skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's nothing gimmicky about real-time raytracing.
This book contains some wrong and oversimplified statements, the explanation of the sampling theorem is awkward and suggests that the author has not fully understood it himself.

Example of wrong claims:
"The heart of digital noise generation is the random number generator."
Not true, many digital noise generators use LFSR.

"Just as analog filters are designed using the Laplace transform, recursive digital filters are developed with a parallel technique called the z-transform."
Hello no, there are gazillion ways to design filters - analog or digital - without those transforms.

"The frequency domain becomes attractive whenever the complexity of the Fourier Transform is less than the complexity of the convolution. This isn't a matter of which you like better; it is a matter of which you hate less."

Clearly I hate both domains less than this book. It might serve as an introduction to DSP, but please remain suspicious, if some claim herein seems oversimplified, it probably is.
What is the status on incremental compilation and code completion?
Watching YouTube. All 995 of them are watching YouTube.
Do you expect to be paid for your work or also offer it for free and live from donations?
The reason to use one of these is to not use a web app
I wrote something long and deleted it as I don’t think I have the emotional bandwidth to pretend that I don’t care about the assured avalanche of downvotes that would follow. And linger.

Short version: women will never be taken seriously if they keep talking about their ‘feelings’ instead of carrying on being kickass at work. It’s a job. Not a hobby. Or a club membership.
Not all WORK needs to be paid for.
It's a great program and I have used it for years. I highly recommend it to everyone and the developers have done a great job. Currently it has a small bug which can be bit annoying where it crashes when opening and closing connections.
From a technical perspective, this isn't wrong.

From a finance perspective... I don't want to argue that this is sane, but a lot of firms view software still as a Capital Expenditure (CapEx), not Operational Expenditure (OpEx).

CapEx is like buying a car, or buying a laptop. OpEx is like a taxi service, or monthly power bill.

With CapEx, I generally can't get approval for payment until the product is fully delivered, and signed off.

A lot of companies use agencies to do software work for them, and see an agency as a sort of credit card / insurance policy for getting the work done before they have to pay, and getting work done on a fixed-price scheme.

A lot of times too, work has to come with like a 90-day warranty, and final payment won't be due until that period is up. For larger clients anyway.

Yes, I like bounties... and we use a lot of open-source software, but I don't think anyone would want to get paid the same ways as agencies get paid. Likely we'd be better off just being able to donate.
I don't agree: I'm not from the US and generally think everyone is over reacting with constantly (threatening) to sue everyone else.

But here the problem here isn't that the dog died, it's how Wag has handled the problem afterwards, and how their (poor) communication suggests that they didn't really do their due diligence in vetting the walkers.

EDIT: a similar thing happened in my country (the Netherlands) where an Uber driver hit (and killed) a young woman after driving around in circles (a technique used to get more clients apparently, instead of parking somewhere), and Uber immediately pulled the "he is not an Uber employee and he wasn't with an Uber customer when it happened, so it's not our fault card". which resulted in public outrage[1]. They could have just send some flowers to the family, now they got a PR crisis instead.

[1]: https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/een-uber-chauff...
Finally, a tutorial on how to use Google. I've always been looking for one.
The data security, while deeply troubling, is not the most troubling thing about FB.
You can install it with chocolatey without ever visiting the site.
This would be extremely demanding a project indeed, which is probably one no such thing has really taken off in many decades.
Since you mention cloudformation here my tips to make it easier:
- tag all groups so its easier to remember
- use Export in outputs so you can use ImportValue in other templates
- use only cloudformation, no edit/create/add actions in the console

Now the ID thing is 0 problems as you never have to worry about them anymore

Same goes for terraform or any other InfrastructureAsCode
After an absolutely terrible interview the interviewee asked about opportunities for promotion as their any other question. I had to bite my tongue and not say I wouldn’t worry about it.
"The UK is growing financial services exports in almost all of the markets you mentioned, so I don't really see what your point is there."

For serious financial services you need even more than a FTA. Something like passporting rights for the EU, that the UK will lose. And regarding to "financial services" China is very very closed.

By chance I read today that China and Germany want to increase trade in "financial services". This really surprised me since China is playing so hard ball against opening this market.

"(Thankfully, 'services' don't face the fundamental challenges that 'goods' do at the border outside of a customs union)"

Yes. Right. Something like passporting rights, clearance allowance etc, you can just do this without a permit or reliance on another country. Good luck with the Brexit.
Near future doesn't last long, because it quickly becomes the present and the past. A book set 20 years in the future will likely only remain plausible for a handful of years, at which point the idea of everyone having a flying car looks silly, or someone invents the mobile telephone and your plot no longer holds together.
That's how facebook onws you and keeps you from leaving: fear of missing out.

AFAIK most people who removed facebook from their life got an improvement out of it and fromt he feedback some of them gave, they did miss a few of those events but it did not matter much to them and the others they got invited or learn about through their newly rebuilt social links and did not miss.
Only if you assume that the studied population of undocumented immigrants in Texas was predominantly people who illegally crossed the border, not people who overstayed their visas.
> On the flip side, if Apple isn't crushing everybody else, it's because they misunderstood typical users and thought they wanted a tiny phone on the wrist, rather than a watch.

They understood their target demographic perfectly, and are making a product for them.

They "misunderstood typical users" so badly, apparently, that they sold more watches than the entire Swiss watch industry combined. I wish I could misunderstand my typical users as bad as Apple does.
There's heavy political hype around "5G".[1] There are claims that it will matter for self-driving cars (despite Waymo saying they don't need more bandwidth), medical applications, and "smart energy". All of those are bullshit.

The "if only we had more detailed maps, self-driving would work" is a fake argument. Once you have enough info to know where the fixed trouble spots are, more data will not help you. Trouble comes from unexpected moving objects.

(2004 (not 2005) DARPA Grand Challenge, where everyone did badly. CMU team tried to do it by manual pre-planning. DARPA gave out the course as a set of waypoints on a CD 2 hours before the start. CMU had a big trailer full of people at workstations to plan out the exact path in those two hours, using high resolution aerial photos. But the USMC Colonel in charge of the event foiled their scheme. Just before the event, a few of his Marines went out in the dark and put up some obstacles the vehicle would have to go around. And, sure enough, the CMU vehicle plowed right into a sheet metal fence and got stuck.[2])

What we're likely to see is bandwidth that changes drastically as you move. You'll get great bandwidth with line of sight to a nearby base station, and then it will drop off drastically as you get further away. That's inherent in using 26GHz for high bandwidth.

The likely benefit is that it becomes possible to provide enough short-range bandwidth for many people to get video-rate bandwidth in crowded areas. So people can watch the game on their phone while in the stadium.

[1] https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/420509-wh...

[2] http://overbot.com/grandchallenge/images/race2004/cmucrash.j...
It’s more than just comments - usually stuff like this is organized in the form of a pinned poll with a comments thread below. As people add comments they also change their poll selection. So you end up also having a real-time view of what people are bringing as well as an audit trail.

You could have the same thing in an email thread if you linked a spreadsheet in an email, but people are less likely to keep both in sync because the things are in two different contexts. And even so, what would you use? Google Apps? That’s just trading one data-hungry overlord for another.
I had this problem as well, but I just tested one of the Test builds as suggested above, and the problem disappeared. So I highly recommend trying that :).
Introduction to WebAuthn API
I did the same just by using a couple of element targets from withing uBlock origin.

Here they are for anyone interested:

www.facebook.com###u_jsonp_3_0 > div
www.facebook.com###feed_stream_5a55a64611d#####0189168 > div
www.facebook.com###stream_pagelet
www.facebook.com###notificationsCountValue

The second one, you will likely have to figure out yourself - it looks like each feed stream has a unique id.
I'm afraid that 4G will be deprioritized and backhaul removed to favor 5G so that only people paying more get good performance.
> I primarily use my Series 4 Apple watch as a watch and heart/activity monitoring device.

I'm honestly confused as to why you didn't just buy a FitBit? The batteries last longer, they're lighter and more comfortable, and they're much cheaper.

> Another misunderstanding of what watches are about. They're on the upper side of one's wrist because they're also a fashion accessory.

Oh, I see...
I went through two divorces, and some of my considerations was along the same lines (not enough time and creative energy for my own ideas) (spoiler: I thought I could work more on my own ideas, but in the end, I couldn't).

Looking back I think I could've done better at least in the first one, where we were left with shared custody of kids.

Several points to take into account before making a decision like this:

1. It wasn't clear from your description whether you're going to share custody of those two kids. If you are (and if you cared about a kid long enough, even if it's not yours, you probably are!), then doing it while living separately (and, perhaps, each having a separate partner) is going to be a much bigger effort, which will negatively impact your ability to work on your own ideas. You'll pretty much do all you do today as a parent, spend significant time on commute, spend money, and then spend time, money and emotional energy with a new partner as well. If it ends up this way, it can feel very very limiting.

2. It's possible that your discomfort about living together with someone has more to do with your own habits, way of organizing your life and space and your thinking, then with the choice of a specific partner. E.g. you may run into the same problems with the next woman if you live with her. If you don't, dating while living separately, presents its own set of challenges and does take time and effort (you get some of the freedoms, but if you see each other regularly, time becomes an issue, compounded with a longer commute!)

3. Loved ones often play inspirational role. You get more time and freedom, but possibly less inspiration - will it work?

4. Some of the problems like you mentioned can sometimes be solved with more space. Have you tried moving to a bigger apartment or a house, where you'd set up a quiet workspace for your own projects? It may be worth ($$) investment. I actually regret that I didn't approach my relationship problems as "not enough space problems". Especially given that you describe your wife loves you and is supportive of your needs. Throw some $$ into the problem: make more space, make more time (e.g. hire a nanny, a housekeeper).

5. Take your 10-year old desires with a grain of salt. Are you sure you really want it, or is it just a memory from the past? You can test-drive it without separating permanently.

6. Enjoying the relationships is a skill. There are trained professionals who can help both you and your wife to improve that skill, called "marriage counselors". Definitely worth a shot.

7. If you're in the U.S. and were married for over 10 years, and your wife making less money than you (at least 20% difference), there are high chances she'll be eligible for lifetime spousal support. Think of monetary consequences and limitations they would impose (especially weighting it against "throwing $$ in attempt to improve things"). Consult with a divorce lawyer for more information.

8. Don't stress about it too much, if it ends up in a divorce, try to stay friends, collaborate if there's possible shared custody, and move on. Divorce isn't end of the world.
Also people have been been trained to misuse email. My coworkers, who are all in IT, can't quote correctly. I am bewildered by the level of ignorance of what email has to offered shown by some comments here. How to stop receiving messages? Well, just make a filter if you don't want to hurt the sender's feelings.

I blame it on the webmail wave that offered to the newbie Internet users of the nineties poor interfaces to email. People used it and said: "email sucks". No, that's just webmail that sucked. And stills sucks compared to native clients (except for Outlook that equally sucks in a different way).

When you take a good look at email it is the ideal medium for social micro-networks:

- no registration, no opt-in. All you need to start a conversation is an email address.
- no vendor lock-in: thousands of email clients exist, on all platforms.
- with a decent client, you manage your messages the way you want, not the way some company wants.

Let's put it differently: how to create a social micro-network in three easy steps:
1. Get the email addresses of the people you want to talk with
2. Send them an email when you want to say something
3. (optional) write a blog post about how to use group email well and put it in your signature.

Also, although I dislike it for it is often misused and abused, HTML-mail covers 99% of fancy formatting needs.

> What people have come to expect of social media, of forums, etc. does not translate particularly well to email.

Agreed. Email is for communication. Social media are for fun, distraction and procrastination. Social media are MMORPGs.
> Netflix is a great example. It went from having a large library because the producers were its friends, to entering production itself, and alienating its former partners.

I always thought it's the other way around and Netflix was in a "if life gives you lemons" situation. The content producers in 2010 (or 2005 .. don't know) didn't want to bother with digital, so they just gave it all to Netflix and that's that. Then when time came to renegotiate the existing contracts (let's say in 2015) the situation had changed: Everyone and their dog now knew that digital was great, so half of them didn't want to give Netflix anything anymore. They wanted to be a competitor and Netflix had zero leverage (e.g. Disney), the other half now had a far better understanding of the value of their digital catalogue plus was able to shop around "so, you don't want to pay us our prices? Let us talk with Amazon over here ..".

At some point Netflix had to find a way out of that situation and while "we produce our own content" may have a higher initial cost and is not what the existing audience wanted in the long term it frees Netflix from their dependency on competitors.
Thanks - I'll keep that in mind (although I'm old and attempting to retrain, and have found lots of things more difficult than everyone else appears to!)
As someone who has lost friends and family members, as well as pets, it feels the same.

I see this dichotomy quite a bit in the public discourse, regarding dogs especially, where 1/2 the world treats dogs as family and the other half thinks they are some play toy/object.

We have been living with wolves/dogs for a long time now, we're responsible for how they have evolved, and part of that is how they have evolved to bond with humans. It's not surprising to me that losing a dog feels like losing a child for some people.
You're seriously overestimating my ability to operate command line.

I'm only here for a serious discussion.
This is insanity. Just buy a FitBit!
Are you aware that email is actually one of the early online mass social media ? and one of the few that actually deserves to be called social while other such as facebook and derivative are antisocial due to be based on exclusion for their closed nature.
Citation?

The way I learned it is: Any statement of intent, no matter in which form, is creating a contract that you are bound to abide.

You sound like you would argue that it obviously was not a contract but a joke because 'why would a company pay something without getting anything in return'. But that would not hold. Companies spend a lot on customer relationship management. So the customer here could safely assume that the companies 'return' was a happier - in this case: less angry - customer.
My apologies that this question is likely tangential to the main objective of the research, but will this project be open sourcing the signal acquisition, transcoding, and delivery portion of its research as well?

This part of this project alone is good enough to improve, dare I claim disrupt, enormous monied interests in the global media landscape.

If this whole thing is legal (500 simultaneous peers), and can be reduced to a docker image and some rabbit ears, you could probably improve the lives of millions (60?) of Americans that do not have access to local stations.

Also, the claim of "not going to be deployed any time soon on a production CDN or streaming service", I would like to make a friendly wager that you are mistaken. I won't even demand favorable odds because of my disadvantaged intellect. This is impressive and valuable work.

My applause.
How do you even find sites that load fast enough for this difference to matter? I only know of maybe 1-2 websites that load instantly like that [1]. Everything else seems bottlenecked on the server side (and sometimes the client).

https://www.changedetection.com/dirsearch.html
Next-level "cord-cutting": Even your fixed location home internet is cellular!

I find that sort of appealing as a unification.
Yes. But i prefer to create my own. Create a riutetable, call it “public” using a tag, attach the internetgateway and attach all public subnets, add a default route that points to the internetgateway and you’re done
I appreciate you responding and explaining your perspective, even though we may disagree on the issue.

> 1/2 the world treats dogs as family

Do you think that half the world, if given the choice between saving either their dog or a stranger's child in a disaster situation (e.g. a house fire), would choose their dog?
See for example https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25879308. I don't know why people are so care free about effects of nonionizing radiation. Current level of knowledge is in my opinion very primitive to even grasp the complex effects that may be happening. How many of us know anything about say voltage-gated calcium channels?
Events are also wonderful for making new friends too. Its extremely low friction for someone you don't know very well to invite you to a party, you go then you get to know them better (or the other party guests). Someone who otherwise wouldn't know your contact info. I wouldn't have some of the good friends I have now without these sorts of casual interactions.

I've also reconnected with childhood friends through Facebook.
Which model checkers use Pi Calculus? I've thought about learning Pi Calculus but an much less interested if there's no checker.
TablePlus is very nice and it supports NoSQL databases like Cassandra, CockroachDB, and Redis. It's Electron-based, so it is relatively heavyweight, but I like it a lot.
how to become a social recluse 101: miss a couple of these facebook events, start getting known as an awkward anti-social person because you went to someone's launch event but not to their birthday party(coz bday invites only go out on facebook,no email or other discussion except maybe a text asking you where you are day of,hour of when you can't re-schedule another commitment)

Congrats, now you don't get invited to any of that person's events. Repeat until you only goto close friends events(who also start excluding you from invites because of accidental snubs)
> "See, this country, and therefore its people

Story wouldn't be there if we didn't care about "its people".
How to Contribute to OpenFaaS
I am sorry, but if possible, could you elaborate @chrisseaton? (preferably with a bit more punctuation :D)
Yeh but you see. The sun has existed for billions of years and we as humans have yet to adapt to it fully. There is a reason why we live in the shade and use sunscreen.

Excuse me if I still feel skeptical about mmWaves..
I have 3 RPi,s at home.

I have Pi2 that acts as a dashboard for real time data on my train to work, my wife's bus route, weather temp and rain probability. I am using sensehat to present this information through pixels.

I have a Pi3 running home automation (hass.io) which I am new to and find amazing in most part.

And final one in my daughters room which is a Pi0 with Envirophat that's monitoring temperature.

All side project and I am not a developer.
Book Review: “Java by Comparison”
Anyone using it with exasol? What's your opinion on in memory databases?
Producing content does give Netflix independence, but on the flipside it also means they stand alone. Their former partners are now competitors.
Thunderpod- The Fitness Game
"Of course, it is worth noting that Smith is a unique school: a small liberal-arts college, historically left wing, which only admits women. And it’s possible that changes at Smith are offset somehow by changes at other schools."

Yeah... at least they notify us about it. But really, are the results of such a study even remotely relevant considering the demographic differences with the normal population?
Usually the people that says hiring isn’t brokens are the ones that benefit most from it. Algorithms and programming are not one and the same. The overlap but knowing algorithms tells me nothing about your knowledge of programming.

You know what I would be more interested in candidates knowing? Solving problems that have no immediate answers. For example, understanding how to architect a program without using a framework, Debugging a bug even though you know nothing about the library you are using (eg. Be able to read code and race the problem), and understanding the difference between algorithm and architecture in overall performance of a system.

You can memorise algorithms. You can’t memorise problem solving and architecture. Albert Einstein said something along the lines of, “Don’t memorise knowledge that you can look up in a textbook.”

What have you learned since becoming a programmer? Did you push your knowledge of programming or are you rushing to the next hype framework? I see many more of the latter than the former.

Knowing algorithms is like optimising for the flow of water for your tap in the house without understanding how the pipes layout affects the overall output. And that’s the problem when you only work on one small section of the program your entire career.

Apologies for the rant..
they are probably referring to unix sockets. I used dbeaver already and got stuck on this very problem.