skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s okay at least for serving images (as long as you use workers): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791660 from CloudFlare CEO. It’s not clear to me if piping terabytes over terabytes of, say, opaque data would violate anything.

This is a clever exploit none the less (not a pejorative).
I think its a case of diminishing returns - yes there is sucky legacy software everywhere, but the ROI was much greater when introducing software in a space where there was none, or the incumbent system hasn't met growing needs.
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I have question. If you don't care about one out of 20 of your friends, family and neighbors drying, people you know. Why do you pretend to care about some out of work schmuck you don't know offing himself?

Seems like your argument is trying to abuse the fact that I care.
Pretty hard to hide excess death. That's precisely the point of this chart. You can miscount Covid deaths, but it's pretty hard to miscount deaths overall unless there's a fraudulent cover-up. Deaths are all recorded and tracked. Bodies don't just disappear.
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There's another step that could be added there, too: After the ALTER VIEW, V could be slowly incrementally updated over however long you need to back-populate AmtGBP, and the views will continue to just work the whole time. Once done, V_A can be simplified to remove the ISNULL and Amt, then Amt dropped from V. That way you don't get build-up of cruft over the years, and the experience isn't interrupted for the migration.

(Possibly a bad idea for currency conversion for various reasons, but just wanted to mention it since this type of migration may be just right for other data)
Consolidation involves mergers, not bankruptcies. I agree that frackers were causing problems for the oil market, but this isn't consolidation, it's OPEC trying to drive the frackers of of business, maybe even make the US a net importer again and regain some political clout.
Not likely to be cheap, but the rumor for this fall's iPhone update is 4 phones, the "standard" model coming in small and medium, and the "pro" model in medium and large.

Unfortunately what passes for the small size isn't as small as I'd like it to be, with the screen diagonal supposedly dropping from 5.8 in the iPhone 11 Pro down to 5.4" in the new base model.

Overall size is probably similar to the iPhone SE (2020) except with the screen being much larger to cover the forehead and chin. At least it's an improvement over the current situation where all three iPhones 11 are physically bigger than the 8.

Also bummed that the smallest size won't have an option for the best camera setup like this year's do. Ah well. We'll see for sure in September.
Not everyone wants to learn, and there's no ambiguity double-clicking the home button; whereas sometimes a gesture may not register.

My parents prefer physical buttons over gestures. If Apple releases a "max" version of the 2020 SE, I'll be upgrading them to it.
The meat we get from factory farms is a pandemic risk, too
If you're already satisfied by your experience on the phone, and you don't have to relearn anything, that could be a pretty compelling reason to go with the SE.
Interesting definition of general availability.

All the technical pages still seem to carry the message:

> This product or feature is in a pre-release state and might change or have limited support

Pricing directs you to "contact sales"

If you do want to try it out, it seems you need to fill out a google docs form.

I don't have a great idea about what the product does, but it seems to require use of an active google cloud account.

A multi-cloud platform product, having a hard dependency on a single vendor, seems like a non-starter.
Doesn't that defeat the main purpose of going multi-cloud in the first place?
Something has got to be screwy. The iPhone has a TDP of 6W and a clock speed of 2.5GHz. The MBP has boost clocks of 5GHz and a 45W TDP.
If they named it something like “Pinochet” or PIZZAGATE, I’m sure we’d be getting completely different responses from the same people who think naming a project after a child sacrifice idol is “funny” or “cool“.
Geekbench is a fairly understood metric isn’t it?

It at least attempts to simulate ‘general’ workloads.
In the US, the EIA provides info on stockpiles:

https://www.eia.gov/petroleum/supply/weekly/pdf/table1.pdf

But in terms of total capacity, it's tricky, because you can turn the tankers that currently transport oil into floating stores, convert water tanks, salt mines, and other storage media into petroleum storage, etc.

We're probably at about 60% capacity or so here in the US, we haven't even filled up the SPR yet.
Oneplus still releases security updates to oneplus 3. 8 just got released. Its not universal for android not to be updated but I think Samsung has created a bad rep.
Took me a while to realize this also applies to the magic trackpad and integrated trackpad on macbooks, but it is nice to be able to customize it. The trackpads even have two clicks the second being a "deep" click which requires even more pressure than a regular click.
Apple A processors are continuously performs excellent since Apple A7. Significantly, A7 is almost first ARMv8 SoC that released before 2 years from first ARMv8 Snapdragon(that's worst SD810).
> "It's cool that Apple made a cheap phone"

It's only cheap relative to Apples other phones, it's still outside of the range I'd consider reasonable. Although it seems the reason most people spend so much on phones is to get better cameras? Which I'm not particularly bothered about - maybe it's worth it for that.
Beating the laptop is impressive, but the top of the line part was unnecessary and counter productive. More expensive CPUs often have more cores running at a slower speed. For example, the bottom end 16" MacBook Pro comes with a 2.6 GHz CPU and the top end one comes with a 2.4 GHz CPU. Yes, there is Turbo Boost which can in some cases turn off cores in exchange for higher clock frequencies, but good luck getting much out of that given Apple's thermal design.
I don’t find getting into the multitasking switcher meaningfully harder on the newer devices— it’s just a swipe-up-and-hold gesture, which I’ll occasionally time wrong and end up at the home screen, but not often enough to be “painful” (and it’s just another swipe away if I do mess up).

What is vastly better on the X-series devices, though, is switching between your two or three most recent apps. Just swipe left and right at the bottom of the screen (on the bar)— this lets you flip between apps in the order that they’re in the switcher. This means I very rarely actually enter the full multitasking switcher in normal use.

(The other, minor benefit of the new-style gestures is that they’re all cancellable and map directly to finger movement, but that’s more of a “feel” thing than a major usability win. Makes it feel Apple-y, though.)
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Why? Taking it at face value, I assume that they sell more phones than laptops, and can put more resources into the phone.

I mean, maybe you're suggesting they should just use the phone CPU for a laptop, but I guess it's not suitable?
What exactly about $current_year stops an Apple-related blog being relevant when Apple still exists, makes products worthy of scrutiny, and is one of the biggest companies in the world?

I fail to see what it is about $current_year that makes careful, cogent, and balanced discourse about Apple irrelevant.
Physically? Eventually all the containers would be full, then the pipelines would back up, then the ships would be full and lack any place to unload, then the loading terminals at oil producing countries would be full, then their pipelines would be full, then finally any buffer at the well head would be full, and ultimately the well owners would be forced to stop pumping or else place the oil somewhere other than into the system (on the ground or into the sky by burning it).
And then you can regenerate all your files every time you make a change - the trade off isnt worth it for one off sites that generally sit at zero traffic.

Cheaping out on things that need actual support wont be fixed by making it a static html page.
It's strange that we have yet to see a phone (from anybody, not just Apple) that's the size of the old SE but with a full bezel-less display. I feel like so many people would want one. When you've got 100% screen-to-body ratio, you don't need the screen to actually be all that big, for it to be "big."
Synthetic benchmarks are extremely unreliable.
Do you believe this lockdown can last for a year?
"The new SE/2"

Now I'm wondering if anyone ever made a Mac SE/30 run OS/2.
Specint benchmarks conducted by Anandtech show the A13 going toe-to-toe with the 9900K [0], although x86 still has a decent lead for floating point.

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro... (scroll down to the 2nd last plot, look at the right half)
I don't think I can justify, no matter how good the hardware is, relative to the value of the phone compared to other leaders in the market, buying a phone in mid 2020 without 5G support. It lends its self I guess to my opposition to buying every 1 or 2 years.
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It's pretty easy to notice with the magic trackpad—it loses its ability to be "clicked" when it loses power/when you turn it off.

(The trackpad on the laptop does as well, but I feel like you're just less likely to try clicking the trackpad on a macbook/MBP if the computer's not on. Whereas with the external one, you'll notice it when you go to pick it up/move it around and it doesn't accidentally click in your hand.)
> This is why the assumption that “open source code is more likely to be closely audited for vulnerabilities” is not true...

That is a safe assumption, otherwise you'd have to believe that non-open source code is more closely audited - at greater expense, because businesses secretly prioritize security.
I've upgraded my iPhone five times, just recently to the SE, and each time it's been exclusively for the camera. Literally exclusively, since in many other respects the functionality is going in reverse (loss of home button, touch ID, headphone port, etc.) I swallow it all for a better camera.
Interesting read. Not sure I agree, though not my area expertise.

The idea that we’re hitting full saturation, or that startups will have to push into market vs pulling sales from market gaps assumes that we’re reaching full saturation across the board. That the reach of everyone being online also means they’re all online in the same markets / products / verticals.

I’ve worked most my career consulting as a software engineer, primarily split in 4-5 business verticals. The giants in those spaces (hiring, healthcare, cosmetics, etc) have 8-15% market share. And there’s constantly turn over where people for whatever reason exit and return to the customer pool.

So while from an economic and academic standpoint this seems pretty solid, I have a hard time accepting it practically.

Again, anything I know about this kind of thing is peripheral knowledge, so very likely wrong. would love some insight :)
To be fair, different people wanted different things. Some care about cheaper way inside the walled garden, some clanged into their SE for the small size, others keep their old iPhone for the headphone jack, and so on.

To me, this has always been the issue with that ecosystem. If the one or two devices Apple makes fits your preferences, then that's awesome. Otherwise, you're shit outta luck. With Android, there's phones for everyone. Want a hardware keyboard? Check out Blackberry or F(x)tec. Want audio jack with a nice DAC, check out LG. Want stylus support? Check out Samsung Note or Moto Stylus. Gaming phone? Check out Razer or ROG. And the list goes on. There's a phone for everyone.
Here's an interesting article. There's significant health care underutilization in the SF Bay Area due to preemptive cuts of elective procedures to prepare for a surge that didn't happen, and now health care workers are being cut:

https://abc7news.com/health/the-surge-that-never-came-leads-...
there is a big difference in the cost of static hosting and CDN (think Cloudfront / S3) for static stuff and running an active piece of hardware for static stuff that doesn't change. Like orders of magnitude. Sure for small sites it's not that much but it's still orders of magnitude.

also the answer to a large number of my interview questions ends up being figuring out how you can just effeciently serve the stuff from a CDN/Blob Storage. You can scale the crap out of this for quite cheap.
Off-topic: Do you want to talk about your side project? I'm curious what is costing 1-4k/mo. Is it hosting costs, or are you paying others for work?
It's baffling because top end x86 CPUs consume significantly more power and run at significantly higher clock speeds. If these benchmarks are actually valid it suggests that we might see ARM ousting x86 on the desktop too sooner rather than later, which would be massive considering PCs have been x86 based for about 4 decades.
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I had (I think 2 different) windows phones-- something like the XV6600 [0] that actually ran some flavor of Windows Mobile OS.

I liked it. It was the first phone I had that could actually browse real websites. Badly, but it worked.

Apple succeeded not because they had features never before seen (though the capacitive touch screen was critical) but a far superior UI. The windows phone worked, but it was a pain to use.

[0] http://pocketpccentral.net/audv_xv6600.htm
Most doctors aren't surgeons though.
are you swiping left/right over the “home indicator” at the bottom of the screen?

this is an interaction that not many people know about, but it is so much faster than swiping up, and then choosing the right app.
Or just not extract them?
I want to point out that E2E encryption on Web doesn't make your conversation more secure than regular HTTPS encryption without E2E encryption. The core to the argument here is the threat model. The whole point of using E2E on any conversation is to make sure that even the service provider cannot read your conversation. It's very clear that the threat model is againsting the service provider. However, the very same service provider of your conversation channel also provides the underlying encryption application on Web. That means, if the service provider wants to act evil, it's always possible to sneak you an application that steals your conversation by simply not applying E2E encryption, or just eavesdropping before encrypting.

The root of the problem is that Web application doesn't have a root of trust. As long as this problem is not addressed, E2E encryption on Web will always be meaningless.
There's no disputing preferences. I still feel weird about face ID, and would rather have buttons.
the gesture that replaced it is significantly more likely to cause repetitive stress injuries
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The OP may be referring to Snus, which is often referred to as Snuff.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snus
I have been using Sailfish for years which uses swipe gestures similar to the iPhone X et al. I recently had to get an iPhone for work and all they had was the 8. Getting used to the button was really hard.

I have found myself reaching for the home button when using Sailfish though. I am completely convinced that the gesture UI is superior, but I couldn't relate to the whole not reaching for the home button thing mentioned in the article.
You can kill them. Just like processes on your computer!
The most annoying part of Apple is that they make excellent products but their "fandom" talks about the appearance of the computer for the first good chunk of the review.
It isn't just luck, far from it, but it is also luck. All the skill and determination in the world might not do you any good without some luck to come with it.

Of curse getting that skill and determination in the first place is largely luck based so there is that as well.
AWS business is still mostly megacorps buying EC2 farms for hosting regular-ish IT apps, it's not startup or Eng driven although obviously a lot of services are there to bring them in.
There's an echo of early 2000s here. The PowerPC G5 and mobile G4s were humiliated by x86, but the faithful (myself included) clung on because of OS X's strengths over Windows. Now Apple's CPUs are humiliating Intel, and yet again I stick with a Mac because of macOS's strengths over iOS.
But relatively few desktop computing applications are single threaded.
A hotel being cleaned is a person you don't know entering your room every day and breathing all over everything. I'd much rather a single house where you can do a deep clean yourself on the day you move in and then be sure nobody except yourselves have entered the house until you've left.
Unfortunately Clojure’s recur only works for self tail calls.
>They are trying to compete with Azure, which is sold in the boardroom - not to developers.

Looks like an Oracle style approach (couldn't find that famous Larry's quote that developers don't grasp the concerns what he is discussing with the C-suites), and this GCP offering is the first big one under the new GCP leadership transplanted from Oracle. This is probably the new look and feel of GCP going forward.
Citation? This is bullshit.
I honestly don't understand what direct benefit that I, a consumer, get from 5G (mmwave or normal spectrum)? My 4G device already can stream 1080p video at high quality. For every use case that I have with my phone, 5G doesn't appear to offer any material improvement.

Sure, the carriers can make more out of their bandwidth, but that's not really something I'm willing to pay for.

And, it's not like 4G is going anywhere, it'll be continued to be supported for a long time.

Actually, considering the impact on battery life that 5G has on consumer devices... I don't think I actually want it, to be honest. Don't get me wrong, I won't resist a natural upgrade when I upgrade my iphone 8 in 2-3 years, but I'm not seeking it out either.
The convention for that distance is actually length in most semiconductor texts. The width of a transistor is the cross-cut distance across the direction of current flow.

The below might be inaccurate. It's been a while since I last took semiconductors.

Decreasing length increases speed because there's less parasitic capacitance between the gate and the current channel underneath it, so less charge needs to be pumped onto the gate to turn the mosfet on.

An npn mosfet turns on by putting a positive charge on the gate that pushes away positive holes and pulls negative electrons into the channel under the gate. This turns the channel region from a depleted region that behaves like undoped silicon which is an insulator to a region filled with negative charges like n-doped silicon that can conduct current. But to do this, you need to put charge onto the gate, The larger the area under the gate the more charge you need to put on it and the longer it takes, or in other words the parasitic capacitance increases. This parasitic capacitance is proportional to W x L, but since decreasing W (the cross-section of current flow) decreases the current going through the MOSFET when it's turned on the approach before FinFETs was to use more precise etching technologies to decrease L.

The problem with decreasing L though is when the MOSFET is off, the small distance of "undoped silicon" under the gate isn't enough to stop current from leaking past it. You could decrease this leakage by decreasing W, but then when the MOSFET is on the max current is lower and that slows down other components down the line. This on current has to go on to charge up other gates and turn on other components.

What a FinFET does is ask, instead of turning on a MOSFET channel by having the gate act on it from just one side, why not have the gate act on it from 3 sides by sticking it out of the silicon substrate and surrounding it by the gate. Now, we can have small L and small W to decrease leakage, as well as a larger on current that's equivalent to what a regular mosfet with a larger W would have.

I'm not actually sure what this would do to the parasitic capacitance I mentioned earlier, since this should increase the "width" of the channel that the gate is contacting. Maybe the 3D configuration actually ends up reducing this capacitance? 3D EM fields is a whole other beast compared to 2D, and we're also talking about nanometer scales and semiconductor materials here. But it definitely allows you to pack transistors closer together.
We are actually working on a `mix phx.gen.auth` generator. Check Dashbit's blog about it:

https://dashbit.co/blog/a-new-authentication-solution-for-ph...
You know you can get cameras now without a phone bundled with them.
With a higher power target I don't see why this architecture couldn't have more cores (but I also have no idea what I'm talking about) - looks like it currently has 2 "big" cores and 4 "small" cores.
I knew this was true, as you can't click it when battery is off, but I still don't get it: how does it work, and why?
"they are far away so they are more likely to survive global disasters"

Far away from the globe?
I'm assuming you are a developer / engineer with what follows, but you are likely not a decision maker with purchasing authority in the type of company they are targeting with these posts. I also don't think it's in Google's interests to market this in clear engineering speak because they are after consulting dollars as well.

Being an developer myself however, yeah it's difficult to to get at the technical substance of what any of this means, as there is certainly lots of vaporware out there <cough>... <watson>... <cough>..
> you'll be a lot more comfortable than in most alternatives.

That certainly wasn't on display here. The equivalent Java program (to use everyone's favorite punching bag) would be a tenth the length.

The value of SQL is easily demonstrated in a blog entry of less than 500 words. Now that I've had this introduction, I can't imagine ever thinking "oh this would be a great place to use COBOL!"

Fantastic and educational article, however.
Apple is at least a node ahead and isn’t using a 5 year old µarch. Also, Geekbench is a relatively small test and is not be testing the systems to their fullest extent in terms of thermal capacity or memory depth.
It puts more strain on the tendon which is what ends up getting injured first. If you have both types of phones go do each one 1000 times in 20 minutes each on separate days. See how your hand feels after each one.
AWS is sold bottom-up so Google/Oracle/IBM/Cisco/etc. are focusing on the top-down "let's force-feed steaks and strippers to the CIO until he signs" channel. Ultimately some companies buy one way and some buy the other but they will all adopt cloud.
I'd say it's visible from Seattle on any clear day, it's just clear days are exceptional (outside of summers).

It's out most of the summer.
It’s a $10 now, yea maybe it’s goes to $20 in a year but with the stockpile now, I don’t see $30 happening again soon. Not a year soon anyhow. But I have no idea, I’d happily defer to others on this.
One claimed (unsupported) anecdote about one person = "US culture is fucked", now?
Do mobile chips focus less on floating point for some reason? Could that explain the seemingly massive difference in perf/watt?
What is insurance for? To cover risk of something bad happening. The bigger the pool paying for it, the less impact to any one person to cover all the risk.

Now imagine that was scaled up to a whole country. That's New Zealand. Check out the Accident Compensation Corporation. All medical costs related to accidents are automatically covered!

But who pays the costs! Everyone, via levies. How much? $2000 on a $150K IT income.

But how do you control costs? Who is entitled? Who is at fault? Surprise! It's a no-fault accident insurance system that covers all accidents.

In exchange for that, we gave up our right to sue in accidents for medical damages. Why pay a lawyer when they're not required?
Is there Terraform support?