skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did anyone notice how cheap this is? Ten gigawatts at AUD $16B is roughly the same as 1 GW per USD $1B. Compare that to, say, a nuclear power plant, where a single 1 GW plant might cost five to ten billion after all of the approvals and the interest on the loan.

If the price estimate is correct, Singapore would be crazy not to do it. The only issue I see is the risk of cable cuts and future geopolitical changes.

Unfortunately, within Australia, coal is currently so cheap that even low-cost solar can't really compete.
While this is quite nifty, I don't see why people other than LLVM developers would be interested in the LLVM IR output. Isn't the final CPU real assembly more informative?
> In defining V2X for 5G, Seo says the most challenging thing was to provide high data throughput, reliability, and low latency, both of which are essential for anything beyond the most basic communications. Seo explains that earlier standards typically deal with messages with hundreds of bytes that are expected to reach 90 percent of receivers in a 300-meter radius within a few hundred milliseconds. The 3GPP standards bring those benchmarks into the realm of gigabytes per second, 99.999 percent reliability, and just a few milliseconds.

Did the previous standard lag behind or is this improvement truly this ridiculous?
Epic Systems adjusts staff’s return to work time frame
Those are completely different deep specalties and best funded in parallel anyway given diminishing returns. Complaining about something that irrelevant to capabilities is like saying brain surgeons suck at inventing green energy.
Better to counter an anecdote with an opposite anecdote than to downvote or shutdown. To some people being shut down proves they are right. Countering like you did provides a natural way to show the weakness of anecdotes.
The screenshot also shows fitbit, omegele, and even IMAP4 traffic.

My first guess would be that the Nest thermostat is now occupying an IP address that was formerly assigned to other devices. Now that the Nest thermostat is at that address, the old packets are mistakenly attributed to the Nest thermostat.
> Our lawyer let us know that they had no strong grounds against us, but would drain us in a legal battle we could never afford.

s/but would/but that he would/

FTFY
Follow up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24068201
> Unfortunately, it's a problem for a long time. This isn't something that happened in the last few decades.

Yes, all of those things have been problems for a long time. However, the application of patent law to software and business methods is relatively recent (in legal terms). In the US, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has been largely responsible for growing the scope of software patents since its creation in 1982 (e.g., holding that use of an analog to digital converter or a memory storage device were all that is needed to meet the Supreme Court's 1981 Diamond v. Diehr test that a software patent has to actually do something, rather than just being a conventional implementation of inherently unpatentable math). This culminated in the 1998 State Street decision (again, of the CAFC, not the Supreme Court) that opened the floodgates for business method patents.

Despite Supreme Court decisions like In re Bilski (2009) and CLS Bank International v Alice Corp (2014) that attempted to limit the scope of these patents, and that were hoped (of Alice in particular) to be able to be used to invalidate large swaths of such patents, the CAFC continues to erode the force of these decisions (see, e.g., the 2020 Uniloc decision) and carve out new ways to patent mathematical algorithms implemented on general purpose computers. The allowance of these patents by the USPTO has also been on the rise in recent years.
One of the answers to your question is in your second sentence. A significant part of migration is highly educated people moving to a different country for skilled work. Which benefits the host country because it means their companies get the skilled workers, are more productive, and pay more taxes. (Before someone says "They're taking our jerbs!", in Germany and Switzerland they are desperate for good engineers.) It's even better if they were educated elsewhere, meaning the host countries get these highly educated labor force "for free".

On the flip side, it's a brain drain for the exporting countries, of course.
There is an interesting growth coinciding with coronavirus pandemic. I wonder why.
Copying and pasting python code is annoying (more so because it doesn't have macros or any metaprogramming really) and having to indent things in the python repl just feels dumb. I don't know anyone who thinks python does "well" in this area.
There is little evidence the Vulkan will cost less than the Atlas V, since it’s a higher capacity launch system with a highly capable but expensive second stage. It’s going to be about the same as an Atlas V & Falcon Heavy, but much cheaper than a Delta IV Heavy. It’s payload to LEO are about 20% higher than a Falcon 9 and about half that of a Falcon Heavy, but it’s payload to GTO/GEO are close to the Falcon Heavy.

A commercial contract Atlas V is roughly $50M more than a Falcon 9, but government contracts have a lot of more expensive handling/launch requirements that can easily double the cost. It’s likely the difference is not $100M more, but it’s still going to be easy more than $20M.
Yes, that is certainly true and rather scary since people are quite short sighted and currently in a mood for doing things for the greater good while sacrificing individual freedoms.
My understanding is if you offer facebook login you have to use the facebook SDK.
Exactly. We should look at results, not legal frameworks -- they are different in the two countries anyway. Plus, free trade is all about be fair. Why would the US let Chinese company make huge amount of money when the US companies can't be treated quid pro quo? For the ideal of "free trade" or "globalization is good" or "one globe one people"? I respect that, but I don't want to be the person who sustain the loss.
The nerdier the OS and less "corporate" the language, the better the results get.

But don't get too obscure. Otherwise, you'll discover that Google has dropped the information you require from its index because it's not new or trendy enough.

If we can get Taylor Swift interested in the old internet, then Google will suddenly snap back into usefulness.
> They gave us a super low amount of money

I'd have taken the money, and then not done anything.
Out of potential markets in South East Asia or on the rim of the Indian Ocean, Singapore is the wealthiest and easiest to do business with.
I use i3 on Linux. But MacOS now has native virtual desktops and I think Windows does too.
Slightly more than a few miles, but still pretty local (KT4)!
Typical anonymous cowards at hacker news, downvoting without the guts or intellect to actually defend their own religious ideologies.
Feynman on Hiroshima is fascinating: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p018w6rc
> Look at standing rock, America's war against the indigenous isn't over.

By your measuring stick, where do you place Tiana men's massacre?
It is hard to overstate how many civilians suffered and died in war crimes perpetrated by Japan before and during the war. The number vastly exceeds the number who died as a result of the American atomic bombs. Breaking Japan's will and ability to make war was the entire world's highest priority in late 1945. Any discussion of "American war crimes against Japan" is meaningless without discussing Japan's crimes against half the world, together with the very real possibility that the nation of Japan continues to exist today solely because those two bombs were dropped.
Now we need to stop believing our eyes twice: first when we see a natural-looking picture but know it is a deepfake, and second when we see a natural-looking picture we believe is not a deepfake, but the computer tells us it is.
There is a reshuffling. It’s called death. Just have a reasonable inheritance tax. Artificial failure is nonsensical. It incentivizes failure.

You spoke above with venom and hate instead of reason. That is the worse person to trust with power.
Even if you had no issues in rendering latency, you're overlooking the data aspect. Any open-world AR, is going to be continuously downloading and discovering new geometry, models, textures, mobile programs, as you walk around.

Let's say you walk up to a restaurant. As you look at it, you see a virtual waitress outside. The you can see the menu floating there, interact with virtual food models, interact with a fully animated and articulated intelligent agent. This all has to load dynamically in a an "AR Web"-like environment (no way you're going to download and install an APP per local brick and mortar).

For this to scale, and not have hideous load times, there's got to be some kind of quad-tree/oct-tree like index (or other spatial acceleration structure) that's streams in, LOD streaming, and for this to work, the "sidelinking" stuff they talk about will be a huge boon.

Because the "internet of things" in an AR world isn't an "internet of PHYSICAL things" like door locks and web cams, but also an "internet of VIRTUAL things" to control, like virtual vending machines to order food. That means somewhere nearby, there's a next-gen router-like device, that offers side-linking, and has an IP service in it serving up assets to you. Now, it could go up through your phone carrier, through the internet backbone, into a cloud provider, or it could avoid that round trip and talk directly to the restaurant's "virtual POS" 5g device.

Point is, we don't know how this is all going to work yet, and it's very premature for people to pooh pooh the use cases for higher bandwidth or lower latency.
This might be a good time to scrap it all and start from scratch!
Scientific evidence of the claim that the Wuhan coronavirus is man-made
* In Switzerland, about 30% of the population are foreign born — comparable with e.g. a classical immigration country like Australia, higher than Canada, and twice the proportion of the US. So I would not agree that the Swiss are particularly intolerant of immigration.

* Switzerland is relatively densely populated, especially considering that a sizable proportion of it is not really habitable.
I don't think the war aim was the defeat of japanese fascism - perhaps, japanese militarism. After all, the basic element of japanese fascism (the Zaibatsu) essentially persists today. It's also notable that japan, while technically a democracy, has had the same party in power since 1955.
"Trying to be nice?" I don't think that captures the subtleties of reinforcing a stereotype. Google has a well-earned reputation here and it should be acknowledged, not ignored or dismissed.
I love how we have all these psychics below this comment telling us what Gates perfectly innocent motivations are in saying he doesn't think the peasants deserve strong cryptography. The sum total of Gates life and actions on earth indicates he's almost certainly a mean spirited sociopathic monster: not anyone's special nerdy friend who happens to be fond of cardigans and know a lot about lung butter.
Any chance we could get that standards committee to re-do bluetooth? :-)
I would say they are for me. Reddit has really upped my vim and TypeScript games for example. Twitter is much smaller bites but still lots of useful stuff IMO.
It's not so much a misspelling as a transliteration. Japanese lacks the ʌ vowel sound (or anything close) so ア/a is as close as you can get. Once that's turned back into the Latin alphabet (Romanji) it becomes clamp, hence the combined definition of clamp and clump given by the teacher, whose English teaching level is probably about standard for the Japanese school system (unfortunately).
Amazing that I never thought of that. Thanks.
Pretty damning statements for the Trump administration. This should do a lot of damage.
I came here to feel sorry for Gates because he is so relentlessly (& unfairly) trashed by antivaxers & similarly grounded individuals.

But then he starts demonizing encryption, which requires logic that's nearly as unsound as antivaxism.

Harmful positions are even more dangerous, when they're espoused by people who doing otherwise good work (and being attacked for that good work).
1. Adopt a mind script that every conversation you have will be brilliant experience for you. You can say this to yourself before you even begin talking to anyone.

2. Once you've done the hardest part (said anything, even 'hi') take a moment to think about what you did well and how you can celebrate yourself.

3. The emotions you inject into the conversation (tip: smile as you speak) sets the expectation for others to follow. If you're enjoying yourself, others will do...but it sometimes takes them a little while to warm up.

4. It's easy to mistake a lukewarm/ muted response for rejection. Most of the time it is NOT. The other person is just trying to work out who you are and what you want. During this time, smile, stay upbeat. They'll come round.

5. Avoid asking questions, which is everyone's polite 'go to'. Instead, make statements. It takes more effort but it helps express yourself. "You look fun!" "That looks interesting!" will inject more emotion than asking a question. (Hint: when statements become easy you can ask questions again).

6. What on earth do you talk about? Yourself. You need to maintain a conversation to get it going (and the other person on board). Rather than say "that drink looks yum" say "i'm thirsty...and choosing is difficult for me because I'm a software engineer...but that drink looks yum". This helps you share a little more about you and explains why you're making a statement in the first place.

7. Have a genuine reason to actually talk to people. What's the best reason? Curiosity. Even if you're bored and lonely, say that. "Hi! I'm bored eating my lunch by myself so I thought i'd come say hi for a moment"

Source: I run this site/ youtube www.yourcharismacoach.com
Thank you, that was a very interesting technical overview. I agree people are mostly having an emotional reaction because they feel their boundaries are being crossed but I think a few could be convinced by this argument.

The ones that won't be convinced are those that believe 4g and 3g are also bad, the ones who were against cell phones when they first came out. You've probably seen them draw the correlation between cell phone use and brain tumors. They believe there is some as yet unknown mechanism by which non ionising radiation can cause cancer. I believe the most common explanation they use is that they don't believe in a cell membrane and instead in a potential field through which molecules pass based on their charge. Supposedly because EF radiation changes the magnetic field around the cells it causes increased permeability resulting in some unwanted molecules disrupting the cell.
The worry was that a remote nuclear explosion would not carry the same impact and they only had two bombs at the moment. It would have been easy for the Japanese militarists to downplay its effect.

And it turns out the Japanese military was exactly in such a deep denial. After Hiroshima they said it would take a longtime for the US to build another. After Nagasaki they said so what, we will just retreat to bunkers and force the Allies to invade. After Hirohito decided to surrender, the military attempted a coup.
No, that's not true. Google was hacked by Chinese government, multiple times. Google was harassed by Chinese government, multiple times. And I'm not talking about some conspiracy theory. Let me give examples that were publicly reported. Did you know that Google's DNS was hijacked and redirected to baidu.com? Did you know that Google was forced to stop its business because of a single phone call that Google's search results returned so called porn pictures, when baidu hosts millions of more? Did you know that the Chinese government never gave Google a list of blocked phrases, yet it expected Google to come up with the ones that met their "regulation". When Google couldn't, Google was punished.

Yeah, Google didn't play by Chinese rules, as if they could. If this is not banning, I don't know what is.

Besides, the US government did play by the rule of the US regulation. For one, did ByteDance seek clearance from CFIUS when purchasing music.ly?
With laws, same as anything.

Ensure signals are sent with identifying information (which license plate sent it), and you get 20 years in prison for falsifying the signal or sending it incorrectly, plus whatever manslaughter/murder charges come on top of that.
I think the biggest thing I have seen that is a reasonable use of the tech is game streaming. Stadia, XCloud, Geforce Now.

5G with low latency and unlimited data could be a game changer (pardon the pun) for mobile gaming. It works on 4G. I've tested. But you definitely run into latency issues.
I had one of those almost 20 years ago. It was already old by then so I install BeOS on it and used it for a while to play movies.

Now I regret that I got rid of it when it didn't boot. :(
More than 100 coal-fired plants have been converted to natural gas since 2011
Block all outgoing port 80 traffic on your computer. Browsers should have that option as well.
Non basil pesto is also amazing. Some of my faves are with flat parsley (more spicy notes), ramps (not in season right now obvi), and mint pistachio
Jürgen Schmidhuber, in the year 2000
You're preaching to the converted. I only disagreed with the notion that there is absolutely no "fashion" component of Apple's products or branding at all. Of course there is.
I have been doing this in my house. Takes much longer than a day. For example I installed 2 Dolby atmos systems, with pipes for HDMI, network, power as well as 9 speakers - took many days in total.
Right but that's not openreach's fault, that's because they need to dig up a road and go under a stream.

Get a quote for a mains gas connection or an electrical connection and you'll find it in the same ballpark.
Specifically, the demon core[1]. It was the core-in-waiting for a third bomb if needed, and I believe that the uranium and plutonium production lines were ramping up by that time[2].

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

[2] https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/timeline search for 1945 July 23 entry.
> The entirety of my grandparents generation being able to Facetime their grandkids all over the world since 2010 isn’t a Veblen good.

You are being disingenuous if you believe that Apple Facetime is the only or even dominant voice and/or video call system. WhatsApp alone has between 4 and 5 times the market share of Apple's FaceTime.

You need to come up with another explanation.

> My non English fluent and tech illiterate family members can browse the internet and click on all the malware links without worrying about losing personal data or ruining their device. That’s not a Veblen good either.

Quite frankly, that's complete bullshit. The majority of web users, whether they are computer illiterate or not, don't worry about "malware links" at all, and that concern simply doesn not register in the mind of the Facebook+Instagram+WhatsApp+Twitter crowd.
Yea, was going to say the same. I'm personally sick and tired of hearing "the new normal". No, it's temporary, get over the doomsday fetish. I swear this is worse than those hardcore preppers who pray for an apocalypse. Every person that goes, "the end is near" over every damn thing is literally the least or naively prepared person for such a thing. It's just a fetish developed by people unable to cope with any state of existence. They just think that if no one is doing well, then they're equal with everyone else.
The best way to fight the spread of lies is:

1. To spread truth

2. To hold people accountable for what they say
yeah AVR was like breath of fresh air.
Yeah, the aliens who are simulating us could be using a 64 bit prng at the quantum level and we would still never know the difference, because our measurement technology isn't there. The universe would be deterministic but it's unlikely that we'd ever be able to prove it, unless they left breadcrumbs intentionally.
>Why are we not living in a universe with all possible theories?

We are! At least if the article's assumptions are correct, which I think they are.
You wall chase, then run conduit inside the wall, then repair.
How to Train an Autopilot (Donkey Car)
I've seen damaged cables from kids, cats and dogs. Ive also seen water damage inside, thought that was in the termination so could be fixed. My main objection is that I don't want to see them, with damage coming second.
That's one of my suspicions and why I think you'd want to masquerade Tor itself behind three layers of protocols here, in light of emerging DPI. You don't want cops to knock on your door one day, with a baggie of white stuff in their pocket ready to migrate to one of yours.
Some parts of 'security conscious' behaviour make this attack easier: Not saving a bookmark, or a browsing history, or cacheing any redirects between sessions.

And that means many users are likely re-typing the URLs of the services they want to access every time. Any Tor user who enters bitcointumbler.com instead of https://bitcointumbler.com would be a target of this attack.
I agree, but Gates has to know that on balance e2e encryption is better than not. I too feel the same frustration to a much lesser degree when talking to family members.
This is my concern also.

5G will be great for advertisers, insurance companies, police forces, totalitarian governments and NSA-type organisations. (It may be useful here and there for manufacturers, miners, and farmers.)

Oh well, carrying a smartphone was great while it lasted.
This tends to be a hot button issue for many, but just as a counter to your "ridiculous" claim, history tells us many things, including being able to intercept dangerous communication can stop VERY bad things happening to societies. You can't just look at one side. This isn't a black and white issue, it's about trying to find the right balance. I personally think we should favor personal privacy. I also think any attempts to try and control comms will be fleeting and will ultimately fail with the invention of even better decentralized privacy technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXJ_obaiYQ
> I’ve only (repeatedly) seen compliance & security teams demand enforcement of a policy that breaks production in circumstances where the whole thing could have been easily prevented if they had gone to product teams and had a conversation first, but they didn’t.

This is exactly backwards. Product devs need to reach out to security early in the design phase. There’s no way for a separate security org to understand the app or use case after the fact.

If you want to do $newthing your product dev management needs to involve security, finance, compliance, legal, etc. That’s their job. Developers don’t get to ignore all the normal business constraints the real world offers.

Building within constraints is what engineering is all about.
super-high bandwidth and low-latency? Also given high reliability, I imagine remote drone-flight and remote car-driving.
This is a political project. It's difficult to consider it otherwise in a rational decision making context.

Any engineer would take one look at this and go yep, let's put a nuclear reactor on one or more of Singapore's 64 surrounding islands.

Singapore could get oodles of solar from Malaysia but they obviously aren't interested in doing that. Since the guys financing it have no qualms about fronting this project obviously Singapore is keen to fund this project as a customer but wants to be seen for some reason as a reluctant buyer.