skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think the problem with ARM on the Windows side is that there's no commitment.

It's not that Microsoft and co don't/didn't care about ARM. A more accurate description of the situation is a lack of BELIEF or conviction about PC-class ARM.

The M1 situation can be likened to smart phones before the iPhone. No one believed it was possible to make a device that could be operated entirely with the fingers - they all needed styluses.

Microsoft and the PC industry has literally spent billions of dollars on ARM. Microsoft alone lost $990 million[1] on Surface RT, their ARM version of Microsoft surface. Microsoft's next ARM device Surface Pro X has meh sales. HP, DELL lost money on their Windows RT devices[2]

In other words, ARM on Microsoft land has failed not for lack of effort, or some grand conspiracy - just lack of example.

Now that the entire industry can SEE a laptop class ARM processor that does not suck, someone will come up with an appropriate response within a few years. I doubt it'll be Qualcomm.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_(2012_tablet)

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_RT
I work as a diesel engine technician for a small midwestern chain and I whip this video out in the breakroom whenever the apprentice gets an idler/pitman or diff rebuild on a large truck. So many of the guys i work with know about LSD (Limited Slip Differentials) and locking differentials/hubs, but dont entirely understand why they are needed or how they work once the wheels are back on the ground.

if you really want to see something cool, check out interaxle differentials and detroit dfifferentials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-d-uOYCrRE

torsen differentials are incredible as they can in many cases overcome the traction difference problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEiSTzK-A2A
This is just silly, I've worked on systems to write text and that is just wat you do to solve the problem of (collaborative) editing a document.
China will overtake the US within the next 10 years, possibly in or even before 2025, depending on how well the US handles the COVID-19 aftermath.
Show HN: Ajqvue Covid-19 SQLite Database
The author of the study described here is Nicholas G. Davies London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

I think the BBC article plays the findings about increased transmission a bit down - the authors say that the mutated variant seems to spread exponentially with 50% to 70% per week, even under a lockdown. This would explain why in London, which is now in tier 4 lockdown, over 60% of the new infections are now by the new variant.

One must be cautious that the data is still very noisy.

Here is a twitter thread which summarizes the paper (preprint) - it is worth looking at:

https://twitter.com/_nickdavies/status/1341845176361349123

Here is the preprint:

https://cmmid.github.io/topics/covid19/reports/uk-novel-vari...
Meanwhile, stock go brrr and world go round.

Empirically, you’re absolutely right, except that it’s not wrong.

I’ve come to terms with it. How long are we going to bleat about morals while the world ignores it?

I’m asking genuinely, for what it’s worth. It’s one of the central questions I’ve faced. What are your morals worth? Why cling to them? It feels good to call out Tesla as immoral, but both legally and practically this seems to be mistaken.
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You can buy commercial OLED displays for a lot more. Considering there really aren’t any mass produced OLED computer monitors yet, this is a rather limited market.
The LG OLEDs run Linux and have been rooted in the past with public CVEs/PoCs, so I’m sure a moderately talented reverse engineer could get code execution and strip out a lot of the crap.

Probably easier to start a community around that instead of hoping for a good commercial model.
So basically just connect chromecast and the problem is circumvented.
Oh we understand the professor and academia perspective, we also understand how that is divorced from reality.

Higher education was always for elitists that had the privilege and time to pursue "complete" education. Everyone else just got a job, they went to trade school or had an apprenticeship or just less specialized work. A lot of that kind of work - briefly in history and into the present - required having a degree. Software engineering is not one of those.

So don't get it twisted. People that want to pursue a complete education because they are interested in the subject can keep going to academia. For everyone else, it is a waste of time, software engineering trade schools are cheaper, faster and good enough.
I've seen quite a few presentations, but never have I seen such a direct approach to showcasing the merit of RISCV. Well done.
If you're worried about privacy just don't connect it to the Internet and buy a smart TV stick of your choice instead that you plug into the HDMI port of the TV (or use a Raspberry Pi if you don't trust those either). Problem solved.

Probably 99 % of people are fine with owning a smart TV, so it's clear that manufacturers won't cater to the 1 % that are not fine with it.
It's not sexy and the cost is usually too high relative to fossil fuels.

I personally think it would make a lot of sense to develop further. Conventional fuels are very convenient, and if you produce them synthetically without extracting resources from underground deposits, there's a lot less climate impact. It wouldn't eliminate tailpipe emissions, but it might significantly reduce sulfur emissions for example.

Long distance transportation is always going to be a challenge for EVs, that synthetic fuels could handle if they're economical to produce and sell.
Honestly-- what would the difference be between the pined-for "non-smart tv" and a large monitor?

Also-- irony of the "monitor" being the tech that doesn't spy on the user
Hey, that speed was good enough in ~1995!
The fact that there is an active subreddit with constantly new information sort of proves my point. :)
Based on science, how I made reading a habit and 345-day streak at Duolingo
People have reported smart TVs connecting to open wifi when they aren't manually connected.
I imagine the next chapter in this story will be someone scraping the web for public google doc links, reconstructing the keystroke timeline, and training a NN with the timeline in order to break captchas or other keystroke-pattern-based identification systems.
You don’t need to use the smart features. The point is the best TV for the money is a smart one.
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Ask HN: What makes a browser and its tabs take up RAM?
Why is it that a web browser like Google Chrome will itself take up 400-500MB of RAM, and each tab anywhere from 20MB - 500MB? What else is being loaded up into RAM besides page content for tabs, and extensions/plugins for the browser?

Understandably, the more a tab loads, such as a heavy page full of large ads, the larger that tab's helper process will be. Conversely, if one loads a basic HTML file with just a few paragraphs of text, that tab will be ~20MB.

But then, why does the browser process itself take up 400-500MB, and for that matter the GPU renderer another 500-800MB? What leads to this bloat?
Some of these TVs have been found to upload screenshots of what is being displayed:

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/samsung-smart-tvs...
Think tanks says China will lead world's economy in 2028
> When I was an investment banker, I once negotiated a billion-dollar swap deal with the chief financial officer of a foreign company. I was pretty sure he was the CFO. He had business cards. He was smart and knowledgeable. I met him, once, at the company’s offices, though after that we only spoke by phone. Our local banker knew him. When we signed the deal we got representations of authority and so forth. But at some point someone on my desk asked how I knew that he was really the CFO of this company. What if he was just some guy, taking my bank for a billion dollars? What if he snuck into their offices to meet with me? What if the office I went to, on a brief and busy visit to a foreign city, was fake? What if he was the company’s janitor? What if our local banker—a relatively new hire—was in on it too?

- Matt Levine https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-14/blackr...

So the answer seems to be normal communication tools and methods plus lots of trust and prayers.
If it saves that much history I suppose in the future I'll be drafting my stuff outside Google docs and pasting it in, instead of drafting within Google docs.
VisiData (https://www.visidata.org) is nice for looking at tabular data on the command line.
Lets not sugar-coat this. The Chinese government: Forced people with Covid symptoms to the hospital at gunpoint, welded people into their homes, lied about the virus when it started spreading rapidly in December, and bought all of the PPE and let the rest of the world suffer.

They also silenced and murdered any Doctor that came out and tried to warn the world about it.

In any other Universe, the rest of world would be marching into China and beating their government into submission.

Instead, we have Liberal politicians literally in bed with the Chinese government and the mainstream media covering it up.

Democrats, you are on the wrong side of history.
Tesla's have crashed and obliterated their owners, even right here in California on major highways on the way to their Silicon Valley office park.

Alarmed engineers taking the exact same route to reproduce the bug successfully.
The TVs are actually trying to identify the content on screen.
I appreciate you not wanting to demonize russia, but it looks to me like you just don't understand the situation on the ground. Getting your "other point of view" about russia from sputnik and RT is not the way to go. I agree that the american hysteria is probably mostly unfounded, but the situation in Russia itself is pretty dire.

Russian duma is rubber-stamping insane restrictive laws literally every month, to the point that people have been calling it "a crazy printer". You can get arrested for posting memes on facebook or standing by yourself with an A4 piece of paper with a political message. The courts are corrupt and have a 99.8% conviction rate. Almost all real opposition is barred from participating in any elections through very restrictive requirements plus random denials that they cannot dispute because the court system is corrupt/broken. Opposition/journalist offices get raided monthly by the police that confiscate all of their electronics. Now people are getting shot and poisoned with increasing frequency. It's a real fucking dystopia here after 20 years of unchecked rule by a single guy and it's getting worse, fast.

I don't really care for Navalny aside from his willingness to stand up to all of that. All of his movements, accounts, connections, everything has been monitored by the government for over a decade. That's not a conspiracy, Putin himself confirms it all. If he had any dirt on him, it'd all be public and he'd be in jail for treason a looong time ago. An entire FSB team of 8 people has been tailing him for over three years, again, confirmed by Putin. Yet all they throw at him is that he's an "irrelevant blogger".

Also bots are not a meme, that's a thing. I don't know anything about the american election interference, but IRA office in Olgino has been a thing for almost a decade, Novaya Gazeta reported on them in 2013 (Six of their journalists have been murdered in the last couple decades btw). The people working in those buildings are not bots, but actual people getting paid to post pro government things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency#Saint...
To get an idea how long it will take would-be competitors to get from basically a standing start to rivalling Apple, Apple bought PASemi 12 years ago, in 2008. Google has their own chip designers, as do some other tech companies that are not known for chip design, but nobody except Apple, that anyone knows of, has decided to take on the monumental challenge of general purpose CPU design as part of a vertical integration strategy.
All smart TVs have WiFi capabilities and could potentially connect to any open network.

I cannot find it on my phone right now but I remember somebody catching their smart TV actually doing exactly that. Maybe somebody else has a link.
I'm not an expert in this issue. But the Wikipedia article has the following statement:

"There are 11 pseudouridines in the Escherichia coli rRNA, 30 in yeast cytoplasmic rRNA and a single modification in mitochondrial 21S rRNA and about 100 pseudouridines in human rRNA indicating that the extent of pseudouridylation increases with the complexity of an organism."

So at first it shows, that Pseudouridine is not something completely new in nature. It exist for a long time already.
And it seems a higher amount signals to the immune system, that this RNA is more human like and not coming from a virus. Since this mechanism seems to be established in nature I think one can assume it is safe. If it wouldn't be safe, viruses would probably already exist, which would make use of this "backdoor".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudouridine
Here in Seattle, in the absence of traffic forcing slower speeds, most people are going ~10mph over the speed limit. On the freeway, although the speed limit is 60mph most people will be going about 70mph. If you use Tesla's autopilot it will match the speed of the car in front of you, up to the maximum specified by the "speed limit". So I usually set the speed limit to something like 75mph so that the car follows the flow of the traffic around it, instead of forcing other drivers to swerve around me because I am going 10mph slower than everyone else.
Roku does like to log all your actions, but just use something like pi-hole and it's nicely blocked.
Realistically the printer probably caught fire under normal operations, then they went through everything that happened leading up to it, one step at a time, to figure out what caused it to catch fire. That is what let them submit a bug report with "this causes it to catch fire" rather than, "Printer caught fire randomly."

In the process of narrowing down which command did it, they demonstrated reproducibility.
I’ve long wanted what seems like a simple feature in GDocs: right click and “show me who wrote this”. All the data is there, and can eventually be determined by inspecting the history, but it’s not well exposed.
It was 100 cases per day two months ago, and their peak after the initial wave was 441 per day. It's not as bad as the US or UK, but they don't have the virus under control right now.
Glad to hear.

This Sustainable Life: https://joshuaspodek.com/podcast

Here's a list of popular guests based on downloads: https://joshuaspodek.com/leadership-and-the-environment-top-... though I recommend the solo episodes of my reflections without guests, starting here: https://joshuaspodek.com/guests/solo-episodes-volume-15.

My three TEDx talks: https://joshuaspodek.com/tedx
It's crazy how vast and powerful databases of even the most simple things turn out to be. You just store characters and context information when someone types them, and this is the result.

Using this data alongside ML, you could do things such as:

- Identify people based upon their typing style easily, given so much data about them

- Find a lot of secrets that were accidentally pasted into document including passwords, keys, etc

- Try to model the emotions people were feeling as they typed things

- Much, much more, given some data and time
Cambridge MA to post climate change warning stickers at gas stations
Tesla doesn't have self-driving though..
what did you replace them with?
I'm going to take flak for this, but I believe it needs to be said. (And for the record, I have been dealing with audits and auditors continuously for the last 5 years. In 2019 I spent 25% of all my working hours directly working on audits or babysitting auditors.)

Auditors are accountants, who secretly harbour dreams of being lawyers. With years of disappointment and self-loathing, they do the human thing: take it on everyone else.
> Is pijul’s on-disk format stable yet?

Probably. The patch format is very unlikely to change. The repository format may change a little bit still.

I'd say it's probably ok to try and learn it now, but you should maybe wait for a few weeks before using it for something serious. On the other hand, we use it for itself, and I use it personally for most of my projects.
How about - the number of mentions on sites like Reddit and Hacker News?
I'm not sure if smart TVs come with always on recording capabilities (Siri, Alexa style) yet but that's a possible avenue to leak private audio of your viewing area.
I love how git calls this feature “blame” :)
Had the same issue with skateboarding, as holding the grip tape would scrape off my fingerprint, making Touch ID terribly annoying to use.
A few years back there was a promising Dutch startup called Liquavista working on “electro wetting” - a kind of next-gen full-color low-latency reflective display tech that functioned a lot like LCD, but instead of modulating LC orientation, they would quickly tune the hydrophilicity of pixel-size glass cells that would cause an ink droplet to either bead up in the corner (become transparent) or wet the entire pixel. Sounded really cool. They got bought by Amazon and haven’t heard anything since.

https://lookgadgets.com/liquavista/
George Blake, notorious Cold War double agent, dies at 98
Hipster burgers are thicker with higher fat content, guaranteed to be more calories. They also usually have a brioche bun with more calories and a huge serving of "aioli" (mayo).
https://archive.vn/X9DnD
The real application here is power plants. Use hydrogen to heat water to turn a turbine to turn a genset to produce electricity, in the same way that we've been doing for ages now.

The real question is, say you have a natural gas power plant that's been retooled (minimally) to run on hydrogen that they create on site. Now you're producing a ton of water vapor and tossing it into the air. If all power plants run this way, that water vapor is going to be problematic as water vapor is an excellent greenhouse gas, so, if you'd like to avoid that, you'll need to recondense the water and put it back into the cycle, which will harm efficiency if done in a 100% closed cycle.

That's probably not a huge obstacle to overcome, because the water will likely have to be pure anyway in order to be usable, so, you could likely recapture waste heat and use it to distill water to a high purity and because your exhaust is likely full of higher purity water than you could otherwise get, it makes sense to recapture it.

Additionally, you could solve in part, the main issue with renewables, which is energy storage, by converting excess capacity to hydrogen made by electrolysis that you can then burn in traditional power plants. Sure it's 70-80% efficient, and burning hydrogen is likely not going to beat ~62% efficient in a combined cycle plant (the current record for natural gas), it's much better to take that efficiency hit than it is to waste power, or further complicate the grid, and you'll get to keep ~40% of that energy based on my napkin math, which is better than 0% and you can put it anywhere, likely on the solar farm directly.
"Presuming that the car wouldn't hit any other car on the road" - it absolutely would though. The tech is good enough to avoid hitting another car that slows down in front of you, but if someone was broken down(and fully stopped) in your lane, the car will hit them at full speed. It might start breaking just before impact, but not fast enough to slow you down from 150km/h. No self driving or adaptive cruise tech can save you from this situation, because they are all trained to ignore fully stationary objects. I've also seen situations where road markings disappear on the road for whatever reason and Tesla goes from being 100% confident and in control to "take over the wheel NOW" in about 1 second flat. Best case scenario here is that the car would eventually realize that you aren't in control and come to a gradual stop - the problem there is that now he is fully stopped on an active highway and chances of getting plowed from the rear are astronomical.

I think the biggest problem with all of these self driving systems is that in cars they can require you to be fully 100% aware of your surroundings and take over in a split second. People compare it to plane autopilot, but I don't think that's quite right - in a plane, you will have at least a minute or two before you hit the ground, even if the plane takes a straight nose dive. In a car, you go from being fine to being headed for a head-on collision in no time at all.
x (40?) years from now:

12-car accident triggered by manual mode

defense attorneys stated a poor decision due to fatigue, while prosecutors provided evidence that the driver had taken a 25-minute power nap, woke up and performed well in a class she was taking, and then proceeded to override the autonomous vehicle system in a manner which showed specific and malicious intent to cause the accident.
Clickbait. Bitcoin is not a company. Would you say that USD beats Visa? Also bitcoin by itself doesn't offer a lot of services.
If you buy a "non-smart TV", unless you plan to use it with an analog tuner or something, you're going to plug in boxes, and those potentially carry the privacy-invading bogey man.

There is literally no difference, in this regard, between a dumb TV with a dongle/box plugged in, and a smart TV which has exactly the same thing built-in.

The nice thing about a dumb TV, such as the one I have is:

- simplicity of operation/configuration. I never have to fiddle with any menus in my dumb TV. You turn it on and it's ready to go. All the HDMI inputs have dedicated buttons on the remote control, so switching inputs is easy. Changing picture mode: dedicated button. Other than for switching inputs, I don't use the TV remote at all. The Android TV box's remote is a beautiful thing of simplicity. Smart TVs running Android TV come with complicated remote controls: the "android box" feature built inside doesn't have its own simple remote (unless you buy an after-market one, I suppose).

- portable "brains": the box or dongle you plug into it fits into a coat pocket. Take it anywhere and watch your content (anywhere, modulo possible geographic restrictions, for which you need a VPN).

- portable "brains": possibility of upgrading the TV, without the hassle of re-installing apps and logging into each one: just out with the old TV, in with the new. Logging into apps on a new device is particularly a pain if you're mooching logins off friends and relatives!

- the ability to shut the TV off, yet have content keep playing and listen to the audio. This is possible if your Android box has an audio jack! I absolutely love this. I hate visual content burning pixels on the screen when I'm just listening to music.
SoftRAM was a fraud (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftRAM ), but RAM Doubler (https://tidbits.com/1994/01/10/ram-doubler/ , https://www.amazon.com/Connectix-R010836-RAM-Doubler-9-0/dp/... “Currently Unavailable”) worked, and modern OSes may still use the technique of, instead of swapping out memory pages, compressing them so that a page becomes available (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory_compression)
> I would argue that this is wrong. That's what physicists do, not mathematicians. Mathematics is about abstract ideas, which can live regardless of nature or application. Physics instead is about understanding nature.

I would disagree. They both are the study of nature just different aspects of it. Mathematics is the study of the some of the more universal formal causes, while Physics also involves the particular material causes.
I also agree its gross, but I've met a number of people who love it very much.