skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But building optics that can properly illuminate those larger sensors within the confines of current smartphone designs already is impressive progress.

As you said, those physics are hard. I'm no expert but I suspect that the physics would even be strictly impossible for a "proper" lens and they only get away with it because they can now apply corrections computationally which would require lot's of glass/space when done to light pre-sensor instead of to data post-sensor.

This, I think, is the actual innovation: when you don't have to care for distortion or uneven brightness because you can fix that digitally, basic sharpness becomes much easier to achieve. A truly raw sensor readout from those modules would probably look like worse than a Holga picture.

I fully agree with your assessment that this is a one-time free lunch. Looking forward to a computational compact that scales the same lens simplifications to a full frame sensor!
What happens next April?
I have bought Rebel Inc and played it for a few days. I unlocked all the normal maps and found the whole game very shallow and I never felt the need to keep playing. So not a great hit in my book. Sadly so, because it looked very promising. Thanks for the tip though!
ofc :)
https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/8118457/TPB.AFK.2013.1080p....
The topic is more SMBC. Both XKCD and SMBC routinely do X^absurd type comics.
Nice detailed lectures on RH along with a suggested proof is here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRsxymPrOKUAk3eXhK9FZ...
Everything you said about the work culture, I have seen. It's both reassuring (thinking I'm not the only one who feel that way) and depressing (because indeed working in an environment where 90% of the energy is put into politics to navigate to workplace is exhausting).

The second part I didn't see. A lot of colleague work without a 5+ year degree on some technical jobs.

More, I feel that the engineering spirit has been lost in the it jobs. Working as an engineer doesn't necessarly require a 5 year degree (it helps).
I feel there's a lot of hype around high level tools, a lot of trends and very very few focused thinking. Most of my colleages don't seem to want to know how a computer works or how their framework is implemented. When something doesn't work as expected I see a lot of panicked faces, very few focused ones.
Imagine getting accused of 'propaganda' for being sceptical of an article published by an official press organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Patents are such a pain, I know someone that works in designing things for cars, and they need to actively avoid patents, things that are obvious and were patented you have to do not obvious things so you don't trip on them.
Thanks for the great tips. Right now most of these have a pretty big price tag, but I will look into them after some further study.
You don't need to prove that an experiment will not fail.
I agree with the bill. Using tiny rewards can certainly be used to influence kids (or adults, really.) Look at the way Facebook and Twitter have influenced the world.
They should have pumped more effort into the Web. Would have made it a real competitor in every way and no one would have cared about native apps and stores anymore.
I'm not sure I can say, as I learned Vim before Emacs. But you'll definitely have less chance of RSI
> The compiler is legally allowed to replace the null dereference with code that sends your porn collection to your mother, and set the reference to 42.

Although no sane implementation would do this.
I didn’t know that. But then again, I only moved to Berlin late last year and I came from the UK, which is much much worse.
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The lawsuit in the other comment doesn't involve Siemens though, hence "maybe they stole it from other company" might be more accurate.
I find it particularily morbid that both countries that seemingly fight over the tech leadership on thsi planet both have the death penalty. Makes it hard to make out the moral winner watching from afar :-( Also, given all the bad spying rep the US has, I am really not sure what is better: a US phone or a China phone... Both seem a very good way to get fucked over.
The first reason seems possible I guess, but not likely as being the only reasons. The second reason though should only imply that you lose the compression, not that you're unable to produce the file in the given format in the first place? What I'm referring is that I recall encoder tools outright rejecting high resolutions for older formats.
The maglev they built 17 years ago for a billion dollars?

China has been using maglevs for a long time.

The low-medium maglevs seem quite useful too:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/china-driverless-maglev-t...

Someday they’ll probably replace their 19,000 miles (soon 25,000) of high-speed rail with maglevs.

In the United States, people couldn’t be convinced to build high-speed rail and now the land is expensive.
The only “good” outcome of this is we get to know how pervasive surveillance affects behavior and whether the benefits outweigh the detriments. In other words does it result in a better or worse society overall. Even if it’s better overall I’d it worth the negative effects on affected populations?

It’s a living laboratory.
The level of "badness" required probably varies based on the company's needs. Those guys might have to make less popular decisions if they were in charge of, say, Radio Shack ten years ago. Or maybe different company needs just call for different kinds of CEOs.
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So when do we get to stop wringing our hands about the Israelis?

They've been there well over 100 years now, settlement by the Israelis started in the 1870s. Are they now native?

It's never going to be an easy thing to resolve. Ultimately, if you settle someone else's sovereign land, don't be surprised if you don't get to just claim it unless you've got the guns, tanks and bombers to back it up.
I also enjoyed that for a while. The replay value is not very high though, then again, at least when I bought it, the price wasn't high either.
Smaller than or equal to about 1 percent is fairly normal for high voltage lines, lower voltage lines carry more current for a given amount of power and will experience higher losses.
Are you suggesting that they had it translated specifically for that segment of the Chinese-language market, while explicitly deciding to stay away from China itself? That seems to be empirically false. The failure to seek trademark protection in China is not evidence for that intent, as it was apparently a result of a mistaken assumption.
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Wonder how the P30 mic is? I own the P20 and the thing I never noticed on any phone but completely hate on this phone is the mic. I'll go to concert and my girlfriend will take the same footage on her S8 and it sound great. The P20 totally melts down. Maybe a lack of dynamic gain? Not sure.
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Thanks for that link; I missed that news.

> The trademark does not mean that the company owns the phrase, or that it can ban anyone from using it. Disney filed the trademark upon the release of the original movie for clothing or footwear it sells in the United States, as a way to protect itself against other companies that might try to exploit the Disney brand.

These "trademark experts" have contradicted themselves there. The trademark prevents an African man from the race and culture that created the phrase, from selling clothing and footwear bearing that phrase. And I SMH at the claim that Hakuna Matata is a "Disney brand".
A propreiatry software is better than a bullshit opensource software. At least you know what you are getting into.
I was not accusing the OP but the entire media, for months we have China is bad stories on the first page daily, before that was all about the Saudi Arabia and before that there was Russia (I do not remember what was before that). I prefer to ask for the actual information, someone said there is a lawsuit but did not link anything so far, this is what I wanted, less speculation and a bit more facts.
There is no such thing as a dumb question and if there is one thing that I love about HN it is that people will take the time to answer questions.
If you want to flex your language muscles but still get an interesting cultural and historical experience try the less popular Central American countries like Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador or Nicaragua. I lived in HN for 3 years, and if you avoid the island of Roatan you will be fine. Of course, the majority of Central Americans fleeing to the USA right now are from Guatemala and Honduras so buyer beware.
The TransAtlantic Slave Trade was a state-sponsored enterprise on an international scale. What about that don't you understand?
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1) Couldn't get it to work

2) An explination would be much appreciated

3) You probably want to format this as code
(https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc)

4) Difference between this and youtube-dl? other than doing it without any dependencies.
It reveals the value Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen created in the GPL, how much market forces will tend toward monopoly, and how we've let up on resisting those trends.
Chromium/Chrome does not support HW video decoding on desktop Linux:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=463440

Patches exist to address it, though.
This seems weird to me. I was working for Sun at the end of the 90's,and everybody was running Solaris on their machines.

If McNealy or Zander was running something else, that would have been the exception.
Do not forget that Huawei is ahead with 5G. So with plenty of resources Huawei has shown to be the leader in one area and there is no reason to assume it cannot do that in other areas.
Huawei did the same thing. Started out with their phones being unlockable (not that it did much good, the hardware was hell to work with), then took that away. Even on existing hardware. That's when people in the consumer tech community figured out "okay, these clowns definitely can't be trusted". We didn't need Trump to tell us that!
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I don’t understand the apologists either. This is not a lovely democratic state it’s probably histories most successful authoritarian gangster state in modern history. A future with an ascendant China wielding global military power is not going to be nice for anyone.
Google translate provides:

"We specialize in non-pharmacological psychotherapy based on scientific theories explaining the human behavior of families and couples."

Flagged as spam.
It's not always going to be running at top speed.
> "how do we collect the referral fees?"

This is the underlying problem, and the reason why "disruptive" startups can be successful in the first place; making something more beneficial for the consumer in a big organisation can be at the expense of one of the individual units which can prevent it, even if the change would be advantageous for the business as a whole.
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High-speed rail also works well in China.

It’s the same size as the United States, which is about the size of Australia. There are only 25 million people in Australia though.
Craft beer taste better anyways.
And the modern prison system is also a state-sponsored enterprise on an international scale, particularly in the US and UK.

Slavery was never abolished in the US, only restricted.
I suspect the integration and matter of time exist in recent history. The question I struggle with is, what ought a neutral-good aligned individual do about it?
The paper linked to by aerophilic goes into that issue in some detail, but it does not lead to a sharp distinction, either - for one thing, the ballistic coefficient ranges over a couple of orders of magnitude, with smaller objects coming down sooner.

If we confine the discussion to circular orbits, it suggests that 100km is a better number than anything lower, but elliptic orbits can get away with lower perigees, which is a concern when the boundary of space is being defined for national territory purposes (e.g. spy satellites with a perigee over the nation being spied on.)
It will be less widespread and fewer engineers will push it forward.
That makes sense but kids being kids I’m sure they’d like a dual purpose toy. One they learn with but which they could also play/build with.
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I believe maintaining software is great way to level up some of the most important parts of software engineering.

* How do you design software so that it is easier to modify over time?

* What will your software need that isn't specific to the business features requested when it is being operated in production?

You severely limit your experience when you keep yourself from being around for the aftermath of your software 3-5 years later.
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Link to article explaining it: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/05/chemically-treated-w...
There's rumours of a vehicle that has somehow overcome the problem of air resistance and is able to go faster even than this train: "The Aeroplane". Maybe you've heard of it?
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this made me think, is the earth core a superconductor?
How is the mic for talking on the phone? I guess it might not matter since everyone is torturing everyone else with speaker phone and ear buds.
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why would Samsung or LG want to partner with Huawei?
One of the people promoted on this page is not like the others. Two projects, essentially zero work done (one is literally a single line in a readme file, the other a basic html page with a list of words), and yet already asking people for $100 per month to support her. Everyone else put in the work first. smh
Well, yes, but maybe the failure was more due to not many users being willing to accept that much vendor lock-in, rather than issues with Amazon's Android version?
And to fix that let's do what ?

a) spy on our citizens, on our alleys, use demagogy, propaganda and anti-science

b) do what we want others to do and we say we do

c) find a reason and just attack them(or similar shit), put our preferred government
How can I find out more about your project? I am in the area, and this sounds very appealing.
Oh yeah, DB is indeed extremely bad. Not really related to high speed trains, but I was relying on assistance to switch trains in germany three times (I am blind), and in all cases, nobody showed up despite me registering a day in advance.
In Austria, where I come from, I have been forgotten about exactly once in my whole life. Does tell you something about how well organized the germans apparently are.
It's worth noting that Wikileaks had requested help from the Pentagon in censoring these names, but the Pentagon refused.

Are you going to hold them accountable, or is this just a convenient stick to smack Assange with?

It's also interesting that, at least so far, no stories have surfaced about the grave consequences for these listed sources. Considering this would have been huge news, one might want to conclude that no smoke means no fire here.
Yes (more) computantional imaging is probably the next frontier. We already see the double and triple cameras (some times for depth info, some times for different FOV's) but I'm guessing N modules in some grid pattern + computation can emulate a much larger camera without making it much thicker like a single large sensor). I think I saw such a prototype if I remember correctly. If it works, it's also quite similar to that black hole imaging tech which is funny.

I'd also be happy to get a phone with a detatchable camera module you could bring when you need it. So long as it's much smaller and cheaper than a camera, it would still be better than carrying a compact camera and a phone (which was the problem these good cameras solved in the first place).
Everywhere from Nigeria to Lesotho basically.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35288650-the-next-factor...
I would expect so, as there's big money behind it.
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Yeah definitively, the US is no angel that's for sure but its still aligned with democratic values (at least for now).
I meant moral right too, of course the country has the right to regulate who and when anyone gets to visit. Thankfully as of the time of this post they're fine with you and I going there.

That said: our morals are clearly different and I will do nothing but mock any attempts of any individual to impose their morals on anyone else.
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If those companies were interested in investing the billions required for such a venture, they wouldn’t have gotten into this situation in the first place.
RIP the late Meego OS. Im still salty with how Nokia murder it. Its like a healthy beautiful baby just born and then the parent buried it alive to focus on their terminally ill older brother.

However, the parents cant handle the debt and commit suicide, entrusting older brother to his rich uncle.
Sure enough, the older bro didnt live long either. After a long coma, the plug was pulled on the older brother's life. Even his rich uncle cant save him.

What a waste of resource
I am very much in agreement with you.

At my previous place, after several times where the wheel was re-invented I asked one of my senior guys what did he think he got paid for.

Perhaps unsurprisingly the answer was to design features, write code, review code and advise support. Whether any of this delivered any value to the company was, seemingly neither here nor there and he'd held my position before I joined the company, so it's not like he never had to think about these things or at least he should've thought about those things but the code would testify that he hadn't.

Sadly, this is pretty common
It’s a very good question, and a long story. As far as I know still no one has a certain answer.
The back story is that in April 2017, if I remember correctly, all the contractors that worked for public companies were forced to be under the IR35 rule. This rule, in short, tells that the contractors are equiparable to permanent employees.
So they had to pay taxes as permanent employees, without the perks, like paid holidays, sick days and so on.
This caused a quite massive loss of public contractors, understandably.
From April next year they are implementing the same schema in the private sector, with the difference that it will be up to the employer to declare who is inside IR35 and who is not.
The mainstream theory is that employers will start putting everyone under IR35 to avoid problems with HMRC. Even if this won’t be the case at the beginning, after the first couple of high visibility cases in which hmrc punishes the employers for some wrong IR35 classification, all the others would want to avoid the risk and headaches and will classify everyone inside IR35.
We’ll see next year how it turns out, but I’m not very optimistic. Luckily for now I’m shielded, but I’m paying an eye watering amount of taxes...
The article mentions "designed top speed of 600 km per hour". But then a bit further it mentions "Now the prototype has achieved static levitation and is in good condition" (emphasis mine). That leaves me wondering what was the actual speed reached during testing and what will be the actual operational speed.

Don't get me wrong, I still find this project impressive.

But there's a fair amount of boasting going on as well. For example the French TGV boasted a measured record of 574 km/h. But that's on a (modified) test unit and a test track. Operational speed is about 320 km/h on most tracks.

Perhaps they simply haven't gotten to the testing/benchmark phase yet.
> You don't need to prove that an experiment will not fail.

You do before experimenting with the lives, livelihoods and quality of life of 350 million people.

Or, if not prove, at least provide some really compelling reasons why this time it's different.

FWIW, I think that a Georgist land value tax would be better than a straight wealth tax.
The only thing that’s ever worked for me to avoid these scenarios is getting all the relevant stakeholders physically in a room for a couple days and drawing mockups, looking at their systems, learning the domain lingo, running reports over their data, etc as we go. Otherwise the domain knowledge for a proper solution just isn’t there, even for a ‘simple’ project.

Unfortunately I also hated every minute of doing this and have switched to a back-end job where I never have to interact with a customer again!
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It is not an accident that successful tech companies that provide devices for their users control their own destiny from the hardware to the UI level, great examples Apple, Microsoft. You can team up with Google but then your destiny is controlled by them.
Only because Londoners in the area 1) see it happen all the time and 2) already took the same photos when they were young.

This local goes the same places the tourists do because the UK is beautiful and the foreign tourists I meet have good taste ;)
So basically a marathon but with enough extra gear and travel expenses that you'll never have have to worry about a poor person saying they did it too.
I use several devices, lately usually HTC or SONY. I run my own build based on a barebones cleaned up LineageOS ( no Lineage applications or many libraries ), just need the core OS and monthly security patches up to date. Applications are my own binaries, packages available through Termux, and from developers either through F-Droid, GitHub or XDA forums.

I only need LTE and very rarely WiFi, so Bluetooth and NFC if available on device are disabled and neutered. Devices are encrypted but hold no data other than that in use, all data is always kept on external encrypted cards, and those go up to a tera now, so no issues even with large, very large files. Makes no sense to me that people tie data to a device, be it laptop, smartphone, tablet or desktop.

The 'phone' part is just for emergencies; police, ambulance, that sort of thing. Otherwise even a mid-range device works as a fully fledged laptop substitute for me, can be my main computer, and has for years.

Edit : Most of what I use is open source, and no adware, spyware, analytics, or crash reporters anywhere on my system. The current software business model based on data mining needs to die. Also, a decent web browser does, and better, what 90% of so-called 'apps' do.
South Korea and Japan have been allies of the US for quite a long time and have zero reason to think that would ever change.
Shit, I misread you! - "started to grind my teeth for one year on after that night." - for one year after, not after one year.

OK, my stupid. I accept what you say. I genuinely regret it didn't give you the magic I got.
> I really don't see the point of wealth taxes

I think the article actually mentioned that when it wrote of 'soaking the rich.' That's the real point I think: envy.

I'm very open to the idea of some form of asset tax; I think that they can make a lot of sense. But the reason shouldn't be to drag a few lucky folks down: it should be to try to make a better economy and world for everyone.
> Please be careful about telling strangers they may have a mental disorder — just like a false positive on a medical test, it can induce anxiety and cost a lot of money to investigate.

Thanks for someone telling me that I may have this problem, I felt relieved a lot. I am not a failure and some things that many people struggle with are harder for me.

Later I got a diagnosis (I, well, procrastinated for 2 years with seeking professional help), at 33. I wish I knew that 15 years earlier, it would impact some of my career choices, and very likely - stress would have caused less harm.
Why would you go to jail??