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There are a few of interesting comments in this thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/7uv6m3/iphone_x_uses...

In summary they are saying that low frequency (240Hz) PWM is used for amoled because it decreases sub-pixel wear, it prevents color distortion, it's cheaper. So it looks like this won't change. I got an amoled phone and was surprised that the experience was worse than LCD (for me - it seems to depend a lot on the individual). Didn't even know that PWM was used until I started googling eystrain and amoled. Anyway, I sent the phone back.
peep the url slug, the intention of techcrunch and its author is clear
>> I think it is intellectually lazy to raise questions that even the person
asking the question and everyone else knows that there cannot be an answer,
especially when we dont define things (example 'real world'). Its easy-peasy
to ask for things that are epistemologically impossible. On the other hand
working within the limitations of impossibility theorems, under assumptions
that seems reasonable, to obtain theoretical results as well as practical
algorithms to solve real problems -- now that is a valuable proposition.

No, I believe that real progress is definitely possible, "epistemologically".
That is how science advances- by solving one "impossible" problem after the
other. Of course, that's not how the industry rolls. In industry, if you have
something that makes money, you sell it, whether it works or not and you don't bother with silly stuff like theoretical justifications and whatnot. See Waymo's
driverless cars (with drivers) and Tesla's Autopilot (that can't auto-pilot)
etc.

As to what is the real world- "everything that isn't in your data set" will
do. My earlier comment was just me being gregarious.

And this:

>> Goes without saying. Those who have been through that, can spot our old
enlightened newbie self from a mile away :)

-is distasteful. I was having a conversation and you were having a pissing
contest. My bad, I guess.

No, I'm not a newbie, you are not me but more experienced and I'm probably
older than you. Wrong assumptions. Again.
> Intel at its core is a marketing company

It would be interesting to hear your other adages if this is anything to go by.
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HN shouldn't be the place to change original articles.

And it shouldn't be the place to police writings with prudish 19th century ideas of "sexuality" as sin.
I wouldn't count intel down and out just yet, when you look at the fundamentals they are still number 1 and when you add in extra bonuses like the amazing strides they have made in increasing their diversity I think intel is going to bounce back hard.
> Shell is a command-line interpreter with additional functionality like scripting. Why it should have fully functional REPL? Lisp/ST/etc are programming languages, they are uncomfortable for copying files, moving directories, calling curl or using tar.

Lisp is an interactive programming language. On can run functions like COPY-FILE, RENAME-FILE, ...

The Listener of the Symbolics Lisp Machine has commands which allow prompting of arguments, input menus, completion, object reuse, etc. It's also integrated in Lisp. For example you can list a directory using a command and then use the pathname objects in calls to Lisp functions. One can also use the output of Lisp functions as input to commands. It's an interesting mix of a command interpreter and a Lisp REPL.
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Ask HN: What tech stack do most startups use?
Maybe but not necessarily.

The flip side of your view is that there are absolutely cases that are real, which don't even make it to the press at all. I was an expert witness for a terrorism case in the UK - the guy was convicted - and nothing about it ever surfaced in the media.

The reality is that there are a stream of people in the UK who try to carry out terrorist attacks, and who are stopped by the police. Attempting to argue against a bad policy by claiming terrorists are establishment propaganda is likely to be a bad strategy as a result.

A much better approach is to ask how many of these terrorists are really using sophisticated cryptography, and how many successful attacks would have been stopped if not for encryption? And there we find the answer is "not many" and "essentially none".

There is a great article on that very topic, written by a British journalist who also has acted as an expert witness in many terrorism trials:

http://privacy-pc.com/articles/how-terrorists-encrypt-threat...

It looks at many cases of busted terrorist attacks over many years, and examines the involvement of cryptography. The conclusion is that the intersection of terrorists and sophisticated users of encryption is the empty set. The closest you get is a groupie who worked on things like propaganda and funding, but who wasn't involved in any attacks themselves.

Now that article was written quite a few years ago and I suspect the new attitude of companies like Facebook towards encryption has changed the game somewhat, WhatsApp end to end encryption (assuming it's really on for everyone) makes it much easier to protect conversations than before so, it would stand to reason that cryptography does foil terrorism investigations more often than it used to. However, we don't know that, and the IC was yelling about the danger of cryptography for decades already - certainly in the time frame that Duncan Campbell's analysis was written in.

In conclusion, I'd focus more on whether real terrorist plots are happening successfully because GCHQ couldn't hack things fast enough, than on whether terrorists exist at all.
A symbol is just a frozen weight in a neural network.
OP here. I received an e-mail this morning, asking whether I could fill in this survey. I am in no way affiliated with the author of this survey.

I decided to post it, because I thought some of the examples presented in the survey were interesting. They serve as examples of 'code smell' that could be prevented by either writing more portable code or introducing more layered designs.
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Hi, this is a good platform to see which company is using what tech stack: https://stackshare.io/stacks
Project Crush and Intel inside are simply brilliant. It’s extremely rare for a component manufacturer to capture mindshare from the OEM.

Given they’ve led the charge technologically in CPUs for decades this is extremely high praise. I think people are taking this as suggesting Intel does not innovate technologically which is not the case.

The video provides evidence of the tech being nice but not required. They openly admit their CPU was “a dog” and all the software people hated it. Yet their strategy of going around them to management worked perfectly.

People forget how awful segmented 16-bit was. And other CPUs like the 68000 and Alpha were faster at various points in time.
$100k wouldn’t be a reliable safety net for long. A good network of people who trust you to execute reliably is worth way more than $100k — see: business owners who have repeatedly survived bankruptcy.

I understand how ridiculous this may sound. There’s a presupposition of access to capital / employment. A large chunk of the world doesn’t have access to that, to no fault of their own. But don’t discount yourself that quickly — a non-trivial amount of people have created and captured an insane amount of value. It doesn’t seem entirely fair, and to be honest, sometimes it isn’t.

Re: $100k, completely sane and reasonable expenses add up quickly. You’ll be surprised what costs rear their heads as you have more liquidity. You’re better off being broke while you’re in University and, once you’ve finished, learning the ropes and demanding compensation for your productive hours. You can calibrate your income against researched market rates / cohorts of friends if you’d like to optimize, and nobody will fault you for it — in fact, it’s expected.

You’ll figure this all out but for now it doesn’t matter: everybody here is giving you sound advice (based on pre-assumption of: University-educated individual), you just can’t see past the iron wall of academia yet. It’s a much bigger world than you can imagine, with a lot of opportunity to generate wealth if that’s what you’re interested in. (It doesn’t have to be, but some sort of optimization in this direction is helpful for general contentment given your pre-supposed opportunities: not everybody gets to attend college.)
> feeling wealthy is about comparison with others in your reference group

I guess the solution is to not hang out with other rich people, don't move to a wealthy neighborhood, and just don't care about your social status. "Ignorance is bliss".

I would be very happy if I had $200k in passive/investment income. That would be a SaaS company worth ~$1.5M, or ~$6M invested in index funds. If I ever get there, I hope I can resist the temptation to just keep going and waste my life trying to make more and more money. I just want a small house, unlimited free time, and no responsibilities. Then I'd like to spend time on hobbies, non-profit work, and maybe start new companies to solve problems (but not for the money.)

There must be lots of people on HN who are multi-millionaires from startup exits. Did you notice a change in yourself, and you started to want more money?
True. I can account for India here. There are some channels which nake scripted web series releasing 1 episode per week. Some of them even have 1-2 seasons . Mostly 5 episodes. And they are really popular among youngsters. Basically,these shows touch upon common middle class family relatable stuff,or college youngsters themed series. Most of them have a different sponsor each time. Sometimes its a car company (for a road trip based series),or a yoghurt brand, once Xiaomi was also a sponsor. And they hire veteran actors who are quite popular on traditional TV soap operas. But, i do feel that Youtube hasn't done enough for them. Personally i love Youtube for its educational content.
It's worth noting that the references in the blog post—including "Seemingly Impossible Functional Programs" which the title refers to—are all written in Haskell. Haskell is the natural setting to experiment with this kind of code.
Oh, that's a given. Your instinct here is right.

Has to do with society functioning as a genetic algorithm: look into a-life like the work of Danny Hillis. You don't make gains when one 'solution' dominates over all others, that's called a plateau. Currently we're at a very low plateau where meddling with finance instruments or collecting rents of various kinds is the only effective way to wealth, and where most innovation will just get you broke and out of the game, because the risk of failing is far too severe.

In history we've had far better conditions for innovation (for instance, the dawn of personal computers) when people were generally more well-off but the disparity between extremes (Gini) was far smaller. This wasn't true for all populations, but I mean the populations that supported technological innovation.

You have to have whole thriving populations of individuals with bits of the eventual answer, including bits that aren't in themselves self-sufficient, in order for crossover and inter-pollination to give you new heights of innovation. Part of that is challenging (disrupting) existing 'best answers', something that's already in the DNA of silicon valley. Right now the best answer is just to get wealthy by any means necessary, preferably by collecting rents and bringing nothing to the table (to work or develop new things would be redirecting energy that can be used to just collect rent and extort money out of the system: it's disadvantageous to make anything new or better when you can engineer the existing system to your benefit)

There is no way Gini inequality helps innovation at all. Innovation has to do with populations of actors that are all reasonably capable of addressing a problem, not seeking a single optimal individual who will do all your innovating for you. Our incentives are literally backwards.
Seriously. Octopus cost $200 million. Anyone who wants her is going to have to be a billionaire. There's always something out there you can't have till you're mega-rich.
Ask HN: Will Apple, Google, Amazon and Others Install Backdoors for Australia?
New legislation requires companies to secretly install backdoors if the government asks or risk multi million dollar fines.

Will Apple, Google, and Amazon install Australian backdoors?

Or will they just exit the country?
It absolutely is.

https://www.insidermonkey.com/blog/10-countries-with-most-in...
I will give you some reasons.
1. On kiwi.com you must know the places you are going to include in the itinerary: there is a bunch of cities you had no idea about, for instance: when thinking of Paris and Barcelona, we will offer to visit Corsica for 2 nights, and this may be much cheaper.

2. In the final ticket we combined planes, trains and ferries. Nobody does that. There are platforms, which sell all these separately, but not in one ticket.

3. Almost every multi-city itinerary of kiwi.com shows layovers that take up to 8 hours. And if they are during the day, you are lucky enough. But if they are in the evening, you would just waste your time and energy at the airport.

We have no layovers, early and late flights, inconvenient airports. We try not just to create itineraries, but to care about our users.

4. Well, just try to create an itinerary there and here, and to count the wasted time from the moment you open the site and until the very purchase.

5. We give the ideas very very fast

Kiwi do a great product, and if they really solved the multi-destination trips easily and quickly, we would not make clones
While waiting for the paper, it seems to me "fitting an already formulated problem through a deep network" is not at all what AlphaFold did. Its main contribution is formulation of problem to be solved by a deep network.
Yeah, but they don't do that every month. And $200 million is 1/500 of 100 billion. This is like the difference between going to a nice restaurant and buying a McLaren P1. Or spending all your money as an L7 at Google vs. going to space yourself.
I wonder if these should be diffused in secondary education.
Living in China.
AI development has hit a plateau in terms of performance and funding saturation. All investment is now expected to deliver some semblance of market performance before the great Margin Call of 2019 hits, which means scaling out AI to absurd domains and deploying vast armies of surplus humans to either code or emulate profitable-enough behavior to pass the risk on to the next investor round.

In the end, the Mechanical Turk has gone worldwide with no brakes.
"After all, as one of the most famous writers in the
world today, you are a legitimate subject for inquiry,
whether you welcome it or not."

Either I am completely out of touch, or this statement is not true.

It's probably the former. One of the mentioned novels titles sounds vaguely familiar, but I have never ever heard of Elena Ferrante.

I only read this letter because I wondered why an open letter to someone I'd never heard of was posted to HN.

* [edit] Having said that, I completely agree with and respect her right to remain anonymous, whether she is influential through her writing or not. I also completely agree with the assertion that a book, or indeed any work of art or performance, exists totally independently of it's author once published or performed.
It's "servicing millions of customer requests a day" or some part of "50,000" (later in the article)?

The example doesn't seem compelling to me, it's not rearranged the delivery, it's not solving any substantial problem in the co-dialog. What does this prove?
The massive amount of money basically sits in an investment account and generates dividends to live off of. That's what people are talking about. In order to have a salary they're used to they need like 20-30x the cash in the bank to generate it (preferably a bit extra to keep up with inflation too). Otherwise if you weren't using it to do that presumably you'd eventually run out of money and have to go back to work (except now you're old and 30 years out of date)
They used to sell them on Amazon until they got wind of it. An old homeless friend taught me that trick, and as someone who was uninsured in the US for a long time (my health plan for most of the last decade was “worldwide, excluding USA”) I used it a number of times when treating minor infections (versus giving the urgent care $200).

Make sure you take a full course, in any event, and recall that many bacteria these days are resistant to Penicillin.

These days, I stock my prepper kit of antibiotics from https://www.alldaychemist.com, and they take bitcoin now too.
That argument seems like it makes total sense, but I feel like I’m missing something so I’ll just have to say I don’t know!
And yet issues that affect advertising revenue on Youtube get fixed same day.
Lockheed Martin.
That's interesting. I wonder what's going on there. Do the words "sex" and "gender" have slightly different meanings for an Australian, or are the Australian forms asking a slightly different question from the UK ones?

But your passport says "Sex / Sexe" just below your date of birth, right?

The design of passports is rather precisely defined by an international standard. Interestingly, and perhaps relevantly, Australia is one of a dozen countries that routinely allows its citizens to have an 'X' instead of an 'F' or 'M' in that field. There is an ongoing legal case to obtain that right in the UK (Christie Elan-Cane).

Does your driving licence indicate "sex" or "gender"? A UK driving licence shows neither, and it doesn't give a "title", either: just full name, address, date of birth, and photo. In most cases that would allow one to guess the sex and gender of the holder, of course, but not always.
The problem is that doubts about sexist and other -ists and -isms have become weaponised in our culture today. it doesn't even matter WHEN you said something or whether you apologised for them as kevin hart's case has shown. his case is even more egregious since he was obviously appealing to the comedic social context of the time.

better start caring before someone uses your lack of care against you

edit: downvotes without rebuttals on an comment like this are a data point in themselves i think
For drugs, we already do postmarketing surveillance. Whatever you think of pharmas, drugs are not a farce.
Some languages are significantly easier to train against than English, for example 80hrs of Turkish got some decent results for this group using Mozilla Deepspeech: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.00868.pdf

For context, Baidu used a bit over 5000 hours of English to get a decent model.

Also, OP may have a pronunciation difference (regional, hyper-local or just from learning English as a second language) that isn't handled well by Google's models.
- Kinesis Advantage USB keyboard. (The only ergonomic layout keyboard with mechanical switches when I bought it).

- A trackball that is 'semi-vertical' in orientation. I use logitech's M570. I am considering switching to a fully vertical orientation trackball or a vertical mouse.

- A significant help was having an ergonomic specialist visit my desk at work and help me understand how to sit correctly, how to adjust the chair correctly, at what height the monitor ought to be set up etc. Most of my pains went away after this.

- Another factor to bear in mind is that no amount of 'conscious effort' will help maintain posture as much as a few minutes of exercises done regularly. When I do some basic compound movements even with light-weights, my posture naturally gets better without me even having to think about it.
Ask HN: What is an enterprise software that sucks, but you still use?
Most of the enterprise software is bad. What is something that you use, hate to use it, but use it just because of no other better alternative?
> You can't assume the government is gone, BTW ...

Right. It'll be some mix of police, ex-military and professional criminals.

Edit: Reminds me of Harlan Ellison's A Boy and His Dog. The film adaptation was OK too.
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I think they need symbols but they just need to be taught symbols.

If you kept child stationary and show it just static photos one at a time you wouldn't be surprised that it can't tell bus lying on the side in the snow from a snow plow.

What neural networks need is the same thing little children need, motion, rotation, things stacking hitting and occluding each other ... and possibly even interaction.

We haven't taught NN to see properly yet and guy wants to hardwire math into them because he thinks that's the only option. Humans learn symbols late and only with deliberate effort.
I am not impressed by your disdain of the French people.

Looking at your comments, you seem so polarized about things (traders, for example), without even knowing how they work; it's sad...
She is definitely one of the most famous writers today.

You knowing about her isn't necessary to making the statement true.
That's fine, but I had to click the back button a dozen times to get out of the game, which is annoying.
Right but the current innovation with regards to ml for medicine will force more data to be collected.
The Wirecutter reviews a few, but it's not a complete list: https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-led-lightbulb/ .
Sure, plenty are. Antidepressants for one. It’s a complex topic, and they have their place, but most are ineffective and dangerous
Whatever, but it does not work, as I can easily demonstrate. I once tried to buy flashlight batteries from Vancouver. I tried every possible variation of BATTERY, but had to write it on paper.

Problem is that English does not have standard pronunciation, because writing is not phonetic. In other languages everybody knows what is the official pronunciation even if their own dialect vary wildly.