skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC, PIC appealed to those embedded/EE guys because it was simple. It was also really cheap. You could add a tiny bit of smarts to your design for a little bit of money and effort. Those guys became well-versed in the PIC weirdness and stuck with it even though other, more traditional(i.e. 8051 based) micros came out with good features at nice price points. I don't remember a lot of cheap, easy to use options based on ARM around the time that the first PICs came out.

Honestly I'm not sure though. I skipped the PIC entirely. I dealt with Z8's and 68HC12s at the time(and TMS320s, but that's another story).
In a way, Google's brand functions almost like an ol-school conglomerate-- you've got B2B and B2C products under one roof, with wildly different quality expectations, but all weighing on the brand.

What sort of blowback do conglomerates see for this? Do railroad executives balk at buying GE locomotives because their GE refrigerators fail?
Toyota is just as far ahead as Tesla. Electric cars isn't better than hydrogen. Just different. And Toyota can sell 1000 cars and have less problems than one Tesla.
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I like wires. Every time i can, i choose to use a wire. Be it for internet or headphones.

The reason for my wired preference is security. I trust cables more than i trust wireless.

Bluetooth is insecure. I dont think it is secure to walk around in a mall with your bluetooth turned on. (correct me if i am wrong)

Wifi WPA2 is probably secure. However wifi WEP is completely insecure. For many years WEP has been widely used. Another problem with wifi are fake networks that use the same name as a public network.

Another interesting fact with wired headphones is they wont fall down directly on the floor, because of the wires. The same goes with the computer mouse.. sometimes it moves to the edge of the table and might want to fall.. the wire will hold it.

Wireless keyboards is definitively a no go since teorically its possible to passively listen for pressed keys just like a keylogger.

Wireless technology sure looks better without all the wires, however when people choose convenience(wireless), they lose some security.

So when i can, i choose wires.
I'd say until you learn whether you have a son or daughter, you have a bigger problem on your hands.
Or you could just use an iPad or iPad mini?
> “it’s super hard to know whether people really believe this, whether they're just going along"

If only there was some way for people to demonstrate their political preferences in a way which was costly, but not something that was generally talked about or publicized.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/nearly-all-of-silicon-v...

Or if there were some way for them to express their collective political preferences in a quantifiable way, with secrecy ensuring there was no possibility of virtue-signaling.

https://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president...

I guess we’ll never know.
Microsoft however used to pay developers per lines of code... Not sure what is better in this case :-)
most half decent headphones these days have a standardised cable connection so replacing or upgrading the cable is very easy and can be cheap.

wireless however have other issues, what of the battery? over time it will wear like any battery does and their runtime will significantly decrease, changing the cable on a pair of wired phones will be a lot less hassle than cracking open your wireless phones to replace the battery

not to mention the fact that wireless devices have far more tech in them that could go wrong, a pair of wired headphones are fairly simple devices, theres a whole lot more tech inside a pair of bluetooth phones (battery, charging circuit, bluetooth components etc) and while theyre wireless theyll still have to be charged by way of a cable somehow so like a pair of wired phones they still have a wire, its just used for charging rather than sound but that doesnt mean it cant break just the same
Given what I learned in recent years about the scientific process I'm always a bit wary of making this a "spend XXX money to get YYY results".

We have issues like that still a sizable amount of medical studies are unpublished because they don't produce the desired result the funder wants, that experts think a vast amount of studies are simply research waste due to poor methodology or that the majority of pre-clinical cancer studies can't be replicated.
How much better could we be at tackling diseases if science wouldn't have these problems?

Sure, more funding is one part of the equation. But I increasingly get the feeling that if modern science wants to make a significant step forward they need to clean up their methodological problems. And that will not necessarily cost more, in many situations it may even cost less. (E.g. don't pay for studies that won't get published later or that are methodologically so weak that they won't produce actionable results.)
obviously you're not into baseband reversing, otherwise you would have known that for the past 10+ years, basebands were almost always RISC cpu and almost always ARM...

moreover, all previous iterations of Intel basebands were custom ARM cores based around Infineon IP acquired by Intel to be competitive in the baseband market...you did not even read my document, because I said this about the old baseband version

moreover, by the nature of baseband itself, it requires a CPU capable of real-time or near real-time processing, as a matter of fact other vendors are using Cortex-R CPU, which is an ARM cpu made for real-time os, giving you predictable timings, especially interrupt processing and memory access

for example, Cortex-R gives you a special kind of memory, called TCM (Tightly-Coupled Memory) memory, which gives you predictable memory access timings, something that you cannot obtain with a simple cache

by the way, Cortex-R is also used in WiFi chipsets, because the type of processing required is very similar (check the excellent writeup done by Google's Project Zero about this)

so yes, it is interesting to see how Intel managed to implement this kind of features in an x86 CPU, which was never designed for such kind of requirements

I suggest you take a look at the References in my document, they might provide some useful information on the matter

of course if you're not interested in baseband reversing, then I guess you're right, it's not technically interesting material
> It has had very little discussions,

That can be viewed as a very good thing, considering the word "vaccine" can be a lightning-rod fod flamewars, even on HN.

> isn't really about "hacking"

It's about science and how it's funded, which is routinely a topic of interest here, and is well within the guidelines: "That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

> In the OP's link, the vaccine article appears above this post by a wide margin. It shouldn't.

Ah, but I disagree. The discussion in this thread is very "meta" and could easily be characterized as annoying, even though I don't (yet) personally find it to be.
Do it too often and you won't have any users because many people are not prepared to take the risk and instead buy the service from another company.
I haven't been shopping for any lately, are there any that charge via USB-C?
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I am Hindu but unaware of this fact. Though I'll do some googling but can you provide your source and reasoning behind that?

I am aware Shankaracharya did try to curb Buddhism but I wasn't aware of ganesha angle.
Gsuite also had inbox and Gmail and they are not free. Users who pay for those care.
Next time I have to make a choice on Google product, most likely will reject it coz I can't really on them to either maintain it or give actual human support either

MS is probably supporting XP in the embedded world. If you are not selling to consumers you have to be prepared to do that
I feel your pain. I can’t use an external mic with my iPhone on a gimbal because the dongle causes a gap meaning it won’t balance.

These aren’t mainstream problems, but are problems nonetheless.

I don’t mind using a dongle, as long as it works. In my case, there is no solution. That Why I still use my old Samsung on the gimbal.
is that an iphone specific feature? (im an android user so not that familiar with ios) if not ive just not noticed it before

i guess it highlights how stupid the ban on wireless connectivity on planes is (not like it wasnt blatantly obvious that theyd never let a vehicle carrying hundreds of lives into the sky with unsheilded components that could be brought down by anyone with a ten quid nokia)
That depends on your definition of "beautiful".
Compare Jean-Pierre Luminet's https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03909 which discusses Interstellar starting at the bottom of the third page of the pdf.
The title of the article seems to suggest no vaccines are available for these diseases, but at least in the case of tuberculosis there is one [1]. The article does refer to it:

“The foundation still hopes to show that booster doses of BCG, a century-old childhood tuberculosis vaccine, can protect adolescents and that a vaccine candidate it is developing with GlaxoSmithKline, the pharmaceutical company, will stop latent tuberculosis from becoming active.”

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/tb/topic/basics/vaccines.htm
People, french people.

I love traveling by train, especially in quiet high speed ones such as TGV, Thalys or ICE.

However half the year I am regularly traveling through France for work from one city to another. I love the train, I enjoy it much better than air travel but the time and the stress lost due to running around with a carriage trying to decipher the connections that's going to take me to the tech zoning is... well stressful and time consuming.

I stand by my point: train station to train station is nice but door-to-door ? That's a much less smoother ride.
actually i worked it out, you had to sign up for the standard vectordash core account then submit your email for the edge early access
Does anyone actually want it thinner and lighter or is that just an assumption we have had and never questioned? I mean most people end up putting their device in a case anyway to protect it already. They are to structurally flimsy and fragile. Hell otterbox is valued at 2.5 billion and all they sell are thick bulky phone cases. A inch thick phone would be fine and have more room for battery, storage, etc, etc, etc... and still have room to have a sturdy case and most people wouldn't care.
Well, that's my experience since working in embedded since '97. Remember there weren't a lot of options back then. It was the days before flash memory and you had to either use UV erasable EEPROMs or make a custom masked part. The C++ compilers were all horrible and inefficient. The debuggers barely worked. C was often your only option for a high level language, if you even had one. Some of the parts I used back then were ASM only, and if you managed to have a compiler it was so inefficient that you couldn't use it. The embedded world as I knew it was ruled by EEs. These people were barely programmers. I knew guys who would rather cut and paste code instead of make functions.

Regarding embedded Python, you have my condolences. I took a job where they use it to implement most of the system level code for a safety critical device. I was excited to do more Python until I realized what a poor choice it was for embedded. Hell, I'd rather use Java because at least you have a compiler to catch a whole class of bugs.

I'm old fashioned. If someone's life depends on it, write it in C, avoid dynamic allocation, and make heavy use of state machines. My friend works on satellite code and that's basically how it is. They don't even use an OS.
Interesting thought, but I'm not convinced.

Constructing a robust BSP tree is very expensive, because you need exact rational arithmetic and the number of bits grows quite large. You wouldn't want to do that at runtime, so you could only use this for static geometry.

If most of your geometry is opaque, you can already achieve the same reduction in lighting complexity with a Z pre-pass.
I've never met a Bluetooth device that connected and worked 100% of the time like wired headphones do. $10 headphones these days sound like $100 headphones from ten years ago. The technology has already peaked. There's no reason to spend more or to settle for a technology like Bluetooth that fails to work on a consistent basis. None whatsoever. I will never choose to buy a phone without a headphone jack because of that. It's that simple. Not to mention the low audio quality of Bluetooth. This is definitely an example of an inferior technology being pushed out simply for profits to replace a superior one.
Only for apps that let the user see/write the code. You can't download code that changes the app's functionality.

2.5.2 Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app, including other apps.

Educational apps designed to teach, develop, or allow students to test executable code may, in limited circumstances, download code provided that such code is not used for other purposes. Such apps must make the source code provided by the Application completely viewable and editable by the user.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
Oh wow that's good to know, I pass through Shinjuku every day but I don't have bluetooth headphones.
The strange parts guy on youtube added a headphone jack to the iPhone 7. So, I think the stated reason for removing the headphone jack to make room for the battery is complete BS.

https://youtu.be/utfbE3_uAMA

Also, why are you responding to the question about limited RF spectrum? It's like you have an agenda in this thread.
Nice, thanks for the tip on the swipe which makes the Gmail app much more usable for me.
For me, it shows empty page with JS disabled.

Here's static HTML version:

https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?_escaped_fragment_=topic/...
So under the assumption that the researchers involved are smart people, they believe that this is the best use of the money.

So why should I believe a random article that increasing specifically vaccine spending is the right thing to do?

If it's only a small sliver, them to get the massive increase the article wants, total spending must go up massively. Either that or the researchers are not directing their money in the right proportions, which seems unlikely to me.

Whatever the correct situation is, the article is seriously lacking for not even mentioning any of it. And if that's the case, I am inclined to disbelieve the entire thing.
There's a simple solution. Don't use any content that can't be downloaded as an actual file, with no DRM or other bullshit. That sometimes means that I'm restricted to torrented stuff. But that's not my problem.
See, you're the one who should be representing my hypothetical client instead of me.
Sure they could make it thicker. But they won't because I suspect over the last decade they have done market research which tells them IMHO the obvious: nobody wants a thicker phone.

Common sense suggests that if the world wanted a thicker phone then one of the hundreds of OEMs would have made one and been successful at it. But yet that has never happened.
Got to assume that anything online is being gobbled up by a security service somewhere.

My email may not be 100% safe (what is?), but at least it’s not being used to sharpen an ad-targeting algorithm.
Vertical integration is function of size. At scale even the small efficiency improvements can make big differences, Facebook run their own DCs and design some hardware too coz it probably makes sense at their scale.
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It’s kind of ironic that if there is a lot of interest (comments) in this project that it will fall off the front page. But not on Hacker News itself. Only on the project page itself.
Oh boy, this literally encourages bloat
Bad interthread is tolerable as long as concurrent running from cache is good
To be honest I follow HN via feed (Rss2Email), have tried hackernews Emacs interface but it's simply too limited. WebUI is horrible and IMVHO can't be really improved with web-tech.

For me the best thing is resurrect usenet and create an hn group, eventually prox-ed to the site. It's not a matter of coding but means, websites are great if they are hypertext, if they are applications (like support comment etc) they are bad. newsgroups or mailing-lists work pretty for discussion.
I think the article could have benefited from some info on the efforts the Shenzhen government has been making on addressing the concerns raised, including setting up the Hong Kong University Hospital in Shenzhen branch and the giant "Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone", a free trade area in Shenzhen with corporate law based on Hong Kong's and very attractive tax benefits.

Whether that's enough to assuage Hong Kong'ers cynicism is a different matter, of course ;)
Absolutely, but I think we become desensitized to numbers. $3,000,0000,000 is alot of money.

In trying to find the costs of a synchotron I came upon this article [1] that mentions the construction of an entire campus surronding a synchrotron, experimental facilities, and so on. The entire construction project and synchotron cost £263 million. That's at government level efficiency, which is to say significantly overpriced, and of course is also just a one-time expense. Even this one time inefficient cost however is only about 10% of our annual spend. The ongoing spend related to maintenance of the facility would of course be a small fraction of that upfront cost.

I just don't understand how one can argue that a 3x increase in funding can be expected to yield massive exponential gains in output.

[1] - https://www.theage.com.au/national/synchrotron-will-cost-tax...
I have always wondered why Safari crashes can reboot the entire telephone. Doesn't iOS have multiple protection rings or is Safari running at ring 0? Or is it a precaution that inhibits jailbreak research?
oh not really, as I already said, Intel basebands were ARM cpu...iPhone was using the Hexagon platform only for CDMA versions, you can check it by downloading a random ipsw from previous years iPhone models

they were Hexagon only just for few models (iPhone 5 and 5s I think), before that, they were using the Infineon baseband, which guess what...it's what Intel bought :)

btw, for the last 10+ basebands were mostly ARMs, with very few exceptions (the already mentioned Hexagon), check also Mediatek and Huawei basebands

and yes, I don't like having an x86 as an embedded CPU, but that's my problem, I guess...
Agreed -- it's entirely non-sensical in how it's enforced as well. I'm a US expat, and travel fairly regularly for work; when I first left the US, I retained my Amazon Prime subscription, naively thinking "A video is a video, who cares where I am?" Then I learned about distribution rights, and how absolutely terrible companies are at informing people about whether or not certain content is actually available in their region or not.

Unless something has changed since the last time I checked (2 years back, so happy to be proven wrong), there is no official method provided to consumers to determine if you can actually utilize most streaming services from any given country/region, and this is extremely frustrating to me. Streaming should be perfect for me as it's preferable to keep what I carry as light as possible, and yet I know that I cannot rely on any streaming service to reliably provide me with the content that I signed up with the intention of viewing/listening to.

Granted, I guess that's my fault for traveling, but it just seems very silly that one situation where streaming is the perfect solution, it fails completely due to distribution rights.
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I've read Heart of Darkness about 3 times. I get something new and wonderful from it every time.

I've listened to Kenneth Brannagh's reading of it about 40 times, and get something new and wonderful from it every time.
We learned nothing.
We probably have a similar view, but please don't call names or post so uncharitably. It only makes things worse.
Largely pointless to people @ Google is not a good measure. Customers still use it, and are willing to pay for it.
To paraphrase Doc Brown, "Where we're going, we don't need headphone jacks"

Airpods are awesome, and they'll only get better. A cord running to your pocket is seriously a thing of the past, and all these posts will age terribly. Just like the serial port ones, the floppy ones, the cd rom ones...

And for all this noise, what I can't for the life of my understand is why these people can't just use a god damn adapter. They make high quality DAC ones, too. Just leave it attached to your headphones. What's the damn problem? The rest of us get a better, thinner phone.
they're not standard ELF files, more likely they're using the ELF format just to have a list of "load address-size-data" stuff assembled with some custom linker script, and they did not bother to change it, probably because of integrity checks or sanity checks along the assembly line

would have been much more fun if they switched to PE format though, like they did with EFI/UEFI :D
I think the author falsely assumes that academic economists and the people who go on to work in big business, governments and central banks were not aware of the shortcomings of their discipline. I would assume instead that they were. But greed and power was their motivator nonetheless. So I wish good luck for her but I don't think awareness will change the hunger for power or greed in any way.
> Inbox was not really fundamentally different from Gmail.

I disagree, and suspect that anyone else that used custom bundles would too.

This guy sums it up well: https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/09/12/google-may-push-peo...
There's a very large body of work in fields like critical economic geography (as an extremely introductory and nonrepresentative example, [1][2]) that discuss the affective, pluralistic dimensions to global and local economies, of which I think orthodox economics barely touches on (slightly, somewhat, in neuroeconomics).

I think this is really important. With a better understanding of the limits of human rationality (which is chief among other things) we can begin to unravel the original axioms and assumptions of the neoliberal era, the ones that basically treat humans merely as selfish, individualistic, perfectly-rational economic agents. With a better understanding of this, we can begin to build a society for humans instead of capital.

[1] https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f10a/6bae34ac59c7be9b7741fe...

[2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/978111838449...
yes that's the model "ICE7560_XMM7560_RFDEV_UB_FLASHLESS" :)
I think what you are failing to understand is that merely offending people is not punishable by censorship in a liberal society. "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." I antagonized no one, merely provided an observation. Flamebait is not an objective term, anyone can claim anything is flamebait if enough people agree. Indeed, I was flaming no one, it was only used as a smear against me to justify censoring me and there is no greater insult to free inquiry than that. As long as you condone the censoring of my comment based on what you perceive is poor tact, you oppose the foundational principles upon which our modern liberal society is built. As long as HN maintains the flag on my comment, they too oppose those same principles.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines: No, we haven't learnt anything.