skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, it's difficult to slash and burn through the political process with half-baked techie ideas and opaque data collection practices. Not to mention ones requiring huge taxpayer commitments for a project that is way beyond the bleeding edge (at best) or a priori only partially achievable "but let's try it and see" (at worst).

Bureaucracy and elaborate processes slow things down. Every so often, that's a great thing.
This will be used for some niche use, like a closed road for dump trucks to run full time, or on train tracks for electric trains. This is too complex even compared to putting a cable in every parking space that currently exists.
“Indeed, the magnetic fields can transmit electricity through people without them feeling a thing.”

Pretty glib considering the current 5g controversy
The worked out super well in the Soviet Bloc and with section 8 housing.
> Because, contrary to the constant anti-America sentiments shared across social media, the US remains one of the best places to live in the world.

Evidence please? :)
I would expect so, but that's what benchmarks are for!
This is one of the many reasons I keep buying Apple laptops. Their stated battery life claims are usually pretty close or at least reasonable enough. Then I hear all these types of things about PC manufacturers are it just makes paying more for a MacBook a little less frustrating.
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Yup, had this exact experience, except my prior mac was a 2015.
Lambda layers, uploading caching and more make app size a non-issue.
It reminded me a Russian anecdote about so called newly rich Russian businessmen. For those the whole life was constant signaling.

One newly rich Russian shows another a tie he bought a minute ago for 3000 USD. That guy replied, “This is stupid. You had to go to the shop over there. They sell the same tie for 5000 USD”.
it's possible to retire at any age

keep your costs fixed and live within your means

theoretically if I saved the entire year worth of salary of a SWE, could live off of that for 3 years (3 years of 50k salary)

it really is easy if you come from a struggle background - everything I get from this point on is simply a +
GPS wouldn't really work in a geostationary orbit (there'd be no way to tell if your latitude is North or South)
Google Lens now enables you to paste paper and handwritten notes directly to Web
> - That device will take a hit in battery life

4G was a real battery drain at first
Can confirm, my X1 Carbon doesn't have a soldered SSD. Best laptop i've ever had tbf and works wonderfully under Fedora 32.
That's a very low bar though, isn't it? I'd be happy with that kind of responsiveness from a mayor of a mid-sized Russian city appointed by Putin. Like ooh, we got lucky this time, the tsar sent us someone not entirely incompetent. I expect more from my Canadian elected officials. It's all about who the voters elect though, and what kind of feedback they give politicians, that's definitely true.
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My dream laptop isn't there yet, but this is hopeful. I want an X13 or T14 with an -H series CPU. I think the X13 is unlikely, but Asus has shown us that you can fit a 4900HS into a 14" laptop.

It's not an absolute necessity for me. I do my primary computing on a desktop, and always offload compute onto it from a laptop for anything heavy. It's nice to have some local grunt, though.
Many conservative people in rural areas are not pure free market people. Hence the wide support for Trump. He's a populist and nationalist. Ask anyone in rural America and I guarantee you will be hard-pressed to find anyone that thinks the US should do nothing to stop jobs and production from moving overseas because they believe in the free market.
Nice explanation of how it works:

https://www.howtogeek.com/226308/the-windows-platform-binary...
I'm really curious what process you were able to use to separate the component costs on systems like these. The manufacturers go out of their way to obfuscate that information.
Why not both?

First of all, it's not either/or.

Second of all, better democratic decisionmaking has nothing to do with Google's expertise. There are plenty of political scientists and think tanks working on better decisionmaking processes. Spending Sidewalk Labs' money on them makes as much sense as asking for Kraft Foods or ExxonMobil to do so.

But third, good democratic governance requires data and provides services. If Google can help generate real-time data to improve services (and inform better decisions), how is that not a win?
I took a company to small claims court about 10 years ago. In my state at that time, the max you could sue for was a few thousand dollars (now it's $7k, https://www.mass.gov/service-details/small-claims-court). It was run by a magistrate, not a judge, and AFAIK no ordinary citizens who had brought cases (including myself) had a lawyer to represent us. No surprise there ... the small claims courts are designed to work this way, so ordinary people can bring cases if relatively small sums are involved.

Most of the defendants (which were small or large companies, some local and some national) in these citizen-brought cases didn't even show, but those who did typically brought a lawyer to deny the charges, and were usually asked by the magistrate to work out a settlement in the hallway.

Excluding the local small claims plaintiffs such as myself, about half the docket consisted of national credit card companies suing local debtors. The lawyer for say BOA would come in with a list of 10 local people being sued for amounts under the small claims threshhold. Maybe 1 in 4 defendants in these cases did show up, and were asked to work out a settlement in the hallway. If the local person being sued didn't show, the default judgement was for the credit card company with treble damages, putting these people further in the hole.
We're in NZ, its feeling likely at the moment that the date will be wednesday.

OTOH we have been incredibly lucky with both our leadership and our island status.

the US is a huge state, with porous borders so the right choice might be different, but the more controlled the spread is, the fewer lives will be lost and the more likely time will help us understand the best treatment.
Sarcasm: That’s because it would be trivial to screenshot every frame and reassemble the video from there.

No fair use for you!
Pragmatically, you'll be in a better shape, and have a better chance of succeeding, if you start the journey than if you don't.
In the same way you could apply the reverse transform to the polygon and get the coordinates of display pixels in texture coordinates and then do a push from there.

They are equivalent, as I am trying to say. The only difference is semantics or whatever makes it easier to think about.
It's hardly surprising that people would object to what amounts to a public seizing of [the economic value of] their private property.
Just use Fedora, which targets developers.
>> I want cellular that is competitive with cable internet. I want bandwidth available for IoT devices.

> It never will be though. Whatever frequencies you can do wirelessly you can do over a wire without the interference of other users using the same frequency at the same time.

this is true in principle, but not necessarily in practice. I suspect it will hold for the near/medium future, but I can imagine a world where much more money is invested in improving mobile networks than home cable connections, causing the latter to stagnate.

most "normal" people I know don't even own a desktop computer. there are no devices in their homes that connect via ethernet (or even have an ethernet port without a dongle!). at a certain point, it might make sense to ditch the home modem/router altogether and scale up wifi networks to the point where they basically merge with cellular.
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The intent is that manufacturers would use this to provide critical drivers for windows users. Stuff that wasn't on the retail OS cd, but you would need to get to windows update. Or something, I dunno. Of course, the race to the bottom being what it is, if you can get $20/unit to put sketchy garbage in it, it's going to happen. Just because you're paying for something doesn't mean you're not also the product.
I'll go further than the parent commenter and say that I think Randian ideals are absurd and anyone who sincerely supports or buys into them is deranged. But I think the quote is interesting in this context because it's so obvious and so relevant that capitalism is resulting in the same dehumanization that Rand ascribes to socialism.

To put it another way, it would be easy to imagine this variant of the quote being real (to be completely clear, it isn't):

>> Capitalism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to the capitalists, that the only justification of his existence is his service to the capitalists, and that the capitalists may dispose of him in any way they please for the sake of their own profit.

> -Karl Marx

...and that claim, unlike Rand's, would have been both accurate and relevant.
I agree with that to an extent too. Actually, the whole history behind the modern scientific method and the various competing philosophies behind science over the centuries is pretty amazing and I recommend anyone that's interested to start here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science

And go on to.read the referenced papers by Kuhn and others. There's a lifetime's worth of stuff to be studied there.

The thing is, much of our modern scientific progress has been through following these principles

>1. that there is an objective reality shared by all rational observers

>2. that this objective reality is governed by natural laws

>3. that reality can be discovered by means of systematic observation and experimentation

>4. that Nature has uniformity of laws and most if not all things in nature must have at least a natural cause

>5. that experimental procedures will be done satisfactorily without any deliberate or unintentional mistakes that will influence the results

>6. that experimenters won't be significantly biased by their presumptions

>7. that random sampling is representative of the entire population

The main issues I see these days fall around 5, 6 and to a lesser extent 7. Agenda driven, ego based research is prevalent in a lot of fields these days, tied directly into that authoritarian mind set. Scientists must be correct, the people funding their research must get the results they desire and to bring 7 in their, sampling will be done to skew results to that effect.

I've witnessed this first hand on projects where industry would have been impacted by results. In the case of one project, tens of thousands of dollars were spent mitigating absolutely nothing, while the actual issue was ignored because that would have cut into profits of the largest company in the community. I had a water sampling cup in my hand still, when they told us to stop and sample elsewhere after we found pH spikes suspiciously near some runoff. Those high pH samples never made it into the report.

In the case of my own project, our results would have impacted an active mine, so we were told by government not publicly release our results, under threat of loss of funding.

This type of bullshit occurs in every field of science. This type of bullshit is why authority driven science is not real science and is holding back human progress and honestly, puts the entire human race and much of life on Earth's continued existence at risk.
I'll bite, can you expand just a smidge on "safer car racing"? I'm trying to figure out how 5G enables that and failing.
Ive been saying for years that airlines should do this. Add the price of an alcoholic beverage to everyone's ticket and then give those who want one a "free" drink. I never understood why they opted to go with ruthless cuts and declining customer experience.
See: https://hermiene.net/essays-trans/relativity_of_wrong.html

We aren't talking about the difference between electricity and gas. We are talking about the difference between a fast cellular network and slightly faster cellular network.
My costings are based on GCP; with sublime discounts even.

And, I would really agree with you if not for 2 things:

1) "wasted" cycles are not wasted, the CPU will clock down.

2) Kubernetes was designed specifically for this, the idea is you slice the CPU up so much that you dont waste much resources.

It's astonishingly capable of consuming all resources.

By the by; RAM is never "wasted", it's used for various caches.
I wonder if it's possible to set up the UEFI firmware by setting some EFI variables from the operating system for example by running efivar [1].

[1]: https://github.com/rhboot/efivar
My issue with Sidewalk Labs was the incredibly obvious facade they put up: pretending to care about making cities better when it really was just a thin veneer over finding new ways to expand surveillance capitalism. In fact their "Head of Urban Systems" was quoted[0] as saying that public discussions over data ownership and privacy were "irresponsible". The true agenda is plainly obvious to anyone who cares to look.

I'm heartened to see that there is a slow but growing opposition to parasitic business practices such as Sidewalk Labs' proposal and surveillance capitalism in general. Despite Zuckerberg's attempts to convince us that privacy is dead[1], I think people still realize on some base level that privacy, especially offline, is still valuable.

[0] https://www.citylab.com/design/2018/09/how-smart-should-a-ci...

[1] https://youtu.be/LoWKGBloMsU
Some large motherboard vendors do this too. They'll happily drop an autoupdater onto any fresh Windows installation booted from the board.

https://www.techpowerup.com/248827/asus-z390-motherboards-au...
> So what situations are causing this? China for one.

I think this is a key point. I was really just talking about America, where many people have rebounded from that sort of thing after embracing it 20-30 years ago. For China, traditional signals of wealth are still new and novel. People aren't sick of it yet.
My half-serious reply: Figuring out what the problem is :)

“Computers are useless, they can only give you answers”
For me, it is never. I tend to trust people and companies to do the right thing, but when they violate that trust, they get on my permanent blacklist. I also don't fly United or park in Impark lots for the same reason. And I will never again turn off my ad-blocker after the Forbes fiasco, despite sites begging me to do so.
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Not precisely "certified mail," but just "mail." They can choose to use certified mail if they want, but it's not required. You should always use certified mail to communicate with a debt collector, no matter if the debt is legitimate or not.
Love to see eugenics proposed so nonchalantly.
Scalability? Data center algorithm!
Security? The fuzzing algorithm!
Healthcare? The medical algorithm!
Mobile? The Android algorithm!
Gaming? The Stadia algorithm!

No that's utterly absurd. What Google builds are platforms, markets and generally scalable systems. They involve algorithms and algorithms may more often than not be their competitive edge but an algorithm does not a system make.
Meanwhile, anti-anti-China people are ... often well meaning but a bit daft.

One managed to mishear "Uighur Muslims" (yes, there are anti-anti-China people who don't know who they are, and yes, they misheard "Uighur" as a word starting with "N") and it took me quite some annoyance to get that straightened out and everybody on the "Chinese people pretty cool, Xi really not so much" page.
Ligado’s biggest investors are JPMorgan, Centerbridge, and Fortress. David Redl, the former head of the NTIA, supported Ligado’s mission while the GPS (part of DoD but also co-run by the DOT) was against it for as long as this issue existed. The FCC pushed this through because Ajit Pai is retiring at the end of the year (regardless if Trump wins) and wants a legacy of approving more commercial uses of spectrum.
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This is laughably false. Different PE firms (and funds within them) have different strategies, some firms may indeed by the aggressive kind that you specify, but a lot of them also help the firms growth by providing capital and management guidance. There are different stages in a company's lifecycle at which a PE firm can enter and different outcomes. A lot of PE is in doing the complete opposite of what you suggest; the focus is on improving the business and increasing cash flow while removing any obvious inefficiencies.
Some truckers use them for manipulating the trackers on their vehicles. Some of them are stupid enough to have them active when they are anywhere near an airport, which makes it far more likely they'll get caught.
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When I was in the Army, everyone hated the Red Cross, although the reasons shifted depending on who you ask. I've never heard about the doughnuts before. Most commonly, other soldiers claimed that they sold donated blood, although how true that is, I don't know.
Release apps to Apple App Store and Google Play Market with this *1* command
I'm hesitating between an XPS and an X1. What do you find better on the X1?
Because most people search fares online and book the cheapest ticket.
How much code with malicious modifications has been pulled from these repos since then? There's no evidence this happened, but we can't just handwave it away with "we can undo changes".
Any problem where the solution requires persuading people to adopt it or comply with it.

All those projects google shuts down? Those were problems they tried to solve but failed to.
Let's be based. This shit is CCPromised. Please dang finest let's this skit stand. Never trusted keybase in the first place
it's literally the best thing about a Thinkpad. I turn my trackpad off as my first step when getting a new thinkpad.
It's true - charging for something that was once free can be risky, but it isn't always bad as some might believe. I have great respect for businesses that charge for a service that provides real value - even if it was once free. Often times (especially in the startup world), companies start out offering a free product (operating at a loss) to gain market share. It's not often the best strategy, but in some markets it's one of the few ways to break in and gain traction. Obviously, you can't sustain operating a business that way forever, so you eventually have to make up for it somehow.

Unfortunately, a lot of tech companies have (perhaps unintentionally) conditioned consumers to expect software to be free. The terrible consequence is that in response to that pressure, many companies choose ethically-questionable ways to make money when they need to, rather than simply charging a fair and honest price for their product (this includes selling users' data, overwhelming the user experience with ads, in-app purchase shenanigans, etc). Paying fair prices for things we use isn't the most appealing idea in the world, but (in my opinion) we probably need more of it, not less.
I don't see how helping users maximize their investment in software is "staying behind". But anyway, can't really argue with an opinion. If it was some trivial $50-100 piece of software, then maybe an argument can be made. Some of the stuff we buy is expensive to the tune of $10,000, and even more sometimes. There is a lot of industry specific software that is super expensive. On the side, I don't care if they want to also peddle some new UI framework or whatever other snazzy thing that the kids want these days :P. Just let me use the software I bought for as long as humanly possible. Microsoft gets this more than any other vendor, and so they get our business, and maybe a small amount of good-will.
In that case, the British charging for donuts was part of the problem too.
How many lives has GPS saved? Even if all it did was prevent one KAL007 type event a decade, that's already thousands

edit: Korean Air 007 was an airliner that was shot down by the USSR after straying into their airspace. It had a huge influence on the decision to make GPS available for civilian use.
The problem has nothing to do with 5G inherently, and the vast majority of the bands it is approved to operate on will have no interference issues. The problem is that the current FCC has been very bullish on opening up more bands for mobile use even if there are legitimate interference concerns.

> And if the point of 5G is also to give higher speeds and capacity in dense urban environments, with denser antenna coverage, why couldn't they adapt the existing 2-6 GHz range instead of going up toward millimeter?

They are. Eventually all the bands currently used for 4G will be migrated to 5G. If you see T-mobiles ads about the largest 5G network in the country, that is all deployed on existing bands that were also approved for 4G. On these bands 5G will be a minor upgrade.

The millimeter bands are intended to significantly increase the number of concurrent users, but the places where it can be effectively deployed are very limited. It won't pass through buildings, and has short range. As an example, Verizon couldn't even cover a full sports stadium with a single tower, and that's a prototypical case of where millimeter is supposed to be valuable.

This latest issue is completely separate. It is entirely about a single company, Ligado, that bought spectrum adjacent to GPS at a discount deal because it came with strict restrictions on how that spectrum could be used to avoid interference with GPS. For years they have been trying to get the FCC to relax those restrictions for various different purposes, and this FCC finally approved. For previous requests there was tons of hard data filed showing that the proposed use would absolutely cause interference, and the requests were rejected. The latest approval does stipulate much wider guard bands and other measures to decrease interference. I don't know whether these measures are sufficient. The FCC commissioners unanimously think they are, while the DoD brass is insistent that they aren't.
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Life expectancy correlates strongly with per capita GDP in the developed world.

The losses in GDP caused by lockdowns will therefore very likely have a cost in lives in the developed world too.
Were you unaware that the founder of Zoom is an American or are you implying that the company is Chinese despite that?
"Civil caseloads dropped more than 18 percent from 2009 to 2017. Although no research to date has identified the factors that led to this decline, "

I might make a guess that the efforts of our corporate overlords to force everyone into nonjuducial arbitration has something to do with it.
If system76 would put a TrackPoint onto a laptop keyboard, then I'd never need Lenovo again.
Thank you For the hint! I will take a look
Make sure you build a product people/businesses will pay for (talk to potential customers prior to building).

Don’t be shy about pricing. Don’t price your B2B product like a consumer focused product.
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I mean, why not use a server motherboard (i.e. one supporting AMT; not necessarily one that requires RDIMMs) if you're building a NAS? NASes are servers in terms of their workload. Take advantages of the features designed for server customers.
Inequity, education, sustainability, public policy, governance - few examples where techno-solutionism isn't the right approach.
I’m not who you are replying to, but you can make an argument that companies like Walmart are able to pay their employees less because many of them are receiving government aid. I know I’ve seen statistics on the % of Walmart employees that are on food stamps, and it’s shockingly high.
I'd rather have one without the trackpad (and the backdoor).