skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I can tell, in the US market they're almost entirely confined to low-end models and non-phone devices (tablets/Chromebooks/smart TVs). Importing, as a practical matter, seems to mean no support/warranty, and it looks like most models intended for other regions don't have full support for the bands used by US networks.
Theoretical physics is like computer science. You focus on algorithmic complexity, etc and neglect the actual HW architecture, latency, and cache concerns.
I was thinking of writing about the clock. The circuitry to generate the two-phase clock from the single phase input clock is a bit interesting. There are multiple stages of large transistors to produce the high-current internal clock with two disjoint phases.

The clock distribution itself doesn't seem to have any weird tricks, just the two clock lines that wind around the chip. I don't see any optimizations to equalize length to different parts of the chip, for instance.
One big issue that gets lost in the discussion is how many of these treatments are reasonably safe for perfectly healthy people, and it's the people with risk factors who need to be concerned. That's why informed consent and choice are so important.

Maybe Vioxx was fine for most, and the decrease in digestive symptoms made it the ideal medication for many. Maybe doctors could have withheld prescriptions for people at risk of heart attack. Maybe a big warning could have been placed on every bottle so patients could decide for themselves. But instead it blew up into a drama-fest because one side has to be 100% correct and the other crazy or fraudsters.

If this either/or dynamic was addressed we could come close to having our cake and eating it too.

But instead everyone is shoe horned into limited studies, and those less-than-healthy people on the fringes are demonized and ostracized as luddites destroying human civilization. Except every once in a while when big pharma gets the blame for pushing safety risks too far.
1. Bringing up the print dialogue is a slow process so its annoying when you hit cmd-p on accident
2. Print operation is done very rarely and not frequently invoked in the middle of a keyboard-centric workflow -- how often would it not be more or less equivalent keyboard interruption to use the Print Menubar Action vs cmd-p?
3. It would be nice to steal the shortcut from all apps and remap it to something useful ...
Well, how high is the bar for calling a language 'production ready' in that case? How many production ready languages are there?
It only doesn’t make sense because the author forgot to mention monads!
While I don't particularly disagree with you, I can assure you that there are plenty of physics PhDs who focus on theoretical physics and know as little about the experimental world as the archetype you are trying to criticize.

You definitely can get a PhD in physics and be fairly clueless about the experimental world.
Indeed, thanks for patching my bad reading comprehension.
Repost from 6hrs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24091066), 22 hrs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24086395), 2 days (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24072465). It's not even a very interesting story
Big-Money Investors Gear Up for a Trillion-Dollar Bet on Farmland
I live in a relatively unpolluted city, but often when I've been out walking, I notice what feels like a thin layer of very fine dust on my hands. It never happens when I'm in rural areas.

My friends don't have this problem and fail to understand why I feel a strong urge to wash my hands as I get inside. At first I thought it might be because they're adjusted to it, but as I type this I realise it might also be because my hands produce slightly more sweat than the average hand (not excessive amounts, just a tiny, but noticeable bit more) which maybe gets absorbed by this particulate and that's why I can feel it? No idea if the science checks out.

So maybe the ability to feel pollution in your airways is also something that might differ from person to person? I sure have never felt it, but then again, I live in a relatively unpolluted city.
I wonder if growing yeast, algae, or the CO2+H2 eating microbes that Solar Foods is working on will be cheaper to use either as an engineered food product or as feedstock for animals.
A generation before, Mark Catesby produced a similar body of work on the new worlds of North America, including Virginia and Carolina.

Very interesting stepping off point if you are getting into all (or any) things Linnaean.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Catesby
>People who create need to be able to benefit from that creation.

I agree, its just the strategy can be changed to not rely on IP.
Thanks for explaining like this. It seems from the downvotes to my comment most people don’t see it as a valid question.
With some more lab automation and approachable exposition we'll be all set.
I know the article is about false-positive rates. I did read it. But the claim is:

1. There is not a significant uptick in deaths in Germany.

2. The test is not 100% accurate, and indicates some false positives.

3. From #1 and #2, we can conclude that the "pandemic" we saw there was the result of false positives, and not people actually getting sick.

If #1 isn't reliable, then neither is the conclusion. As hospitalizations and death climb in the US, writing a think-piece article pointing at how Spain is mis-accounting for false positives is irresponsible and dangerous. It pushes a "reopening is fine" narrative, when the people most-likely to read the article are living in places where that is patently false.
A few months ago I heard about the concept "return on luck". It seems to me that Apple had the highest return on the luck they had of any of their contemporaries, with the possible exception of Microsoft.
If Opus/Speex seems too heavy there are also the codecs used for GSM, VoLTE, etc.
> A greater percent of men (47%) have high blood pressure than women (43%)

https://www.cdc.gov/bloodpressure/facts.htm
Because even in recessions, studios and ad agencies still shell out big bucks for songs, even if the stock market is down a lot. The royalty rates for Beatles songs did not fall in 2000-2003 despite the S&P 500 falling 50%. There is very low correlation with other asset classes.
I believe today you just say "hey, the drop is ready" over Signal.
Using the space bar to quickly look into the contents of any file: pdf, images, txt files.

And this works also within other apps like spark where I can use the space bar to quickly verify what attachements are present.

Don’t think windows does this.
https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job is a great resource. Many remote companies listed
Care to link?

This or any of your numerous other conspicuously unsourced claims?
Apple says they do on-device, so yea, why is Siri "thinking" for 20 seconds when I ask it to set a timer for 10 minutes for the 1000th time
The various screenshot features are good, and also one of the best uses of the touchbar I've seen. Use any of the variations on taking a screenshot, and you will get a menu to take a screenshot of an area, window, full desktop, etc.
Oh okay. That does make sense.

I got the idea that the 100k was a flat fee for decrypting, like 1/3rd of the bitcoin if he could do it. For someone who is about to lose all the moeny that too doesn't sound like a bad deal.
So, a forum with a complicated sign up process, IP filtering and effective moderation?

Lots of communities like that used to exist. Some still do, but for some reason everyone thought they needed to tell everyone on the internet their name and personal information.

So here we are.
> most people don’t even take a deep liking to a song in their first listen

It's very rare for me to really like a song the first time I hear it. Once my brain has become accustomed to where the song goes (even for a jazz song), then I tend to like it a lot more. Another layer to this is the connection that a song can have to a certain period in your life, bringing back the emotions of that time with it.
Is that what it actually comes out to, accounting for the efficiency of current panels and what plants actually use in photosynthesis?
Shouldn’t that be pretty easy to automate in the compiler?
In my personal experience, the sole reason for those updates is to cripple your hardware and battery life in order for you to upgrade to newer hardware.
Not exactly, that's more about propagation of plants, after-which it grows into a normal plant. I am thinking that we could only grow the desirable part of the plant, like the seeds in the case of corn or wheat.
His E&M book is the best, bar none. I know people talk a lot about Jackson, but a physicist friend gave the best description of Jackson's book: "The best book to teach me about all kinds of mathematical techniques used in solving physics problems. My problem solving skills went through the roof because of Jackson. My understanding of E&M was not at all affected, though."

For E&M intuition, Griffiths is fantastic.

His quantum mechanics book, while decent, is not that great. I don't know if I've found a single great book on QM.
The vendors tools are notoriously buggy, don't conform to the HDL standard and
lacks support to inference of some functional block (cascade DSPs and FIFOs for
example).

Some FPGAs features are only available on yearly paid subscription. Also, the license
is very restrictive, publishing benchmarking is not allowed, therefore,
there is no public information on how to chose a computer to have faster synthesis.

Other than solving those issues, an open source framework enable the researches
to search for newer place and route algorithms;
enables new HDL languages to
target the actual hardware instead of using verilog as intermediate language.
Whoa! I have to say, I love these kinds of stories.
No happy ending or sad ending. It's just a simple, plain and interesting story. Worth sharing and worth reading/watching.
> I think the principle of regulatory reciprocity is fairly standard. If country X has tarrifs on your goods, it's fairly standard to bring up the same tarrifs on their goods into your country.

We agree that it’s standard. The interesting question is whether it’s sensible.

Personally, as citizen Denmark, if Italy puts a 50 tariff on Danish sausages, I would prefer that Denmark not put any tariff on Italian sausages.
I think I dropped a /s.

I'm editing it now.
Ask HN: What does your custom programming / tech spell check file look like?
I recently added my Vim spell check file to my dotfiles at: https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles/commit/b5563e3baabc95ec3829f02c26b3fcd4900425fe

It has 305 unique programming / tech terms that I find myself referencing in documentation, technical blog posts and podcast show notes.

It's not an exhaustive list. I've been casually appending to it over the last year or so.

It would be cool if others posted their list so we can merge them together.
Feel free to suggest one.

Even things like Patreon likely would not work without copyright, as people would just steal the work and republish it on another medium. Open source business models couldn't work without copyright, and there is a minor rebellion underway in OSS against highly permissive licenses due to rampant corporate exploitation (e.g. "SaaSification" and rebranding and commercialization that robs the authors of even credit).

Virtually every suggestion I have ever heard for a fix to this greatly underestimates the petty avarice of humanity. If it can be gamed or stolen, it will. Some people have to be forced to treat others fairly, and there are enough cheaters to destroy any pure goodwill based system the instant an attempt is made to scale beyond small communities.

This is also why all goodwill based open protocols and systems are instantly destroyed by spam, trolling, and other bad faith usages as soon as they start to scale.

Everyone is not an asshole, but it doesn't take many to burn things to the ground.
I would guess that gasoline must result in mostly heat and not particle pollution in PM10 and PM2.5.
> you're never going to get more efficient use of an acre of sunlight (~4 MW at noon) than you will with photovoltaics (~75% loss ~= 1 MW at noon)

green plants don't use the middle, thus they are green, of the spectrum - i.e. they use only 10-20% of the sunlight. So, very efficient photovoltaics (or other type of solar powerplant) -> electricity -> only red and violet LEDs may even beat the Mother Nature in efficiency a bit. Add to that various optimizations - for example with the LEDs you aren't limited by the Sun singular position in the sky and can shine light from all the needed angles, like no more leaves being in the shadow of other leaves, thus increasing the photosynthesis throughput of a given plant.
Smart contract development requires solid engineering practices, testing, and a security mindset. This guide covers patterns, practices, and principles to reduce the associated risks.
I agree with you, but its more about the message you send when you reinforce and inadvertedly support a certain way of doing things or sharing information. Some would prefer it was 100% open down to the backend.
> The Fed didn't pump that money into stocks

What is Fed Open Market Operations? What is unlimited QE easing? Do you know how big the Fed balance sheet grew to prop up stocks?
I've seen news articles that Drudge has linked to that have Facebook comments where people use their real name. This may surprise some people but -- they're not usually very polite!

And every evil subreddit I've come across was the result of "effective moderation", they moderated everyone who isn't evil.

Lax moderation, the good ole downvote button & find some way to discourage circle jerks, that's probably all you can do. You're never going to make the Internet not be a sewer though.
While I disabled a bunch of things using “Universal Android Debloater”, there is a non-zero chance you wil end up disabling something important, or causing your phone to bootloop (which can require a full reset to fix). This shouldn't be recommended for non-nerds.
I'm working on the instruction decoding and the microcode. (The microcode ROM takes up a large part of the chip.) The 8086 patent and some articles discuss the microcode in some detail, but not enough to understand it. So I'm figuring out the microcode encoding.

As for the 8086 instruction set, it's kind of a jumble due to the need for backwards compatibility (of a sort) with the 8080. The 8086 instruction set doesn't make things easy for the chip implementation. Intel tried to make a nicer instruction set (with the i432 and then Itanium) but it didn't work out.
> I've noticed

> on a number of occasions

> what appears to be

> what I would consider

(just setting the stage here... making sure we all understand the underpinning of the argument)

> a very staunch difference in Snopes' declaration of a claim vs what they say below in their explanation

Assuming, for the sake of argument, that there is an appreciable difference between the categorization and the basis/justification on which that particular categorization was chosen, that is a well-known problem with discrete binning.

As others have noted, however, in their demand for citations, it is unlikely that any such appreciable differences actually exist.
I like Millennium Actress. And Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is a classic.
I’ve been wanting this for years! Ever since I saw an econ paper that estimated the majority of copyrights wouldn’t be renewed if they even cost $1. It’s such an elegant solution. It can still be gamed, but at least it provides some price feedback in the system.
It's possible for animals, but for people then you have to eat "engineered food product" instead of wheat bread. So I think people will not like that. At that point we are essentially at soylent green. But I like the idea for animal food for sure.
I accidentally gatecrashed a security startup’s morning meeting
Probably 'Crash'. Yes I know it's contrived, cheesy, and everything else. But I thought it did a pretty good job of explaining the fact that everyone you meet is having their own struggles, and to a lesser extent why some people act the way they do.

Also, Run Lola Run. It was the first movie I'd seen that showed how each seemingly small thing you do each day affects outcomes.
IAM stands for Identity and Access Management:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_management
Big Changes in AI Design
This only works well if if people still care about the artists and culture long after the hits are released. Catalogs from the 50s, 60s, and 70s were dirt cheap in the 80s and early 90s because few anticipated the huge nostalgic demand by boomers to relive their youth in the 2000s and later. Will today's consumers of pop music feel the same nostalgic attachment as boomers to today? hard to know. But I think not, due to fragmentation. A top-selling Arina Grande song will probably be all but forgotten in 50 years.
My girlfriend was moving away, but we enjoyed playing Azul so I made a web version. We did play a number of times but now it is mostly idle.

https://tiles.kevincox.ca
This is obviously a mistake if that happened, are you proposing for the compilers to “fix” this bug automatically until someone changes one of these functions to not do a tail call and it explodes out of the blue?
This interesting story that I hadn't realised (although I was quite young when I last saw it) came out a couple of days ago:

"The Matrix director: I'm glad film recognised as trans metaphor"

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/06/the-matrix-dire...
But it wasn't an attack. When I call your certainty misplaced it's the exact equivalent of how you just said "you're wrong".

It's a bad idea to call other people wrong if you're going to react so strongly to being called wrong yourself.
This is great. I attempted a couple of handwriting fonts before, but could never get them to look like my actual writing which is never nearly so uniform (even if I tried). I wrote a letter to my sister who, even after mix-n-matching the fonts to make it as realistic as possible, said it looked like it came from robot-me. I'm going to try your method, because I still have application for a more hand-written looking font.
Of all the mammal milk alternatives oat milk seems the most environmentally friendly in temperate climates, as it can be grown regionally.

Although some point out that any plant-based milk is significantly better for the environment than mammal milk:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/28/what-pla...
Effects of physical attractiveness on political beliefs
Shout out to everybody who, unlike the author, has mostly illegible handwriting and wouldn’t want it immortalised in this way.
Going the other way, a PATA port in PIO mode can be used as GPIO: https://hackaday.com/2011/02/03/stk200-pocket-change-program...
This whole thread is why I always switch off auto-correct on any device. Mixing two languages is horrible. Unusual words / slang / abbreviations / street names / any unknown word throws it off.
It's just painful to correct auto-correct, and the amount of facepalming involved.

Plus, I feel like my ability to type things correctly might suffer from crutches like this.

The same goes for voice recognition, when it tries to squeeze a specific name into a set of common words. It's just bizarre.
In the past, when I tried the Google voice assistant or Siri, I always had to bring my best american accent (almost comical), otherwise they would often not understand.
Unless you're capturing lots of wavelengths plants can't use (definitely green, maybe IR?), why would you add an extra loss into the system?
Actually, you're probably right. However, in many markets you actually "make" more money by offsetting the price you would pay the utility. In my calculations, you get paid a fifth of the excess electricity than just using it (instead of paying the utility to use theirs). So when you're a heavy user, and you're in great solar area, every panel you add actually lowers your cost. So if you want, do a 4 acre solar farm for a 1 acre building, and over time this will pay for itself.

Of course, this obviously depends on you making money on the wheat or other crops.
This is the first exploit specific to snapdragon that I've ever heard of. Were there others?
The problem with vertical farming is where does the energy come from? An acre of solar panels is not capable of supplying enough energy to grow an acre of crops, even with the efficiency gains we've had in photovoltaics and lighting with wavelengths tuned to crop growth. What's the point in having fields of solar panels when we could have smaller greenhouses filled with crops?
If only nuclear energy was politically viable in the west we could have vertical farming and so much more.
True the film is captivating on the aesthetic layer, with manufactured landscapes appearing as beautiful as the natural ones. Sounds like some viewers pull a positive (or neutral) message out of that equivalence.
> my favourite feature is how the title bar icon in any app that’s editing a file (textmate/ word etc) is a pointer to the actual file unlike windows. you can drag that file anywhere to move it.

I knew about this feature but it took me about a year or two of using macOS every day and the feature only working about 50% of the time before I understood how to get it to work reliably.

For those, like me, who were having problems: You have to click and hold the mouse button over the window, then hold the mouse there for a short period of time (e.g. half a second), then drag. If you drag too quickly it'll move the window instead.
In my experience, my iPhone 6 is perfectly usable, as is an old SE and 6S Plus. Batteries degrade, and after being replaced they work fine. And they’re still getting updates this year.
Probably can’t be open sourced given IP under contracts but I could try to re-write it. There’s some new services in IAM that could be leveraged to make it more accurate and cheaper to use, too.
Singapore Deploys Drones to Monitor Social Distancing
Just to point out how things are all connected ... the relatively affluent on up to the obscenely rich can afford to pay for "high welfare" animal food production.

If minimum wage and/or the fraction of GDP that ended up in the pockets of employees had stayed in line with (say) mid-1970s levels, I would imagine that most people could (at least choose to) afford "high welfare" animal food production.
Thanks, that actually looks perfect.
At present I think it makes more sense to focus on high value crops.

Eg I’ll pay a premium for pesticide free, fresh salad from a Urban vertical farm. Wheat less so
Please keep the online shaming/callout culture off HN. I know it feels justified in individual cases, but it adds up to a tragedy of the commons effect in the end. A massive one.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=online%20shaming%20by%3Adang&s...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I get why people object to adapting to another personality, but the reality is that most of us have to do that anyway with a manager.

Why not just have the required adaptations laid out for easy understanding?
Hah, that's actually why I want this. I'm a lefty, and that pretty much guarantees sloppy handwriting. I like how using fonts makes it look so much cleaner. The only problem I had before reading this was that the results were too clean.
1) It may take years, because surface area of seed is so small.

2) Seed will be contaminated. It will taste as leaf or straw.
My mother owner two Compugraphic machines. Boy was it ever fun playing with what looked kinda like the bridge of the Enterprise as a boy.

https://miro.medium.com/max/1400/0*3i0dSzerzJBhhqCQ.jpg
> ~13 years ago

Beyond that, closer to 20 years ago, I remember on Win98 experimenting with an offline speech-to-text program I'd downloaded from somewhere. It required training, but I remember it being pretty accurate - I just didn't find a use for it because we had one shared desktop and I'd be annoying everyone else in the room. I think it was called Vox, or something like that...
I made my gf a desktop application in Electron, but she left me for the QT dev she told me not to worry about