skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=18398475&goto=item%3Fi..., foreigner quite reasonably asks, "Won't any RF signal work just as well?"

Any RF signal will work, but some work better than others. Wi-Fi is awesome for this for several reasons.

1. Having a source inside the house instead of outside is better because you lose, say, 15dB when you go through the wall; this is comparable to what a two-way mirror does to visible light. If you have to illuminate the house from outside using RF energy, you have to deal with much stronger reflections from things outside the house.

2. RF wavelengths that are too short will be badly attenuated by things like walls and doors. You can already notice this with 5GHz 802.11a Wi-Fi; if you have a few walls between you and the AP, the 2.4GHz signal usually works better. The problem gets worse at higher frequencies. (You may have noticed that many walls attenuate visible light, which is RF in the 500THz band, rather strongly.)

3. RF wavelengths that are too long provide much poorer spatial resolution. Outside the near field, your imaging resolution is limited by diffraction to about the wavelength. So you can see a person who's illuminated by the 99.5MHz emissions from your favorite heavy metal station only if their diameter is on the order of 3 m or more, and you can see their movements when they move on the order of 3 m or more. By contrast, 2.4 GHz gives you 120-mm resolution, and 5 GHz gives you 60-mm resolution. For typical humans, these are more useful.

(However, my friend Florian has done good work on passively detecting airplanes using radio illuminations from TV stations, which could be super helpful the next time the US comes to bomb your country, even if he does use Lagrange interpolation instead of B-splines like any normal person would; check it out: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8115293.)

Also! Having walls be super transparent, as they are at these longer wavelengths, is not entirely an advantage. It makes it harder to distinguish between signals from things in one building and signals from things in another.

If you want to listen to Wi-Fi signal strength changes in real time — including when someone moves around — try https://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/wifiscan.py. It depends only on Python (3 or recent 2) and PulseAudio. (MacOS hackers, consider upgrading to Linux. Apple's removal of your Esc key shows that they hate you and want you to die.)
The Illustrated TLS 1.3 Connection: Every Byte Explained
But unlike an NES system, if your septic tank develops a problem you now have liquid and solid waste flooding your yard and home, and your toilets, sinks, and showers are useless until it's fixed.
Jan Gehl on Brasília https://youtu.be/KL_RYm8zs28?t=1111
That makes no sense. What happens to the solid material?
Our imaginations are so limited.

If they have teleportation technology, ...
> Once the polling center closes for every mailed-in ballot they check if they have an in-person vote

Agree on keeping votes sealed until live polling closes. But there is no need to check every mailed-in ballot against in-person votes.

Instead, when a mailed-in ballot arrives one marks the voter rolls. When a voter checks into a polling place, the rolls are anyway consulted. At that time, if a live voter shows as having already voted: that ballot is found and destroyed, and the voter given a fresh ballot to cast.
Is there any evidence that as these techniques are refined we can find ways to apply them to more people OR is it just a matter of your cancer having mutation X or not, no way around it. I’m thinking about Judy Perkins and how her success with stage 4 breast cancer.
Ok, following with the totally naive speculation. What if it were not a place, but a specific environmental factor or a specific trait? Cancers mutate quickly, and resources are limited, so cells that are more successful might starve those which lag behind, as it happens in animal populations. And once the cancer has "fallen into the trap" of specializing for something, that something could be targeted, or the favouring environmental conditions removed.
I full expect that our online speech from bunkers will be eventually the only thing that is hard to decrypt.

We will be tracked 24/7 by our gait and shape and facial recognition with handoffs between drones and tiny street level cameras, or perhaps to make things easier we may just be tagged eventually with a non invasive RF sensor or coating. Metadata of who you visited or interacted with will be analyzed for patterns with machine learning. Items you order will be tagged and possibly interdicted as it becomes cheaper and cheaper to do so. People won’t be able to organize anything dangerous because the state (which at that time will be 99% just AI) will already have predicted that the same way AlphaGo would predict any chess combination. Any uprising will be pre emptively quelled using pinpoint nanobots which were deposited to lie dormant in everyone’s bodies until activated. States will endure forever.

Speaking of those nanobots, once you have them in people’s bodies they can report back all your whereabouts and activities. It’s easy enough to get them in via people’s food and water supply.

The main hiccups will be in the early years as the nanobot swarms are still clumsy and may reveal themselves before they learn how to stay in an organism without getting washed out so easily and without triggering an immune response.
Check out Prolog DCGs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definite_clause_grammar

http://www.amzi.com/manuals/amzi/pro/ref_dcg.htm

https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/dcg

http://www.pathwayslms.com/swipltuts/dcg/
People keep thinking AMD's 7nm is this amazing thing, like everyone is talking about the same thing when it comes to CPU's and nm. When in reality nm has just been marketing fluff for a decade now, just like response times in monitors.

AMD's 7nm might get them close to on par with Intel's current 14++ nm chips, but it's not like AMD has really figured out how to make the entire CPU half the size.
The Case for European Health Care
Advertising in general may work, but any particular ad may or may not work.
didn't everyone see batman?
It was partially the 580, partially the inability to swap out the card. It's nice that they're offering Vega options now, but for that model I'd be paying a $500 premium over a comparable setup, with TB3 out being the only benefit. I'll stick with my Dell P2415Q + Akitio Node for now.
My wife and I have exactly two goals for our child. Those are for a) him to be happy and b) the world to be a better place for having him in it. That's it. We also realize he has hopes and dreams, so we work hard to instill in him an understanding of working your hardest, using your strengths, identifying your weaknesses, and being a good person.

Good grades and test scores are nice, and poor grades aren't a huge deal if they identify an area where more focus is required. The ARE a big deal if they're the result of lack of effort. I want him to go to college if what he wants to do in his life will be facilitated by that. I'm also a firm believer that college is what you make of it, not what it makes of you.
No need to apologize, but I do think you are reading a bit too much into it.
>It has to be deep enough, and far enough away from a home, road, water source, food supply, etc. Not all communities have a lot of extra land, so you're talking one or two communal toilets, which need to be large to support a large population, and someone has to maintain them.

Literally any deep hole practically anywhere is a damn sight better than open defecation straight into the river, on the bank, or all over the streets. And it doesn't take an act of congress to fund it and change building codes, a civil engineer, excavator, and team of union laborers to get this stuff done like it does in the west. You just need someone who is personally motivated and determined and a shovel ideally. like this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi

All you need is one person who knows that digging a hole would keep his kid from getting sick and dying and you'd have more trouble trying to stop him from digging that hole for an outhouse.

When that clicks for them. That their kid or wife or husband wouldn't have died if they bothered to dig an outhouse, they will be doing the work and telling everyone they know and also nagging people till their ears fell off when they catch someone shitting in the street.
A;A = placebo more effective
G;G = placebo less effective
There's an old story about Neils Bohr. He was out at his lakehouse with his students, where he had a horseshoe over the doorframe for luck. One of them was outraged and asked "Professor Bohr, surely you don't believe in this sort of silly superstition!" Bohr answered "Well of course not, that's absurd. But fortunately, it works whether you believe in it or not!"

Which comes to mind because I know a few people who are quite knowledgeable about medicine, committed to evidence and rigor, and also go to treatments like acupuncture regularly. They all do it with that same sort of winking sense that sure, this probably doesn't work double-blind, but as long as I don't focus too hard on that it'll work for me. One or two have even said that they consciously avoided investigating past "it's not harmful" to preserve ambiguity.

I'd always wondered how well that kind of doublethink could do for placebo, and while this isn't exactly the same I'm excited to find a discussion along those lines.
Markets are open on Columbus Day so most finance and fintech people don't get it off. I didn't.
Actually, only about half the people vote, so it was 26-27% of voters
https://mises.org/wire/26-percent-eligible-voters-voted-trum...

Which I've always more associated with the Crazification Factor than outright stupidity:
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crazification_factor

But it always helps to have Cipolla's Basic Laws of Human Stupidity bookmarked:
https://qz.com/967554/the-five-universal-laws-of-human-stupi...

72% of Americans thought invading Iraq was a great idea.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/8038/seventytwo-percent-america...
The BSA is a large and diverse organization. There are many troops out there and each one is a world unto itself. It takes some time to find a good fit for your child, but it is very much worth the efforts.

Many troops and councils have openly bucked National's policies for a while now [0] [1] [2] with varying repercussions. Like any large bureaucratic group of people, change takes time. But I think you can see that change is happening within the BSA. I think that you would be surprised at the inclusiveness of some troops (not all, by any means). Importantly, if you want the scouts to change, doing so from inside the organization is the most expedient way to do so (frustrations are bound to occur though).

Please, give Scouts a try! Interview local scoutmasters and attend some troop meetings. I promise that they will be happy to talk with you. If you are in the Bay Area I know of a few troops that may fit your family well. I think you will find a troop that aligns fairly well with your priorities (nothing is ever 100%). If that fails, please consider starting your own troop! [3].

Scouting is a great opportunity for young people. It's a fantastic 'grit' builder, leadership trainer, and social experience. It teaches uncountable lessons to your children and helps them prepare for later life like no other thing [4]. Many people [5] cite their one-of-a-kind scouting experiences as the nucleus of their future careers and passions. Personally, I cannot wait to see what becomes of the first female Eagle. Whomever that young woman will be, I am certain that she will have a unique place in her community and world.

The lessons of Scouts are uncountable, the friends are innumerable, and the food is, well, usually inedible.

[0] https://www.glaad.org/blog/local-boy-scouts-council-approves...

[1] http://www.scoutingforall.org/data/layer02/store.html

[2] https://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/7/27/16049924/boy-scou...

[3] http://www.bsa-grc.org/membership/how-to-start-a-new-unit/54...

[4] https://www.scouting.org/discover/parent/benefits/

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Eagle_Scouts
Pretty much in a similar case to yours. I started playing with Photoshop with a 5.0 license my dad bought back around 1998, and used that same version for years. I pretty much still use the same features I did back then, and to me all those modern versions makes no difference to my workflow whatsoever. With time I just learned to do things a bit more efficiently like to use adjustment layers instead of destructive transformations, etc. That same 5.0 version would probably still meet the majority of what I would do with Photoshop.
They seem to have a knack for selling their product to C-levels who don't fully understand the business they represent.

But that's about it.
I am set to start treatment with Keytruda on Friday. I was fortunate that my tumor marker burden (TMB) was/is sufficiently high enough to get me into the clinical trial. I was equally fortunate that 1.) my oncologist is knowledgeable about all of these cutting edge therapies and 2.) my insurance will actually cover the cost.

Without the possibility of trying this my options would probably be dying slowly over the next couple of years or doing a very risky surgery that involves opening up my abdomen, cutting out as much of the disease as they can see and flooding the cavity with broad spectrum chemo (HIPEC.) Obviously, immunotherapy is much more palatable as the chemo was not pleasant.

Overall I am hopeful. I guess I don't really have a reason to post any of this, other than it helps to get it out there, so please excuse my rambling! And thanks for reading.
Yeah, I got that. The injection probably did nothing aside from a placebo effect.
The problem is that voting correctly is irrational since the chance of affecting the outcome is minuscule and not worth the massive effort of making a correct choice.

Hence, the only people who vote are irrational or badly informed (driven by the pleasure or duty of casting the vote rather than a commitment to voting optimally), with the well known poor outcomes all democracies suffer from.
Do you happen to have a paper link, rather than a book link?
cf. the article: "There is increasing experimental evidence for the effectiveness of advertising in influencing people’s choices without their conscious awareness."
Hm, doesn't look like eating the shovel kills you here?

I always get a kick out of picking that shovel and then forcibly eating it.
Any implementation of strings that cannot contain 0x0 is not a conformant implementation of UTF-8. It's not a conformant implementation of ASCII either, for that matter. C strings are neither (not that they claim to be).
Their list of redundancy, agility, and cost doesn't seem exclusive to video. Though perhaps more compelling given the time sensitive nature and bandwidth amount.
If you take an action based on determining the probabilities of an event, you would take that action every single time because the state would be identical every time.

You look at the roulette board. You bet on red.

We rewind time.

You still bet on red. The state is identical.

Did _you_ come up with that decision? Of course you did, who else could have?

My claim is not that there's no "you".

It's that "free will" is meaningless unless we use a weird interpretation of terminology.

If you'd do the same thing every time, there's no 'freedom'.

If you do different things, but it's based on some sort of tiebreaker RNG, there's no 'will'.
Exploring Facial Recognition with WebRTC
Maybe you spend too much time on processes, getting things right, and less time on actually shipping something useful?
Love it! Do you happen to know who said it?

-ss
The people who would install such kind of add-on is so small it would have like zero effect on the provider's costs …
Did that not turn out to be uikit port to macos?

https://thehackernews.com/2018/06/porting-ios-apps-macos.htm...
Still.. No one talks about him any longer, and the Wikipedia article is so short that we cannot know what else he did after leaving Red Hat..
My own prefrontal-thalamo-hippocampal circuit is so fucked up. I think modern technology has actually fucked it up really badly with nav systems.

I used to carefully think through where I would drive (like 10 years ago) because if I started driving I wouldn't know where the heck to turn, etc.. I had to actually pre-map things out with a map or printed google map directions. You know that step-by-step print out they used to provide (maybe they still do?)

In any case, it's gotten really bad. I start driving - like totally cavalier like I know what the fuck I'm doing now. I have no clue half the time what my destination is. But I know within seconds I can get my phone routed somewhere by saying "Navigate to starbucks".

Problem is, like many other things that comes with driving, I get extremely frustrated when my cell signal is too weak to communicate to Google. It actually drives me bonkers. My wife is always telling me to route before I start driving. 99/100 times I will ignore that sage advice and get frustrated instead. So yeah, I really need to exercise my "prefrontal-thalamo-hippocampal" in like a Yoga class or something.
If any electronics youtubers are reading this:

I would love to see a series: This Is What Electricity Looks Like to Me wherein you go through different components and talk about what the operating parameters are, and what different voltages, amperages, etc etc mean for that component.
I've been using Photopea for the past few weeks since my installed version of Photoshop is too old to modify some of the more recent PSD's I come across.

Just wanted to say thanks for an excellent product!

(It's real funny how you discover something for the first time, then start seeing it everywhere like it should have been obvious before!)
Tink FAQ: A package unwinder for JavaScript
They do for some limited items e.g. <object> does nested fallback.

That's not sufficient for something like CDN selection though, you want a fallback in case of failure but you first want to select based on various criteria.
Emacs is Emacs.

Does VSCode have something like Emacs' .emacs / .init file? In one file I can load all the plugins I want and write custom code for added functionality. Rather than having to rely on other people writing a function I need, I can just hack away on my .init file to modify existing functions / create my own.

Now of course in VSCode you can create your own extensions and load it into the program to add your own functionality - but the barrier to entry for any editor (besides Vim) is much higher than Emacs. Looking at the documentation here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensions/example-hello-... - that's a lot of code and things to do to get a hello-world application working in VSCode. In emacs, that would just be a couple lines of elisp in .init.

Even if VSCode has something like .init (I got this from someone on Hacker News) - it's better to think of Emacs as basically a framework for text editors. You're able to change every single part of the application - VSCode and other editors don't hold a candle to the configuration of emacs.

VSCode isn't the successor to Emacs or a modern version of Emacs - it's just VS Code. Emacs is Emacs.

I've used both editors myself, really the best way to get what I'm saying is to use Emacs for a while until you get comfortable with it. My Emacs configuration is something I cherish and it's a joy to use everyday.

Besides programming, I use it for taking notes, a todo list, a journal, etc. Some people even use it for keeping track of finances, for drawing diagrams, for creating slideshows, etc.
> I don’t think voting by app is inherently a “horrifically bad idea”

If a voter can cast their vote from their phone, anyone else can.

The strength of paper-based voting is in its cost and complexity: the number of confederates required to tamper with an election is prohibitively large. With app-based voting comes the risk of a large number of compromised phones tampering with elections.

The security downsides simply don't make sense next to mailed-in ballots, which capture the security (and accessibility) of paper ballots with the convenience of voting from home. The only upside of app-based voting is cost, which is a ridiculous factor to strongly optimize for when it comes to something as important as elections.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele...
Sorry, I missed the statistics part. I've never came across the one you mentioned either. I'd love to read that.

My perceived worst definition was not about only business practices BTW. I meant in every category.

Nonetheless, supporting the products you sold are also a business. :)
AirBnB:

'Let's send emails, teach [users] professional photography, and test them. "We said, 'Screw that.'" [4] Instead, they rented a $5,000 camera and went door to door, taking professional pictures of as many New York listings as possible. [1]

https://growthhackers.com/growth-studies/airbnb
For example, OpenSSL is a very strong force behind what we call "internet", without something like OpenSSL we wouldn't have internet today. When heartbleed was found in OpenSSL the dynamic wasn't to retire OpenSSL and migrate to GnuTLS or something else, or even something new, but to patch OpenSSL. Why, because even though OpenSSL development is silent, we know that it IS maintained. If we find another heartbleed today, nobody will want to replace the entire cryptographic infrastructure of the internet, instead fix OpenSSL.

Another examples: zlib, SWI-Prolog, most BLAS implementations, some GCC backends, Concord (heuristic-based TSP solver), most parts of algo based libraries (CGAL, Eigen, GMP, GSL etc...) (of course these libraries are implementing new features, but there are some parts of codebase that didn't receive any commit for years)...

I think good signals to tell a package is complete: (1) there are no known critical bugs (2) if we found a critical bug today, we're reasonably sure we will get a fix in reasonable amount of time (3) project and project goals are well-documented (4) everything documented as goal is implemented i.e. there is no on-going development happening.
Object detection in 4K and 8K video using GPUs
Gimp has a photoshop like UI option.

though if your OS has decent windown management and tear dow menus (both not an option on osx-cloned gnome3) than you'd be a fool to use it
Count FEFE is a free-to-play game for developing accounting and finance literacy
Master Time with the Kendo UI for Angular Scheduler
Google also used a bunch of credit cards initially from what I understand.

I'd rather have 20% APR, than give away 20% equity. Why? Because when the debt is paid to the credit card company they go away. The VCs will always want more and more, pushing your company faster than it should go.
Which intimates it was allowed but that studio policies, it again intimates, might be responsible. It does say one single TV series never showed a toilet, but only a tank.

Interesting taboo nonetheless.

I always thought it was just not done because it generally isn't moving a story on to show someone on the toilet. Books don't usually mention characters using the toilet either. I've played videogames with an eating mechanic but never one where you needed to defecate (though Sims could when I last played that).
Mostly the frontend. I’m comparing to a React+Redux+REST app where for every new resource you have to:

- create a new action
- turn that action into requests via some middleware
- denornalize and put in your store
- maybe write a selector to get the data you need from your store
Stop signs are simple to navigate too. You stop, and then go when it's your turn.