or perhaps she found the experience traumatic and wanted to disassociate herself when describing the events? It's dangerous to read too much into how people describe traumatic experiences.
Unfortunately, reverse compatibility forces the web into a blacklisting model with new headers.

In my Copious Free Time (TM) I am trying to write a web framework that is default deny instead, so even if the web itself is whitelist based, you can try to write in a default-deny environment for security reasons. But even if imagine a perfect such framework from 2017, now in 2018 you have these new headers to deal with, and it means even if the 2018 version of this default-deny framework comes up, you can't just upgrade the framework itself and do nothing because now if you default-deny all of these the website stops working. Plus it's a sense of false security if you program this restriction that says "no iframes!" if someone uses a browser that doesn't support it.

It's a hard problem, unfortunately.
Not sure I implied that Boston Robotics dogs have dog level intelligence but you have to admit that they are making fascinating progress around HW and robotics. SW/AI side is definitely still at the basic, single function type of intelligent level and will take much longer to achieve. But progress both on HW and SW side and the pace at which the progress is happening is pretty impressive. Clearly, the AI side and the current approaches with the focus on machine learning and neural networks will need to evolve to be much more multifunctional/general. Who knows maybe it will be Machine Learning 2.0... or it might be a completely new approach to AI more aligned to biotech/human brain or maybe something completely else. Time will tell.
The prices you so wish to avoid are (or should be, barring destructive economic practices) temporary.

Furthermore, things like 3d printers suffer from "tool markup" the idea being that if you're just looking to make a thing or two, find someone else who has them and try theirs out to see if it works for your use case.

Virtual Reality hasn't really caught on in the non-industrial sense so as to have a large impact in the everyday life of a person. It can be invaluable for information rich design and analysis, and simulation purposes as well as entertainment, but the adoption is still in the nascent phase, likely held back by the price of the equipment itself, and limited talent pool. Could renting solve that by getting it in front of more people? Absolutely. In the same way giving out free samples of Cocaine/heroin to first time customers can. More advanced and efficient manufacturing of hardware, and increases in the flexibility and software utilized by the platform are the key to increasing uptake.

It may look good on the surface, but if you dig down deeper, it only seems a good model in the light of artificially suppressed wage growth decreasing the buying and ownership power of a majority of consumers.

If you want to make money off of expensive things, convince the market to pay people more. Don't rent seek.

Now if we were talking Lab or advanced scientific equipment, I could see the potential. This company, however, wants to focus on consumer grade tech which is already nearing ubiquity in the market (iDevice, insert chiq brand here). You aren't doing anything but changing the tech purchase from a 1 time investment in a tool to increase productivity into a recurring revenue stream.
Just a guess, but I'd bet they mean "homey".
Devs are often not (although sometimes are) the ones that hold the company credit card or are the gatekeepers of organisation power.
Google "watson layoffs ibm" - IBM has been laying off employees for quite some time now. Is there a correlation?
Maybe to explain the decision to a non-dev colleague?
Seems to me like that's more of a new defining feature of OSM, which may incidentally attract more contributors, but that in and of itself is not lowering the barrier to entry for prospective contributors.
> Morasso and her colleagues also tested this idea by genetically engineering mice to have more of those factors, the 'directors', in their regular skin tissue—and sure enough, those mice had significantly faster skin wound healing than did control mice.

Okay, what is the downside? I suppose there should be one, otherwise evolution would have generated mice with faster-healing skin.
I was highly skeptical about blockchain as well because the only practical application seemed to be cryptocurrencies, and those will never be allowed to grow to a point they become dominant (they can be regulated in such a way normal people won’t want any).

But ... then I went to an evening where the identity applications were explained. Using a blockchain to have assertions made about your identity, like where you studied, where you were born, what employer’s you’ve had in such a way that the assertions can’t be forged, can’t be doctored, can’t be stolen, and aren’t locked away in the databases of an institution. I heard stories of people who lost their proofs of identity by having to flee a warzone and were unable to prove to EU governments and employers they were who they were (to the point of being stripped of their bank accounts because banks only let people with official paperwork hold accounts). And I have to say, there’s something there. I’m still skeptical about cryptocurrency, but not about blockchain.
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You are doing [more or less] exactly what I am planning to do when the next Apple Watch is released. I just have a S1 right now so it is tethered, but in a couple months I am planning to get an LTE model and then ditch the smartphone as often as I can. I don't make too many voice calls these days so I see only upsides.

My S1 definitely does text messages, not just iMessages, but like I said, it is tethered. If the LTE model cannot do standalone texts, that is a bit unfortunate -- I do get normal text messages periodically and I would hate to give those up entirely.
I guess I just prefer to take the optimistic approach to things like this :). I see it as another way for the browser to tell me, a site owner, if something got through that wasn't supposed to. My immediate thought was for better defense against an evil script. Yes, the evil script shouldn't have come up in the first place, but that doesn't mean I'm perfect and an evil script will never make it onto my site.

Aside from disabling misuse of features, it also uses the Reporting API [0] which means that toxic ads violating the feature policy can be reported to the site owner and then potentially removed. That's what I would do if I were a site owner pushing ads -- check on my side to make sure they aren't doing anything questionable and address it immediately if it is.

> How about you just do your job as a site owner and employ an ad network with a code of conduct/morals?

How would this prevent a bad actor from making an ad that looks safe but isn't?

[0] https://w3c.github.io/reporting/
> No, that's silly. Witches don't have "rituals to fight Christians," excepting the fringe sort of bigots that can be found in every religion.

Unless you know each and every witch personally, how can you know what rituals they engage in?

What I would be interested in is to find out about Wiccan/Neo-Pagan believes regarding the peace symbols.

> Maybe take a minute on Google and try to find out what practitioners of other religions believe about themselves, rather than what their enemies believe about them.

You seem to imply I am a "modern right-wing Evangelical"?

Maybe you could spare me your aggressions against these and stop being condescending towards me and instead help me out with the subject matter at hand? You seem to be knowledgeable about these things (maybe).
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I stopped reading the article as soon as they got to the part about him checking all the employees and even following them into the bathroom(Illegal BTW). This is why police departments have INTERNAL AFFAIRS DEPT. Just like pedophiles find a position of trust to prey upon kids, really accomplished scammers find one to take advantage of security. Where would a better position be than to head up the security! When they started giving examples of him check shoes, it reminded me that in my lifetime I realized the worse thieves are always worried about getting robbed! Because they figure if they thought of it, so haven't others. I was reading before that about all his ailments prior and thinking, the author hasn't figured out those were scams ..too!
it's also important for encoding passwords.
> Not long afterward, Jacobson opened a package sent to him by mistake from a supplier in Hong Kong. Inside he found a set of the anti-tamper seals for the game piece envelopes—the only thing he needed to steal game pieces en route to the factory.

While most people are focusing on the lack of human controls that allowed there to be a single person who could pull this off, I think an over looked issue was the over reliance on these tamper resistant seals. They had a single type of seal from a single supplier that was apparently used by itself to show tamper resistance.

This is actually less secure then the setup at the Starbucks I worked at where the tamper resistant bags had serial numbers on both the body of the bag and on a removable tag, so that if somebody was to open the bag (which you could only do by ripping it) and put it in a new bag, the serial number would no longer match.
This is a fascinating history. The trial and process of innovation here is one any engineer can appreciate. Unfortunately individually wrapped cheese goes against two things I've removed or reduced in my life: 1. Processed foods 2. Plastics.
We are also very close to solving world hunger by "Feeding People".
>Or it may be that people have a hard time to figure out what matters at any given moment in time

It's called "the news", not "the importants". Unusual, shocking and lurid stories are much more likely to be newsworthy, but by definition they aren't representative of what is actually happening in the world. Our perception of the world is much more strongly influenced by emotive anecdotes than cold hard facts. Violent crime rates in the western world have been significantly declining for decades, but most people believe that the opposite is true; multiple studies have found a correlation between news consumption and the perception of high crime. It's very difficult for the news media to usefully communicate important but gradual trends - rising incomes across the developing world, wage stagnation in the developed world, the impact of climate change, demographic shifts, the erosion of civil society etc.

I think that most journalists are well-intentioned and genuinely believe that they are seekers of truth, but they operate in a system that reflects our innate perceptual biases, our acquired cultural biases and the commercial exigencies of media organisations.

Another useful experiment is to exclusively consume another country's news media for a week or two, preferably a country you know very little about. A week of reading a Ugandan or Nigerian newspaper provides a very different perspective on world events.
Why should they have to do this? Is a carpenter required to explain to an interior designer why they have a preference for a particular type of chisel?
> If you don't have the disposable cash to pay for it outright then you can't afford it anyway.

You're conflating people who can't afford it with people who can afford it, but aren't certain that they want to buy it.

I think it might be valid to say that if you can't afford to buy it outright then you shouldn't lease it.

I can afford a VR headset, but what if I'm not sure which headset I would prefer for long term use?

> With that all said you can try out the three examples you cite at your local Best Buy, Microsoft Store, Maker Space, Home Depot, etc etc.

This is not the same thing as trialling something for hours/days in the comfort of your own space.

Also, what if I know I will only need an expensive item for 3 months?
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Interesting post, would be fun to read a expanded article about that. I think Aristotle incorporated time and space in logic, like X is true at time Y and place Z. Linear logic sounds interesting and useful, I need to check it out.

I think Hegels negations are part of breaking things apart from a omnipresent One so it basically means that things get defined as separate entities once they negate other things so 'negation of negation' does not mean that the same thing is negated twice rather it means something new is emerging and something old is disappearing. Maybe you can understand why negation of negation is true in this sense if you consider that the things change in relation to time and space.