skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traditionally, you have a movie with 2, 5, 7 channels of surround sound to create a 3d soundscape. Artists can manually place sound in those channels. The view perspective is set in stone when you're filming so its easy to place exactly what you want.

In games, you usually have mono sound emitters placed in a 3d world and dynamically mix the sound channels but its still mono sound sources. You hear the same sound in all the speakers but only at different volumes.

3D audio most likely refers to newer audio systems that work with binaural of other multi channel sound sources that account for source and listener position and forward direction. These are getting popular because of VR. Its much easier to mix an ambient soundscape as 3D audio and drop it into a game than to place many emitters.

You can also get some binaural effect now with current sound pipelines (VR games do it) but my guess is in this gen its most likely done with code in the CPU instead of hardware acceleration.
You say that it provides sub-millisecond latency.

-- Keep in mind that I know nothing of nothing.--

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Is the sub-millisecond from repeater to repeater or from origin to final destination that's [n] repeaters away? Won't each repeater introduce its own latency?

What causes the 4G's >50ms response time?
Best Line: Disney established the model for the post-McDonald’s world: Keep it clean, keep it sunny, keep it safe.

America would never be the same.
Having a subwoofer that shakes the literally structure of your house and makes low frequency effects thud into your chest is something that headphones can't replicate. For a movie or really cinemenatic game, I can't imagine headphones being anywhere near the experience.
It’s somewhat needed. 15 dollars a gb is just to raise revenue.

But a truly unlimited 4G hotspot service would crawl to stop during busy periods.

Some sort of rationing is needed.
State sales tax ranges from 0-7%, with a few localities adding a few percentage points in top of it.

VAT ranges from 17% to 27%.
Well... sure. Just as long as you keep in mind that a "not really tested [something]" will very easily get replicated on multiple vendor devices. It's not like they did it because they hate Vendor1 but will make sure to test all the corner cases with Vendor2. Some scenarios will by design ensure you can't have all of them fail because they are not susceptible to the same failure modes. But to compensate you introduce additional failure modes (especially human error) by using a heterogeneous environment. Not to mention the expense.

I was actually hoping for an interesting human independent failure. A cosmic radiation caused bit flip that would occur on a particular device. :) Human error can overcome any setup.
> A report released in January 2018 by an independent forensic team organized by the Assn. of State Dam Safety Officials contended that the dam’s owner, the Department of Water Resources, was “significantly overconfident and complacent about the integrity of its State Water Project civil infrastructure, including dams.”

> The report found that periodic inspections of the spillway failed to identify the original design flaws and the subsequent deterioration of the spillway’s integrity.
Incompetent here. Thanks for your insight, GnarfGnarf.

You might want to read about the Concordat [0], churches in France are owned by the state (except in Alsace and Moselle [1]), they are not privately held .

Also, maybe, a video [2] that was broadcasted a few days ago will give you a better idea of the work that was going on.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordat_of_1801
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concordat_in_Alsace-Moselle
[2] https://www.lci.fr/social/notre-dame-de-paris-un-chantier-mo...
I somewhat agree with you, then I heard something that will give some perspective.

Notre Dame is visited by about 12 Millions people per year, and the access is free (at least to visit the ground floor I think there is a fee to get up in the towers).

And this is because the Church refuses to make people pay to access a place of worship, that should be open to all.

If you compare to other places like the Eiffel Tower, or Versailles, you pay a fee likely around €20-30 to enter. So obviously, these places can afford more easily to be properly maintained or secured. As far as I know the Eiffel tower employs 700 people.

So, yes, rationally, you are right that Notre Dame could have been better maintained or watched, on the other hand the Church is voluntarily ignoring a few tens of millions of revenue every year, because of its ideology.

Sometimes things are not efficient as they could because other considerations are taken into account.
I think the main point of 5g keeps getting missed when people are asking about cell phones and their broadband speed vs capacity etc etc.
The only reason telcos are going to put in 5g is for IOT coverage. Low powered trickle data from billions of devices.

Stuff for your personal cellular use would never come close to covering the costs involved. And 4g will still be used for many years to come for that.
+1 - Another great example of difficult games as parody is I Wanna Be The Guy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wanna_Be_the_Guy). Take all the existing conventions and stereotypes of difficult platform games and exaggerate them to the extreme.
Sure, but more importantly, in the event of war it would grant them a strategic advantage to be able to use the Internet exclusively within their own territory. The Internet as this wild west style free-for-all was never going to survive nation-state conflicts. All countries will eventually do what Russia is doing now, then link together based on treaties and economic agreements. Any country that opts to remain on an open, global Internet is asking for extreme levels of instability and risk.
Yeah I agree it's not intrinsically a left or right issue. It's more about the naive and simplistic design of the current platforms.

I think we'll eventually see a second generation of social media platforms that incorporate the lessons learned from this generation.
Bengio and Marcus at World AI Summit in Montréal
Anyone else bothered by letting YouTube determine what disinformation is?
That's just it, though. If 99% of your mobile internet usage consists of <1MB requests it doesn't matter if you're on 3G,4G,or 5G.
I’m surprised there wasn’t a push to standardize units after this incident:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
And if you're going to bring the fiber most of the way, you might as well terminate it at the premises.
> detect and enforce laws against such bandwidth spillover?

This phenomenon is called adjacent-channel interference and violations can and would be enforced by the FCC. The challenge isn't detection or enforcement, it's the challenge of the different government agencies to balance the people's needs properly.

FCC wants to auction off the spectrum to benefit telcos and their customers. NOAA wants to protect people with accurate predictions of hazardous weather.
Your question presumes that the weather prediction function is more valuable, but the government may not reach that same conclusion.
Is Verizon really that bad? I usually get around 100mbps on TMobile LTE.
> ...but being able to ... have control over what their MacBook is making outbound connections to.

non-issue? simply block out the ports?
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT203609

i dispute the assumption that people don't have control over their computers.
there are literally millions of things anyone of us can do about every aspect of their computer.

> That's a somewhat facetious and unnecessary remark.

You're right and I apologise.
It's not cell phone service, but I get my home internet via 5G from Starry (https://starry.com). Speeds are between 200-300MbS (symmetric upload/download) for $50/mo. It's really been fantastic in the six months or so that I've had it. They've got their own towers and repeaters on buildings here in Boston. Couldn't be happier with them and with being able to ditch Comcast.
but then even more to the point.
Will each country create its own "firewall" ? unlikely.. maybe a new business opportunity arises :P
Fairytrail lets people match on a group tour by Airbnb or TripAdvisor. It's a fun, safe, and economical way for people passionate about exploration to date.

Having lived and worked in 4 countries (also traveling frequently), I figured dating doesn't have to be local. In today's world, people are no longer tied to one location. With the rise of globalization, remote work, and technology, the world is ours to explore.

I wanted to bring new people, cultures, and adventures from around the world to people's lives.

Local dating has very limited diversity and number of singles. First dates are often repetitive, a waste of time, and difficult to plan. There's no effective dating app for frequent travelers (e.g. consultants, sales engineers, flight attendants, digital nomads, truckers, sailors) or people who are open to dating outside their cities.

We want to solve those problems with Fairytrail, a dating app that combines matchmaking and group tours.

Fairytrail lets you: 1) Meet singles outside your city’s bubble. 2) Save time by pre-screening matches by video chat before investing in a date. 3) Enjoy fun, hassle-free adventure dates powered by Airbnb & TripAdvisor in a safe, social environment.

Unlike other dating apps, Fairytrail puts people first, not location. Dating like traveling could be a lot more rewarding when we step outside the backyard.

Please reach out if you have any thoughts or want to chat!
> If Trump had refused to prosecute Bush officials for their crimes, he would not have gotten a pass.

Since Trump has not made any moves to prosecute Bush officials -- and in the case of Gina Haspel, is actually promoting them -- can you come up with an example based in reality?
Google Won't Approve Declared Permissions for a Callback App [GVoice Callback]
Like everyone, I have to submit a Permissions Declarations Form for one of my apps, GVoice Callback, whose sole purpose is to Proxy Calls, which is an approved use case for three sensitive permissions: android.permission.PROCESS_OUTGOING_CALLS (for intercepting call), android.permission.READ_CALL_LOG, android.permission.WRITE_CALL_LOG (for maintaining a correct call log when calls are canceled).

For some reason, Google just won't approve it. Their policy enforcers kept responding that "We couldn’t verify the declared core functionality of your app during our review",despite multiple strenuous efforts to prepare video demos and detailed explanations to demonstrate how my app's core functionality is to Proxy Calls. Asked to clarify what part should be explained more, Google's appeal team simply replied that they could not give a better answer than the same stock, unspecific message I had already received.

Not sure if this is a common experience. I know that task automation, call recorder type of apps have been struggling with this issue, but my app is straight up a call proxy, but they just won't see it. I would think even without the video demo and the additional explanations I gave in my request, it'd be pretty obvious from the store listing (which is the same text here: gvoicecallback_netlify_com/#overview). I'm giving up now...
In regards to the hardware, don't believe the hype until you see it.
Good luck, FYI I think the other comments here are insightful. I believe a mistake we all want to avoid is assuming funding is fractal aka the same at every magnification. Smaller opportunities are handled much differently than bigger ones. The problem is sorting which is which, something everyone (including investors) have trouble determining. So I think it's on us (entrepreneurs) to decide whether we're aiming for the moon or more modest goals. ...and there is NO shame in building a company to millions instead of billions and keeping it all. Also no shame in aiming for the moon and missing (or better yet succeeding). The only thing I'd be ashamed of is letting someone else make or impose the decision on me.
See The Economist cartoon for this week: https://www.economist.com/the-world-this-week/2019/04/13/kal...
I got to know of glfw because a few GUI libs which embed Flutter (in Rust or Go) use it. Maybe it's just a hyperbole, but will this release help those efforts?
There is a lot to be said for understanding types as a kind of test, but performed at development time rather than runtime. And valid for all possible inputs, not just some specific ones.
At least prices in Canada are net, tax is added when paying.
Incanter[1] has been around for a long time and I recently discovered kixi.stats[2]. Links to some other resources can also be found on the Skymind wiki.[3]

[1] http://incanter.org/

[2] https://cljdoc.org/d/kixi/stats/0.5.0/doc/readme

[3] https://skymind.ai/wiki/clojure-ai
> "We don't really have projects like that anymore."

Well, there is the ITER nuclear fusion reactor project. It was planned in the 70ies, construction started in the 90ies, projected construction-finish will probably be around 2025 and the first projected long-term-stable plasma will probably be achieved around 2035. OK 60 years is not 200, but this still is far longer than any other contemporary infrastructure building I can think of.
I give estimates in hours. They're really by days for large projects and half days for smaller projects, but I express them in hours. I then provide a breakdown of the hours the team has been able to spend to date, as well as the hours that each forced interruption took. That way, when my manager asks why he perceives us as being behind on the project, I can tell him exactly how long his pointless meetings and changing priorities have delayed the team. It's also a good CYA technique for when he tries to blame the team when his manager asks why the project is delayed.
It's great to see this. The only issue I have is how replicable this formula is.

I think you can apply a couple of programs and concepts on a large scale to whole communities, but this is a very expensive school with a lot of resources behind it, not to mention a very powerful celebrity endorser who has a lot to lose if this school fails.

There is a small private school that just opened up in my area (about 4 years old). It has a powerful businessman who is the founder. Class sizes are less than 10 kids with two teachers per class. That's about a 5:1 ratio, most public schools would kill for anything better close to 10:1 with most academic classes are 20-30 students for one teacher.

This small private school also has a lot of amenities, like a ton of tech for the students.

While this is a great school, it's just a place for elites to educate their students.

I applaud everyone in this private school and Lebron's school.

I hope we can use some of their ideas and programs to a larger scale.
Good point. I don't see why we ought to bring emotion into it at all. It's obvious people are scared of the researching the topic. That makes them problematic for the science. There needs to be a way to analyse data without bias, similar to how exams are marked without knowing names.
The 10,000 year clock is a relevant contemporary example. Not exactly the same situation, but similarly it's a project that won't be seen to completion by anyone involved in it (if completion means the clock working as intended for 10,000 years).

Also, some of our space missions are like this, e.g. Voyager 1.
C'mon, the Bible is the book of grossly exaggerated stories for moralistic purposes to be charitable. Yeah the authors referred to things that might have happened but they are as reliable as my 4yo retelling his day.
> but the left has plenty of negative messages too. The rich are too rich and don't have to pay taxes, the poor are too poor, racism never completely went away, the corporate world is unfair to women, and so on.

Those are hardly negative, and to equate their tone with far right rhetoric is textbook false equivalency. They are if anything just positions that one may or may not agree with about the just distribution of wealth and opportunity.

None of them are even in same ballpark or kind as the current toxic rhetoric on the far right, such as "[Mexicans] are criminals", "Muslims are trying to impose Sharia law in the US", "blood and soil", "we can't rebuild our civilization with someone else's babies" (that one is paraphrasing from a sitting member of Congress).

That is the rhetoric of racial and ethnic nationalism, which is almost totally a far right phenomenon on social media. There is no equivalent on the far left today, and that's not to say that it can't develop. But to do so with literally require a complete change of the people who make up the left.
It does something, it makes your mobile say 5G on the top. That's worth paying more money for some people.
The re-scanning film point wasn't something I had thought about

Funny they mentioned NTSC being poor quality - I used to know someone who did work with Philips and he said they'd refer to it as Never The Same Color
But the sub millisecond latency is only for local communication, isn't it? Which is most likely not available for most applications that phones use.
Notre Dame Morte.
Viva le Notre Dame.
Report on GPM Microwave Imager Special Study #15: Radio Frequency Interference [pdf]
> Instead, figure out which tasks have the highest uncertainty – those tasks are basically going to dominate the mean time to completion.

From the technical side of things, uncertainty can mean a few things here:

(A) I've never done this kind of task (or I don't remember or didn't write down how long this task took in the past)

(B) I don't know how to leverage my historic experience (e.g., implementing an XYZWidget in React and implementing the same widget in Vue or Elm for some reason take different amounts of time)

Considering (A)... Rarely does a seasoned developer in the typical business situation encounter technical tasks that are fundamentally different than what has been encountered before. Even your bleeding-edge business idea using modern JS' + GraphQL' is still going to be built from the same fundamental pieces as your 1999 CRUD app using SOAP and the estimates are going to be the same.

If you disagree with this you are in the (B) camp or you haven't done the work to track your estimates over time and see how ridiculously accurate estimates can be for an experienced practitioner. Even "soft tasks" like "design the widget" are estimable/repeatable.

This whole you-can't-estimate-software accuracy position is entirely a position of inexperience. And of course all bets are off there. You are talking about estimating learning in this case, not doing. And the bets are especially off if you aren't modeling that these are two different activities: learning and doing.
In this case it seems more like someone in charge, man or woman, thought they were making things better by letting all people access any restroom. Maybe they didn't think it through, or maybe it was a man trying to do the right thing but without consulting any women first. It's clear that women don't want this.
T-Mobile is piloting just that: https://www.t-mobile.com/news/home-internet-pilot

And I hate Comcast. The $50/mo to unlock true unlimited internet was absurd.

I actually cancelled my Comcast last month and went to Century Link. The overall speed is slower, the lack of data cap and being 1/3 of the price has been worth it.

It feels good to no longer be giving them any money, especially after their billing would routinely "forget" discounts that were supposed to be on my account. I got offered free Starz for 3 months and $30 off my bill for the coming year, which just happened to only be there for a month... So after calling them to have the issue fixed once, and then seeing it happen again the very next month, I finally cut ties.
It's called Rain Fade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_fade
Misinformation about the Notre Dame fire spread quickly on social media
Yes. Someone will have to be uncomfortable, and it's better to have people in warmer clothing than smelly. Also, women tend to weather skimpier clothing (short dresses, bare arms, lower-cut lines all around). It's not fair to sweat people out (and, quite frankly, not pleasant for the noses of the cold people) just because many women don't wear full clothing.
I think rspec's Cucumber docs are fine.
https://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-expectations/v/3-8/docs/bu...

It's an executable specification, but it's also in a format which is readable.
If not "documentation", then it's at least "small, verified examples".

I'd find a table of values less readable. I don't mind if a document like this is the output of running the tests themselves, though.
(Obviously, the important details are "input program, expected output", which might not lead you to use Cucumber, but I think it's a fine use of Cucumber).
They noticed that there wasn't a negative Facebook story in the news cycle so they played a rerun
Maybe because you suspect that this brand new something wouldn't necessarily be built to travel through centuries.
Ryzen R1000 SoC offers dual Zen and triple Vega cores with a 12-25W TDP
I've worked on both excellent teams and dysfunctional teams doing contract work for the government. The distinction to be made is size and longevity of the programs involved. For various reasons, large long lasting programs have accumulated rules that prevent anyone from doing anything productive.
And I believe it's $10/50GB you go over the 1tb/month.

Microsoft's One Drive was doing a constant upload/download one week, refreshing itself constantly, costing me $200. Ugh.
I hope that a generation from now we will have learned our lesson, and developed the natural skepticism required to interface with anonymous billions online.
'trust us' by proxy
Abandoned Space Complex – Baikonur
Here we are on a forum with highly educated ppl. talking about what's happening. But what should we do to effect change? It seems to me that some way for us to unite our efforts in some modern internet/technology/mass-communication kinda way might help us break through the barriers to actually making progress. I honestly don't know what that looks like, but I believe if even the ppl. on this thread were able to band together effectively to work on this problem that is whatever-it-is-our-worlds-become I would have hope. I don't know what this "solution" looks like though. A website? A forum? A technology of some form? Unfortunately, I don't think anyone else knows either :(
According to the legend this is Basilique Notre Dame des Victoires [0], not the cathedral.

Still beautiful though !

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Notre-Dame-des-Vic...
Ha. That sounds like my last job except s/2 days/3 hours/.
Meritocracy came to America in a big way starting in the 1950's, propelled by factors such as the space race and the discrediting of racism. It was a good idea. The unforeseen consequence of it was that it displaced the idea that wealth and power gave some additional responsibility to the wealthy and powerful to sustain the fairness of the social contract. When Americans adopted the concept that society ought to reward work of great merit, cause and effect were conflated and those of great wealth and great power were largely liberated from taboos against excessive exploitation, solipsism and hedonism.
It's a non-starter for me because it doesn't seem to have Mobx support. I use mobx to handle my application's state at a global level.
If that 20% isn't for project management, then add another 10-20% for that, based on experience from previous projects for the same stakeholders. My similar rule of thumb is to multiply my estimate by 2.5, before adding the project management percentage. Of course, if it's something we've done before, it's more along the lines of 1.5 to 2.
I guess this is because you need to have a reason to build the thing, a reason congruent with the aspirations and the will of the people living there