skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5G allows for more granular management of network capacity, so you could think of a stadium deployment as somewhere between existing LTE and a WiFi mesh network. The carriers can look at dashboards and maps, and figure out where people are getting slowdowns so they can put up some more 5G nodes.

This granularity can mean more precise location data/telemetry and some interesting opportunities for edge caching and edge compute.

Existing GPS, in my experience, is far from perfect for geocoding more dense areas, so the idea that 5G can reliably put you out in front of a restaurant, or even in a particular floor and room of a building is promising (and a bit scary).

What if your games were streamed from a local edge node, and you only played with people on the same node at near-zero latency? Or maybe you're at a stadium, and your phone is streaming replays of the game directly from the stadium without going over the internet. And your phone knows exactly where the nearest vending machine is, and the vending machine is used as an edge device to give you live stock data and process the transaction.

I think it's a good supplement to LTE. People are going crazy because it's not an in-your-face speed improvement, but the reality is that it can mature to keep dense urban areas connected in a way that LTE wasn't really designed for.

In terms of it replacing WiFi/fixed line, I think one good reason it might is that it's simple. Down the line, some people might look at the process of "getting internet installed" and setting up a modem/access point as archaic, when you can just buy a device and have it connect. I kind of like having a separate fixed internet line though, because if one goes down for some reason, I still have the other.
By purchasing electricity with Bitcoin.
> ... Australia ... has very strict road safety laws and practices, which are generally supported by the community

I think this is it. Australians are okay with just about any kind of big-brother surveillance or nanny-stateism as long as it's sold to them with a good story.

Australian roads are on par with other wealthy Western nations (US is an outlier), and Oz has an advantage of not having snow/ice and related hazards. The cops there are largely harassing people and raising money, it's not driven by an aim to reduce harm or protect drivers.
“inflammatory” is an opinion
Ah that makes sense. Where I hike in northern Spain there is a lot of foliage cover so this wouldn't be as much of an issue.
Being constantly watched has negative psychological effects, check the old work on "panopticon" prisons.
Bitcoin as a flexible load has utility, the misappropriation of the word 'battery' does not.
When it came out it was very much perceived as a US military language. Because it was, developed by them to reduce the 'tower of babel' programming languages.

Regular people saw no reason to learn it, and at the time there was a high level of military distrust amongst the young.

Does the US Military still require it?
Vacancy tax isn't enough. Any residential property you own that is not your primary dwelling needs to be highly taxed. With how low western interest rates are currently, it's way too profitable to own property you don't ever plan to use yourself.

Housing is essential. It's bordering on a human right. When only the people who already own property can afford the prices, you've effectively created an insurmoutable barrier between the haves and the have-nots. The solution is to build more homes in the areas with jobs, and to make it unprofitable for private actors to own rental properties.
The Scythians are fascinating.

I read some history that makes a good case that they are the lost Tribe of Dan from early Israel, as well as the basis for most Norse mythology.

EDIT: Source is this reprint from 1880 by Colonel J.C. Gawler. He even goes so far as phonetic analysis of the languages used, references and makes an extremely compelling case in my opinion.

I started researching the Tribe of Dan a couple of years back after realizing some parts of Greek mythology sounded a lot like references that Jewish history predated by 1,000 years. Specifically the Rod/Staff of Asclepius (a serpent on a staff for healing) sounded a lot like the poison healing bronze snake on a pole that Moses created in Numbers 21:9, which was then destroyed 800 years later in 2 Kings 18:4 because it had become an idol.

Dan was the seafaring, superstitious merchant tribe and that traded across the Mediterranean. There are a lot of notes that trace the origin of the Hercules legend to Samson, who I believe was from the Tribe of Dan as well.

It's really interesting stuff.

https://www.amazon.com/Dan-Colonel-J-C-Gawler/dp/B002YBHRIQ/
> Evidently not very hard, as I've seen in my home state of California

The US had been one of THE major proponents of nuclear technology. If the country lost interest, there must be a deeper reason than 'we did not try hard enough'. I would guess that the US invested more than a trillion dollar (in todays money) in its nuclear industry.

Instead lately the US invested in fracking with huge climate impact and President Trump was supporting coal mines...
San Jose electric light tower
My personal view:

It is often said that the basic data format of Unix is unstructured text. This isn't true; the standard text chomping utilities are rather oriented around a very basic kind of structured text, in which newlines delineate the highest level of semantic subdivision (and whitespace often delineates the next level down). This is an excellent format, which allows the easy composition of lazy pipelines that operate on one chunk ("line") at a time. Unfortunately, few tools actually generate this format properly, frequently splitting a single semantic unit over multiple lines so that it looks pretty in a terminal. This breaks the fundamental user interaction model that the console toolchain was designed around, requiring the user to write elaborate parsers every time they want to move data around.

I'm also annoyed that 'cut' doesn't collapse whitespace, not even optionally; the usual retort to this complaint is "use awk", an entire programming language. So much for "do one thing well".
"There's a never ending supply of desperately poor people"

There is such a thing as government-mandated conditions in most places even in the US (I'm not from the US but I'm not that stupid), and even if not, at a certain point people are better off doing nothing than being so badly abused, and there is always a better option below a certain level of mistreatment.

This commentary is just-so narrative, not serious discussion.

I'm bouncing out for some sleep, thanks.
Choosing to believe we have enough evidence to know/state a definitive answer is belief itself, no?

Nobel-winning physicist, Roger Penrose.

Question: Do the wonders of physics and the beauty of its laws inspire belief in something that is beyond science?

Answer: ‘There is a sense in which I would say I’m an agnostic[...] But that doesn’t mean I’m an atheist. Do I believe in something outside science? Well, it’s a bit hard to know. What is science? Where are its boundaries? Is there something going on in consciousness, which is outside of science? Well, I like not to think that. It is certainly outside the science we have now. But it’s something we can explore scientifically. Whether we will have an understanding of what’s going on, which is deep enough to solve the mystery of what it is to be, I don’t know.’

Source: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-singular-mind-roger-pe...
Fuckin' who the fuck do you fuckin' think you're fuckin' fuckin' with you fuckin' fuck? Fuck!
By creating racial tension, the upper class in control of media can distract people's anger away from class division.
So with true hygienic macros, this is not the case. Even with procedural macros, quoted identifiers are resolved where they are quoted not where they are expanded. Identifiers that are not in scope at the macro definition site would have to be parameters, and those are caught at the invocation site just like any other identifier (the quote and splice cancel out).

I am not sure whether Rust procedural macros are always that hygienic, so fair point if they aren't.
I think parent’s construction works just fine if you disallow removes, so it grows monotonically, regardless of how dramatic the increase in keys, so long as you move over 2 keys for every update to your map.

My comment was a description of a precise “drastic change” where incrementality becomes sophisticated. (Though in part I was hoping for a response which identifies an elegant approach without the complication I mentioned.)
Iron and nickel are not that attractive. But if you could nab a gold one... I think there'll be a huge market for gold-titanium alloys.
You’re being pedantic about the poetic usage of the word “worship”.
I would second this: look at how they treat their engineers Vs their warehouse staff
It would also probably invade their privacy in other ways, especially if they are not given enough time to use the restroom. It appears drivers have been defecating and urinating while on the move, in their delivery trucks. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez even got into a Twitter feud with the verified Amazon News account over the ordeal, and posted a screenshot of an email complaining about "poop" coming back in returns; they were using the boxes or return envelopes to defecate in.

ref: https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1375502593863073792?s=20

A solution would be to somehow implement bigger cabs with the ability to quickly "go" when you need. Another solution would be to give drivers a break when they need and ease up the pressure.
To help users organize their photos by location, date, and time. Nothing nefarious about it, it is something that the majority of people find convenient.
I found active bookmarks in Firefox to meet my needs before they removed that feature. I don't remember Google Reader all that well and I'm wondering how it was different than other RSS readers. For example, Akregator is commonly available today. (I remember that Google Reader could aggregate more than just RSS feeds, but I don't remember exactly what.)
So what? Why does this bother you? Young black women are hugely under-represented in STEM fields, so this is a nice story of someone breaking through that and it gets coverage.

The insinuation is that she doesn't deserve it, that she was only awarded this because she is a young black woman. Are you really placed to judge this? Do you know the ins-and-outs of the award criteria, what the other candidates were like, have you concertedly worked through your anti-black prejudices? No offence but I doubt all three.
> since the tax was imposed in April 2017

Base rate matters here. They are measuring `Sales subject to foreign buyers tax`, not the impact of foreign buyers.

This percentage of foreign buyers THAT ALSO pay their taxes. The foreign capital that flows into residential real estate mostly held in numbered corporations which are not captured in the above data.

> Why not just park your money in the US where no such taxes exist and is overall less hostile to foreign ownership?

After 9/11 the USA (relative to Canada) got very serious about prosecuting money launderers. Tax rates are less important than getting dirty money clean.

> government inaction is putting Canadian banks in an awkward position as they seek more growth south of the border. Americans are keenly aware that criminals exploit [Canada's] weaker laws.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-...
>"what do you eat?"

It's a grammatically correct sentence but it's asking something else (ambiguously). A native speaker would probably respond with "What do you mean? What do I like to eat? What type of food do I normally eat?" But they probably wouldn't take it, unless adjusting for a poorly phrased question, as "What are you eating right now?"
Implementation, design, and adoption. All in all, for the wonderful claims it's supporters make, adoption is the elephant in the room.
Trying to check into a hotel in Glasgow with bad jet lag put me nearly in tears.
5G is the next generation of mobile connectivity. I can't list all of the detailed changes off the top of my head, but some of the biggest changes I'm aware of are;

The use of a different radio band, therefore less contention in the existing mobile bands - less congestion results in better speeds overall.

Reducing the range of base stations. shorter range means less clients, less congestion and therefore better speeds, whilst also deploying them more densely to cope with wider areas and higher bandwidth densities. Also, shorter range reduces the power requirements, meaning mobile devices will have longer battery life (nothing magical, probably not even noticeable to the average user), or it can be built into smaller/low power devices such as IoT.

Utimately, 5G is irrelevant to end users until it's actually deployed widely. Just like 3G and 4G, the end user has no impact on the deployment of the network other than the demand for it. So, all the hype around 5G is almost entirely marketing, politics etc. It only really matters once 5G is deployed across the areas you visit daily, and until then the previous generations of mobile connectivity will continue to serve just fine.

Your suggestion about a football stadium is an interesting test case. Ideally, an area that size would be served by up to a dozen base stations, spread throughout the stadium. Compare this with a single 3G base station that would cover the stadium, plus a large portion of the local area, and you can see the pros/cons fairly easily. But how many people are surfing the web whilst watching a game? or taking calls, answering texts etc. Very few during active play time, but there'll be large bursts of traffic in any breaks in play which will stress the older mobile generations to breaking point whereas 5G is designed to deal with that scenario fairly well.
Not "every technological achievement seemed laughable before its time". Some were even imagined long before they came to reality.

Also that does not make every idea imaginable also achievable.

And conversely a lot of technological predictions were considered pretty seriously which are pretty far away from today (look at all the future predictions of the early 20th century. Flying cars and humanoid robots and all).

Your comparison with existing cars replacing horses at that time is pretty out of whack with our abilities right now and the task of terraforming Mars, even the question IF making it habitable is even possible. We cannot even redirect asteroids...
Learning to play by ear and learning to play from a score are both useful and reinforce each other.

In addition, I would encourage learning to use music notation software like Musescore. These days I transcribe a lot of pieces because I have preferences about how they’re laid out on the page. (I prefer lead sheets and dislike turning pages.) Also, for some pieces I want to play, the sheet music isn’t available. Listening to a recording to figure out how it works can take a while, so why not write it down? You don’t want to forget and have to do it again.

Having a three ring binder of music laid out how you like it is very nice. It makes it considerably easier to go back to a piece if you haven’t played it in a while. You can also change it whenever you want and print it out again, making it more your own arrangement.
He totally sounds like an independent contractor, definitely has a lot of control over his work. Most definitely not an employee of Amazon or a shell company who’s only customer is Amazon.
This assumes all factors relevant to success can be observed and measured, at least to the extent that they might be deemed reasonably equivalent between two people. That doesn’t seem possible in the real world, whose complexity can hardly be accounted for by the broad sort of categories you mention.
why not try the moon first, before mars?
By this logic, dollar bills make a much better "battery".
Poop can be a microbial power source at waste treatment plants with the right tech. Unlike btc it pulls power from waste streams and makes it available.
The idea is intriguing, but floating cities makes me think there’s little tolerance for error (or a very easily reachable point of no return).

The platform itself has to be constantly maintained, which requires a crew. Military or at least cruise ship with disciplined crewman, rather than anything civilians can be trusted or expected to maintain.
Stallman was responding only to the accusations against his colleague and friend, the late Prof. Marvin Minsky, not making policy prescriptions. It is clear that he did not want to believe that Prof. Minsky was guilty, and he engaged in precisely that direct and unfiltered thinking aloud that can get people who are on the autistic spectrum into trouble.
It really was the heyday of Linux on the desktop. Maybe it's just my friend group, but I had several less-nerdy friends running Ubuntu around that time. They're all on Windows/Mac now.
Can I guess? Wikipedia?

Never assume people will notice and understand correctly, it's much better to add a direct link.

Anyway, it is very weird that the article talks about the 2020 announcement, but doesn't explain that is mostly debunked (as explained in your quote in the ggp comment).
So does global warming.

I think such methods to block out sunlight will be the only viable solution. Not because it's better than others, but simply because decision makers seem to have agreed to keep ignoring this problem, in the hopes that when shit hits the fan they are enjoying their retirement. And then the hotfix ideas will be the first to try.
TIL: I do't need 5g on my next phone (to be acquired late 2021) I can wait till my next phone (2-3 years down the road).
I think different individuals learn different ways. I had piano lessons from a young age, and everything was done off of sheet music. I would spend all this time reading through note by note, chord by chord, working my way through. But even after practicing reading music for over 10 years, I ALWAYS learn to play a song much, much faster by hearing it than by trying to read the music. My brain just can't automatically look at the position of black dots and translate that to which keys to press, I have to actively think about it, but once I can hear the music, my brain says, "I want to hear this note, so that's what note that dot must correspond to".

Imagine trying to learn to read English, and instead of seeing words, you see a bunch of letters and have to decipher each letter. I'd almost describe it as dyslexia for musical notation or something (which isn't a problem for me when reading text). I can recognize C,D,E,F,G pretty instantly because of their position relative to the bottom bar of the treble clef, but as soon as you start getting above that, I start having to count spaces relative to a known position, because everything internal looks like a big jumble. So G-B-E (on the treble clef) is easy because I see G as the base, and then the other two notes are space by two, but if it's just B-E without the context of the G, I have to stop and figure out exactly where those notes fall. And as soon as I get below C (on the treble clef), I start having to stop to count the separator lines.

But if I can hear what I'm trying to play, I can usually just jump to the correct note/chord. Maybe I'll have to stop and experiment to get the right chord periodically, but I don't have to stop and analyze the position of each dot on the score. To me, the greatest value of sheet music for me has always been in keeping place, so I associate the location of specific patterns on a specific page, and based on all the context, and know that I'm supposed to be at this point in the song that I've already taken the time to memorize beforehand. But I'm pretty much never paying attention to the actual notes on the notation at that point.
To vehemently support the policy of the hour as moral and correct, and then to be later shown to be wrong. At best a fool and at worst a criminal. Is more than many can tolerate. They would rather maintain the lie in the face of all evidence.
"The [Republican] party has never been more avowedly Christian or more clearly out of line with gospel doctrines."

I think this introduces one of the largest spiritual problems of our generation. I have talked to an astounding number of young Christians [the group for which I identify] who have been turned away because of the Church's failure to answer their questions on a sophisticated enough level. And I don't fault them for that. But as most of our churches become more extreme and socially conservative, I think there is a huge community of people who yearn to belong to something more progressive (and, ironically, more aligned to the gospel).

I really hope to see a solution because the current trend of complete rejection of the church is unfortunate and much wisdom will be lost. But you see that the younger postmodern generations really are afraid of institutions and power as a whole, which is why their protests are led in a decentralized manner (BLM, women's march). I would guess a portion of this mindset is due to a bit of a "perfectionist complex", i.e. many live in fear of being criticized by the mob and thus will refrain to committing themselves to an institution short of perfect. Unfortunately, this makes them far less effective movements than they could be. They have something to learn from the church in this regard.
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/how-to-give-mars-an-atmos....
> every person on the planet—all 7.5 billion of us—would get roughly $1.3 billion.

This is Cunningham's Law applied to attract publicity.
Yeah. In the future one would say "Of course the legs of my table are made from gold-titanium alloy. It's just the cheapest stuff around. Besides, you couldn't have them this thin and light in any other material and that would balloon transport cost and messed up feng shui. It's just a normal table from Ikea."
Money doesn’t buy electricity in a blackout. That’s the difference between an abstraction and the underlying reality.
Possibly. But being raised with sloppy language like that reinforced lazy thinking. "Welp, if we're all worshipping something I'm sure glad I was raised worshipping the 'true' god."
Anyone discussing unionisation on company property or systems is probably not as cautious as they should be.
Carl Jung theorized that unconscious human psychology desperately needs a higher purpose to live for, and for most of human history that need has been filled by religion/mythology.

Our scientific revolution, which largely usurped religion, may have thrown the baby out with the bath water and has left many people with a deep unconscious void in their lives which has largely been filled by pious political ideology which echoes many of the same concepts and dynamics of human mythologies.
Harvard closes evolution center after finding connections to Jeffrey Epstein
> She also dressed as a Native American at a Halloween party as a teenager.

As someone who grew up in Germany, this made me chuckle, as probably 50% of children did this at least once in their life where I lived for "Fasching". The other half were cowboys.