skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the other comments say, it's going to cost a million bucks probably to get something made. I wouldn't be shocked to hear numbers way lower for some smart folks. I wonder, for example, what it cost GreenArrays to get their chips made, how big their run was. But $1M i probably a pretty safe ballpark starting place.

And we have pretty great open source cpu & ram design tools. MAGIC is free. There's a lot of great tools fora lot of this.

What is not so great is all the un-core. And GPU, if you want that.

The SiFive boards were coming with TileLink[1] as the main way to talk to the core, for a while, I believe, which is a pretty low level cache-coherent fabric used no where else. There's decent off the shelf to design a lot of the digital systems here. But I don't know what resources if any are available to help you build a chip-to-chip interface, to expose the TileLink. And there's basically the world's tiniest market for things to plug in on the other end anyways.

When you buy an SoC, almost all embedded folk expect a bunch of semi-standard capabilities. I2C, I2S, DisplayPort, USB, Ethernet, &c are all common things you might want. While we can make a decent cpu now a days, afaik, we are still in very very very early days, very pre-implementation, for almost all of these. Thusfar almost everyone relies on buying closed IP to provide connectivity for the SoC they are making. It's quite likely to be the case as well for the new SiFive Unmatched board; I expect they bought someone's PCIe IP & integrated it.

We are starting to see more neat work with FPGA implementations of various protocols like USB3 & PCIe but these all rely on the FPGA having really good transceivers that tackle the PHYsical layers, do the dirty work. Building actual transistors to be receivers & transmitters into & out of the chip, that's where, atm, we are all but babes, it feels like.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVITxp-SEp4
Looks like this could also work to invisibly watermark or "sign" images, in such a way that doesn't affect the way they display.
But MS hired Tim Patterson and gave him equity. How is that not fair?
I'm curious what you think the greatest downsides would be? It seems the typical ones (you can't sell open source stuff) don't really apply.
There are vegan products that mimic the flavors and textures of cheese. And yes, there are also pizzas without cheese.
Animal reservoirs make it harder but not all animal reservoirs have as big of an effect. Birds don’t seem to be able to get infected which already is a very good sign.
As someone who has eaten vegan pizza, no, it's not, it's an abomination. Just make a veggie/vegan lasagna instead...
" If this is indeed for a tax dodge, what's funny is that the US Government helped fund Google. Or, more accurately, they funded the research into the seemingly esoteric problem that became Google;"

Boom. We have someone that knows what they are saying. Yes. It is a tax covered shell. Wonder why your $23.29 check from google for 1.2 million impressions is coming from Ireland?
I agree with you. Not many things in life are done as they were supposed to be done. Hindsight is 20/20.

I built this tool to help with existing codebases. At IFTTT specifically, we saw an instant 60% reduction in database IOPS. Not too bad for 1~2 days of coding.
> states

It's a discussion regarding the UK.
Cheese isn’t necessarily dairy-based
I make cashew "mozzarella" for my vegan pizza. Everybody I know absolutely loves it.
Ask HN: What is the smoothest way to study the theory of computation?
For me, it is one of the most beautiful things ever in life. I read some books about it, but I never completely understood it. There are always jumps. And even after reading about the turing machine, I am like, so what? why this was revolutionary? It feels like as if most books are disconnected from the reader.
WebRTC Video Streaming
Trump is clown, but represents what a lot of people want. What you perceive as clown, they perceive as the right kind of masculine man. Yes, if women acted the same she would be called hysterical and emotional. But, these things are not fair and in his case it is interpreted as strength. Even sexist remarks and racist ones are seen as relatable, it is sort of stuff many people say in private.

What you see as lies, they see as smart things to say.

Beating incumbent is quite a lot. Also, based on what I read in conservative journal I read, Biden won in election where he was painted Marxist progressive litterally communist. And pedophile for some reason. His past costed him some black votes, but somehow he is still radical pro-rioting progressive sjw.

It does not matter whether Trump is capable or clown. Truth did not matter. His narcissism is asset and advantage. Biden was not fighting just Trump, but the machine behind him. The media machine (alex jones, etc) invested in Trump and radical republican wing.
I realize this opinion is very popular but I had the opposite experience. Fingerprint often took multiple tries or outright failed, while face unlock on Pixel 4 XL has been more reliable and plenty fast. Masks are really the only issue and personally I don't need them that often.
> Almost half the speed

And 1/3 the price. If you bought it because it was on sale, doesn't that mean you're at least somewhat price sensitive? I don't think you should feel bad about your purchase.
When the media called trump the president elect in 2016 he gave a speech and we moved on.

Time for yall to do the same.
I don't like this example because the effectiveness of direct democracy is greater in small groups. I selected a dinner with families as representative of states with different desires but similar desires within a state. Akin to how a family has similar tastes in food. On that level I feel it is a good example.

Lets say we have a group of families voting on what to have for a shared dinner. Each family gets one vote. Each family gets to decide how their vote is cast. One family of 10 decides they want roast beef. One family of 5 decides they want roast chicken. One newlywed couple decides they want roast chicken. Every member of each family is happy with their choice because they agreed through discussion in their family.

So, there is one vote for roast beef and 2 for roast chicken. But, every family member was happy with the way their vote was tallied even if 10 people aren't getting what they want for dinner.

A popular vote removes the ability of a family to vote in a way they all agree. The family of 10 will always be deciding what everybody has for dinner. At that point it isn't a dinner of families it is a dinner of 17 individuals with 7 never having what they want. So if you are having a dinner with 17 individuals why maintain the grouping of families? With regards to directing what is for dinner the group of a family becomes irrelevant. It also creates division within families instead of agreement on shared direction.

This is similar to popular vote vs electoral college. A popular vote makes the grouping of a state irrelevant and more easily argued that it shouldn't exist. "The populous elects the president directly. Why do we have representatives? We should make policy direct vote as well. Lets get our greater number of representatives to push that through."

Disbanding congress is not an immediate result of popular vote. It is a possible undesirable end. The structure of government should remove the possibility of undesirable outcomes of human nature as much as it can.
The appeal is the same as a Vegan burger. If you mimic cheese well enough then why would it not be a pizza?
I think Amazon considers these issues with the vendor...

When it's mostly mixed inventory, and one of the vendors is inserting garbage into the mix, why wouldn't a future buyer want to know that the whole mix is corrupt?
That can be solved with magnetic usb type C charger docks.
Another way to play around with a cheap "video card" is an ESP32 and the FabGL libraries. It's not retro-correct like the one in this post, but the cost is very low. LilyGo has an ESP32 board that already has VGA and PS/2 connectors for $11: https://www.tindie.com/products/ttgo/lilygor-ttgo-vga32_v14-...

It's pretty neat that we now have microcontrollers that are fast enough to drive VGA at decent resolutions.

The FabGL library: http://www.fabglib.org/
Nope, but the fact that the Pixel 4a's screen glass is absolute shit compared to any other phone I've had means it scratches stupidly easily. This is kind of known, as far as I can tell, looking at forums, and Google notably was willing to let me RMA over it. Not a damage warranty, straight exchange. There being camera issues sounds entirely in line with that.

I really, really miss my Pixel 3. It was easily my favorite phone. The 4a is simply not a match.
Except people like me refuse to participate in contact tracing and will actively evade it.
In most benchmarks they are basically within the error margin, but I have indeed seen a few where Pixel 5 does strangely poorly. I am definitely curious to know what's causing that, Pixel 5 has a slightly newer version of the same chipset (765G/Adreno 620 vs 730G/Adreno 618). The two best guesses I have is either the waterproofing really messes up with the thermals, or there's some unlying bug causing bad performance in those specific benchmarks.

That being said, in real-life use, unless you're playing some heavy games, phone devices are generally more memory bound than CPU bound in my experience, so the 2GB extra ram will go a long way.
I assume it uses vegan cheese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegan_cheese
If you openly admit in a public internet forum that you use C++, you WILL be reminded that Rust exists and it vastly superior to your choice of tool. I find your statement very questionable and don't personally know any game developer (though I know a good number) that hasn't heard of Rust. So I would like to know if you actually know this from experience or are just guessing.
I have been using my same vim workflow now for twenty years, ever since I switched from Visual C++ 6... and, at the time, I configured some of the colors in vim to match parts of what I had been previously getting from Microsoft's editors. I thereby have had largely consistent colors for like, "a quarter of a century". Despite thinking a lot about syntax highlighting for various reasons, it honestly never once occurred to me--before reading your comment--that some (many?... _most_?!?) software developers don't have consistent syntax highlighting even across different languages much less through their career. OMG.
This exactly. mmWave is such an absurd expense for literally no return. I think it came out that basically they were forced to support it in order to otherwise be sold as a 5G device through Verizon, and that forced their hand. But $100 for a service that literally no one can use? Ridiculous.

I can't understand the series of events that have transpired where literally anyone in the infrastructure and network and spectrum teams at VZW have been excited about mmWave and think it's a worthwhile investment. The limitations on the technology make it functionally worthless. Its performance suffers depending on your HAND position. It's about as dumb as trying to transmit data to a cell phone over IR and about as practical. It feels like they landed the spectrum and figured they could make some claims about insane speeds, and then the reality around its limitations set in and the core technology doesn't have any way to get around them.

At the end of the day, mmWave, by its very nature, will not penetrate almost any surface. How anyone thought that meant it was a candidate for radio transmission on moving devices is completely beyond me.
Inrupt has been around for a while. I don't see why people don't just setup webdav and have apps that can use that for data. It's webby! It saves files! Solid could just be a mapping service from username/password to username:password@webdevhost.com/podpath. Why has it taken so long to get traction?
VA has attempted a lot of open-sourcing as well, including most of VA.gov [1], including the project management of it, mostly as an ideological stance from the VA product owners we work with.

Open-sourcing hasn't cultivated much in the way of public engagement with the projects, but it's done a lot in terms of making development easier for the range of contractors + VA employees we have, and (IMO) nudged toward better decision-making with the underlying knowledge that everything we do is publicly viewable.

Other federal agencies routinely come to VA asking to learn from their digital modernization efforts, and I suspect the open-source stance has been a big part of that.

(I also work at Ad Hoc. It's great!)

[1] https://department-of-veterans-affairs.github.io/va.gov-team..., repository links at the bottom
Pixel 5 owner here, I am disapointed at that metric, but I am not disappointed at the speed of my phone. I can see how that would cause others to second guess a Pixel 5 purchase or have buyer's remorse upon learning that.
Buy them from the manufacturer themselves. Anker, Monoprice etc. Or places like B&H, Adorama, Best Buy, at least you get good customer service if it doesn't work.
> Giving telecoms money for infrastructure with no strings attached seems like a bad idea.

US is loaded with lessons like this that no one wants to learn from.

eg: Bell's (later Verizon's) broken 1993 promise to deploy fiber @ 45Mbps across Pennsylvania, that netted the corp billions in subsidies

eg: Anything at all with the words Frontier & West Virginia
An energy-saving ‘liquid window’
Raspberry pi not open enough for you? I guess the tv tuner likely wouldn't open but outside that it can all be open.
It's not just this cluster though. If it happens once it could happen again and we may not notice the next until it's too late. So here's hoping the vaccine catches all likely mutations too...
But you're still actually getting that data from somewhere (maybe even several places). You absolutely have to consider deeply the performance characteristics of complicated operations across these datastores to be able to deliver a sane API. There's only so much you can hide when you allow arbitrary joins and filters etc.
I have to agree that the under-screen speaker in the pixel 5 is awful. I don't know where to "put my ear" every time I get a call, and as a result the audio quality for calls is terrible - muffled, muddy, unclear, awkward. Switch to speakerphone and it is like someone pulled cotton wool out of your ears so it is not like the network connection is poor, just the speaker. It has been a pain in the backside to use as a result since day one of getting it, and the times when I borrow someone else's phones I am just blown away by their "HD audio" they get compared to the pixel 5.

What were they thinking. This must have been brought up during testing?! Surely?

Its not even like the full-height screen adds anything really as you have a stupid extra-large notification bar as it physically needs to be larger to fit the front-facing camera in.

Finally, it does not connect to 5G where Vodafone UK says there is 5G on their coverage maps (and yes my account is enabled for 5G). Either Vodafone is telling porkie pies on their coverage maps, or the pixel 5 can't connect to 5G and so is a total disaster?
Often I see people reviewing different products to the one on the page.

This is common. Some products are considered a version of others. Sometimes it's OK like different colour or different size. But sometimes it's not.

Worst case is same product sold by different vendors that isn't the same product at all because one of them is fake.
Google engineers internally only really work on the latest device and next year's device.

At this point, while you are technically supported, practically no bugfixes are coming your way.

Return it and buy another phone.
> There are tons of people and companies currently investing in these things.

Yes, there are tons of people and companies currently investing in these things because earlier government investment proved those things possible. It would be irrational for a private company to invest time and money in something with knightian uncertainty.

The private sector is good with scale and incremental improvements. Quite bad with fundamental research.
IIRC McDo in the UK advertise their nuggets as "100% breast meat". They clearly aren't as they have batter, but I assume they mean "the meat portion is 100% chicken breast" yet have a niggling feeling they mean "the meat we put in is all chicken breast but we put textured soya/other fillers in too".

One of the problems with all the lying in advertising is you never quite know how cynical you need to be.
You've clearly never eaten pizza in Italy :P
Safari is very popular in some markets (e.g. 36% usage share in the USA), and you cannot select a more secure browser if you want to browse on your iDevice.

Als Safari signals you are a high value target, so a Safari zero-day is generally worse for Safari users than say a Chrome zero day.
Is Glass Liquid or Solid?
>The few people with the problem “my Excel spreadsheet is too slow” have already written enough Excel formulas that migration to any other platform is impossible. Fortunately, I have no understanding of business, and so we’re going to look at further improvements anyway.

That's how you know you're reading a really solid tech piece and not some blogspam!
The McRib is coming back again?

(insert guy looking at girl meme, with McPlant being overlooked for McRib is Back)
Brother and Epsom are more expensive though.
I wonder at what stage notions of metabolism will be baked directly into neural network operations -- e.g optimize not just for reducing some notion of error on a dataset, but also for the training efficiency itself.
My boss got excited about this a few weeks back, but none of the rest of the office wanted to really use it (and we had some issues with video/audio feeds). I don't really get the idea: what problem does this solve that Slack/Zoom/etc don't? The whiteboard seems OK but no software can solve the problem that drawing with a touchpad sucks. Am I going to have to schedule meeting rooms again? Forget finding the right Zoom link, I now have to find the right room too? Stand around the water cooler when I'm on a break, except that then I won't be at my computer and so I can't actually use that? It's easy to talk to coworkers, but Slack is even easier. It's easy to start a meeting, but Zoom is no harder - and easier for people outside your organization. "How's the cafeteria?" is what one of my coworkers asked, jokingly, but I think that captures my feeling of it. Sure it's got a cafeteria, but that cafeteria doesn't solve any of the problems that a real cafeteria solves.

Then again, I'm also of the opinion that video calls provide little value beyond phone calls, so maybe I'm just a grump.
It sounds like the Pixel 5 fingerprint scanner might be hit-or-miss. A few people have reported it not reading fingerprints very well, and even for me, occasionally it doesn't work well (but most of the time it does).
I had the same experience with an acquaintance. Their reasoning is that given how Amazon's algorithms work (and how much they favor review count), it is impossible for any new product to get noticed at all unless you spend money to get those first set of 5-star reviews. It's basically an advertising budget.
Well, here is an article and video that addresses this specific issue:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/09/business/pfizer-covid-vaccine...

tl;dw

- The unblinded data came in yesterday (Sunday) from an independent group. They were expecting it to come in the third week of November, so this was earlier than expected.

- They did not take money from the current administrations Operation Warp Speed for development (only for distribution), although my understanding is that the government will be buying doses to deliver for free to Americans.

- They needed to have enough people who get infected in order to have meaningful data.

- Check out the video around 6 minutes to see what they say about this point.

- Overall, it seems more like "this was the soonest the science had something meaningful to say".
This is an old problem for reverse engineers, and there are some solutions, for example VBoxHardenedLoader [0]. As per usual with such things, these tools are in cat/mouse category.

[0] https://github.com/hfiref0x/VBoxHardenedLoader
They just did. $600M

https://www.telesat.com/press/press-releases/telesat-and-the...
In Chicago, it means that ISPs will need to pay off the aldermen to be the "preferred" provider of public broadband in each ward.
It really depends on your filesystem for this. However, the latency should be comparable across technologies, proportionately taking a bigger chunk of transfer times for small files.
I've had a lot of Google/Android phones
- Nexus 5X
- Pixel 1
- Pixel 3
- Pixel 4

Im going back to iPhone. There are too many problems w/Google HW.

The supply chain sucks if something breaks (which happens much more often than my iDevices). My pixel 1 mic stopped working, and it was impossible to find parts to fix it (including for 3rd part repair stores).

My wife's Pixel 3 won't reliably charge wirelessly. You have to reboot the phone 1x per week inorder to get wireless charging to work. So you put it down... And wake up to a dead phone.

My pixel 4 had a terrible Chrome problem until very recently. Chrome would basically lock up the system. The gesture navigation also kind os sucks.

Also, the pixel 4 glass really sucks. I had scratches all over it with the first month... Vs my Moto G7 which has none.

Don't even get me started on the new Android TV chrome cast or the 2 WearOS watches or my chromebox that can't have more than 2 BT devices connected (or it stops working).
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I obviously don't know what your users were thinking, or even what your application does, but for my part I use open source stuff because that means I know if I become dependent on it, and the original author drops it (or goes in a direction I don't like) I have options. The price is pretty much orthogonal. Just saying it's not necessarily just about entitlement and getting stuff for free.
Which is why I said,

> but at 90% that gets pushed off to "once most people get vaccinated"
China is a full blown police state.
I could see this with Idris, but Haskell's lazyness is just too unpredictable for anything you wouldn't use a scripting language for. People have been trying to get gamedev done in Haskell for like a decade with virtually nothing to show for. The LambdaCube 3D guys have been working on it for ~8 years and last I've seen they couldn't even get quake 3 graphics to render smoothly.I haven't seen any noticeable development in recent times, so I don't expect that to change in the next few years.

The only thing I could realistically see happening anytime soon would be people using it as a scripting language for Godot, but I'm not convinced that working with the Godot abstractions won't rob you off most of the gains you make by using Haskell.
Thanks, will definitely read it. I also like Deep Work, and The Shallows, but I bet you already know them.
That’s terrible. Nobody should be compelled to provide their private health information to a single, unelected private company to obtain government benefits or comply with the law.