skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They aren't making a chip from scratch though--they've licensed an ISA and built a derivative design customized to their needs. This isn't to knock the work Apple has done--it's not trivial and clearly not everyone else is able or willing to do it. But going from absolute zero and inventing an entire new ISA, all of the tooling for it, etc. is an order of magnitude more work for both Apple and all of its developers. They made a smart move to use ARM's ISA and liberal licensing that allows them to build on top of it and make exactly the hardware they need.
I'm afraid, just as some people don't like the name of CockroachDb, which I like, I won't use Cue because of its bottom value (_|_) -- awful.
The launch of this phone was utterly botched.

There's a hilarious dissonance between the talk of SoC design, AI, computational photography and ambient computing and the inability to handle a website with a relatively simple purchase flow for a phone that, let's be real, probably has about 1/10 th of the interest and web traffic of the iPhone.

From the moment the store website went live with these phones there were all sorts of errors, and I ended up forgoing purchasing from the google store after trying to for an hour!

Once Best Buy went live with their stock, I instantly was able to pre-order with little issue. I'll be picking it up on release day there.

Fix the store, Google!
If you desire privacy, never upload your images to any cloud service that doesn't offer true end-to-end encryption of the data (that is, one where they do not have the key). Use a service where data is only decryptable on your own devices or devices that you personally authorize. Which is, presently, none of the popular services that I'm aware of.
1. Not true, I see at least 2 [0] [1]

2. Even if it was true, welcome to not being included for once in your entire life. Now maybe you can start to begin to understand what others have experienced basically every day of their life.

[0] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/s6bCli03aqnY_KvZoPaTgiFqCj...

[1] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Zq1FVWVv9GOCRJ3oHJg0PHzWgE...
"The CSAM scanning system is a part of the iCloud Photos upload process and it will be triggered once the upload is initiated. Keep in mind that it does not scan private photo libraries stored on iPhone devices" - https://medium.com/codequest/technologies-behind-the-apples-...

If you want to "correct" the claim to say their intent is to scan every photo, citation needed.
For every company that will buy from them, there's a company that won't buy from them for 'religious' reasons. Deals are complicated, it's not always an 'engineering' decision.
Yes… didn’t know what the technical term was but that’s it
So it is a real graphics api, just not the one you’d prefer.
Posting this because I just saw a job ad that says the job requires a pre-recorded interview that includes a coding test on this platform. I'm curious if people have been subjected to this, and if people have skipped applying based on the request to do this.
What if you are a majority shareholder for a company? Say mark Zuckerberg asking for shares in companies providing service to Facebook? Is that legal? I'm guessing if it's part of the deal then it's legal.
Single Parameter Fitting: How to Fit Any Data Set into a Single Parameter
I think React's original goal was to be a library, but the community made it a framework, because they could not conceive of any other way to operate.
> I don't know why these things are $6k pair when they share a lot of tech with modern in ear options from bose/apple/ect.

It's because they can only be sold with a prescription which means a lot of overhead and the expectation of large margins for everybody.

Get rid of that requirement and those will be be $600 hearing aids.
We would do this for anyone honestly, it’s not just dogs. That’s tough to see. My heart isn’t handling this well and I just heard about it.

I hope the net is very big, they’d have to do dry runs with the net with the food in it, get them used to going into the net for the food. The hard part is going to be (well every part is hard), but if both dogs come into the net, that’s going to be a failed attempt.

Sadly I think they may only get one dog out, unless the dogs have different sleeping patterns, grab the awake one. I have no idea, this is heart breaking.

Maybe send a huge net with 4 drones to ensure if both dogs come in, they can carry the load out.

If they pull it off, take all the free marketing you can eat.
If you're in b2b, yeah those are pretty good ballparks to start in if you have no real idea of what to pick. If you already know what to do, then do that instead.

This is a fairly decent bit of advice if someone's new and has analysis paralysis on pricing.
This tradition an almost uniquely US phenomenon. "Around the world, people are less forgiving about debt forgiveness than they are in the United States" [0]

Now consider the implications of a globalized economy where consumption in rich countries is underwritten by debt peonage. "The International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that $51.2 billion is made annually in the exploitation of workers through debt bondage".[1]

[0] https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/law/lawreviews/...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt_bondage#South_Asia_2
One pretty big (and relatively unknown) law is that your doctor needs to give you your vision prescription so you can buy glasses elsewhere (usually for much cheaper). I think a lot of them get around this by letting you look for glasses while waiting and not telling you that this law exists.
Version Control for Structure Editing
Here is dark side of the moon in 432, presumably still with 12 tet. I found it hard to tell the difference listening to classical music I hadn't heard before in 432 since the intervals were mostly the same to my ear and I don't have perfect pitch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAbbJhlInyw
The first M1 laptop was released in 2020. It's been met with more or less universal praise: performance is impressive, performance per watt is mind-boggling, and the overwhelming majority of popular programs and applications have either been ported to Apple Silicon by now or work adequately in Rosetta 2.

It's almost as if you meant to post this comment a year ago.
How to Read Plato (1995)
> BTW, why are Linux laptops so expensive?

Maybe I’m not understanding something - aren’t all laptops Linux laptops?
I always wondered who he had in mind when he said that. My guess would be Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe. But while both Kepler and Brahe qualify as giants without question, there's still a world of difference between them and Newton.
How are optometrists supposed to make money if they don't sell you services and glasses from their showroom?
Generally, people aren't aware of the symptoms of gastrointestinal bleeding. I'd assume without a pretty good education outreach, it'd be unlikely to be caught except in the really bad cases.

And while you're right, that GI bleeding on it's own might not be a huge issue, I suspect a gastroenterologist would want to do a colonoscopy if it does happen, something that patients probably wont to avoid if they can.
We need to design devices such as batteries for recycling and long life from the design phase of the products. Solid-state Lithium batteries will probably be easier to recycle due to no sandwiching. "The immediate benefit of switching from a liquid to solid electrolyte is that the energy density of the battery can increase. This is because instead of requiring large separators between the liquid cells, solid state batteries only require very thin barriers to prevent a short circuit." This separator material complicates recycling in conventional Lithium ion batteries.

Instead of assuming we have endless resources we should design all products to recyclable from the start design phase. This is to lessen global warming and environmental impact.
A promising sign, but the GP's points are a reason to be skeptical until we see evidence of scale up. There could be issues or limitations that are not obvious to non-experts. That is the case with almost every news story like this.
Lottery? M1 MacBook is the best computer I’ve ever had, and I’ve been around.. It is limited only by RAM and GPU, and now with M1 Pro and Max that limitation is lifted too.

Apple knocked it out of the park, that much is clear by now.
Someone threw out a pair of hearing aids on my street.

I was interested in the technology so I experimented with them. They were a Costco brand, and retailed for 550.00

These were not loud enough to hurt a mouses ear at full volume. They were so low power I didn't even think they would work at first.

America has a lot of people who need hearing aids, and can't afford them currently with all the bs.

And I don't know what we will do with all the overeducated Audiogists, and Opticians. They can jump on the wagon of out sourced American workers?
> The main distinguishing factor between a framework and a library is the classic "you call a library, but a framework calls you."

This definition does seem to match how I generally hear the terms used, but I think whether you call something or if something calls you depends more on the function of the library/framework than anything to do with the code itself.

I think we generally have "web frameworks" and not "web libraries" because if you are making an HTTP sever, then yea stuff is going to be calling you. ie.e the incoming HTTP requests are going to trigger your code. Now if I have a piece of code that extracts URLs from a string, that is obviously going to be called by me. That I can see, who is calling who has nothing to do with the design of the framework or library, and everything to do with the sort of task the framework or library performs.

Anyway, engineers obsesses over the distinction between library and framework, but it seems fairly mundane from my perspective.
What about it is garbage?
I was just thinking on this same analogy this morning.

What many people don't realize is that there are, off the top of my head, at least a dozen different distinct types of hammers, and then if you're talking working with metals at least a dozen or two more. There are way more types of nails, and then of course you have nail guns, of which there are multiple types, and of course screws. In philips heads alone, you have at least eight different sizes, and then of course flat head, torx (many types), allen (many sizes), square, hex, etc. For drivers you have a basic driver, a driver with swappable bits, a drill (cordless, corded (12v, 14v, etc)), a ratcheting driver (and hex bolts), an air driver, a butter knife, etc.

In many cases, there is clearly a "best" choice. If you're putting a treated deck on with nails, you're going to have a bad time. If you're framing with finishing nails, everyone is going to have a bad time.

But if you're building a shed, what do you go with? First and foremost, you make sure the fastener you're going to be working with is going to work, and then you choose the one you've worked with in the past, the one you have experience with, and the one you have on hand.

Software developers tend to be young. They tend not to have respect for what has come before them. They tend to be really, really fucking bored, nearly all the time.

They don't create new fasteners every two months, and switch hammers twice as often because it's prudent, more efficient, or necessary. More often than anything else, it's because they're way smarter than their job demands and they have nothing better to do.

There are ways to solve this. There are other professions that solve this. Prescribing statins all day and telling people to lose weight doesn't take a 135 IQ, and yet somehow doctors manage.

Programmers need to interact in a more masterful way with their tools.
I stopped looking at what the marketers tell me I'm supposed to want in a phone, and went shopping for phones that have what I actually want: Durability and battery life. I've started getting those rugged phones of the sort they market at construction workers.

They're brilliant. Water/mud/dust/salt resistant, you can drop them however many times you feel like without cracking the screen, battery life is alomost two days (and that is while using the thing).

They're also pretty big and clunky, the camera is unimpressive, and the performance is middling at best, but I honestly don't mind that at all.
Having been a developer for both platforms, Apple events/announcements are exciting for people working on iOS apps, while Google events are kinda just depressing.

"Oh, yeah, that's cool I guess. Be fun to get to use it in five more years when enough people have this, or a newer, version, for it to matter."
Sure, but then don't pretend that this is not something every other cloud provider is doing (and has been doing) for years. This is only such a hot-button issue because 1) people love bashing Apple, and 2) Apple actually solicited feedback instead of implementing it silently behind the scenes.
I can see it leading to bigger risks - good point. The idea behind this would be to auto deploy, so they wouldn't have to manually do it.
yes, considering many people can't afford to see a doctor
Truck drivers with a clean driving record can trivially find another job.

Now if they are locked into some Uber-like scam where their employer financed "their" truck purchase it may be more complicated.
Ask HN: If you are buying a new M1Pro or Max MacBook, can you share your build?
I am interested in buying a new M1Pro or Max Macbook.
I plan on doing software development work on it mostly, but I am not sure what my build will be.

Can you share your build for the new Macbook, and what your needs are?
The Brazen Strategy Behind China Tech’s Growth
If you’re looking for a less mathy introduction to cryptography, and a more applied ressource, check the book Real-World Cryptography. It wrote it over the last two years and a half and it just got released on Amazon a few weeks ago.

It teaches you about the cryptographic constructions that you run into all the time as a dev (https/ssl/tls, encryption, hashing, etc.) and gives you pointers on how not to mess things up (and what libraries to use, etc.)

I also wrote a post a while back on why I was writing this book and why you should pick it up: https://www.cryptologie.net/article/504/why-im-writing-a-boo...
How's that ad hominem? He just said that single, non-independent research is not enough to convince him. Which is very reasonable thing to say.
Will app developers get access to the Tensor chip?

Will all the features of the phone and the Titan M2 chip still work with another Android build like grapheneOS or LineageOS?

I don't think those were covered in the video.
> Not if your build step includes code generation (other than Cython).

Is it possible for Cython? Their guide shows using setup.py:

https://cython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/src/tutorial/cython_...
Sites like Warby Parker will send you a bunch of frames to try on for free so you can see how they look.

And I find sites like Zenni are so cheap that it's worth taking the risk: an ugly pair can go in the car /gym bag / work desk for if I lose a contact lens.
now all they need is hardware acceleration for rosetta and specifically hardware acceleration for x86 virtual machines.
You should've sent them a belieavable stock photo with photoshopped sign.
Hot take: I haven't seen a compelling new phone feature from any manufacturer in as long as I can remember. I spend 99% of my tapping time sending texts, using a browser and taking pictures with the rear camera. Same as I did on my Droid X which was my first smart phone circa 2011.
TIL: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM
Looking up attention deconcentration sent me down a surprisingly short rabbit hole that in 2 steps ended at a wikipedia article for "psychonetics" -- which redirected to some guy whose name I've recognized from a few dubious things that have popped up on HN recently.

Baadar-meinhof I guess!
I think that's a bit of a false equivalency. The guy incorporated a domestic LLC, which unless he's a total moron, I assume the guy just thought that this is how business is conducted, and the US government would be okay to know about it. I don't believe any small business employee is going to incorporate an "I Steal Trucks LLC."

The American public gets defrauded by corporations daily. I seldom see white knights in the government volunteering to prosecute them on our behalf.
So if it’s released, why does my phone say there are no updates available…

/s
> good intentions on both sides creating hell

Not really.

The immigrant folks who get brought in on these visas are basically exploited for harder work on lower wages in comparison to locals. FAANG tech companies care about low labour cost, employees who won't complain and won't report shady stuff going on in the company. H1B visas are perfect for that.

Immigrants make up nearly 3/4 of silicon valley tech workforce:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/17/h-1b-foreign-citizens...

H1B visas essentially gives full power over an immigrant to the employer because these employers have rules that if you don't get promoted every 1-2 years, you get fired - which means H1B visa employees get deported back. So these immigrants end up working much harder for lower pay to not get deported. Meanwhile the companies get cheap labour while virtue signalling about diversity.

Companies want employees who will stick around for as long as needed. H1B usually cannot leave the company for a decade because of the conditions imposed on the visa. Companies will also have policies of allowing greencard sponsorship after few years of the applicant working with them. This keeps the immigrant stuck with that company for over a decade and the company can get away with very little payraises or benefits. The only options for that H1B is to either find another company which can sponsor them (almost impossible) or to leave the country.

This is also a reason why immigrants are hesitant to report work illegalities and thus the company prefer hiring them even more.

This is also why all the tech companies are against any politician who wants to cut their supply of H1B visas.

The tech companies claim it's about diversity but it's far from it. Here's proof that this isn't about "diversity" or caring about immigrants but more about exploitation:

76% of the h1b go to Indians and 10% goes to China. Does diversity only come from India and China? Source:

https://www.gadgetsnow.com/slideshows/h1b-visa-these-countri...

Also when you get immigrants from India and China on H1B visas, they are less likely to complain about work place illegalities. Us Indians and Asians are often quite timid plus don't want to stir shit which gets us deported.

Few ways to fix this:

1. Increase the minimum salary for H1B to be much higher.

2. Force employers to give yearly raises to the H1B.

3. Allow H1B to change employers.

4. Only allow students to come who once graduated, get treated the same as a citizen and their immigration status isn't inquired.

These will remove the incentives for employers to exploit immigrants.

These 2 videos explain it well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFYj8Sg3x_c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-3FYea07pc
That was my point. It's ridiculous whichever extreme they choose. In 2021 when everything is about race and equity, I find it telling who its OK to exclude. Why couldn't they just have it be equal across the board?
In Canada, it's free Pixel Buds Lite worth 140$.
You took the words right out of my mouth. I'm in the exact same boat. I use more than one editor but I always install the vim plugin. It provides an instant speed boost to using that editor efficiently and quickly. We don't switch editors _that_ often, but at the same time, remember trying to remember keyboard shortcuts for TextMate, then Sublime Text, the VSCode, then IDEA, etc.? With the vim plugins, editing text is now the same across all editors.
That strikes me as less of a compliment to the new devices and as more of a testament to how terrible Macbooks got towards the end of the 2010s.
My understanding is that home mortgages are also more borrower-friendly in the US than elsewhere (e.g., fixed interest rates for 30 years).
Valve launches Deck Verified, showing what games will work well on Steam Deck
why would Benjamin Hoff create a website about himself and talk about himself in third person? ... seems weird to this commentator...
What Is Obvious?
It's good to see "what is obvious?" is still one of those evergreen topics, like it's been for 150 years.

(Continuing a discussion about obviousness in patents from yesterday, which no one is seeing because it's not on the front page anymore)

Now I have an even better one for you, and I'll withhold my (undoubtedly correct) answer until later:

Wheels on luggage. Why were they so late in coming along? Was it not obvious?

We had aftermarket wheeled carriers for strapping your suitcase in, so people recognized the need. The arguments that "people hired porters or trolleys" and "railroad stations had cobblestone floors" do not hold up at all -- no, they didn't, and airports had hard floors.

You can find articles on this topic. I think they're all wrong. Go.
I don’t think the lesson is that it’s necessary; but rather that if you are successful as a business, you will probably get away with the crimes.
OK. My personal recommendation is, don't even try with a machine smaller than 16GB, and expect to need to manually apportion memory between VMs if you have less than 32GB.
Tz Database
Getting new glasses is different from screening for eye diseases, though it's typically done at the same time. I doubt a GP would have the special equipment they use for screening? It's pretty specialized.

Apparently the need for this gets more important as you get older:

https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/health-wellness/health-...
They charge for the eye exam.
That's not how statistical significance works. :) By the same logic, 5% of all historical studies on the Holocaust should state that it is a hoax or else Holocaust denial is being suppressed. Furthermore 5% is a very low significance level, way below what is used by most reputable journals.
You should ping him at Twitter or something. HN has no notification mechanism triggered by quoting the user.
Yes, I understand.

When they scan it on my phone, they don't need to scan it in the cloud. They have one less reason to touch my stuff when it's on their servers. One step closer to full E2EE.

Every major cloud provider is already scanning every photo you put up and in most cases without any human review. Your photo gets flagged and it's good bye account. Next step: HN front page to maybe get a human to look at your case.
High skill immigrants are net pay tax payers, they help reduce the need to tax you.
I know of a F500 company that takes this approach in IT. They’re constantly understaffed, despite being a legit good place to work, with fair compensation.

People tend to leave once they’re trained - it’s pretty natural, given they’re smart, motivated engineers and the company just doesn’t need to solve very interesting tech problems.

The company does it for effectively altruistic reasons - they want to help bring tech talking to their declining city.
Assuming his copyright reversion was successful, he's probably looking at a decently-large sized actual damages from the publisher if they continue to publish.
Careful with calendar systems; it seems that even minor scholarship on the subject leads quickly to madness.
Having my photos warantlessly rifled through by a machine and then a human really puts me at ease!
Lock the Doors
You need to know your prescription, but not present it if you order on Zenni for instance. Parker Warby is probably the same.
NXP manages to do it fairly well though. Their chips have excellent upstream support.
Those same dynamics made meeting people fun and important! Who one could get in touch with really mattered.
Screens keep getting bigger, while tweets stay the same size. You need something to pad the rest of the space.