skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
HSPA+ will hit real-world speeds in the 10s of megabits, but HSPA won't. Both are technically in the "3G" spec, though, you're right about that. But they were marketed/branded as 4G almost immediately.
Here's a story that I received secondhand, so I cannot verify its authenticity.

A man exited the Navy, and got a new job with a private Navy-supporting contractor. He reports for work, and his manager tells him what he'll be working on. So he gets right to it, sets up a cot, and hammers away for a few days, until the problem is completely fixed. As one does when trained by the Navy.

He then tells his manager that he's finished. Manager just goes berserk, and tells him to not show his face at the worksite again; just fill out the time card remotely, until instructed otherwise. So he toddles off, to go SCUBA diving every day, for about six months, until the work hours allocated to the project were finally used up. After that, he played the game correctly.

This story aligns perfectly with my anecdotal experience, though it is not uniform across all contractor companies, or even across different work groups within the same company. Even the estimates for the work required to pad the estimates are padded.
The $90K+ SUV market in the US is huge. Tons of market share to take from many brands.
>What about protection from extradition to the United States for bogus charges?

Don't worry, the US now just has to wait until Halloween.
If they can control all outgoing points they can control ISP access completely. VPNs wouldn't help as they would still need an out of country connection.

However satellite or other wireless internet not under their control would work unless enforced ad bacculum or through jammers. Anything which depends upon external international IP addresses would break.

VPNs and related would only come into play with unauthorized international connections and the forwarder so it appears traffic is to another domestic address.
A breach that involves a technical vulnerability is one of those things that happens, gets patched and everyone moves on.

One of the things when establishing a contract with a company like Wipro is that they operate on your systems from locked down rooms where disks, thumb drives, etc. are not allowed. A secure private link is setup to your corporate environment to ensure that your customer's data is not available to the outsourced firm to do with as they please.

A breach on Wipro which allowed an attacker to gain access to 11 customer systems (i.e. maybe some Fortune 500 companies) to me means they should pretty much go bankrupt because any sane customer will stop doing business with them as soon as they can. It speaks of incompetence and complete disregard for common safeguards. How can a breach into Wipro's corporate system in any way lead an attacker to Wipro's customer's data? An obvious one could be their employees sending customer credentials via the Wipro corporate email.
> ... unmatched price-to-performance ratio.

Agreed. I'm back to using headphones myself at the moment (moved location recently, not yet set up properly), but I'm really missing my proper sound system setup. ;)
I like it personally. It has a cute citygoer vibe
I'm currently studying traffic with using reinforcement learning with:

- Microscopic simulator: https://sumo.dlr.de/index.html

- Flow (abstraction of RLlib and Sumo): https://flow-project.github.io/

Have a look at Sumo, its free, open source, and comprehensive. Also Aimsun [1] but I've never used it and don't think it's free although I'm unsure about that.

[1] https://www.aimsun.com/aimsun-next/
A new operating system has 0% of the market. Which is to say, I would argue that building for the long haul is almost always preferable to abandoning ship. And now that we are realizing how badly we need a real alternative, it's gone.

I wouldn't say it had fallen to 0.1% of the market on it's own, Microsoft literally just stopped investing in it for years before it was officially killed. There's dozens of unreleased prototypes and for a while Microsoft just didn't provide ANY hardware options. Much like the death of the keyboard slider form factor on Android, the lack of sales came from consumers having no options to buy than not wanting the product.

Your attempt to criticize Windows Mobile by referring to it's state in 2010, not 2019, mostly renders it an irrelevant argument. (Though Microsoft has regularly launched things too little, too late, I would agree.) Windows 10 Mobile is still superior today to the latest release of Android, and receives security updates faster and more regularly. The next version of Android is planning to introduce features Windows Mobile has supported since launch.
It's no better on the desktop. With uBlockOrigin, I can see 33 primary domains (ad and social networks), and 3 times that number secondary ones, blocked.
"we need to think about controlling the spread of misinformation"

When low information people use subjective words like NEW and NEED it's clear that they are spreading misinformation. So, your comment IS misinformation as the internet doesn't "NEED" to be controlled. If it does, I propose we start by censoring you.
> required reading for most CS programs
Really?
But could I both delete the data you have and tell you not to collect more?

Transparency is great, but all by itself it means little.
I believe jajag is referring to the tape that holds things together as opposed to the drink.
The more tasks you have to do, the more certain about duration you should be - some of the uncertainty will cancel out and you will get a gaussian distribution. For your example, I expect 10 tasks of between 1 day and 1 week each (with flat probability) to take about 6 weeks in total, with a 95% chance of completion within 7 weeks.
I work in the mesh network IoT space, primarily Wi-SUN. Since we view NB-IoT and LTE-M as competition, I encourage you cellular guys to really take your time :) we're happy for the head start while we keep deploying our networks in the millions.
David McKay, 1992, Bayesian Methods for Adaptive Models http://www.inference.org.uk/mackay/thesis.pdf

Radford Neal, 1994, Bayesian Learning for Neural Network https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~radford/ftp/thesis.pdf
The new EU guidelines for AI are a case of ethics-washing
Discrimination on the basis of gender is illegal (at least in my country). A work environment that allows the average man to work but not the average woman would most likely be counted as sex discrimination
As if mainstreaming weaponized radiation poisoning weren't enough, let's unemploy weather-girls in the same swing. It's like Rod Serling took the brown acid.
Even a billion is nothing a compared to the budget of the French State; it's 1% of the budget of public education, for example.
I think there's a lot of people down on cucumber after experience with it, in several different contexts... what do you think, what has been your experience?
What 5G Means for You
Geez, I hope not. Any other meeting I've been to has been a horrible waste of time, where 50% of it is spent trying to figure out why the VC isn't working, and the other 50% is spent scheduling the next meetings.
Isn't that hypocritical though? You want to assign blame to me for not bringing cloth bags, yet you want to coddle me for making that mistake by offering me free plastic bags when I forget? Perhaps I would be more incentivized to bring cloth bags if I had to suffer some for not doing so. Make me buy some at the register, run to my car to retrieve them, or make multiple trips. (Point in fact, I have cloth bags in my car, but I have not once remembered to bring them into a store. Habits are not easy to form. And I'll be thought rude to run to my car after dumping groceries on the checkout line rather than using the provided bags.)

It doesn't really matter who you blame in this case, because the solution is the same either way: stop allowing stores to offer free plastic bags.

And if anyone would accuse my of rationalizing my inefficiencies, then that is just one more reason why you cannot trust individuals to make the right choices.
Why the downvotes? Are you downvoters fiat maximalists?
It's on page 2 of the paper.
From the telco's perspective, yes. From an end user who is getting fiber from a coop or muni fiber provider, it's about $300-$500, which might be considered reasonable if your ongoing operating costs (and therefore, costs to the end user) are lower.

Disclaimer: I have contributed to a muni fiber project, and am familiar with trenching/arial mounting and premises termination costs.
The name triggered memories of the Beatnik music player from a couple of decades ago which was created with the promise of high quality wavetable synthesis at a time when cheap sounding General MIDI was common - where you could bundle your own samples with control if I recall right.

Sigh!
In rockets, we have SpaceX. Commercial aviation has a higher regulatory barrier for entry, both in technical knowledge and facilities. You don't just spin up a gigantic, cavernous assembly line with thousands of technicians and billions of dollars in tooling overnight. I wouldn't be surprised if in 10-20 years though, someone backed by Google tried building a self-piloted, subsonic blended-wing-body 200-300 pax jetliner. Google right now has Kitty Hawk, but I think their ambitions are far greater.
Foreign-body ingestions by young children treated in US ERs 1995-2015
Except if you hit the top speed of your car you can continue driving around at the normal speed the whole rest of the time. You don't have to drive around at half the speed you want for a month.
Not just cell capacity, but phone capacity in general.

One of my biggest memories of 9/11 as a school-boy was when all phone-lines were so congested that no one could call their parents. We all kept trying, but it was "busy" tones all the way through.

That's the only time I remember land-lines all being too congested to make a call, but it was part of the event that a lot of us talked about for days later. Some of the kids were trying to call their parents to see if they were still alive, because some of them worked at the Pentagon. (Their parents were fine, but they too couldn't contact their kids because all the phone-networks were too congested. I presume everyone was trying to call each other at that time).

Its the only time in my memory where I got a busy-signal from picking up a phone. You didn't even dial yet, it was too busy to even give a dial tone.

For the kids out there: texting wasn't common yet, and pagers weren't really worth the trouble. Pagers worked like text messaging today, except you didn't have a screen... so it was hard to use and weren't really used very much. You called a pager using a land-line, and then dialed "44 33 555 555 666" for "HELLO". People generally still just did phone calls for simple messages like "I'm okay".
I agree. I think it exists, but humans are pretty weak at it. I think we can get much better, and it's pretty rare to get results at a useful level, but the "baseline" abilities (parasympathetic activation by being watched, blind sight, remote viewing, to name a few) are accessible to all at a very rudimentary level with some training/awareness, but to get useful consistent results is very rare, and probably requires a lot of training combined with natural talent.

So on the "have it and aware of it" long tail you get a lot of psychics basically functioning as highly emphatic counselors with access to some out-of-band knowledge. Maybe at the high-end there are consultants who do work for big oil, corporate, aerospace and government. But for some reason (maybe the topic's history, Stargate, etc) they're secreted away.
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The author of this piece is a member of the commission's expert group that has worked on the guidelines.

Here is how the paper describes ethics-washing:

"This phenomenon is an example of “ethics washing”. Industry organizes and cultivates ethical debates to buy time – to distract the public and to prevent or at least delay effective regulation and policy-making. Politicians also like to set up ethics committees because it gives them a course of action when, given the complexity of the issues, they simply don't know what to do – and that’s only human."
5G non stand alone can provide this due to the new core network. But we are still at the mercy of the speed of light. A round trip of 1 millisecond translates to about 150 km (95 miles) of distance between you and your resource. And that is without any signal processing at the receiving end and in the air to fiber interface.
It's exactly a Lisp derivative/fork. Zork was originally written in MDL [0], a Lisp derivative in use on MIT's mainframes (that in turn went on to inspire parts of Scheme). When the Zork team left college to form Infocom, they built ZIL to port Zork to home computers, based on their experience of MDL, and their needs for their Z-Machine virtual machine.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDL_(programming_language)
People are, on average, incredibly stupid. Some of those who aren't will inevitably take advantage of this for money and power.

When stupid people use http and see a warning, they don't think, "huh, I have no login here, provide no personal information, and the information I am receiving is not in any way critical--if it is spoofed by a bad actor, it doesn't matter" and bypass the warning. Instead, their little primitive brains do the fight-or-flight herd behaviour and click "get me out of here".

This puts the CA in the potential position of extorting money from those who must, of necessity, cater to stupid people. It also gives the CA complete control over who gets to publish their information. Forcing the need for a CA is simply totalitarianism.

The only way a CA can exist in a world where https is functionally mandatory is if legislation forces the CA to be free as in beer, fully transparent, and prohibited from arbitrary action by an appeal system that is fast, efficient, and also free as in beer.

Otherwise, we have lost everything that was good about the Web. End of story.
It has gotten awful. Every single time I've searched for a generic product (or even a specific brand + model), I'm inundated with these nonsense branded listings. I'm very close to canceling my Prime membership.

I think the best thing that Amazon has accomplished is pushing other retailers to improve their fulfillment process. Just yesterday, instead of dealing with the endless stream of copycat products on Amazon, I purchased a bunch of running gear directly from Nike and it was shipped in less than 12 hours.
Yeah, I got surprised a few time when I was there to study. Also the "mandatory" tipping was unusual, compared to Europe
> While 5G Will be a great boon

This is something I've been having trouble with.

Lately I've become more aware of the secondary effects of 5G- on weather forecasting, on the radio spectrum, possibly on bees- and it's got me wondering why we need it for telecom. I just don't see the value added. I can already communicate with anyone in the world, access any information, and find my way anywhere with 4G. A significantly higher rate of data transfer just doesn't seem to add any new functionality to my phone. Can anyone give me a good rationale for 5G? Entertainment doesn't count.

I'll grant right-off-the-bat that it'll have some fantastic industrial applications; my issue is with personal telecom. It just feels like a new planned obsolescence vector.
Had a brief QSO with W5LFL on my 2M rig with a homebrew, handheld antenna in 1973. This was before home computers and orbital path software so I had to research when, approximately, the shuttle would appear above the horizon with its azimuth and elevation, all well ahead of the actual event. It took several attempts before I could even hear him. I had a buddy manipulating the antenna so he had to track an invisible point in the sky while estimating elevation and azimuth. By sheer luck, we did finally hear him and which point I starting making calls. We only had seconds to make a contact with thousands of people trying to do the same. By some miracle, I was heard and he acknowledged my call sign just before we lost him. Eventually, I received a QSL card from him, acknowledging our (brief) "conversation". Still have that framed in my shack.
Most Chatbots I know are just an interactive search for a website/documentation. If it works, good, saves the trip to google; if not, I can still ask the bot for other ways to communicate. Why bother with a human when when it just costs more time?
Yep, this being one of the reasons the planes went splat.
Indeed, GLUT is not in active development (I would not say that it is "effectively dead" but rather that it "crystallized into a perfect form", but I digress). However, I was asking about "freeglut", which is a different thing, which is actively developed: last commit on 2019-03-26 dropped some unnecessary dependencies, for example.
Seems like he's far from open sourcing it. His team just published a long blog post (https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-op...) explaining why they're closed source.
You joke, but, if a user can't spend time making something pretty then complaints are probably inbound. I think its a silly tradeoff for privacy. People associate emotion with everything though, and a communication app seems like a logical place people would want to set the mood.
Wouldn't there be a great deal of contention with an FR2 on each lamp post; how would they avoid that? Are these cell sites meshing internally to create a backhaul, or is the idea that each lamp post is wired?
Done!

... did you say there's a book coming? :-)
A struggle for the soul of theoretical physics
So far their PR has been exceptionally successful. Hopefully they bring their vehicles to market and they warrant some of the hype that is growing.
Most people in dating have deal breakers. I feel like there should be some way to filter out deal breaker issues.
Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water from Moon
554 was most productive from personal experience without lunch break.
Sony Teases Next-Gen PlayStation
You realize that existing utilities don't provide unlimited usage for a flat fee, right?
estimates are stupidity codified in language
> Remember when DDT, asbestos and lead plumbing were harmless to humans ? Then they were classified as "could" be dangerous or "may" be harmful. Now they're straight up banned everywhere.

DDT is banned for agricultural use, but is still permitted (and used) for vector control (ex: controlling mosquitos).

Asbestos is banned in many applications, but still has permitted uses in the US, although there's an open proposal to further restrict use [1]

I wasn't able to find any evidence of permitted use of new lead plumbing, however; so that one might be straight up banned.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/asbestos/us-federal-bans-asbestos#notban...
If 40% of the articles about your career are related to 'staying sane', your career choice may be insane? Consider voting with your feet rather than coping.

Source: Incredibly happy ex-faculty.
Except entertainment does count according to customer use metrics.
Who is that handsome mystery developer, where did he come from, and why can't we get enough of him?
If they are moving with the speed of light no time passes for photons so ‘lifetime’ has no real meaning either.
Indeed. The problem is, that's on the wrong side of the structure from where the fire (originally) was. Running hose lines 500+ feet isn't really an option (the friction loss over that length means you don't have enough water pressure for an effective fire stream).
You can be sure that content creators will expand their media density to fill the available capacity.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19673773.
Depends on how expensive the settlement will be. :)
Keep in mind that you are criticizing this from the perspective of a game culture that defines this is bad. But that culture didn't exist yet and games like this were part of the early process of creating it.

Players put up with it because this hadn't been defined as "bad" yet. The whole field of what games could and could not expect players to do was wide open.

It's a bit like criticizing Georges Méliès's "A Trip to the Moon" for having poor character development and a weak third act. Those expected aspects of film structure hadn't even been invented yet.
This is fantastic and fascinating... you need to write this up into a longer article - I want to hear more details!
Wouldn't that be like saying any nation-state who engages in foreign trade is at a massive disadvantage in conflict? Sure there may be some vulnerabilities but what they get from it likely outweigh it massively. Not to mention implicit allies of interlinked relationships - mess with them and their trading partners won't be happy.

Nation-states also fight with their economies - especially in conflicts protracted enough that production capacity becomes significant.
You either trust both when they are nearly in agreement or disengage any autopilot type system like the mcas. The engineering solution is three sensors voting on agreement and disregarding the one that is out of agreement with the other two.
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This is a very good point. Full-causal relationships. With something magic like this, science really will not be happy until it's 10 out of 10.

Probably diet, pharmacology, genetics, biome, and beliefs are important, but there's no studies. That would be interesting.

I think the human factor also comes into play. Somehow because it's obviously useful, and a human ability, it makes people treat it differently than if we could train a machine or an AI to do it. If there was a psychic AI machine that got 7 out of 10, using some quantum entanglement stuff, everyone would be losing their minds to research and improve it. But as soon as it involves humans, the scholars lose their verve.
Propper Motion is usually the greater of the two effects that cause stars to appear in different places. So it's not quite so simple.
Very excited for this release! GLFW is part of the foundation for a UI framework we're building called Revery [1] and there are several features in 3.3 that will be useful for us - transparent framebuffers, headless backend via OSMesa (important for CI / automation), and high-DPI improvements.

GLFW takes a lot of the pain out of cross-platform GPU development, and I've found the API simple and intuitive to work with. For those looking to play with it - the LearnOpenGL tutorial series [2] is excellent, and uses GLFW for managing a window and getting an OpenGL context.

Thank you maintainers for your work on it!

- [1] Revery: https://github.com/revery-ui/revery

- [2] LearnOpenGL: https://learnopengl.com/Getting-started/Creating-a-window
Japan Strikes First in Exascale Supercomputing Battle