skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If everything you described is a one in a million chance, then I don't see why it's a problem. Consider it a free for living in a civilized society.
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No one in the West (that I’ve ever met) literally throws away old iPhones. They either get handed down to a kid (merits of which are for another thread) or a friend or relative.

Some folk do trade in their old phone and a lot flip them on the used market. I think getting more life out of those devices for the original purchaser is of paramount importance though if we are to stop polluting our environment with the consequences of smartphone manufacture.
If it's given to a place that specifically recycles phones, it may end up refurbished (or not) and sold for another couple of years' use in a poorer country.
I don't think the is the case. The SOCs are faster. The batteries can't keep up. So they need to throttle the performance to draw less power if the batteries degrade too much. Which is why swapping out the old battery restores things. A new battery can provide enough power.
But in practice that isn't a good example. Given HTML's extreme error tolerance the practical difference is zero. It only makes a difference for authors, who really should consider it an error to use more than one <main> tag.
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I agree with your sentiment and find the judgemental, derisive attitude that some entrepreneurial communities exhibit distressing. Going so far as to call 9-to-5 workers sheep is a display of arrogance and (perhaps) own insecurities. It would be better for us not to foster such attitudes.
Shen is a genuinely interesting Lisp that is implemented using around 46 primitive functions - porting Shen then just requires the implementation of this 46 function substrate in whatever programming language you are using.

In addition to a built-in Prolog and also optional type checker it also uses pattern-matching like other modern functional programming languages. This is unlike Clojure which to my mind wrongly downgrades pattern-matching to simply an optional library. (Apparently Rich Hickey isn't keen on pattern-matching).

Shen is certainly worth investigating if you have an interest in Lisp.
Unless you know what you are buying and have a sense of what quality you are buying, its impossible to buy online

That's what Borders upper management said in the mid-90s and at the company's peak, and they were wrong. Showrooming didn't make people buy elsewhere when Amazon had the lower price, either.
Ah, well that was my one idea :P

It's also hard in that: once I have one awesome Japanese stapler, how many more do I need? For me the answer was just 1: a staple-free stapler. Then I was saturated.
Rods from God?
Image sensors world is a great blog indeed.

I'm pretty sure the Blackmagic used CMOSIS sensors at least on the 4K Production Camera.

On Axiom - I think it's great to have open source cameras like this, but the price point needs to come down significantly before it will get traction. Also, with indie camera companies expect long delays - Axiom's been years in the making, as have KineFinity cameras (another independent RAW cinema camera brand).

From a practical POV for indie filmmakers, the resale value of these cameras is also questionable when compared to BlackMagic or RED.

I think much of the benefits of RAW (dynamic range) will actually come from 10bit HEVC cameras shooting HDR. GH5 is one of the first of those, in 1-2 years I expect every smartphone will shoot 10bit HEVC that will have significantly more latitude than current 8bit video, even at small sensor sizes.

I would actually love to see mobile SoC's like Qualcomm 845 (4K 60fps, 10bit HDR, Rec 2020 color gamut) and Android used on semi/pro cameras, with a good OLED touchscreen, relatively large (1" or larger) sensor and maybe m43 mount lenses. Something like BMPCC but with updated sensor and chipset, running Android.
I was about to suggest the same books. Seeking Wisdom in particular had a big influence on me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7me5fs/34c3_st...

https://lobste.rs/s/wa9bun/34c3_live_streaming
Hmm, works for me in UK.
Many gothic cathedrals still standing also are stronger than they have to be. Reason? Building was still guesswork at the time and the ones built too weak have long collapsed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauvais_Cathedral is an edge case.

So, it may be lack of structural engineering knowledge. They also may have intended to build something bigger, but realised they ran out of time or money, or the “something bigger” collapsed, and this is a rebuild, reusing parts.
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I'm looking for a cheap-ass VPS setup at home. Need 2 nodes with 16Gb each. Any recommendations?
Jocko is great. I also really enjoyed "Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual"

I think it's a little more to the point compared to Extreme Ownership.
I don't know if intelligence can really be defined, scientifically, objectively or otherwise.

Intelligence is a part of evolution, so it is really hard to describe it. There are many behaviors which are deterministic, automatic because they are described by genes. I tend to think that brains are not really smart, but we just want to give value to what makes us better, so we call it intelligence.

Intelligence doesn't really exist, there is just transmission of knowledge.
The installation of skills doesn't seems as intuitive as installing an 'App' on your mobile phone, therefore there seems to be a technological barrier.
https://www.reddit.com/r/de/comments/7me52u/34c3_startet_in_...
I envisage the manufacturers bypassing third party's entirely. Rather than buying or leasing car, you subscribe to your manufacturer of choices plan for a car as a service. Eg subscribe to Tesla. Quick trip, model 3 appears and drives you there. Longer trip? Model s does the job. Family holiday? Model x picks you all up. At the end of the day the car returns itself to the pool.
I love tab completion.

I hate that the terminal and the browser are two different applications.
Ah..URL seems like unlinked.
Here is URL again:

https://jsfiddle.net/igari/046nv5oe/4/
Yea, but when I use it in practice I have to verify if my assertions are true. So I guess I'm doing "reconstruction" I'm not sure.
I wouldn’t discount YouTube based on that experience. That channel looks to be one of the channels that drives a lot of views through children, specifically, children watch and watch and watch these videos on TVs (driving up the viewcounts) but aren’t engaged, they aren’t going to convert to customers. You may wish to try more targeted channels, i.e channels with an engaged audience of people who like Japanese culture. A video with 1,000 views to people who are enamoured with Japanese culture will perform significantly better than that video.
The supposedly money-restricted alternative is not the democratic utopia you paint, but the place where only established machines can compete.
You're the one that started in by trying to wrongly "correct" the statement "every improvement in sending is completely equivalent in receiving for a system that uses the same antennas for both directions of communication" (which is actually correct).

The fact that you can't have perfectly collimated beams and must make do with antenna pattern "lobes" is actually important here.
> tl;dr: runtime.Object is a type used for serializing messages in RPC calls. Deserializing the type requires a type lookup through a registry. Generics would not solve this issue, so the OP's entire point really doesn't make sense.

And generics would allow compile-time safe checks for serialization. Easy rebutal to merovius post. I don't see how more type safety is a bad thing.
My parents did it like this: my father’s salary went into their joint account and my mother’s salary went into her own account. Huh.
> Analysts have found an almost perfect correlation between new wallets growth and btc's price.

The question here (at least to me), is what all those new wallets are doing with their bitcoin, what percentage of the community is actually using bitcoin as a currency vs an "investment" and they are just holding.

Now, this doesn't mean that I don't believe in Bitcoin or Blockchain tech for that matter, quite the opposite.
Several times this last week I got essentially a "sorry, we're busy" message from my echos. I assumed quite a few must have just come online, but of all companies I expected Amazon to have made scale work.
Idea: allow people to order add-ons to their monthly packages (something relatively cheap like manga, magazines, etc.). You can order it automatically from Amazon Japan with free domestic shipping. So people could get their candy + whatever stuff they need from Japan, while saving on shipping costs.
> Biohacking enthusiasts are about to bring in something really valueable.

Have any more details? or links?
Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs: A Review of Recent Literature [pdf]
> shallow cycles dramatically improve battery longevity.

Not necessarily; cycle depth is a big factor, but the interval covered is very important as well. I.e. a few cycles to a high charge end voltage ages cells more quickly than more cycles to a lower charge end voltage. This obviously directly relates to the amount of energy stored. The correlation is approximately exponential: you get somewhere between two to eight times the cycles for lowering charge voltage by 50-100 mV. You very quickly get to zero cycles raising it.

Another factor is cycle length, i.e. cell current, and temperature, as always.
Scale issue.

Example: My 15" 2017 laptop has a <80Wh battery. A Nissan Leaf has around 24000Wh battery (between 24k and 40k depending on model).

A Nissan Leaf battery is on the smaller side of what many believe is required for a mass adoption EV, yet still around 300 times larger. A small Tesla Model 3 is around 50 kWh[1], over 600 times larger. A large one at 75 kWh[1], over 900 times.

Here's an interesting infographic on Lithium-based batteries:
https://electrek.co/2016/11/01/breakdown-raw-materials-tesla...

For old EV batteries it will be viable to reclaim metals, but regular consumer electronics waste is not enough to meet EV production.

[1] https://electrek.co/2017/08/08/tesla-model-3-battery-packs-5...
Now that you mention it, I did scan my fingerprints. Don’t know what they compared them with - I literally crossed the border an hour before by car and didn’t scan my fingerprints there.
> Secondly, wind turbines cost about the same whether they're producing power or not, meaning that they're always feeding power into the grid if the market price is above zero. This takes money away from more reliable power sources - coal, gas, hydro, storage - and can drive them out of business.

This seems like something a futures market should be able to cover?

Ie there are consumers that need reliable power, and there are reliable power sources. They should be able to come to an agreement, despite cheap but unreliable spot sources in the market?
> Cryptos without working software keep on increasing. Its the new "Don't monetize".

Care to elaborate are you referring to ICOs without an actual working Dapp?

> Canadian PM steps down due to ethics violations.

Lol, unlikely to happen.
> With roles reversed, you do not necessarily get directional transmitter.

I don't get why you put "necessarily". You do not, period.

> [...snip...] but the claim was "every improvement in sending is completely equivalent in receiving for a system that uses the same antennas for both directions", key word improvement.

Yes, the claim is wrong:

1. With the sender at the focus and the receiver farther away, the mirror reduces the loss (due to distance, since everything else is assumed ideal as you already acknowledged) to ZERO. You literally cannot do better than reducing your loss to zero.

2. With the receiver at the focus and the sender farther away, the mirror DOES NOT even remotely reduce the loss due to the distance to zero. Loss is still ~1/r^2. Because the mirror only gets so much of the omnidirectional light. This should be very obvious.

I don't care how you slice and dice this, and I'm tired of arguing something this obvious, so I won't keep commenting. 1 is not equal to 1/r^2.
A new tech may or may not replace lithium ion. But, I think that energy storage and logistics may change into a heirarchy.

The power company or energy creation things will be at the bottom. Battery's above that and then new things like super-capacitors or new types of batteries like software defined batteries. The competing technologies don't have to eliminate the other solutions they can work on side of them until they reach where they should be.
Thanks for replying. Don't you also feel like saving the whole web page as well, in case the link gets broken in future?
> Cars do get weaker over time as the parts wear.

And so does the battery life get shorter as the battery wears. We know that.
This in no way allows to anticipate that CPU gets slower.
>There’s no need to let it discharge 100% before recharging. Apple lithium-ion batteries work in charge cycles. You complete one charge cycle when you’ve used (discharged) an amount that equals 100% of your battery’s capacity — but not necessarily all from one charge. For instance, you might use 75% of your battery’s capacity one day, then recharge it fully overnight. If you use 25% the next day, you will have discharged a total of 100%, and the two days will add up to one charge cycle. It could take several days to complete a cycle. The capacity of any type of battery will diminish after a certain amount of recharging. With lithium-ion batteries, the capacity diminishes slightly with each complete charge cycle. Apple lithium-ion batteries are designed to hold at least 80% of their original capacity for a high number of charge cycles, which varies depending on the product.

From https://www.apple.com/ca/batteries/why-lithium-ion/
> J.K. Rowling was broke when she was writing Harry Potter.

http://crookedtimber.org/2010/04/14/j-k-rowling-on-welfare-a... (quoting the paywalled Times):

"A second reason, however, was that I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major’s Government, was there to break the fall."
It's not uncommon to see Uber retain 75% of the fee collected these days. The subsidies are much lower and less frequent than you are probably expecting. In Los Angeles, you are talking about 1.1-2.0 subsidy on base rates in the same areas with base rates for the driver being .72/mi and .11/min.
The Orwellian implications of these definitions are hair-raising. This turns crime into something that is in the eye of the beholder and lies the burden of proof upon the accused.
Oh, that makes sense and is quite clever.
While not a book, I have created a very simple program which fetches a random cognitive bias from Wikipedia.

I've set it up on a daily cron and now I receive every day a cognitive bias on my e-mail and read it on breakfast.

So far some biases really stuck with me and I notice myself referring to them every time I'm thinking about something.

With the results I have only for a couple of weeks I'm definitely planning to use it all my life.

Here is the code: https://github.com/zuzuleinen/bibi
Suppose your job was to work out whether the identity of people entering or exiting your country matched what was stated on their travel documents.

How would you do it? It's not just about terrorism. What if you had to do that at scale and cared about errors?

Actually a lot of people have that job and many of them are not silly and some of them influence technology acquisition. This is a super hard problem, technology can put a dent but human identity is a super gnarly problem.

The use of a "centaur" system (face matching with a tunable rejection threshold backed up by trained humans to work out exceptions) would probably be the most socially acceptable right?

[I am assuming that you pretty much understand whats happened with machine readable travel documents over the last while and that your reference and actual can be captured at multiple points during the entry and exit process].

DNA takes too long, humans for everything suffer from decision fatigue travel delays and high labour costs, fingerprinting is socially unacceptable.

I guess if what you're saying is that you don't really want border controls to work I can accept that, but I also don't fault the people who are legitimately doing their best at system design to meet their responsibilities. These people get panned for things that don't work, is it fair to pan them for things that do work (based on what I know of process in au/nz) too?

Doing this on departure is a new, but logical measure. I don't know of anywhere else in the world this is done but I suspect it is a data gathering trial to help the U.S. justify it as an entry requirement.

If you didn't want it to be a visible gate I suppose that a "check harder" icon could appear on the exit processing officer's screen when comparing your camera picture to your passport reference, rather than exposing gate automation to you directly. It might turn out that UX is more socially acceptable. The political stakes for wrong decisions are too high for computer face rec not to be deployed at control points.

Does it seem more socially acceptable to you if the face matching feels like a point-of-check aid to a possibly fatigued human and the results aren't logged?
This has been a big regret of mine. I should never have preceived anyone in a 9 to 5 that way. And as mentioned above, there is nothing wrong with a 9 to 5 (dice or no dice). It’s a prefectly valid course of action to pursue the more important things in life.
Just rushed my way through a BFA from NYU Film. Got more valuable theory and guidance in my thinking from YouTube than most classes.

But learning to light a scene on 35mm and other nuanced technical work requires detailed hands on instruction. College also helped me grow thicker skin and a healthy cynicism. That's about it.
Good idea, could be worth trying to let people select different frequencies, which practically would mean just skipping the packages in between.
If we wrote those, where could they be shared to?
This is not limited to Apple. Top phone prices including Galaxy, Pixel etc have been steadily creeping upwards yearly starting from $500 and are now at $800-1000. Next year it could well be $1200 and in 3 years $1500.

Has the fundamental tech in the phones dramatically increased to justify this, not really.

The same applies to ultrabooks with low performance heavily throttled dual core chips, going from $700-800 to now $1500 plus. This applies to macbooks, dell xps, surface, hp and even lower cost alternatives like Asus.

There is a trend of sorts and it may well be rising income disparities means those at the top are not price sensitive and will pay $500 or $1500 with little qualms, and marketers are responding to the market.
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Ok, it depends where you live I guess. In some countries only the super rich can afford $2k bags and in this case they don't use them for long. I very much doubt your tinder date will keep using it for a lifetime though.
Not for the owner==product. Someone though may benefit from one additional microphone in every house.
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so when do we expect to see mass browser adoption of this?
No, stopping ad blockers would be trivial today if the ad distributors let their JavaScript and ads be distributed from the same domain as page content. As long as the ads come from clearly identifiable domains, there is a good chance at stopping them.
I'm disappointed that people are getting their "agenda" retaliation in early, disregarding most of the content of the paper.

Rather surprisingly this is limited to male (!) inventors in Finland (!), seemingly because that was the easiest place to get a whole-population IQ dataset in an otherwise fairly equal country. One of their conclusions is that involvement of the father is a positive and that divorce is a negative. If you're going to dismiss this as lefty nonsense then that is not the kind of conclusion to expect from it.
> if you are not an "elite" employee, region, nation, age-range, industry, etc., then you get left behind

Do you? While it's technically correct that inequality is increasing the baseline level is increasing, too.

So, while an average person's wealth in comparison to the richest person's perhaps has decreased by orders of magnitude in recent decades at the same time globalization and capitalism not only helped with massively reducing poverty but also with increasing the number of people who - while not exactly rich - make a decent living.

They might be relatively poorer than their 1970s counterparts when compared with the richest people of their respective time periods but in absolute numbers or compared with the economy as a whole they're much better off.
If Apple ever builds hardware for that, they could destroy Google.
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> when it triggers, resync the clock with your neighbours?

Indeed. Periodic clock resync is a must here. Better from external NTP though, as neighbours have their clock badly drifting as well.

> If you wake up and nobody else seems to be awake, go into degraded mode where you continually listen for the next scheduled interval.

That'll defeat the purpose completely. Here's why:

- "Listen" consumes full 70mA;

- "wake up and no neighbours awake" will happen very, very often. Let's take simplest example of two nodes with drifting clock. When they both wake up (each by local clock), inevitably one will wake up first. That node will discover there's no neighbours awake. I a mesh, statistically this will happen to 1/N nodes each wake-up, where N is average number of neighbours. If we tighten requirement from "anybody awake" to "enough nodes awake to reach uplink" (so to make use of external NTP) probability of "not enough neighbours awake" even will come close to 100% on each wakeup.

Slightly better approach would be - when each node wakes up, it stays awake for long enough to cover worst-case all neighbour's clock drift. Average clock drift seem to be +/-2%. Let's say +/-5% would be worst case. That means, all nodes have to be awake 10% of the time just to re-sync clock so that next wake-up will be not worse off than current one.

And staying awake 10% of the time means average power draw of 70mA * 10% = 7mA, which is pretty darn high (3 weeks on a 3000mA*h Lithium cell. Even less if there is payload data transmitted on this mesh.)
if it weren't for CDNs, simply blocking all 3rd party domains is the fastest, most reliable and secure way to block ads and greatly reduce bandwidth.

i highly recommend running both uMatrix and uBlock Origin. then whitelist cdns on a per-domain basis.

with the amount of tech and data available these days, google still chooses to show me an ad for chevy on an ice cream site. the fact that the ads are so obviously out of context is truly baffling - does this seriously work for the general consumer? even if i've searched for chevy before, why would i suddenly exit my ice cream experience?

if ads were contextually better, less distracting and less bandwidth/perf impactful, i may actually be convinced to view them. unfortunately none of these things are true.
I worked for a large Japanese company that settled on NPS as one of their main KPIs. It was spearheaded by their American educated CEO and was implemented across all their products. The data looked good even when the company was hemorrhaging customers. Despite the flaws I can't help but wonder if questions were asked about its applicability to Japanese audiences.