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> But: spatial audio only works (for now at least) when the video source is an iPhone or iPad. The AirPods (Pro or Max) know when your head is moving, but the source device needs to be location-aware too... it’s natural to want to use AirPods Max to watch a movie with the full spatial audio experience, as loud as you want, on the biggest screen in your house... But you can’t. You can only get this big room-sized audio experience with the small visual experience of an iPad or iPhone screen.

Even with the AirPods Pro, I'm so baffled by this.

Why does the source device need to be location-aware?

Wouldn't it be enough to just orient the spatial audio to something like your "median" head orientation? Obviously, the vast majority of the time you're watching something, you're looking at the screen.

Or for something fixed (like a TV), just click a button during setup while wearing your headphones saying "I'm looking directly at the center of the screen now."

I'm curious what I might be missing that makes it so critical for the source device to have an accelerometer and gyroscope.

(As a side note, I guess I also don't actually understand how your AirPods know how to orient themselves towards the direction of your device in the first place -- I don't believe they have an internal compass component.)
Also, from the 2020 perspective Microsoft seems to have been right that the browser is an important operating system feature/component and may have simply been ahead of the curve in realizing it. (Today's mobile OSes all make the case that it should be a tightly OS managed component. Most consumers today would be extremely confused if an OS didn't include a browser at all; whether or not they primarily use that browser to install a more preferred browser.) It's easy in 2020 to wonder if the Microsoft anti-trust effort delayed innovations like PWA standards and got in the way of people thinking to build earlier cross-platform, lighter weight HTML "app frameworks" than what we are seeing in this timeline with Electron.
i m looking to get an internship with no experience i dont think any recruiter is looking for me
i mean i will even take unpaid internship at this point
> What he also misses: is that if I sell something to another retailer for resale , I don't charge him sales tax on the entire purchase.

This is covered in the article: "a retailer usually won’t pay sales tax on a manufactured good they intend to a consumer in the same form."
Is that in SEK?
30k SEK is about 3k EUR.
Most of us enjoy going to a thing called a "store" where there are usually a variety of options to choose from, where one can easily compare side by side from different manufacturers.
Okay, I just created this on discord https://discord.gg/RBPmmdWg. Considering it might be more accessible for people. Wondering if I should post this out of the thread.
It is both fascinating and sad to watch. My family has split along political lines, with half despising Trump and half worshipping him. Each side hates the other sufficiently that we just avoid talking anymore, so it's like having two distinct families.

I don't know the solution other than everyone agreeing not to talk politics, ever. And even better, actually deciding that politics is pretty insignificant and only something to think about on election day.
Pretty sure they've been paying pre-IPO employees in RSUs for a while by now. Most late-stage companies stop paying options at a certain point. And even the pre-IPO employees will need to be paid RSUs in the future to retain them.
Interesting that vertical integration didn't save Intel - TSMC is considered more advanced in a specialized area.

It's probably wrong to generalize here too soon, but it could be possible to make better Apple product than Apple does using less vertically integrated parts.
The most common implementation I've seen of this are senior developers who write almost no code, but spend their time telling junior developers what to go back and reimplement, giving advice, etc. It's still the junior programmer's actually getting the product written, just with nudges in the right direction. Not a bad system really, reminds me of the relationship between officers and enlisted in the military.
How No Code Impacts Lean Methodology
I would say Bob Ross is more famous for being an art teacher than for being a great artist, and I think his fame is rightly deserved there. He never claimed to be a Money or something like that, he just tried to spread the joy of painting :)
Chief of staff to FDA chief: Vaccine must be authorized by Friday or resign
> And there are more interesting programming jobs that will also pay the bills, anyway.

Unless there aren't.

Either way, you're judging people simply for taking a different path than you, which is completely unfair.
Cloud Run adds min instances feature for latency-sensitive apps
> was famous for removing comments to 'tidy up the code'. The other developers then spent time readding the comments

"good stable and low-stress jobs in the middle-range of local income"
Where can you file for sales tax reimbursement? Essentially all online resale sites (eBay, Reverb, etc.) are charging sales tax on secondhand goods.

So if I buy something, then sell it later, that first purchase should be considered a "resale" purchase, right?
Just created one here https://discord.gg/RBPmmdWg
Parser combinators allow elegant implementations of parsing but are ridiculously slow compared to some Knuth-optimized parsers.
It's not that easy to extract all the money from IPO in a market that's in the bubble. You need institutional investors to agree. They are somehow reasonable, at least compared to what happens on the first day. Once trading starts, you'll have robinhood crowd pumping the price, without any understanding of valuation. They only know that stonks go up, so better buy early! And hedge funds that understand that behavior will also make sure to get their piece of cake.
The original is missing an "only". OP is saying that without the resale exemption, stores would be so tax-inefficient that we'd end up buying everything direct from manufacture.

(But it's more likely that stores would operate on a consignment model instead of a resale model.)
That last bit seems to come from a tweet by Musk, that would be 10% of $200,000 or $20,000 versus the $28,000 in the biography.

[1]
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1211064937004589056
Cargo ships are a tiny part of the entire supply chain and provide an incredibly efficient service. It's environmentally friendlier to buy something that's in season in the other hemisphere and ship it to you than to grow it locally off season.
Would diamond do better?
maybe that's the issue: as a hacker/ programmer/ data scientist, I spend my life trying to get the computer to not sleep/ suspend when I walk away because it's generally doing something.

My use case is in direct contrast to the 99%, and with Linux being focused on a technical audience, it gets short shrift in terms of priorities/ resources.

(honestly, most of my computers are generally set to no automatic sleeping/ suspension)
Created a discord channel https://discord.gg/RBPmmdWg
I’m going to bookmark this as an example of how to clearly and specifically point out a bunch of issues with a source while maintaining a constructive tone.

This type of comment makes HN the best forum for discussion on the Internet.
Exactly, the Nevada Cobol was able to run under Apple II machine with Microsoft Softcard, quite amazing at the time.
I work in scientific computing so I definitely don't miss SGI workstations either. My complaint is just that even the simplest tasks, like word processing, end up taking orders of magnitude more computing power (or just don't work very well). The average commercial web page is an extreme example of this - I'd rather go back to mid-90s layouts and animated GIFs than endure most news sites. (I wonder how much of the demand for steady increases in computing speed was simply driven by the need to slam the consumer with as many advertisements as possible.)

But yes, it is impressive that my $500 phone blows away the $50,000 workstations I started on.
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And light is the wallet.
This is why I genuinely enjoy going to this bar near me regularly. It's a very high-end place, but everyone that goes there knows one another, and we're like a giant extended family. People within the group have newborns, and they bring them all the time, and pass them around for all of us to enjoy .
The end of time spent with partner curve makes me sad. It’s interesting how easy it is to read a story into this plot.
>Instead of relying on taxes and fees to make government-approved entertainment why not simply... make content people want to watch?

Because why bother when you get money from free by law through taxes?

Count your blessings, as at least the BBC produces world class content viewed worldwide(former Top Gear, Dr. Who, etc) so you get your money's worth but in Germany, ARF and ZDF receive nearly as much money as the BBC but produce almost nothing worth watching by the Germans, let alone abroad, because why would they give a fuck when than sweet taxpayer money keeps rolling in no strings attached regardless.
Ask HN: What is an example of C++ code you'd recommend to learn from by reading?
If you’re a non-technical founder
If you’re a non-technical founder, how did you solve your technical problems? Did you learn coding yourself? Did you hire a coder? Did you find a technical cofounder?
I've definitely worked for medium-sized tech companies that could use an MBA or 3. Once there are more than 3 tiers of employees, managers can't hero their way to effectiveness.

Organizational management is important, hard, and has decades of study behind it.

Finance is also important. My former employer has never made a profit in the seven years since IPO, and clever financing means that it is still a going concern.
What Is Music? The Four Step Model of Speech Processing
emacsformacosx Its a fine solution, for the most part. I did have to fiddle around with terminal aliases so that I can control whether i get emacs in my terminal or in its own app window.
With the current tech atmosphere, so many people want to call Facebook, Google, and Apple monopolies and Microsoft sort of gets forgotten. Microsoft still has a ton of levers they can pull to influence buyers.

Microsoft has the ability to include teams as part of a bigger integrated bundle which businesses find more appealing.
It's just a marketing talk for airbnb getting into activities booking business.
So one side is trying to stage a coup using the SCOTUS as a weapon, thereby defying the will of the citizenry, and the best you an come up with is "Both Sides"?
If you look at the brochure pictures you'll see that that they wrote "two layers of contaminant" instead of "two layers of containment", which is unsettling to me.
Granite, for instance, has a 1200c melting point which sounds good. Its large grainy structure might cause porosity issues. And it's main constituents are silicon and aluminum, both of which do transmute under neutron bombardment. (An expert could say if they transmute to anything you really don't want around, and how long it'll be there.)

I think ceramics are an answer to the porosity and similar issues. Consistent structure, no inclusions or other weaknesses. But they would face the same transmutation and induced radioactivity problems as stone of the same material.
It's weird, most of my personality traits that were liabilities going through school have become massive assets in the workforce. I only hung onto those traits through sheer stubbornness, despite the school system's continuous efforts to stamp them out.
a lot of gvts, could easily and should fund Firefox. However, the current Mozilla foundation administration is corrupt and overpaid. Losing market share the were they did would cause a CEO to lose his job in 5 months. Hell, a lot of folks on HN could easily be stewards of Firefox and do a better job than the bozos running mozilla.
Your eyes cannot see orange directly, but as an overlap of different intensities of the stimulation of different receptors in the base colors.

So as long as the filters in the camera have roughly the same transmission curve as the sensitivity curve of the color receptors, all is good.

However, to animals (or hypothetical aliens) with other color receptors, the images produced by photo prints and screens would look quite weird, with colors all wrong.
I've written a 3 nested dbg! line for a complex boolean expression... I should have just written a truth table...
Bonus points if it is for an embedded system.
Seems like she the mom was bored with her own life and would do this because she couldn't stand her own loneliness. And yes, it is a form of abuse as another commenter mentioned.
Well, if we for instance forced Google to spin Chrome into a separate company, I think that would go a long way.

Now Google has much less influence over web standards. Instead of shaping the web to fit the needs of its own products, Google would need to work with whatever the browsers decide to allow.

Independent Chrome, for its part, wouldn't be able to advertise itself all over Google properties for free, and would need to find ways to fund itself. They could strike their own search deals, or maybe even start charging users. Either way, they'd be on a much more level playing field with e.g. Mozilla.
Every once in a while there will be a week or two where I have issues with my pc not sleeping.

Previous causes have been sound drivers, chrome, steam, joysticks, some unknown that an update fixes.
I agree in general. I have a PhD in comp eng and know a lot of academia type subjects, but only a small portion is especially useful in a practical setting. Also a lot of academic knowledge seems needlessly obtuse. It becomes a lot clearer when looking at the practical problems that spurred the academic fields. At times I get the aha as to why this abstract concept is addressing a meaningful question, and if that's how academic education oriented itself, around these basic meaningful questions it would help people learn much more effectively.
From the source I posted:

> Other large influenza pandemics

> The Spanish flu pandemic was the largest, but not the only large recent influenza pandemic. Two decades before the Spanish flu the Russian flu pandemic (1889-1894) is believed to have killed 1 million people.

> Estimates for the death toll of the “Asian Flu” (1957-1958) vary between 1.5 and 4 million. Gatherer (2009) published the estimate of 1.5 million, while Michaelis et al. (2009) published an estimate of 2–4 million.

> According to a WHO publication the “Hong Kong Flu” (1968-1969) killed between 1 and 4 million people.

> Michaelis et al. (2009) published a lower estimate of 1–2 million.

> The Russian Flu pandemic of 1977-78 was caused by the same H1N1 virus that caused the Spanish flu. According to Michaelis et al. (2009) around 700,000 died worldwide.

> What becomes clear from this overview are two things: influenza pandemics are not rare[...]

Heck, ebola was a decade ago with 300k deaths. Novel viruses appear all the time.
Aggregated retail is beneficial to both consumers, because they have a many competitive locations, at each of which then can buy many varieties of good. Similarly this benefits manufacturers, as they can specialise in manufacture rather than retail. Such aggregation increases the efficiency of the economy.

Limiting retail would therefore decrease global efficiency, going against the principle that taxes should not incentivise inefficient behaviours.
This is a good reason to keep the company private, or issue and sell only non-voting shares to the general public.

Wall Street seems to be mostly interested by the current quarter's results, or the current year's at best. This may mismatch and undermine your long-term goals.
If you're a registered business with a tax ID number, you can deduct sales taxes paid on business inputs (supply) on your income taxes, whether personal or business.
Someone has made an open-source clone called Endless Sky, I believe there are unofficial ports of the various EV campaigns to the ES engine. http://endless-sky.github.io/
> Cargo ships are bad, much worse, than people think. And this has nothing to do with efficiency, or price, or anything else; pollution is pollution, and emissions != CO2.

This is an extremely reductive and absolutist way of thinking.

We have very real solutions to reduce emissions of cars with greener options, solutions that do not work with cargo ships.

Nuclear civilian cargo ships have quite disastrous potential considering the scale at which that would need to be introduced: More than 50.000 merchant ships would then be swimming nuclear reactors, good luck finding anybody willing to insure that.

Not to mention that it would require building a global nuclear fission centered infrastructure to support it; Expensive, and even more potential for catastrophic accidents, even more issues with where to store the waste.
The way unemployment is measured both practically and in the abstract (a PhD working as a cleaner is still employed) too subtle for a blanket dismissal like that.
I see that often at 'Bogleheads.org'.

Is it a cultural reference from somewhere?
Imagine that this were a time series graph of your body temperature over the last week. With the Y-axis set at (min_temp, max_temp) or similar, the graph would clearly show a mean of about 98.6F and consistent trends based on the hour of the day. If you had a fever (>100F), it would be readily apparent in the graph.

A zero baseline for this chat is meaningless and would render the plot useless, unless the purpose of the graph was to show what happens to your body temperature as you turn into a White Walker.

Similarly, the axis chosen for the mortality chart is effective since it shows the typical range of values (and thus does convey the scale effectively), the consistent seasonal trends, and the anomaly (which is very significant in terms of standard deviations above the mean). Setting a zero y-axis would squeeze the graph into 1/3 of the vertical space, leaving 2/3 as useless white space for no benefit at all.
It doesnt have to be in the same form. It just needs to be an input into the product that will eventually be sold to a consumer, where the sales tax will be charged.

For a really clear example of this, many states have a sales tax exception for equipment that will manufacture goods for resale. So in that case, the equipment never even made it into the final product, except by touching the item that was sold. Equipment has a lifetime, and it's consumed by producing items for resale... so it's exempt.

If I purchase raw material to turn into a final product, that raw material is sales tax exempt.
Do you have a cite for them making rockets (not just engines) in CA? I glanced at their 10-K from last year and they talk about moving some of their production from CA to AR and VA.
Relative to when? If you choose 2005 on these graphs[0] then yes, or it can look flat like it does to me since 1990.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas... fig
If there aren't, there aren't. In that case, there's no choice to be made.

I didn't mean to judge people and in fact tried not to, though perhaps clumsily. I said it's fair to not be passionate about the job. Often I haven't felt passionate about it either, or even particularly motivated. And do note I have worked in COBOL, so I understand the need. I just don't like the language and I don't want to see people selling the idea that it's "interesting" or a particularly sound business decision to learn it -- like those articles that occasionally get posted to HN.
Levelized cost of energy in your link excludes the cost of storage. For the third time, nobody is arguing that raw renewable generation isn't cheap. The issue is that translating raw renewable generation into usable, dispatchable power is very, very expensive.

Yes, we absolutely can build nuclear in much much shorter time than renewables plus storage. I don't think you fully comprehend the staggering mismatch between the scale of storage required and storage produced.

We cited the same source on battery production. Take a closer look at the graph: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/blo... The small magenta segment that says "stationary storage" is the portion of battery production actually going to renewable storage. Even by 2030, it's still being added at a rate of less than 200 GWh per year. The world uses 2,400 GWh of electricity per hour. That's more than the entire height of this graph. It'll take well beyond 2035 to even provide just one hour of grid storage with batteries.

By comparison, France increased it's share of nuclear generation from under 15% to over 80% in 15 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#Messme...
You need decently large populations of risk takers living in reasonably close proximity to create an environment like silicon valley. There are plenty of places that have low cost of living, but as soon as you create that environment, the costs of living will skyrocket. Further, while costs may be lower than is SF, costs are rising nearly everywhere faster than inflation. For example in Cleveland the median home price was a mere $18k in 2008, in 2016 it was $40k, it's currently $110k. Buffalo went from $95k in 2016 to $180k now, hartford from $100k to $190k, and atlanta from $200k to $350k. Cost of living is of course more complicated than just median home price but you get the idea.
I will say that I asked Shriram Krishnamurti about why books on interpreters and compilers tend to avoid the question of parsing like the plague and found his response a little unsatisfactory.

All these celebrated texts like SICP, EOPL, and Lisp in Small Pieces avoid the question of parsing altogether by focusing on s-expression based languages.

His response was effectively that parsing is over-emphasized in other books, and it's truly orthogonal to other PL activities. Which I can understand, but in practice when I need a parser in my day job I usually don't have much say in the structure of the input "language" (since I'm usually parsing something coming from another source that I have little control over). And it would seem if you have an instructor in a compilers course with this point of view, what other class would give you an opportunity to learn parsing in a formal setting?
> Do you think it is the responsibility of academia to teach "industry relevant stuff"?

I don't think that was what ibains was going for, though i don't fault you for seeing this in that comment. (Especially that i don't think this course suffers from that problem and generally i think things are rapidly improving on this front.)

That problem to me and i think to him too is that quite a lot of things that such courses tend to teach as well thought out, well working solutions and approaches just don't work very well and frequently i find comments on what's a 'good taste' solution and what isn't that are completely my understanding of the problem space which is why.

E.g. in parsing (as that's the topic he mentioned): First, lots of people just spend way too much time on it. And they focus on parts that are of zero use to beginners (like explaining all several grammar families) and then use obtuse parser generators that save no work and sometimes use them in bizarre way (like picking a lalr parser generator then hand editing the output to support a not-quite-lalr language). Meanwhile a recursive descent parser is easy to write, fast and gives pretty good error messages with _very_ little work. You do need to know enough about grammars to be able to write one down and know if it describes an ambiguous language etc so this should be taught, but you don't need to understand the language zoo well.
"Corrosion is a natural process that converts a refined metal into a more chemically stable form".

Oxidation is the most well known form of corrosion, but there are many other corrosive reactions out there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfide#Corrosion_induced_by_s...