skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
speaking about interference : moved my home office to a new spot in the house the other day ago - which has 3 LED light bulbs for light in the space.

Turned on the ham radio - in scan mode - picked up someone talking, but noticed a bunch of static also being picked up. Didn't think much of it until I turned off the lights and the static went away. radio antenna was about 4 feet away from 2 diff bulbs (!).

These things are noisy ..thinking about trying a few diff brands to see if there is a difference.

also thinking about borrowing a buddy's spectrum analyzer to see if I can isolate the frequencies of the noise, might be able to put a a filter on the antenna.
That's different from controlling what YOU as a user can install on your phone. Apple controlls what you can make people install on their phones.

These are vastly different things. You own your phone and you can do whatever you want with it. It's just that you can't use Apple's distribution channels to spread you code.
I live here and don’t feel we are really that innovative anymore. What do you think we are innovating at? Silicon Valley crap that no one really cares about or needs? Or worse, actively harms people?

Going to the moon is innovating. Putting scooters everywhere is not innovating. Ignoring climate change is not innovating.
Females did select, in multiple ways.

First, they sometimes cheated.

Second, arranged marriage is normally set up by people who largely share DNA with those getting married. (the parents negotiate) Since the DNA is pretty much the same, genetically it's as if the bride herself got to choose.

Third, opinion of the bride was not universally ignored.
That sounds like sampling bias rather than a real generational trait. Corporate culture like this isn't universal but it goes back to before many millennials were even born. It's become stronger in cases where it's part of the justification for extremely high compensation but it's an inevitable failure mode for human social systems.
The documentation clearly mention those features aren’t supported as of now.

The Firebase team is aware of that need but it’s very hard to deliver such features at scale.

Firebase is used everywhere these days , so a single change in the platform has impacts in petabytes and massive thousands of cpus load.
Another thing e.g. with bandsaws is that their wheels have large diameters, are heavy (~10 kilos for a 500 mm saw), with most mass concentrated on the rim, and spinning at fairly high linear velocities (10-30 m/s), i.e. they are perfect flywheels. If a bandsaw has neither mechanical nor motor braking (absence of which has been banned for decades here), they'll typically take several minutes to come to a stand still, and they're perfectly capable of cutting through hardwood at slow speeds - not to speak of flesh or bones.

Format table saws used in most carpenters shops here have 5-7.5 kW motors (7.5 kW are ~10 HP). Impressive power. Though format saws are far safer by design than regular table saws (and better for both your back, and accuracy, too).

That being said kickback is almost always caused by making a cut that simply can't be made safely on a table saw. With suitably sized work pieces the next major concern is binding; a riving knife helps with this but naturally cannot prevent it -- it just gives you more time to shut the saw off. (Larger workpieces are also somewhat -- not much -- less problematic when caught on the blade, because they won't fly as fast or far as a small, light workpiece).
You’re facilitating people downloading who don’t own the media? Just by virtue of how BT works.
The difference is that SGX was explicitly designed to protect memory/execution from kernel access, and TME doesn’t have such a facility or any path I can see towards becoming one.
Urban combat tactics are fascinating. I’m reminded of this post that explains how the IDF in the early 2000s would try to “walk through walls” in urban combat. It also discusses how the film ‘Die Hard’ is a study of architecture. [0] The underlying essay referenced in the post is brief and interesting as well, discussing how those urban tactics were influenced by postwar French thought, in particular the ideas of Deleuze & Guattari.

[0] http://www.bldgblog.com/2010/01/nakatomi-space/
I don't think this is quite right. Suppose someone says "I care about white people because I am a white person" (and doesn't care at all about black people) or says "I care about women because I am a woman" (and doesn't care at all about men) or says "I care about psychologists because I am psychologist" (and doesn't care at all about people in any other line of work). Would any of those seem obviously reasonable? They wouldn't to me.

So, if caring only about Indians because you're Indian isn't reasonable but caring only about humans because you're human isn't reasonable, what's the relevant difference? That seems to me a question it's perfectly fair to ask. And some possible answers to the question don't make it obvious that the distinction between humans and hypothetical robots with minds that resemble ours enough (e.g.) for us to talk with them is one that justifies caring about humans and not caring about those robots.
It's not clear to me why the clicker can't beep to confirm instead of the car itself!

I guess it's just for finding your car in big parking lots? Seems like a different button could be dedicated for that far less common use case.
Elon Musk’s Surprise Pick for Tesla CFO Is a Relative Unknown
Would be interesting to know how they were cheating.
How dare someone use resources in their native language as an example.
> You can compile your own browser and install it.

Not really; you're basically limited to WebKit if you want acceptable performance.
No, they're not flechettes. According to the manufacturer, the projectiles are tungsten spheres.

https://www.gd-ots.com/munitions/large-caliber-ammunition/12...

(There's even a sales brochure.)
Whataboutism seems to be the go-to fallacy used by Facebook leaders.

See for example the ex CSO deviating the discussion to Apple privacy concerns in China:
https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1090918043969114112
I don't think most people would have truly understood how much control Facebook had over their phone with the access given. It's not as simple as "the user clicked 'I consent,' so it's ok." For better or worse, we have become conditioned to clicking "I agree" because we are bombarded with hundreds of pages of legalese to use anything these days. I don't think this absolves companies from acting ethically.

https://9to5mac.com/2019/01/29/facebook-paying-teens-vpn/

Someone from BBC showed just how much of a joke this consent form is anyway:

https://twitter.com/DaveLeeBBC/status/1090528627005902848/ph...
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I would have thought that a scaled medical diagnosis AI/ML system with zero marginal cost for each additional user would provide “better, faster, cheaper” diagnosis thru increased primary health care capacity, reduced costs per patient, and reduce disparity.

What am I missing?
I can't really speak for the main reason why, but my guess is that it gave Nintendo a level of flexibility with localizing the game without having to set up a Nintendo 64 development environment.
There is a legitimate investigation into Russia interference in the election. Many have already been charged, and probably many more.

You really believe that nothing happened and there wasn't a concerted effort by Russia to significantly impact the election?

Whether or not the POTUS or candidates were complicit is one thing, but it's very clear that a significant impact on this election was made.
> A majority of Masters degree holders in the US are those students who couldn't crack the basic campus recruitment in India for software companies during their Bachelors.

The majority? How did you get that data? Sounds like proper BS to me. Campus recruitment in India is a joke. There's nothing to "crack" there. How do you explain the same majority completing their graduate studies in the US (much harder than in India) and getting jobs in the US (also much harder than in India)?
> Let’s make our internal systems depend on the good will of an outside company that is marginaly a competitor.

What's the alternative for internal-only apps?
i dont see any issues with it (unless you're also seeding a lot) but my ISP might.

i usually rent from a local library and use DVDFab & Handbrake/x264 to encode from scratch with excellent settings. Most of the stuff on torrent is lousy quality that's optimized for size first. The way I see it, i already pay huge property taxes that more than covers the few select movies i rip. sometimes i already own the DVD (720p) version but not the blu ray (1080p).
Zuckerberg said it himself in 2010: "The Age of Privacy Is Over" [1]

[1] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/external/readwri...
Ocean acidification is a consequence of the massive CO2 emissions. CO2 is an acid.
Same here. As someone who lives in British Columbia, I always conflate the two.
Why Facebook's Banned 'Research' App Was So Invasive
I thought cost was a blocker too till I actually sat down and worked it out. A cheap microserver with about 15TB of disk space came in well under the thousand pound mark - the real blocker is sitting down and actually ripping the things. There's a trade-off between space and encoding quality to be made, but I'm entirely happy with libx265's results at 1080p.

Obviously your mileage may vary as to what's a reasonable cost.
The article specifically calls out the word "harm" in the three laws as a source of ambiguity. This, as the author also points out, becomes a source of conflict in the I, Robot stories.

The author is making a joke using the "considered harmful" trope/meme in conjunction with the assertion that the word "harm" is ambiguous, thereby rendering the phrase "considered harmful" relatively meaningless.

Unfortunately, this joke seems to be lost on many of the commenters here. Technically minded folks seem to see the phrase "considered harmful" and proceed to lose their minds. Never mind that the phrase, in my experience, is almost exclusively used in jest. But based on people's reactions to it, "considered harmful" in a title might as well be flame bait. In fact, I seem to remember a serious article a while back called "'Considered Harmful' Considered Harmful" that should have put this whole thing to bed.
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I would like the ability as well, but I can see the argument against it. If you provide that vector, there will be plenty of people trying to attack it. If you are staking a claim on privacy and security, you want to minimize the number of attack vectors on your devices.
Did you consult books, or courses online, or videos? I'm just asking because there is so much info out there, what specific paths would be best? Thanks.
I still feel guilty about it every time we recount this story. I remember exactly where I was (on the top bunk) when mom shared the bill with me. I think she had me dial into the number to show her how it worked. To their credit, Nintendo did disclose there was a cost to the service but as I'm sure kids ignore notifications these days, I blindly pressed 7 or whatever because I wanted to get through the next level so badly. It didn't seem like real money. I can't remember if mom made me do excess chores to pay off the debt but I'm guessing she did. I should pay her back the $200 with interest.
What I'm working on right now is a project to decode a certain technical book publisher's output of their books. They provide free views of all the chapters of their books with words below a certain length having their letters consistently (but randomly per word) replaced with other letters. Words over a certain length have their letters not replaced but shuffled. Things like punctuation are left unchanged.

This is an interesting problem that requires good data structures, good input data (n-gram statistics), can be improved with skills in lexing and parsing. It's just a really neat problem.

I don't mind buying the books, but present an interesting challenge and I'm hooked.

My job is actually pretty nice. I genuinely like my coworkers and I work remotely. I just get bored and frustrated with the way web dev goes.

Don't want to say more than that.
Sawstop is a great invention but has known to false trigger and you then need to replace the blade and the gas cartridge. I believe wet wood is an issue.
No, I read a comment about parents who apparently don't check their credit card transactions for months at a time.
> Do we look back at TV saying the same thing?

They definitely do. Not to the same degree that people shun cigarette smoking as a vice though. There's a reason that the phrase 'binge-watching' includes the word binge, as opposed to saying 'marathoning' or something that would communicate the same thing.
>> which have no answer

> There is no meaningful answer to your question

Didn't I say that? Didn't I point out that the ATTEMPT to answer was valuable?

>> Is this how I want things to be?

> because all of existence is without meaning

Atheists don't have be nihilists.
“Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authorities of surveillance and registration, its experts in normality, who continue and multiply the functions of the judge, should have become the modern instrument of penality? Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?” - Michel Foucault
Backblaze is $5 a month for unlimited storage. If your hard drive fails, you can order a hard drive with your data.
A european sliding table saw is even safer since you dont have to use your hands that often.
Emby became proprietary as well. So no real reason to choose it.
Venezuelan oil production dipped dramatically before any serious US sanctions were introduced.

The nationalization of the oil industry and replacing professionals with incompetent cronies was the cause of Venezuela’s current crisis, not something the US orchestrated.

See https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2017/05/07/how-venezuel...

From a couple years ago. I saw a more recent graph somewhere and the problems have grown even more acute.
I think the resulting pieces are simply fragments of metal. Better resembling buckshot or small metal bits than flechettes.

i.e., more like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragmentation_(weaponry)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_shell#Buckshot

and less like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flechette
Why would that be? Does Tim Cook pray at nights to slow down other peoples code on iPhone?

It's your code and it will run as fast as you make it, you can't expect Apple to make your code as good as WebKit.
Speaking of systemic effects, please don't pile on this user, or any other individual who happens to be in a position that the majority hates right now. That quickly develops into an ugly dynamic that we don't want here. What you posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19046964 is unmistakeably a step in that brutal direction.

This comment goes for everybody.
and this one forces you to create an account before you can download which might be fine if you're using it for a long time, but it adds friction for when trying out new services
Another shout out to https://darksky.net - using it currently for personal weather forecasting. Very simple API and 1000 free QPD seems like a decent amount.

Works well for the US, but I've heard it's not quite as accurate for Europe and other parts of the world.
You're making the mistake of thinking that this amount of resources and effort was available in some kind of global pool to be allocated to anything, anywhere.

The truth is that aside from maybe the human effort this would've gone to some other war or battle or simply be left unspent.

If, on the other hand, you're making the observation that war and violence sucks and that humanity would ultimately be better off if we tried to work together. Then absolutely I'm behind you 100%.
Yeah, in addition most cheap(< $200) wireless modules are pretty susceptible to front end overload. If strong enough the RF noise doesn't even need to be in the same spectrum.

Even my 2m Kenwood D710 mobile in my car will break squelch on some drive throughs.

Tesla had a similar issue when someone started taking them too close to radio towers up on the hills. Luckily they were able to build a foil shield so they could get the RFID spot to pick them up.
Maybe, but if you slow down the video to 0.25x, @4:30 you can definitely see the blade bite into it and yank it away.
It'd be great for spy devices though
Does this mean there is ultimately no way of running your own code on your iDevices without first going through Apple?
You keep spectacularly missing the point my friend.
Wonder why titanium? It's relatively light so it'll slow down with air resistance very quickly. It's like shooting aluminum spheres but harder.

Edit: op misquoted the page. They're tungsten which would be more in line with what I'd expect. Tungsten in both very heavy (ever heavier than lead) and very very hard.
Can we finally put the statement that high taxes stifle innovation to rest?
This, so much.

I take transit and cycle everywhere. Even with the bike and bus there's lots of walking to and from bus stops.

When I am out with colleagues and we want to go somewhere even a half a mile away people are all "that's soooo far..."

No wonder e-scooters are so popular. (And I suspect lots of their user base are smokers.)
A good option for RMS, but as a practical matter impossible for normal people.
I recall seeing a garage door manufacturer selling LED bulbs for $15 or $20 that don’t interfere with openers.

Personally, I’d just cover the bulb in a few layers of grounded chicken wire. But I’m cheap like that.
Nice to hear. Feel free to reach out to me any time, and I'll help you with whatever you might need :)

johan@wiseer.io
sounds good, but i dont do anything java on principle.
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Facebook has had countless incidents of violating user privacy and trust. This is just the latest. When a company has the same problems happening over and over across different departments it's clear there's a company-wide problem.
If you tell the average user they need to sideload your app to access some free content, they will happily click past any number of scary warnings. I personally would appreciate being able to sideload, but there’s a reason iPhones don’t get laden with crapware in the hands of someone inexperienced with tech the way that desktop computers do. Does that mean we shouldn’t support sideloading? No idea. But there are trade offs.
FB has opened themselves up to a world of hurt in this endeavor. The copious privacy issues aside, the is an easy question of 'what happens when...' that I cannot fathom how their legal counsel overlooked.

For example: One of the persons that they were closely monitoring decides to harm themselves or others in a somewhat 'newsworthy' way. Think the plethora of young people with access to certain classes of firearms. A contrived set of circumstances could exist where that young person could have been stopped by the monitors at FB, yet was allowed to continue all the same, through the sheer stupidity/negligence of FB. Though this is only one scenario, there exist many others; I think anyone can come up with at least a dozen in under an hour.

Yes, the T&Cs 'cover' their asses in these events (morality be damned), but there are loopholes upon loopholes that can be quickly found when the camera crews start swarming and saying 'oh, but the kiddos!'.

Whatever legal counsel is at FB these days is too cavalier; they may be thinking that they can just throw a firm's worth of lawyers at any problem and bankrupt the opposing party. This is a very grave mistake. I suspect that any competent/moral lawyers have up and left by now, leaving only the amoral/incompetent attorneys that are just fine suckling off of FB. The evaporative effect is in full force at FB now (the Elves have left Middle Earth [0]).

[0] https://steveblank.com/2009/12/21/the-elves-leave-middle-ear...
Wow this is pretty cool

https://www.crowdsupply.com/lime-micro/limesdr
Arguments about the big companies ultimately devolve into whataboutism. But google does this! and Apple did that! And facebook did this!

It's frustrating how we treat publicly traded companies somehow as agents of morality. They aren't and never will be. Isn't it obvious that this needs regulated by a government?
Three main reasons which feed back on each other:

1.) Giving big raises to existing employees often causes morale problems with their coworkers. People talk, and they get resentful if someone who (in their view) is working no harder than them is suddenly getting paid $20-30K more. So giving a big raise to one person usually means you have to give it to all of them. There are mitigating circumstances if you can point to some external circumstance that's changed (eg. "Alice got her MBA", "Bob just led this big project that made us $10M", "Cindy got promoted"), which is why companies are more likely to give raises under these circumstances. By contrast, a new employee doesn't have the gossip networks of existing employees, and the business can often invent a reason why they're being paid more (eg. "David brings special skills that are crucial for us right now", "Erin was hired in at a higher level based on her experience at XYZ Corp.")

2.) Usually the company that hires away an employee for much more money has very different profit margins and revenue growth than the one they were hired from, and so they can afford to pay more. This is the economy functioning as normal: employees should jump from companies that are less productive and less profitable to those that are more productive and more profitable, because their labor will net both them and the company more.

3.) There's a cognitive bias known as anchoring, where people form a mental model of how much a person/security/job/product should be worth, and refuse to update that mental model in the face of gradually changing facts. So if you get hired in as a junior dev fresh out of college at $60K/year, your boss's mental model of you will be "that college kid we're paying $60K/year". But after a couple of years of experience, you will be way more valuable to everyone else in the market than the new college kids coming out now, and your salary will reflect that on the open market - but your boss will still think of you as "that college kid we hired for $60K/year".

The factors feed into each other, eg. anchoring is also why companies don't adopt new production techniques and go into new emerging markets that generate higher productivity per #2, higher productivity generates a qualitative difference per #1 that justifies higher wages, anchoring is the reason why bosses & coworkers are blind to minor or gradual differences in productivity per #1, and social customs of the employees often reinforce old production techniques and prevent them from benefitting from #2.

It may be helpful to think of the rational state of the workforce as always requiring retraining, the rational state of business relationships as always hit-or-miss, and the rational state of the job market as always requiring turnover. And then individual companies create bubbles within them to satisfy human needs for security & stability, because our emotions evolved when the pace of change was significantly slower. Because most people have a bias toward stability, it creates economic opportunities for those who rationally choose instability and throw away their old relationships for more productivity and higher profits.
So wouldn't a ranking vote system work better?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting
It sounds like all they've done to try to isolate the source of interference is shut off the power to the nearest store. This probably shouldn't be a national story until they look a little harder and can't figure it out...