skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It already had a front-facing camera, of course. Does a camera for Face ID require a bigger notch/bigger area? (Real question, I don't know!)
Seems like anybody that can go out in space, can use as much space as they want for space stations or whatever. According to the space law, no one nation may claim ownership of outer space or any celestial body. Activities carried out in space must abide by the international law. That may cause conflicts in the future, when companies are able to reach other planets.
Set the bid really high, get the knock back, then complain to the authorities, then get a rerun on the tender with a magically cheaper price submitted for the same thing.
We've taken the title from their corporate press release which is https://blueorigin-static-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/assets/orb...

(Submitted title was 'Orbital Reef – 'Commercial' Space Station by Boeing, BlueOrigin and Co')
Was this used to effectively silo developers from each other? Ie, don’t let the hardware team see the real software UI, and don’t let the software team see the real hardware UI.

It looks too ridiculous to be real, I suspect it was ugly by design.

Apple did this on the iPhone design, the ugly software UI was called “skankphone”.
What makes you think a language can mitigate supply chain attacks?

For any arbitrary language you define, I can create a known-bad library and punch it into the download stream

If you want to mitigate supply-chain attacks, you need to look at all of the following (at least!):

- library source

- file-signature

- signature key-verification

- static analysis of library functionality

- processor-dependent rogue behavior detection

- OS-dependent rogue behavior detection

This is not a language problem - this is a source and runtime problem
I'd say that given no teardowns have yet been released, its also true that we know there isn't a specific reason for the brick look. They crammed a lot of battery in there, big, slow, quiet fans, six speakers, and the SoC is something like 4x larger than the base M1.
Tesla briefly hits $1T market cap as hertz says it will buy 100k vehicles
Genuinely asking: how has a gun helped you personally with self defense or individual freedom?
> not just double in size, not just be 10x larger

"An order of magnitude" usually refers to 10x. I interpreted it as being 10x off with his guess.
Smartphones prevent people from taking horrible photos? Anybody who spent 15min on tinder will disagree.
"It's kind of useless to blame drivers as there is little that can be done to resolve that problem."

What makes you say that? Most accidents are driver error. The stats show that CDL drivers, who undergo more stringent testing, have a lower accident rate than others.

"Engineer them for safety rather than traffic throughput."

What would that look like? Even if you replace stop signs with roundabouts, the drivers still need knowledge of how to safely navigate them. If you're talking about reducing speed (technically the most effect if enforced systematically), how do we ensure enforcement?
Not at all, I have a bunch of friends on my private server and getting someone an XMPP client and account takes less than a minute. No phone number or email required.

Sure, everyone out there isn't going to be on my server - but for the close friends I care about - it's been flawless.
I LOVED this show as a kid, the blood hound gang, 321 Contact!. And fraggle rock.

Anyway, for all us Nerds who grew up with these shows, this will be enjoyable to the HN crowd in this thread:

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Hard 'n Phirm - Pi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XanjZw5hPvE
To compete with

https://www.sony.com/tz/electronics/interchangeable-lens-cam...

?
Have you seen how terrible the x86 emulated performance is on a Surface Pro X?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhESSZIXvCA
Reports are the OS already does this for you when watching fullscreen media.

Apparently Apple still has some design sense after all.
This makes me think of how big tech job postings always talk about scale and impact in a way that makes it sound like they know that most of the day to day work there is boring and pointless as shit and scale is the only thing they can think of to try to convince you that you want to do it
This is a limitation of the memory model, not the microkernel. If you had a single hardware-protected address space, kernel modules could share resources freely.

But this does argue against message passing, since such systems preferentially try to use messages over sharing whenever it's possible.
Engineering for safety has been known since the industrial revolution brought heavy objects and assembly lines to the workplace and greatly increased the monetary benefit of avoiding accidents. Nobody wants to stop a whole line because someone got turned into a pancake.

The answer is basically to segregate traffic by speed, tightly control the interactions between different speeds of traffic and to generally have lighter traffic yield to heavier traffic. This is pretty much standard in every industrial workplace worldwide at this point. Look at what's going on on the tarmac next time you go to the airport.

Of course nobody wants to push for this in 2021 because it conflicts with a lot of the priors and ancillary goals that are floating around the ideological camp that most of the people who care strongly about traffic safety come from.
I could see them trying to make a larger sensor, mirrorless style camera, a la the Fuji X-Series, but I think the price would end up being just as much if not more than an iPhone 13 Pro. I would be very curious to see what they do but I don't think that price point is really competitive and I don't know how many photographers would be willing to jump into ANOTHER camera/lens system.
I use onthegomap almost daily. Such a great tool. Thank you for it.
As my wife often tells me, if you're regularly being outcompeted by a guy that can't speak your language, hasn't got your contacts and may not have any experience in the industry, it's your problem. Use your network, competing on a level playing field is just stupid. Applying for jobs nobody else knows about is a fuckton easier than waiting until you're actually competing with people.
Unless you have embarrassingly poor soldering skills like I do, in which case you have to pay a little extra for pre-soldered pins. But it’s a great little device, and with Thonny and MicroPython, you can get small projects up and running with a really quick turnaround.
It helps the powers that be, living sheltered lives of little want, get away with ignoring what they do not feel threatened by: the crime and murder suffocating American cities. It enables them to target certain groups (of all colours) they do feel threatened by.
Also, where are my manners?! Really glad you're enjoying our Twitter Spaces[0] -- and thank you for the kind words!

[0] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/twitter-spaces
>As you can see, it’s… quite large!

In fact, I can not! The photo in question has no reference objects. (scroll down to see photos that actually demonstrate its size)
My surname is completely unpronounceable by Americans, and I live in America. I got over it years ago and life continues. Perhaps the plaintiff in this case should learn to stop being offended by the world as it is.
Start talking with your state's attorney general's office about your experiences and how you were sold something that was not as advertised.
No, I didn't. You can get AM4 boards for ~$50. Here's 64GB of memory for $226:

https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-64gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82...

Here's a 2TB SSD for $143:

https://www.newegg.com/leven-2tb/p/1B0-016A-00002?Item=9SIAW...

But then you don't have PCIe 4.0 and it's 4x16GB instead of 2x32GB and it's SATA instead of NVMe.

Here's how you spend >$700 on 64GB of memory:

https://www.newegg.com/ballistix-64gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N...

$894!

But wait, here's the same thing for $310:

https://www.newegg.com/ballistix-64gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N...

It's a different color. Apparently that's what you get for the extra $584.

There's getting cheaper stuff and then there's just paying a different amount of money.
Never trust anybody who can't even get the word "paid" right.

"Payed" is a nautical term.
If cars were invented today, we would not have the infrastructure to support them. We were able to build massive car infrastructure as a result of the economic expansion following WWII. We built out our environments to a huge extent in order to support car dependent lifestyles.

If cars were invented today, I would hope there would be discussion as to whether or not that infrastructure should be built, and if we would have the money to support. As of now, tons of maintenance costs are associated with our sprawl, and many communities are saddled with debt that they'll struggle to repay.

We probably would limit them to niche needs, and only build out enough infrastructure to support our needs. Making every street and road accessible to cars would be a huge undertaking, as it was then.
Note that they are not actually measuring the gravitational influence of the atoms themselves. They are measuring the difference in earth's gravitational field at two locations separated by a millimeter. That is a stupendous technological achievement, but it is not in and of itself progress towards a theory of quantum gravity.
Totally. For some reason that segment got me creeped out on many a sick day, watching TV alone. lol
US bureaucrats outsource gain of function research
How is it that you can drive but can barely tolerate sitting in the passenger seat of a car? This sounds psychological to me; have you tried to talk with someone about this?
> Apple has 5nm on lockdown right now

Qualcomm has loads of 5nm chips. They're pretty solidly beaten by Apple's entrants, but they've been using them for over a year now. Huawei, Marvell, Samsung and others have 5nm products too.

This notion that Apple just bullied everyone out of 5nm is not backed by fact. For that matter, Apple's efficiency holds even at the same node.

There is this weird thing where some demand that we put an asterisk on everything Apple does. I remember the whole "sure it's faster but that's just because of a big cache" (as if that negated the whole faster / more efficient thing, or as if competing makers were somehow forbidden from using larger caches so it was all so unfair). Now it's all waved away as just a node advantage, when any analysis at all reveals that to be nonsensical.
The Risks of Consumption Based Pricing for Analytics Tools
That money isn't going to ICs.
Does Taiwan’s Military Stand a Chance Against China? Few Think So
NASA has been good at running the contracts (mostly). When the new Head of Human Spaceflight tried to give Boeing insider information he was strictly fired.

BlueOrigin has endlessly complained about SpaceX selection of HLS but so far nothing.

This strategy doesn't work when a better and cheaper competitor exists.
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Attending courses for four years, including many outside of your major, and doing enough work to not fail.

It's a low bar. Very low. But still much higher than the bar at bootcamps.

Anecdotally, the only positive interactions I've had with bootcamp cert holders were cases where the cert holder already had significant work experience that required non-trivial training (e.g., in healthcare, a trade, or logistics as opposed to retail/warehouse) or a 4 year degree. So I believe the earlier anecdote/observation that bootcamp grads -- especially "blank slates" -- often lack the grit that's required for successful employment in an IC eng role.

I'm a self-taught programmer and had my first programming gigs prior to starting college. So I've been an advocate for non-traditional hires in most roles I've helped hire for. Even roles where we'd traditionally require a PhD and where the level of expertise required really is 3+ years post-graduate-coursework immersion in the research field, I've advocated for "phd in <subfield 1> and <subfield 2> or similar background" and helped source non-traditional candidates where possible. But the "lack of grit" problem wrt bootcamp grads is definitely a thing.

> Networking and connections?

You say this like it should be dismissed out-of-hand, but actually, having a reputation among your peers for not being a lazy idiot does not come free and is actually a useful signal in hiring.
Wind Turbine Wall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XanjZw5hPvE
I wonder if there are any limits on this from the GDPR perspective? What if my name has 2^40 characters in it? Are companies required to support that? What if I change my name from whatever it is today (say, "Phillip") to a name that has 2^40 characters? Would the bank be required to accommodate that? etc..
The point is not in giving credit, but in taking credit away. All these boards are based on luck. Trying to argue agains why one got up and the other didn’t isn’t constructive. It’s verging on toxic imho
ah good ol' C-x v g
For sure! Mine was basically Tom Baker, you? I've been learning to appreciate the others recently. A lot of fun.
There's zero evidence that the Liberty was intended to be a false flag. Even most of the people who believe it was a deliberate attack (i.e. Israel knew it was an American ship) don't believe the false flag theory.
Efficiency isn’t, no, but time is, and efficiency usually lends itself to giving you more time. If the journey itself gives you fulfillment, then by all means, do it how you like. However, the Amish would choose to sacrifice efficiency even when it’s not about the enjoyment of the thing itself, but rather a base necessity, at the cost of their time, which is the most wasteful thing a human being can do with their life. So no, I disagree that there’s anything to learn from the Amish. It’s an absurd religious belief, even if you can “learn something” from it if you squint hard enough.
Face ID has a separate IR camera and a 3d IR dot array, so can imagine it requires a bit more space than a regular webcam.
Beautifully and succinctly captures the book's central message. Thanks!
The marchers weren't necessarily right. How many of those people would have been marching against a totally just, necessary war? Probably many of them. Many Americans didn't want the US to get embroiled in WWII, even after Dec 7th
Ditto. As an engineer, it feels like product managers often feel a need to keep cranking out new features as a way to justify their seat at the table. I would love to work in an engineering culture which found a way around that problem. If that means the job falls on me instead, so be it.
This is supposed to be enforced in code review or with other team practices / processes.
There's a little gem buried in the story. The algorithm for logarithms.

A lot of HN readers are familiar with Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, and his more revolutionary Analytical Engine (and the connection with Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first computer program). The whole point of the Difference Engine was to automatically create tables of logarithms, and other non-elementary functions, like sin, tan, etc.

Well, Feynman's trick could have easily been conceived by a smart fellow back in Babbage's time, and would have made the Difference Engine irrelevant (which it was anyway, since Babbage failed to build it).

Anyway, here's a simple example how this algorithm works, using base 10 rather than 2, to make it more readable.

First, we use the same observation of "range reduction" to say that we only need to concern ourselves with logs of numbers between 1 and 2. Let's say we want to create a table of all the 1000 numbers between 1 and 2 given with 3 decimal accuracy.

Let's pick a number: 1.382. The trick is to stick in an increasing number of zeros after the decimal place.

We start by dividing 1.382 by 1.300. We precompute the reciprocal and logarithm of 1.300 (as well as all the other 26 "elementary numbers" which start with 1. and have a single non-zero decimal). log(1.300) = 0.262; we keep this in an accumulator. The division 1.382/1.300 = 1.063 has one zero after the decimal place. We now dive this by 1.060 and get 1.003; we add the log(1.060)=0.058 to the accumulator and get 0.321. Finally, 1.003 has the log 0.003, we add this to the accumulator and end up with 0.324. The actual result is 0.32353, which indeed rounds up to 0.324. In some cases the last digit will be off by 1.

Why do you need to precompute the reciprocals of the "elementary numbers", not just their logarithms? Because this way dividing by them amounts to doing a multiplication, which is cheaper on many machines. This is how you end up with a log operation taking less than a division, as claimed in the article.
Possibly the engineers working there took account not only the size of the HDMI connector, but also the plugs that go into them. if you put two connectors next to each other, you would only be able to use one at a time.
I actually worked as FTE in Austria before and its really not much to write home about...

I wish the SW engineering culture in Europe would improve, it seems like we get treated as grunts (best case) or as toddlers (no offense to the said party, toddlers are cool, they just dont get as much credit for their hard work as they should sometimes).

agreed on the doctor route. unfortunately, I'm a bit too old and a bit too married to invest 6 years in medschool.

moving to eastern Europe and getting remote contracts seem like only viable route in Europe. However, it feels like this is only speeding up the decline by de-valueing our western colleagues.
But they already paying higher taxes, that what progressive tax scale is for!
Full disclosure - I am also the creator of this package.

Happy to answer any questions!
I figure it wouldn't be wise for a person who stays in a cheap motel to rent an expensive car regardless whether they could charge the car there.
The problem with this is that this is just dishonest. Its basically mostly a Boeing station. They are just trying to hide the name because Boeing has been executing terribly.

The station will be built by Boeing and operated, so I thought it should be in the name.
Doesn't mean they can't pay more.
One huge mistake I think a lot (but not all of) the bootcamps are making is taking the easy route of simply using JavaScript to teach both frontend and backend. JavaScript is a TERRIBLE first programming language. I usually have to spend 2-3 sessions per mentee explaining the idiosyncrasies of JavaScript, where some of the OOP concepts actually come from, and how things work in other languages to put into context the really terrible implementation of these features in js. Main reason being, I tell them, things that run in the browser are different from almost every other runtime environment because on the web it is extraordinarily difficult to deprecate/change things, because if you do then X% of the web breaks. This is why we still to this day have things like "quirks mode" etc. Once a behavior is out there in the wild, you basically have to support it as a browser, and you can drop support for it virtually never. This process has led to the JavaScript we have today -- mountains of functionality dumped on top of a backwards compatible core riddled with idiosyncrasies and poor design decisions that didn't become poor until they were left unchanged for ~20 years.

Anyway, my point is, it's very important to make sure students understand that their confusion surrounding how things are structured in JavaScript is natural, and that they can (and should, on their own preferably) look forward to learning more stable/sensical languages in the near future. It's a shame I have to do this for my students instead of the course just doing it for me, however.
There are a few other interesting companies at the smaller scale and seem to doing fine (albeit some with hiccups and bankruptcy/reincarnation but alas, that's business). RocketLab are going great guns as are Firefly and companies like Astra and Relativity Space (cool 3d printed rockets!) are closely following the pack. It's only because of Bezos's profile and the fact it's been running for decades with no real results that make it seem SpaceX are the only ones killing it.
Can someone explain what how they see this painting? I'm looking at it and I want to know what others are thinking when they look at it.
I think that's the point. It gives the government an easy in to collect more data on any and all of these users, regardless of whether it is pertinent to a specific case.
Now, how can I use this fact, to finally become a decent math user? :D
Endemic Covid-19 Has Arrived in Portugal. This Is What It Looks Like
Or maybe you just haven’t been paying attention? What about the Pineapple fund, The Giving Block and Gitcoin grants just to name few?
Some past threads. Others?

Node-RED 2.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27892226 - July 2021 (62 comments)

How-to normalize home volume levels with Node-RED - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23349902 - May 2020 (28 comments)

Node-Red – Flow-Based Programming for the Internet of Things - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18859019 - Jan 2019 (77 comments)

Replacing a Pool and Spa Controller with Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Node Red - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18142335 - Oct 2018 (3 comments)

Node-RED: A visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13495156 - Jan 2017 (6 comments)

Node-Red, a tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8419984 - Oct 2014 (8 comments)

Node-RED - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8310536 - Sept 2014 (1 comment)

Node-red, a visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8217664 - Aug 2014 (3 comments)

Programming the Missing Links in the Internet of Things - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6459564 - Sept 2013 (1 comment)
macOS Monterey
Couldn't they permit "_" in place of "T" ? It's not a space, and it certainly makes a date_time string quicker to parse at a glance.
That is not true, no app ever gets to interact with the notch on macOS.

If you're in desktop mode, it's reserved for the menu bar. No application can go above that line.

If you're in fullscreen mode, the screen does not render anything to pixels at or above the notched area judging by what early reviewers are saying. In other words, it all goes black and the notch "disappears," with content displaying in a rectangular area.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/18/macos-hides-notch-on-ne...

The iPhone is the only Apple device where app developers need to take into account a notch and home bar safe area.
And that's why gamers are buying the Surface Book instead?

The "gamer" community (or really, community-of-communities) only cares if their particular game runs quickly on a particular platform.

Gamers don't really care about the advanced technology details, aside from the underlying "which system will run my game faster, with higher-quality images" (4k / raytracing / etc. etc.)?
I think many people use it as practice/test. I have definitely see the pre-baby puppy often, but I have also witness the pre-breakup puppy where one partner turned out to be a poor caregiver.
No, it's not a wealth tax. Wealth Tax is usually understood to be the tax imposed on wealth transfer, for example when a wealthy person dies and the estate passes on to his heirs. Wealth Tax is not verboten in the US, it's actually very much a fact (it's known as Estate Tax), and wealthy people spend considerable time and money dealing with it. The current wealth tax exemption limit is $11.7 Million (i.e., you don't pay a penny of estate tax if your estate is valued at this number or below). Estates larger than $11.7 million are subject to Estate Tax. And large gifts made during the lifetime of the person whose estate is taxed also bite into the exemption amount of $11.7 million.