skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ISP is also used for the video, as in the front camera used for video meetings.

FaceID is not solely dependent on ML, it's also managed by the secure enclave co-processor which is also used for Touch ID which is available on Macs now. ML helps to reduce false positives.

Apple's T2 chip is an ARM-based processor that's already in almost all of the newest Macs, it is used as a storage controller (which allows Apple to encrypt the drive very fast and transparently), security enclave processing (touch ID on MBA), Siri processing, and more. Every year, more and more of the processing is moved to Apple's T series co-processor.

Apple's custom silicon allows them to integrate software and hardware on a deeper level. Intel develops CPU for the mass market. Apple develops for their own customers only.
Interesting, I expected this was a manual process. After all, the author has to manually write it the first time round, and inputting the moves takes only a tiny proportion of the time spent writing a chess book. And there are only (a few dozen? A hundred?) books that have been ported from hard copy to Chessable, so there isn't a huge degree of scale.
IIRC it's Samsung that is pushing the ads. In my case that I observed there's some content analysis that is being done so that they push relevant "smart" ads while a classic ad is being shown. It turns out the day that I saw that ad was the same day I unplugged my TV from the network.
Aren't we talking about urban settings? Building cities from scratch?
But that exact conflict of interest exists in closed source support models too. It exists for any company that wants to sell a support service. And it relies on the supporters being small-minded enough that they'd rather have a 1% market in 100 people than a 0.01% market of 1,000,000.

The incentive you identify only goes away if the software is a product with no support - and then businesses won't buy it, because there is no support.
Cost to whom? An easily manipulated population is the dream of some politicians, why would they work against it.
Hate to break it to ya, but this isn't really possible.

I mean, you could have a series that explores and details the basics - ie, what is a resistor, capacitor, etc - and what they are used for, how they work, etc.

But what you are terming "operating parameters" are specific for each part per manufacturer. Now - a carbon-film resistor made by just about any manufacturer is going to be about the same from one to the other, as it's a basic technology. Even so, certain parameters might be different (ie - how much does the resistance change with temperature and humidity might vary between manufacturers). Also, none of that applies if we are talking about wire-wound, or some other kind of resistor (and different manufacturers).

Extrapolate this out to any other passive component, and you'll see the same thing (heck, just capacitors would overwhelm the idea). Get into simple actives (transistors, diodes, leds, etc) - and the amount of variation increases a magnitude, maybe more.

Then drop into other components - integrated circuits, electric motors, light bulbs - heck, even simple wire; you couldn't cover it all.

You'd know this, though, if you had any experience with electronics - which I suppose you don't, or you have little of it - otherwise you wouldn't be asking about such a youtube series.

Instead, you should start with the basics - and for that, you're going to need to read some books (the best would be Horowitz's "Art of Electronics" and Grob's "Basic Electronics"). While it might be possible to condense some of those books into a video series, it won't be a small video series (and if you want honest and in-depth explanations - such a series would not be the most exciting to watch).
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I took a look at your resume: it looks like from 2008-2014, you didn't hold any job for more than a few months, which is a bit of a red flag. Were you a student at the time? It doesnt say anywhere what years you were in school. Some jobs specifically say contract work, which explains why they are short, some don't say, which makes it unclear if you were just fired or quit after a short period of time.

Your bio also shows you lived in 12 countries in less than 10 years, and possibly worked in many of them: sounds fun, but also doesn't sound like someone who is willing to commit to a job long term.
Yeah, the consensus "here" is that deep learning, self-driving cars, all that, is "half-there". Presently, deep learning works, has a fairly high accuracy rate, in some percentage of cases. Sure, you can implement it right now in all sorts of places. The question is what the costs of the small but significant failure rate is going to be and who will pay that cost?. If some nobody pays the cost, well, a high failure rate may be fine with the institution that implements this.

With cars, the idea of a 0.1% chance of dying each time you step into a vehicle is terrifying - that's much higher than you get now, humans are actually amazingly good at driving. IE, fortunately, the system probably won't stomach the costs of bad self-driving cars.

But with the justice system spotting potential criminals, yeah, pulling in some innocents isn't going to bother a system with N degrees of repression. Most people in the justice system have no choice but to plea bargain now. Most people in the justice system are also guilty but the innocent-but-not-wealthy minority is generally SOL. And that is in our ostensible democracy, that's known by most sophisticated observers of the system, and only handful make an effort to change it. So a half-assed evidence gatherer of whatever sort will make lots of people happy, put lot of guilty and innocent people in jail and hardly needs great reliability. Indeed, with AI parole-granting systems, we're already there.
Don't even pretend that the US and the China use this tech the same way. The US might have a few bad apples in intelligence using data mining for bad things and there have been some questionable data being mined; but suppression of people isn't happening from it. China is using this tracking to actively suppress their people and view that do not align with the state.
That might be, but by the late 90s my first few stabs at Linux were using Red Hat because it was far enough along that books were published and available at my local book store (I did also try Yellow Dog, a Red Hat variant, when repurposing an old PowerPC). By the early 2000s I saw box sets in Best Buy. In my industry, most of the large companies moved from IRIX to Red Hat and have been using them since. Most of the others moved to a different free distro, then to CentOS.
I don't think the voters intent is clear. The question was whether the legislature should be able to make the change not whether they should. If I lived in California I would have voted to provide them the option but that doesn't necessarily mean I think they should. I would expect further debate around the subject at the time legislation is introduced.

Let's accept your premise that a vote for the referendum was in all cases a vote for the change. The referendum requires 2/3rds of the representatives of the people to vote to affect the change. It can certainly be argued that since this level of support was included in the referendum and the referendum itself failed to garner this level of support then the representatives should not vote for the change.
> but isn't that what you have to do now, look up what timezone a business is in.

Not really I know some of our offices are in India UTC +5:30 and some are in Texas UTC -6 which are +11:30 and -1 respectively. With the current setup most timezones follow state boundaries in the US so I know when it is there roughly by the location. In the 'no timezone' setup (which is really just timezones without the top down mapping) I have to hope they have business hours posted somewhere convenient to look up instead of just finding their rough location.

The rest of that sounds principally a failure of tools than anything else. Today you could just set all meeting times using UTC and let the users UI take care of the mapping to local time.

But again my biggest issue with the no timezones system is we'll just be getting rid of the defined boundaries in favor of undefined boundaries because each area WILL wind up on roughly the current timezones anyways because they roughly match to solar time as is.

> Really though people should change their work hours to match their timezones - I live a long way south, we have long twilight in the summers and tiny days in the winter, when it gets dark at 4:30 because we're squashed up against a timezone boundary - I have to get up in the dark anyway, why not move our winter work hours so we get a couple of hours daylight during the winter? it would help with the Vit D issues

This is more an argument for more flexible working hours than most anything else.
Why does it have to be a laptop? What not an iPhone with a desktop mode you can pair with a monitor, keyboard, and trackpad?

I’d love the ability to carry all my software and data around in a phone without lugging around a laptop or having to buy a desktop computer. And I’d love to never concern myself with transferring or syncing data again.

And why not let us connect an iPhone to an eGPU for desktop gaming?
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Q is tomorrow’s payment network
The answer always is, "metrics show it works". I can't stop but wonder if those metrics aren't made of bovine excrement, of if this is a parallel reality leaking to the one we inhabit.
Very nice, so they're pure html and css? Not complaining, just interested
Is I wrote: IMO these language are not fully functional. TCO/TCE is crucial for operations on tree like data structures. And also as I wrote: it all depends in which context we are talking to. Scheme specification makes it clear that TCO/TCE is required. If I am not wrong, F# is the same thing as Scala, but in .Net world(?) - Scala cannot be treaded as clear functional, because it is for JVM which was not designed for functional programming. Surely, many languages can have more or less functional functionalities, but having a subset of properties which defines what is functional, cannot be treated as functional in the full sense.
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What a wonderful idea!
Sums up Gizmodo in my experience.
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> ...which power a tablet that has no software ready to use that much speed.

I guess it depends on what you mean by "ready" how long the list is, but I'd suggest that Photoshop, console-quality games, AutoCAD, video editing tools like iMovie, all can take advantage of the speed.
The quest to create quality chocolate for a country obsessed with Cadbury (2017)
The Nordic countries are the most egalitarian countries on earth with regards to rights, equal pay, and gender norms. The sex differences in many different academic fields and professions persist and are even more pronounced than countries which are more blatantly sexist. This is the best evidence available, and it suggests that not everything is socially learned. This suggests that some basic tenets of social constructivism are false by its own criteria.

Rather than accepting no evidence, why don't you suggest a better way to test this idea and explain why your test would be better?
Why does anyone believe it is round?

I have no horse in this race. I'm merely suggesting that this could be a simulation. We could all be in a space ship, plugged into some computer that is keeping our brains from going insane on our journey to another galaxy. Or perhaps our ship ran out of fuel and the system is just "keeping us happy" until the last power generators or solar sail power converters go offline.

I have seen way too many people that look and act related. It can't be in-breeding? I chalk it up to lazy programming. The best developers are lazy, right?
Yes. It's called a lead magnet. I have no issue giving my (business) e-mail to get such beautifully designed templates for free. There's at least $100 of value on those sites. If they start sending e-mails not relevant to me, I can simply unsubscribe.
> but I didn't realize how difficult it would be to source a 100k log pot

Huh?

https://www.amazon.com/Alpha-Potentiometer-100K-Audio-Log/dp...

That was done with a google search of "100k log potentiometer"...

Now - maybe you're in a different country or such where it's more difficult to get parts?
How does it perform compared to any in house software at biotech companies? Or are the main users companies that specialize in making cell therapies / peptide vaccines and you just help them figure out which vaccines to make?

Am just interested bc i have a few friends involved in neoantigen / shared tumor antigen cell therapy companies, and did some consulting work for a company that had tech for delivering nucleic acid therapies and was considering getting into oncology, but didnt have in-house sequencing or antigen identification expertise. Mostly intellectual interest at this point
I was briefed personally by Anand after the introduction event in New York. I guess I can say that now, as it's out that Anand is taking care of this side of the business.
It was the most compelling, interesting, clear and well informed briefing on a silicon in my entire career as a tech reporter. Anand is a an A+ player, and Apple has made an incredible hire in his case.
Solomonoff induction is for just making predictions/models, AIXI is for when it needs to also take actions.

Both AIXI and solomonoff induction can be approximated arbitrarily closely, given sufficient computational resources.

Human intelligence is generally expected to be computable because physics is generally believed to be computable. However, don't get me wrong: I would be quite excited and probably pleased to learn that it isn't. I just am not convinced enough (or really, convinced much at all) to hang anything important on the idea that it isn't computable.
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I found Rob Beschizza's thought [1] about the new iPad Pro insightful: "a very powerful machine, handicapped by iOS having no workflow".

Because of the sandboxed nature of iOS, and the current immaturity of the Files app/feature, it's hard and inconsistent how you can exchange files between apps on the iPad. As a result, you're still mostly stuck to using one app to do things in iOS. The workflow is still fragmented.

[1] https://boingboing.net/2018/11/06/ipad-pro-deemed-amazing-fo...
To set currents in motion
I know nothing about the IronChat service, but if what is shown in that archived page is the real device then it's pretty obvious that it was doomed to be cracked. A cellphone? Seriously... a freaking cellphone?

Cellphones -all of them- use binary closed blobs to manage device drivers, and to date there is not a single cellphone in the known universe which is free of proprietary closed code. That includes also the Librem5, which is a wonderful step in the right direction, still not completely free of closed blobs, hence not secure.

So what's the problem with (closed) device drivers? Well, they run all the time, they run at maximum privileges (higher than root) and they cannot be audited to spot any malicious code, which makes them the most effective place to hide spyware code. If any government tells a hardware manufacturer to "put our spyware into your driver or your business ends tomorrow" they comply, nobody can spot the code and there's no anti malware software that will detect it.

But why one should care if all text is end-to-end encrypted? Well, on a bugged phone there's no such thing as safe encryption. Let me be more clear: if you tap the text on the virtual keyboard or any device connected to say the USB port or through bluetooth, the text is read by the relevant drivers (higher priority, closed, not auditable) before it reaches the encryption code (lower priority user app) then it can be stored, transmitted (network drivers are closed too) etc. Closed device drivers can be used on most platforms (including PCs) to build a covert channel where information (text, sound, images etc.) travels completely unbeknownst to the user, so a platform can't be considered as secure until every single bit of software and firmware contained can be checked.

So, how did the police decrypt that traffic? I can only speculate that they confiscated one of these devices, then built a bugged driver for some vital devices within it, then got to the manufacturer and forced them to inject that tampered driver as an online update for that given model of phone, possibly installing only if some conditions were verified to be sure it was one of the targets.

If that scenario is half true, then there is not a single piece of computer hardware in the world one can safely assume to be secure. An Arduino-like board, maybe, until the day they'll build faster ones around bigger chips carrying closed blobs inside.
So just ignore the "smart" features and use it as a dumb display? The additional cost is likely negligible if you're buying a $500+ TV.

That said, I would also boycott manufacturers/products that behave badly like Samsung mentioned in the above comment.
Arguably, there are enough people walking around with stones in their shoes that altering your movement with that method would be masking enough - until they're able to simulate how you're normal gait would change with x sized stone at whatever location in your shoe..

Alternatively, I've heard (don't have the source handy) that they're looking at other stuff that the stone in shoe might not change such as overall height and knee to leg to hip to foot stature and angular momentum ratios. Who knows?
That statement should be the beginning of a discussion, not the end of it.
There is no dictator, you are electing a plurality of representatives by rank choice. Even if one bad actor gets in they are still a minority of authority on appointments from your delegation. And if a party were consistently putting in three reps that consistently make bad decisions a fundamental hope for democracy is that when your representatives are acting against your interests you don't vote for them again.

The point is that there is no executive, no dictator, appointed by the people. It all goes to either a council or legislature appointment. And as long as you do such elections locally enough that those representatives aren't just ivory tower detached from those they govern their failures will be reflected throughout the community.

A large part of why it is so easy to mislead voters today with ads and propaganda is that you aren't voting for people you know, you are voting for strangers from a distant land, and to them you are just a statistic.
Companies can decide what schedule makes better sense then. Or if needed, better rules can be established to solve those problems.

Even with day light saving, people don't work on the same schedule. Plenty of them need to get up before sun rise or work until late night no matter what the clock says.
Clearly advertising works, this discussion is proof of it.

In a restaurant or cafe tap water is never advertised unless it is being charged for. This applies to all restaurants, cafes and bars. But you are familiar with the product as you have taps with water in them at home. You don't have to guess the name.

Now imagine if all cafes had big signs with 'free water' advertising the tap water product and rival carbonated beverages were hidden from view out the back. How would you know what the magic word was to be able to get one of these things if the staff just offered you the choice of a glass of tap water or a cup full of tap water?

Then, if the carbonated beverages had to be plain labelled, with no fancy graphics or slogans? What if they just had a big sticker on them warning that they caused death by diabetes? With extra warnings about how second hand cola can kill too? With extra extra warnings of how the sugar in the beverages caused cancer and made you impotent?

Would you still drink the stuff if you were addicted to Coke/Pepsi and had these extra hurdles to obtain the product?
Indeed the article is more an introduction to multi-CDN concepts, but take into account that it was written for the HTTP video streaming use-case, and not static content CDNs.
A client-side implementation of switching would not be very useful for that kind of content.

For Cedexis, I think the strenght is not only in the configurable DNS routing system, but also because they set up a lot of probes for different CDNs & clouds, and share global aggregated data that anyone can access, which can be useful when you don't a Alexa top1000 traffic.
But what is this price we pay for FB and Google services ? 3% increase on 0€ is still 0€.

We don't pay for Google with money but with our privacy. I'm perfectly fine with making my privacy more expensive to buy for Google.
with the iPad line there is no reason to move the computer line to ARM. They would alienate a lot of the current user base who has software there are no Arm equivalents nor likely to ever be one.

while I have seen many laud the iPad Pro for its power I haven't see any mention of heat or how long it can sustain a workload. Personally I do not want to see the Mac line change processors again for two reasons, like I mentioned prior many of us have a lot invested in software that runs on OSX as well as Windows that these machines can run, second I don't need that wall to go any higher.
>>What not an iPhone with a desktop mode you can pair with a monitor, keyboard, and trackpad?

That sounds like the most un-apple thing I can possibly imagine. Their ethos was always to build a device that does something incredibly well - a phone that can be a phone but also a desktop computer is everything but this.
Click on the links of the exhibits and they sometimes have the original brochures and manuals for download. Sometimes even ROM images. Neat!

EDIT: The collection of PDP8 documentation is quite comprehensive [1]. The subfolder music caught my eye. There is a brochure about PDP-8 that was combined with a Tektronix display and a Schober organ to produce a written record of the music as played on the organ[2].

[1] http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/pdp8/

[2] http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/dec/pdp8/mu...
Look up what Tim Cook thinks about convergence.
That is not what an iPhone is for. Period. This gimmick is just a pipedream of us nerds. It won't have the slightest chance in the market and it would be a subpar product.
Both Huawei and Samsung have implemented such a solution on their flagship smartphones since at least two years. They work as advertised, but nobody could give half a shit about them.
One model that might work is the Unreal Engine model, so an OSS license that is free for personal use, but for commercial use, it might require 3% (say) of your profit from sales of the software product.
It is not about seeing these things as an uninvolved observer. It is about receiving a share of an important moment that is meaningful on a personal level. And these are some of the things that make life worth living.

We do not know if there is a meaning to life. But on a human level we are connected through social connections and these people who are connected to us can give life a meaning on some level.

I also disagree that death makes you no longer care. Yes, you as a person supported by a mortal body will no longer feel anything. But the concepts that made up your personality and the actions you took while being alive will still influence the events in the world. You cannot react any more, but most people at least define a written will for the time after they are dead. Just take the nobel prize. It is based on a will that wants to shape the world for the better long after the body of Alfred Nobel has died. The nobel prize is still going strong.
UK has been doing this for decades: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2ViNJFZC8