skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obama didn’t carry out any part of it on his own. The deal did lift some sanctions, which lifted a freeze on Iran’s assets that were held largely in foreign, not U.S., banks. And, to be clear, the money that was unfrozen belonged to Iran. It had only been made inaccessible by sanctions aimed at crippling the country’s nuclear program.

Secondly, $150 billion is a high-end estimate of the total that was freed up after some sanctions were lifted. U.S. Treasury Department estimates put the number at about $50 billion in “usable liquid assets,” according to 2015 testimony from Adam Szubin, acting under secretary of treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence.

The part that the meme gets right, though, is that the deal didn’t get congressional approval.
Cute game.
They didn't have real competition for a decade. Now they do.
TSMC Enters Lidar to Make the Wide Spectrum GeSi 3D ToF Sensor for Artilux
Nothing new here.There are special people (in the organization's point of view) and if they ask for special treatment they will get it, unless it's something unfeasible or ridiculous.
Perhaps too many people forgot that Google is just another profits-seeking company?
For the money this 3000 mAh Apple bank costs, you can have 4 of these lasting you literally a whole month.

Kinda hilarious.
>"Sorry, but it's a sign of a justice system very out of whack and not something to defend."

I was in no way defending that system at all. I was just pointing out that the 99% statistic is constantly thrown about in Ghosn discussions without ever mentioning what the conviction percentage is anywhere else. And if you use the US as a a standard of comparison then that statistic is actually quite high as well. And if use the same calculation as Japan then the US is also above 99%.

If someone says "the life expectancy for women in my country is 88", then without comparing that to somewhere else perhaps your own country then you don't really know if you should consider 88 high or low or normal. Anyway the link I provided discusses comparative justice systems and why this is, including your first point.
It does and doesn't. When your CPU is breaking up that instruction you can optimize for the exact way its being broken up at the design because you know what those 100 instructions will be and in what order. You pay for that with more decode. It's a trade-off, but it does mean there is less of a need for the machinery the M1 has more of, somewhat.
In suburban Ohio public school, I was taught abstinence-only education in 2013. Could have changed since then though
As someone who just bought their first iPad last week, I wonder the exact same thing. A nice cuddle from Apple telling me how they're protecting me from evil, but you hold all the same shit about me. So now I just trust a _different_ for profit company? Until when? At one stage Google wasn't evil, now it's evil as fuck.
I mostly agree with your sentiment, but would like to add that individual situations differ.

In practice, the PhD experience is a full-time job for a student, and the one that is hard to quit psychologically. Many students start it right out of undergrad. They have not seen the world outside of academia, and having worked for a couple of years on their degree, they feel obliged to finish. That's when some professors choose to abuse their power and push some students into ridiculous working conditions. I have seen quite a number of students at my school reduced to nervous wrecks, while forced to stay in their programs for sixth year and beyond.

That is, working on a PhD degree with a professor involves adult people who do it consentually for mutual benefit. If such relationship breaks, it is not fair to assume that it is the student who is a dick.
> I don't know of any other free tool for linux that lets you annotate PDFs ...snip... some multicolored highlighters

xournalpp, okular.
> We feel that way too! So why don't you leave us alone? (If you hadn't noticed its not 1992 and nobody is trying to teach your kids abstinence-only education anymore.)

You made a similar bad-faith false-equalivance elsewhere in this thread.

> > If we allow you adult choices, and you make choices that harm others

> So we can go back to banning adultery and divorce?

Forgive my language, but what utter crap. It's a vaccine against a deadly and contagious virus. You want to be left alone to drink your flavor aid? Be my guest. But you don't get to dump cyanide in the well and claim it's your right to do so.
What's the murder rate per country? What's the rate of assault? Et cetera, et cetera
That is typically true. However, when developing risky new HW, it's not uncommon to have all variants built & do a late-binding decision. It's expensive but it gives SW & HW engineering more time to flush out a marquee feature (e.g. I don't doubt that FaceID may have had TouchId as a fallback until late, although probably not as late as a month or two before announcements).
You onboard new hires to an editor? That's ... surprising to say the least.
This is a very utilitarian, but very good, point. My parents chose not to vaccinate me, I had most of the childhood diseases, and life went on. I would be happy to answer some surveys about my general health for the purpose of actually comparing vaccinated versus unvaccinated people.
The highest end Intel chips are really middle of the pack AMD chips, which is the other competitor the M1 is really competing against. All in all its much more of a wash.
State universities are already dirt cheap (<$7000/yr tuition in many places). People aren't good at making financial decisions at any age, must less at 18.
But the slider is usually so small! At best we are talking 10 steps of volume accuracy with a mouse (probably more like 5) and it is never reproducible. With the big boy I can hit 67 or whatever my favorite volume is every time.
A lot can happen in decades.
Would highly recommend the Planck for anyone who would like to improve their touch-typing. A grid is a lot easier to get a feel for than a staggered layout, and the clicky sensation is just a bonus at that point.
Please stop being a partisan and using hyperbole.
Some good chuckles but shoulda cut the Insights And Takeaways section
No one made any decision for the main character. A shop employee recommended an anti itch cream. It looked like he asked her to. The others snooped and gave out his information.
Choice only matters if you allow people to choose differently than you.

"We tried letting people choose but those rascals didn't choose what we wanted! So instead now we will just force them into making the better choice"

You sort of wonder why at that point a choice was ever provided.
No, communists hate freedom in money, communists know exactly how the Government should control every aspect of tax cattle membership.
I still have my old BB10 Passport. Weird form factor but that was an awesome device. It's too bad Blackberry really shit the bed with their OS and its lack of apps.
I think a lot of the critique here is misguided. The summary at the end seemed to me entirely reasonable: writing good code for parallelism is very hard, and moves the cost upward into software which has to be really well written to work. Boosting IO and cache will help with some things, but absent clockspeed, making an M2 significantly better than an M1 is hard.

I don't see why people complain its only one benchmark. to import 100MB of image data invites all of the IO, Cache and CPU to play along because this is encoded data: it has to be mapped out of one form, transformed into another, as a stream of data and its a lot bigger than either a single fetch from memory, or a single bus transaction. Its ameneble to parallelism within some limits depending on the nature of the encoding. It's also a real-world test.
An Android web browser based on webview, which is specialized for E-Ink device
Working fine here on macOS 11.4 and Safari 14.1.1, didn't work at first until I enabled WebGL 2.0.
> I recently read a frustrating thread on HN where it was obvious several people were making arguments against points that were already addressed in the article.

HN wants the engagement and doesn’t give a hoot if people read the articles before commenting.
These folks shout "freedom" because shouting "fascism" is too overt.

I remember how some of my family in southern California was so upset that prop 8 (banning gay marriage) was overturned by the supreme court, and I'm honestly impressed by the level of cognitive dissonance they could hold in their head: simultaneously talking about "muH FrE3DomS" yet wanting to curtail the same freedoms to other people that, in those people exercising those freedoms, have zero impact on their lives. When I pointed it out to them, they basically sputtered something incoherent about "well I'll have to explain to cousin Timmy why those MEN are holding hands in Safeway!". idk maybe suck less as a parent?!
Frankly, if you don't know the glyphs, you almost certainly have no business using the code. Basic notation is table stakes. I learned this stuff (yes, the latex) as an undergrad, and I wasn't even a math major.
add to that a Bluetooth complication where vendor X earphone volume increments don't match the mobile platform. On Android you need to enable a Developer Mode setting (Disable Absolute Volume) before you get back control. I don't think that scores well on UI design either!
One thing that always bugged me in MS Teams is that when you do the shortcut for :thumbs-up it always presents 20 thumbs-down emojis first instead (due to alphabetical order)... but people are way more likely to use thumbs-up! Why not put that first!!!

A small thing, but one that would annoy me almost every day...
> Their discussions are largely of limitations, catalogues of failure. Their conclusions can be brutal.

pov: me writing my first published paper and being honest about the shortcomings and then having my advisor tell me that i should sell my results more enthusiastically.
Cap every app's local volume setting at lowest in use by any app & only allow user to raise volume above this threshold explicitly for currently focused app
So many youtube channels CONFIRMED that latops with the M2 would land at wwdc
I use the stock app and it have not had any issues as well.
There will be spaceline companies transporting people by rocket. See Starship E2E

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/dsppi6/a_ques...
Some excellent suggestions here. I'd like to add a couple of notes based on my experience. Obviously tainted by what I have actually used.

Arduino with C++ appears compatible with your experience. But you might find the edit, compile, download, debug cycle rather tedious.

ESP8266/ESP32 with microPython provides REPL so is faster for experimentation and learning. For many projects it might sufficient.

RaspberryPi uses the SDcard like a "traditional" file system. Repeatedly losing / switching-off power without doing a shutdown has destroyed several cards for me. Besides, Real-time control is simply not really feasible. I agree with @bigiain, using Arduino with RaspberryPi is often a better approach. But it does require more development and debugging.

MCP23008 I/O expanders are VERY useful. Seriously recommended with ESP32 and RaspberryPi when you run out of pins.

All of the above are good for learning and small volume products.

Industrial systems tend to use ruggedized SBCs and RTOS. Linux is too bloated and non-deterministic for most real-time applications.

Large volume products are more likely to be designed from the ground-up using individual microcontrollers and support ICs. At this level you will need experience with assembly language, etc. The development cycles also often use the silicon vendor's tools.

IMHO RISC-V is going to become widely used. It is already available as a microcontroller ISA and some low-end Linux boards. If you are focused on learning, then I wouldn't invest too much effort into low-level architecture issues with ARM based SoCs. Of course, if you get to work with them professionally, then that is a very different proposition.
They will just ignore that and move on to the next thing.

Same thing when the vaccines get full FDA approval.
> Again: Lockdowns are a basic application of germ theory.

> The only way they could not work is if infection didn't pass from human to human but was transmitted via miasma or aether.

A public measure and overall behavior are two different things. Lockdown as a behavior is clearly effective in theory and practice. But as public measure, in many cases people stopped to comply sufficiently so that at best you see a flatting effect.

You wouldn’t try to fight HIV with monogamy (as measure). It’s just against human nature of a sufficiently large part of the population.
I joined just to upvote this comment i cAnt believe it is all the way at the bottom
An ICS Managed Security Services Provider? (Startup Idea #4)
‘Perhaps it should have been a clear sign Do Not Track was doomed when, Tene wrote, the group tried to settle its dispute over the definition of tracking by seeing which side could hum loudest. "Addressing this method, one participant complained, 'There are billions of dollars at stake and the future of the Internet, and we're trying to decide if one third-party is covered or didn't hum louder!'" Tene wrote.’

I thought this had to have been a joke or some sort of analogy, but no they were literally humming.
Some software also presents that in the settings as the choice between "native notifications, which don't have as many features" and "custom notifications, which have all bells and whistles". And the default of course is the one with more features, not the one that respects your settings. I think Mattermost was where I've seen that distinction.
I have a Toyota Camry and I haven't timed it but I think it's more like 10 seconds. Before that neither the volume knob nor the on-off button work.
Let's also not forget horrible microphone volume controls, e.g. where you crank it all the way up to "100%" and people can still barely hear you unless you yell directly into the little microphone hole.
How do you know it was designed for their current lineup?
https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-resnick-on-consensus-01.html
> “ As far as I know there is no research paper on the topic ... nothing to indicate it actually is a viable solution.”

Come on.

Remora is literally founded from their CTO’s PhD thesis.

From their website: “ Christina pioneered Remora’s technology during her engineering PhD at the University of Michigan, becoming one of the world’s leading experts on mobile carbon capture. She went on to test a mobile carbon capture prototype in the EPA’s National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Lab”

If you Google “Christina Reynolds Carbon Capture” you will get, as a first result, a link to her PhD thesis:

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/1515...
Note, Intel had three different CEOs in the past four years.
Yes, Apple is a for profit company. On the side they are collecting your data for themselves and blocking others from getting it. Their profits come from products and services.

Google is a for profit company. On the side the offer products and services. Their profits come from selling your data to others.

Yes, I personally trust one over the other in this case. Although I don’t know what “for profit” has to do with anything. If it comes to Google or Government, geez, tough call that one.
Right. I can see that. I've got half a dozen Picos on my coffee table that I've yet to do anything with. Mostly a drunk covid lockdown impulse buy for me...
The reason authoritarianism is so popular is because the Dems have not pushed for significant, FDR-style reforms that would materially improve people's lives. If they actually fought for universal healthcare, guaranteed parental leave, police reform, instead of just having Nancy Pelosi take a knee wearing some African garb while making Madoff-level returns on her insider trading, this level of populism would not turn into fascism.

If you don't believe me, you can find videos of these trump idiots screeching in some town hall about "over regulation" and "tyranny" and "socialism!" but they then say "and keep your hands off my medicare and social security!".
The speed is pretty much irrelevant right now

All they need to do is support external RAM so they can make a machine with up to 128 or 256gb of memory. It's easy enough, but for their reasons they have just chosen not to do it yet.
I have so many piles of drawings at work for all sorts of European manufactured machines that are about 6m in length that have their layouts (where mm level precision is silly and pointless) drawn out and measured in mm. 6000mm x 2000mm x 10000mm etc etc. It’s like...why??

As for the precision, I suspect it’s to defeat the perils of floating point numbers in computers...if you only need mm precision, you rather your CNC computer do integer math and not floating point math...am I correct?
Flink serialization become much less painful when we switch every value type in our job to Avro. It requires a bit more code compare to using Java POJO or Scala case class, but you can actually add more field to existing data type without breaking anything now :)
I feel this in my toes everyday but it’s only when I sit down for prolonged periods. Once I move around, it goes away.
The Tesla safety numbers are pure marketing. They make no attempt to control for obvious problems like the kind of miles. Notice how they say autopilot engaged not autopilot equipped when talking about autopilot miles. I bet gm has great numbers for cruise control engaged accident rate too but Id hardly call it a safety device, more like a convenience.

Given the telemetry the car is equipped with they absolutely have the data to control for some of these factors yet they make no attempt to do so. Why is that? My take is that after doing so autopilot doesn't look so good.
It hasn't gotten any more difficult to host your own website - the reason nobody does it is they don't want to. It's hard to keep up with spambots and things like that, but it's not like Facebook is running the spambots.
>Every year in June, I discover that the most self-critical scientists are final-year undergraduates

I'm in the middle of a PhD. It's kind of sad to say this but if I rediscover my inner final-year undergrad I'm pretty sure I'd have trouble graduating
If your understanding is that vaccine hesitancy is an exclusively GOP problem, you're getting a distorted view of the issues here.
> i was expecting some ocd space church dream

The goal isn't to replace Linux with a "grand unified distribution". Rather, Nix complements and extends the usual way of doing things where the usual way is painful.
It's official now, but it was obvious for years. Snowden published his leaks in 2013, eight years ago, and the practice of snooping had been running for years at that time.

Do not expect privacy, unless you took measures for it, like entering your house and closing doors and windows. There's no expectation of privacy in a public place, or in an office.

Same applies online: expect no privacy unless you took measures. Expect no keeping secrets from governmental agencies unless you took really serious, possibly exceptional measures, and your opsec is top notch. Everything else will be visible, at least to some degree, if the government needs that badly enough.

Of course, most of the time your government doesn't care about private details of your life. This gives you some modicum of security by obscurity. But you never know why you might end up in the limelight. Extraordinary things, like epidemics or acts or terror, happen, and then you might draw interest along with hundreds and thousands who just happened to be in a wrong place at a wrong time.

If you think I'm suggesting to wear a tinfoil hat, I'm not; tinfoil hats are useless. A certain amount of civil action, from petitions to street protests, may help a bit. Use of encryption, etc, can help a bit. But there's no way back into the society where you could mostly expect privacy by default. It's time to get used to a more transparent, more observable, fundamentally less private society. So it goes.
This depends on the health of the tree. The bark beetle has decimated many pine trees in the sierra nevadas, leaving many trees standing but actually sick or dead, and unable to resist a forest fire.
The Telegram bot API supports webhooks and long running /event calls.
Because Telegram bots often have no web UI events has also the plus point of allowing to block every incoming connection with a firewall. Also so DNS name or static IP needed!

This is a huge helper for me personally.
I mean you can just put a seat on a hoverboard, while playing the pedals like a piano... I think this study is not the end of hoverboards, lol. "Standing vs. sitting" is a pretty easy problem to fix when it comes to bikes, hoverboards, etc.
> The Iranian intelligence official [based in Iran] used private investigators to surveil, photograph and video record the author, the government said

It is a shame that the NYT doesn’t include more information about these third party PIs — presumably licensed US investigators?

If you help someone who is planning to commit a crime, that feels like you too have done something wrong. I wonder if the indictment also includes the PIs?

The financial world has had KYC / Know Your Customer laws for a while now. Surely the same goes for PIs, with penalties for helping the bad guys?

Edit: one conspirator was a Californian and has been charged with “providing financial services in support of the plot”, though it’s not clear if they were negligent in due-diligence or an outright Iranian government villain:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/13/iran-intelli...
Thank you. I roll my eyes when someone uncritically states that fabless companies don't get stuck on process. TSMC was basically in Intel's shoes pre-finFET, so its customers were SOL.
I would say it has officially been almost a decade now and people still wonder if() this happens, which is kind of mind boggling.

Keep informing people everyone, the truth will eventually reach everyone(or at least those interested in it).I just wonder if it'll be too late and we will just enter 'a new cycle' without changing our paradigm about basic things that are the pillars of our civ.
It’s definitely only M1, that’s for sure. But I suspect it’ll be more than that over time. We’ll see, I suppose!
> Why doesn't anyone ever bother to mention that the M1 is a RISC CPU when discussing that it can do more IPS than x86?

This doesn't really matter, RISC is not a real distinction - it just means "kind of like MIPS". They both have complex address operands and 2-operand vs 3-operand is largely aesthetic.

x86's stronger memory model is what matters most since it can reorder memory accesses less often.
Flutter: How much time do you save, and at what cost
Google says the average starting salary for film majors is $22,656, not $70,000. That's $10.90 per hour.
the grandparent comment of this one is Mitchell Hashimoto, who made Vagrant, and is sharing their current setup..
> stupid teams chat doesn't even have a 'reply with quote'

Don’t worry guys, it’s on the roadmap for this month! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?featur...

Next maybe we can fix issue where if you have the iOS app, you randomly appear available for hours?
I see. Thank you for taking the time to speak in more depth about it.
His statement is not correct.

First, a massive portion of the population (middle and upper class) are also considerable and they _dont_ hate America.

Second, the working class doesn't hate America. I was born and grown up in Iran and I've never seen _anyone_ actually having strong negative feelings towards the US. I don't think Iranian working class thinks about US as much as Americans are lead to believe.