skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the GP is saying is that the T2 is effectively “the processor” of Macs it’s in, in the sense that it’s performing the function of a System Management Controller, managing early boot, etc. The Intel CPU in these systems is reduced to being an “application processor”—much like in ARM systems where boot and IO are handled through the GPU.

(This is why you can’t install OSes other than macOS on these devices. It’s not because of DRM or anything—though that’s an aspect of it. Rather, it’s because the T2 is in control of boot, and no other OS has had a second-stage bootloader written for it that will load onto the T2 chip to do hardware bringup from that side.)

Maybe “bridge” is the wrong word here—though I can see the meaning. A precise term, I think, would be “polyfill.” The T2 is the place where Apple is putting 1. its IP-core customizations that it can’t just plop into the Intel CPU, because it doesn’t control the Intel CPU; and 2. its top-level “BIOS-alike”, allowing them to bring up the hardware in a way they control, rather than having to convince the Intel CPU to do it in a way it understands.

The T2 and the Intel CPU acting together, roughly simulates an architecture akin to that of an ARM Mac (as with any other polyfill, where the old runtime and the polyfill acting together roughly simulate the capabilities of the new runtime.)

The interesting thing about this, is that it’s likely that because the polyfill roughly simulates the environment of an ARM mac (where these IP cores are accessible directly through the CPU, and where hardware bringup is always done in Apple’s preferred fashion without having to trick the Intel CPU into it), the drivers written for Intel-plus-T2 macOS, are also likely able to be run with only small changes, directly on ARM macOS.

That’s why the GP is calling the T2 a “bridge”: it’s a half-step across the chasm between the archtectures; an intermediate architectural target that allows some but not all of the work of developing ARM macOS to be done before any Apple Silicon ARM platforms like the A14Z were actually available to be developed on.
Whereas, in the real world, the poor might not get the chance to not be poor because destitution would cause their death.

I'd be interested in playing with such a simulation where the agents must buy or make food to eat and must have shelter or suffer.

And, also, that the other agents know this and can play their own hand accordingly.

I think this would change where the redistribution scheme would land quite a bit if the idea is to maximize value creation.
One of management's biggest jobs at a company like Mozilla is aiming developer resources at the problems that do address consumer needs. In the last few years, Mozilla hasn't really been doing that, so it sounds like they need new management because the current management isn't competent.
certain industries might be favored over others in the case of auctions, as they might have more margins, and so, larger purchasing power.
And yet, as simple as this is, four agents is more than you see in most "complex" DSGE models... This looks to me like they're applying deep RL to agent-based modeling. It does seem pretty silly now, but it could be promising. You don't have to restrict these agents to any neoclassical assumptions and there isn't any reason you couldn't introduce firms as well. The only limit is computational power. Macroeconomics tends to look down on agent-based modeling because it doesn't provide neat, closed form solutions. But I've never bought that the results from DSGE models are anything more than products of all their simplifying assumptions. After all, they seem to be the very definition of overfitedness with absolutely no predictive power. At least they're trying something new here.
Does a PR dept actually matter for this? If an explanation is warranted, just publish it on social media. I expect the corporate focus is more on "fix the problem" than "hey everyone, let's DiScUsS tHe PrObLeM"; Tesla doesn't want to draw attention to the problem, they want to fix the problem so it never happens again and nobody has reason to discuss it.

Kinda like the "child slave labor" issue raised during the shareholder's meeting: Some people wanted to compel Tesla to address the problem ... minutes later Musk eliminated the problem by removing cobalt use.
I mostly stick with corded tools. Over the past 17 years I've managed to collect:

- A Milwaukee right angle drill. I don't use it much, but when I need it, it's invaluable

- A Porter Cable circular saw. I get a bit more use out of this. Circular saws are so versatile.

- A hand-held power planer. I used this a lot fitting doors to irregular door jams. I've loaned it out quite a bit too. Like the right angle drill, I don't reach for it often now, but when I need it, I'm damn glad to have it.

- Just purchased a Makita track saw. I'm anticipating a lot of long rip cuts in the next few months. I could do this with a circular saw, but I really like the simplicity of the track saw.

- Power drill. I've had it forever. I rarely reach for it, but it's nice to know it's there.

For battery powered tools I have:

- Power drill. This is a must-have for battery. The convenience is worth having to get a new one every so often. I'm on my second one now. I started with a Craftsman a long time ago. I replaced the batteries once and now I can't get new ones.

- I'm considering a jig saw. I'm not sure. It feels like this would be more convenient w/o a cord, and they're cheap enough that I wouldn't worry about replacing it. Still undecided.

For yard tools, I can totally see going with battery powered as well. I'm considering an edger. I hate dealing with two-stroke engines, and a cord would be a huge PITA. I'll probably get a battery powered one and try to stay in the same brand for leaf blower and chainsaw.
Great idea, well implemented.
Fresca is right on the line, with a can shown to increase serum concentrations of some drugs by 50%--- not enough to matter in most cases.
Yes, there will be very powerful (yet not so obvious at the moment) use cases of GET requests, but at least in the beginning Vapor will be focused on state mutating requests such as POST/DELETE/PUT.

GET requests can be dealt with using regular web request methods.
This is the second time in this discussion someone mentions electric planes being viable and you respond with electric airliners not being viable.

Those are (in most peoples terminology) entirely different things.

Having viable light electric aircraft could revolutionize flight even if every aircraft for more than 20 people would run on kerosene for the next century.

I don’t think anyone is expecting a battery powered 737 any time soon. But a battery powered Cessna 172 with a 30 minute range would be huge.
>Do you think Senator Kamala Harris will ever agree to be in the same room with Peter Thiel, who recently agreed to be in the same room with white nationalists?

Yes, they can bond over how many poor lives they have ruined while the literati miss the one constant in US politics - extracting surplus value from workers - be it by drone or wage slavery.

The US cares about race only to keep the home front docile. That means that Democrats bomb Eastern Europe to show how non-racist they are by killing white people and Republicans bomb the Middle East to show how much they value hard working white(ish) people by killing not (quite) white people.

The idea that democrats do any less spying on the American people is laughable. It was Trump that killed the Patriot Act this year after 2 extensions and 3 kind of extensions under Bush and Obama, and he did it because he thought the deep state was after him.
I agree smaller economies could be a problem, but I'm not sure there's a better solution. A small economy is unlikely to have taxi services at all. Small economies are usually geographically smaller meaning taxis will have to compete against just walking or biking.

Adding driver reviews to your bid helps discourage unsafe driving. All transportations services (except public transit) are encouraged to complete rides as fast as possible to then get the next ride.
> What degrees have you seen from software engineer H1B candidates?

I am not the person you are replying to, but a bachelor degree in one of the engineering disciplines is very common.
Isn't this kind of build quality standard with American cars though?
Anti-Monopoly vs. Antitrust
> I don't know. Sure, if you can build batteries with the energy density of gasoline, you can build an electric plane with them. But is this really necessary?

Only if you value overseas travel... It currently takes ~16 hours to fly from SF to Singapore depending on weather. Any longer, and you're going to see a lot of that travel disappear.
this is an interesting point. I think the email address matters if you expect people to answer. In the superhuman example, I know the CEO isn't sending me those emails, but I'm more likely to reply if I have a question. Palabra's onboarding emails come from my personal email address and many people reply with questions directly to me, which really helped us get immediate feedback
Ask HN: Best framework/stack for simple SaaS product site with payment
I just built out a chrome extension client, and am now setting up the server. I could build everything from scratch in notepad, but there must be a far more efficient stack/framework for this.

Here's what I'm trying to achieve:

* webapp for people to sign up (with email verification), get an API token (probably a uuid?), and to purchase a monthly/annual subscription to my service.

* ability to remember low frequency data (user info) vs high write/read rate frequency such as how often they are hitting my apis (once a second per person). I was going to use MySQL for some data and redis for things that need to be referenced every api call such as updating the call count and checking membership status to ensure the api request should be fulfilled.

Here's what I've done and am planning:

* host a static index.html with the landing page, not sure where I can get a minimal theme. Might just view-source and copy someone's design.

* use stripe integration to manage payments so my hands aren't dirty

* not sure how to do session management so users can login and purchase a subscription.

* host that on vercel along with my serverless functions / lambdas for the client communication.

* everything is written in node.js. client side is written in react and blueprint.

Sorry if this is a little haphazard, I haven't slept in two days. Thank you for your time!
The most impressive thing (for us) that you could do with AWS Lambda is easily scale your functions without being worried about scaling.

For example, we [1] have an API that runs Lambda functions to extract the structured content out of the news article. At some point, we have very few new articles being discovered by our system (night time in the US, for example). Other time, there are ~100 new articles every second. And, we do not have to worry about our infrastructure: 100 Lambdas will be executed concurrently, and we'll pay for just 100 Lambdas like if they were one after one.

Also, for many startups/side-projects when you don't know what would be your workload in advance, Lambda can save you money. And, if you somehow have a huge workload your solution won't be crashing.

[1] https://newscatcherapi.com/
and as I said separately, I'm not interested in the "rock star-y-ness" of any of the people you've mentioned (or all the other ones you could name). I'm interested in the music. EVH did, in fact, push this along with his technique and compositional ideas. I don't give a damn about his personality, or who becomes a "star". Almost none of my favorite musicians are stars, despite levels of creativity and technical ability that are hard to measure or even imagine for most of us.

I wasn't suggesting that technique is everything. Great musicians have imagination and strong connections to existing cultures (even when they ignore them). But so many people talked about EVH in terms of his technique ("OMFG, did you see that Eruption solo?" etc. etc).

And for reference, the "mainstream culture" I grew up in (London, 70s-early 80s) was unimpressed by EVH and american rock in general.

But yes, rock is not mainstream anymore, and thus "rock stars" are not a thing. Bieber is not even close to being a "rock star" - we had "pop stars" all through the 60s and 70s and they were entirely distinct from the "rock stars" of those same eras.
You just described science if, after the guess, they test the guess and observe the results.
Do you seriously ask this?
I didn't even pass the security test to get my account back . They asked me specific things and to say what commit I did several months ago...
Do you wonder the same for an abortion hearing or a sanitation case? The court system can and must decide regulations on many things they are not personally experts in, and usually does so quite successfully.
Amazon's spying on EU workers just tip of iceberg
I always felt like the explanations people give are way too complicated. The simple version, to me at least, is this:

A mirror doesn’t flip left to right. It flips front to back. YOU flip left to right when you turn things to the mirror.
No. They don’t have their roof blow off, ever.
You should consider the very basic economic concept of price-elasticity of demand. I might be able to raise it to 20x, watch customers disappear and make more revenue.
So please, educate yourself a bit and next time try to put more effort into your response.
> If an explanation is warranted, just publish it on social media.

Who writes the explanation in a way that is convincing and clear to the public?
Add patreon so people can support/fund it!
or Vapor (https://vapor.laravel.com), the serverless PHP platform
Blame it on tradition. Just like today we don’t write “today” as “to day” as used to be the case.
The economy gets worse. Ad spending goes down. Google's search revenue decreases. Mozilla's search deal with Google is less profitable.
I am not sure what you mean that "the Laffer curve doesn't exist"? It exists as a concept that has never been shown to be valid.
Hopefully they're properly documenting these non-standard vin numbers incase a problem is discovered with the ad hoc design change and they need to do a recall or service campaign for that change.
Trump is doing a pretty good job of trying to earn votes lately. First appealing to the Black vote with promises of $500B of investments, and now going for the Tech vote with these changes in addition to breaking up the monopolies. I think it would be okay for 4 more years at this rate (until the opposition can generate a decent candidate)...
Sure, but the impact here is pretty massive. Pointing to a workaround that most people won't find and that takes developer knowledge to employ is of limited value to most users, but in the open source community is often used as an excuse to ignore what would otherwise be high priority bugs.
Is this a uniquely USB3.0 problem? I've been in the consumer electronics spaces for 10 years & from the very beginning I would hear reports about problems for 2.4Ghz WiFi any time you were transferring data on USB (& usually EEs try to tackle this with shielding if USB + WiFi coex is important). I have not heard of this as uniquely new to USB3.

I have never heard of interference with Iridium & GPS for USB2/3 and I worked on a team that was responsible for GPS at Apple, but it's entirely possible there's shielding needing to account for this & I just wasn't closely involved in it. If this were actually an unsolvable problem though, I would expect CarPlay & Android Auto would have a problem when you use your phone for navigation & start playing audio through USB. Maybe that's not enough traffic frequently enough to generate the noise needed to make it unusable, maybe the EE problem you were having was different, or maybe there's just good shielding in phones to avoid this as a problem.
I really dislike emails that claim to come from a person but obviously come from an automated system - I find it remarkably dishonest.

Edit: I don't mind if I think the person is even vaguely aware I exist. But an email claiming to be from an executive of some huge company saying how happy they are that I have signed up doesn't fall into that category.
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Google tried to argue for fair use under the idea of interoperability, but the (few) intentional differences from Java that prevent most Java programs from running unmodified on Android pretty much bombed that case...
It's partially that everything about the man feels like a fishy facade and that the combination of running everything as a pass through but also having business bankruptcies. There's also the question of stories like [0] where there are huge loses claimed that on closer examination seem dubious and are later banned. I think it's the mixing of personal and 'business' finances that really muddle the waters here and that the twin facts of him being 'rich' and 'losing gobs of money for decades' feels unfair.

[0] https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trump-lawyers-advi...
Why does Oracle care so much about Android in the first place? Does it even make any money for Google?
I think we need to know more about the employment details to say whether this is unfair. as an engineer myself (albeit of a different sort), nine times out of ten I would rather be paid a little more than have a patent in my name or receive "credit".
Because of the lack of tactile feedback, touchscreens often lead to distracted driving by forcing drivers to take their eyes off of the road to carry out simple tasks. As an example, take HVAC and radio functionality -- in older cars with buttons and knobs, after a short amount of time, people can operate these functions without looking. The same is not true for touchscreens. That's not to say that there is no place for them in cars, but the consensus it's better to use a combination of touch screen (for things you don't often adjust while driving) and physical controls (for things you do). But it's generally cheaper to slap a big ol' touchscreen in cars that does everything, and change configurations in software, rather than investing in custom interior designs for each model of car. And it's not just Tesla doing this, even companies who hang their hat on safety like Subarus are stuffing more and more functionality into touchscreens[0].

[0] https://www.motortrend.com/cars/subaru/outback/2020/2020-sub...
Cheaper insulin, being harder to manage, can and does kill you.
What I saw is that the open source data is only partial and that PRs are often kept open until Chrome adds the functionality as well.
Most of the stuff listed on Wirecutter isn't tested for longevity or real quality. For example, they recommended headphones that sound great but have plastic bands that crack and break from normal use.
Redis is good only for a limited set of use cases.

1. Cache it's amazing... unless you need keys something more complex than key value, e.g. multiple keys, invalidate by pattern etc... So ... not so good actually.

2. Pubsub doesn't sale really good, and that'a a real limitation

3. The new pubsub is purely a copy of Kafka ( they admit that in docs) but in a much less supported, and feature rich version.

So despite I'm still using Redis in my Day today, as of 2020 I don't see redis in any new setup.
That seems to be what a lot of legal folks are speculating. That an 8-person court will find essentially technical legal reasons to overturn the appeal and essentially punt on making a major copyright ruling one way or the other.
Nobody at Ford has been working there for 112 years. The thing is, Tesla could just hire people who have experience working in quality control for car manufacturing and then they'd be just as experienced at it as Ford.

Your logic suggests either a) they haven't bothered hiring people experienced in quality control for car manufacturing, or b) they have, and yet their cars are _still_ this badly made. Neither is a good look.
'Smart' male chastity device vulnerable to locking by hackers: researchers
Obviously, a nation is very different from a household.

But they aren't different in the way that the post I was responding to suggested, that a household couldn't possibly overspend for future benefit whereas a nation could.
I'm reminded of this classic sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
Canada Procures $25M Antigen Rapid Tests
You can easily turn off the "right side of trackpad is right click" thing. I don't know why this ships turned on, given so many machines implement it poorly, but it's just one config checkbox to turn a trackpad that is awful this way to one that is OK.

(I'm referring to "Press the lower right corner of the touchpad to right-click" box. The Dells that the school I teach at has are near unusable with this clicked, but improve significantly with it off and using two-fingers to right click instead).
Why not Rust for Security?
Would you say the same if he was a member of ISIS but hadn’t committed any terrorist acts yet? It’s no different.
The article does mention other bitter fruits (descendants of pomelo) do share the “grapefruit effect”, but that you are less likely to consume large quantities of lemon juice, for example, compared with grapefruit juice.

The extra information you provide is really interesting.
I think the ship has sailed on the trustworthiness of online reviews from rando people. Pretty much every store or review site that aggregates user-submitted content has done a poor job of removing spam and fake reviews, and people are finally starting to realize how worthless the ratings are. Even if someone does crack this nut and figures it out, they won't be believed because of how fake everything has been for the last 20 years.

I think the best thing online stores can do at this point is just nuke all user-submitted ratings and reviews. They're 99% garbage.
Maybe the creator of this should give a use case? I'm struggling to understand just what problem this is trying to solve here, and from the looks of the comments, so are many other people.
It's just a lame excuse, nothing more, as you've already said.