skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An 80 kg man in an open field next to a 80 W transmitter is exposed to 1 W/kg, and absorbs microwatts/kg.

That's not at all how it works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_absorption_rate#Mobil...
Flickr will end 1TB of free storage and limit free users to 1,000 photos
Mistaken machine translations of 'ribbit' (2018)
Perhaps, beyond a given company size, mergers+acquisitions should be considered illegal until proven legal (i.e. the burden of proof should be on the merging companies.)
Thanks, it's stuck in my head now.
This thread isn't about CPUs, but...

the hardest part of delivering CPUs was the manufacturing, not the design

Now you basically have to outsource the manufacturing to TSMC and they are very good at what they do so in some sense that's not hard because you aren't doing it.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18354066
Quite the opposite. For every weapon X that is touted as helping the little guy, consider how many X the large guys have stockpiled.

It is far more likely that you’re going to get sued by a large corporation or troll and go out of business because your innovative idea “infringes” like a whole lot of other things that you can’t afford to fight in court. They are nice to let you pay a ransom fee — look up the story of IBM and Sun Microsystems[1]. They could just bankrupt you using the legal system.

1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2011/07/07/microsoft...
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Always is a long time. If humanity survives, there's no way we don't end up gathering extra-planetary resources.
Don't need $1MM, a picoSpin 45 retails for ~$3k [1].

As an alternative, you could homebrew a simple NMR yourself with a cow magnet or a neodymium magnet.

[1] https://www.fishersci.ca/shop/products/thermo-scientific-pic...
Also don't forget the less than 50% TDP budget of 7W now compared to last gens 15W.
John Murray produced not only new books, but whole new genres
Yeah I know, which is why I kept the account open in standby.
I will probably just find the show I want to watch through usenet or something. Outside is a pretty dangerous place, I prefer digital worlds where I can respawn if I die.

/s
We're talking about SAR obviously. Surely you could tell that?
Downvoting won't make it more compliant...

Edit: I thought we could discuss about dark patterns on HN. I was obviously wrong. Sorry for that...
on the other hand, I sometimes feel like he has done a lot of "history building", but I find his world sometimes incredibly sparsely described.
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We can all thank googles incredibly lack of privacy for Apple iOS success. I’m sure most people use an iPhone because it’s simple and because the value on privacy is greater.

Other Android vendors should sue google for ruining any chances of actual competition.
No way. By "overwhelmed", I mean to say that I think Facebook dug themselves into a hole, and now they're kicking themselves for it. They grew too big too fast. Turns out "connecting the world" was a bad idea.
>>It reminds me of a sci-fi story

Could you mention the the name?
> There are no studies showing that percentage of people carrying a firearm is in any way connected to the crime rate. Once you account for all the other variables, there isn't any correlation.

Social science statistics are terrible. If you look at the statistic without controlling for anything, it's wrong. If you try to control for other factors, you can generally make the result be whatever you want.

There are multiple overlapping reasons for this.

One is that statistical controls, like statistics in general, don't reveal causation. If you want an effect to disappear, find something that correlates with the outcome and use it as a control. The effect disappears regardless of whether the control causes the outcome. The outcome can cause the control, or they can both have a shared cause, and you can still use it to erase the original effect. For example, do the demographics of the area affect the crime rate, or does the crime rate affect the demographics of the area?

There are also arbitrarily many things that could be controlled for. Taking some of them into account will make the original relationship weaker. Taking others into account will make the original relationship stronger. Looking at only the ones that move the needle in the direction you want it to move lets you move it in that direction.

If you really want to make something inconvenient disappear, just use the metric as the target. Audi claims its vehicles are safer than some competitors. Partisans collect data from two similar areas with a different rate of Audi ownership. The number of fatalities involving Audis is higher in the area with a higher number of Audis. Does this disprove Audi's safety claim?

When you have a politically charged issue like this, you can't pretend that one side's numbers are true and the side's aren't, when the truth is they're both biased and therefore both invalid.

This is a strong candidate for an adversarial collaboration, but to my knowledge this has not actually happened.
It's been interesting to watch how we handle it here at Sentry (75 people) -- my manager, the CEO, still codes every day and a lot of it is non-trivial: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/graphs/contributors

One pattern that seems to work is to write the code if it's easier to explain it in code (& tests!) than in words.
The existing "solution" was a gigantic excel where people would put it times and names.

In Access, when you enter times, you have to use a specific format, (the datetime group specified by the Windows default) rather than just "23:40" or w/e. I've seen a hack where the hour and minutes are separate boxes, but it wasn't pretty. Just this issue was enough to make Access unappealing.

Access's interface is a bit unintuitive, and given that most people I worked with weren't particularly technically capable, I preferred to present them with the familiar Excel interface (and a few extra buttons), rather than teach them an application they've never used before.

Plus, the existing workflow already used Excel, so I hijacked their workflow and their routine wouldn't be modified much at all (introducing a completely new system would cause a lot of friction and pushback, but one or two extra buttons was fine).
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It will force the market to stop viewing them as a hardware company like Dell or HP and instead view them as the ecosystem company they are. That's why they're doing it.
The Apple of today is a service company

No, they're a company who are nervous about where their growth will come from. They aspire to be a "Services" company, but unfortunately they aren't much good at it (see the usual list of failures. eg: Maps, Siri, etc). But "Services" is a nice murky bucket into which they can sweep various kinds of revenue, and still appear to be innovating.

Do you remember this news story? https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/14/google-paying-apple-3-billio...

The key quote being "Google's licensing fees make up a large bulk of Apple's services business"
You're telling me that you've never held a phone on your hand and had it get hot? C'mon man. Every modern phone that I know of gets quite hot when doing something like streaming video or taking a voice call for an extended period of time. You can do a simple Google search and see that people quite often discuss how their phone gets uncomfortably hot during all kinds of normal activities.

Nobody said anything about heating a bucket of water. The discussion was about heating up someone's ear, which certainly happens.
Plus streaming gets counted against data quota.
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It does change the drag, actually.

More weight = need more lift.

The way to generate more lift is by increasing the wing's angle of attack on the wing (i.e. point the nose up). In addition to increased lift this also increases drag.

Actual numbers are hard to find, but considering the weight of a commercial aircraft can vary by as much as 50% between empty weight and maximum weight, I'd wager it is well over 1%.
Or pirate away. TV is so 1990s.
I think most people use iOS because they prefer it. The fact that iOS generally values privacy more is an added benefit.
Do we really need another new stablecoin?
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> You're allowed to carry and use a locking knife, but you need to ahve a good reason.

'I want to' should suffice. It's a general-purpose tool, and one oughtn't be required to have a specific reason to carry a general-purpose tool.

This applies in the software context, e.g. to cryptography.
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The magic is in all the code that interprets those annotations. So you have to understand a large and complex framework to understand which objects are being injected (in Spring, for example, you have to keep in mind the rules about which beans are instantiated and then which of the instantiated beans are chosen for injection into a particular class), and to understand what actually gets injected (is it actually the object returned from the annotated method, or some proxy or chain of proxies adding additional behaviour to those objects?).

The principle of dependency injection is a good one, but dependency injection frameworks are an unnecessary and overcomplicated way of achieving it. XML-based DI frameworks at least had a rationale - the idea was to externalise configuration, so you could change the dependencies without changing the code. It turns out this kind of externalisation isn't actually valuable in most cases (changing the dependencies is just as complicated and risky as changing code, and often needs to be coordinated with more substantive code changes, so the separation is artificial).

Once you determine that you should wire up your dependencies in code, though, there's no need for dependency injection frameworks - you can just directly write the code that wires up the dependencies.
large corporations often block users from setting executable permissions on files they created as a way curbing malware.

Or at least I've encountered this in my career.
I've been a Pro user for a long time before Yahoo started to screw things up badly. Flickr is only alive today because of the communities that use it. A lot of bloggers used and still use it to share pictures that are freely licensed (CC-BY-*), you should at least consider to keep those in some form or another or provide the means to redirect the links from the search result.
I think the ecological issues we're facing are more serious and underappreciated that the overall warming problem. They are linked but ultimately we can survive longer as it gets warmer, just more alone. If you do a search for ecological the result presumes you mean environmental a lot. Pollution, plastics and habitats need very urgent attention as well has CO2/Methane.

It is also one of the big results people are freaking out about the changing climates but stay away from mentioning it much as many don't see it affecting us directly. Technology may drive us enough to replace the untouched wildness essential for nature. I've heard the only large area becoming wilder is Chernobyl and it's hard to think about what's next for Brazil and pretty much everywhere.

We have to consider what's left to be land of the highest value and compensate people (less the 0.1%) who are affected by that decision.

This may be of interest
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/21/alaska...

I hope the bears keep tourists away.
CVE-2018-5407: side-channel vulnerability on SMT/Hyper-Threading architectures
I’ve been running my browsers like this for years. Not being logged in to Amazon et al also prevents buying cheap crap by adding one layer of friction.

Another easy tip is to separate out anything that requires persistent login (ex: gmail) to a separate dedicated browser.
I usually have to go to Wikipedia to learn what a project is about, since their format puts the info in the first couple paragraphs.

If a project is not (yet) there, it's either Github, because markdown readmes somehow force the crux of the matter out of people… or it's goodbye.
Cute mobile task switcher concept
iPhone 6 Plus had optical image stabilization.
The page currently times out loading, but from what I gather from the title, it seems that my distrust in the circumcicion against AIDS stories was on track.

It always felt a bit like puritans trying to find empiric evidence for their moral and cultural traditions.
Grocery stores on the lower floor of residential buildings is the norm here (I can think of five within walking distance) and I never heard people from those buildings complain about that. Restaurants yes, but even there I suspect it varies with the cleanliness of the place.

Maybe there are building adaptations to reduce the problem, that stores in that area don't do?
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Analytics javascript can assign you an Unique Identifier string that can be passed along in a form where you fill out your phone number. They then tie your "session" or "user" (depending on how they have it set up) to a cookie they have placed on your machine.

They then leverage a partnership with a large ad network, to see where they found that cookie, as well as other cookies, from other sites in their network. They then correlate where they have seen essentially your user footprint (collection of cookies and other identifiers from your machine) stored throughout their network, to put you in some kind of demographic or intent-based bucket.

When you include data from mobile apps that are tracking your location, this can get very scary. There is a small leap required in tying a mobile ID (your phone's unique identifier) to web traffic, but it happens. Obviously all depending on the level of data you "share."

They then run every user in these buckets through a machine learning algo, that tries to predict things. Income, gender, spending habits, life events, etc. They can determine where you live easily, zip codes, compare that to census data, etc. It's all a part of predictive modeling.

That is the tracking portion.

The other portion is just tying a simple customer service rating to your phone number.

So imagine you piss of several customer service reps, live in a low income part of town, and rarely spend money. You might be on hold for quite some time...
Did he only include his prediction with the announced numbers?

In general, if you do not want to release your numbers early, you can just tweet a signature or HMAC or even just a SHA-256 digest of your summarized predictions (in plaintext).
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Actually i agree, for the "nervous" part. I will be happy when greed inside decision-making processes crumbles over their heads. Who knows, may be failure is needed indeed to restart Product Thinking that Jobs was famous for.:)
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I believe Android has gotten better about pushing security updates, at least to most flagship phones. But they still lag behind on OS updates.
I don't think you're a sucker, but I will say Starbucks is one of the few that I'm actually signed up for; mostly because the app lets me just run in and grab my coffee instead of worrying about a line and waiting for it to be made. The 'free' coffee from stars is just a bonus.
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Rust is much less expressive (meaning, it is not able to say many interesting things about the system) and far harder to reason about than the much simpler and more expressive (though less familiar an un-compilable) TLA+. In fact, here[1] is some work by someone who designs concurrent/distributed algorithms in TLA+ and implements them in Rust.

This is not a shortcoming of Rust in particular. No programming language can be as expressive and as simple as a specialized specification language like TLA+ (it could be by essentially embedding a specification language in some specification tier of the language -- like the type level in languages with dependent types like Idris or the contract level like languages with formal contracts like Java with JML or SPARK, but this comes at the cost of either less expressive power and/or much increased complexity)

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Majority of the profit? Majority of the revenue? Android has the majority of the unit volume, definitely.
It doesn't work on 90% of the HN crowd

Hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhaha.

No.
I have an iPhone and almost never use it. I use FB messenger, WhatsApp, Slack, and Discord for 99% of my contacts.
>(least known and most annoying is managing UPwards)

Boy if that ain't the most true statement about moving from engineering into management, I don't know what is. I was so exceptionally bad and unprepared for this when I tried my hand at management.
On the services side of things, I pay Apple $8.50/mo for storage (split between family members, so really much less than that) for all of my photos and documents, and $7/mo for unlimited music (taking advantage of available discounts).

For hardware, an iPhone XR is only $30 more than a Galaxy S9, and though it's not quite an even comparison hardware-wise, that $30 difference buys you about 5 years of software updates, a suite of great creativity and productivity apps, servers that sync and back up, etc. (You can probably get some of that list from Google or Samsung, in exchange for your privacy.)

They could shrink their margins and have plenty, sure, but I'm not convinced that it's really such a bad deal for customers.
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