skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure that most operators either use analogue or digital end to end, no mix.

VoLTE (Voice over LTE) have some other advantages over other calling applications. VoLTE is most likely on a very high QCI (priority), which means it probably has less delay and less packet loss than other traffic. VoLTE also often uses header compression over the air which means the packets gets a lot smaller and therefore also reduces packet loss. I don't think VoLTE usually have very high bitrate though, maybe around 10kbit/s. This is one area where other apps could be a lot better.

EDIT: I am of course only speaking about mobile calls. For landlines I agree that other applications provide better quality.
In the 70s were the doomsday stories saying we only had 110 years left?
I was quite proud of my 7-digit (in ICQ world, the SMALLER the UIN (why do I still remember these acronyms!) the BIGGER your penis was) ICQ number that started with 404.

404. Quite clever, eh? I guess there was a lot more HTTP 404 errors back then.

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Yes, I too remember my ICQ number but not the birthdays of... I PLEAD THE FIFTH YOUR HONOR!
Even poor retirees own stocks, and they pay huge tax rates on their dividends. You can’t deny that.
> Tech is sick with "us" vs "them" mentality and its spreading.

Perhaps in your case, a little introspection will reveal an "us" vs "them" attitude which you already hold.
Understanding VC dynamics is good for founders and would-be founders
If your customers are all in the same market, then it's not in their best interests for you to take on their competitors. This isn't simply, logistically, "how can I get the other market participants to know about me". This is an actual conflict of interest.

Especially if a company such as yours can help "saturate" a market (with no details, I can only speculate), you want to think carefully about whether you really should go after the entire market, and if your value would be less to each customer were you to have higher penetration.

To make up an example: there are companies selling templates for eBay sellers. The theory is the templates convert better than bland listings, and that therefore people using the templates have an advantage over those that don't. But if everybody uses them, the advantage to each may be greatly diminished.

It is also possible your solution doesn't make it any easier for companies to compete - in which case, why are they using it at all?
How can you be so sure if e.g. everything we eat both prevents and causes cancer [1]? Do we have proof that exciting electrons won't do anything on a higher level like enzyme production, or one of the many metabolic pathways?

1: https://www.sciencealert.com/everything-we-eat-both-causes-a...
Exactemente. It's fairly bizarre that this article didn't mention self-citation, huh.
Lots of people would like to be in that position, so it's interesting to them. Why do people follow the lifestyles of the rich and famous in general?
Indeed, it's absolutely mind blowing.

Top marathon runners average faster than five minute miles. That's sickeningly fast.

Back in high school my fastest single 1600m (a mile is 1609m, but one lap on a track is 400m) time was around a 5:15, and my fastest 800m was 2:27.

These elite marathon runners basically took my fastest 800m pace and repeated it 50 times.

Insane.
I would expect this trend to accelerate as the new GOP tax plan greatly reduces the taxes paid on income earned by landlords letting out a property.
Also don't discount the fact the USD went through some serious deflation. In the name of jump starting the economy, our govt literally made money out of thin air and made it rain.
It's a huge part of the tech landscape. If you're working for start-ups, you're an investor in start-ups, so you need to understand how the financing works. You also need to understand what it means when your CEO says they're "almost definitely closing a round now, surely".

Even if you're running a normal, non-VC tech company, understanding the motivations of VCs is very useful. The behaviour of other companies makes much more sense in light of this.
I'm (naively) surprised this works in practice. It seems like the sending laser and receiver would have to be very immovable such that big wind gusts, or a large truck driving by, or large temperature changes in the structure holding the laser, etc, didn't cause enough vibration/movement to cause the laser to miss its target when several miles away. Is this a non-issue? Or maybe the laser spreads out enough at several miles it compensates for the movement?
This one suggests so: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/05/26/055...

Released as a partial report last year; a quick search didn't find if it had been completed yet or not.
The (excellent) article agrees with you:

"From massive barbarity to pinpricks of microaggression, Us versus Them has produced oceans of pain. Yet, I don’t think our goal should be to “cure” us of all Us/Them dichotomizing (separate of it being impossible, unless you have no amygdala).

I’m fairly solitary—I’ve spent a lot of my life living alone in a tent in Africa, studying another species. Yet some of my most exquisitely happy moments have come from feeling like an Us, feeling accepted, safe, and not alone, feeling part of something large and enveloping, with a sense of being on the right side and doing both well and good. There are even Us/Thems that I—eggheady, meek, and amorphously pacifistic—would kill or die for.

If we accept that there will always be sides, it’s challenging to always be on the side of angels. Distrust essentialism. Remember that supposed rationality is often just rationalization, playing catch-up with subterranean forces we never suspect. Focus on shared goals. Practice perspective taking. Individuate, individuate, individuate. And recall how often, historically, the truly malignant Thems hid themselves while making third parties the fall guy.

Meanwhile, give the right-of-way to people driving cars with the “Mean people suck” bumper sticker, and remind everyone that we’re in this together against Lord Voldemort and House Slytherin."
Yeah if you sit down, your organs are still irradiated.. not really of any use.
How much of human like attributes are true similarities between apes and humans, and how much is projection? It is hard to tell, as we have a great tendency to project our internal experiences on somewhat similar external forms. E.g. kids thinking of dolls as real people, à la Calvin and Hobbes.
I've found this LA textbook follows the "build the world" approach.

http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/
I use Discord, but I only have it installed on my phone. More convenient that way.
I'm not sure why you were downvoted, as you are absolutely correct. I've lived both sides of that.

I grew up in rural fly-over land, and my little farm country high school with a very high proportion of kids on the lunch subsidy didn't prepare me very well for engineering school. Maybe one kid every other year would attempt engineering school. My pig farmer father died when I was 5, but my mother managed to stuff enough money away even in the lean years that I had money for a cheap land-grant university.

As I mentioned, I wasn't all that well prepared. I remember one night when DiffEQ homework was kicking my butt, and said to my self: "Ether get this stuff under your belt, or go home an clean hog barns for the rest of your life." I chose option A. My wife's parents were dairy farmers. She was the guru of scholarship application essays... that paid for her undergrad degree.

So, I get what you are saying. I've lived it. My wife lived it. But between us we've accumulated 5 degrees, made some good investments, been in a couple of situations where stock options were pleasantly large, and yes, work is optional right now, even living at Silicon Valley prices. Pardon me if I don't appologize for accompishing what YC and HN are all about.

So your post is a little short on actionable solutions to the problems we both see as clear as day. Here is a suggestion: MathPath has a need-tested scholarship fund so that kids that can't afford the camp can go. Tax deductable donations gladly accepted. Join me in donating. Then spread the word about MathPath -- anybody can apply.
>low-frequency predictable movement of the ship caused by large waves.

Well, I was thinking that combined with whatever navigation is going on as well. As a layperson, waves don't seem predictable to me.
Wouldn't that be inflationary?
Article from 2013
I think the vast majority of the gains from the computing revolution have been captured in consumer surplus. Billions of people get to use all kinds of online software for free. Certainly hard to estimate but this is likely worth trillions alone?
And where petrochemicals come from? From oil, which happens to be running out as well.

What our grandparents did was to "fix" our reliance in an overexploited renewable resource making use of processes that consume a non-renewable resource and accelerate the destruction of the renewable resource at the same time, all this while artificially inflating the output of the original process and creating demand that cannot and will not be met in the future.

Good job, Science!!! That's what happens when you fixate on wether things can possibly be done, but never consider if they should be done.
Brexit: EU leaders agree to move talks to next stage
Oh I'm not suggesting it is. Just stating what I think people believe.
Printing more money is inflation
This sounds like a brilliant idea, but if any recruiter ever found the text, it might be a red flag for the employer. Have you ever had it come up in an interview process?
> Going to the theater is an experience much like the theme park. Go on the ride and tantalize me afterwards with memories and other things to offer a more complete experience.

It appears to be drastically different for you than for a lot of others.
Note that if your only goal was to test whether the dice was loaded, using a test against only one outcome (in this case, only 6s) is not the best way.

Use either a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test[1] or the Anderson-Darling test[2].

The intuition is that these tests are more powerful because they take the difference between the entire empirical distribution minus the expected probability mass distribution. You're using 'all the numbers' simultaneously to check for cheating.

Funnily enough, I first learned about these tests a nearly a decade ago, precisely because I wanted to know whether Settlers dice were loaded.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%E2%80%93Smirnov_tes...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson%E2%80%93Darling_test
Few industries should be allowed to regulate themselves.

Information, health, food and weapons are examples of company’s that need constant regulation from public bodies.
Wait when did the USD go through deflation?
If you stand anywhere in the universe, you will be bathed in non-ionizing radiation at a large variety of frequencies.
Are his opinions representative of the field? Are there other people backing him up?

You can't point at a disproved theory of high voltage power lines cause cancer and use that as evidence about cell phones at all. Completely different scenario. Anyway, epidemiologists showed a long time ago that it was much more likely that poor health associated with living near power lines was due to poverty/real estate associations.

So, here's an example of Parks writing:
https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/93/3/166/2906431

"""All known cancer-inducing agents—including radiation, certain chemicals, and a few viruses—act by breaking chemical bonds, producing mutant strands of DNA.... Microwave photons heat tissue, but they do not come close to the energy needed to break chemical bonds, no matter how intense the radiation."""

His claim that "all known cancer causing agents ... act by breaking chemical bonds" is both biologically naive, and misleading. For example, the cancer-causing and cancer-preventing molecules I studied for my PhD work only through hydrogen bonding and van der waals forces (they do not make or break chemical bonds as Parks means it).

So basically, if that's representative of Parks position, then I claim he is basically wrong, due to known mainstream biology directly contradicting him.
^Exactly what I thought when I read this bit:

>We want Facebook to be a place for meaningful interactions with your friends and family — enhancing your relationships offline, not detracting from them. After all, that’s what Facebook has always been about.
The insanity has kind of infected me, now I want to see the 1 acre lot for 500K. You could build a lot of 925K condos on that! edit: looked on Zillow and the cheapest condo/townhome was 2.19 million for the new ones just built off Stevens Canyon where the dump trucks from the quarry pass by five days a week (seven when the building boom was here). There used to be a gas station here until the condo developer bought it and tore it down so they are probably right on top of an EPA site. The cheapest homes were estimated at 1.4-1.5 million for three foreclosures.
Are external entities required to be processed? I know multiple implementations require you to opt-in to download anything, so I don't think so. But happy to be corrected.
Disagree. Maybe one day all of these homes will be owned by a giant corporation, but for now, they are typically owned by individuals. Not everyone who has benefited is a robber baron.
You're missing a very critical detail.

Normally, for a trait to grow in a population, you need a fitness advantage. Basically, if you average a little over 2 offspring that successfully breed, that trait should grow to fixation.

In the case of exactly 2 reproducing offspring, allele count is static. Homozygous parents will provide one allele to each offspring, so 2 copies in one generation, and 2 copies in the next. Heterzygotes have a 50% chance, so one offspring is expected to have the allele. 1 copy in the parent generation, 1 copy in the next.

Gene drive changes the completely, as the construct will copy itself to the homologous chromosome. You'll go from 2 to 4 or 1 to 2 copies from the previous example. The growth is exponential. There is nothing like that in nature.

Thus, even if a moderate fitness disadvantage is introduced, the allele can still be driven to fixation quite easily. Even with an expected offspring of 1.5, you can still go from 1 to 1.5 copies of the allele over each generation.

The other issue is that you can introduce a trait for e.g. chemical susceptibility. It offers no fitness disadvantage until that chemical is introduced into the environment.
Those sound the same to me
SpaceX launches a reused Dragon atop a reused Falcon 9 for the first time
> I also see the problem with “us vs them” with the “us” side of the equation.

As someone who is often mischaracterized in a "them" category, I have the same frustrations.

For example, my dad, rather often, dismisses real conversation as me being a "liberal", a group which he refuses (possibly cannot) define. Rather than tackle the ideas themselves, he chooses to dismiss them, and, whether he recognizes this fact, uses "Us vs. Them" as a personal excuse.

Because this is an instinct, we are all susceptible. I certainly do not want to blindly consolidate individuals into an undefined group, and dismiss their ideas. I would much rather trust a person's ability to have honest perspective that is different from mine, and learn from that perspective.
And oddly no followup article where he talks about how the branch prediction works in Sandy Bridge CPUs.
99.9% of the time these anomalies are either due to cache/branching or due to alignment.
In a sane world, the Bay Area would have the highest new-construction numbers of any metro area in the USA, and probably the developed world. Unfortunately, the market is so distorted that I'm only aware of one potential large-scale buildout in the area (the Brisbane Baylands development -- and even that has a 50/50 shot of being successfully blocked). Such pointlessly wasted potential. :(
Pounds weight is a terrible way to measure toxins. This report is basically meaningless, because it lumps together toxins with vastly different risks. Eg. sodium carbonate is included, which is just common washing soda. I wouldn't eat it but the risk is easily manageable. Compare with, eg. dimethylmercury, which is scary even at parts per billion concentration. An actually useful measurement would take into account both potency and persistence of toxins.
The article sounds like a propaganda for BCash.
For common peoples information, BCash is supported by chinese miners, Satoshi Nakamoto impersonator, a convict named Roger and other types of dubious characters.
same goes with going underground. Nothing stops us from having -100 stores underground in NYC or LA or SF. We know how to lay water pipes, AC, deliver air, supplies, create emergency plans, etc... the only problem --- zoning laws :(

edit: was referring to places where you cannot build up anymore, such as sky scrapers in NYC
"In-law" units are now being fast-tracked in many communities, which is a variant of this.
One of my complaints with GraphQL (as an observer; I've not yet directly worked with GraphQL) is that while it has a bunch of type information, most of that is fairly opaque to Typescript itself: queries themselves are mostly opaque strings, and most examples I've seen of query usage (and this may be mostly just a problem with wild examples as opposed to real usage) most of them just use the result of a query call as any-typed, manual type assertion, or manual generic argument to the query call.

It seems to me that all of GraphQL's type information should be easier to use in Typescript.

I have noticed there is a compiler of .graphql files to .d.ts files [1], and I could see using something like that the way that RESTyped is used in the article here (though it's "backwards" from the RESTyped model where the Typescript definitions are the source of truth [2]), but at least in examples I've seen to date of GraphQL in the wild it does seem like there is a similar need in the GraphQL world for something like RESTyped.

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/graphql-typescript-definitions

[2] Which leads me to wondering if it would be nice to have a Typescript Definition file to GraphQL compiler.
Everybody is like you in some way or other but in a BJJ gym, for example, you will be forced to engage with people of different genders, ages, political affiliations, religious beliefs, intensity, IQ, toughness, education. I do not discount the diversity of the military - if service is mandatory - but in civilian life a BJJ gym might be the most practical analogue.
Well, don't forget that the reason the economy needed jump starting is that $4 trillion evaporated in the crisis of 2008.
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> Most of those studies were debunked as using very shaky methodologies.

This is a factually incorrect. Please try to introspect whether you're saying this because you want Damore to be wrong, instead of attempting to ascertain whether he was actually wrong.
Write whatever fits in with the company's hiring process. If that includes a cover letter, write a SHORT one. A traditional (formal) one might be something like:

> Dear Sir/Madam,

> My name is scabarott and I am a Something Engineer with N years of experience. As shown in my CV I my strenghs are [something impressive, don't be boring]. I think this will make me a good fit with your team and am looking forward to your reply.

> Yours Faithfully,
> scabarott

Once I saw a tech company trying to be hip by saying don't send a cover letter, but then later asking for a short description of what makes you great. I thought it was silly, because that description just was the cover letter. But it was also wise because it set expectations well, and prevented people bloating out their letters.

P.S: The informal e-mail you my attach a CV to and the dead-tree cover letter are really the same thing, just tweaked sighlty for different technologies and traditions.
Only if you could get permission to build on it. And if permission were easy to come by, a developer would have already bid $5M+ for the lot.
You're asking if the Tesla managed to drive a whopping 26.2 miles on a single charge?
> that's still about 11 years of inspection time

11 person-years. You don't need the same person to conduct all the inspection.
I agree. I want the resume to be bullet lists but the cover letter to explain why they are a match.

I also see it as a filter on effort. If the applicant doesn’t care enough to make sure I know why they are a good fit, do they really care about the job?

In my experience, only checking off checkboxes rarely leads to the correct match.
What's scary about "Looking Glass"? It's not named something like "PrivacyRemover" or "SpamEmailer" or anything.
I've been using something similar and it solves many problems elegantly. You use a build step to connect to the server and run an introspection query to get all server types ran generated dynamically as .ts files (or .js for flow). Then your code has access to your data model with very little to maintain: a dev can change the backend model in the server and you'll know right away. You almost don't need documentation, since the schema can also contain comments.

If anything, a GraphQL server can still be used in a RESTful manner (perform a pre-written query, get its results) so there's a lot of pros (with very, if any, cons) with using a GraphQL server.
THE HARD MATH BEHIND BITCOIN'S GLOBAL WARMING PROBLEM
> Look, things like murder or pedophilia are unabigiously evil

If by 'murder' you mean 'unjustified killing', then that's trivially true. If, on the other hand, you just mean 'killing', then it's far from obvious that killing is 'unambiguously evil' (self-defense comes to mind).

> I feel like society, at least a larger portion of it, understood this in the past. Your creating taboos. Things we don't dare talk about or explore because we fear having our lives destroyed by twitter lynch mobs and the like.

Harassment on social media is certainly an issue, but it's ridiculous to describe 'people criticizing me on the Internet for what I say' to 'censorship'.

> But what you actually want to do is knowing as "mobbing" in Europe and it's generally illegal (at least in some countries)

No, what I 'actually want to do' is allow people to chose which companies to purchase from, and to allow them to advocate for others doing the same. What exactly do you mean by 'mobbing'?

> If your paper was critical of the Fuhrer brown shirts would storm in, trash the place and assualt people

Are you really going to compare online speech to physical violence?

> Live and let live. There are people out there with different views than you. Some of those views might be down right offensive if you really thought about it.

How do you determine which of those are 'unambiguously evil'?
I sure hope that the study corrects for self-citations. It’s a pretty simple procedure with Web of Science.

That said, who you cite can be a fairly political decision, it’s like who to follow on Twitter, at least in fields with multiple people working on the same topic.