skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real end game of the race to 5G is increased unavoidable surveilance on the general population.

5G won't provide better speeds as much as increased bandwith. Instead of IoT devices requiring a connection to your WiFi network (and thus your consent) to phone home, they will send your data over 5G, with sim cards paid for by selling your data to advertisers.

Ubiquitous internet access has a lot of exciting potential but inevitably it will make the mass surveillance problem even worse
Hard to say that Trump actually thinks through his actions. It seems more likely he's having Alzheimer's related fits and is just a habitual liar.
They should look into whether they can base it on object capabilities, if they haven't already done that. I think things like sandstorm.io (and others, see: https://github.com/dckc/awesome-ocap ) are the future of distributed systems.
> So what should one do when one finds themselves being turned into roadkill under the wheels of someone else's socially useful fiction?

Most people believe that they, and they alone are the guardians of universal truth. Ries and Trout really hit the nail on the head when they discuss the folly of trying to change a mind.

“You want to change something in a computer? Just type over or delete the existing material. You want to change something in a mind? Forget it.” ―Ries and Trout, The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

“The mind, as a defense against the volume of today’s communications, screens and rejects much of the information offered it. In general, the mind accepts only that which matches prior knowledge or experience.” ―Ries and Trout, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind
Two points:

1. The article's point is that the "The Race to 5G is BS" and not "5G is BS". Please adjust.

2. I can try to offer an answer to the author. History has shown that a novel piece of technology often leads to innovation. Dial-up led to BBNs and the Web, broadband led to audio and video content delivery, and so on. Winning the "race to 5G" means the US will be the first to innovate in systems that take advantage of faster wireless broadband networks. That's important. IMO.
Speed Watching, one year later
Personally, I am a big believer in doing one thing really well rather than a lot of things kinda ok.

I can't speak to how easy it is to use nexus for managing npm packages, but I can say that it is really straightforward with verdaccio. I think the best argument for using it is simply setting it up and trying it out.

There's a bunch of ways to install it depending on your infrastructure and you should be up and running in < 15 minutes. Personally I like using docker: https://verdaccio.org/blog/2019/05/13/the-new-docker-image-v...

Let me know what you think!
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Best analogy so far +1
I buy Samsung, and now a Pixel, because I like their design better. (Much prefer the experience of the Pixel now) The price difference is a non-issue for me because I don't feel the need for the latest model, so I get last year's model at > 50% off the premium price. I'm with you: I'm astounded that so many people pay such a premium for the absolute bleeding edge. It would be like if enormous segments of PC buyers purchased massively high end gaming rigs just because. Marketing, I guess?
AI Trained on 100M Opinions Can Predict What People Will Think of Your Photos
I understand that estimates are important and I give estimates. But recently in my company it’s fashionable to talk about “commitments” and I won’t give those. In my view this is just a way to get overtime and weekend work out of people once things fall behind so they meet their commitments. I commit to do my work as best as i can but I can’t commit to work overtime because of issues that are often out of my control.
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This Q has me projecting into the future and thinking how I'd like to be treated and what's likely to mess me up when I am 75... Probably something like getting a virus in my Oculus and not realizing I'm not interacting with reality or something. Lucid dream tests may come in handy at that point...

Anyways, FWIW I've told my mom to always ask to call back if the bank or other financial groups call. And then to either 1) call the number on her physical card or google it and call that number.
Jacques Vallee, a noted computer scientist in his own right, is one of the best reads if you're interested in this stuff. He's not a crackpot and doesn't seem to be pushing an agenda one way or another.
Android is, as all US technology, a counterparty risk.
Because the freedom to express my point of view is important to me.
An additional possibility is that some factions within the u.s. govt are well aware of and use the tech but for some unknown reason a decision was made to finally soft disclose it to the public.

Supposing that the videos are genuine, there is some serious, paradigm shifting tech on display here. It's my hope that this is being shown to the public so that the cat comes out of the bag and it forces the people sitting on the tech to come clean.

The military industrial complex is a deep and complicated network, who knows what kinds of complex power struggles happen under the noses of the general public.
Ehhh, my opinion is that 5G is bullshit for consumer internet. Actual 4G (as opposed to whatever your carrier has in your area) is supposed to be capable of up to gigabit speeds, but that's obviously not happening many places, if anywhere due to a variety reasons. However, even so, 4G with good implementation and penetration would be fast enough to stream or download anything reasonable on mobile devices for quite a few years yet.

5G, however, is not bullshit for IoT. If you've ever tried to build an IoT device that uses 4G, you know it generally sucks. 5G will, if they actually build to the flashy spec, fix a lot of issues around latency, cost, and power to send/receive "thing" data.
now it is even worse.

before we had the big 4 and everyone had them at their home. now you have big 3 and everyone have one or another. or at most 2.

and this is untill the big one dominate (like google did with search). which is the end game for all of them.

the true solution is payments direct to the content creators, and the hosting providers being a cost for them.
This is the big one imo. 4g is so fast compared to data caps that it might as well be unlimited speed because downloading anything big enough to make the speed matter would use your entire months data allowance in minutes.

Until data caps are significantly higher I don't see 5g as anything other than a marketing name from people who want to sell new phones.
Thank you; that link further corroborates that the EU has its origins in (the re-emergence of) peace-time prosperity and between fully capable nations. There was no risk of a war between Germany and France when the ECSC was proposed.
"ahh-gee-lay! must be italian!"
Only because a proportional representation system is used.

Back in 2009 Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons were elected as MEP's for one term. After that the BNP's vote dwindled and they lost their seats.
They trained this model on Youtube videos. I'd be surprised if whatever fine differences goatees may induce didn't get crushed away by Youtube's lossy compression.
You should probably relay this information to those spending huge amounts in advertising.
Ok, can you give me one example?
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> A witty retort may be in order

I don't think this will score you a lot of points.
A ledger should be a database with only select and insert privileges. eg. No update or delete queries should be allowed.
If you're currently the defacto CEO, this is going to be a lonely thing to do, but you might need to be the one to set the example of optimism in your work. That doesn't mean you need to appear upbeat and happy, but your friends/coworkers could use your help here. Even if you don't feel optimistic internally, rather than giving up, perhaps after making sure investors and customers know what's going on and a short break, you should set the example of moving forward (I intentionally don't say "moving on", which is thankfully not a prerequisite for moving forward). This doesn't have to be the end of this company. I don't know what moving forward looks like for you right now, and you probably don't either, but the best thing for your employees is to see you optimistically giving it a go (again, you don't have to be happily doing it, that's not really what I mean by optimistic)

My condolences, I wish you the best in this difficult time.
Er...

"Vallée proposes that there is a genuine UFO phenomenon, partly associated with a form of non-human consciousness that manipulates space and time. The phenomenon has been active throughout human history, and seems to masquerade in various forms to different cultures. In his opinion, the intelligence behind the phenomenon attempts social manipulation by using deception on the humans with whom they interact."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Vallée
The information in the article is vague. It could be just them selling equipment to the government or it could be security related. US tech companies also routinely work with spy agencies if that's something.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-d...
We are ants. It's no risk.
that's very clever, and I'm sure the ~42 people who get to see the entire stream of tweets will be very persuaded by it. And since most of those people work in media, it may even lead to an article which might be read by a few thousand people.

Don't get me wrong: I think online "propaganda" can be effective - just not on Twitter, because of its scale and primary audience.

But because Twitter is more transparent it gets analysed more. I guess you could make the argument that the same people are doing the same things on FB and Whatsapp, but it's difficult to see how those messages propagate so well.
The most salient truth about power is that it cannot be disciplined, except by greater power.

Here's the thing: I have been lucky enough to work with engineer-founders as my bosses for most of my career. You know what the downsides are? None. It's just pure awesome.

It's getting to the point that they're the only people I want to work for.
It did not seem dragged out, it was just thorough, and reasonably un-rushed. It was somewhat tiring, but definitely worth it.

By the end of the planning meeting, we had a clear idea of what we were going to accomplish, and a reasonable amount of confidence that we considered all the tasks that went into our plan.

Because when a story was, e.g. "add addresses to the clients page", it was broken down, discussed, thought out, and agreed upon. The moments when I discovered, oh shit, this story will actually take 10 hours longer than I had allocated, and now I have to stay until 10PM two days this week to meet my committment. Because our story points were approximately an hour each, and almost every story was broken down until there were no tasks more than 3 points each, 1 or 2 preferred.

It was all thanks to our scrum-master/project manager, who had actually spent a lot of time learning about scrum/agile/kanban/etc, read many books on it, and most of all, was committed to doing it right.

I think our sprints were a bit longer than 2 weeks.
I'm expecting higher costs for the consumer, increased data plan costs, new phones, less coverage. All sounds positive to fund these new networks nobody is asking for.
5G boxes will be on "every street" meaning that real-time triangulation of devices and thus citzens will have exact precision. Whoever wins the race to 5G will be the one who writes the protocol and thus it will be tailored for their backdoors in the code. The US wants their backdoors in the code, not China's.
Yes, that's it. So simple, so powerful.
I can think of one person who rode the Rich Jerk shtick all the way to the highest office in the US. There is a large population of less than sophisticated individuals, even today.
Nah. That would be INITCOMMONCONTROLSEX. And the related LVM_SORTITEMSEX, DDSCAPSEX, and of course MPR_CREDENTIALSEX_0.
Doesn’t look like The NY Times website is delivering much of anything..
If they have that sort of capability then the fighter aircraft would have appeared to be in slow motion to them.
Don't delete and resubmit.

Also this is definitely not a good frame.
Love your illustration/depiction of an unmoderated online cesspit. Would you like to donate your mind so that we can create the ultimate 4chan poster AI? /joke
I would imagine that rotation implies the objects are all orbiting in roughly the same direction (eg. Clockwise) counterclockwise). It's possible that a group of objects (likely captured) would be orbiting in a very disorganized way.
> software engineers would dearly love this to be true

No we really wouldn’t. What I’d dearly love to be true is lots & lots of people to be given the opportunity to try the basics of writing software & the more complex stuff to be taught more plainly.

Even at the outer edges of the industry complexity spectrum we gatekeep way too much.
I would quit for sure.

There are plenty of details missing, but the bottom line is that you should have no doubts.

If I were paying $35,000 USD a semester and were not absolutely loving it and/or confident this was the best decision of my life.... I would quit.

Two years and $35,000 X 4 = $140,000 debt is A pretty serious opportunity costs to me.

Run.
It's pretty hard to get objective and accurate count here; unlike Nazis, Soviets (and I imagine Chinese et al) did not keep meticulous accounting even of people specifically executed, let alone of those keeling over in prison camps despite technically being only sentenced to imprisonment). Solzhenitsyn himself said, at least initially, that his numbers are extremely approximate, based on what personal research he could do and that he hopes future historians will do better.

Having said that, 60 million killed in USSR alone would seem highly suspicious. 60 million repressed sounds quite feasible. And as Stalin would acknowledge (death of one is a tragedy, death of millions is statistics), in a way it doesn't really matter -- communists killed as many, if not significantly more, people as Nazis, but because they usually did it to their own population, and weren't defeated by an invading army, they escaped anything resembling Nuremberg Tribunal, and to this day Nazi defenders keep quiet in decent society, but Soviet apologia is pretty rampant.
It was an earlier generation, but my grandfather, who was a respected scientist in his field, fell victim to "Fox geezer syndrome" in his final years. I have no idea how much money various Fox-adjacent advertisers scammed out of him.

Fortunately, my parents have never had much interest in Facebook, preferring to socialize with real friends in real life. They have their own bubble to some extent, but it's way less toxic than any online version.
"A number of positive reviews for this business originated from the same IP address. Our automated recommendation software has taken this into account in choosing which reviews to display, but we wanted to call this to your attention because someone may be trying to artificially inflate the rating for this business."

Ok the reviews were obviously fake if they came from the same IP. Seems highly unlikely that several people from the same building would have just happened to use the same law firm and all write glowing 5 star reviews.

I think that all review sites should require some sort of verification from a reviewer that you actually were a customer of the business.
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There's also a factor in how modern email clients display messages. Gmail, Apple mail, etc show the first few words of the text alongside/under the subject.

Am I more likely to open an email that says "[subject] Have you heard about how cloud services can reduce..." -or- "[subject] Does that time work for you?"

(Disclaimer: neither, please stop emailing me about your amazing cloud services and how it will save me money.)
This is a very thoughtful and well-reasoned piece, with the money line right at the end:

> My worry, and I hope I’m wrong here, is that on average, adding more housing units just makes this cycle spin faster. (Unless you could add SO MANY housing units that you could actually break through the wedge, that is. But that seems to me like it’d be hard to do! That would also be quite unpopular locally, as it would undermine an awful lot of locally built up wealth, and any move to do that is usually unviable politically.)

I’m strongly in the pro-building camp, but I agree that it won’t be enough unless you could build enough housing to break through the pent-up demand, and doing so would be challenging in the superstar cities.

Living in San Francisco, I suspect that if you could magically add a million new housing units this year, they’d sell. (I do think that would be enough to make a dent in prices, but with the entire state of California so deficient in housing I don’t know how big the dent would be.)

The more important point that he makes is about the self-reinforcing positive feedback loop that drives homes as a financialized investment vehicle.

There’s an easy, but politically unviable, fix for this, in the form of high taxes. The taxes strictly reduce the rate of return on your house, while conveniently paying for public services, and building in a self-interested reason to oppose ever-increasing home prices.

It’s no surprise that the housing crisis is less acute in Texas where the property tax is high, and most acute in CA where the rate is very low AND assessment are effectively static.

I think that serious discussions of how we address the housing crisis must include not only increasing supply but also breaking the positive feedback loop on housing as a high-return investment in the hot economic centers.
Cool. Are there any solutions for making the audio less squirrely sounding? Lately I’ve found myself using closed caption at 2.5X to avoid the audio entirely...
Everything2: Original writing, not a bulletin board
That’s like arguing that improvements in mobile CPUs don’t matter because if you continuously pegged your CPU, you’d quickly run out of battery. Most consumer usage is bursty. In the era of single web pages that take up 5-10MB, going from 30 Mbps to 300 Mbps offers a marked improvement in user experience.
Hmm, it's possibly more the font, your system's font rendering, and/or your display than the colour.

It's an easy pass for WCAG AA with 5:1 contrast ratio, but I think it's marginal for WCAG AAA as it's about 20px in size, but not bold.

If you're finding that hard on the eyes it might pay to check your display's brightness with a colorimeter. Most displays are far too bright out of the box.
This just almost happened to me and my family. My parents are pushing 70 but still try to keep up with things. My father decides he wants to call PayPal regarding a return request from eBay. I'm in the room and "PayPal" tells him they need to go to a secure line and he needs to download an app. That's really strange I think, but generally scams are from phone calls to you, not you making the call. So I remain skeptical but don't immediately act. They want him to install TeamViewer which is for remote access. I search online to see if PayPal legit does this, nothing comes up. As the obvious over seas person with a thick accent says "oh is this your bank account?" I rip the phone out of my father's hands. End call, turn off data to end TeamViewer session. Need to turn on data to uninstall it (seriously Android?). Then proceed to have him show me where he got the number. He had searched Google for "phone number for PayPal". Somehow, someone got an ad at the top of that list. So he clicked the ad, not realizing that he's not on PayPal's site. Thank God I just happened to be in the room while on vacation (I live in another state now) when this happened, but what to do moving forward? He actually uses a completely separate bank account for PayPal but he still had a lot of money in there.
You are technically correct. Updated the title.
One data point: FOMA [1] in Japan was the world's first commercial 3G service to launch. Was it the "winner" of that "war"? No, it was basically an incompatible fork of UMTS [2] that in the end was used by nobody except NTT Docomo, who had to retool a few years later at considerable expense to be compatible with the global standard.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Mobile_Multimedia_A...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMTS
Why are chips in the centre plain blue and better?
Can you explain what you mean by not a good frame?
Interesting view. You write: “The reality is that we don't know enough yet to create any sort of working model of the whole human brain and its thinking processes.”

To me, this sentence seems to mean that it may be possible some time down the road to “know enough” and create a complex model of the human brain that’s understandable. There are also some in philosophy who argue that humans may be cognitively closed off to understanding things like the human brain [0]. They note that humans have biological limits to understanding certain things just like an animal might. For instance, an ant, may have biological limits to its understanding of how certain things work.

What do you think of philosophers who argue of cognitive closure?

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_closure_(philosoph....
In response to your linked PDF, there are a multitude of problems that wikipedia lists about the reporting of the incident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Nimitz_UFO_incident#Skepti...
The Paul Valéry statement’s translation is fairly poor. It sounds more like:

“What is simple is always wrong. What is not is unusable”
It’s really no different than winning the supercomputer race; there is no finish line and no end.

I’d rather have the USA take its time and develop mmWave 5G hardware than the lower frequency stuff Huawei is developing, as mmWave is far more interesting, technically.
Just to clarify, this article was not about sales emails, and the tips I offered above were likewise not about reaching out to people I'd never talked to before. They were about following up with people with whom I'd already had substantive conversations that indicated mutual interest.

I think the strategies — and etiquette — for cold outreach emails are totally different.
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Hence, "in theory"
The one issue at stake that I can think of is the manufacture of the underlying hardware infrastructure. The risk associated with relying on hardware manufactured in China for critical infrastructure seems to be of some concern for the US government. It's probably unlikely in any case, but importing Chinese-manufactured 5G modems for phone handsets would potentially pose an issue, so would using Chinese-made hardware for telecom infrastructure.

I don't think this has any bearing on what telecom companies offer consumers, or those other aspects of the '5G race'. Nonetheless, falling behind Asia in developing this technology might have other consequences.
Multi-strings are also pretty common in the registry, see REG_MULTI_SZ.
That's the thing, I don't think everyone needs to view the entire stream of tweets from this "person" for this to be effective. You just need one person to latch on to it and start retweeting it. Then this person's friends see it and don't need much convincing...
AFAIC, the only thing that works with a fixed deadline is a variable scope. Which is basically a tenet of Agile.

The alternative is some sort of sub-iteration hybrid where you attempt to fix deadlines for much smaller units of work and constantly revise.

This is OK for some industries. But 2/3rds of a car doesn't quite sell...
I’ve read L5 autonomous cars are contingent on 5G and others say it’s not a factor. What’s the consensus here?
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