skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many.

The initial PowerPC port was done by three people: Jes Wills, Andy Giles and Tony Sumpter. When they traveled to Austin, TX to present the work, the AIX software manager who had been in-charge of the ThinkPad Woodfield (6020) effort wanted to know where the rest of the team was. Her team was over 40 people, and they'd taken over 18 months to get to a port.

The Tadpole team for the initial port was 3 people, and had taken six months.

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There was a ritual on the engineering team that you were to drink a "gallon of Abbot" on your 30th (birthday). The gallon, of course, was an Imperial gallon (8 20oz pints, or 4.54 litres. The Abbot was Greene King's Abbot Ale, which is 5% ABC.

You have to start early to get it done, and it still wrecks you.

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The US Navy was very upset that the Tadpole case was made of AZ91D magnesium (alloy). Wouldn't let it on-board anything because Mg + 2H2O → Mg(OH)2 + H2.

Tadpole used it because it has similar density (1.81 g/cm^3, 1.046 lb/in^3) to ABS/PC blend with 20% glass fiber (1.25 g/cm^3), and it has high heat conductivity, so we used the case as a heat sink. AZ91D has an ignition temperature of approximately 468°C (875°F), which is difficult to reach and maintain due to magnesium’s high heat conductivity.

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A magazine (I forget which one) wanted to do a story on how the laptop would stop bullets. So we took a couple dead systems to the local gun range (Red's Indoor Range in Austin, TX) and tried it out. It wouldn't stop a .22, but that didn't stop us from blowing the hell out of the rest with larger calibre firearms. (Several of us were good friends with the people at Red's back then.) Whenever the Brits came over, they wanted to go to Red's, and we were all too willing to take them. The engineering area in Cambridge (England) was decorated with the silhouette targets they took back to show their efforts.

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George Grey (CEO) and Bob Booth (CFO) went on to found and run GeoFox who had a Psion 5 work-alike. (http://www.ericlindsay.com/epoc/geofox.htm). It didn't work out, so George became the President of Psion USA, and then the President and CEO of SavaJe, which became JavaFX Mobile after it was acquired by Sun. Savaje apparently inspired Android. https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/mass-high-tech/2010/...

George and Bob were most recently at Linaro, and are now at foundries.io. Both in the positions they had at Tadpole.
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For example detecting where the device is and adjusting the current in separate coils accordingly?

I don't buy the explanation that this is about interferences. It doesn't seem like an insurmountable problem to me.
Here's a video of the author's "Deep Dive into the Burst Compiler" talk from Unite LA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkM6zEGFhDY
Look at this guys profile. He keeps spamming his service. This is poor taste dude.
Apple sold 2.2 billion iPhones and 360 million iPads before they stopped reporting numbers.

Assume for every phone or iPad they sell, they average one extra cable (for work, for the car, because it breaks, whatever..)

Apple charges $19 for an extra cable. Assume it costs them $2 to make the cable (and it probably costs much less).

That's 43.5 billion right there. Which even for Apple is not small potatoes. Especially because cables are probably their highest margin product.
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actually in my book no companies would get a tax break

Generally speaking, I agree with that. Tax breaks lead to a race-to-the-bottom. The "winning" location gives away so much that it's often a negative for the municipality. This may well have been the situation with the recent proposed HQ for Amazon in NYC.

However, there are exceptions. I don't know the exact details of the "massive tax breaks" you are referring to. But they could be justified in this case. Otherwise the investment would simply go to another state.

Here's now it has worked in Oregon with Intel in the past: The tax breaks were because of the extraordinary high cost of a semiconductor fab. It costs literally billions of dollars to build and equip a modern fab. This cost is far out of proportion to what a more mundane industrial development would cost. Assessing a property tax on the full value of that fab would mean the amount of tax is far far far out of proportion to the cost of providing government services to that fab.

So lets say, making up some numbers, a municipality has an existing property tax base of $5 billion. Intel builds a new $5 billion fab there. The burden of that fab on resources such as fire and schools is minimal. So, does everyone else in the municipality get their property taxes cut in half just because the expensive new building appears? Or does the municipality now get 2x the previous revenue (which whey will most likely spend recklessly).

The same argument as property taxes can be made for income taxes on the business. Let's say a company can build a widget factory for $5 billion. The widgets from that factory can generate a profit of $1 billion per year, at very little cost to the municipality or the state. Should the state collect income tax on that full $1 billion of profit?

If you say yes, collect the full amount of property or income tax, then the factory just gets built elsewhere. Maybe even in another country. In that scenario, the USA loses and the state loses. They lose the high paying jobs that the factory brings. They lose all the "trickle down" that the factory brings. They simply lose.

Dont forget, all the new local employees buy homes, pay property taxes, pay state income taxes, pay capital gains taxes on all the appreciated Intel stock they sell. In Oregon, unlike at the Federal level, there is no tax reduction for long term capital gains and there is no tax reduction for dividends. The income tax rate hits 9% at $8,401 in income.

Oregon gets plenty of money at the 9% state income tax rate that most people easily hit. Oregon takes 9.9% above $125,000 but that's not a big added burden for most people.

Semiconductor fabs are so very capital intensive that I think adjustments must be made to the general method of taxing both property and income.
Given who he is and has been, I'm almost certain that some have archived all or most all of his public posts. And hey, I can point them to someone who'll host them anonymously ;)
grep -V ?
ldd grep ?
Use case sample ?
I've spent the past several years programming w/ Swift, but the performance is a little concerning. Maybe the switch in Swift 5 to utf-8 backed Strings improves the performance?

I think Rust w/ macros like you see in Rocket (https://rocket.rs/) looks promising. I haven't used it, but the guarantees, simplicity, and performance (possibilities - it doesn't use async yet) are really interesting.
...Google has a PHP compiler? Don't you mean Hack/HHVM by FB?
Any tax on the employer-employee relationship is essentially a tax on the employee. It’s like how payroll taxes are economically equivalent to income taxes, even though one is (partly) administratively levied on the employer, not the employee.
I am talking about my service but I think it's unique and clearly relevant to the conversation. That it's on multiple on threads is because this topic is so prevalent right now. I'm trying to make a positive impact on people's lives by offering the type of communication platform no other company has ever been willing to try. Cheers!
Sure but it’s a weird feature he developed for profit. Odd that he is excluded but we aren’t.
The one-drop rule doesn’t constitute a straw man fallacy in this context, because it is already baked into the most common american definition of “white” vs “black”. If you choose to define these terms any other way, you are forging your own path (and for what purpose? attempting to grant more validity to racists?)
I took an “internship” at my first dev job at a small place and was converted a few weeks later. It’s a nice way to be able to double check - though won’t work great if they’be got good prospects to give them a more guaranteed offer.
The USB-C standard is arcane and cables can have wildly different functionality and quality and still comply with the standard. Occam's razor suggests that there is not some cable markup conspiracy going on here. Higher quality cables + luxury brand tax is a far more reasonable solution.
Thinking about that theoretical effect on pacemakers and hearing aids makes me glad that we have safety regulations.
Right. Or similarly, you could figure out which coil(s) were drawing the most power and perhaps power the others down?
> Is it my understanding that induction rings can't overlap?

They technically can and that is what Apple was trying to do but the overlap creates a lot of weird RF noise and makes stable induction difficult.

> Do the laws of physics apply here?

Yes, it's just a much harder physics problem.
That’s nice for you, but some of us suffer from disorders that lead to shaking hands and poor coordination, such that plugging in a device to such a small port is a grueling, sometimes impossible task. What then?
I don't think any of that will matter in the long term considering how hostile the EU is towards technology.
Newspapers didn't have a full text search index.
The USB jack is always the first to fail for me too. Depending on where you live, you might be able to get it replaced. Where I am a USB jack replacement (parts and labour) is about USD 8 (and a replacement for a scratch screen (5 inch 720x1280 so nothing special) is about USD 15, both at a local electronics market.
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I like the Twitter thread but they had to literally include Antifa's take on the whole issue, so not as convinced with their train of thought.

I think the site will be fake, it's all too cartoony and neat but would prefer a better take down.

And who cares that he dresses like Indiana Jones, he's into his art and that brings others into the field. Should IT nerds who dress in black be thought of as bad at their art? Plus his Dad was mentioned in a fossil smuggling case, which is pretty Indiana(Not saying it was true)
Tips from Justin Rosenstein on how to run a company or team
The proposition that Apple wasn't checking EM spectrum compliance until the very end is so ludicrous that it's obviously false.
I built something similar for teaching people Docker in webcasts. It also integrates a little inspector, a terminal, hotkeys, and for no good reason; procedural color theming. It's kind of an ugly code base because I built it for screen casting then got a job that required a lot of attention so I didn't end up using it much, but I like it.

https://github.com/millerhooks/GraphTerm
I have a waterproof case on my phone. My last two similar cases failed because the door to open the charging port broke. We're not very far off from phones that are waterproof because they don't have any ports at all.
No, it's non-ionizing.
As a data scientist that heavily uses DL in my day-to-day, yes you need to know math. We are having difficulty hiring, and few candidates can answer basic questions: what is an FFT, what is the central limit theorem, what is an eigen value, what does the trace of a matrix tell you, etc. Many candidates use ML but have no idea what they are applying to the data.
Always underpromise. Never overpromise.
No, they only ended up in newspapers when they were news at the time.
And there it is. The internet turns into cable TV. It'll be yet another technology under the control of states and large corporations. This means that it loses most of its value. Sad times.

Thinking of the future is just depressing.
Possible positive? If it keeps it in the 20-70% range I'm told we are supposed to keep our devices in.
The grand and hilarious paradox is that I was already named after my grandfather, heh.
So they ran into a Trump administration wall instead of merely physics!
Cables are not entirely fail-proof - I imagine many people here, including myself, have seen smoldering Apple branded mag-safe, 30 pin, and lightning cables. Moving energy from one place to another, quickly and efficiently, at the small-scale of modern electronics, is tough. I prefer cables for charging, too, but as others have posted wiredless-ness sure is convenient, a la AirPods. I swore by wired headphones until I got AirPods - now I never yank my EarPods out of my ear while cooking or if my dogs jump on me while I am on the phone (for example; small conveniences).
> but is it that much different

For me the line-in-the-sand is political views that advocate destroying our entire way of life, especially through violence.

In my view you don’t get to claim the benefits of free speech and tolerance if your manifesto is based on intolerance and marginalisation. If you’re intolerant, don’t expect to be tolerated.
Moderation is pattern-matching. Your comments, to my reading, matched the style of a particular kind of ultra-sincere-sounding concern troll. If I got that wrong, that was a bad guess and I'm very sorry.

In case it helps, I took a quick look and your other recent comments seem fine.
I want to give you the benefit of the doubt here, in what way did the ban on cellphones on planes stall progress? It seemed more like a minor annoyance / inconvenience, but I could be misunderstanding or not have context.
There’s no way to know how many of those were Chinese nationals because the only group with that data is FINCEN. So how exactly did you do this, and which county was it?
Right, I hate that, and suspected this addresses the practice.
Important to note that the initial paper is not even out yet. It is supposed to be a foundation paper that does not focus on dinosaurs. It doesn't seem like this Twitter thread shows any true holes and I don't think the poster is a researcher.
Who the fuck cares? Seriously, Silicon Valley is one big echo chamber at this point.

On average, men make better engineers than women do, and are more interested in engineering to boot. And if a bunch of guys want to make things while trading guy jokes, you should really just leave them alone.

Do liberals realize how sick most people—even those in the center and only a bit right of center—are of their new-age, anti-reality, puritanical bullshit? Oh, that’s right, they are, they just don’t care: that’s why at least half of their publications have disabled comments.
Not random; there's no notion of randomness here. It's worst case analysis in a Tetris board that is provided in the input to the algorithm (i.e. with input length proportional to its size, as opposed to specifying integers corresponding to its dimensions, which will give a not-easier computational result), alongside a sequence of tetrominos; the question is to devise a strategy of player moves achieves a standard objective; e.g. the maximum number of rows cleared, or achieves the objective to within an approximation.

That it is NP-complete says that verification that a sequence indeed attains this maximum is easy (even if we don't know the maximum beforehand), but that it is unlikely we will find an efficient algorithm for the problem.

The authors note that there is a "relatively simple dynamic
program solves the case of a constant-size gameboard in time polynomial in the number of pieces." So what you seem to be thinking of is solvable quite efficiently.
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Juniper has offices and partners all over EU, for example in Paris [0]. Similar to Extreme [1].

I don't know what problems you encountered in France, but I can assure you both of them are very well represented across the whole EU, even less developed parts of it.

The reason managers pick Cisco is mostly that "nobody gets fired for picking Cisco" imho.

[0] https://www.juniper.net/us/en/contact-us/sales-offices/paris...

[1] https://fr.extremenetworks.com/
Contracts on competition -- being neither bought nor sold -- are not under the purview of the free market any more than romantic love is.

Another way to think about it. Republicans are typically for smaller government. A non conpete clause is only enforceable via government petition. A private company cannot threaten force against a person because of who they work for. All enforcement is via government. Thus banning non competes leads to less litigation and a smaller government.

Finally there is no regulation being added to the market here. The government is in fact removing regulation by declaring via statute that it will no longer interfere when people violate certain types of agreements. Thats called the government butting out of peoples business

Lets not construct bogey men.
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There wouldn't be any need for pressure sensors; this already happens. The charged device adds some power to its own coil and the charging station detects that (it's unidirectional communication). For example my charging station lights up about a second after putting my phone down, and can show the battery status with the light. I would assume that when there's nothing on them the coils transmit in a low-power mode, with the protocol allowing the device to ask for more/less power as required (edit: Wikipedia confirms that the device can actually send some pretty precise instructions to the station, with voltage controllable in 50 mV increments [0]).

So logically it would seem the heat issue happens when there are three coils active at the same time transmitting at high power - the peak heat output is the issue.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_(standard)
It should have a positive effect, because you're avoiding larger charges and keeping your battery at optimal levels.
The article title is actually:

VISA: The Undocumented Security Problem Inside Intel -- What You Need To Know

And in this usage, VISA is actually an initialism, and so should not be made mixed case.
“Damning”. LOL. You’re hopeless.
Yes I can see that. As a small shop developer, I will make my choice of language based on programmer convenience rather than energy usage. I have never heard any developer talk about "kilowatts" when choosing tech (outside of bitcoin mining perhaps).
This article was really fascinating!! How having a different temporal perception would make our world different.

From the article -
The manakins are a family of birds best known for elaborate, ricocheting, moonwalking courtship displays, with the exception of the black manakin. Its display—we thought—consists only of rapid, small hops.
Yet when filmed and slowed down, researchers discovered that each hop was in fact a 360-degree backwards somersault, lasting 0.37 seconds, and completely imperceptible to the human eye.

I wish there was a video of this.

Again -
Similarly, the cordon bleu finch, a common pet bird, was thought to have a simple hopping courtship display. When slowed down, these finches were revealed to be “tap-dancing,”

Relevant video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkumbnYc8Ns
I'll open the gambit with I totally agree with the OP that in a world with replicators, why would you go for the kill based option when you don't need to for the same mouth feel, proteins, fats and texture.

But that's the issue. That's not the case and though I'd love to see that tech moved forward we're not there yet.
People with a bunch of Lisp experience have responded to what you wrote and disagreed. That's all.
The Quran never mentioned the hijab or any other specific veiling. It only mentioned modest dress. This has been mutated and distorted as applying only to women by despotic regimes and certain countries.
Most of the pressing paleontological questions are not about the extinction event itself.
Write a thesis.
HN is a site for speech which lead to interesting conversation. People clubbing each over the head is uninteresting.

Since you don't seem to want to use this site as intended—based on your account history—I've banned the account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
Somewhat tautological, but I equate "useful" and "appropriate". Anxiety can be useful (if it's not crippling), and is certainly understandable. But if it is debilitating, it's not particularly useful, and hence, is inappropriate.
If anyone is interested in working on a Fulcro application full-time we are building tools for the insurance industry and are a remote-first team.

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Same. I have an anker stand and it works great.
It obviously has a bit of work put into it to make it fast: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/35217221c211f3...
With regard to datacenter operators, I would argue that a simpler answer to that observation is that they are investing heavily in the are in which they can actually effect change. That is, they can swap in-and-out their hardware, but language of choice is largely up to their customers - the dev. They can advocate and champion a particular language, but really enforcing it in any meaningful way is narrow casting their own user base.
"Fuck the Chinese" counts as nationalistic flamewar on this site. In the extreme. In fact, your comment upthread exemplifies precisely the nationalistic flamewar we don't want here. So if you could please recalibrate, we'd be grateful.

Here's one way to do that: imagine yourself being from the opposite background (e.g. in this case China), reading whatever comment you plan to post. Could you receive interesting information from that comment? Or only hostility? If the latter, rewrite it until it communicates interesting information.

You're not the only person who needs to do this! We all do.
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For the majority of us, probably the only thing that will happen is some power outages in some areas. Charge some portable batteries and buy some bottled water (mains pumps maybe?). It won't be a problem for more than about a day.
Can someone sensible with expertise comment on this please?
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Sort of. The lineage that became birds had already split off from the lineages we typically think of as “dinosaur” in the popular consciousness, quite a long time before the KT event. Nothing like the dinosaur toys you played with as a kid survived. (But then, many of the ones you played with as a kid were probably from 50-100M years earlier anyway, with the notable exception of T-Rex).
Similar as in the same approach, or as in "apply neural networks to all the things"? Because if it's the former, this approach was very specifically tailored to human speech, taking into account how much it can compress/interpolate qualities like pitch and the spectral envelope. That's far too specific to apply to video.

As for the latter, you'd have to perhaps feed Google Scholar the right incantations or ask someone with knowledge. As far as I know, video codecs already have a huge bag of tricks they use (for example the B-frames borrowed in this post). Even then, the key points in this codec were that firstly it's meant for use at very low bitrates, where existing codecs break down, and then secondly it's a vocoder, so it's converting audio to an intermediate form and resynthesizing it. That kind of lossiness is acceptable for audio, but I'm not sure how it would work acceptably for video.
And none of those things interfere with the more fundamental right to life liberty and property. Is the employer allowed to hold the employee there against his will if he changes his mind? Of course not. You cannot give up your right to leave a contract at any time. Which is why non competes are decidedly anti civil rights and thus anti libertarian and thus against the rights based factions of the rephblican party
C(32, 3) is 4960. That means almost 5,000 different interference patterns to deal with. Since every manufactured device will vary (since each of its 32 manufactured coils will differ slightly from the next), that's 5,000 calibrations that need to be done on every single manufactured device. And that's best case, assuming (for example) that calibration is a single metric per coil over time.