skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yup. This is a neat car and all, but pretty much everything from a laptop to an LED Christmas tree or coffee maker goes into the same room and has the same measurements taken.

As for "bricking traffic lights?" They would have to be pretty sensitive to react to this. Although you can hear weird noises on an AM radio, the gain from emf to audio is around 200 dB. In other words, you have to try just to hear it...

In order for signals that far away to influence the switching circuits of traffic light LED voltage regulators, the current flow would have to be somewhat near a lightning bolt.... (current is prop to magnetic field strength and thus induced current strength that would "brick" or interfere with infrastructure. Let's do some envelope math...

~1900 HP =~ 1900*750Watts. @720 Volts -> ~~1900 A or 1.9kA
(This is astonishingly crude. please bear with me or supply more accurate calcs)

Let's look up lightning bolts [0]
Seems their current ranges from 0.1 kA to 200kA. So I was probably overly skeptical/cynical in my initial assessment. Maybe this car's peak horsepower could generate a field as strong as a lightning bolt! gulp.

[0] https://hypertextbook.com/facts/1997/BrookeHaramija.shtml
Most "REST" APIs are just RPC. Many "REST" URLs are just the names of the methods they call on the remote endpoint.

REST is good for things like downloading and uploading documents or media to a web server. GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, etc. were designed for documents/media. Because it's available from a web browser, like JavaScript, people started using it even on native apps because it's familiar. That doesn't mean it's the best or most productive protocol.
Ask HN: Askap Dataset in Steradians/Pixel
Can someone figure out the pixel size of the new ASKAP dataset ("which covers 83% of the sky, is a combination of 903 individual images, each containing 70 billion pixels" [1]) in steradians [2] as well as for the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, as I am curious how to know their relative resolutions in steradians/pixel. (Approximation using the above values may not apply to actual dataset if steradians ranges across the images like areas delimited by latitudes/longitudes.) Can hardly wait for the app to explore this

[1] https://www.livescience.com/fastest-all-sky-map-ever-askap.html

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steradian

Edit: changed link 2 to avoid overwhelming a small site
It’s been some time since I’ve used Selenium, but I don’t remember it being any more complicated than that to test arbitrary websites.

What is that code doing that’s special?
Fossil fuels also creates petrochemicals used to create plastics and other products. Does anyone see plastics disappearing?
this jpeg link downloaded a webp file to my computer and wen i try to open it it asks if im sure i want to open it. webp seems to be an image file but is it safe to open
Same reason poetry has slow (but accurate) dependency resolution. It would be nice to have as part of the repo API.
there are also tons of great jp artists who worked as murakami's assistants.
jnthed comes to mind

>https://twitter.com/JNTHED/

>https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/4395
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How does iPhone beat Note20 in battery life if the Note lasts longer?

How does the chip performance matter if the Note feels faster in opening apps and scrolling due to the refresh rate?

How does efficiency matter if the Note holds more apps in memory for faster task switching?

How does a faster chip matter if the image processing is way superior in the Note so your photos almost always come out better?

The difference is subjective. I would have expected it to be objective like in the M1 laptop. The new air and pro absolutely obliterate other comparable systems in every metric.
MediaTek 6nm chips next year https://www.gizmochina.com/2020/09/10/mediatek-to-announce-6...
Tiled windows managers have issues though. Last time I tried i3wm for example, there was no default support for sleep, energy saving and hardware keyboard shortcuts and you had to take care of all of that instead of the usual GNOME/KDE to do it for you. The best option is to install tiled windows managers plugins within GNOME or KDE on Linux.
No. A company that doesn't grow but has positive cash flow is still worth something. You can view a stock as a bond with a coupon rate that is not fixed and doesn't have to be paid back to you immediately if the company thinks it can reinvest it to make even more money. A company's stock might drop at the ex-dividend date, but it would have gone up incrementally each day before that.
Compassion is a very unreasonable thing?

Can I ask which society on our Earth that you were born into?
Characterizing collective bargaining as extortion is part of the problem.
Some people don't care about performance per watt and only care about absolute performance.
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there's also lf.
It's a bit weird, I guess, but it's hardly convoluted or awkward. I downloaded a pre-baked iso for the os, another one for the office, and in about 10 minutes had a working, tolerable writing environment.
> So if you get a 3% dividend a year, the stock price is dropping by the same amount.

Here is the reason the stock price drops by the dividend amount.

Dividends are issued to the person holding the stock at the date the dividend is issued.

This means it is possible to buy the stock one day before the dividend issue date, hold the stock for another day which then entitles you to the dividend and then sell the stock the following day.

So you can hold the stock for just three days yet still get the dividend and the price drop accounts for this possibility.

If the price did not drop that would effectively equate to free money, as you could take out a three day loan to get the dividend and the interest on that loan would be way less than the dividend amount.

As such it is capital market forces that is causing the share price to drop.
> To the advantage of union organisers, mass communication and organisation is a lot easier today. Surveillance is easier too.

For those of us who are working from home due to the pandemic (or other reasons), we don't have any way to communicate with our co-workers except via electronic channels that can be logged.

Pre-covid, one could reasonably expect that if one were to mention unionization in conversation over lunch, there wouldn't be a permanent electronic record of it. Now, it's just not something you can discreetly discuss with someone unless you have their outside-of-work contact information.
Show HN: Bagatto – an extensible, transparent static site generator
Agreed, I looked at the M1 and went out and bought an XPS15. MacOS scares me, wont be long before everything has to be bought from the app store.
I agree. I cannot recall a single corporate password policy in my working life that did not require regular password resets. And now that I think about it, I am surprised that Google does not ask me to reset my password on a regular basis. I guess Google follows the latest NIST advice!

(For other readers: It seems that quote comes from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_policy)
I collected some experiments in that area here (and anyone should feel free to add more, including their own):

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Interactive-Shell

Many of the articles have nice screenshots / animations to give you a feel for what it is.

I plan to turn https://www.oilshell.org/ into a library and I hope people will build GUIs around it. There are some UI possibilities that are difficult or impossible unless you have hooks to the shell other than stdin/stdout.

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/issues/738
If it's the canary, you don't want to be there if you're single region. You probably do want to be there if you're multi-region, in case they roll out something that breaks you, but not everyone else.
Microsoft Page Links to Windows 95 in Electron
When I was in grad school, I was working on general game playing AI. Unfortunately, I was in a "pure logic" research group, founded on the old-school AI principles that believed AI could be derived from deterministic logic.

Of course, this limited the games that we could simulate to purely deterministic games (checkers, chess, go, etc.). Any games that included an aspect of chance required a hack like a "dice player" or a "deck player" that would add the random aspects of the game. Of course, this led to other problems, since the engines would try to calculate the current state of the game based on the "optimal" play of the random player.

This is a much more interesting approach, and I imagine will prove to be far more useful.
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The normal path back in the day was QA first then dev. Sometimes you could jump the line via an internship but it was rare.
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This PDF is dated June 2017: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.S...
Plaid doesn’t do ACH transactions, someone else does, e.g. Stripe, or Dwolla. They merely provide a means to verify account details instantly per NACHA rules.

Plaid is planning to do ACH payments themselves and have a private beta.
I don't think the paper has been accepted, because the conference itself has not made decisions on the papers. This article [1] says that the paper was submitted to "ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency", which sends paper decisions (accept or reject) next week [2]. Of course, it might be accepted at that time, but that doesn't seem to be decided yet.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-03/google-s-...

[2] https://facctconference.org/2021/cfp.html
If getting your health insurance through your employer creates dependency and gives your employer more control over you (and it does) then why is it a good idea to give this power to the government?
Yes and no.

Specifically with regard to compiling: OpenGL 2.0 introduced the "GLSL" shader language, which is a C-like language that compiles to run on specific GPUs. OpenGL has an API call that says "given this GLSL string, compile it for the current GPU", and the libGL driver compiles that string for the program at runtime. You don't compile it ahead-of-time.

But also, the 3D APIs exposed by the kernel are pretty low-level, mostly just slightly abstracting over what the hardware itself exposes, essentially exposing a different API for each family of GPUs. The work of abstracting over those different low-level APIs in to a vendor-neutral API (in this case, the OpenGL API), is the job of a userspace library (in this case, libGL).

(Now, 2D acceleration, the kernel does a lot more work to provide a consistent 2D API between different devices.)
I am pretty sure the London office is focused on UK and European issues, GDPR and the like as well as the local ad market.. Well FB has an office in Ireland so they are probably focused on the EU issues more so. But yes there is cross pollination but that is the exception rather than the norm. FB is not the first to venture down this road.
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It's a distinction without any real difference. You could make the same argument about Planet Money, an NPR show, that went out of the way to provide cover for the banks during the financial crisis, had their host attack Elizabeth Warren in an interview, all while taking money from the same industry. Adam Davidson (the host who attacked Warren) of course then also went on to collect all kinds of "speaking fees" from financial institutions.

https://shameproject.com/profile/adam-davidson/

NPR, despite what the parent linked, does almost nothing to police these conflicts.
Certain things are possible with 10,000. Others with 10,000,000. Still others with 10 billion.

Certain things are impossible with only 10,000. Others with 10,000,000. Still other things are impossible with 10 billion.

We want rich, diverse, dynamic and satisfying lives. We do not want a crowded, polluted, impoverished world. 10,000 of us is certainly too few to sustain our civilizational accomplishments. My guess is that the numbers we have now are too many. What is the right-ish number?
Your mom sounds like a really good mom.
after 20 years at several US BigCo-s i see such an email as a totally fireable offense for a manager in a US company (and in Russia the boss would do bad things to you and would still probably fire you after that if you don't come to your senses :):

https://www.platformer.news/p/the-withering-email-that-got-a...

It also sounds like she did lawyer-rammed the Google a year before, so they were tip-topping around her strictly by the book, and with such clear an offense as that email she just threw the HR a freebie, as another commenter put it, so they could now get rid of her strictly by the book.
Among other problems, Safari keychain backups don’t work unless you store them in iCloud (and there’s no warning about this):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24626562
I didn't mean "it's not a guarantee to be accepted", I meant "you're not guaranteed to know the decision in two weeks".

You can pay for premium processing, and not get a decision within two weeks. In that case, you just get the premium processing fee back, and have an unknown wait time still.
Really? At our company we ran out of compiler .text space and were shopping for things could remove. It depends ...
Check Intel, your move.

System on a chip is nothing new.
The Great Divergence (Between Europe and Asia)
This is all true. You look at at a new PC and compare to a 10 year old one and its virtually the same, even in performance.
A Day in the Life of Dr. Anthony Fauci
I'd add that these topics tend to attract dramatic personalities, and that's what we saw here.

Do something productive and uncontroversial, or something unproductive and very controversial?
Plaid is more of a monopoly than Visa is.

Plaid is literally the only way to do ACH without microdeposit verification. There is no reason Plaid should have a monopoly on this. If banks opened up APIs for bank account verification, then anyone could compete with Plaid.

As usual the Justice Department doesn't know what they're talking about.
I didn't know Gebru much before her Twitter argument with LeCun. After that I didn't have much respect for her.
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Not sure. There are clearly some problems with the x86-64 ISA. If the world switches to ARM in the coming decade, that leaves Intel in a perilous position: no advantage in IP and no advantage in fabrication.
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All are supported. You just need to edit the config file.

Adding keyboard shortcuts is easiest in window manager comparing to full desktop environment where the setting is hide behind the some Setting GUI.

Energy saving feature is basically setting P-state on Intel CPU, and does not work on AMD. You could do it manually by using kernel interface.
Scroll down to "MS Paint on Windows 95" and there is a "Download on GitHub" link.
Trump spy chief seeks SEC scrutiny of Chinese dominance in cryptocurrency
> I am pretty sure the London office is focused on UK and European issues, GDPR and the like as well as the local ad market.

You may be “pretty sure”, but you are wrong. I worked at Facebook for four years including with many people from the London office. I don’t know how else I can convince you.
Starting with Tmux was quite eye-opening to me for exactly this reason. The power of composable tools is hard to exaggerate.
Yes, modern cards are basically YubiKeys. You can't trust people (such as bank employees) to maintain private keys. That would never work.

Maybe some kind of USB/Bluetooth device that can authorize your physical debit card can let online merchants debit bank accounts securely. I know they have had something similar in the UK for decades.
This isn't really true. Movie tickets (in the US) are a classic example of a cost that is rising faster than inflation (although as noted, movie popcorn is rising even more)

https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/02/pf/expenses-inflation/index...
Email is the tightest grip Google has on me. Maybe YouTube.

But their Google music fail, their rising phone prices, their bait and switch photo storage, and low quality search results have caused me to change.

Any alternatives to Chrome, Firefox on both Android and Desktop are buggy, I want a different company?
Suicide in Japan is generally higher than the USA. It might not be as high as SV (no idea) but if you're choosing based on suicide rates you'd be better off choosing another city in the USA
Damn - you got me. Still need that balm tho
What I love about loop pedals is it makes time a musical instrument. Brian Eno played with this. Dustin Wong is a delight.

Dustin Wong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1PuWrE9nKY
PixelNeRF Neural Radiance Fields from One or Few Images
As much as I respect Fred Rogers and Carl Sagan, they were white men working for goals that weren't exactly controversial. If we're calling them social activists—I'm not opposed to that, I just didn't consider them as activists in my original comment—then yeah there's plenty of polite social activists. The social activists I was considering were along the lines of MLK, Susan B. Anthony, James Baldwin. People who were advocating for something fundamentally opposite to current societal values. With that definition I believe there's no way to be polite.

I guess if I had to refine my original claim: it's impossible to politely disagree with fundamental societal values.
I am not a security expert, but this looks pretty useful: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/193351/in-2018-...

And that Twitter link (https://twitter.com/TerahashCorp/status/1155129705034653698) leads here: https://www.password-hashing.net/ ... but, on that website, I could not find an explanation about why to use argon2 over bcrypt.
I think if they come up with an ARM-based threadripper-type chip (array of chiplets?) things might get pretty interesting.

What AMD has going for it is software choices. Maybe microsoft plus linux.
>All of these groups are allowed to organize peaceful public rallies against the US and will be protected by police if they choose to do so

Which means separatists are free to discuss leaving, but any actual attempt would require government approval or no longer be considered peaceful making it illegal.
> Calling cocaine a ‘hard drug’ is just programming from 50+ years of the War on Drugs. And whilst it’s not the safest drug ever, the vast majority of people who do it are not dying, or have any real long term negative effects.
Of course there will always be people who do too much, or become addicted, but that’s the same as alcohol, cigarettes, food, etc. It should then be a public health issue, not a crime issue.

I would like to see the statistics on how easily people overdose on alcohol vs cocaine + the magnitude of damage each of them causes on an increasing scale.
You can't overdose on cigarettes or food, so I always thought that anything you can overdose on can be classified as hard drug, but don't quote me on that.

Talking about the known dangers is easy, but what about the unknown unknowns? Also, how would it impact society if cocaine became too popular among youth? ( because it is glamorised in movies & music )

Being skeptical and asking questions on drugs and their potential negative consequences gets one downvoted nowadays... smh
Our prototype was on DigitalOcean but we started collecting issues and feature requests that were solved more easily by AWS. Including IAM, we were an early adopter of S3, it's a great product. Now that I'm thinking about it, I'm going to open an issue to evaluate the other cloud providers. But honestly, the team is going to hate me, they have all spent a lot of time learning AWS.
I found i3 to be the easiest WM for setting arbitrary keyboard shortcuts. The .config file makes it really convenient, and you can just set the key to run an arbitrary shell command.
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Another example - M1s can't do SMT, no one is denying that they are good chips but there's a lot of catching up for them to do.

> And all of the M1 Macs have blazingly fast memory access. Remember, it's an SoC—the memory is on the same die as the CPUs, GPUs and they all have equal access to it. No bus to go across.

What does this even mean? Memory works at a certain voltage, clock speed, and has a capped rate at which it can transfer data if those are kept constant. For DDR4-3200 it's generally 3,200 MTs (megatransfers/sec).

What does every core has equal access to it mean? What does soldering SDRAM change in terms how many transfers/sec it can do? What do you mean there is no bus?

> The M1 already has features no "desktop" chip has, such as 8 instruction decoders.

What makes going wide a "desktop" class feature? Going wide isn't free, there is transistor cost associated. A M1 chip has 16 billion transistors for 8 cores. AMD's EPYC Rome has 39.54 billion transistors for 64 cores. That's 8 times as many cores. And that's including ~9 billion transistors just for the I/O die.

If you look at just the chiplets, AMD's 8 Core complexes take up only 3.9 billion transistors each. And these are 8 high performance cores with SMT, even removing GPU/NPU engines from M1, AMDs design clearly has a lower transistor cost.

> The Zen3 barely beats the M1

AMD was't trying to make an entry level laptop chip, so it's not good at being a entry level laptop chip? How do you think M1 would fare if we try to compare them on datacenter CPU metrics?

I understand why everyone is excited, but they aren't looking at the whole picture.
She reminds me of an intelligent Adria Richards.
https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in...
Awesome blog! Great to see the power of SCP's in action!
this is useful for network connectivity troubleshooting in any environment (container, embedded device, and so on) where curl, nc, telnet, etc. are not installed
SymSpell is about 1 million times faster than Norvig's algorithm.

https://github.com/wolfgarbe/SymSpell
Yeah, this is a thing. I have an UltraSparc laptop and was excited when I discovered that a bug I had in a little program was endian related after finding a newsgroup post of a similar problem from about 20 years before.
Snippets from the Book Clean Code
The Oracle wire protocol contains a (copyrighted) haiku, so no one can reverse-engineer the Oracle wire protocol without infringing on Oracle's copyright.