skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. There's only the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz split.

And the problem with "long range" is that everyone who doesn't live in a detached suburban house now has massive noise on the 2.4 GHz band from their 20 neighbors so that everyone gets terrible speeds. The weaker penetration/range of 5 GHz solves that by right-sizing everyone's network.

edit: researching the updates in 802.11ax, it looks like Wi-Fi 6 will bring the improvements from 802.11ac to 2.4 GHz as well, so it will actually improve performance for people who need range as well. It also has guard interval improvements for outdoor environments.
I understand a lot of people here have come from fortunate working relationships—

but in many fields things can be more competitive, or you can have new entries into your environment that will unexpected changes in the dynamic.

This is why early on many senior staffers most places I've worked lead with "COYA" when mentoring younger staffers. It's saved me more than once from bad actors.
He's referring to the title which says it "converts _any_ IPFS file".
Microsoft is working on Android app-mirroring support for Windows 10
What do you do about your phone though?

Too bad Canonical dropped Ubuntu Touch. There are other debian-based contenders but I think Tizen is currently the only practical choice. Unfortunately Tizen's code has a terrible reputation.

So... as I type this to you Google is probably watching me. Yay.
The notification icon isn't an intuitive place to find system controls like this. I almost never use the notification bar but every once in a while something like this happens.
What’s the purpose of the actual certificate? As someone who has done dozens of interviews - I’m not a manager, but for about two years I was responsible for hiring and I’ve sat as part of a panel- most people don’t take most certificates seriously. Some, including myself, take it as a slightly negative signal. I’ve seen too many paper tigers.

But then again, except for entry level positions, few hiring managers care about any formal education for IT positions.

From what I can gather, the few certificates that companies care about are RedHat, Cisco, and AWS certs. I’m sure there are a few more that are outside of my area of expertise.

I went through the Microsoft Architect Certification track as a commitment device to force me to study, but I didn’t put it on my resume and never told my employer. But I was trying to transition from a C/C++ bit twiddler to an “Enterprise Developer”.
> thousands of bare metal machines (A touch less than 10,000 Linux boxes)

This terminology is confusing to me as someone who's worked in the embedded space. In that field bare-metal implies not running an operating system. So does bare-metal Linux box mean you rent a box and stick a distro on it yourself? I feel like there could be more precise terminology used in that case...
I use it to do super quick data analysis sometimes, and also I made a few spreadsheets to help my wife to manage our personal finance.
I guess that’s what the GP was saying. I’m not sure what the alternative is, though - Google could completely pull out of the Chinese market and leave it for competitors like Facebook, Yahoo and MS? Didn’t we go through that already?
Except that people can still breed horses which keeps the cost of horse riding reasonable.

In contrast it will no longer be legal to manufacture and sell ICE cars, and so the price of these cars will go up as demand outgrows supply, making it financially unattainable for all but the rich.
PyTorch 1.0 JIT and LibTorch C++ API to Integrate PyTorch into Node.js
Just to be clear, SuperCruise and Cruise are two different entities. Supercruise is an ADAS system that competes with Autopilot, and is developed by GM's in-house autonomy team. GM Cruise (formerly Cruise Automation) is a subsidiary acquired by GM in early 2016 and is focused on fully autonomous robotaxis.

Also, to be clear, despite what Elon Musk may have told you, Autopilot has no chance of ever being fully autonomous on the current hardware, and it never did.
Are You Using DAF’s to Attract a Younger Donor Base? You Should Be
I wonder how hard would it be to build a spacelift on the moon?
> Koko staying in and doing something

Heh, good example. I keep running into defog Koko, I think precisely for this reason. In raw number terms it's not a great use of a Koko or a moveslot, but Koko forces so many U-Turns or outright switches that it's a strong way to gain momentum. And if Lan-T just switched out to avoid HP Ice, the check might not be ground, opening the door to Volt Switch away for even more momentum. Taking a time-biding move for specific switches is a pretty great example of this back-and-forth pattern.

(Although - I'm not sure Lan can/does U-Turn on Koko? If it's scarfed it can lead with Earthquake for a kill, if it isn't it'll drop to HP Ice before the turn.)
> Seemingly no one is doing anything productive -- it's meetings all the way down.

lol please tell me you invented this
That's not BS. That's you stating explicitly something people familiar with the issues see as implicit.

Both CEOs and journalists, as well as most readers of MIT's Technology Review, understand that you can get more labor by raising the price. The implicit understanding is that a) most Americans don't want to do back-breaking manual labor for a living, and b) most Americans also want food to be cheap. This is an ongoing problem in agriculture and has been for decades.
Show HN: Birdseye: a Python debugger which shows the value of every expression
I recently switched to Firefox and DDG, and am pleasantly surprised and seriously impressed. Obviously, DDG is not as powerful as Google. But it has been more than good enough for me so far.
Because the currencies fluctuate relative to each other.

Say you buy my house for 100 Acme Dollars.

Due to hyper-inflation (or some other factor), the next day, houses are now worth 1,000,000 Acme Dollars. You now have currency that is worth 1/10,000th of a house, I still have a house.

You could also substitute "house" with "USD"
Most of these features exist already in vehicles that have adaptive cruise control and parking assistance. I don't think any of them are fully flushed out but they are getting better.
I guess it's useful for deriving a baseline level of confidence, like a low
coverage score is a red flag, and an increasing coverage score probably
corresponds to increasing test coverage, but my issue is that 100% coverage
doesn't mean anything about the correctness of the code in absolute terms
(unless 'gaming the metric' includes not thinking of every edge case, ie, that
we're assuming the existing test suite is perfect). If you're working on a
poorly tested codebase, it's a useful relative metric of your progress in
testing what already exists, but unless you're assuming the code is already
correct, that doesn't mean anything more than that. If you wanted to derive,
say, the confidence that you won't see 500's daily in production from a
metric, then line coverage isn't an effective one to use for that; the tests
you write that give you that kind of confidence don't really help your
coverage score. The parts of the codebase that are in the most urgent need of
tests for getting that kind of confidence in places will most of the time be
ones that already have good coverage; think of how TDD works, even if you're
not doing TDD.

I could agree that a high coverage score is a prerequisite for having
confidence that your test suite is comprehensive (in general), but that's such
a low bar, it's like saying a full bath is a prerequisite for a nice house,
just knowing that shouldn't do much to convince you it's a mansion.
JPEG workshop on Media Blockchain announcement
> Switching from a 10yr old ICE hatchback to a new one can easily save you $500 pa. Going from a new "efficient" ICE to an electric will save you a fraction of that.

Not true. From personal experience driving an electric costs one fifth the cost of fuel per km. That's an enormous saving.
Readers want interesting comments to read now, I imagine, and this one doesn't teach us much. But please don't complain about voting: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Google is a for-profit enterprise. Currently the company has optimized its products for what users want: reliability, security, ease of use. The (sad) fact is that users tend to undervalue their own privacy and data because a single person's data is not very valuable. They don't see the power of aggregate data.

The title is a little misleading because it's not Google who choosing this balance between privacy and convenience. We, the users, are making this choice. This is what concerns me.

If users choose privacy over convenience, Google would happily oblige. I'm confident of this seeing the way that the "organic" movement has taken hold.
Tesla fanboys are some of the most delusional people.
The OP also asked 'Also, what is HLS?'
It's a step forward. However I'm surprised that the focus is still on individual cars, construction of an ev is still quite polluting.

I expected to see suggestions about increase in public transportation coverage and frequency to compensate, or maybe steps towards self-driven collective fleets (2030 seems ambitious).

I don't know Denmark, are public transportation already well developed? Or am I not cynical enough and it's just an economically driven decision?
This is a solid move. Better air quality and smaller chance of natural disasters benefits us all.
Obviously that wage isn't sustainable. The good news is that the majority of people discussing wage increases are making good-faith arguments about sustainable increases, and are not asking for a (ridiculous) $12M/yr minimum wage.

I'm not sure I understand what point you're trying to make by presenting a hypothetical wage that's 5 orders of magnitude larger than the situation being discussed.
Don't forget US Gallons are smaller than "proper" imperial ones
The funny part I see is that the US dollar appears to be two currencies in practice - clean and dirty and the distinction only comes up when attempting to use them in a clean market. Despite the terms and concepts being underworld there is no value judgement attached - clean only means legal and unsanctioned to US currently and there is nothing technically stopping them from doing something erratic like sanctioning Switzerland for being too neutral except good sense. Paper currency is almost always useful among the dirty as there is nothing to stop its use among even pirates and drug lords, and other sanctioned governments trade in US dollars independent of the fact they aren't supposed to be dealt with. Within the dirty economy it doesn't matter they are still stabilized, clean monet can come in if via illicit means and laundering allows for an effective conversion through many means including cash retail endpoints as the ultimate theoretical security at the cost of efficiency. (It isn't a crime for a legitimate businessman to accept a $250 cash payment for a bar tab from known gangsters - the opposite in fact. However adding it to the tills and cooking the books is.)

If the US wanted to maximize their fiscal gain above all else they would essentially give up sanctioning as peak stable currency. Whether they would want to or it would be separate questions.

It also points out why China would fail at their endeavor of replacing long term. Not even their own officials want to be in fiscal strangling reach. Nobody would believe they can reference Taiwan as a country and still remain part of their banking system let alone whatever else could draw their wrath.
And why do you suppose those are the "convenient defaults"? You ever notice how air mail always has labels in French? That's because French used to be this default. Surely you must agree that there is some political reason why the "convenient default" should become a different language.
I spent the last year building a predictive tennis model using Google Sheets which is basically the same as Excel. I have no technical skills so this was the easiest way to do it, plus it helped me learn SQL. Basically I have around 50,000 tennis matches in one sheet, filter them into another sheet, into around 100 comparative points, then in the end produce a probability for each upcoming match, and bet accordingly. I also use it to produce a little head to head stats visual and automated 200-word match previews.

It all works perfectly but obviously just for one user at a time. So I brought on a dev friend a few months ago and will launch a user facing site next week, as well as a b2b api for match previews / seo rich content.

I'm actually looking for seed funding up to around 25k, if anyone wants to reach out about that, or has other questions.

If you just want to follow some of the tips I'm running a very basic blog site at www.tennisacca.com sharing my most highly recommended picks (rather than listing 100's of games a week and needing a huge bankroll), which win at a ROI of 10%+ on average. It's mostly just for friends until the main site launches next week.
For instance the archetypal modern nifty fifty, the Canon 50mm f/1.8 (any version) is tack sharp at f/2.8, and exceedingly so at f/4, but the larger apertures are... less than optimal. Including the center of the frame. There's readily visible halation (caused by ill-corrected spherical aberration?) that gives everything a soft, dreamy look, plus severe purple fringing around contrasty features (chromatic aberration).

There are many recent lens designs that are tack sharp all over the frame already at maximum aperture, outresolving even a modern high-pixel-density APS-C sensor. But those have complex optical formulas and consequently are almost always large, heavy, and expensive. For instance, the extremely sharp Sigma 50mm f/1.4 A weighs 815 grams compared to the 290 grams of the venerable Canon 50mm/1.4, and the 130 grams of the plastic fantastic 50mm/1.8!
Not most, true; only half of it in the Civil War.
I admit this is more of a laundry list than a single advice — as you are looking for the most important advice — I’ll nevertheless list them down. Roughly ordered by importance :-)

* You are expected to manage your career and growth. Don’t rely on or expect your manager or someone else to do that for you. You’ll get lots of good advises around how to grow in your career. It essentially boils down to taking initiative and driving those to closure.

* Understand the product end-to-end as an end-user. All the use cases, all the flows.

* Understand the business model, how it relates to the product and how that product (or part of it) in turn relates to what your team and you are working on. This is much harder than it sounds which is why you need to relentlessly pursue this. The code base you are working on has an abundant of domain knowledge and architectural decisions built into it. Build a mental model of both that domain knowledge as well that architecture. You will rarely find those documented so you need to put in a lot of effort to know all the use cases and relate them to control and data flows. Trace different requests through the system, use whatever tools that are at your disposal (debugger, logs, metrics etc.,). This mental model will really help you accurately estimate feature requests.

* Help those around you in whatever way you can. Treat all the functions (HR, finance, marketing etc.,) with equal respect. Get to know them, what they do on a daily basis, their pain points. If not to help them then at least to empathize with them.

* Actively look out for inefficiencies (e.g., build taking 20+ minutes, broken unit tests, chronic production issues) and take time out to fix them. Even if no-one appreciates this you will have at least a feeling of fulfillment of having achieved something valuable to the business/company. In the process, you will have learned something new.

* Make full use of vacation policy. No one’s going to tell you to take a vacation you gotta take care of your physical/mental health yourself.
perhaps it's just about collecting more accurate test data - if self driving cars are obviously marked as such, the behaviour of other drivers around them may change.
Step 1: replace your Dockerfile with one that consists of the single line "FROM cloud-gov-registry.app.cloud.gov/python-buildpack". The buildpack contains magic that knows how to turn a standard python program into a usable docker image. (AKA, it inspects requirements.txt, et cetera).

Step 2: Now that your Dockerfiles no longer contain any real information, retool your orchestration system to use source tarballs rather than docker images.
Try running a live distribution on bare metal. The performance difference is night and day.
My favorite, along with about everyone else in the office, is https://hackaday.com
How do you know they're real?
Same discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18112734
> works in the unlicensed spectrum and for distances of 1km or longer

Looking at the shitshow that is the 2.4 GHz band, what are the mass-market uses of unlicensed 1km range in the 1kbps bandwidth range? IoT?
No it would massively increase smuggling / crime as Americas experiment with prohibition showed.
I thought GM bought Cruise. Is that not the case?
What's the "oops" about?
This article is a strong volley aimed directly at checklist culture. It has a lot of citations.

But checklists were the hot new thing in 2012. They were going to save everyone from iatrogenic harm. This article doesn't explain how all the previous research supporting checklists got it so wrong. I'm updating my beliefs significantly away from checklist effectiveness, but I'm also really confused.

Did checklists just stop working in 2015, or something?

https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/24/7/428
Sure, some ICE may remain around for special uses, but I guess the vast majority of people will be fine w an electric car. (Especially in 2030)
Yes, the dreamy glow can be useful in certain situations, but on the other hand many feel the effect is overused and passé. Plus you can always achieve it in post, but you can't make a dreamy-glowy photo sharp. A sharp lens is strictly more useful in the digital era.
It goes further than that. The US is quite able to intimidate (or outright depose) governments it perceives as hostile to its interests. Even in friendly countries the presence of its military gives something of a check on internal politics, before we even get to outright cloak-and-dagger stuff (which has been influential on the political course of numerous US allies).

One of the more comical illustrations of this is that the US passed a law during the Bush administraron authorizing invasion of the Hague if US officials were to be tried in the ICC. Less amusing is story after story of US-authorized violence to depose governments perceived as hostile to US business interests and slaughter supporters of the deposed governments.
There are good techniques for monitoring plant health in infrared. They're so common that it's a decent home-hacking project: http://www.richardmudhar.com/blog/2015/07/using-near-ir-to-l...

It's also something that is done from orbit. E.g.: https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Coper...
I recently bought a Huawei (yeah, I know) MateBook X Pro, having used Mac laptops almost exclusively since the iBook G4. My only complaint with the hardware (drivers?) is that two-finger scrolling on the otherwise decent trackpad isn't nearly as smooth as on a MacBook.

My biggest problem is actually connecting mail, calendar, and contacts to Google. Whereas it works out of the box on my Macs, I have not been able to get them working in Windows 10. I've fiddled with 2-Step Verification and Allow less secure apps. I can get mail working over IMAP by enabling 2-Step Verification and using an application-specific password, but I've had no luck with calendar or contacts.

I presume I would have the same problem with Microsoft hardware.
I have the original Surface Pro (2013).

# Software problems:

- Windows frequently has bad touchscreen support. I've encountered many fullscreen games where a click can only be sent via a double-touch or double-pen-tap. It's phenomenally hard to click through text in story-driven games.

- The machine does not stay asleep at all (that or I've misunderstood what the lock button is intended for).

# Hardware problems:

- The machine electrocutes you whilst charging.

# Age / software / hardware problems:

- Recently (I think following Win10 April 2018 Creators Update), it has been BSoDing extremely frequently. i.e. within 5 minutes of startup, during basic usage.
Good point, let's try “Alphabet” in the title here instead.
Is this one of the first examples of an IPFS-based API? This is very cool.

I like that you can take something that is effectively on your disk, ping some endpoint, and it will get "pulled" by the service as a peer and process it.

Next step could be to make the "ping" step as an IPFS pubsub thing.
> Why do I need to Ultimately Matter to live?

I think we're thinking of "unlivable" in two different senses. When I said "belief system is unlivable" I didn't mean you can't agree with it and live. I meant you can't live as though it's actually true. You can't be consistent with it and live.

Why take care of yourself if you don't matter? Why help other people if they are as irrelevant as your help? Why participate in thoughtful discussion if nobody matters, and neither do the conclusions? Folks who think they have no ultimate value do these (good) things all the time -- but they can't and be consistent with their worldview.

> What is the difference between me, and these other systems?

Simply put, you're human, not a plant or a planet. Humans are volitional, trees and rocks are not. "How can trees live without beliefs?" is analogous to "how can humans live without photosynthesis?" -- because we're fundamentally different.

Human actions are the products of our beliefs. We think and long for significance. Why? If you're a just mass of chemicals, atoms clashing with atoms, why do you long to matter? And if you aren't more significant than the tree, why can't I cut you down if it suits me? The typical responses ("it's beneficial for survival", "society says so", etc.) don't make it wrong inherently, yet we know murder et al. are wrong. Actually wrong. And, if we don't matter, why is survival good? Why is society's opinion good? They wouldn't be, they would just be other possible, equally meaningless, states in the vast, purposeless, eternal state machine.

But you do matter. And it's a divine gift. You matter because you were created to matter.
> Every dollar that a government borrows and then spends, is money creation.

So is every dollar repayed back to the FED money destruction?
It never should have allowed the vehicle to proceed with a fatigued driver, and the company should have policies in place to prevent this (maxmimum hours, dual operators, etc.)
I'm using Google Voice, 90% of my incoming calls are spam bots. Ban Google?
I have an understanding on both sides. To keep our privacy is something we initially feel should be our decisions. However, besides companies buying Google services, most individuals do not pay for Google services. Chrome, Gmail, Google search, are monetarily free for us. We are paying with our information. If you use the service then you are saying yes to allow companies to enact these dark patterns, ethics aside. One could argue if the internet is a right, but that's another day

Although it would be helpful for some if Google laid it out transparently to individuals who do not have the technical slop to understand what they are "losing"