skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More on this: upcoming 5G implementation proposals, such as 3GPP's '5G NR', have bands [1] in the UHF, SHF, and EHF range, out of which the EHF/mmWave bands are most susceptible to environmental attenuation, but they're also the ones capable of the highest throughput. The UHF bands are rather similar to LTE, and deliver only a modest improvement.

So really, 5G is a somewhat abstract standard by ITU-T that specifies requirements, and the industry then delivers a suite of technologies that are deployed together and marketed as 5G. In the case of 4G, the same was true at first, but then non-confirming LTE was cobbled together as a series of progressive enhancements of existing tech by the industry, and marketed as "4G", co-opting the term in consumers' minds and making the prior formal definition irrelevant.

With the hype and anticipation over 5G rapidly intensifying, there's a chance the same might happen again, as networks are eager to brand any progressive enhancement as a true differentiating factor. It's enabled by the term "5G" having cachet with consumers, yet its technical specs are relatively obscure so average customers lack meaningful information and recourse to challenge the marketing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G_NR_frequency_bands
Pluto's flyby generated about 8GB of data and it took about 16 months to get all of it downloaded [1], and this data includes more than just the images, and i read somewhere that the Ultima Thule flyby will generate about 6GB of data.

I think the images are the first thing that get downloaded, so it should not take more than a week to get all high res images.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons#Telecommunication...
I like special features of AirMail, for instance, where you can snooze certain emails. If they only had a desktop client, then I can't snooze on the go on my phone. And now I have to context switch and remember to delay certain tasks to when I get to my laptop.

Email clients also sometimes impose some level of formatting, and I'd like that to be consistent across mobile/web as well
Another way to level up from Scratch is BlockLike.js (https://www.blocklike.org).

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The xs is not cheaper than the pixel 3, and it's a worse phone.
Can I ask which one you recommend? (hopefully readable when you only have USB-C ports on the right handside)

This one is going back to Amazon.
Could someone explain in a bit more detail the move from 26 to 27? I don't get the significance of being "worried about optimization" or why/how we cancel p(x). I do get the later point about integration and the convenience of the reformulation. I just don't get why or how it is "allowed".

Sorry if this is obvious but I have been doing a lot of reading on this and have come across this step a few times before...but am just missing some part of every explanation.
Not really. How do you know where that 2048 bit private key is? You might have to read through the entire address space. On a relatively small server with 16 gigabytes of RAM, it'll only take you about a million years to exfiltrate the entire thing...

Let's say you luck out and only need to read the first 100 megabytes of memory... you're talking 1000's of years.
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Google definitely takes money for GA for large sites
I still don't follow the prioritization, but thank you for your work on Gimp.

I've used it on-again/off-again since version 0.54 (95-96), and it played a formative role in my own software career.
> How can Ethereum be decentralized if they can so easily keep changing it?

The development of crypto has really demonstrated an institutional inertia to moving away from the blessed official implementation. Tons of BTC forks were tried and failed, and almost all coins die when development stops than see their clients forked.

A lot of it, I imagine, has to do with... trust. That magical thing crypto users keep trying to keep decentralized. But when development of the currency is centralized... and at the end of the day, someone is the owner of the git repo... you can't decentralize the implementation of the currency.

So what we see instead is enthusiasts putting their faith and trust in the sense of the developers of their chosen coin pretty much to the bitter end. You can fork these currencies - like Bitcoin Cash succeeded in doing for the most part - but you won't steal their mindshare or userbase to any major degree. They will stick to the original client or see that particular chain abandoned entirely.

Doge and so many other coins died to negligent or exploitative developers and whomever that someone is thats proposing to take over is an unknown, at least less trusted quantity. So most would jump ship than take the chance, so coins either stay under one development process or die completely with no real middle ground.
college kids having macs doesn't mean the majority of mac-owners are college kids.
Doug DeMuro can fill you in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knC9nM2uegE
>I noticed yesterday that the arcade at the movie theater switched to electronic tokens. The card dispenser had a cellular antenna, thus I assume the whole thing was completely remotely managed and probably just took a few hours to install without having to provision any local services (like a POTS line) except electricity.

I used to work at a firm that made/distributed/maintained gaming machines, and that's exactly correct. It came about in a roudabout way, though.

Some jurisdictions mandate active management and reporting from 'fixed-odds betting terminals' and historically that was done with POTS and overnight modem dialing. That moved across to 3G because the on-site complexity was drastically lower, but it was a slow move due to the carrier and new hardware costs.

Now those costs are barely anything, and the back-end hardware is already in-place for FOBT. So it makes a lot of sense to move all the other terminals over to this system even if it's only for maintenance reporting/alerting, and not odds/configuration management.

The electricity metering industry tells a nearly identical story. Now every meter might as well be a smart meter, because everything needed to achieve that has to be present anyway, it's just a case of rolling out the end customer devices.
They could have attached a disclaimer that said it only works on desktops, is no longer actively maintained, yada yada yada, but kept hosting Scratch 2 projects. And depending on how the servers were set up, it might not have been that expensive.
Just to address the "that's a lot of changes to make for a 12 month commitment" aspect, you can sign up for a two year term at USDS, which can be renewed, so you can work at USDS for up to four years if things are going well. We're just at the point where the first set of folks are reaching their four year mark.

For folks who don't know, USDS salaries for digital service experts typically top out at the "GS 15 step 10" cap for government salaries, which is a little over $164,000/year.
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Yeah. I thought I just had a busted phone—bad component somewhere, causing flickering. The fact that that's not recognized as a defect is shocking.
Procedural macros are something you more or less never need to write in application code, but they add tremendous power to libraries
Apple's warning is a bad omen for Wall Street bulls
Oops. I'd say submit a bug report, but as of yesterday it become moot.

As others have said, the copyright notice is only a courtesy/reminder. I've held the copyright on all this stuff from the moment I started writing it (and distributing it) 20 years ago.
>As shown recently by the some famous actors, actress go fine massive amount because of tax issues.

To be fair, she only got a fine and detention for a few months. US actor Wesley Snipes was jailed for 3 years for tax evasion.
Why not? PC BIOS provides access to a ton of advanced settings on gaming motherboards. If you don't want to fiddle with things, don't, but don't tell others they cannot.
Yes, I'm quite certain not having a person in my place will be less risky than having one.

You sometimes see the idea that if a security feature can potentially be defeated, that is equivalent to that feature not existing.

That's true for a small class of problems, but in general it just shows an inability to see nuance.
They literally call themselves the Republic of China...
That would work somewhat—VID/PID can't be trusted but device class can be. But the problem is that on e.g. my MacBook with a single USB C port, sometimes I want to use a keyboard (either an actual keyboard or a YubiKey) and sometimes I don't (if I'm charging). If I plug in a hub I want to trust my hub but not someone else's device claiming to be a hub. And so forth.

Having a charging-only-by-default port would be a 90% solution, but would be very annoying for people who need to reauthorize a device every time they plug it in, which is why I think pairing is better. And I'm not sure what devices you can reasonably trust other than pure power. HID is definitely out for fear of Rubber Ducky-style attacks. External video adapters can read your screen. Headphones can listen in on calls. Thumbdrives / PTP devices might be safe if handled carefully but are kind of the classic worry, so I'm not sure if people will want those. Maybe pure U2F devices, webcams, and audio input devices? Not sure how useful or user-friendly such a restriction would be.
> Recursion Fairy

I mentioned this elsewhere but figured I'd bring it up here since you're the author.

I've tried explaining recursion in a lot of ways like this, such as "just assume it will work", "trust yourself", and "turn off your brain". (The first two are paraphrases from Matthew Flatt, the latter is from Will Byrd.)

I think "Recursion Fairy" is my favorite way to phrase the same idea. I think there's something about the nature of invoking a sense of magic in the phrasing that might help people really believe that it's okay to just let the recursion do its thing and not think about it too much. I'll definitely be using "Recursion Fairy" when (if) I end up explaining recursion again.

Thanks for making your material available for free! Cheers!
I believe New Horizons did course corrections, even fairly late.
Apple says cheap battery replacements hurt iPhone sales

Am I the only one thinking "Good!" in response to this? We don't need Apple selling more iPhones to people who don't really need them. This is better for the consumer, better for the environment, and probably even better for Apple in the long-run. Yes, it costs them some short-term profits. So what?
Why wouldn't it? Other majority Chinese countries have, e.g. Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, as have Korea and Japan.
1) Racing to home would be too late for anything non trivial. Infrastructure will be clogged to no end. Likewise ham radio and most forms of communication. What good is a phone charge when the network is dead? That's a nonsense preparation, like many kinds of bug out preps. What good is a bunker if you cannot get to it?

2) Lack of provisions will immediately hit everyone and looting will ensue, like in New Orleans. Cash becomes worthless due to looting, like many amenities and luxuries. Barter economy takes over and the main bar items are food, water, heat sources, tools and weapons.

3) Agencies are glacially slow to activate and their response is limited.

4) Even if you do have a gun, so do others, alone you're not even important compared to already organized crime and paramilitaries. Or people with private militaries like top government.

5) If water or electricity fails, there is another degree of bad on top. Most people are not prepared for this.

6) Some people think they can outhunt such a problem, this is stupidity.

You cannot outprepare anything this magnitude. Even with specific civil defense knowledge and resources you have few chances and a definite shortage of provisions.
Long term plan always relies on farming and banding together. Specific tools and knowledge for specific problems, such as efficient gathering aka looting, building, maintenance of infrastructure, true people management skills, loyalty, useful connections. People with health problems get instantly shafted, even some really rich may have trouble.

The default is never individualism nor democracy. It's almost always feudalism or tribalism. Small to medium polis caring for its own local problems. Few hundred to few thousand people.

We know much more about it because we have a semiregular flood emergencies in places in Poland. And those are relatively small fish where standard social structures do hold up.
Likewise places hit by tsunami or bad earthquakes.

Cheap Africa level affordable, reliable and reusable solutions are the way to go... something completely in the face of consumerism.
I'd like to see something like this used in MMORPG or similar, where non-Euclidean spaces are used to expand and shrink spaces to solve problems like overcrowding/undercrowding/travel times, as opposed to using instancing and fast travel.

I've always thought the "go to" solutions of instancing and fast travel were such immersion breakers for actually feeling you're in a virtual world rather than a glorified lobby.

Although, perhaps a non-Euclidean space would have downsides. It would be an interesting experiment at least. Playing with non-linear time (and not just "bullet time") in a multiplayer scenario would be interesting too.
What's happening is people are voting with their feet. Anyone can make any fork they like, and then everyone on the network can choose which one they prefer to use. That is what decentralization means. And both Ethereum and Bitcoin have that property.
> the killer feature of 5G will be the number of low-bandwidth devices that can be connected at extremely low cost.

We already have this. It's called NB-IoT (Narroowband IoT) and the carriers have been dragging their feet horribly.

It's chicken and egg. Without a cheap, high volume, low power chipsets, user devices don't exist. Without lots of user devices, the carriers feel no pull to roll it out. Without rollout, nobody feels the need to jump in and create a cheap, high volume, low power chipset.
> TLDR: it's asm.js's fault.

> In order to meet our performance goals for fast asm.js validation and startup, the WebAssembly engine does not do up-front compilation of Wasm code coming from asm.js.

It sounds like the fault is how you reached your performance goals rather than asm.js itself.
Why countly and not piwik?
I have a streaming volumetric video chat prototype. I plan on launching private beta this month. I also have a portable hardware display that I guess you could call a phone that I'm working on. I expect it to be testing with a small group by Q2. I'm petty excited about 2019. 5G makes things a lot easier and really increases how people can interact with the content.

Just for reference, streaming point cloud is about 100mb/sec. You can compress "frames" with the totally unproven Google Draco product, but there's nothing quite like mpeg for the format. I guess it's really hard to call it a format since there's no real standard at current.
Indy is undergoing a similar project - DigIndy - but it’ll be separate from the sewer system. I think it’s halfway through now.

https://www.citizensenergygroup.com/Our-Company/Our-Projects...
> it’s fun to use foreign words as the name of things

Oh definitely! I wrote a FAT16 stack for an embedded system and called it "FutoiFS" (ha, ha) [1]. I think whimsy is a perfectly good reason. It sounded like the OP wanted a reason for choosing Japanese specifically, though, and I don't think such exists.

[1] Definition of "futoi": https://jisho.org/word/%E5%A4%AA%E3%81%84
We're talking about marketing here, and if something leaves you with an odd feeling, it's no good marketing.

I must say as a non-native, I didn't knew gimp before and was not offended. Googling in incognito mode, I can absolutely see why people might want to avoid that.
Carbon taxes have been passed and revoked in Australia, Canada and France. They have been rejected in ballots twice in Washington. It’s not a right wing thing. People just really hate taxes and don’t want to change their behaviour. Talk is cheap.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09112016/washington-state...

> Washington State Voters Reject Nation's First Carbon Tax

> The measure was unpopular with social justice groups and divided environmental activists, many arguing it did not go far enough in promoting clean energy.

> Among those who decided not to support the carbon tax were Sierra Club, the Washington Environmental Council, the Union of Concerned Scientists, Climate Solutions, and 350Seattle.org.

https://crosscut.com/2018/11/washington-voters-reject-carbon...

> Washington voters reject carbon fees for second time
That makes me think of another large construction project that is currently under discussion nationally.
The most common dig I continue to read about Apple’s strategy is that the phones are too expensive. But there’s little evidence from their earnings that this is the case. Today’s report reduced guidance by $6 billion and was fully attributed to lagging demand in China. All signs point to the new phones selling very well in the US and anecdotally I’ve noticed lots of my friends and family upgrading to the XS with no regard for the cost. These are not extremely wealthy or otherwise financially irresponsible people.

Say what you will about lack of innovation (which I don’t agree with), but the constant skepticism about cost ignores what consumers actually do in the real world. China is probably not going to be a reliable market for Apple because as Ben Thompson points out, smartphones are much more of a commodity there because consumers don’t value Apple software as highly as consumers elsewhere. If that’s indeed the case there’s not much Apple can do about it because they sell the entire package at a high price point. If people don’t value the hardware and software it’s probably not a market that is going to be good for Apple. Apple wants no part of a race to the bottom commodity market where cost is the sole differentiator. It’s a tough pill to swallow but what we’re talking about is consumer preferences in different markets around the world.

Apple should be worried about customers flocking to cross platform messaging apps in the US, though. Right now US consumers won’t part with Apple largely due to iMessage. What happens if people slowly transition to WhatsApp or FB messenger? I could see this as a real threat if FB continues to innovate in messaging.
And why is this a problem? Sure, they can change it arbitrarily to their benefit, but they only benefit if the value of their holdings is high. If they do something that people don't like, that value will fall. So they are strongly constrained by behaving in such a way that they do not make the users of Ethereum unhappy.
If by "not innovating" you mean "not introducing new product-categories" then, yes, Apple isn't innovating. However, in the past few years Apple has:

- made fingerprint scanning fast and easy to use (and then removed it)

- pioneered facial recognition that is robust against being fooled by images and masks, and also robust to the user's face slowly changing (e.g. growing a beard)

- created their own SoC that allows for solid security, excellent power management, and fast graphics

- made security a feature

- pioneered augmented reality with ARKit

- pioneered watch-based EKG

- pioneered watch-based insulin measurements (apparently the research didn't work out, though)

- researching self-driving cars (rumor has it)

- pioneered fake bokeh with a phone camera

- maintains net profit margins of 40% (!! even Coca-Cola is only around 30%; margins of this sort are not easy to maintain for multiple years)

You could argue that Apple is not the first to do many of those, but it wasn't the first to make a phone-computer, nor was it the first to make watch-computer, yet that counted as innovating. So I don't think it would be fair to say that security, SoC, AR, self-driving cars (allegedly) is not innovating. It's just that the innovations aren't category-defining like they used to be. But category-defining innovations aren't a dime a dozen. And we don't know if Steve Jobs could have continued creating category-defining products, either.
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You can degoogle your life without resorting to the apple ecosystem:

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https://prism-break.org/en/categories/servers/
New Horizons is a mere few billion miles/km away, while financial matters these days sometimes involve trillions. Plus extra digits for cents and fractions thereof, of course.

“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.” - Richard Feynman
And that's been there for quite a while...

Sad reality is, people expect more. There's something satisfying about being able to click a 'draw shape' icon on a tool bar and then click and drag to draw the shape on a canvas. That's an expectation that dates back to at least MacPaint in 1984, and it's a huge difference from drawing a shape using a rendering plugin buried under three menu levels.
I am sorry, but how is this relevant to this thread?