skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this mean the next iPhone iteration will use Qualcomm's modem?
Yep. Mindless advertising is huge in India because ad-blockers aren't really mainstream yet.

mirror: https://outline.com/7Fz8wB
I wonder if they would bother enforcing the ban on foreigners, since it's a roundabout way of banning the Yakuza.
Toward Anti-Fascist AI
They won't really support native 8k in any real game. They'll support 8k the way ps4 pro support 4k. Through their upscaling technique. I'm all for that. The ps5 should definitely be able to do true, real 4k, and upsample to 8k
A serious complication is that there are now several autocrats and would be autocrats who use the platform to spew fear mongering, race baiting and unfiltered falsehoods to their public. I imagine Dorsey knows he will face very real retaliation if they perceive he has diminished their reach.
Company I am with does not. I have worked for other companies that did, but generally it was considered a pittance. Min was like $500, max was like $3000. Most people offered the person they were referring half the money as an incentive.

Companies would push the issue, telling you this a chance for your friends to work with you.

I tended to consider the offers an insult, when you considered 1) the were saving 20 to 30K per candidate, as that was what the head hunters charged. 2) headhunters do not actually know the person so they are not really vetted the way a friend would be vetted. Because who would recommend a friend who would not be a good worker? A headhunter will all day and night.

But I suppose if they offered a good incentive, people would actually recruit ANYONE not just qualified people.
It's so that we can make cable companies obsolete without running fiber everywhere. 4G networks just don't have the capacity to support use for TV streaming - the hope is that 5G will.
That isn't the greatest example of that IMO. From what I've read, the real problem there wasn't just imperial/metric confusion, it was the fact that the team providing data did not provide any units at all, and the team receiving the data didn't ask and just assumed units.

One of the first things I was taught in engineering school was to always provide units! It doesn't matter if you're only using metric; that still doesn't tell you if it's a gram or a kilogram, after all.
How many devices can these systems handle?
Hmm.. what's the link for the interviews page?
My girlfriend recently got one and it's a great machine!

Sure, it's no T/X-series but you are not paying for that either.
I can't think of a better machine around the price point it's at.

In Hong Kong the 1080p model was on sale for ~400USD (with mechanical 500GB drive and 8GB RAM), well worth the money!
> negative interest rates

Wait, I don't get this. Do I get paid to take out a mortgage?
Landmarks of Freemasonry
Maybe. But does Twitter even experiment to see?

Take Maggie Haberman, NYT reporter. Her Twitter replies are always a cesspool...what if she could lock down her tweets so only a whitelisted group of users (say people she follows) could comment? You'd still (hopefully) get contrary opinions but none of the dreck that dominates her feed now.

I don't know if that's the answer. But I don't see Twitter even trying, just Dorsey waxing philosophical about it.
> Somehow they never even define "SOA". What?

"SOA" means "microservices for Gen X'ers".

"Microservices" means "SOA for millenials".

I don't know what Baby Boomers called it.
Its not hostility to asian capital. Its hostility to capital outside of the region. The primary reason people bought homes and chose to not live in them was that they were a good investment. That comes at the cost of building a community, and drives up prices for people who actually live in the area, often with no other benefits.

Its not hostility, and Its not racist to call a spade a spade.
A common theme really. Just look at youtube´s "notification bell" and forced un-subbing. These social networks are going out of their way to be classified as publishers rather than platform providers. It´s going to bite them and us all in the ass so freaking hard and Jack, Mark and Susan will deserve everything that is to come their way both from regulators as well as users that will _eventually_ be fed up with these shady practices.
there's nothing 'lost' by supporting higher resolutions.
It will render internally at (say) 4k, and upsample to 8k.
Campustowns have lots of big houses like this. It's kind of cool to walk through the neighborhood, they're like stereotypical houses but blown up by 150%

After a few years of being lived in by 19 year olds it will probably lose the tony stark sheen.
It would be nice, but I'd be surprised if they make much of an effort. There's little financial motivation to make available a huge library of practically free games, especially if people are willing to pay for new "nostalgia" consoles with a small selection of greatest hits preloaded.
Open sourcing it actually so folks can contribute if they find it interesting enough!
No, they do not own it. Copyright law gives them legal ability to profit off of it for a limited time without having to compete with people copying it. After this protection expires it is supposed to go to the public, to which it belongs. The whole point of copyright is to "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." If they want to destroy their works, then they can exist outside of the protection of the law.
I'd say it's a fundamentally hard problem, instead. See halting problem.
This would suit me, actually. I use twitter almost exclusively to follow motor racing journalists. However, because of this, I have to dig through the same journalist's opinions on Brexit, FIFA, or Game of Thrones. It would suit me much better to be able to follow 'motorsport' as a topic instead of specific people.
Except in the case that the device will not accept the build without the user's passcode, right?
I thought recent TF versions can?
So, with the voice UI, eye-tracking, and lots of subtle Soli gestures (https://atap.google.com/soli/), think I could work for 20-30 minutes?

-->"But, IIRC, people whose job it is to talk all day have been shown to have a higher rate of vocal cord cancer."

Because nowhere did I say how long I wanted to work. For some reason you're taking your lack of imagination and trying to extrapolate it into an all day affair where I'm holding up my arms.

Btw, I wouldn't mind that holographic display either but I'm willing to settle for an 8k display for now. After 17 years, and zero "Minority Report" gestures, I've learned that these things take time.
And if that's the case that's understandable, but I don't believe it to be in this case.
Raytracing democratizes graphics. Indie shops will have to spend less time writing shaders and lighting and can refocus that attention on making the gameplay and overall experience better.
> Qualcomm is up almost 18% while apple is flat which tells you who this affected more

Not really. It primarily tells you what the market had expected and priced in, and how this outcome is viewed relative to those expectations.

For example, the market could have expected QC to get hammered, so an agreement that now only has a small effect would have a positive impact on stock price.

And of course, as others have pointed out, the >10x difference in market cap matters for relative impact on the stock price. Even if the absolute impact were the same, you’d expect AAPL to move 10x less.
French Tycoons Show Competitive Streak over Notre Dame Aid
> After thinking about it, I'd be willing to lose some speed (if at all) if I never had to look down to type ()=>{};

Losing speed isn't a given. I recognise that my situation is completely different from someone who has learned to type by looking, but as a blind person I've only ever touch-typed and very rarely dip below 100 WPM while working with text. Writing code is different, naturally. But this is an area of life I've never felt at a disadvantage. Quite the opposite given how most people seem to type.
I lived in a fraternity for a year when I attended uni. At least a fraternity has funds to go after and pledge labor to clean the place.

A random mix of college-aged kids is one of the worst deals as a land lord because they are guaranteed to be transient. I don't blame anyone who refuses to rent their mansion to them.
Makes sense. I'm sure Apple is paying an amount significantly less than Qualcomm was demanding, yet Qualcomm will still get a large infusion of cash. Neither side has to risk a long, drawn-out court battle. Meanwhile Qualcomm can aggressive pursue fees from other companies and Apple knows their competitors will likely have to pay more to get the same item meaning Apple can increase their profit margins a little more.
I suspect the lawyers are on payroll
The power-to-weight ratio of refinement types is as unclear as that of contracts. You get more expressivity than simple types, but it's unclear whether it's enough to make a real impact. On the other hand, we're nowhere near being able to verify the properties that would make a real impact on code sizes that truly matter with automated proof techniques. Types are a bad fit for "deep" properties to begin with because they're tied to the proof theory of the type system. At least contracts have some leeway, as they can be verified more weakly but with much more scalable techniques (like randomized tests).
The office I work in has five development teams that cover different aspects of our service (provisioning from our customers, core product on Android, the UI for the Android code, servers, and call processing [1]). Each team has ownership of their respective products and how things are divided up are left to the teams themselves.

The team I'm on has three developers (I'm one of them) and for our team, we just kind of fell into ownership of different aspects. I deal with the programs that are customer facing (CDMA and SIP interfaces); the second developer deals with the business logic (a separate program) and the third deals with SMPP (also customer facing, but not as critical as the CDMA and SIP interfaces). And it's not like we (my team) are fiercely protecting our turf (each of our programs)---I have worked on both the business logic and SMPP service, but generally, each of us just gravitated to what we find enjoyable.

I do not know how the other teams divide their work.

Bug reporting is pretty each to route as each portion of our service is clearly delineated (with the possible exception of the Android core and UI teams).

As far as features go, it depends upon the feature. Yes, there are some features that affect all the teams (such as number to name translation---have to provision that, deal with obtaining the info during call processing and having the phone receive and display such information) and some that only affect one department (like supporting SIP---largely my team).

[1] I work in the call processing side of things.
I have to be honest. The outcome will be a very aggressive AD war.

Two fronts:

One, marketing people who just got left on terrestrial earth, feeling like chumps. They want in on that action.

Two, a ton of ordinary people, me included, who will seek to marginalize the living fuck out of Pepsi, maybe even also having had favorable thoughts about the brand, because just because a thing can be done, does not mean it should.
> Turns are taken on who is flying

That's what I meant yes
State of Developer Relations 2019
Might be an unpopular opinion, but I actually really like this feature. I'm usually not able to get to everything, so it's great to know when something important or interesting got tweeted and I know to check it out.

That notification was actually what slowly made me an active Twitter user, because they kept surfacing me interesting content and giving me a reason to come back and it became a gateway for me to discover other great content on Twitter
Re "digital-imprimatur" text -- I am sorry, I could not get through it. The first part of it seems to be boring explanation of basic internet concepts; the second part seems to be full of wild predictions which do not seem to be coming true (I have been hearing about personal certificates for the web since passport.com introduction in 1999)

Re proving to X that you are Y: there is a well known difference between authentication vs authorization that is easy to overlook. In case of domain names, "authentication" roughly means "same entity owns the name", and "authorization" means "I know something about the entity".

Having readable domain names is critical to linking things to the real world. For example:

- I wrote my email on (paper) new patient form. Doctor now can send me messages and know they will get to me and not someone else.

- I was visiting my favorite food store and saw a sign saying "Visit www.LATastyMarket.com for coupons". I can now go to that site and expect to get to the right store.

- My friend told me that Ubuntu is a well known organization and does not distribute malware. I can go to ubuntu.com and download software from that site.

In all of those cases, I do not care about "Claims by Z to find out facts about Y". The collection of facts about ubuntu.com is useless to me (unless it says "it is that thing you were talking with your friend about yesterday during lunch"). I need an identity -- short string which I can remember and recognize again. If there is a mechanism which prevents typos for high value targets, this is even better.

> When you lose control of a private key for your stuff [...] you can have eg Shamir Secret Sharing with 5 other people. You could have part of a backup key derived from a known passphrase or biometrics.

Yes I could, but why would I do this? I have seen (and designed) a security process for my work. It is a complex process, with separated servers, restricted privileges, detailed logs, automated alerting. It takes a significant amount of stuff to maintain. I could do the same for my home computer, but it is significant amount of work and time, and I have more interesting ways to spend my time.

A human has a limited amount of time in their life. While I can bake my own bread (for example), I buy it from the bakery instead, and spend my time on more interesting things. Same is with security -- I do not want to mess with Shamir Secret Sharing, I am happy to delegate it to someone else. (And do not say "it is easy" or "it just needs a good UI". Storing secrets is inherently hard, and any easy solution is likely insecure)
I follow a few hundred people with very varied interests, and I don't log in every few minutes. For non-addicted people, the algo is pretty nice. I want to see a sampling of interesting stuff I "missed" over the last day or two. If I want to go look at a particular person's chronological feed, I can do that.

You can change it if you don't like it, click the sparkle button to do so, but don't think nobody likes it.
Your point about Twitter's scale is fair, but I personally don't think the situation is hopeless, as you seem to suggest.

If you have troll engagers in your feed, unfollow them. But right now I have no way of filtering replies...it's frustrating. No system is perfect but let's at least TRY to improve the status quo.

If Twitter is consistently beta-testing new features to improve the quality of the UX/tweet replies, I personally am not seeing it.
So here's an example of "next gen" media streaming in action. I was recently at a MotoGP race. MotoGP has a streaming media app that allows for you to stream cams from your favorite racers on your mobile device in very high quality. This would be really cool to use for the many hours of racing throughout the day at the race track, but while its technically possible with current technology for me to do it the cost is prohibitive. With significantly higher throughput per tower, the cost of data should significantly be reduced, making it really cheap to have a crowd of people at the race track have a few 1080p each.
Try SUMO (https://sumo.dlr.de/index.html). Microscopic traffic simulator just like VISSIM but free and open source. The dev team is very active on their mailing lists. There is a Python API called TRACI that allows you to change the simulation while it's running. There is also a deep RL framework called Flow (https://flow-project.github.io) that builds on top of SUMO that shows how autonomous vehicles could potentially eliminate shockwaves in traffic
The Cataclysmic Break That (Maybe) Occurred in 1950
Well, many things on your list are spot on but the ones that are shouldn’t be scary.

- end to end integration tests - if they are APIs, they for the most part have a Postman collections in the repo. If they are event based lambdas, they have the standard

if __name__ == "__main__":

Code that calls the handler with dummy data.

- build pipeline and manual resource creation. It’s so easy to export a SAM template from the console it’s criminal to not at least do that. But, yeah we have a CodePipeline to do that.

I have been on the other side though of inheriting a lambda and wondering how the hell did they go through the write->debug->fix cycle? Did they actually load it to AWS first? I spent a day creating a “test harmess”. Not real AAA unit tests, just something I could run locally to debug.
>I wouldn't necessarily tie net neutrality and this together, since NN supports them as much as us.

How we know? Because they told us that? They would be funding thinktanks to pass NN if they had to. The truth about NN is only ONCE was a carrier ever really found to be selectively throttling for non-congestion reasons in the mid-2000s and the FCC shut that down immediately. NN still allows for throttling if you claim it's for congestion.

YET... SV likes to promote the idea of a slow internet without regulation.

Just because you agree with the idea doesn't mean you shouldn't pay attention to the propaganda.
It is my understanding that while traffic signals are almost always hardwired to mains supply (somewhat surprising observation is that traffic cameras often are not but use Pb battery packs that are recharged during the night from street lighting power) they very often use radio interfaces for communication, be it something PACTOR-like, point-to-point 802.11 on unusual frequency bands (ie. sub-GHz) or straight 802.11.

The sub-GHz 802.11 seems to be uniquely american thing. And maybe just pushing anything over RF is somewhat uniquely Czech thing (caused by the fact, that Czech spectrum allocation has somewhat unique additional 10GHz ISM band), but in Prague there is an giant nest of smallish microwave antennas on every tenth street light pole (the extreme is probably Malostranske namesti, where there is 10GHz link between two traffic signals that spans about 70m).
Upvoting chiefly because I want to see what the HN community says about this one...
Smears and fury in big telescope lobbying
I wonder if they keep it as a way of banning foreigners..
> Judge Koh's pre-trial decision on component-level licensing

That was a weird ruling IMO, this has been the status quo since prior to Apple's entry into the cell phone market. (Note that Apple's not even a licensee -- it's Foxconn's "device" that we're talking about here).
I just want a "Muffle" or "Volume Down" button for accounts. Some people are such prolific tweeters that they take over your feed. For some people, I just want the highlights.
> You only need 85% to pass the real exam.

Current requirement is lower. Only 74% (26/35 or 37/50) to pass.

One other thing to know is that the exam questions are split in to sections (35 sections for Tech/General, 50 for Extra) and only one question from each section is selected. This means that you don't need to worry about getting multiple questions from sections you struggle with and dragging down your score.
During the Joe Rogan podcast, he mentioned that what they are trying to attempt to give people the "other side" of the story rather than promoting creation of echo chambers.
> but that they built it?

It was independent then Twitter bought it.
The music of all time is a duet between order and disorder
Don't worry kid, we'll tell you what you want to see!
I'd favor one sensor or three... though there's something to be said for one simple structure being more reliable than 2+ complex ones.
The PNG that squished big
If you read the whole article it's clear that "college students in mansions" is not what the author is really writing about. Even the subtitle makes this clear:

> Globe-trotting landlords can avoid vacancy taxes by renting. It’s the latest twist for a housing market down 8.5% from its peak.

The article really just uses "students renting mansions" as two of several anecdotes accompanying the story. The subject of the article is that Vancouver's taxes on foreign owned investment property are pushing down prices on property, and a rental loophole that is also affecting the rental market.

Headlines have always been set by editors to catch eyes and now clicks. I don't think that makes the reporting any worse.

Perhaps a more appropriate title could have been set on HN but from what I understand the guideline is to use the original title.
T-Mobile-Sprint Deal Runs into Resistance from DOJ Antitrust Staff
Closed my account long ago in response to the 2016 elections. Not so much to mute the conversation but in protest against giving a voice to a terrible person. My life has been a little better ever since.
It's possible that it could actually work, meaning, average Joe thinks its kind of cool and buys some pepsi.
Garner Holt’s Lincoln Animatronic
Land of Lisp (2010)
Good job! Crimethink should not be welcome here.
Google Pay adds Gmail importing for automatically adding tickets, loyalty cards
Places will enforce it - I'd say most do not - but my sample size is only large enough to say confidentially that the places my friends went to do not, with one exception that enforced it.

Source: Friends with tattoos who have visited Japan as I don't have any myself.

E: This is one of very, very few shows I'd ever recommend and it covers this topic: https://www.viceland.com/en_us/show/needles-and-pins , specifically the ones in Japan and South Korea which have very similar culture surrounding tattoos.
> Beyond that, I'm generally disappointed that we never hear about features that try to get users to act better, by their own volition, vs reactively shutting them down.

I think the problem with this approach is that it assumes that typical users like you and me, not bots or people with a particular agenda or goal (i.e. brigading) are the primary sources of abuse.

Unfortunately I think it's much more likely to be the latter section of highly motivated users or bots that are responsible for a disproportion volume of abuse, and there's little incentive Twitter can create to motivate them otherwise
True, but EFF and others managed to get past that as well, I think mostly by not overreaching, always being fact-based and consistency. It would certainly take quite a while to gain enough trust and support if you're not ideologically aligned.

I worry that it's just hard to do. It takes a special kind of person (and lots of them) to keep general politics out, even more so when you're successful and advocating your personal politics would be easy and effectful. Oh, and being vigilant so you don't get co-opted by a political movement.
It's easy for us to past judgement in hindsight, but what is an acceptable failure rate? For Apollo, I believe it was around 7-8%. There's always going to be some risk, what you don't see is all the times those administrators correctly identified a risk as acceptable, or scrubbed a mission due to inaccurate risk assessment.

A space program that demands better than six-sigma risk for example is unlikely to ever get off the ground.