skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, come on. Typical engineering centric view of the world. People don't care or understand that HSPA was just a protocol extension to 3G and therefore didn't deserve to be called 4G. I don't even really care.

Marketing is just marketing. It's the company communicating with customers about their products and services and how they're running their business. If calling these technology improvements 5G helps AT&T invest more in their network, I'm all for that.

I get 200 mbps download speeds on my iPhone in San Francisco, near Fisherman's Wharf (insanely crowded tourist area). I don't know what the technology they're using to get it to work, but if they want to call it 6G or 7G I don't really care, as long as they continue to invest in it and improve it.

For those curious, on the marketing page for their 5G plan, AT&T says these changes to the LTE network are being calling "5Ge":

"How are we doing it? With enhancements like carrier aggregation to add more “lanes” to the highway that data travels on. 4x4 MIMO to double the number of antennas that can send data back and forth. And 256 QAM to make data transmission more efficient. All this adds up to faster speeds for you."
https://www.att.com/5g/consumer
Strange. Firefox seems to run just as well as Chrome for me nowadays (on Windows though).
Same, Lastpass works just just fine for me on Solus in both Firefox and Vivaldi.
> the whole game has already been mapped out

I bought Star Control 2 in a retail box, and it came with a big fold-out map of all of the stars, which I still have in a box somewhere. Granted, the map didn't tell you exactly what you would find at each star system, but it did subtly mark points of interest (which I failed to notice until after I had completed the game the first time).
What is hyper.sh ?
OK, I'll bite. That's an insane leap. I would have taken you more seriously if you had said 10-15, but 60? The numbers don't make any sense.
When people say marketing is lying, it’s really shorthand for “marketing has a strong incentive to lie, and very little to stop them. Many times the only thing stopping them are the morals of the company (lol) or very rarely applied laws against false advertising”. So you can see that the reputation is there because the incentives and market forces pretty much force marketing in that direction.
I was interested in Brave after hearing it mentioned here a fair bit, for innovating new ways for creators to get paid... after this story though? Knowing they effectively scam users out of money under the pretense of it really being the creator? That's fraud as far as I'm concerned (maybe not legally, but to me it's a con, and scummy).

Interest has dropped to 0, and they go to my shitlist with all the other crytpo-scam stuff prevalent these days.

Edit: Now that I've seen the screenshots of just how blatantly Brave pretends the creator has a profile and actively set this up, this is absolutely fraud. From further down in the comments of OPs original link: https://twitter.com/ummjackson/status/1076221401353207808
I'm not a user of it but I'm wondering how they make money?
Particular Christian beliefs linked to rationalizations of domestic violence
Nice try, marketing guy
Wouldn't that kind of make the National Ignition Facility [0] impossible?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility
I use 1Password via the CLI (https://support.1password.com/command-line/) on Linux (well -- FreeBSD) Desktop all the time. I wrote a wrapper for the CLI (https://github.com/dcreemer/1pass) to make it a bit more ergonomic to use with things like FZF.

I used to use "pass" like others here, but did not like the Android experience.

*edited to add: and we use the 1Password team account at my day job -- and are satisfied customers. I'm sure other products work well too -- just my one data point.
> Yes, they do.

I don't think my operator even knows what kind of phone I have, let alone any access to any software on it. How could they be controlling it? Is it something actually in the SIM?
Like the other commenter said, lasers are not black-body emitters. They "pump" light out and are very far from equilibrium.
I tried last week to switch from 1Password (local) to LastPass, because I wanted Chromebook support. The import process was awful, and I gave up and went with 1password.com (cloud). It's working well.
For others trying to figure out how to see countries besides Andorra on a phone: swipe horizontally on the country "card."
Thanks for the question! Keep in mind that a huge explosion (with 40,000 PSI) is happening inside the chamber of the gun. Some of that energy pushes the bullet forward and the rest pushes the gun backward. You're right though, the gases escaping the barrel also contribute to this, similar to a rocket engine!
My basic objection to the "opt-out" scheme is that my browser is effectively acting as a man-in-the-middle agent, confusing both the reader and the author, and co-opting any existing compensation or donation procedure.

For example, consider http://www.vim.org, which hosts the text editor Vim. The author, Bram Moolenaar, makes this editor freely-available, and asks that any donations be directed to ICCF Holand, a charity that serves the Kibaale Children's Center in Uganda.

The Brave browser, as it stands now, inserts itself in the middle of this established reader/contributor relationship and now claims that it'll take your donations and administer them on Bram's behalf. The user who falls for this scheme then sees what appears to be _additional_ requests for donations (the _actual_ request). _At a minimum_, this inserted message sows confusion where there once was none. In the worst case, money that would have gone to the ICCF is now held in escrow by Brave, and may or may not be delivered, and if so, will go to Bram directly rather than to the charity he hopes to support.

This is just one example of how the browser intercepting and modifying what you see is a truly bad design (intentional or not).
Lasers are kept far from equilibrium by design, unlike blackbody radiators which are in equilibrium with the electromagnetic field they are radiating in to.
I love the iOS app, but things like this concern me (not quite a dealbreaker though): https://github.com/mssun/passforios/issues/223
It doesn't make them much but I believe they sell a premium version with access to stickers and other stuff for chatting, and they have a video game store for PC now.
Game market, animated avatars, extra emojis, etc https://discordapp.com/nitro
Discord Nitro, their premium service, and they opened a game store this year.
Both Lastpass and 1password browser plugins worked totally fine for me on Linux. My only complaint re: 1pass is the lack of native Linux app — you can't do mildly complicated things in the browser extension like edit credentials. On the other hand, LastPass doesn't have a native app.
> ... I tend to be at least as concerned that Electron apps are just lousy Mac citizens. It's not just that they don't look like other Mac apps, they don't support Mac UI conventions and frequently don't support system services and scriptability.

Which is the case with Chrome itself too...a pretty unpleasant experience on the Mac if you have finger memory or want to use your apps together. Sigh.
> I can cover the entire surface of the earth with solar panels to harvest the moon light

Are you sure about that? First off, take an off-the-shelf solar panel, point it at the moon in the middle of the night. You get a grand total of nothing. Okay, it was a cheap panel, that might not generalize to anything.

But more importantly, by the argument laid out in the article, your solar panels cannot work in moon light. (Or maybe they work at horrible efficiency, because the moon is a bit warmer than the earth.) I'm not sure I buy that argument; maybe you should run the experiment.
Strongly disagree with any theory of history based on analogy to Newtonian mechanics. History simply isn't that predictable. History is stochastic. History only happens once. Read Popper.
The moon is about as reflective as asphalt.
I have no criticism of the service or WhoisGuard, just the idea of that kind of site using it.
Why is Amazon website antiquated?
Absolutely, and I would actually like to see more of my tax dollars spent to assist struggling people and communities in general.

What confuses me is that many of the people calling for the government to help unemployed coal miners are the same people who sneer and spit if you say the government should help unemployed people in general.
it hasn't already?
So how about DirectX12?
It’s in the article... (and also what they’re expanding into)
The truth is that the best architecture depends on the problem, and you get a lot out of "graduate student gradient descent", i.e., hyperparameter search and fiddling with the architecture fine grained details. You'll want to experiment with rnn, tcn, and transformer (t2t) models to find the best one for your problem.

Disclaimer, I wrote the TF RNN api.
In a world with less perverse incentives these people whose education was largely funded by tax payers would be working on actual valuable projects rather than optimizing how to get people to click more ads for a private corporation.
1Password X is definitely not comparable to the native versions, and the statement was "full functionality can’t be dependent on an app which is only available on Mac OS and/or Windows."

> The argument that there should be a graphical (because there _is_ a multi-platform CLI), native app for Linux, which does not depend on any browser, is a perfectly valid one -- but it is also an argument that I don't believe they've made.

I think they're making that argument.
> So the maximum temperature that system can achieve is much less that your mirror/magnifying glass system.

Why? If the moon were a perfect black body, but with a few small perfect mirrors on the surface to bounce a bit of sunlight towards Earth, couldn't we (in theory) focus that tiny bit of sunlight to heat something up to the temperature of the Sun? There may not be enough solar radiation to make it feasible in practice, but it seems like you need to actually do the math instead of just saying "the moon's surface temperature isn't high enough to start a fire, Q.E.D."
Since the beginning of history, elites has made money and accrued power by starting wars, often with ‘false flag’ operations. Think of Hitler’s people burning their government building, the US lying about the Tonkin Gulf incident to get us into a war. The list goes on, that is just two examples.

Governments tend to be bad while almost universally people are good - that is my simplistic way of looking at the world, but it works for me. In my country, the USA, we have two parties who both support special interests and not interests of the common person. I argue that it is like this in most countries.
Yes, it will happen. https://www.anandtech.com/show/13106/qualcomm-announces-thei...
They launched a game store this year, and they sell pro accounts ("Nitro") with extras like animated avatars, higher streaming quality and free access to some games from the store.
They have a premium service, but I can't imagine they're making enough off of that. From what I can tell, they aren't making money, and are just spending investor capital
They could pay their workers and not have this problem.
I enjoyed the article, and you did a great job presenting the data in a clear way. Whats the name for the type of graph that looks like a box and whisker plot inside of a probability distribution?
To be clear, it often takes a hell of a lot less than a half a slice of bread. That much gluten is a nuclear bomb for me. I'm fucked for days.
> solar panel efficiency is related to the temperature of the sun and the local environment just like any other heat engine

You are correct,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell_efficiency#Thermody...
You fail to make a coherent point, because you try to differentiate a set (in)permissible actions only by assigning them different names (lying vs. marketing) without defining them or relating them to examples (of others). As you clearly don't agree with the definitions of other commenters, please construct that system of knowledge yourself, so others can even meaningfully reply.
How did you manage to negotiate that? Especially for earlier career jobs?
Telstra Australia call 3Gpp service 4G
and they call 4G 4Gplus..

Its essentially fraud
It's a win-win, but with nasty side-effects.

It's like our economy and its effect on the climate. Win-win for consumers and companies, but (without intervention) a downward spiral for our planet.

Also, it puts us in a morally difficult situation because we are benefiting from the ones we criticize, and as such, it is hypocritical.

Of course everyone can do as they please, but in my view it is best to look for moral-issue-free software instead of using BigCorp's candy-ware.
A tax != a aubsidy. But tax can be, and oftwn is, a means to make taxed-thing-X less appealing.

For example, you can make electric cars more appealing by increaing the tax on gas.

Where things get ugly is when the incentives are in conflict. Again, oil is subsidized and then taxed. Big Oil wins. Gov wins. Consumers - who pay the subsidy and the tax - lose.
Especially horses. Damn, those spoiled, entitled horse ladies... "I want a pony!" Yeah right.
I'm sure they don't. You can pay to use an animated gif as your avatar and some other useless gimmicks, and as you can imagine, the % of users who pay is abysmal.
My office in midtown Manhattan gets reflected sunlight off an adjacent tower in golden hour this time of year. When conditions are just right that system somehow forms a Schlieren imaging system [0] and the variations in air density outside the window is projected on the wall above my desk.

My cofounder's gotten used to me flicking the lights off every time I notice the light lining up the right way.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlieren_imaging
The close proximity to very lucrative services like Twitch makes this an extremely interesting company. With eSports breaking into mainstream media outlets like ESPN, having a fully fledged community gathering place with all the trimmings, voice chat, raffles appears to be marketing heaven for a generation raised on YouTube and gaming streams.

I wonder what's in store for Discord next. Integration into games? Digital currencies blending the virtual worlds with reality?
Let's be clear - you cannot start collecting donations on someone's behalf without their consent and expect them to be happy when they find out. Especially when the person you are donating to is a business person with their own public image that they have to maintain and especially when you act shifty about actually handing over the money. Brave might be a great group of people with fantastic intentions, but their behaviour here is identical to someone committing identity theft.
I feel like Tyranny is greatly under rated. There are rough edges for sure, but the story line and atmosphere sucked me in in a way that I haven't experienced in a long time. Really fun combat system too.
Think of it as PHP with VB syntax, and without much of a standard library.
Unfettered education (non-proscribed and auto-didactic forms in particular) has always been a threat to authorities.

Yeeeesss but, and it's a huge but, auto-didacticism in particular has huge risks. Misapprehension of core knowledge self acquired is remarkably hard to shift. Hence, huge numbers of ant vaxx, anti agw and like movements with self sustaining belief about science data and it's interpretation.

Monkton is a prime example. Tries to claim authority vested in his own interpretation of the science inputs.

I guess I'm agreeing.
The overall question is, is that statement by Facebook misleading? In my opinion, yes. They are tracking individual behavior, not producing overall website analytics. There is no question that they can and do have that data in some way associated with a specific individual, not concentrating on time of access as if that’s the important part of the data. Are you saying you believe that Facebook just leave that data in difficult to access data-stores and doesn’t use it for anything? Considering it’s practically the core of their business?

The implementation details are fairly unimportant. It’s what they do with the data, and the satement that it is “stored by” time of access is intended to be misleading to non-experts, in my opinion. Apparently they are even managing to distract experts and technical people.
"Go is a crap language, you didn't even state any 'facts' why Go is good!"

>> does not provide 'facts' why Go is crap
Haptly: Failing to Build the Technical Product After 10 Months
Selling user data.
Just having strong typing alone has reduced the number of bugs for me, speaking anecdotally
They already found a way around that one: https://www.businessinsider.com/people-receiving-amazon-pack...

tl;dr: They pick an address, order their own products, ship junk in its place (cheap goods or even just bricks), and leave a verified review.
Regardless, 1password X does not provide the full functionality of the native apps, so it's fair to say a Mac or Windows app is required for full functionality anyway.
I'm pretty sure if I were to go pick up a number of magnifying glasses and focus them on the same point using moonlight, the temperature at that point would increase with every additional magnifying glass.

Am I to accept that the additional magnifying glasses would cease increasing the temperature once the temperature matched that of the moon's surface?
>My friend Mark

i'm thinking about starting to accept money on behalf of Hollywood stars like say Tom Cruise. Once $10M is collected (obviously there is no point in bothering Tom with lesser sums) i will do my best to deliver the money to him.
Baseband cpu. Your phone has 2 separate cpus, and you dont have any access to the 2nd one. Your provider does.
I wouldn’t be so sure, the baseband firmware can be remotely updated by the carrier.
Same way slack and moviepass do: Not really.

Unless you consider taking VC captial "making money"
Sorry to be that guy but Data are plural. So Data are never raw.
If the size of the penny was reduced to just a few atoms, wouldn't changing the number of atoms in the penny affect the rate at which the penny itself could emit radiation through blackbody emission? If so, I would expect there would be a size at which the penny could be small enough that it's temperature could grow arbitrarily large once the heat flux in = heat flux out from the penny.
> A system wherein there is 'no way out' i.e. they will punish anyone who leave (i.e. Brexit).

How can someone mention "BREXIT" and that "THERE IS NO WAY OUT" in the same sentence is beyond me. Brexit is specifically invoking the procedure of THE WAY OUT.

> 'What is your point?'

What is YOUR point? You were the one that brought up non-elected leaders and elitism.

The arrogance in here is astounding. Whatever is happening or not happening, or however incorrect you caricature of Europe is, have nothing to do with the fact that you were wrong about your two main original points. Own it.

There is a procedure for a peaceful exit from the EU and having non elected officials has nothing to do with anything, as you clearly accepted when you were only making my point stronger in your so-called rebuttal.

The UK wants to leave, fine leave. But they should be grownups about it and learn to live with the consequences of their decisions. They should stop blaming the EU for a mess they started themselves and haven't been brave enough to go through with.

"But they are so mean, they won't let us keep all the benefits we had when we were part of the EU??!!."

Crybabies.
> In the US, before state run lotteries were present and popular, there were criminal run "numbers games" which were quite similar to lotteries but with much worse payout ratios and where the criminals that ran them often refused to pay for various reasons.

Do you have a source for that? My recollection from my own reading years ago is that the criminal numbers games tended to pay better odds than modern state-run lotteries.
So kind of like https://www.nsandi.com/premium-bonds ?

Those are government bonds, but it's not far off your idea.

Edit: for clarity, the effective rate paid does vary over time according to interest rates, which usually have some relation to how well the markets are doing.
They did recently launch their game store, so they'll be taking on the liked of Steam but as a $10/month service to access (almost) all available games.
Discord is now imo the best positioned competitor to Steam based on their latest updates.

They're launching a full self-service game publishing platform and only taking 10% revenue, instead of Steam's 30%. Discord already has the gaming focused community and their store has already been doing very well and is super easy to use. If Discord broke into the streaming market there would be no reason to ever leave it for some people. Buy your game, talk to friends and join their games, watch streamed games - all from one client.

Discord does already have some integration into games with the rich presence stuff and some games you can even jump into from a chat. The overlay also works like as if it's chat within a game.
Sometimes different URLs share credentials (LDAP). Changing isn't necessarily an option?
TestFlight subreddit for people interested in testing App Store apps
A savings account with prize interest is still a tax on uneducated people.

The "educated" person will look at the data, realize that they are paying for that prize with a lower interest rate, and switch to a different product.

I know I did - I realized that the savings account paid a lower interest rate to compensate for the prize and decided to not play.

Example from New Zealand: http://www.bonusbonds.co.nz/

They don't have any guaranteed interest!

Analysis: https://www.moneyhub.co.nz/bonus-bonds.html

Term Deposit Rate from same bank:

https://www.depositrates.co.nz/by-provider/6/anz
I would consider digital files to be akin to "papers and effects", and would be subject to the same discretion under a warrant. (I.e. the evidence we're looking for is specifically in this app's chat log from [reasonable date] to [reasonable date])
One of the companies I work for (a closeouts/clearance wholesaler) has a standing policy of selling nearly everything at half of the average retail price. There was a time where we would look up retail pricing on, for example, a task chair, and it would average $100 in big box stores. We would mark it $50 and advertise it as "half our competitor's prices". We had tons of customers demanding to get discounts off of our "retail" price or they would no longer shop with us.

Eventually we figured out that if we marked it at the full retail price of $100, then put a tag on it that said "take 50% off", it would sell like crazy. We make the same amount of money per sale, but we sell much higher volume due to customer perception of sale prices. Now we price all merchandise that was previously subject to the half-retail rule with the same strategy.
Have you addressed the GDPR issue? What is your legal basis for using someone's identity?
I'm bearish on Discord. Unlike Slack, it targets a price-averse demographic and is attempting to enter spaces that are very saturated (Steam, Origin, Epic, Ubisoft are already crushing the digital distribution medium), so then it's basically an IRC replacement for gamers.

I understand Slack's valuation as it targets huge companies with up to decades-long contracts and has projected revenues > $1B for this year, but I just don't see Discord making money the same way. I use it daily with my friends, but none of us have Nitro (although the features are pretty neat). The only way I see it moving to profitability is doing targeted ads (which will significantly hinder user experience).

I see it going the way of Xfire[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfire