skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you want to know why America has such shitty infrastructure (especially cities like San Francisco where the density should warrant it), here is Exhibit A. Environmental studies, aesthetic objections,[1] fake health concerns, etc. In the 4.6 years Americans spend to prepare the average Environmental Impact Statement for an infrastructure project, Europeans can build city-wide subway systems or tunnel through mountains.

Other countries are not going to hold up 5G deployment over fake health concerns. If we don't want 5G to be yet another area, like transit and roads, where the US lags woefully behind Europe and Japan, we must fight such distractions.

[1] Remember when San Francisco held up AT&T fiber deployment in the city for years with a lawsuit about ugly fiber boxes? https://stopthecap.com/2011/06/29/san-francisco-still-in-sta...
24FPS is chosen because of the work it engages the brain in; it's a sweet spot between seeing film and seeing a series of pictures.
Why would using the best means/technology available to us at the time make us "idiots"?

Were primitive hunters "idiots" for using crude (only by modern standards of course) sharpened sticks/stones instead of rifles?
When LTE came out in India, I noticed my service provider (Airtel) deliberately slowing down HSPA+.

Plus, I am pretty confident that the speeds that I actually get didn't change by a huge factor when the transition happened. If anything they got slower because of congestion, due to the amazing price drop and crazy increase in user adoption.
24 fps might be arbitrary (could have been 23 or 26 or close), but it's a mighty fine standard for achieving the desired motion blur.

We don't want ultrasharp moves (as in 60 fps for example), and we don't want a blurry mess either.

This is a parameters directors control for, and is an artistic choice, and aside from very fast action and sports, 60 fps looks like crap.

It's not about what one is "used to" in seeing in cinema either. Real life also has inherent "motion blur" which we still want present in a film. Try moving your hands fast in front of your eyes...

People wanting "a proper standard in 2019" are like those programming newbs that heard that assembly is faster in their freshman year, so think that we should rewrite everything in assembly.

Higher != better always. Also a reason we don't get speakers that can push 200 dB (surely better than a puny 100-120 dB right?)
Great..! Surely I will look into this Teachr.
Thanks you so much for the share.
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That is copying the original frames pixel for pixel. Motion smoothing involves interpolation heuristics (if you're lucky) between two original frames, creating an artificial frame that the film creator never intended nor vetted.
Most people, actually.
Using drones could work I guess?
Old joke: A hitchhiker, looking for a ride late at night, gets into a car that is traveling very slowly. Once in, he realizes the car has no driver! Soon, the car going very slowly up a hill, reaches a graveyard.

At this point, the hitchhiker jumps out of the car and flees in terror. He looks back and sees someone getting into the car. He yells back "Don't get in!! That car is haunted!". The person getting in replies, "It can't be, I've been pushing it uphill for the last hour".
Sensible defaults, oh where did I heard that from?
The radiation and cancer concern is categorically different than "not in my backyard".

If you can't see that these are totally unrelated, then I don't know what to say.

Fiber lines are completely different than "hey these rats that are constantly exposed to 5G radiation that's 20 yards away are acting all messed up".
> and aside from very fast action and sports, 60 fps looks like crap.

Lots of people disagree, that's why youtube is full of interpolated 60 fps music videos and 60 fps live performances.
This is similar to what happened in some ways: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_Pet%C3%A...

However, the Maya still survive today, so the conquistadores didn't kill all of them; all but one of the Maya cities had fallen before the arrival of the conquistadores (as the article mentions, the sacrifices at the particular site profiled ended in 900, over six centuries before the Spanish conquest); it isn't clear that the conquistadores knew about the Maya history of human sacrifice; it isn't clear that the conquistadores had any qualms about killing people they saw as fully human, or indeed abusing them in a wide variety of creatively sadistic and depraved fashions.

One of the key sources is Bartolomé de las Casas; this translation is readable but the extensive prefaces about how Catholicism is evil may give you some idea of the difficulties in getting an objective account of what really happened. If you can read Spanish, the original may be easier to read, because English has changed a lot more since that time.

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/20321/pg20321-images.htm...
Can rural iPhone users manually disable mmWave radios on their local devices, since there will be no use for the beamforming receiver outside of urban areas?

On a related topic, 6Ghz WiFi (unlicensed and unmetered) is needed for AR glasses which won't have the battery power for cellular service, https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/7/23/20707456/6...

> Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, HP, Qualcomm, Intel, Broadcom, and Marvell ... are petitioning the FCC to approve a new Very Low Power (VLP) category of Wi-Fi where small, low-power devices like smartphones that transmit below a certain power threshold (14 dBm EIRP) could traverse the 6GHz spectrum ... short-range, point-to-point connections between two devices — think within a room, not across your house. The letter suggests they could deliver 2Gbps at a distance of 3 meters

Short-range 6Ghz VLP WiFi would reduce WiFi congestion in urban areas, where dozens of 2.4Ghz WiFi routers can be visible.
Calling people "human garbage" and throwing an tantrum does not magically make scarcity disappear.
Sweden can't develop a fifth generation fighter airplane. It's just too expensive.
> To be fair Amazon actually sells bags of dirt

Amazon sell literal dirt? Why? What does anyone buy that for?
I agree that it's a problem, but a constant 24fps is also inconsistent in how much blur it produces. 24fps is fine for a static talking scene, but as soon as the camera moves everything turns blurry and jerky looking. That harms my immersion just as much as inconsistent motion smoothing.
great insight, seems like every ponzi scheme has its expiration date.
Ask HN: What are some guidelines for good passwords
I'm looking to establish some password guidelines for my organization.

Trying to find the balance between secure enough, and not so strict that the guidelines are prohibitive and lead to abandonment.

Is there a sweet spot?
is it really? Not doubting, but looking for a reference. The balloon has to get to 65,000 ft. So launches are covered?
With flagship phone sales plummeting, the industry hopes 5g will save them. I really don’t know anyone that has told me they want or need 5g. With current draconian data plans of just a few gb what use would 5g be to the average consumer?
Half of people are taller than the median height, not (necessarily) the average height.
I guess you could make and program your own with an ESP8266.
LibreOffice handlers defend suite's security after 'unfortunately partial' patch
Meritless aesthetic concerns and fake health concerns are in the same bucket. It's just ways to hold up progress. (And in this case, NIMBYs are seizing on fake health concerns to reinforce their case against deployment because they think the base stations are ugly.)
> If we don't want 5G to be yet another area, like transit and roads, where the US lags woefully behind Europe and Japan

I don’t necessarily disagree with the crux of your point about infrastructure. However, in the case of 5G, why do we need to “beat” other countries? What’s the rush?

Great article from The Verge titled “Wait, why the hell is the ‘race to 5G even a race?” https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/23/18637213/5g-race-us-leade...
Millennials make 6 figure salaries but have no clue how to manage their money
Change my mind! Most people I talk to look at investing as if it's a liberty but growth of your spare income is as fundamental as managing your debt or costs, yet few people look at it like that. What is the biggest hurdle here?
When you see dirt around you in the world what is usually used for? Who uses it and are there other uses that occur out of sight but which are fundamentally essential for human survival?
the cameras are all made by Huawei, so they probably get a live feed anyway :)
JS, like Java, now has implementations that will also store strings as Latin1 when the implementation believes it is safe to do so. This results in significant memory savings [1] in most programs.

1. https://blog.mozilla.org/javascript/2014/07/21/slimmer-and-f...
Plenty of us are using the latest technologies to push our particular domains forward but we aren’t writing blogs or evangelizing. This doesn’t mean we are in the dark. It just means we get stuff done. It doesn’t mean we don’t have skills. What it does mean is I don’t need google or stack overflow to write my code for me. I can solve my own problems thank you.

So, I think I am pretty well balanced.
Probably a bit off topic, but here is voice actress Tomoko Kaneda in a "ghost taxi" skit on the Japanese TV show Monitoring[0].

[0]https://youtu.be/IdFuMsRrzj8

(and yes just in case anyone's wondering, that reaction is completely staged...)
Also discussed here (different article on the same story):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20592016
Can the teams at Google experience processes where they talk to their customers, iterate, talk to customers, iterate again and move fast and break stuff - releasing at each step of the way and measuring their intended A/B/C tests?

I suspect a company like that has committees and subcommittees and review processes and 100 layers of bureaucracy before anything even gets done

I bet there are projects that reached a production version and never saw the light of day because of this very reason
I think it is perceptual but not that specific to the medium. A faster frame rate “feels” closer to reality and the 24fps frame rate is far enough from reality that it’s easier to perceive as “something else” which allows fiction or dramatic content to be perceived differently. I tend to agree with that conception of it. The idea that when the frame rate gets high enough to not be noticeable then the brain treats it more as a real world perception and the standard is higher so it is more harshly judged and ends up seeming as lower quality reality instead of fantasy mode.
Perhaps, but that is an extreme exception, so it follows that it has basically zero impact on why mosques are segregated.

In the early days of Islam, women were fairly independent. For example, the Prophet’s first wife was a prominent merchant and much wealthier than he was. One of his other wives, Aisha, was an extremely respected narrator of Hadith, even after his death.

Things changed slightly over time as: (1) local cultures mixed with the religion and (2) different branches of thought arose, each with their own interpretations and understanding of the religion. This, combined with the dominance of patriarchal societies in the region, led to women having fewer chances to participate in the workforce.
I don't get it, what's the "debate"? According to the article there is literally no advantage to motion smoothing. When motion smoothing is off, if the video is shot at high frame rates, like TV or sports, it displays them that way as people like, and if the video is of film at 24 fps, it displays it like that as people also prefer. The article seems to try to engineer controversy by vaguely hinting that sales could be lost if smoothing weren't on for certain key edge cases, like in-store demos, but that's not the case. So the question is why is ti default at all, what's the issue?
Cool. Anyone know how they make diagrams like those?
go to reddit and post it there, I mean reddit is perfectly fine for this time of sh-postings. r/beamazed, r/woahdude, r/mildlyinteresting

do we really need another reddit here?
>Real life also has inherent "motion blur" which we still want present in a film.

The inherent motion blur is always there no matter what frame rate you chose. You watch movies with your eyes, and you can't exceed the capabilities of them. The problem with low frame rates like 24fps is the additional motion blur it adds over that inherent motion blur.
Extraordinarily thick organic light-emitting diodes solve nagging issues
I’ve no idea why anyone would need to use dirt. You’ll have to explain like I’m five, sorry.
If there is a real threat to the environment (I have no idea if there is) this is a big problem. There's a lot riding on the 5G infrastructure.

For Example:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/22/tech/5g-first-responders/inde...
Brex's PR firm certainly seems to be earning their keep. This is the third or fourth article about Brex that 'wasn't about Brex' I've seen on HN in the last couple of months.
> Aristotle had suggested his students keep scrolls of notes from their studies, organized by subject, so that they could return at will to any topic’s “place.” Renaissance-era teachers resurfaced this idea, and by the 17th century, students at Oxford were required to keep “commonplace books,” organized notebooks stuffed with useful texts from elsewhere.

I do organize by topic/title with Bear App, previously I was using simplenote, both use plain text, but Bear has markdown and it is beautifully implemented.

Just to give an example, I have a "page" with a "Postgres" title filled code snippets, URLS, articles, hyperlinks to other "pages" and my own notes. From time to time I came back to these notes, to add or read content.
>100% agreed. 24fps is far too low for fast motion. People in the industry talk about "art" to justify their low frame-rate, but I don't believe them for a moment.

Yeah, armchair critics know more than artists and movie industry professionals...

And 100 million + movie budgets have "sloppy technique" to hide with "low" 24 fps frame rates, whereas your imaginary movies will have good technique to justify higher fps.

(In fact directors shoot with different shutter speeds to get the artistic motion capture they like to have -- from regular real-life like motion blur at 180 degree shutter, to fine motion for action scenes. The frame rate is not the determining factor here).

Not to mention that beside the unrealistic "I'm on cocaine" look, higher frame rates mean dimmer images and more noise -- but it's not like people wanting "higher" understand those things, they just know "higher is always better", and they get their understanding from video games...
It always baffled me as a native Chinese speaker that 16-bit was ever considered enough to “be plenty of room to encode every script in modern use, and then some”. Common local encodings like Big5 (also 16-bit fixwidth) was already suffering from serious lack of code points at that time. It would be obvious if they consulted literally any experienced programmer from East Asia. Yeah, that was 1990 so it’s not an easy thing to do by any means, but you’d expect more from someone aspiring to create such thing.
But reality is the complete opposite.
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Take it with a pinch of salt. The express is a shitrag
"its narrative" - what does that even mean?
The S-400 is just objectively better than anything US is selling. The possibility of Patriot having a US killswitch is an afterthought if it was considered at all. It's also equally probable that the S-400 has a Russian killswitch.

The actual motivation for Turkey to pick the S-400 was entirely political. They are signalling allegiance to Russia. The US is now cancelling Turkey's F-35 order in response.
And if China nationalizes US technology nobody will trust it either. No sane company would invest there in that scenario. I think whoever takes drastic action first would lose trust of third parties. Anyway, I don't think it's going to go that far, too much collateral damage.
Did you read the Quora answer or are you replying to the title?
An industry standard media meta data interface for motion smoothing would be the best solution. It may not necessarily make it to the TV industry though. Although industry standards have been made and adopted widely before (such as USB) there are plenty of other standards that have failed to be adopted (FireWire) despite technological superiority (data rates). The standard didn’t really give a company much advantage by adopting it, USB worked well enough for most use cases and Apple wanted too much in royalties.

Ultimately any decision a company makes is about money. From the article “It’s meant to create a little bit of eye candy in the store”. TV companies think Motion smoothing increases sales. It doesn’t matter what film directors say about it.

The reality is that TV manufacturers are making a commodity, they don’t want to be. No one wants to sell a commodity, there’s no money in it. It’s a constant race to the bottom on price. That’s why we see 3D TVs, curved TVs and a myriad of gimmicks. Everyone wants to differentiate themselves. If there’s a new industry standard that makes consumers and content creators happy, who cares? If I hire an engineer to implement it will it be worth it?
Lots of people also think McDonalds is the best food, and Drake is a genius, so there's that...
A simpler alternative to LiveReload (trigger reload of a web page in a browser)
For those that are familiar with the service are they really mostly/only focused on companies that have outside investment?

From glancing at their literature it seemed like their gig was lending money to companies that actually already had the money in the bank, like providing company spending cards to a startup with a few million in VC money sitting somewhere.

Is that correct or do they lend to companies with more traditional economics, like a bootstrapped company with a million or two in annual revenue but without major cash reserves or investment?
Doesn't really matter if I have a remote job or not I'll pick Berlin
>fake health concerns

Can you explain why it is fake? Non-ionizing radiation does have an effect on us. Just because it isn't melting our organs doesn't mean that we aren't effected negatively by it. The independent research shows this, doesn't it?
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This. I wonder why those who worked there and were party to to it were not prosecuted in some way for their part in the deceit. They allowed it to continue by not whistleblowing the issues. They should be charged somehow.
Funny story: in the 80s the Iraqis were our allies and we (the British) sold them a bunch of kit, including their camouflage uniforms.

In the first Gulf War happened and the British forces deployed in regular temperate camo. Everyone assumed it was because the supply chain was incompetent but the real story was it was too risky to fight in the same kit as the Republican Guard!
Atmospheric homeostasis by and for the biosphere: the gaia hypothesis (1974)
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It's interesting that you, of all things, chose cilantro for your simile, when there are indications that dislike for cilantro is actually primarily genetic[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriander#Taste_and_smell
A clear indicator that Apple is focusing on markets other than the US.

5g is deploying in China and India and soon in a lot of countries in SE Asia.

The consumption of mobile bandwidth is literally through the roof. Netflix having a 2.5$ monthly mobile-only plan in India is a clear signalling of that.
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That's all I was saying. 5G is not like other infrastructure such as roads or tunnels or fiber lines. It's a "nice to have". So why can't we do more research and prove ME wrong?

I would love to be proven wrong.
I was under the assumption, that Linux and Mac OS (size of(wchar_t)==4, ergo UCS-4, because it was clear from the beginning, that 16bit won't do it. A compromise "only" windows and java was willing to make. But they went out all the way through the stack.

Linux goes for byte stream encoding (e.g utf-8), because it isn't (/wasn't) doing any string processing. So, encoding efficiency beats algorithmic complexity of string operations. If you need an algorithmic more efficient encoding, that's up to your application, and ucs-4 was the way to do it.
I went from waiter -> self-educated SW engineer founding own startup -> sold startup -> Google. (Been on 3 teams, all of which shipped to match HW deadlines)

The only thing noteworthy about Google is _there is no process_.

Hell, just last week, a coworker and I finally resolved a year-long difference of opinion when it clicked for him that there wasn't a defined system, insomuch as there was one I was defining it, and I was thrilled to have someone else help with that.
The people aware of the acquisition price (or that an acquisition even took place) are likely 3-4 orders of magnitude fewer than the amount of people by which it grew since. Also they were most likely either already users, or were already not using it consciously, and the news wouldn’t sway this. Actually I know of (quite) a few people who removed the app they day Facebook bought it, and now actively preach against it with their acquaintances. It’s actually mostly due to them that I now have Viber, Threema, Telegram and Signal too.
Interesting! I helped start an ISP in Central Mass in the mid-90s and at least part of the reason we picked the town we did for our POP was because it reached a ton of towns as a local call. For whatever reason, calling the next town over in a different area code was even considered a local call. Great memories from this era!
For one thing, 5G is going to be necessary to fully realize things like augmented reality, self-driving cars, and other industries that will make significant economic contributions. Getting started earlier on those is better.

For the other--it's embarrassing. I'm embarrassed that Copenhagen is building a massive new subway system extension for the same money it's costing my state (Maryland) to build a single suburban light rail line. It indicates moral shortcomings of the citizenry--inability to set priorities, inability to cooperate, selfishness, complacency, etc. Same thing with 5G, but add gullibility and hypochondria to the mix.
Well, the fallout of our future, like micro plastic garbage on the other hand, is pretty evenly distributed ..

Or climate change in general, even though it will hit some areas harder, while others might even get better of.
Normal distribution of logarithmic dryness, then.
They did not build alternatives for people. They social engineered people to do what they wanted them to do.
They slapped ridiculous taxes on cars and forced people to seek other means of transportation.

Then they made it difficult and unaffordable to park in the city and built those extensive bike lanes.

To me as someone who grew up in a communist country reeks of communism.

Dont take me wrong I am not saying cars are necessary but having a car to me equals having the freedom of choice.

Now I live in Seoul and I usually commute by taking the subway but If I need to go to a district that is not in the vicinity of the extensive subway network in Seoul I take the car. It's fast and reliable.
The mayans also had a record of their horror of the way the spaniards freely used pain and torture. It was (bar a few exceptions) not something mayans did. They found it appalling.
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