skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I probably fall within top 10% earners bracket in the UK. I've got mixed feelings about it.On one side, it feels like I'm not making that much money and that everyone else is doing so much better. However, more recently I often catch myself thinking 'hold on a second, just a few years ago most of the things I can now do were absolutely impossible because of my low income'.
I think there's way too much focus on the 0.001%,while ignoring the other end of the spectrum. At least in western countries, because they are rich enough,there shouldn't be a need for things like food banks, hungry kids and millions of homeless people. What makes it worse is that financial inequality makes it very easy to 'hide' yourself from the less fortunate by living in areas where you simply don't see many of the issues.
Isn't there a chance that the assembled Chinese monitors actually use second grade panels that the big makers wouldn't accept?

I remember getting a 27-inch 1440p display from a Chinese manufacturer for really cheap back in high school. It should've been the exact same panel as was in Apple's iMacs. However, the were some quality issues with it long term and it's definitely suffering from burn-in that I don't think the iMacs suffer from.
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I had my boiler replaced by a gas engineer a few years ago. I don't think I'd call the work they did engineering, they were plumbers and "handymen". There was nothing in the realm of formal methods, or design. It was a fairly rote job for then (which they did well), but they're still formally called engineers.
I've had compliments about how good my (work) Surface Book 2's camera is. Surface Pro 4 seems pretty good too.
Is this a homemade version of the fermented milk drink also called kefir?
> There is always a way to obtain engineering samples/devkits. That's how the products in these 100,000 runs get to be.

Of course there is. But what's the point for me to produce a prototype if I'll have to produce hundreds of thousands of units in production with no way to sell that much?

> You don't buy from SoC vendors directly unless you're an enormous operation. Farnell, Mouser, DigiKey, Elfa.

"Your search returned no results."
And here i was thinking , you'd actually build one. Great article though
Yeah, if you look into it, you'll find most monitors using the same panels from LG, AUO, Samsung or ChiMei, with some outliers.

When it comes to assembled monitors, the highest failure rate is in the power supply. The components used and the cooling/ventilation play a big part in that.
>Despite becoming more similar in recent years, the cell phone supply chain is still very different than the automotive supply chain.

“We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,” he said. “PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”

(Palm CEO Ed Colligan, regarding Apple’s prospects in the mobile phone market)
That is visualizing source files _within_ a package, not cross-package dependencies.

Entirely different beasts.
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I think most of all this shows how serious they are about the project that they keep pushing it despite potential setbacks. I don't think it says anything about the ability to build "a car" but rather, that they are still experimenting with finding the right product. Apple doesn't release a product until they think it is "right".
I've been happy with the quality of the Logitech 4K Pro sold by Apple. Works great out of the box with linux.
> Still, the point stands - a 6x difference between normally-served dose and a harmful one is way too small to call it non-harmful.

We happily accept a 1.5-2x margin for Tylenol.

If you accidentally put 6x the normal amount of MSG in some fried rice, you’re gonna know about it.
1. Of course, not all workers were necessarily involved, that's besides my point. I'm assuming that they are indeed workers and not, say, agent provocateurs on behalf of some sinister agency.

2. What's better than 7 million dollars in assets? Free labor plus 7 million dollars in assets. To make fraud work, there must not be doubt about your liquidity. If you promise someone to pay money that can't actually be earned, that's a Ponzi scheme. If you promise someone to pay money, but the contract says wages can be reduced arbitrarily for something vague like "underperformance", you may well get away with it, at least in a sufficiently weak legal system.

> Do riots which occasionally happen in every country in the world illustrate a bad/corrupt legal system?

I'm talking about this specific riot with its specific circumstances, not a generic riot that may occur for any reason.
I think it’s more of a “the market won’t pay for quality” problem. People won’t pay thousands of euros for a good monitor, so manufacturers have to slap together the parts available in bulk in order to reach price points people will pay. The LG 5K is a good example, because it is clearly compromised to reach a somewhat reasonable price point. From what I can tell the monitor market mostly exists to cater to the generic business monitor and pc gamer markets anyway, as those are the only parts still selling in volume.

Although I have to admit that I was equally frustrated when I wanted a good retina screen with 200-ish dpi to pair up with the mac mini I wanted to buy, only to conclude getting the 5K iMac instead was the most sensible option.
Hardware security mechanisms protecting physical memory on mobile devices
interesting hardware security mechanisms protecting physical memory on mobile devices and the ingenuity of the engineers behind them.
Time to reevaluate what you think about Google and why you think that. Google is an advertising company not an IT company. Yes they use and create a lot of technology but they don’t get paid for any of it. They get paid for advertising. They’re an advertising company and they do their best advertising for themselves. Their public image is a very carefully crafted one. I interviewed with them years ago and they are very fake, Disneyland type fake. It was clear that things were very deliberately set up in a way to make a particular impression. It wasn’t the obvious things like a company’s logo in the lobby is put there to make a deliberate impression that you’ve arrived at the correct company which is obvious and served a clear purpose but small things that aren’t meant to be noticed. Just one of many examples, I was waiting in a lobby for my next interview. It was a fairly standard corporate lobby except I look to my right and there’s this purple, Dr Seuss looking phone. Something you’d find in a toy store. The initial impression was, “oh those kooky Google engineers. One of them must have thought this would be cute and brought it in”. It looked like it had never been touched and probably hadn’t. The thing is if you went to another building you’d find the same stupid purple phone. Someone from HR went out and probably bought a dozen of these things and spread them about.

That wasn’t the only thing. That kind of crap was everywhere if you looked for it and I’m willing to bet that kind of crap and thinking went all the way to the top.
I'm not sure 'only' can be used next to 18 million.
Apple would be the only major FAANG company that doesn't need to do that, because they don't make their profits through ads.

Google and Nest on the other hand...
Well, yes and no.

This isn't a post about, say, lock-free algorithms, which are, in nature, decoupled from human behavior.

Her attitude _is_ part of the contention itself; for example, there's mention of a career block because she was perceived as intimidating, there's frequent self-flattery, there's an unprofessional insulting of the employer, and so on. Her position is supposed to be covered by a people's person.

Of course, there is also at least one mention of colleagues' behavior that is, I suppose, straight illegal, and this is alarming.

As I wrote, verbatim, this supports an impression. I didn't write she's wrong.
That seems like a reasonable argument, and not hysterical snark.
HN has decided that Google is evil so it upvotes every critical article about it. Meanwhile some news outlets have focused on Google and are digging for clickbait news to drive more traffic (case in point is this very article which has a clickbait misleading title).

In reality Google is just a corpo, about the same as others. They do cool things, they do shitty things and they won't save the world just like Oracle, Apple, IBM, Facebook or General Motors won't. The perception is driven by choosing what to write about by the media you're reading.
Company is a representation of its people. The structure of companies always bring money oriented people to the top. The products are represented by the financial ratios.
>As an example, 90% of the jaywalking citations given in NYC in 2019 were issued to people of color.

Do you have a citation for that?
Apparently, another poster did[0] have a citation.

In a three month period 80 people were cited for "illegal crossing" in a city of 8.5 million. I can tell you that at least half of those 8.5 million folks jaywalked in that same period.

I've lived in NYC since 1966 and I've never seen anyone receive a citation for jaywalking.

What's more, "jaywalking" in NYC is generally referred to as "crossing the street."

In the busiest of intersections, it's often useful to wait for the light, but that's no guarantee that the operators of vehicles will yield -- even if the signal is against them.

As such, I generally don't even look at the traffic signals; I watch the traffic coming my way and only cross if it's safe to do so, regardless of the status of the signal.

In fact, crossing at a marked intersection with the signal is no guarantee of not getting struck by an automobile. I'm at least as vigilant when crossing in a crosswalk with the light as when I cross against the light or in the middle of the street.

[0] https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2020/05/07/nypds-racial-bias-in-...

Edit: Added link to answer my own question about citations for jaywalking and added ancillary verbiage as to the rarity of such citations.
> Yes a lot of it is wobbly, but we're also comfortably a year ahead of the established players.

It's likely that you would be ahead of established players with old, not shiny technology as well. Established players have an inherently harder time progressing in most circumstances and an entirely different maintenance burden in pretty much every layer of their product. Shiny, new technology accounts for much less than people think it does.
They'd still need your master pass phrase though? So the security is only as flawed as a password manager
> risk the flow of the whole project

Agreed. What I mean by "perfect" is: for a given part/component/decision/etc, take the time (an always-limited resource) to learn as much as possible and contemplate more than just the seemingly obvious path forward. Take security for example. I'd rather 'waste time' now making sure I'm covering any gaps in that realm before shipping.

OTOH maybe some jacked-up abstraction/incorrect tool choice/ugly-ui/etc is something that can wait a few sprints or longer. At least you can plan when to deal with these. Security breaches tend to plan your day for itself on your behalf. :)
In the typical videoconference meeting everything would work better if each participant is represented by a nicely-chosen photograph.

The client software can light up the borders to designate which audio streams are active and pop an icon of a hand when someone wants to get attention.

Save the video for chatting with your friends and family.
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This is exactly what I had in mind
That was the case with noname Korean/Chinese monitors a decade ago that used high quality IPS panels found in Apple and other professional displays - they used rejected panels, which had various issues (mostly dead pixels afaik).

https://techreport.com/review/23291/those-27-inch-ips-displa...

But overall, they were a great purchase quality/performance/cost wise.
Well, I ended up reading the post about gaming as well.

https://puri.sm/posts/gaming-that-respects-you/

> The Librem 5 features high quality, free games that respect you. Play 2D and 3D games without ads, without in-app purchases, and without tracking.

Don't expect much uptake from game studios, when the selling point of the platform is not to pay for games.
Generate a cumulative checksum of everything that happened yesterday plus the previous day's checksum, and post it in the local paper, on your website, and in all investor documentation.
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Hard to justify the ($200) price. You can literally buy an entire smartphone with two cameras for the cost of a Brio.

It is pretty clear that there's no competition in the webcam market, and that the offerings have stagnated for years.
No, it's any 5 of the 15. You do the procedure for each of the 15c5 = 3003 groups of 5.

Each person is part of 1001 groups and has a separate 256-bit number for each group. To recombine the numbers, each of the 5 needs to select the number corresponding to that group.

I think this works just as well as SSS for small/moderate sized groups. It's a little less elegant because you need to know which group you're participating in at decode-time, and because it's not scalable (but there are few serious applications that need the scalability).
The probability of 8 consecutive heads in 128 coin flips is about 1 in 5. I checked a SHA-2 256-bit hash in binary and indeed saw 8 consecutive 0s in the output. If what you are saying were true than one could expect the probability of one bit in the key to depend on the previous bit.
you most likely have pretty good webcam, it's the thing called smartphone on your desk, just hook it up to computer
Yeah that's how I read the article. It seems like Saudi Arabia is continuing to diversify their economy outside of oil and gas.

Offering cloud services in the region provides a way in which they can continue to create value outside oil and gas. AWS have a datacenter in Bahrain and Azure is in the UAE so it's logical Google would choose an economically significant country in the region
Are you saying without free speech it wouldn't have happened?
> Thankfully I've never had to use it.

Did a first aid certification 15 years ago in France.

At the end of the course, they told us that based on French law, it is your legal duty if you have the certification to perform first aid when the situation requires it. That is, once you have the certification, if you do not perform a somewhat correct first aid procedure in case of need, you could be charged for "non assistance à personne en danger" (disregarding assistance to endangered person).

It dreads me to this day that I could have to perform such procedure and not remember it.

Luckily I never had to.
Not to be confused with the routing protocol for wireless mesh networks RPL, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6550
I was talking from the business side and if you look at Apples ernings, they are excellent. So excellent that Apple has become the most valuable company of the world. It is the sum of all the products launched and marketed. The Macs had a few bad years, mostly because of the keyboards and the lack of a Mac Pro. They fixed the keyboards and the 16" MB Pro is selling like hotcakes, wait times are often long. And so far their switch to Apple Silicon exceends every expectations. I don't think the pro video and audio community is switching because of those wheels, which certainly are overpriced, but because Apple waited too long for a new Mac Pro and the current machine is extremely expensive. This all might change a lot with Apple Silicon though.

Edit: after using the touchbar for a while, I love it. For a lot of tasks it is a great addition to their laptops, especially when you don't have a mouse around.
My point for webcam audio you want to use a headset, USB mic or a real sound card and an XLR mic.

Using a laptop / web cam mic is the fourth/fifth best option - its a bit like playing Association Football (Soccer) in League Two
> you're just adding friction to a process that should be as frictionless as possible, because friction causes people to make bad decisions

Integrating a password manager with a browser is too fragile and risky way of using both. It is best to have them fully separated so they can't communicate. They should communicate exclusively via the user.

The login process should have some friction and should not be fully automated. Adding a secret domain-specific suffix to the password is very little friction for the user a gives obvious benefits: password manager does not know the password, it can't send it to other application (intentionally or by chance), it won't login the user by accident.
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This is the exact type of bad intuition that the article is trying to warn against. A purely random number - including the output of SHA2 - is going to have long consecutive strings of 1's or 0's.

Here's a simulation: https://play.golang.org/p/_eNAI3inGyQ

The results show that ~0.35% of all SHA2 outputs have >=15 zeroes in a row! Which means that ~0.7% of all SHA2 outputs have >=15 runs of the same binary digit in a row. As stated in the blog post, it's uncommon but it's not so uncommon that it should serve as a red flag.

If you change the code to look for runs of 9 in a row or greater, you'll see that ~40% of all SHA2 outputs have runs of ones or zeros that are greater than 9 in length.

Uniform randomness means that you will get long strings of ones or zeros on occasion. And it's more common than most human intuition would suggest.
I’m guessing this is why the cursor seems to visibly ghost when hooked up to my MBP.
> ou did not bring them up in good faith, for example, you just used obese and trans people to make a point.

You are one of the people the gp is mentioning. Those two are excellent points. There are a lot of people who are uncomfortable with those topics but are open to discussing them. Then people like you come out of the woodwork and accuse them of some nonsensical uptight bullshit and crap on their legitimate questions. Your open hostility then further cements their oppositional opinions. Instead of progress towards understanding and accepting, they dig their heels in and stay hateful because you pretty much told them to fuck off.
Rib fractures are not more harm than death.

When I was taught, for use on humans, broken ribs were expected and without them 'you're probably not pushing hard enough'. Worst that could happen is one punctures a lung, but they're going to need medical attention if you get a pulse back anyway, that can be dealt with.

It should be clear - in an ideal scenario you'd have direct access to massage (or shock) the heart, chest compressions are approximating that through flesh, skin, and bone... The ribs' job is to protect the heart from the sort of thing you're trying to do!
With DPG, you don't have to use the same sentence for each generated password. It makes it easier and more user friendly, but it's not required. I could easily have two or three sentences and still be able to recall 400 or so unique, strong passwords.
I too wanted the article to be a luring into my Kickstarter. Won't happen, though
I was only trying to point out the apparent effect of randomness that hashes give. Randomness is the key here, since probably no one is going to brute force a unhashed password, since the password would already be known. Not all websites automatically truncate a password, although yes, using the first 'n' letters would be a good idea. Some websites straight up say the password is too long, and you might have to try and guess the limit.

I don't think the algorithm matters here, but only the length.
Creating a pretty cool CSS mosaic effect with CSS transforms
Canon has webcam software for their DSLR's, although I couldn't get 1080p output out of my 750D. Quality was great, though.

You can also just use your phone's main camera, the quality is up there with rather expensive webcams (even for midrange phones these days), add some better lighting and you're set.
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They already have Parler. Don't recommend going there, it's even more explicit in its toxicity... Also not public, for a reason I guess...
From a technical point of view, we're on the same page. But then there is the reality of modern software development.

A few years ago, the new CTO of a Union Square Ventures' investment tapped me as technical advisor to review this startups efforts to expand their software to new verticals. He came in as part of a reshuffle. He had brought his Director of Engineering from his previous (well known) company, and there was even a Star CEO (which is the reason I signed up!) with a monumentally impressive CV. As compensation, I was billing lawyer hourly rates.

After two months of reviewing their existing architecture, and picking the brains of the dev, support, and sales team the new verticals, I came with an architectural solution to their immediate and long-term needs. I gave them exactly what they said they wanted.

What then happened is that, for one, the Star CEO turned out to be an echo chamber of "growth growth growth" and entirely disappointing as a leader of a software company. And this was a SV veteran from both HW and SW side of SV. Huge disappointment.

The CTO, who was entirely clueless, apparently gave in to back channel efforts of his DoE to disregard my work product. A few days later I walk into an all hands meeting where the "next generation" was announced to be "a ball of mud" of "microservices". This same CTO later took me aside and basically offered to give me hush money ("will you be my personal advisor?") to keep quiet, while getting the same (insanely high) hourly rate for the remainder of my contract.

So this is the reality of modern software development. Architecture is simply not valued at extremities of tech orgnizations: the bottom ranks are young developers who simply don't know enough to appreciate thoughtful design. And the management is facing incentives that simply do NOT align with thoughtful design and development.
Google is just as bad as Facebook. It just has more goodwill to burn through.
The finances? Most of his own success. Even with Steve Jobs still at the helm, it was Tim Cook who managed the supply chain and operations. Tim Cook probably isn't the product manager Steve Jobs was, though Jobs sometimes went badly astray with his decisions too. But from a business point of view, Apple is doing greater than ever.

And yes, I was also someone who got unhappy with the Mac ecosystem and partially stayed because of being too much dependent on the eco system, but also because of the lack of true alternatives for my requirements. However, this has changed drastically with the switch to Apple Silicon, now it looks like a strong technical choice again.
This is the fact-lite timeline version, but the Google founders all but stepped away as figureheads, "Don't Be Evil" was removed as the company motto, and we discovered through various leaks that Google has, in fact, been doing evil by contributing to recognition technology used in authoritarian nationstates, granted government backdoors to its customer data, providing censored versions of the internet to human rights-limited markets, selling data trained from captchas to the DoD for use in drone strikes, becoming a shameless monopoly and flouting antitrust laws worldwide, among more that we likely haven't discovered.

They got big enough to court entire nations and militaries, and so they did. It's the IBM story set in the cloud.
Perhaps it's just a different way of doing the same thing, but I never feel the need to reach for a debugger in the presence of the REPL and tools like Timbre. Just wrap what you want to see in (timbre/spy ...) and you're good to go.
Canon's software has the same limitation in my case, people say it's because of the USB 2.0 port on the camera (750D).