skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just finished reading that one (thanks for the recommendation in another post), and yea, it provides an excellent perspective.

That book lays out to me a much more compelling case that a leap to conclusions in the early 2000's that some fraud must exist killed nortel. Based on reading that book it's probably fairer to say the Americans killed nortel than the Chinese did. Although like anything else, a simplified explanation when there are lots of contributing factors at play likely doesn't mean much.

The posted article though about Huawei killing nortel by hacking them appears to be a reach (can't say it doesn't contribute of course). As I recall working in the industry around the time Telus and Bell switched to UMTS and towards LTE, Nortel wasn't even in the running. I think they had already sold off their LTE technology and were holding onto some CDMA evolution. I don't have precise memory of how this all lined up though, and didn't really work on the access network side (which is where Huawei is used, so most of my knowledge towards Huawei is second hand). I only did an eval with Huawei once.

While I don't have any insight into the china development bank offering low interest loans, and I didn't see it come up at all in that book, I've worked with a number of people who used to be contracted out by nortel to build networks in other countries. And nortel was using it's own money to fund networks in countries unlikely to repay the money for the equipment (Haiti probably stands out with the wildest stories). Those were some of the internal war stories about the financial troubles, although I'm sure there was lots.

I don't think it's safe to say that Huawei hasn't benefited from IP theft, which may include theft from Nortel, and possibly other factors, that have allowed them to skyrocket in profitability and sales. The whole thing with Huawei / Cisco routers I believe is pretty well documented. I just don't agree with the posted articles premise, that China or Huawei are to blame or fully responsible for Nortels collapse.
Other way I see it working out is Uber gets so optimized that they can have a driver double dip with a delivery and passengers going on the same route.
My initial training was in aviation ground electronics. I could still design and build a superhet AM receiver from scratch and build from the parts in my workshop here. I am well aware of how immensely complicated the cell-phone system is. Every single component is complicated standing on the shoulders or more complication. QAM is incredible in its versatility and the antennas are so incredible they are works of art. Let alone the routing and higher level protocols.
That said, cell systems are designed for redundancy and varying loads. Modern cell towers are spaced so that you can see multiple towers at any one time. They often have power backup and multiple backhauls.
Ah, yes. While the Quest is wireless it still would be a short run :) It's similar to the knee high running exercise one can do when running in place but I can't track that yet.
Loneliness! We have really lost our sense of community with those around us so I’m trying to see if we could supplement that with strangers on the internet.
Most 4K demos on Pouet the last years has been Windows only. Demoscene parties usually specifies exactly what computer they will run the demos on in advance so groups can optimize for that setup. The code sometimes only run on that particular setup.
> There is no UI showing which process is holding the file handle

What about process explorer?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/proc...
As apsec112 mentioned it's up to the state. And in this case Washington state has a very clear constitution and case law history that prohibits non uniform taxes, like a progressive income tax:

> All taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of property within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax and shall be levied and collected for public purposes only

That means any state law, municipal ordinance, etc, that violates that provision is going to be struck down on review. So there could be a tax that applies to income differently than real property or other assets. But the tax would have to be applied in a uniform manner across all levels of income, or uniformly against property of different values, etc.

And that history and nuance matters because Seattle cant tax income at differential rates. But they can tax businesses in a uniform manner. And assuming section 5.38.030.B passes the "uniform" and "property" challenges they can achieve almost the same thing as a municipal progressive income tax.

Washington State Constitution Article VII Section 1 https://ballotpedia.org/Article_VII,_Washington_State_Consti...

Here's a slightly dated article that has a good overview of the history https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?...
What gives you the idea that I'm American?

> But as a guy from outside of US, I dare to say it's false, and also built on a false premise

As someone who is also not from the US, I dare to say you've entirely misunderstood what I meant. "Image" there is not referring to agreeability or popularity, it's referring to the near-monopoly on global consciousness as the paragon of the successful West which the US held through the latter half of the 20th century - that's what I'm asserting has been slipping over the past couple of decades (more so in the past eight or so years).

The US still an economic powerhouse, but other economic powerhouses have muscled their way onto the stage (largely China, but also the European Union). It's still a financial powerhouse, but there's also plenty of opportunity and business partnerships to be found elsewhere (and it's becoming less and less necessary to actually migrate to the US to take advantage of its wealth). It's still a cultural powerhouse, but others have achieved incredible international popularity as well (just look at the near mind-boggling spread of Korean pop culture across the globe, for example). Countries like the aforementioned Canada offer a much faster, cleaner track to citizenship, and even places like the UAE and some parts of Eastern Europe or Oceania have their appeal for someone simply looking to improve their passport. Of course, there are also factors like the highly polarised political climate and the inadequacies of the healthcare system that make it less than desirable for someone that doesn't like drama or that has health conditions they need to worry about.

In summary there are so many other options for relocation, many of which are now objectively better for a given individual, that the US is quickly becoming "just another country" for plenty of people opportunity-wise.
Hundreds of Scientists Call on WHO to Recognize Coronavirus Airborne Risk
My desktop with KDE Plasma 5 consumes somewhere in the ballpark of 500 MB RAM initially on startup.

RAM consumption by Konsole, tmux, and Neovim (30+ loaded buffers) combined is negligible to say the least.

RAM consumption by my browser with 10+ windows and 100+ tabs loaded easily exceeds 4+ GB even when exclusively visiting supposedly "lightweight" text based sites (ie documentation).

Going beyond RAM, playing a video on YouTube occupies a small but noticeable fraction of total CPU time. A single script heavy ad laden site sometimes manages to occupy a problematically large fraction of all available cores. Depending on the site, Dark Reader might slow this all to a crawl for 10+ seconds as the bloated page gradually loads (I'm looking at you, Amazon).

The problem isn't modern desktop environments.
Yes, finger to eye is proven and dangerous. Finger to lip not so, as the mouth does not have receptors.
Finger to nose is ridicolous.
Saboteur is another simpler traitor-mechanic game with a quick play time.
Generally: Mechs and Minions, Zombicide Agricola and Pandemic

For family fun 'Bang'

Munchkin' is the go to game when we have annual holiday with some uni friends. Great speed of game, the betrayal element is great for that crowd plus kids 10+ enjoy and get in on the adult banter.
Tests are only sufficient if they tests cover the failure modes of the new abstraction. That is very often not the case.

Tests still help a lot, but they don't reduce the risk to zero.
As I understand it, it is a better USB layer/feature set to run SCSI on top of which has better properties. TFA gets into it a bit.
Yes, finger to eye is proven and dangerous. Finger to lip not so, as the mouth does not have receptors.
Finger to nose is ridicolous.

That's why you need to wash your hands. To protect your eyes.
Running with VR would be horrible with current tech. You have the headset bouncing around and getting full of sweat. Not to mention tripping over the real world. If you want to go for a run, go for a real run. VR is better for light exercise, beatsaber is as far as you would want to go.
Not cool, and you've posted like this before. Please keep this kind of thing off HN.
Keybase.io
@hackernews

Difficult time getting proofed on this site
What an ambitious and important project! I love the concept, and that it is meant to be a "long, slow project."

It probably should be paced slowly due to the scope and complexity of material. I think a slower pace should also help "smooth" the exponential change rate of technological progress into a narrative listeners can follow, without sacrificing too much detail for the sake of listenability.*

I'm going to sub right now.

*I listen to a lot of podcasts, and this happens more than it should, IMO.

Edit: I haven't seen a podcast with its own git repo before, but it makes a lot of sense, and I imagine it is immensely helpful as a creator. I took a quick glance to satisfy my curiosity, and the notes I looked at (show notes) were comprehensive and really well done. This is inspiring, no joke; I have renewed enthusiasm for my own podcast-to-be. Thank you for that!
No ads you say? Sure, wouldn't we all love that! Unfortunately, they are still advertizing heavily. even worse: the ads are instead presented as entire articles that pretend to be legitimate news:
https://newsworthy.to/article/2020/07/01/when-two-people-lov...
The Coronavirus Is Airborne
colordiff -y [https://www.colordiff.org/] has similar functionality.
Is this your life goal? Just curious.
This is what I found when I searched for "neural network audio upsampling": https://kuleshov.github.io/audio-super-res/. Here is the search URL if you're interested in looking at the other links: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=neural+network+audio+upsampling&t=....
Looks like a 10% premium on their last valuation of $2.4B. [1]

[1] https://news.crunchbase.com/news/postmates-raises-225m-more-...
Don't you get tempted to just work the whole year (and the next two or three) and just retire?
Hi Owen, the alternator is closely matched to the blades, shortening the blades would mean it would no longer work except in hurricanes :)

The half scale one was already donated to someone while I was still in Canada.
What do you mean by media politizing HCQ ?

I saw some media posting medical disinformation like the claim that in Italy lupus patients treated with HCQ were protected from covid..
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/media-lied-people-d...
Denial from the Italia reumatology society:
https://www.iltempo.it/cronache/2020/05/02/news/idrossicloro...
And claiming that people who do not think HCQ is effective do so because of their anti-Trump feelings..
So that seems to match your claim about media politizing..

What I saw on Twitter is many GOP/Trump militants making dubious claims about HCQ effectiveness and branding everyone who disagree victims of TDS..

And I'm all for medium or others censoring medical disinformation as it was the case with the article you linked to.

Looking at the many studies that were made in the last monthes (including RCTs) and their respective shortcoming it is clear that HCQ isn't effective..
Why in the world wouldn't you? It's the same reason you should subsidize cancer patient health-care even if you don't have cancer: because people should live, and as a society we have more than enough resources to take care of everyone, if we pool them correctly.
You raise an interesting point. Maybe with uber the goal is to integrate delivery work force with ride work force to improve utilization of drivers/deliverers. Horizontal, but complimentary.
Check out 'otherpower', the fieldlines community is very helpful:

https://www.fieldlines.com/
Update:

smartctl 6.6 on Ubuntu18.04 Jetson Nano (aarch64) gives Total_LBAs_Written for Samsung 840 Evo in ORICO USB 3.0 SSD enclosure (UASP) and Samsung T5 SSD USB 3.0 but failed to read S.M.A.R.T data properly for MyDigitalSSD(OTG) which is likely the fault of the controller in it.

So with Total_LBAs_Written we can find TBW (Total Bytes Written) and compare it with manufacturer's data[1].

[1]https://www.virten.net/2016/12/ssd-total-bytes-written-calcu...
Anecdatum of one. I didn’t notice this block. I am in India and use ddg on all my devices. I also use cloudflare dns so that could be the reason.
That is an excellent suggestion. Can you put me in contact with someone there?
How to grow my hosting company?
I wonder which platform/sources I can use to find leads for my software hosting company?
FYI, It’s profitable business last 10 years, I usually sold to my friends and their friends etc.
I build websites and eCommerce solutions for them.
And yes I’m only 24 years old drop out of collage.
Different theories, but there's a strong belief that Archer Daniels Midland lobbied intensively to create the current status quo in the US.

http://www.motherlindas.com/HFCS_murky.htm

https://grist.org/article/adm-high-fructose-corn-syrup-and-e...

https://youtu.be/gPbh6Ru7VVM (skip to 5:30)
While I am a big fan of Dear Imgui it's very difficult to skin it and for a VST plugin you expect this feature.
In the context of SSBM, networking support for the GameCube (hardware) is irrelevant
Looking at the current state of things, I think you are guilty of wishful thinking. Survival of the fittest depends upon reproductive success over multiple generations. The time change need to adapt is not commensurate with the time scale leading to extinction.
I don't know if I agree with that statement, engineers can be invested in, university programs etc. If a company is growing and expanding, they're going to need to draw on a lot of engineering and R&D talent.

And in my case it doesn't apply, the equipment we're evaluating was all software, running on a common x86 telecom platform. While I'm sure the office did have some embedded R&D, alot of what telecom vendors do just requires software developers.
I'm sure it looks like that inside many big companies. There's a reason that FAANG+ companies fought over Nortel's patent trove. Nortel tech is still in a lot of today's most valuable products, covering things from BGA routing techniques to wireless communications. The area still supports an ecosystem of small manufacturers of world-leading optics and photonics components. That says something, at least.
The most interesting thing here for me is the use of redirected walking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redirected_walking). I saw the video accompanying the paper but this would be the first game I've seen try to use it.
Sounds very cool! I'd be interested in looking at the code if you're up for sharing it.

Are you computing the labels using DFT, or with a more exact method?
Too many side projects... I get tempted not to work at all and cut my expenses even further. Also, I'd rather just cherry pick the good jobs instead of lowering the price to be busy all the time.
As an aside there are murmurs here in Australia, particularly NSW, about moving from property stamp duties to annual property or land taxes. Principal residences are currently exempt from the 1.6% annual land tax.
Yeah, I guess the key is the last part of your last sentence, heh

> the most well financed..
I think you need to check the etymology of 'black' in relation to skin colour. It dates to about the early 1600s derived from the term 'blackamoor' which is still used as an art term for figurines depicting African people in subservient postures.

Using the term 'black' in relation to people is therefore connected to the slave trade and I'd recommend that you cease using it instead of overloading it in that context.
Hard: Tech

Harder: People

Impossibly hard: Help people get faster at building tech

And yet it's all I want to do.

https://codefaster.substack.com
Solutions to the stated problems are, from a technical and policy stand point very simple. Yes, we know how to solve all of this - it's called market regulation and we know it works reeeely well.

But it's politically hard.

What we need is an economically pragmatic green political movement, who will not keep shooting itself in the foot with left-wing ideological purity competitions.

Profit seeking motive is only a problem when you let it of it leesh (because you somehow convinced yourself that the state of perfect market competition is the stable state of a market, when in fact all natural forces point toward domination - monopolies).

So, green parties... Drop the bullshit feel good stories and let's just make saving the earth profitable.
That's absolutely correct. It also exemplifies why the healthcare market cannot regulate itself.
And talk about a moving target.

Just when you think you've figured something out, spotted a pattern... it changes. Back to square one.
Also, I can really see the appeal of electron now (from a development standpoint).

It really is Qt vs Electron if you want to ship a product that makes money - something I am paying for is expected to have a lot of these "features".
As someone who buys their own insurance, I have to say there are so many problems with the process. You make it sound like it's as simple as ordering a pizza...

Firstly, the major insurance companies don't want to talk to you, so you need to buy through a broker. The broker is suppose to help you pick the plan that's right for you, but realistically they will email you a few PDFs with 5-7 plans that are all extremely similar, full of jargon, and difficult to understand.

Find a better broker? Hah, good luck...

So after you become an expert on insurance jargon, and ask your broker lots of question, you're now ready to start paying. For small plans with fewer than 5 people, get ready to pay anywhere from $700-1k per month for the most basic high deductible plan.

Then after about a year, you'll get an email and phone call from your broker because your plan is no longer available. So you need to pick a new one, that has slightly different features and costs $20-100 additional per-year.

The American health insurance is a parasite.
It's odd to me that people seem to have completely forgotten what the experience of selling your software in brick and mortar stores was like.

Most of the time, you also had to work through a software distributor middle man (who took a cut) because the large chains wouldn't deal with you directly.
Glad to see Moosefs mentioned, I've used it a fee years ago to reuse old PCs for storage. If you aren't hosting data with strict SLA, a master and standby nodes work great.
Why? If a repair costs $x with genuine parts and 1/3 of $x with aftermarket parts and the phone works then I really don't see any good reason. Cars have aftermarket pars fit to them all the time, brakes, tires, shocks, filters, engine components (turbos!) and so on. They're arguably a lot more critical than the screen of a phone which is just another wear part.
Which is not true in PHP up until the most recent version (iirc) due to it being left associative instead of right associative you are assuming.
An often overlapping problem is designers splitting a game into "expansions" that they sell at launch as part of the KS. "Here's the core game, it's everything you need to play! Not too expensive right? ....but here's an expansion with some new races. And another with a new hero. And another with some new missions. They're totally optional, but if you don't back them now you'll never ever find them in retail. How much do you trust that we've put all the good bits in the core?"

Awaken Realms has been one of the worst offenders with this (both fake stretch goals and fake expansions) but their newest KS (Nemesis Lockdown) actually abandoned all that for timed feature announcements.

Hopefully the start of a trend.
True, or even:

Cond1 // if this
? Result1 // return this
: cond2 // else if this
? Result2 // return this
: cond3 // else if this
? Result3 // return this
: ResultElse // else return this
Nickname. "nick" for short; the IRC term is also 'nick'
I agree that these companies could afford to hire tens of thousands of people, and have them follow a flowchart. I don't see that environment ever delivering competent moderation. Not to mention, it's unethical to subject employees to several hours a day of troll vomit.
https://us.dantelabs.com/collections/advanced-dna-tests/prod...
Are you familiar with Magenta? [0]
It's not real-time, but definitely an important area of research.

Also check out Dan Tepfer [1] who is doing amazing work with an algorithmic approach to reactive live performances, with great call and response tactics.

I myself am slowly prototyping a fully artificial AI band which can be orchestrated using very high-level musical ideas and a big helping of intelligent randomization and algorithms based on music theory.

I've been prototyping in Andrew Sorensen's Extempore [2] and have laid much of the groundwork like melody/harmony/rhythm generation as well as basic modulation of these elements to create longer musical structures which utilize motifs in multiple ways

Currently it is a matter of shedding pre-computed tables of "nice" sounding progressions or purely random progressions, and creating a more fundamental approach which can derive the appropriate progressions from the given user parameters. I am also expanding the program's ability to generate aesthetically pleasing and unique singular motifs which drive these algorithmic compositions.

I have a band leader / conductor module which provides cues and other synchronized data, which even without advanced motif generation and modulation still allows for things not currently possible in any non-code musical production software such as global dyamics, timing changes, progression sharing, (eventually) directing impromptu solos, etc.

Reach out via email if you'd like to discuss more!

[0] https://magenta.tensorflow.org/
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaadsrHBygc
[2] https://extemporelang.github.io/
Yea, "Super Size Me" is a great documentary to watch in that regard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me
The idea that r&d is inefficient is not unreasonable. the reality behind valeant's demise is more complex. valeant initially began its strategy of buying cheap, cash flow generating assets. But as time went on, they ran out of low hanging fruit as asset prices rose and deals became harder to find. to generate revenue growth and support their growing debt balance, they resorted to unethical, and illegal, tactics such as raising prices and defrauding insurance companies into reimbursing their products.
Yeah, they are now under Lime operations
Board games are uniquely well-adapted to the crowdfunding format because the game design can be 100% complete and playtested before any art or manufacturing has even started. (Of course, you need some art to sell the Kickstarter.) The upfront capital for developing a board game is about $40 at the art store.

In the extreme case, some campaigns link to a print-and-play version of the game so you can “try before you buy”. Try to do that with a video game!
Mercy Ships looks very interesting indeed! I had checked marinetraffic.com, but the free version seems to only show updates for vessels near to shore (ports?). Evohe incidentally just came in range within the last day or two. Great group of folks, they do a lot of conservation in the subantarctics. Evohe's somewhat-dated website is http://www.expedition-sailing-vessel.com/

Thanks for the pointers, and drop me a line if you're ever in sunny Dunedin! I'm firstname.lastname at gmail dotcom.