skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, millimeter wave bands, introduced in 5G, don't go as far as 4G. But those bands are in the 5G standard additionally to the lower bands similar to 4G, and are beneficial in places like busy airports, train stations and urban areas. 5G does not mandate to only use the millimeter wave bands (or, for the mater of act, to use them at all).

So in rural areas 5G signals would still use frequencies similar to 4G,so the more efficient use of spectrum will improve coverage and speed.

Regarding the observation that sometimes 3G signals are better than 4G - that might as well be because 4G has problems with congestion when many clients are connected to the same base station. One of areas which also 5G is also improving.
Sure but there’s also the benefit of mining coins right? So depending on the cost of Bitcoin it may be worth Alice spending an extra £100 on mining power to beat Bob, if the payoff is great enough.

Saying this I do agree with you about proof-of-work, I work on a proof-of-stake chain myself.
Ask HN: Customized Animations for Your Newsletter
Hi,

One of the abilities of my startup ToonClip.com is creating customized animations. eg. Lola receives an animation where 'Lola' is mentioned, Jill receives an animation where 'Jill' is mentioned.

Here is an example that was created for a small newsletter - https://toonclip.com/images/lola.gif

In this example the name Lola would be replaced by the newsletter subscriber's name.

I am looking for newsletters to cooperate with for free. Number of users should be between 100 to 1000. If it has more subscribers then a subset would be ok.

Images in newsletters have a high impact. Animations have a higher impact. Animations where the user's name is mentioned, even higher.

Please respond here if you have or know of a newsletter that would be interested in cooperation. Ask questions also if you have any.
Why are we still talking about Bitcoin when there are hundreds of other currencies with no fork, no proof of work, much faster finality/latency/throughput, etc?
Amazon is just the new kid on the block, companies have been doing this for a long time now. I have friends that are or have been the lowest cogs in these massive shipping and delivery machines. The top rung of Amazon doesn't dictate policy down to those lowest cogs. There are layers and layers of middle management who have very few dials to tweak. If those managers want to advance their careers they don't have many options except to squeeze those gains out of the lower rungs. The nice managers sink while the ones that exploit are promoted. It absolutely sucks on the bottom rung, yet those on the bottom know that they have very few if any better options to provide for their families. They are almost all deeply unhappy and there is a sense of despair and hopelessness down there. Everyone better off assumes it's not that bad, but really, they are miserable. Lots of people were wondering how Trump possibly could have gotten elected, but there is a massive amount of unhappy people that are tired of getting squeezed by anyone with authority and were grasping at anything that was remotely promising any change at all. It is bad down there and the hilarious thing is that so much human despair can be alleviated by just acknowledging how hard it is down there and giving the bottom rung an extra quarter or two an hour every few months. The companies would barely notice.
The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks (2009)
Wasn't Elon Musk very close to failing with Tesla and Space X around 2008? He claimed he suffered a nervous breakdown because of it. If he'd failed back then, we probably wouldn't be talking about it today.

Also, Bill Gates had a lot of help from his mom when he needed it most (getting an in with IBM). He had the right leverage.

I've seen people in my life that had access to the right leverage (meaning: the leverage they could use suited their personalities). In all cases they were successful. I believe strongly that when you have leverage that other people do not have access to, and knowledge on how to safely use that leverage then you'll be financially successful.

For example, I feel that a disproportiante amount of children with rich parents benefit from housing prices rising [1]. Even if rich children first start completely in debt, simply by owning a house that on average returns 10% (since it will be in a nice area) that they can later rent out is already a ticket to retirement before one starts working.

Before asking how people can become successful, simply ask yourself if they had a strong form of leverage that they were able to use effectively? If so, then you might want to reconsider that you could have done it as well.

[1] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:q8zP-N... -- weak source I know, but I bet that it's true.
5G is just instructions on how devices should talk over radio waves. The waves the devices decide to talk over very dramatically. On the short-range end, they can talk on 30-60ghz bands; these bands have lots of room to talk, but they’re hard to hear, especially through walls or long distances. On the other end, they can talk on frequencies as low as <600mhz. These are great at penetrating barriers (they’re probably what you use in the middle of nowhere) but there’s less room (free spectrum real estate available) to talk.
And with certain ISP's being done with DS-Lite which is the worst possible solution at the moment. Sure, your core network is now IPV6, but everyone is going through CGNAT for the parts of the internet that are IPV4 only.

It's one of the reasons I moved from Virgin Media (Cable in the UK) to Zen (FTTP) ... proper dual stack so I have native IPV4 AND IPV6.
> But they don't have a lot of stress of other professions

In Ireland there’s a reasonable respect for education – depending on socio-economic background and attitudes young people pick up from their parents – and teaching is still a stressful occupation.

I’ve known a lot of secondary school teachers and unless you’re lucky enough to teach in a well-run school with a majority of students whose parents value education, there’s a huge amount of stress dealing with adolescent behaviour.

In some cases, the teachers are trying to improve the lives of students whose parents who can’t cope because they’re single and struggling to provide for their family and don’t have the time for parenting. In the worst cases, the students have parents who are involved in crime or addicted to drugs.

Bad management of a school by the principal and other administrators can compound. I once lived with a teacher who came home from work crying on a weekly basis because of the abuse she got from anti-social students and the lack of proper disciplinary or management backup meant that the were no serious consequences for abuse of the teacher (or the students who were there to learn). There are many teachers who regularly put up with abuse and harassment that would not be tolerated in any other profession.

The “non-working” hours are spent correcting homework, preparing and refining learning materials, doing administrative paper-work to show what students are attending and/or doing work, follow-up with phone-calls to parents, etc.

I know I wouldn’t want to work as a teacher if the wages were doubled: certainly, the holidays certainly don’t go far enough to balance the day-to-day stress.

BTW, I wouldn’t want to be a nurse either. That’s another profession I have a massive respect for.
That would probably be the only way of doing it. And you would have to give Google a 3 months notice to remove a photograph from your album.
This ship is stuck on the padding.

The canal has different widths at the bottom and surface levels, so the vessel didn't hit the border as some vertical barrier, but stuck on the padding as would land on the beach.

Better solution (if real) would be no padding at all and to let ships 'bounce' of the border, but not to slow them and stuck, I guess ?
I'd settle for knowing when I'm lying to myself.
This is a perfect example of a poorly executed joke.
I think things like centralized exchanges doing trading with centralized technology also "claims" this. Some people seem to be fine with using those as well, even though it supposedly goes against their interest of a payment network without trusted 3rd parties.
I still don't get why people keep using gold mining to defend Bitcoin. Society realized it was artificially slowing down the economy to constrain the money supply arbitrarily. We've been off the gold standard for decades. Nobody uses gold as money anymore.
Yes and not only in the USA but also at least in some European countries.
LTE had that same reputation for a few years. They improved it then and I don’t see why they wouldn’t improve it now.
Squashfs-tools-ng 1.1.0 is released
HackerNews has a huge anti-bitcoin bias, if it isn't clear to you, it should be now.
With concerns about there being so much Fe and Ni that the market would be completely destabilized, it makes me wonder what it would cost to mine and smelt it all into raw materials. It must require a staggering amount of energy.
As with all things government procurement, it solves yesterday’s problems tomorrow.

That mandate made sense with the 70s-80s model of big iron systems built in mainframes/vax/etc or other low change rate systems. It lowered the risk that the customer would lose control of the applications that it built.

That was and is a real problem. I’ve worked in various .gov roles outside of federal, and many key business systems have black boxes that nobody can edit or sole-source proprietary software from some long defunct company.
>To the extent that Stallman used his position at MIT and the FSF to help Jeffrey Epstein evade prosecution under the federal RICO statute for several decades

Can you present any evidence that Stallman did anything of the sort?
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Looks like you might wear your git out.
Anyway this is very cool. It made me want to have a MIDI piano here to try it fully. Great work and I hope you find the time to keep improving it!
That's kinda what I was thinking. Everyone who is saying 'oh the massive supply would send the current market prices to 0' isn't thinking about the massive economic growth potential of new space based building activities.
Slight topic hijack:

I desperately want an eInk display attached to my computer.

I have amblyopia, and my vision can only be corrected to ~20/50. I develop significant eye strain using normal computer monitors and eInk is much easier on my eyes.

The only monitor-sized eInk display I’m aware of for normal consumers is the 13.3” Onyx Boox Max at nearly $1000.

Does anyone know of a cheaper product out there that would meet my needs?
Google is slowly working on deprecating/hiding OEM's GLES drivers, in favor of Vulkan, but we're still very far from that.

Most of Android's rendering is still mostly GLES, using directly OEM's GLES driver. Since Android 10, apps can decide to use Angle for generic GLES over Vulkan, but that's opt-in.

Also the Snapdragon 801 chip of the Fairphone 2 doesn't have (official) support for vulkan
Actually, this happens all the time. Especially in business and relationships. Most of the time we don't know what is objectively true. When there is a disagreement about what is objectively true, we often accuse or judge one another as being liars. What you are saying makes rational sense, but in practice human beings get mixed up about objective vs. subjective truth-telling. Using the term "false-confidence" cuts through the gordian knot by decoupling objective truth from subjective truth. It also recognizes that deception is not a boolean measurement (a lie vs. a truth), but is rather a percentage (somewhat of a lie, somewhat of a truth).
Regardless of what they do to its current director and regardless of where some of the center's donated money came from... why did they close the center? Couldn't they find a new director? Or was the whole center somehow involved?
There are some economic and game theoretic elements in play here. Say you wanted to reverse a trade and could afford a 51% attack, the cost of the chain would drop massively so you’d not benefit by having a load of Bitcoin. The whole community could just fork from that point and pretend it never happened. And people with skin in the game would fund mining to keep the security up to avoid this happening.

Overall though the number of miners will reduce to a small group because the cost is prohibitive, however it should still be secure.
Leaving the arguable utility and purpose aside, why is consuming electricity for securing traditional finance ok, but not for securing crypto based financial system? Isnt traditional systems consuming arguably needless electricity for ATM security, severs, surveillance, transportation, software and its resources that go into securing the system, etc etc? If thats acceptable i wonder why is the energy spent, in the name of PoW, unacceptable?PoW grabs a lot of eyeballs and also lets these paper analysts to easily quantify the consumption. While quantifying the energy consumption of traditional systems is difficult and hence becomes ok..
Drinking strong coffee before exercising increases fat-burning, new study finds
filed under: Things so true they're nearly physics.
Yes! He used these donations to network with elites and manipulated those connections to shield himself. That's how, after being convicted of procuring a child for prostitution in 2008, he was given a brief sentence that included a 6-day-a-week 12-hour-a-day "work release" to his office, and a federal non-prosecution agreement. He obtained that with the help of people like Alan Dershowitz and Steven Pinker, both from Harvard.
Your listening for Web midi events right ?

I really wanted to create a full midi instrument in the browser , as in I capture camera input and then translate that to midi output. Appears this isn't possible in chrome unless you install software to allow act as a sort of bridge.

Was a real bummer to run into this limitation
But one key reason all fruit juice is kosher is that it's pretty easy to get it certified as kosher. You don't have to use any special ingredients or add any special processing steps, and the rabbi won't insist that you personally keep kosher convert to Judaism. That isn't true in this context, where most advocates of "safe spaces" are quite open about the fact that they expect everyone to follow their cultural practices, and that the purpose of a safe space is to help them coordinate this. So pillarization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillarisation) seems like a more likely outcome.
I wonder how much those amateur videos helps real science. Is there anything useful for science to be extracted from that video? I personally think, that modern society with lots of powerful gadgets available and with power of the Internet provides a lot of data which waits to be processed by a competent scientists, but may be I'm overestimating it.
The absurdity is that negative externalities are not being born by those benefiting.
Please... dont take "massacre" for "genocide". Both have very clear definitions and one is not the other!
Nah, the support letter was drafted in 4chan (I saw early drafts of it in /g/) and promoted in 4chan. It's gotten a bit more support elsewhere now, but it's a 4chan-led initiative, hence why it's signed by a bunch of nobodies (anons, as they prefer to be called).
One argument I hadn't heard yet about this battery thing:

If you think about it, everything is done in one place or another because it's advantageous to do it there. We grow food out in the countryside because we don't find it economically sensible to grow potatoes in Mayfair, where we'd rather have hedge funds.

Are potatoes then a solar panel, used to capture and transport energy to fund managers?

I mean sure, but in a trivial way that doesn't really illuminate any economic issue. Specialization has been known for some time.
The primary flaw in that plan is indicated by following the first "in 2009 if not earlier" link. After fairly quoting Stallman, in context, the author says:

"Do I believe that Richard is attempting to deliberately denigrate women? Not in the slightest. But I also don't believe that someone entirely gender-blind would have made the above joke."

If the requirement to be in the WokeFSF is to be, and to always have been, entirely "gender-blind", everybody would be guilty and eligible for expulsion. As this requires selective enforcement, it becomes entirely political.

If I can't have ever expressed the desire to have sex with even a hypothetical woman, even as a metaphor, or have ever said that I wanted to prioritize outreach towards women or minorities in some context, I'm not qualified to join. To be "gender-blind" I have to never have supported affirmative action or quotas, which I have, energetically.

What I'm trying to say is that it isn't specifically that people capable of delivering wouldn't join a WokeFSF, it's that everyone joining a WokeFSF would be in a precarious position. People who remain in an FSF that tolerates it's leader joking about taking away people's Emacs virginity are not in a precarious position, even if they find those jokes gross and don't enjoy engaging with some of the leadership.

Nobody is going to toss you out of the non-woke FSF for being too woke, but the opposite isn't true.
I read the article. I agree that there is a creepy imposter after this guy.

I was only commenting on his tattoos, which are unoriginal and a dime a dozen. The imposter getting those same tattoos is - in this day and age - equivalent to having an identical wardrobe.

Yes, in addition to the actually bizarre and creepy copying of the academic work.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56012952

Bitcoin consumes 'more electricity than Argentina'
Psychologist here, and yes this is commonly done in studies where you have access to that information. However these statistical controls are imperfect at best due to things like generational effects of education. E.g., first generation educated behaves differently from a long line of educated family members in ways that are sometimes hard to define and difficult to measure.
I can't be certain what they meant, but security agents and police will often find themselves in a situation where they need to decide how to devote investigative resources in situations where they have limited information. The information they do have might depend on their assessment of the veracity of what they are being told. In that case they may well have only their judgement to go on. I think that's reasonable, what else are they going to do?

What we need to be careful of is making judgements about innocence or guilt based on subjective opinion.
You need to transport and secure gold between transacting parties, you will need to audit the gold coin/bar/jewelry for purity (you aren't going to blindly trust people are you?)
You say “we” but there’s slim chance that everyone reading this even on HN would agree with this value (and I say value because “censorship is wrong” is a normative assumption).
> If bitcoin was changed to require a fraction the amount of electricity all of these ideas would suddenly fall apart

This is actually a weird game theory problem because there are a lot a miners with expensive hardware that would be worthless if such a change happened. You could fork it, but you'd have to attract miners after burning them (possible if commodity GPUs were viable, again), and you'd have to convince people that the new tokens are also valuable, and this isn't just Bitcoin Cash II.

Bitcoin has odd, long-term systemic risks based around miners.
I'm probably talking 3-4 years ago.
I feel like this study would be more insightful if it looked at how many of these pitches went onto actually receive funding
To be clear, I agree.

The point I was trying to make was that stable identity, whether real or pseudonymous, has value in a security context.
I guess it would take a lot of patience, but it should be doable, maybe even more feasible than some contemporary music that is heavy on sound fx.

I don't find this as rewarding as trying to understand how a piece "works" though, or creating something new.
> I was not familiar with the original argument but it's so ridiculous at face value that I wonder if a rebuttal was necessary.

Apparently a huge number of blinded people run in amok preaching how Bitcoin is saving the world.

It is not.

There is no single reason for bitcoin to exist other than perpetuate value for people who are invested in it while also burning energy at a rate of not a very small country.

It needs to be repeated until enough people inept in financial or technical matters understand it.
> Yup, many of the "signs someone is lying". Are actually signs someone is uncomfortable/insecure.

Which might be why LEO are so partial to them. The power to ruin vulnerable people is irresistible to some folks.
Any major city? These are trends. It's like asking where do you live where just about everyone is wearing a Nike shirt.

Do an image search for "more knuckle tattoo" and "hand rose tattoo" you'll see tons.
How was free speech in the .. non-modern world any different?
There's a common misconception that 5G specifically means you need to use millimeter wave (very high-band) networks. 5G can be on the same frequency as 4G, and it is more efficient than 4G - so with greater efficiency, it's easier to get usable output from that signal than with 4G. The signals will go "as far" regardless of 3G/4G/5G assuming they're broadcasted at the same frequency and power level, but the device being able to use it is a different story.

The reason 2G and 3G can sometimes reach further than LTE is for a similar reason - because it's easier to "hang onto" a 2/3G signal. The reason it's easier though is different - not because 3G is more efficient, but because it's less complex. This reddit thread[0] explains it better than I can, so I'll paste a comment from it here:

>>> The modulation scheme (how the digital "data" is packed into the "analog" wave to transmit it over the air) is simpler for [2G], which requires a lower wave quality to decode. It's the same reason you are more likely to get an [2G] signal farther away than LTE

Note that the reason 3G might be "faster" is probably due more to the congestion issue I talked about before - when the LTE network is oversubscribed, meaning too many people are connected to it and are slowing it down, sometimes dropping back to 3G (which very few people are connected to in 2021) can lead to you fighting less over your data.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/tmobile/comments/lwwkrl/when_was_th...
This rule only applies when the majority don't care about the outcome, though. Halal meat: small minority cares deeply, majority doesn't care or even notice; therefore it's easiest for all meat to be halal. If the minority preference actually impinged on something the majority wanted, like "no meat at all", then the minority would certainly not have this influence (and there might be conflict). Notice that vegans, a small and passionate minority, have not imposed their preference on society at large.

If it's a "dictatorship", it's a very, very soft one.
I believe the purpose of this tax is in part to lower demand thus reducing sale prices. Some municipalities have credits for first home owners to offset that. If anything, to increase accessibility for first owners, the taxes (along with the associated credits) could be increased.
Cargo ship stuck in Microsoft Flight Simulator
I laughed at formal methods of program proof until I came across a simplified version of cleanroom development methodology (which breaks program components into 'program primes' like A then B, If A then B, While A do B and for A in B do C) that allowed you to formally prove outcomes on paper. I have long since lost the document but to this day, I construct most of my work around these primes for certain projects.