skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely. And I don't think it will be difficult at all for Apple to crush Intel in benchmark performance per watt—let alone real world performance with their more targeted silicon.

The interesting question is going to be how Apple's GPU stacks up to the competition. We know from the A13X that it is already quite good and I fully expect it to exceed Intel embedded graphics. But what about higher end machines? How long till Apple GPUs can take the fight to discrete graphics?
This is so nasty in multiple levels, not only targeting (ok, Facebook prefers the verb 'connecting') possibly desperate people with false medical promises but also the fact that if a user clicks on the ad, the receiving website now for sure knows of your medical condition and can do as they please with that info.
Not enough emojis.
>In what way is that possibly good?? At best its a
deliberate mischaracterization that obscures the number
of serious manufacturing flaws. At worst its fraudulent
accounting.

At best it's not a deliberate mischaracterization. It depends on the judgment call of whether the repairs would otherwise be covered under warranty.
I'm really glad somebody decided to write this up in a more informal way; I remember being interested in pijul back when that paper was basically the closest thing the tool had to documentation of any kind. I was curious enough to actually go read up on category theory, and learned a ton doing so, but still mostly bounced off the paper -- I came away with some basic intuitions but still felt like there was a lot I was missing.
For people using network level ad blocking, do you ever run into annoyances where there's a site you want to access and just can't? Mostly links that route through an analytics network. First time you click on a twitter link for example, or some referrer store links. And once you're stuck, there's normally nothing you can do. At least on the browser I can temporary turn off an extension, but I've found that network level blockers get in the way sometimes.
According to Ming Chi Kuo, who is one of the more accurate Apple prognosticators, the iPad will be moving to the low entry level price/high performance chip strategy of the iPhone SE later this year.

>Kuo predicts that the releases will "follow iPhone SE's product strategy." Specifically, he says that the models will be affordable, and adopt Apple's "fast chips" similar to how the iPhone SE used the chip found in the flagship iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro models from the fall of 2019.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/05/14/108-inch-ipad-exp...

It would certainly be interesting to see Apple apply this same strategy to an entry level laptop.
Nokia n770 was mostly there. n900 was there. If we'd stuck with that as an alternative instead of having microsoft kill it all smartphones would be so much better. A real aternative that didn't suck and treat users as product really would have slowed if not prevented the ios v android race to the bottom of user hostility.

Which does one think is worse? Apple or Google? Becuase there's no way either of those are in any sense "good"
If the cheaper capital is cheaper because it’s more restrictive.
> I do think the system has proven itself to fail at meeting the high ideals that some of the founders professed to have. The system has proven itself to be highly corruptable, the checks and balances built in to the system have failed, and much of the Constitution is widely ignored or reinterpreted to mean whatever the people in power want it to mean.

It arguably failed so long ago that virtually nobody notices. For the first ~century, corporations were allowed only in the public interest. To some extent, that reflected outrage at the excesses of corporations chartered by the English Crown. But there were also concerns about the concentration of money and power.

But that began to fail in the mid 1800s, with the rise of the railroad corporations, and their growing political power. And it ended with the 14th amendment and some Supreme Court opinions, which granted many citizenship rights and legal protections to corporations.
Clicked on the link that Whole Foods workers will do a nationwide strike on Tuesday . . .

One of their demands ? hazard pay of double the current hourly wage for employees who show up to work during the pandemic . . .

oh yeah, right. Managements answer ? Why don't we just shut 'em all down till the pandemic is over and rehire who we choose ? That's a lot cheaper than paying double time . . .
I've found just blocking the news feed to be helpful. I can still do events and messenger without any ads being shown or the addictive feed
Milton Glaser’s brilliant last year
Fwiw, I always found the "Hide Ad" functionality within fb and other places working okay.
I do that for a few minutes in 5-10 ads and things get better quick.
“Last week, I posted about my breast cancer diagnosis on Facebook. Since then, my Facebook feed has featured ads for “alternative cancer care.””

In my experience, cookies and browsing history influences facebook ads more than the text in posts. For example any links sent via messenger or whatsapp or products on amazon.

Could it be the case that the authors browsing history is actually what is driving these ads? For example, if the author is an expert on pseudo science it seems natural that they would research fake cures at some point.
Reduced hours still doesn’t bring in more money if they need it. But if you can trade automation or outsourcing for human labor, where is the tipping point where it just makes sense to outsource?
Progress has been happening in our economy for over 200 years now. There is always the next boogeyman that is going to ruin the economy, yet it never materializes.

And if automation does in fact cause harm the way you suggest it will, and it might, then we do what we must as a society to alleviate that issue. Trying to hold back the inevitable is a bad economic strategy.
Wow, I am pretty sure I had some of these, parasitic power would NOT work, I had it on a scope and everything. What a pain in the butt that was! Why not just give these mostly cloned parts their own honest name and part number?
Considering the other stores near me having implemented this, I don't think I'm the one being unreasonable. Meanwhile the same store still has employees offering to bag groceries for people, which means two employees standing near you and touching your food instead of one. If these measures were anything other than theatre pandering to the fearful, they'd stop offering to bag groceries for people. And for that matter, they'd get rid of the guy standing at the door too, or put him behind some plexiglass and have him signal people with semaphores or something. As it is, they have everybody shopping there walking next to the door guy for no good reason.

> Not everyone is out to get you.

Obviously they're not "out to get me", but I appreciate the subtle insinuation that I'm the one who's paranoid.
So, dumb question, why can't Intel contract with TSMC then?
Yeah, a lot has happened since 1840. Two world wars. During the second of which the British and the USA were allied with China against Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese war. After which of course Mao Zedong came into power and orchestrated the death of upwards of 45 million of his own countrymen through famine and murder.

Great history lesson. I'm not sure what any of that has to do with the younger generations in HK suffering their freedoms, and perhaps human rights, being stripped away in 2020.

Yeah, good thing China "has nuclear". /s
Why would it not be you?

If I replace a single one of your neurons with a mechanical replacement, are you still you? What if I replace half? All?

If you walk across a room, are you still you? What if I break you down, and reassemble you at the other side of the room, using the same atoms? What if I only use half the original atoms? What if I freeze you, move you across the room, and then dethaw you?
Ask HN: I want to make school more afforadable
Hello,

I'm looking to leverage my software developer background in order to make school (higher education) more affordable. Are there any groups/projects already going on to help this cause?

I'm not looking to be paid, but am looking for volunteer work.
I just bought a bunch of cheap indoor/outdoor weather sensors, I'd imagine they might apply.
I was in Kosovo in 2010 as a tourist and I felt very safe, but it depends on who you are and with who you stay with, I'm sure.
Whats app was my non-fb alternative :( of course they own that now too
"Value". I mean yes you can if you are antirez but lets stop glorifying software developers as most of them dont provide any value to anyone except themselves. Plus fixing 30 kitchen sinks a month is a lot of value to me.
Isn’t it amazing how many products get shipped these days, where products with this level of polish are barely noteworthy entrants into a market of hundreds.
For me, I was using them as environmental sensors for an aquaponic setup (water more often when it’s hotter)
The location of'neowise' is shown in Stellarium today (near the Moon) for those using it.
We want our 401k's to continue to grow, we like investing in the stock market (for those who can), but we don't like the intrusion of privacy.

We want opposite things that can't co-exist, or can they? I'm certainly not for this, not one bit.
Where is the mentioned original baseline python game I wonder?
Bypass Optimizely impression tracking for saving time and profit
If you don't think masks work, then why do you think Japan is sitting around 8 deaths per million (with no significant lockdown), while the USA is at 416?

Masks aren't the only possible explanation--it could be weather, or contact tracing (which may be unintuitively effective due to heterogeneity), or generally meticulous hygiene, or something else. They're my first guess, though.
Chemical ones are way more difficult than physical ones, so I guess among the three, the archive of touch will show up earlier than others. Both smell and taste involves complicated bio-chemical process which thus involves hard engineering problems.

Similar to this, movie theaters want to provides more detail of the film as a non-replaceable experience to customers. So far what they can do are no more than shaking chairs according to actions scenes.
Oh absolutely, I think that is the key thing. Personally I'd never get into a transporter such as they are portrayed in Star Trek - what comes out the other end may well be a perfect reconstruction, and think it is me, and behave to the outside world as if it is me. But would there be a continuity of conscious experience? Or am I dead and a facsimile is now in my place?

Incidentally, this is why I can't take Roko's Basilisk at all seriously - a future simulation of me is not me. Well, it;s one reason anyway.
I use to not care about conspiracy theories and pseudoscience. I found it funny even, until my mother got breast cancer and some heartless guys tried to sell her lithoterapy (stone you put in water before drinking that water, stone you have to wear to sleep and all this stuff).

Well as this "therapy" was really dangerous, there were a lot of articles on the danger and that and my insistence managed to keep her from that. She has now recovered with chirugucal operation and hormone therapy.

I then followed up on that, discovered something called zététique[0], basically applying scientific method to all claims. It worked quite well for me.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%A9t%C3%A9tique
The Money Laundry: Tracking Criminality of the Banking Industry
If advertising changes consumer behaviour, as Facebook insists (to advertisers), it is quite literally killing people, by allowing these ads on their platform.
You're holding money to a far higher standard (everyone? all the time?) than any of these self-help techniques are held to. I suspect that's because you know it works better.

If someone is reading 'books on how to get rich' then they're not looking to get mega-yacht wealthy. They're looking for financial security.
Ask HN: Have you gotten an interview based on your open source contributions?
Has a recruiter ever reached out to you because of your open source contributions?
Reduced hours leads to either the ability to work more jobs, or achieve more education, or achieve more leisure, or some other alternative. In all cases, you are better off if you make the same amount of money and work fewer hours.

Automation is going to happen whether min wage is $8 or $12 or $15, it is just an inevitability. But, the US has never had high unemployment due to technology making us more productive. Those who worked certain jobs would have to find different work, but that doesn't mean that there won't be work for them.
Fascinating, thanks for sharing that.

FYI the last link on that page, for the faith thing, seems to be a domain farm or scam or something now.
> The only limit, according to this view, is if inflation starts to rise, in which case the solution is to increase taxes.

But that's the problem. Spend too much, and you'll be paying for it later, with either ruinous inflation or ruinous taxes.
US sells out assets and spends the money on "stuff" rather than creating new assets. That's the opposite of "wealthier".
I struggle with depression and anxiety and receive a mix of ads on Facebook for various antidepressants and therapy services as well as bullshit unlicensed medical devices and other crap.

It's pretty depressing itself. I'm not going to be susceptible to these suggestions but I'm sure some desperate, suffering people are. It's sick.
I'm looking into the safe stack for F#. I'm no functional nut but like the error checking and concise code you get. F# is well integrated with the .net world.

I've not made the move but it's the most promising stack I've looked into.
Article loads fine with ublock
This affects temperature sensors/parts bought from un-official distributors like ebay or AliExpress, not digikey, farnel, etc. Perhaps I've been too lucky in my career and practiced EE for work, but who would you ever go to ebay instead of digikey?? <mind blown>

Digikey certainly has a premium, but their speciality is small numbers/cut tape/etc and they have a small order size which makes them ok for hobby work, and I've used them for small production runs when I didn't want to end up with a ton of excess materials.

Makes you wonder what other junk is out there, and what purchasing guy figured he'd save $10 and get it from ebay...?
> What makes it so appealing? The answer may have something to do with the game’s history

Or maybe, you know, it's about candy.
Ask HN: Advanced Linux users, which distribution do you run? Why?
This is for the technically competent Linux users.

Which distribution(s) do you run on your desktops/laptops/servers?

Why did you choose them?

What problems do you face with them and what changes would you like them do make?
An honest UI might use the word “echo” rather than “retweet”.
> N-character limit is still a determiner of Twitter (poisonous) discourse quality

Is this an assumption or is there evidence?

I can see why at first glance that would seem true, but I also see conspiracy theories spread with or without character limits. What seems to do better for discourse is not char limits, but rather enforcing limits on misinformation and hate speech.
Lightweight, open-source, universal paper wallet generator
Would be nice if they could also say how many people work for the TSA, how many were hospitalized, and how many died. 1000 by itself is a meaningless number. Geography is also important in epidemiology

So sick of the media picking click bait numbers and never telling the whole story, and most times the truth for that matter... They seem to be the real underlying problem in contemporary society, the thing that needs to be dealt with most, swiftly and directly.
You're right in that Browser + uBlock Origin is a very common configuration, in fact, it is my own personal configuration. However, as far as I can tell, this domain is not blocked by any of the default lists, and uBlock Origin ships parts of its own assets from this domain.[1]

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/search?q=jsdelivr
>The US already lost the DRAM industry, the disk industry, the display panel industry, most of the small component industry, and the consumer electronics industry. In ten years, the US won't be able to make electronics in volume.

Welcome to Europe, I guess.
how do you do that? I had considered making a chrome extension to always remove the div, but instead I've just been off Facebook for a decade.

I've made one for a few months to communicate with Gen-Xers and Europeans in some special planning group here and there. Then I download and delete. Always use a new email address or new phone number for the next profile, although lately Facebook will block your account within hours if you do that, it is extremely creepy. They must be so smug that their antispam provisions coincide with their social graph vampirism.
Indoor/outdoor temp sensors. Anything that needs a cheap temp sensor. Really handy since they just steal power from the bus (parasitic) so you don't need to run extra wires for power.
>as most of them dont provide any value to anyone except themselves

How do you explain software devs getting paid without providing any value?
There is a leakage issue with plastic waste, and a bunch ends up in the ocean, in the wild where animals eat it, in the water table and so on.
> If Tesla took me to court over it, I’d suspect the publicity would easily make up for the legal fees!

What does this mean?
Or they put you to sleep in a way where you have no memory and place the bug inside your body. You can go on like that forever. So leave your doors unlocked because you can't ever be 'safe' right? Obviously not.

There's a scale from dead easy to more difficult to very dificult. Easier to get you is a bigger problem. Cheap & easy to prevent - well why wouldn't you? It's asymetric.

Wouldn't you feel hilariously stupid if someone modified your camera circuit when interecepting your laptop and you actually didn't stick a post-it over it to thwart their dastardly plans.

The point here is making the kind of claims made about LEDs and camera circuits is really, really easy when telling other people what is not a risk. When you carry that risk - ie "all possible models and other threat vectors" suddenly you should not be so sure anymore. A physical cover is better, easier, cheaper and basically infallible for what it is advertised to do. Asymetric payoffs are worth noting. A genunine plausible risk scenarios are all you need to take a /trivial/ mitigation step.

Apple making trivial mitigation steps harder is really, really, really stupid. In fact, beyond merely stupid, it's unwittignly and incompetently user-hostile. (Unless you think they're design process has been infiltrated by the NSA or something, which I guess is at least possible, but I think it unlikely in the face of utterly incompetent idiocy - which Apple do display from time to time).
He even has emojis for the "avatar"...
> and charging you a bunch of money as essentially a paid friend

A friend of mine is a therapist, and through discussions with him about his job, I'm not sure anymore this is quite accurate. A friend may have other agendas, like maintaining their own image and status, or may unintentionally gossip, or just may not be appropriate to cover some subjects with. I now view a therapist as someone I'd pay to actually be outside of my circle of friends, as someone trusted in a completely different way to discuss questions and help process. Or perhaps, metaphorically, like having CI to test and a rubber duck to debug, before you deploy something to production.

I also appreciated reading your story, your determination to work together, and the advice from this HN crowd. I hope and pray it goes better for all involved.
For the most part I was unable to decipher your comment. At least insofar as to how it provides any evidence whatsoever that either of the men are spies.

All you seem to have said is that one of men is involved with North Korea (a close China ally, so I'm not sure how that supports your argument) and that "NGO is typical spy cover in China".

Hardly compelling.
I have several for homebrewing - monitoring mash, sparge, and fermentation temps.
Another professional EE here.

I never expect random chips bought off AliExpress/eBay/Amazon/etc to work, much less be genuine. I do expect breakout modules and the like to work, though I don't expect them to contain genuine parts. (That implies I'd never source from these places when it's a critical function.)

I'm always surprised when people expect grey-market crud to perform just as well as top-dollar stuff....
In high school they gave me a series of tests that concluded I was in the highest 1% of the population for linguistic comprehension and the lowest 3% of the population for spatial comprehension; I believe I have improved the second metric since then but I still doubt I would make a good mechanic, electrician, or plumber.

A side note, people are often surprised by the bugs I find.
With cops away, it’s like Capitol Hill is slipping back to the Pinkerton’s era
I've been an insomniac my entire life (46 years) and in December started working on a wearable monitor my brain-waves and interact with them using sound in order to induce sleep and optimize sleep states.

There are two similar products on the market already (Dreem and SmartSleep) but I have a different approach.

I'd be keen to hear who in this community may be interested (I'll be posting our webpage with more info soon) and if anybody has experience with Dreem or SmartSleep, I'd be keen to hear of your experiences.
I heard this in the “All horses have the same color” version.
Last time I checked, about 70% of the Earth's atmosphere is nitrogen. "Nitrogen pollution" sure sounds like fake news to me.
There are other romanisations of Korean besides, although this is the government official one.

For maximum confusion there are also cyrillizations, how would it go with that:)
How do you define “technically competent?” I run Ubuntu on my servers and laptops but recently switched back to Windows on my desktop because I don’t like the direction Canonical is going with snapd in 20.04.

Problems? On two laptops (both Razer blades of different generations) the webcams were glitchy. Dell XPS 15 was fine. Most of the “problems” are known issues with Gnome that apply to any machine and could be addressed with a tiling window manager if I really cared. These were work laptops for my team. Really no major showstopper issues except for one failed release upgrade that required a wipe and reformat of the whole machine.

I might try Arch, as the rolling distro thing seems interesting, and not being forced into software updates is kind of important.
Doesn’t seem very LGBT friendly either.
I’m sure these things have made it into a lot of those Arduino beginner kits and stuff like that. It really makes me mad because the various incompatibilities with the datasheet might frustrate a beginner or mislead them to think they are doing something wrong.
I run Debian Linux on dozens of (different roles) VMs and physical servers, all managed by Ansible.

On my desktops/laptops, I run Debian Stable, but I feel it is too old for development/common desktop usage, and I waste lots of time manually installing Python/Go/Rust tools.

I am a competent Arch Linux user too, having used for a decade. It has all the tools I need on the latest version, but lately I just shy away from it because it moves too fast and the constant feeling of a "moving target" that can break anytime. Interestingly, in a decade of usage, I only have a couple of big problems that were fixed in less than half an hour, so that fear might be because I'm getting old and a bit lazy...
> banking sites that partially obfuscate your username really confuse them)

Is there a bank allowing sign in by Facebook/Google?

> Sometimes websites make it hard to copy and paste passwords.

Yes, and that's why password managers do autofill.