skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cheaper yes. Significantly? Not so sure. Unlike iphone apple hasn't been selling the old ipad pro as a cheaper, more entry level product. The base price of ipad pro has gone up each time we've seen an updated one until now we're firmly in macbook price land once you get functional storage. The modifier-free macbook is a similar size to 12.9 inch ipad pro, but ipad is actually more once you get 256 gb of storage and the optional keyboard.
I suggest a simple direct conversion receiver such as the really simple one in the classic book EMRFD:

https://www.amazon.com/Experimental-Methods-Design-ARRL-Inc/...
Which of the 3 résumés are you looking at? I graduated in 2011, got some Working Holiday visas, then started a PhD in 2013 but dropped out in 2014. I visited many countries because I don't have a home.

I just spent the last 4 years in Taiwan, proving that I can settle down.
When playing software instruments with latency, most people say the threshold for percieving the latency is between 10-30ms
What is a Toroid used for and why does it need to be winded differently for different bands? Is it what generates the signals that get transmitted by the antenna?
> I think simonh was ... arguing against "If the future can be perfectly predicted => people definitely do not have free will"

Just so I'm understanding you correctly: Are you claiming that even if the future can be perfectly predicted, people can still have free will?

At the moment of your conception, if I were to predict with 100% accuracy and confidence, every decision you will ever make in your life, would you still claim to possess free will?
”Look up what Tim Cook thinks about convergence”

You can’t look up what he thinks, only what he says he thinks.

Apple would be stupid if they wouldn’t be researching this option just in case. If they ever manage to make it work well, you can be sure what Cook says he thinks about convergence will change overnight.

For those who need more convincing: look up what Steve Jobs said he thought about products Apple didn’t ship, and compare it with what he said he thought about them later, when Apple _did_ ship them)
I looked at the résumé linked from your profile, too. I agree with ac29, plus the following suggestions:

* Remove all the logos/links. They're not helping the first impression, and they'll almost certainly confuse the systems that are used to scan/store your résumé.

* Take out the reference to military technology in your objective. If you get an interview you can ask them if they do military work and explain your reservations.

* Simplify your work history. Try to make it as sequential as possible, with as few gaps as possible. If you have a lot of work experience that is not directly relevant to the position you are seeking, consider changing the format and just list "Relevant Experience".

* Make your education section simpler. Just list your most advanced degree, or include your Bachelor's degree if it is in another field. Don't show your GPA, but include any academic honours you received while obtaining your degree.

* Remove all the icons on the second page, including the flags.

* Condense your charity work/hobbies/extra-curricular activities to a short list. Do list any directorships you held/hold. Don't list specific job titles unless they directly relate to the position you seek.

* You might consider just saying "References available upon request."

Your résumé comes across as kind of "all purpose". Maybe that's just because it's the one you include in your profile. If you aren't creating a focused résumé for each opportunity, you might want to consider doing that.
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https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/placebo-myths-debunked/
'nuff said.
I think there can be different types of documentation (tutorials, reference, explanation, how-to guides). I came across this article a while back that goes over different categories and always re-read it when I know I'm going to have to write a bunch of documentation for something and always find it helpful to really think about the type that I need to write. In regards to the poster you replied to I think Oreilly books are in the explanation category of documentation instead of the traditional reference kind found online.

The article I'm referring to: https://www.divio.com/blog/documentation/
I think you missed my point. When I vote, I'm paying $6000 to play a lottery where I have a nonzero (but very small) chance of affecting policy.
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Submission is mistitled. Should be "HF Ham Radio on a Budget".
The comment above said that you work for "additional gain".

The parent comment didn't want to get rid of work. Just focus open source work improving robots that did the jobs we used to.

All of human desires for competition and struggle would still be catered to.
That wasn't a slip
That's a bit different. I can buy on principle that it's possible the value of your time is so high it doesn't make sense for you to e.g. vote red in a blue state. But if we ground this back in reality, most people do not hyperoptimize their time based on marginal utilities because it would be nearly impossible to achieve that kind of efficiency. So I'll buy it principle, but I'd need some convincing it applies to any given person in particular.
This sounds like a really cool editor extension:

> On top of these, we built new tools and workflows for GraphQL developers. The new Apollo VS Code plugin puts valuable information about your schema — like the average latency of a specific field — right at your fingertips at development time.
> Like walking to school in the dark is worse than walking home from school in the dark?

Actually, yes.

Not just California, but starting an hour later also lets the temperature rise. That's not an undue consideration when you have snow and ice.
Well, does the (flimsy) reasoning break down if the cow is fed corn instead? Corn is still a vegetable.

Even adding animal-based products like bone meal should be fine, since the bones are made out of processed vegetables.
Why would rats use cellphones?
Yes the ground water level, soil permutability, distance to water sources etc. has a lot of implications on what sceptic system you can implement and I would bet that many tanks are put in without much regulation or oversight.

Other areas like those in which ground temperatures drop below freezing for long period of time might also require tight tanks and constant pumping since the cold may stop the reaction in the tank so it would surprise me if tanks in places like say N. Dakota would be pumped year before winter to prevent them from freezing shut and overflowing.
You can't say "Period" like that. Apple's endgame (in the far future) is for you to wear an Apple device that allows you to sit at any Apple computer/display/device anywhere and access your information from iCloud. Right now, that doesn't make sense because we can't make phones or watches that are as powerful as a desktop PC. Tim's (and Steve before him) insistence is that people don't want to do advanced graphic work on a tiny screen. If you could wirelessly and seamlessly use the same device to do that work on a larger screen, powered by that phone, they would absolutely want to push that. They just want people in the ecosystem. It's not that those things aren't what an iPhone or iPad are for, it's that they're not what those devices are for yet.
The title used is more descriptive of the intent of the article, which is clear if you RTFA.
When CircleCI started, we manually set up customers' builds for them. They'd give us access to the code, and we'd look through their codebase to figure out how to build the thing. Each new customer we'd add their rules to our "inference engine" (eg if you have a dir called vendor/bundle, you need to pass the --vendor flag to bundler). After about 20 customers it had gotten good enough that we could update it via support request instead.
It's a coil when used in RF applications. Different windings give it different induction properties:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_coil
Yes, it’s happened to me a lot recently.
AIUI, it isn't really a single disease with a specific cause. It's more like, our body is composed of trillions of individual cells. Each cell is theoretically an independent life form capable of doing its own thing. They normally each have a program, encoded in their DNA, that keeps them operating in service of the overall organism of our body - replicating only when needed, dying when not needed, doing things useful to the body while they're alive, etc. There's various environmental factors, radiation and chemicals and such, constantly attacking that DNA. The DNA has self-repair mechanisms, plus the body's defense mechanisms to kill badly behaving cells, so most mutations are either repaired, ignored, or immediately fatal to the cell, kind of like changing a random character in your program.

Over all of those trillions of cells and dozens of years, once in a while, a particular cell gets just the right batch of random mutations that make it possible to stay alive while breaking free of its programming and acting as its own organism, independent of the body's plan. It may then proceed to reproduce on its own, potentially disrupting the body's functions and/or consuming all of its resources if it grows quickly enough.

So each individual cancer case is a uniquely evolved life form. There's a few common threads that many tend to share, but no telling how many each particular case may have. Thus, the broad brush approaches tend to be the most successful - surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. More directed genetic approaches are tougher because of the uniqueness of each case.

Evolutionarily, it's a tricky balance. Too few mechanisms to keep all of your cells under control all the time, and your body dissolves into a mess of cancers too soon, like before you can reproduce. Too many mechanisms wastes resources, can potentially go haywire and damage your body themselves, like autoimmune diseases, or make it too hard for your body to evolve new and useful adaptations to the environment. We already have good enough controls that getting cancer before normal reproduction age is very rare. But now we're living a lot longer, much longer than our bodies are evolutionarily adapted to keep us alive for, so we see a lot more of these kinds of problems.
MSRs that use lithium in the fuel salt do in fact need enriched lithium. The problem is that lithium 6 has a much larger neutron absorption cross section than lithium 7. It's on the order of 10,000x greater IIRC.
You just described the Samsung DeX.
I suppose that in the payment systems, there's a trusted party that has the ability to compromise transactions. The different parties in the system trust that party and rely on audit and potentially arbitration or litigation to resolve disputes about individual transactions or classes of transactions.

For end-to-end encryption for messaging applications, there may not be any such entity that everyone can trust. In that case, there needs to be a solution for key exchange to allow new parties and devices to join the system. In payments you could presumably say "the banks/banking association/cryptographic contractor of the banking association is the authority that certifies new entities that join the system". In messaging you probably can't do that if you're concerned that law enforcement will force that entity to add false certifications!

In other words, I think you're referring to a cryptographic problem with a somewhat different threat model.
Ferrite and powdered iron toroids are used for winding transformers and inductors. For radio stuff they are usually used as impedance transformers or as inductors in LC bandpass filters.
If I had a ton of money and I thought the procedure were safe and effective, I'd do the same. The 20-somethings get some money, the billionaire gets to live a potentially longer and healthier life. Seems like a win-win to me.
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> you just can't care about all movement of all cars

Of course we can. For each license plate encountered by CCTV or cop cars, store a tuple of (timestamp, coordinates). This won't require much disk space, so that's not a concern. Later, it is easy to answer questions like "what places was this car seen and when?" and "which cars were in this vicinity at this time?"
Agreed. The lived experience in Australia (which has now used "IRV" in national elections for 100 years) is that in almost every case, the IRV winner was also the likely Condorcet winner (which certainly can not be said of first-past-the-post in practice).

However, in close three-cornered races, tactical voting does sometimes come into play. The recent Wentworth by-election was an example of this: Liberal voters could have assisted their party to win the election by switching their first preference to the Labor candidate, because if the Labor candidate had beaten the eventual winner (Phelps, Independent) into second place, then Phelps' preferences would have been distributed and almost certainly given the win to the Liberal. Of course, this is a risky strategy, because if too many Liberal voters did this then they would have instead engineered a Labor win. And in reality, despite the possibility of tactical voting, the Condorcet winner Phelps won anyway.

An example where the Condorcet winner may not have won is the seat of Rockhampton in the 2017 Queensland State election. The primary votes had Labor in first, independent Margaret Strelow in second, One Nation in third and the LNP in fourth. However preferences from the LNP candidate pushed One Nation into second, which gave Labor the win on Strelow's preferences. It seems likely that Strelow would have beaten any of the other three head-to-head, though. And as previously mentioned, this sort of situation is notable for its rarity.
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> Yes, we applied to YC. We didn't get an interview. I assume that the market size isn't big enough for VC.

Worse ideas with smaller markets have been funded by YC. I'm guessing you could have gotten in if you pitched a larger vision.
Thanks for the informative insight.

> if we didnt have for-profit drug research then we would not have new drugs.

I don't think that follows. If we didn't have for-profit drug research, we would have less volume of safety and efficacy testing and data on drugs, but we would still 'have' the drugs.

I think drug testing reform must be part of the solution. Bringing a drug to market is too expensive.
> On the other, I remember the Power days. Having non Mac users “talk down” to me about using a different processor was beyond annoying.

Sample size of one and all that - but for me it was a selling point. The PowerPC G5 (PPC 970) was intriguing when it first came out. Having been with Intel, Cyrix and AMD systems since the 286 and used them since XT (Intel 8088) days, it was nice to muck around with something new and paired with OSX Tiger it was such a fun world to explore. The move to Intel felt like a bit of a letdown, but by that time I loved OSX and Snow Leopard cemented it as my OS of choice.

Apple desktops/laptops moving to custom silicon would excite the nerd in me. I want competition.
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I don't think this comment is an accurate assessment of what makes or breaks security.

To address specific points:

> Cellphones -all of them- use binary closed blobs to manage device drivers ... not completely free of closed blobs, hence not secure.

Closed source software can be secure. Whether there are binary blobs or not is not really relevant.

> 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 ...

Modern phones have baseband/AP separation; closed source components are often running more like a peripheral on good phones.

For any of those components to exfiltrate the data it would have to somehow get access to the network, persistently store it, or use some other side-channel... Yeah, I'm sure those tiny bluetooth chips can do all that over the limited peripheral interface they use to communicate with the kernel.

> 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.

Absolutely ridiculous. Why would you spend the work to create a malicious driver when you could just update the app code itself if you can push updates to the phones?

There's no reason anyone would use malicious drivers when they could use malicious application code; the latter is a darn sight easier to manage.

The most likely scenario, however, is that there was a bug in the cryptography that assumed the servers to be trusted or assumed some specific key had authority to mint new keys (e.g. a trusted CA that the police got the private key to).

Your post is a rant against closed-source driver blobs, when the reality is they're a difficult to exploit vector, at best.

I would like to direct you to tptacek's comment on the Librem5 [0] where he indicates that he, a security professional, believes the iPhone to be the most secure because of the level of auditing and security work they've put into it.

> ... there is not a single piece of computer hardware in the world one can safely assume to be secure ...

Thanks are not either 'secure or not'. They are secure against something.

Security is a continuum. An iPhone (with secure enclave, good disk encryption) is more secure than my laptop, which in turn is probably more secure than the average wordpress server.

I fully believe that my iPhone will withstand even motivated attackers with physical access. I don't think my laptop will. I don't know how it would fare against a nation-state specifically targetting me, but I don't really have to worry about that.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17913148
And you won’t be able to do anything but ask because you are not a police officer. ISP isn’t a court and restaurant operators aren’t officers of the law.
I may be in the same boat as you eventually. I’d be interested in hearing your solution if you find one, and am happy to join a remote meetup if there is one.
Anyone know if the security company had warrant canaries or any dead man switch situations specified which were or were not triggered?
When the makers of Grand Theft Auto raid your house
We used to copy C64 digital tapes on a double cassette deck, using analog copy, running at double speed. Most times it worked, sometimes not.
The main purpose for time is to synchronize events.

As the world becomes more global, I'd like to see more systems use UTC time, and people just get used to when solar noon occurs in UTC in their locale.
If you were on the list before, I’m sure purchasing a 1500 EUR/6 month crypto chatting phone would definitely pique the police’s interest.
This is common among the ultra-elite. If there is a threat, their security literally carries them to an idling car, throws them in and it drives off. Can’t risk the car not starting I guess. I’ve read this in multiple locations but usually related to people like the POTUS or the Pope. It doesn’t surprise me that multi-billionaires do this too.
At one point intel had committed to releasing the thunderbolt spec to the industry, so at least in theory arm macs could also support egpu. Games would have to be complied to support macOS on arm, but nintendo switch is also arm so that isn't necessarily taking game companies somewhere they don't already have to go.

https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/envision-world-thunder...
Find a local club, there will be people there that will want to see you succeed.
And get stuck in hours long traffic jams? No thank you. Many congested cities are a better opportunity for a good public transportation. Compare LA or Sydney to Tokyo or London, congested cities are much more lively and most people have fast access to the action and to business districts unlike sprawled cities where only few rich people enjoy the interesting parts and the rest commute for hours to the boring suburbia. On the other hand they have bigger houses, wide streets and large parks so there is always a trade off, but getting to work is certainly easier in congested cities with good train system.
Mouse support :)
Large companies sometimes don't actually 'do' any of their own IT work. There are layers of SLA's across data centers and applications, spread across multiple vendors, contractors, etc.

Everything must have a legal contract that specifies support terms, penalties, etc. Large company's motives are risk avoidance to ensure profits for shareholders.

Basically companies will pay a premium to have someone they can call and yell at if something goes sideways. Usually corporate finance departments have no logistical way to accept a reimbursement from a vendor for missing a SLA but they like to put clauses like that in a contract.

The other part is the professional services arm tied to the sales process. RH can provide experts that only they can provide - they are the ones writing the code sometimes. Other companies like Oracle have professional services but I doubt they are committers on the products being sold.
It might be just an hour to you, but collectively the residents of California stand to lose 4.5 millennia!

(But yes, it was the idea of losing time that convinced me this article is either a humor or misguided)
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Would there be a difference in commutes on work vs commutes dependent on driving? Much easier to walk in a winding maze than drive through it and you can put much more in the former than the latter dependent on the land-use and density.
There was an article on here like two days ago about a company in Kenya that does training sets for big tech. 1000s of people marking cars on pictures etc
Thank you for sidekiq. It is the one sane piece of the tech stack I’m working with.
Service businesses definitely scale. See Accenture, WPP.
The second thing you mention seems largely unrelated to the first. Deepfakes (especially live deepfakes) require extensive learning on extensive data sets. Sure, you could do facial recognition that way, but useful facial recognition would learn from a single still photo.
Can anyone confirm if the server certificate in the server hello message is encrypted or not?

I've heard many time it's encrypted, but I can't find it explicitly written in the RFC. And it seems unencrypted in this example.
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Hmm, now that I'm thinking about it, I did have one link fail to open on the first try yesterday. But mostly nothing out of the ordinary.