skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Musk could probably make billions just by licensing their battery technology. Once EVs are truly mass market, competition, as with current automobiles, will drive down margins significantly. Licensing his tech at the same time would really boost the overall profit.

Then again I'm just arm-chairing this thing. It's not like I have my own billions to backup my business prowess.
> If you are going to convince me, show me how the CPU stacks up to a top of the line Ryzen/threadripper and run Cinebench. If you want to convince me about the graphics/ML capabilities, compare it to a 3090 RTX using running Vulkan/Cuda.

These are chips for their low end, entry level products. Why on earth would you think that would be an appropriate comparison? That's absolutely absurd. They aren't putting these in iMacs or Mac Pros.

They aren't putting these in their high end MacBook Pros (they put it in their low end 13" pro, which has always been only a minor step up from the Air - the higher end 13" pro was more powerful, which they haven't replaced yet.)

Apple's "faster than 98% of laptops sold" line is obviously nonsense, like I'm sure it's technically correct - most laptops sold are cheap, low end things - but that's not a particularly huge achievement. I'm not sure why this line in particular is inviting people to make such ridiculous statements in response though.
Unfortunately it’s the GPU that causes the issue, not the CPU.

Whatever bus video runs over is wired through the dedicated GPU, so integrated is not an option with external monitors connected. That by itself would be fine, except for whatever reason, driving monitors with mismatched resolutions maxes the memory clock on the 5300M and 5500M. This causes a persistent 20W power draw from the GPU, which results in a lot of heat and near-constant fan noise, even while idle. As there isn’t a monitor in the world that matches the resolution of the built-in screen, this means the clocks are always maxed (unless you close the laptop and run in clamshell mode).

The 5600M uses HBM2 memory and doesn’t suffer from the issue, but a £600 upgrade to work around the issue is lame, especially when I don’t actually need the GPU, you just can’t buy a 16” without one.

Disabling turbo boost does help a little, but it doesn’t come close to solving it.
Interesting article. The two-strap design the author created for the Oculus reminds me of the strap system used for many swimming goggles.

I suppose they have some similar problems to solve; with VR the strap is supporting a fairly heavy load hanging in front of the wearer's face, which would have a tendency to twist off if not held in place firmly. Similarly swimming goggles may twist off when diving into the water, if they aren't firmly held in place. Furthermore the 'big hair' situation seems similar in some ways to the difficulties you can have while wearing a swim cap (with lots of hair under it.)
Of all the things on the NSA priority list, it seems like trying to inject malicious software into the wild via random reverse engineers computers seems like the best use of their time.
Reminder Oculus is tightly tied to facebook, and thus should be avoided.

Compared to that, whether it works with black hair or not is basically irrelevant.
or to run a game :) I have a mac pro 5,1 + nvidia that works pretty well with games on windows, but macos is a wasteland in this respect
that doesn't match my experience at all. I've been in few houses/apartments in Japan with disgusting floors. I've been in plenty in the USA. You can see cleaning floors in Japan is part of the culture as it feature heavily in anime about real like since everyone shares in it as a well known cultural activity.

Carpet is also unusual in Japan. Tatami are not uncommon but they are easy to clean where as carpet is not.
I'm gonna assume said Jörg is German. Quoting from Wikipedia

> German names containing umlauts (ä, ö, ü) and/or ß are spelled in the correct way in the non-machine-readable zone of the passport, but with AE, OE, UE, and/or SS in the machine-readable zone

In my EU driver's license the umlauts are spelled in the correct way, these aren't in my name, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_passport#Different_spel...
Communist systems took poor and often feudal countries or colonies and made them into regional powers or superpowers. The liberal narrative that we've reached the end of history because of their "failure" is absurd in the extreme, particularly given the outside pressures and violences they (usually) weathered.

Instead of, "what's wrong with communism!?", we should be asking, "if communism doesn't work, why was it necessary for capitalist countries to direct the entirety of their foreign policies into violence and sanctions against communists in their own communist countries and anyone who so much as requested aid from them, despite capitalist countries refusing to supply such aid?"

The reality is that communist countries actually did work and worked better than the prior state those countries were in, but were targeted for systematic erasure by the rest of the planet. When communist countries fell, life did not get better for those who lived there. It got worse. Pensions were privatized or canceled. Public programs eliminated. Promises of multi-party democracy were amended to disclude communists or anyone like them, with violence. Quality of Life indicators plunged and with no option to return to the former system (a certainly authoritarian condition imposed by the newly-in-power, Western-supported governments), these countries languished for decades and were and continue to be subjected to new depravities and exploitation even as they claw back some semblance of dignity.

Look at polling in the former Eastern Bloc. In Russia. In China. It's still very popular and it's not because of the chauvinist (and often contextually racist) idea they're all brainwashed goons. They saw the changes and often have a critically supportive view of a return. They say that most things were better, but acknowledge those that were worse, and when they say they'd support a return it's not to an identical state, just a similar one. But their political systems prevent this. One must wonder why.
why would you expect cases and deaths to be under reported and how would they hide people needing hospitalization?
Ultra fast inventory data entry
That'll mean an 8c/16t will catch up to a 4+4 core

Apple will have a 8+4 core out soon, and likely much larger after that. Since they're so much more power efficient, they can utilize cores better at any TDP.
If only there was a way to fix the article somehow!
I’m curious. Is Ghidra the state of the art? Does the NSA have something better internally?
Glad to see these takes on HN. Keep it up!
PipeWire late summer update 2020
Grokking the Biotech Industry
Right answer here. I am pretty excited about a passively cooled device power efficient device that performs on-par, or better than, a 3-year-old, super heavy, gamer laptop like an Alienware r2/3. Those machines are still capable of running relatively impressive PC-VR, way ahead of what we see today in the standalone Oculus Quest2. Stick one (or preferably 2) of these things in a VR headset please Apple.
WIKI is a joke

So much lies, tains and poltical revisionism
its no longer a trusted source, just like 99%
of western mainstram
In fairness, these issues seem like they’d also affect anyone with long hair in a bun.

Car headrests are a huge issue for my (caucasian) better half, to the point where she vetos car purchases over them. There’s no way she could use one of these headsets either.

I imagine the headrests I’m referring to also a huge pain in the neck (literally —— many of them force you to slouch) for the women in this study, and for most women with long hair.
I think the self-driving efforts by the ride-sharing companies were just there to attract massive investment rounds. Now Uber's public and investors are generally aware that the level of self-driving required for autonomous taxis is decades away. Probably a good choice to sell.
Ok, this actually makes sense to me. I forgot that the rocket factory is only a subset of total production.
No one ever jammed Radio Moscow.
Wow, haven't seen this for years! Used this during my CS and ENG undergrad all the time for math courses. A fantastic resource.
And it's likewise often overlooked by those who oppose regulation who fail to recognize when power is centralized by corporations which are even less accountable than a democratic government.
Thanks to the OP for the book reference (But How do it Know? by Scott), I hadn't heard of it. I had the same kind of aha moment with Petzold's Code.
That sucks...

but at the other end of the spectrum, Tesla have had issues with cars running into walls while the driver was enjoying self driving OTA content, or cars catching fire after new fast charging OTA content, in neither of the cases they issued recalls as legally defined.

So I’m not so sure whether manufacturers should be allowed direct OTA updates without recalls or heavy regulatory oversights.

Boeing could have designed MCAS on 737 MAX so that the company can rewrite its behaviors covertly and remotely, except that that isn’t how airplanes work. Why should it be how cars work?
First they take money and allow far right groups to advertise on Facebook now they oppress people of color by making Oculus hardware for racially inferior whites.
The machine-readable zone has strict limitations (worse than ASCII, in fact), but the human-readable parts can contain anything including non-Latin scripts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-readable_passport#Name...
Quick Question: Is GFXBench ARM-native? If this is actually under Rosetta...
It's definitely more expensive than simply buying a DIMM, but keep in mind that is "unified" memory and is part of the SoC, and is likely much faster than any old stick of RAM you'd normally put in a laptop. That, plus the Apple Premium.
It’s fun to follow along, even if like me, you’re not too familiar with Clojure.
Here's my (unpopular) take on it. Due to centralization and monopolization of the economy, the economic leverage of average rank-and-file middle-class people plummeted in the last 10 years. Plummeted to the point where most salaried employees won't ever afford property ownership, let alone retirement. Most of the people are priced out of raising kids in the environment they were themselves raised in. People feel this and are becoming more depressed and irritated every year.

The corporations that now control most of our economy aren't dumb. They learned from Occupy Wall Street. They don't want people to unite and vote for some drastic anti-corporate measures. So they are employing divisive tactics. Making people focus on their identity and be offended by words, instead of unaffordable mortgage affordability and impossibility of retirement. Dividing middle class by race, gender and a bunch of other parameters, and supporting movements that call for redistribution of wealth between thees groups, rather than going after the corporate structures. Making the majority feel guilty for wanting the same life quality their parents had, by focusing on minorities that never had that lifestyle (but not helping these minorities achieve it either).

Everyone is miserable, everyone hates everyone else. Wages are stuck, real estate is unaffordable, corporate stocks shoot for the stars.
A prototype of Cybersyn operated for about a year in a limited capacity and did so successfully. Then Allende was murdered in a CIA-backed coup.

Claims about it failing for theoretical reasons seem... odd.
You don't actually need the ewaste disaster to have cheap old cellphones. You can get a 64-bit PC on eBay shipped to you for <$50. 10+ years old but will still run the latest Windows or Linux.

If phones worked like this, people would keep them for many more years, but there would still be more than enough 10+ year old phones available for a close approximation to the shipping cost.

It would also mean that the older phones would go to poor countries that could still use them instead of being slag, because "slow but runs current software" is usable whereas "not even old enough to be slow but can't run current software" means you can't use the thing because websites will throw certificate errors from missing roots, apps won't run on it and it will be full of known vulnerabilities and get malware.
Should we not also hold Facebook accountable for blatant sexism?

(I disagree with the article, and think this would affect many non-black women as well.)
I close to giving up on trying to be clever or poetic on HN, I think the implicit no jokes or fun rule means people just switch their brains off and I end up having to explain it (This particular comment not so much, but still)
There were multiple Tesla fires, and they nerfed barriers as a response, without issuing recall (https://electrek.co/2019/10/04/tesla-software-updat-battery-...)
I admit I kind of glazed over when I read through the action plan/pledge etc. I just didn't see a lot of concrete steps in there that would actually make a difference.

The only thing that's going to make a difference is for someone to put their foot down and challenge §1201 in court. Code is speech. This is America. We can speak freely. §1201 should be struck from the DMCA on constitutional grounds. But no one has the pockets or the huevos to fight it.
This presupposes a very important thing, which is, how do you define a mistake? Is it a decision that other people are unhappy with, even if you still think it was right? That you yourself are unhappy with, even if others approve? What if you've made a decision with mixed results, bad and good? Was that a mistake? A partial mistake? Are "mistakes" on a gradient, and if so, is there a tipping point at which you follow the outlined procedure?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rMq-4rWgis
More important: canada has 68500 police. Austrailia has 63000 (google). So australia has a much higher police:people ratio. Once all the traffic tickets are issued there is probably a tipping point where there are suddenly more officers for technology-related investigations. Canada is also netorious for not investigating tech crimes. It is not a focus for the RCMP.
Try changing it to compare the M1 against a 2080. This is only one generation behind yes? If I could just paste a pic in I would, but I will let you do the work yourself. It is similar. Amazing IMO, and I am no longer an apple fan.
Today I've learned that tension lined up in thyroid-adam's apple-clavicular can be released by sheetali pranayama with head in matsyasana position.
We don't need a stepping stone to the Belt. The Belt is right there. Mars is at best a distraction, more likely a deep, deep hole.

Phobos could be useful.
The browser bugs/differences I run into these days aren’t surprising; they live at the edges with features that aren’t 100% complete usually, and I know that going in. Long gone are the days of surprising cross browser bugs, I’ve found
Seems to be another group pandering to SJW CoC - at least this one is - https://aussies.space/coc.php
Just curious, is it possible add execution of 140 chars snippets (in JS, Py, etc.) as feature to Nitter?[0]

[0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
Maddoff was a case of explicit fraud, was my point. It's not like money is a complete guarantee of getting away with it
Is the disclaimer really necessary or are you making a joke about how people can't even share the smallest of things without telling us they dislike Javascript?
I have seen increasing number of people using emojis as a word or username replacement. Given how well it works in many context, I disagree with excluding emojis.
> There is: you can't estimate how much people will want something new.

Socialism cannot estimate this any better or worse than capitalism. Contrasting the two is actually a bit absurd, given that socialism has a wide range of forms and does not prescribe the form in which workers own productive capital.

e.g., market socialists exist. So do central planning-pushing communists. So do communalists...
We have reached the End of History (TM), you see, and no longer need to think about that.
For folks finding this model/analysis compelling: many of these observations and coping skills are common in undiagnosed ADHD. It’s not a perfect circle venn diagram, but pretty close. Any kind of paralysis without progressive validation or structured achievement is very likely associated with dopamine release and absorption.

In adult-diagnosed ADHD cases, we often find ourselves discovering cleverly invented milestones and achievements or even convenient self deceptions that produce dopamine when it would naturally be a long way away. Speaking for myself, I allow myself personal congratulations and merits for utterly insignificant and pointless details for any task that feels “too big” or “too daunting” to make them achievable for my brain. I can take several hours to get my laundry going, a couple minutes work in all, and I allow myself to celebrate getting the dirty laundry into a basket, then another getting it into the laundry room. Usually by this point following through is automatic and doesn’t require more workarounds.

But ultimately the concept is the same. If the reward feels far away, and far away is demotivating, giving yourself rewards along the way opens pathways to keep going when it doesn’t feel feasible otherwise.
Here is another comment for you to feel better about yourself by putting down. I have lots of points, I can help you, if you need to feel better about yourself by putting down what others say, here's another comment for you to put down.
Although the nerfed Tesla batteries still charge faster than a brand new Bolt.
In Oakland there are a lot of Uber drivers who seem like they don’t speak English well enough to get a job like a grocery store checkout clerk. From my time working in retail I have also known many people who couldn’t get enough hours at their primary job, but its scheduling constraints meant it was hard for them to find a second job that fit in with it. Uber or similar gig work seems ideal for these situations.
> Amazing IMO

Apple could nearly buy Nvidia with their cash in hand alone, is it that surprising? I'd be more surprised if they fucked it up completely.

That they have actually chose to do it is impressive, although highly worrying to me from a software freedom perspective. What are the odds of Apple releasing drivers for any of their hardware?
ya, good luck. Unless you joined up 10+ years ago it is very hard to edit wikipedia. I have tried several times to contribute and have always faced unkind resistance. Any contribution from a newish account is a red flag to the bulls that run things there.
Here's a fresh one for anyone who needs to feel better by putting down what others say. I have lots of points, i can help you.
Tightening financial regulation has been well known / speculated. ( Depending on how you view this ) Jack Ma isn't exactly Xi's Friend. Power Play. And Western Investors wants their money out before it is too late.

So it is probably a bit of everything.
> Is the disclaimer really necessary

Yes.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16191843
Glad you’re enjoying it! :)
Musk says took four Covid-19 tests; two were positive, two negative
I suspect the opposite. It is possible that Apple has decided that 640 KB is enough for everyone — that performance level of a tablet is what most common people need from a computer. Which is not entirely untrue, as a decent PC from 10 years ago is still suitable for most common tasks today if you are not into gaming, or virtual machines building other virtual machines. Most people don't really use all their cores and gigabytes. Also, consumers got used to smartphone limitations, so computer can now be presented as overall “bigger and better” mobile device with better keyboard, bigger drive, infinite battery, etc.

If they wanted raw performance in general code, they would stay with what they already had. The switch means that their goal was different.

I guess we'll see hordes of fans defending that decision quite soon.
As someone who wants a minimal experience for developing, I like the changes.

You can turn off the menu bar, the rounded corners just look nicer, and I’d rather have simple looking icons than a bunch of words in the UI.
Cheers George! Heard great things about Code — getting it now :)
Congrats on your progress so far

Can you clarify why you have no employees/outsource/freelancer/etc ?

I would want to focus on that because it looks like you could invest something like 10k/mo (or ~5k/mo if you offshore) for some time and actually have less work to do in the future - the features will already be build, forever.
Book on dynamic programming problems, 100% built from code
This is a book that explains in detail dynamic programming problems that are often used in interviews.

I wanted to do a better job at explaining the concepts than the popular interview books, which I did not find easy to follow. So I wrote solutions with tons of examples, explanations, drawings and clean code samples. You can click on « look inside » on Amazon to see some of the content.

A warning, I am not a native English speaker, so my writing might be a bit odd at times. I didn’t invest in an editor, as I am not interested in making money from this. This might sound odd, but I wrote the book primarily just to help others learn, while also help myself by ensuring that I master the topic. I’ve also had a ton of fun doing it!

The book is 100% built from code (markdown), including all the few hundred drawings and the cover. I used an ascii-art to svg generator called goat to render the drawings, and built the book with pandoc and latex.

The drawings look as if they are handwritten. In an interview, we usually write on a whiteboard—-so why not make an interview prep book look the same? Here is an example of what I mean:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sw46/goat/master/examples/...

To achieve this, I made some changes to goat, which I published here:

https://github.com/sw46/goat

Please let me know if you like it. I am considering publishing the whole book generation pipeline, if people might find that useful.
MyMilitia is probably an example of these pitchforks -

http://nhne-pulse.org/nick-hanauers-message-to-fellow-zillio...
Here's a fresh comment for those people who need to feel better by putting down what others say. I can help you, i have lots of points.
An important consideration is that USSR-style communism did not fail because of a fundamentally broken economy, but due to expending vast resources and organization against outside attacks / foreign policy.

Not that there weren't serious economic problems, just that they were not dramatic and certainly not so compared to those of capitalist countries. For example, the Soviet system did a poor job at incentivizing production. Factories that performed worse would often receive greater benefits, as policymakers frequently followed a "squeaky wheel gets the grease" approach. This also happened internal to factories or other productive activities, where there was no real incentive to work more efficiently and sometimes a disincentive. These are, of course, easily soluble problems with greater information and adding some incentives for workers' performance, but I don't bring them up because of that - I bring them up because it's what workers complained about.
The F1 isn't superior to the SSME. It doesn't really excel at anything (other than being very big maybe.)

From another article on that website:
"The RS-25 is still considered to be about the best engine ever made with a fairly high thrust to weight ratio and unmatched efficiency." [1]

[1] https://everydayastronaut.com/raptor-engine/
There are lots of things being done, but much more could be done - and for that we need to convince governments, which takes data.

In particular we need to convince governing bodies that action is in their direct and immediate economic interest, which again takes data.