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Any good insights into why food preparation is still stuck in pre-Industrial Revolution technologies? I prepare dinner from my family every night from scratch like I was a medieval artisan. With the economics of industrial production I should be able to purchase pre-made meals that just need to be heated in the oven at one temperature, that are healthy, and cost less than buying components and assembling them. Why hasn’t this happened at scale?
> there's no screen on a microcontroller so printf("hello world") does nothing

Unless printf() is ultimately hooked up to some text-capable interface, like a UART with a terminal on the other end. :) Although I will agree that in general this isn't a typical use case for embedded microcontrollers in the real world.
The consulting total income figures quoted by the person I was responding to almost certainly include a large bonus which I'd guess is correlated with, if not as volatile as, large cap tech equity returns.
God please no. Heal first, then get a dog.
Like biological species, languages evolve
The type of person who makes partner at Bain / BCG / McKinsey
or their botique equivalents can definitely have that kind of trajectory in a technology company.
You're basically saying the equity is too low. Any decent exit would make the founders and investors a lot of money. If they wanted to motivate employees to make that happen, equity needs to be good enough to make the employee a lot too. Instead it tends to be much closer to a token amount to check the box, taking advantage of the fact that you can't easily assess its value.
That sounds.. bad. Do you see your hours going down if you ever hit the manager tier there? Or up?
Better disposable coffee cups can be made with waste from sugar cane
Parking my comment here to be part of the dense club.

Why would you even need forever growth? Is it good enough that old companies die and new companies replace the old? In that process, there's always growth to find and invest in?
Keep in mind that calling this phone number literally just has police/ambulance sent to your location to 5150 you and put you in an involuntary 3 day psych hold.

You're just better off just voluntarily commiting yourself to a psych center than calling this number. Unfortunately reality, honestly.
Absolutely not. There is no reason at all that consciousness is impervious to a materialistic account. Consciousness can be framed as an emergent property of systems that can process the concept of self and actualize upon it and their environment.

You might say that qualia is impervious to materialistic account, however, arguments based on qualia that attempt to be a refutation of materialism are circular - for example, the p-zombie argument, that says that there could conceivably be a "zombie", that acts exactly the same as a human but lacks consciousness, which is only possible if you accept that one could act perfectly human but lack consciousness, which is itself only possible if you accept that something may be different but indistinguishable from something else, which is itself only possible if consciousness is special in some way - which there is no reason to believe.

And so, I disagree that the existence of consciousness is inconsistent with materialism.
Haskell is substantially more powerful when it comes to features like enforcing compile time guarantees about properties of your program, as well as writing highly polymorphic functions.
Lidar.

People often pigeonhole Lidar as an "Augmented Reality Enhancement" which is itself a massive underestimation of what it is capable of. Lidar isn't new tech, but it has become cheaper, smaller, and more importantly the compute capable of processing it massively more available (e.g. under-used machine learning chips in modern smartphones).

Lidar for mapping objects/rooms/buildings/etc. Lidar for mapping people/yourself.

For example that custom countertop? No need for an in-person visit, just use Lidar to scan the space via our app, and we'll have it delivered in 4-6 weeks.

You want a custom tailored suit? Just scan your whole body using Lidar, and we will custom make it to those measurements abroad and have it delivered.

Got into a minor vehicle accident? Just scan the damaged section, and we'll be able to quote the exact cost of repairs.

Lidar is a new core/low level sensor. It is a gimmick today because of the chicken/egg problem, but we'll see it eventually become completely standard and expected for normal life stuff. Boring stuff. AR isn't the what it is about, that's just an easier sales pitch.
I don’t agree. I don’t think we currently have enough stuff. As a techy in the US I make more than most, but there are still many material things that I can’t quite afford/have to limit myself. However, if production was 100x what it is now then perhaps I would be able to afford them. Post scarcity is at a production level far greater than current.

Also, higher production doesn’t mean higher natural resource consumption —- dematerialization is real. My phone satisfies my needs far more than a landline could but requires far less natural resources.
Look for a rescue that will let you give it a try, as it were, for a month, and if it doesn't work out you can return the animal without issue (so you won't feel like you have to keep the cat if it isn't working out).

I did that back when I first was on my own and wanted a pet...and then found my allergies couldn't handle it. Was so thankful to be able to return her to a good home. Her personality changed completely, too (which wasn't a problem, except she went from being very standoffish, to becoming a complete cuddle bum, which exacerbated my allergies even more).
Do you see this industry loosening its expectations for an MBA? That is nearly $1m of opportunity cost to some of the technologists who might be interested in growing a management consulting career.
GP is saying that the same teams have been working on macOS as before, implying they are just as fallible as previous iterations of macOS authors were by "same old", and implying that they are understaffed for the task by calling them a "skeleton crew"[0]

[0] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/skeleton_crew#:~:text=skele....
The physicist says that per capita energy use has surged, but that is only true in the developing world. California's per capita consumption of electrical energy has not changed since 1975. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nrdc.org/sites/defa...
Interesting that the intervention seems that effective. The difference between the groups is stunning.
I lost my father recently and this has been the toughest period in my life. I grew up in India in a middle-class family and my father always went through unimaginable hardships just so that he can buy us chocolates and pay our tuition.

He was still young at 65 and there was so much that I wanted to see and share with him. Realizing that this is not ever going to happen itself kills me from the inside.

I'm doing okay now compared to a few weeks ago but I keep having breakdowns and depressing episodes every now and then.

I now know that I need to continue to live and be strong and do things for him and raise a family and spread love just like he did. I don't think I'll ever go back to living like before but I feel happy with the idea that I'll be taking it from here, keeping him in my thoughts every day, doing things he would do, talking and acting like he would, pass on his genes and finally go away like he did one day.
He said he was an introvert and asked the officers to respect his boundaries. Do officers not know what an introvert is? Do they not know some people react poorly to bring touched? He also had asthma, which might be good to know before you decide to chokehold someone. There's tons of people in this world, who act differently to different stimulus, and mental healthcare in the US has historically been poor, so there are probably plenty of undiagnosed people walking around. Most people don't announce they're introverts during a police stop, this should have been a clue.

It seems a lot of police have trouble spotting the "fakers". Literally they did a chokehold on him, how much training do you need to understand that causes harm? More excuses from you.

You seem to live in a land where just because it's written on paper and police can legally kill people, that it makes it okay. Maybe policies need to change in light of so many of these tragedies, and the willy nilly use of Ketamine and chokeholds should actually be reconsidered. Hopefully this pilot program is a success, and we can avoid the amateur hour antics that lead to Elijah's death.
I think you mean well, but are lost in sophistry.
Structure of the ARM A64 instruction set (2017)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-update-kills-off-zoom-we...

This was a seriously exploitable issue that was a problem every time it was run.

I agree that this certificate mechanism is absurdly problematic.

That doesn’t justify dismissing the security risks it was intended to prevent.
woah - how do you make polls on HN? and thank you for posting this.

Also: this is an Australian initiative that encourages you to ask yourselves and others: Are you OK?
https://www.ruok.org.au/how-to-ask
There was a post from the EFF about printers recently, it reminded me about the PRET project.
I assumed there were too many revoked certificates for something like this to be viable, but I'm not surprised it is.

You probably can't update the whole list that often though, compared to Apple's current OCSP revalidate time of 5 min. [edit: seems "delta patches" are supported by crlite so maybe that can work too]
Video calling is still pretty bad compared to the reliability of phone calls. I wish there was some paid video call service that offered phone call like reliability over any kind of network.
Thank you very much. I will reach out.
There's a companion setting, "Configured Connected User Experiences and Telemetry" that if you give it a valid hostname:port, it will send telemetry to that host instead of to Microsoft. Kind of a larf but spin up a basic Node server on some port, use a fake domain via C:\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and point the GP setting to that domain+port and it'll blackhole the network requests (you do need the local server running because if the request fails, it will be sent to Microsoft).

Overall I agree it's silly we even need to do this.
Something got lost in translation. Putting a cup of water in the microwave is advisable over running the microwave with an empty chamber -- something to do with the microwaves getting reflected back into the magnetron and causing overheating. But there's no such concern while the appliance isn't running.
I saw and posted a link to a paper that discussed where automotive particulates come from, with estimates for each. I think brakes and tires account for 5-10% each. Most of it comes out the exhaust pipe. Also seen some articles that say that cooking with natural gas creates a lot of indoor pollution.

Say to me getting rid of gasoline and diesel cars will help a lot. Also getting rid of gas stoves and furnaces would also help.

One thing I don't see talked of much, driers. The exhaust from gas driers to me seems like something really dodgy.
It looks like Dr. David Burns just released a new book called Feeling Great
For this poll to be accurate, I think a list of agreed exact symptoms needs to be included.

E.g. I have no idea what depressive symptoms are.
I learnt to program at age 12 with no Internet. We had magazines, we had manuals, we had libraries. It used to be that a "home computer" came with a programming language (usually BASIC) and some introductory material out of the box so a whole generation of programmers learnt that way. But I guess there was some gap where this wasn't a given any more... In some ways today is worse than the "old days" because you don't need to program these things to do stuff with them.
I actually didn’t. GP insinuates that there’s been a flip of policies between parties when that’s not the case.

The same party that wanted to keep slavery in the south is the very same party of today spouting racist ideology.
This is the year 2020 - I'm sure we can do better than this. If the police see a problem with your vehicle, there should be a way for them to look up your license plate and send you a notice, rather than stopping you in a way that could put both you and themselves at risk.
China has consistently exhibited shady behavior when dealing with this virus. The Nature paper showing that the virus came from pangolin has been found to be fabricated.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2313-x
https://mobile.twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/132034405523096371...
Google has a ton of interesting work, but the worst engineers at Google don't get to do it and you are unlikely to get such a position as a new grad. But as long as you do good work you can easily switch to an interesting team after a year. And since the first year as a new grad you mostly learn the ropes how to design services, write tests, write readable code, deploy to production etc, so most things are interesting anyway.
TLS involves both cert checking (server is truly who they say they are and not MITM) and Diffie-Helman key exchange to set up session keys (messages are end-to-end encrypted).

You can DH with an untrusted cert. It might be interceptable.

HTTP is always interceptable.

But there should be zero reason not to set this connection up with a full proper cert. HTTP is just mega sloppy.

As others mentioned, you can bootstrap TLS by first checking OCSP (in the open) on your cert auth service, then use that opaque, freshly-checked connection to check the rest.
I don't want to poop on Sharkey's achievement, because I at 17 am nowhere near the level of expertise they demonstrated, but it should be noted that they've had the means to be successful in this endeavor, whereas most young students even today do not (21 million Americans don't have broadband Internet, fewer have good teachers, even fewer have good computer teachers, etc). Imagine the untapped potential lurking in kids too poor to really take the time to learn about this kind of thing.
Technology Connections just put out a video about an old microwave that he contends has better features that most you can buy today. Also it explains how microwaves use a humidity probe to sense steam escaping from say a microwave-popcorn bag to determine when its done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiS27feX8o0
Yeah, this is honestly the most logical and rational conclusion I've come to myself.

Once you're fully aware of the state of things... shit's hard. I'm almost envious of clinical psychopaths in this age.
Yeah, I absolutely loved my Lumia... best phone I ever had. Crushed when it stopped working after... 5 years?
If I did that for Xilinx (Vivado) this wouldn't be a comparison but a long rant ^^

There's only two manufacturers of FPGA, Xilinx and Altera, I don't imagine the other one is any better.

More than the tooling, there's a very steep learning curve, it's a professional tool for professional EE/SW, I don't think it's something you can jump into easily like you could jump into an arduino example or a python shell. Literally none of the things mentioned in this article would be applicable because HDL (hardware design) is not software development.
This is really cool. One of the software [0] that I am using haven't been update since 1999 but it still work perfectly on Windows 10.

[0]: http://pmdevigne.free.fr/TaskbarActivate.html
What’s special about the last two weeks? Or is this someone trying out the poll creation feature on HN?
I was always pretty good at being a loner and my current situation I’m not living alone but man it’s weird that things like not going inside the grocery store anymore make me feel like a part of the human experience is missing. Seeing the country (US) about to plunge into new depths this winter with no leadership is hard to stomach.
>how do you make polls on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
I use Google scholar to find interesting papers and scihub to read them.
I mean... isn't everyone piling onto the intel beatdown?

I saw a pretty rough one talking about the desperation and low yields of their chips.

No rest for the weary
Essentially what Steve Jobs said about product vs sales & marketing people and Xerox, but more regional/department version.

https://youtu.be/P4VBqTViEx4
I'd say a lot of UARTs are running debug consoles, but you don't want that for a hello world typically because it can be pretty complex to initialize when the whole point of a hello world is to get something happening with the minimum of setup.

The UART will have pin config, the clock tree, and the UART itself that all need to be initialized, and can be finicky when setup incorrectly (particularly the clock tree).

Blinking an LED with a busy wait loop square wave is way simpler and gives you externally visible code execution with less that can go wrong than printing to the UART.
I would say no. Windows/Linux machines are generally secure.

I think it matters a lot what you consider "Secure" to mean. Most security people are focused on stopping an attacker from remotely installing and executing malicious code on your device. Huge amount of effort is dedicated by security people to adding hardware to stop buffer over runs, make memory protected, signing code and so on, to stop these types of attacks. A more locked down system like iOS/Android is at least in theory more secure then a device ruining Windows and especially Linux, that lets the user install and run what ever they want.

If you on the other hand define security as in control over your device and your data, then the Mobile devices are terrible. A lot of apps are full of "telemetry" (read spyware) that in practice makes most Mobile device leaks a huge amount of data. You have very little control over this. This is an attack vector that is mostly ignored by these companies, because they dont see it as an attack vector, but rather as a revenue stream.
So, to precede your good intentions:

Step 0: Be in a good place in life and have money.

If only things could be so simple...
You can't eat on risk adjusted returns alone! gotta make that chedder

But leverage necessarily decreases your risk adjusted return assuming non zero volatility of the strategy. This is called "volatility drag."
Wow, this is som really impressive work. Seems to have a lot of well thought out features, looking forward to taking it for a spin.

How have you found it working with Deno so far?
I've had some microwaved meals that were really rather nice -- Saffron Road's Indian dishes are pretty good, for instance.
Not depressed myself but like 90% of the people I know is depressed, and it has been a rollercoaster of emotions for me, I live in a country with a huge economic crisis that have led people to the most horrible suffering you can imagine without being in a war state. Most of the causes for the depression are systematically caused by the government, people even ignore their mental health and are just struggling to survive.

What makes the whole thing worse is that there isn’t much help available, really few people can afford to really get professional help and there is no public help, some NGOs are doing the best they can but it’s impossible to help a society where mostly everyone has depression.

I am not familiar at all with any psychological studies being done in my country, but I believe that a lot of people in the field would like to work in here, there is so many things to study and observe.

For those wondering, my country is Venezuela
I had an inability to focus and paralyzing procrastination until the election was decided. And then, like a miracle, it went away. :)

Not making a political statement with that, but we have a ton of stuff weighing over all of us right now, so be easy on yourself if you feel a bit down or unable to do anything like normal productivity - you are definitely not alone.
I am familiar with notion but not sure what you mean...
I'm so tired of security aspects being ignored - where is the Ubikey integration?!
You've said many foolish things in this thread, but you should at least consider the fact that if your employer considers ethics important, and then asks you to interview prospects from such an "unethical" company, your own company's ethics are clearly contrary to your own.
Don't you consider presence of axioms exactly the opposite of perfection?

Instead, it's the best human mind can muster.
Also the better talent you get.. the more complex they make your coding. Eventually you don't understand it any longer and the talent leaves and now you have to find someone of equal or greater talent to figure it out or you are going to go out of business because you can't don't the coding on your own system.
If you have #1 and the ability to collect #3, then you’re already an intermediary between the user and Apple.

At that point, what’s to prevent you from providing unacceptably slow service for the certs of those apps you don’t like and soft-locking the user out of particular apps on their own device?
I guess it's will be to late when some "hackers from country X" gonna start to leak sensetive information on EU politicians and their relatives just before elections.
I've always perceived working in finance/payment infrastructure as more "evil" than ad-tech. Is that not the general perception?
Yeah, that confused me as well.

Even if there was some wrinkle about the loop argument that I didn't understand, and HTTPS is out: Apple could encrypt the base64 payload, and the sniffable info is reduced to which computer is phoning home, which is something that someone with the ability to middle comms probably knows already.

"roll your own encryption and send it over HTTP" is a bad idea in general but... this is Apple, they can and do implement encryption. Why not here?
Many people would bat an eye at that.

Even light escalation would be counterproductive. Turning a conflict physical isn't light escalation anyway.
Yes. I started a new job (software engineering again) at the start of the pandemic. I feel like I burned a bridge with my manager prior to leaving so ... I won't be able to return to that company in the future.

Haven't really spoken to anyone outside of work (tiny company, too) since March. Left to my own devices at work. Haven't seen anyone in person since April.

Spend most of my days online and alone. Attempted suicide over the summer. Not eating much, rapidly losing weight.

It's my birthday in a few weeks and most days, I don't want to live to see it.
Crossfade editing is pretty important when doing cuts.

Synchronizing audio to video is also pretty important and hard to do if you're not familiar with it, and also the most common task I've been asked to help people with (example: a lip sync video).

I wouldn't touch time stretching, that's a rabbit hole.

I'd hazard against using a "layer model" for audio because that will not scale very far. But audio engines are also a rabbit hole.

For SFX editing, a sampler or VST3/AU soft synth host with midi playback would be great as a stopgap for full audio editing.

If you want something totally unique that I don't know exists: ambisonic mixing/rendering alongside 3D video editing. There are tools for both but the medium is pretty new. This is also a bit of a rabbit hole and not an enthusiast area today.