skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s Bosch. AFAIK The chips themselves aren’t coming from Germany but are gabbed in Asia and shipped within Asia. Are you sure it’s manufactured in Germany? I don’t know enough about the mechanics of Finisar but I would be fairly surprised to learn that Apple is shipping 1 component from Texas to China for manufacturing. Of course there may be logistical reasons why that works out for that particular component (maybe the laser scanning doesn’t change much so it’s not hard to just keep pumping them out all year round so lead time for a new line isn’t as relevant). I remain highly skeptical this is done for the accelerometer as I think that changes every year (unless it’s matured enough that they don’t bother anymore but I would doubt that’s the case). This seems even less likely, to me at least, for the CPU that definitely changes significantly each year and is co-designed and brand new along with the rest of the phone (ie shipping times are critical to make sure you can set up the assembly line on time).
I mean, why shouldn't we trust it?

Assume that R and I are both non-empty sets.

By the Axiom of Extensionality, for any two sets X and Y, if X and Y have the same elements, then X=Y. Therefore, if R and I have at least one element in common, then R = I.

Now, let r be an element of R and i be an element of I.

Since R and I are both non-empty sets, r and i must both exist in either set. Therefore, r = i, and thus R = I.

Therefore, the existence of rice pudding and income tax is established. QED.
>the infighting within the CCP,

Every nation's leadership, and every political party, has infighting. Just look at all the infighting in US politics: it's a complete mess, and it's really dragging the US down. The US might be able to weather it better because of its stronger economy, but that's not a sure thing.
C'mon, for a forum of hackers that's a pretty lame answer, isn't it? :P
Nice rant but, like those popups that ask for your email when you show signs of leaving the site , the proof is in the pudding - do these live chats increase conversions?
Workarounds existing doesn't negate the rent-seeking.

Also the "necessary costs" argument for the App Store fees falls apart when the unmonetized apps are all free.
Zawinski's second law states that all software with messaging/chat eventually becomes a dating app.
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This is asked pretty often. I think I’d say the act of reading books consistently and reflecting on the ideas as a habit is what makes you smarter, not just a single book. Fiction and nonfiction alike.

But to be less pedantic and answer your question. Deep work and why we sleep are both amazing books. They contribute to making you smarter by improving aspects of your life
Short answer, no.

It might be possible that with very ($1000+) high end headphones about 5% of people could tell a difference, but even that is questionable. I have done many blind A/B tests with my $500+ headphone setup and no one has ever been able to accurately tell the difference repeatedly. There is absolutely no way that someone would be able to discern the sound difference between 320 and lossless on an AirPod-quality speaker.

I’m not sure about large speakers however. I assume that it’s equally difficult to tell any difference, and I couldn’t when I tested my setup. However, I have listened to some incredible $4000+ speakers before, and at that level I wouldn’t be surprised if differences emerged.

There’s so much snake oil in audio and placebo can effect sonic perception so heavily that it’s nearly impossible to find anything objective. There’s also a lot in the chain - the DAC, the AMP, room acoustics… that will effect the sound, sometimes substantially - let alone the speakers and the actual source.

While microphones obviously exist, you can’t measure sound the same way that you can measure the nits and white point of a monitor - it’s far more intangible.
Huh? I can cancel my credit card in an instant and all of them (incl. debit and atm) are on my phone anyway.
Gorilla glass is not an electronics component (which I recognize isn’t what I wrote but is what I had in mind). The display is made in Asia.
This is interesting, they’ll try to tell you it’s because the cellular modem requires extra testing by the carriers and manufacturers, but windows can support upgrades that don’t affect an add-in card cell modem… so what gives?
I don't mean to diminish the concerns you are raising, which are serious, but until the modern era China was beset by regular famine, and civilizations of the past did not necessarily farm in a more sustainable way -- it just doesn't matter if you're doing slash-and-burn agriculture with a small enough population relative to the land at your disposal.
The last paragraph of the story is a concluding statement by the author on the difficulty of countering CSAM, and it says no such thing.

The announced opt-in feature for iCloud family accounts (Communication Safety for Messages) will scan content that is sent and received by the Messages app, and alert the associated parent or caregiver directly, without informing Apple.
An interesting discussion I recently found on this topic was the Rust discussion on improving mutex and related types in their standard library: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/93740 A few posts later someone was discussing the implementation of various lock implementations (including musl libc, glibc, wine, Windows, boost, Darwin, FreeBSD) to keep notes. I learned a lot from those discussions.
The computer knows better ;).
Chris was also well known in the London Java Community and contributed to multiple events, conferences, bringing his expertise in a thoughtful and kind way to folks who were often 1-2 stacks above the runtimes and compilers space .

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Thank you Chris for unselfishly sharing so much with us and leaving the world a better place, you will be missed.

I’m off to go and hug loved ones now.
I just got the email about it going from mean to release today. Only a couple chapters in but so far I think it’s a solid addition to my Rust library. Congrats and thanks for writing it!
> And lastly... a lot of IT guys still don't care for IPv6; as those biases show up in these & on Reddit; so that perpetuates the cycle

You know the 3rd and 7th largest networks on the internet still can't reach each other over IPv6, right? It is super awesome that it "just works" for you, but recognize you might just not have the perspective of one of the people who has to make it "just work" for you.
All AI models so far are pretty much only useful as a middle visualization step in a creative process. You have to come up with a vague idea of what to draw, SD can give you a number of compositions to choose from and will get close enough that you can tell the final product would be good. You will still have to recreate or heavily edit whatever it creates though. It’s still useful, but it’s not good enough to be a revolutionary product yet or declare photoshop obsolete.

Similarly, ChatGPT is a great replacement for a search engine. I can ask it to guide me through writing a metric to Prometheus from a batch job and it’ll dig out the relevant pieces from the documentation and present them to me in an easy-to-understand format. But I’m not giving it write access to main yet, or letting it make business decisions.
> they were not party to his fraud

That remains to be seen. The investigation is ongoing, and for my part I suspect that more people in EA will be implicated.
It's very effective, especially if you maintain the altruistic intent.
If any skeptic here likes nature documentaries, I'd recommend "Our Great National Parks" on Netflix. I found it unique in that it documented exceptionally intelligent and complex behavior by a number of animals we don't normally consider as being intelligent. For example, tool use by mongooses (cracking a snail shell with a rock) and a monkey riding a deer for fun, as well as frequent cooperation between species.

I don't find it so difficult to believe that a slightly larger encephalization quotient than our nearest competitors (chimps) could lead to an ability to control fire.
I will also add that myself is only for a few specific cases, primarily when the subject and object are the same:

I looked at myself in the mirror. She looked at me.

I have decided to just be myself. Kind of an odd case there.

I, myself, love to go to the movies. Here it is just used for emphasis, not as an actual reflexive pronoun.

Some people do use the reflexive pronoun as an object in certain cases, often with compound objects, but it is not proper under any prescriptive English grammar that I have studied.
Most vimdevs (myself included) have a plethora of plugins cobbling together a custom and comfy IDE. Almost no one is using a plain text editor now.

And emacs users never had a plain text editor, never claimed as such, and woe be to you if you call it such in front of them. Lol.
This is a great (long!) piece.

I think one important thing for people on HN here is this:

> I think Carl, with his background as a Corporate Finance guy, seeing the world through that filter, must have believed that I was trying to blackmail them; trying to maximise my revenue, like the “rational agents” that populate economics textbooks; that I was refusing to sign it to hold up the deal, because I wanted to get paid off. And I totally get how he could see it that way, given where he was coming from; but that wasn’t really what the issue was.

There are many people on HN (and elsewhere) who see behaving as a rational economic actor as a default state and - worse - many believe economics is a zero sum game.

Neither of these things is true, and it's a big mistake to think so. People do things for diverse motivations, and money is only one.
Nice work. Pity all the images in the article are broken.
> It's the same for any form of aid. For example, an NGO source on the ground in Ukraine said that before US auditors showed up (6 months later), only 30% of the US hardware made it to the frontlines. [1]

This is simply not true and requires a lot more nuance to even discuss. There’s a reason that CBS retracted nearly everything to do with it, it’s because they were misrepresenting the words of the people they spoke to.
> One interesting thing about the Beluga: the pilots very often fail to land them and have to do multiple attempts!

They're likely just doing a fly by for a visual inspection of the runway since it's not a major public airport with full time air traffic control.

Most people are smart enough not to park something in the middle of a runway but might not have an intuitive grasp of how large a wingspan these things have.
This:

> Seems that the testimonials from others on here show that he was nothing but lovely

is because people behave like this:

> I don't think that making observations like that on a post like this is terribly appropriate though.
There’s no difference when the person with the gun is deciding what’s true.
I'd guess most of the difference comes from drinking. I mean, you can hardly expect large events like these to be dry, but the combination is absolutely horrible from a safety point of view.
Why is latency the “big pie in the sky”? We’re not talking about counter strike or Halo CE matches here, we’re talking about the ability to transmit large amounts of data from deep space very fast.
Can anyone explain to me the performance difference between having a native OpenGL or DX9/10/11 userspace driver vs having a Vulkan/DX12 userspace driver and using Zink or DXVK to implement the older APIs?

From my understanding, Vulkan/DX12 are APIs that are supposedly very low-level and allow fine-grain control over things like memory access, synchronization, and hardware-level optimizations (usually through the use of extensions). For OpenGL and DX9/10/11, these are basically higher-level abstractions that can be implemented on top of the lower-level APIs.

Assuming the above is accurate, what advantage do you get by having "native" OpenGL or DX9/10/11 implementations on your GPU? Is there anything Intel is missing out on by using DXVK as opposed to implementing their own implementations?

And how does Gallium3D (from the Mesa project) fit in all of this for Linux? Is that a lower-level abstraction than Vulkan?
No, they retracted it because it goes against prevailing narrative. The source said 70% of the hardware wasn't making it AT THE TIME, that's irrefutable.

Whether it's improved since then is irrelevant, because I clarified my original comment with "before US auditors arrived".

Guess what: TENS OF BILLIONS in weapons were delivered prior to US auditors arriving. So I guess we just gave billions of dollars of military hardware to Euro crime gangs through corrupt embezzling but it's fine because it doesn't happen anymore?

They DID NOT retract his original comments in the context of the time they were made.
You're essentially blaming the victim.

The ISPs still haven't adopted it after 25 years.

ISPs are a massive monopoly in the USA. IPV6 can't be adopted by software until a sufficient number of the backbone works. I've heard that "the backbone is all working for ipv6". Um, is comcast? Wasn't last time I had comcast.

If the ISP monopolies aren't 100% ipv6 (and you see lots of comments here that ipv6 support in ISPs is still "substandard") and convenient, then you can't blame the software people.

Look at your success story in mobile (which is behind a huge NAT to translate things to the "real" internet by the way). How did that work? Oh, you probably wrangled the three or four mobile companies into a room and got them to agree on protocols. Wow, success.

This needs to happen for the rest of ISPs. The fact it hasn't isn't a software issue, it is a governance issue. The failure is in the governance, the outreach with the real policy hammers like the FCC and ISP monopolies.

The governance has failed. It's been failing about 15 years longer than it should. FIFTEEN YEARS OF FAILURE!

Stop blaming reticent programmers, because IPV4 networking is still much much much easier than ipv6 in software, and IPV4 networking SUCKS between NATs and bridges and internal/external IPs and port mappings and what's-my-ip-on-the-other-end and dynamic DNS. Ohmygod it sucks. And ipv6 is worse than that!

Stop blaming the software people. IPV6 governance and outreach failed. Failed failed failed failed.

I don't want ipv6 to fail. I WANT STATIC IPs! EVERY PROGRAMMER WANTS STATIC IPS!

Get the ISPs and FCC in a room. Get google and microsoft and whoever else you need to lean on them. Get Amazon and google and microsoft IAAS into a room (hm, look, the same companies basically) and lean on them to support ipv6.
Zero electronics components. As someone noted, the glass comes from New York.

> And surely the machines that make the parts are largely from Germany, Austria, Switzerland or US (and Japan/Korea, but they are in Asia).

Those are one-off machines that are part of the assembly line (often times tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars). It’s different when you’re handling a continuous volume of tens of thousands of units each day.

I have 0 knowledge of this for Apple but I worked generally on mobile phones and worked with the assembly line engineers in other companies and supply lines into China was a real thing which is why China was where assembly moved to in the first place - in addition to cheap labor, it was right beside SK for RAM/flash, Taiwan for all your chip manufacturing, Japan for display, etc.
It could be nice to use a gpt-3 chat trained with the info from the web to have something like an ai search system.
If you had technical knowledge you would given any reply with some substance but you just derived my response as "mental gymnastics" after baiting me into a discussion

And now name calling

You just wanted to get out your superficial preconceptions on the topic after wasting my time
> Alma

Having just played through the F.E.A.R. games that name gives me weird feelings.
Nah, I think they suck (and I'm not the only). A lot of handwaving, proofs are usually just sketches. It's bad.

It's that type of introductory book written for the expert that already knows the theory.
Seriously, with what we know about PRISM [1], why do comments on here only fear China's surveillance and not that of the United States?

Apple was revealed to be a participant in 2013; there is no reason to believe they are not a part of it now.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
The fastest way to transmit data (albeit not from space) is FedEx (mailing hard drives). This is not ideal. Why? Latency. That's what makes networks better than pigeons.
Eh. It's good for B2B. If you're ordering technical stuff and need something specific adjusted, can be helpful to chat to someone that can connect you to a specialist quickly.
From the context of a black person in the US who grew up and went to school in a majority Asian (70%+) area:

My understanding is that many first-generation Asian immigrants in the US immigrate to the US through visa programs, which tend to select for highly motivated, educated people. This in turn leads to their children having better outcomes, including financial ones.

People who are generally better off financially tend to live in nicer areas, and those nicer areas are less policed. This tends to lead to a change of perception of a given group of people -- most Asian people they know are smart and well off, so they use that as a heuristic.

Many black people in the US are descendants of slaves who were brought to the US against their will and had very little access to property, leading to generational poverty. Poorer areas are generally policed more aggressively, leading to more crime being prosecuted, and thus a heuristic is built that leads to even more aggressive policing (eg. stop and frisk in NYC was very racist as a result).

I don't think there are any innate qualities that Asian people have that black people don't that would lead to Asian privilege, and the two groups face racism in different ways across the US. Asian people are victims of racism in different ways even if they generally aren't as targeted in policing.

Recommend reading more about the model minority concept as well, as from what I've seen from my Asian friends and loved ones, is a concept that places a lot of pressure on them. Holding up Asian people as an example of a minority that does really well or is expected to do really well can mitigate their own accomplishments.
We can't have a reasonable discussion if you insist on calling all trans women men.

There might be a chance if you acknowledge the basic facts which is that the vast majority of trans women are as even MORE at risk of sexual assault than cis women. And that the "rapists" who are attempting to infiltrate female spaces are an extreme minority, and are a danger to all women - cis and trans.

There may be a version of an argument we could have about the difficulties have with banishing those people without banishing genuine trans women. But if you can't understand how trans women are victims in this too, and brandish them all as men, we're finished.

There is no point discussing your desire to reduce men and women to sperm and eggs either.
You should Google how many times Apple has bent to China as recent as last month. Apple's human rights record is spotty at best.
When the algae bloom dies oxygen is used during decay

https://www.epa.gov/nutrientpollution/effects-dead-zones-and...
The distinction is pointless when you care about writing code that gives the right answer. What are you going to do - write Julia code without using the standard library?
In all likelihood the observation and analysis are based on sensing data rather than images.

If you could see something, it would be a dot next to a smudge --- the jet and its adjacent galaxy.
On what service? I have done a lot of military SATCOM, and our normal rount-trip latencies to geostationary could be as low as ~560ms. Not anything like as low as LEO (which are far, far closer to earth) but not unusable.
> Do we have anyone else in the audience that has any insights over whether Alma is more prevalent over Rocky or is it the other way around?

This is wrong reasoning. Distributions live on the shoulders of maintainers/developers. While popularity may be a factor attracting maintainers/developers it is not a deciding factor. If the less popular distribution attracts more maintenance/development effort (again, not necessarily head count) it will win back market share in medium term and once popular distribution will stagnate and fade.
Optical to Orion (O2O) is a plan to do a lasercomm demo on one of the future Orion moon missions.

When the Psyche spacecraft launches and heads to the asteroid belt (was supposed to launch in august) it will do the farthest (by far) lasercomm demo. I work in the group that made the SNSPD ground receiver. As my boss says, with a distance 1000x farther than previous space laser comm demos, closing the link is 1 million times harder...

Fun fact: when the Phyche comm laser is pointed at earth, the size of the spot will be roughly as large as California. Even with the largest optical telescopes, the loss in this link will be insane. That's why you need single photon detectors.

As you get to farther and father distances, one thing you can do is shift from on/off keying to large-M Pulse Position Modulation. This way you can save up the power on your satellite to send fewer but higher power laser pulses, each of which carries more bits of data. I believe the DSOC mission will go up to M=256. Meaning each pulse of photons received on earth will carry 8 bits of information based on when it arrives within an alphabet of 256 time bins.