skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, kinda complicated. The reason they're telling people to use the "5G" network on their access point isn't originated in confusion about 2G/5G (although for sure some people ARE confused).

The reason they're doing it is that one way people test their internet is go to a download speed tester, and to prevent complaints and confusion, the ISP wants the fastest download possible.

The 2.4GHz band is incredibly noisy, and even a microwave running in an adjacent unit can tank your throughput. 5GHz doesn't penetrate walls as well as 2.4GHz, which means less noise in your house. So an excellent, easy way (for average consumers) to test WAN throughput is by using the 5GHz network with line of sight.

The intent and origination is not 5G confusion, but rather 5GHz's increased bandwidth due to a lower noise environment in the average user's house.

And actually, in a way "get faster speeds if they use the “5G” network exposed by their wifi router" is true: if you live in dense housing, between all of the devices spamming on 2.4 and the fact that walls "quiet" 5GHz reasonably effectively, using 5GHz can actually be a marked improvement for many users!
> 12 notes in a scale? Their particular frequencies? That whole multiplying and dividing business? Why the letters are in the wrong order. Why have sharps and flats instead of just more letters?

The number of notes and the ratios between their frequencies are fundamental. The rest are historical accidents.

A good place to start is David Benson's 'Music: a Mathematical Offering'. Available free online here: https://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/d.j.benson/pages/html/maths-mus....
> For context-specific questions it's even worse. The other day a stop owner that sells coffee beans insisted that we try out conversing with Google translate. I was trying to find the specific terms for natural, honey, and washed process. My Chinese is okay, but there's no way to know vocab like that unless you specifically look it up and learn it. Anyway, I felt pressured to go through with the Google translate charade even though I knew how the conversation would go. I said I wanted to know if this coffee was natural process. His reply was 'of course all of our coffees are natural with no added chemicals!' Turns out the word is 日曬, sun-exposed. AI is no replacement for learning the language.

Does "natural process" have a Wikipedia page? I've found that for many concepts (especially multi-word ones), where the corresponding name in the other language isn't necessarily a literal translation of the word(s), the best way to find the actual correct term is to look it up on Wikipedia, then see if there is a link under "Other languages".
C# 9 in-process Azure Functions
> so that we can get rid of meaningless expiration dates

Not all food decay is driven by pathogens. We’d still need expiration dates for chemical degradation etc.
The weights only have an error of 5%, which is a standard deviation of about a gram at any particular point in time. Manufacturing error is a far more parsimonious explanation.
I don't know what you mean by "much", but Germany has a peak power capacity of 56 GW of Solar. On good days the output comes close to the nuclear output of France, which is mostly nuclear in power production. German wind power occasionally eclipses French nuclear power production.
One of my personal working theories is oxidized fats are bad for you long term.
As far as I know, in the case of stadiums and other relocation and retention tax breaks, almost every case of tax breaks have been less effective at economic stimulation than chopping up same amount and mailing reasonable chunks to random (or all if finely chopped enough) citizens in the area. That's postmortem analysis, not the rosy promises that never pan out.
Changing your own beliefs is quite easy. At any moment you can simply choose to believe something else.

Changing other people's beliefs is more challenging, but so is changing other people's clothes.
But outsourcing already exists, with well known pros and cons. I would be a bit surprised if this WFH thing meant that everything went offshore.

There is still a huge culture gap to bridge that sure enough some firms will try, but enough others will not. Even hiring an English speaker in India would put off a fair number of people, and that's despite us all knowing that IIT grads are pretty smart.

What I do think will happen is this will turn out to be a win for experienced devs and a lose for new grads. I can now hire a semi retired guy (or gal) who wants to live in the countryside and pick up his kids each day, for something that we can negotiate to suit us both comfortably.

The grad is gonna have problems, because I don't come across a lot of people who think they can be trained at home. They need that injection of culture that is a bit of leap into the deep end of the pool for most people when they start working.
Closer than that: it's about 24 hours 37 minutes.

I don't think that's all that strange, but it is at least fairly convenient for when people start going to Mars.

What I find a whole lot stranger is that Earth, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus all have a surface gravity of around 10 m/s^2 plus or minus about 14%. That's either a heck of a coincidence, or there's something about planet formation that favors that particular outcome.
there are modern products in this niche, and there is huge interest. the market certainly seems to be there (regium tried to defraud people for almost a million dollars i believe was the kickstarter sum before they got shut down).

there is squareoff [0], with new products currently in development (swap / neo)

then there was regium, an elaborate scam on kickstarter [1]

now there is phantom [2], which hopefully is not a scam. they at least posted some engineering details on hackaday [3]

squareoff has chess.com support, hopefully with lichess support coming (they are promising it, but has not yet happend). phantom claims working lichess support and to work on chess.com support

[0] https://squareoffnow.com

[1] https://www.chess.com/news/view/update-on-regium-chess

[2] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wondersubstance/phantom...

[3] https://hackaday.io/project/179268
I just cut out avocado toast and now I'm well on my way to 150k!
This is very beautiful written. I haven't finished it yet but i already made a mental note to check it more by the author just for the prose alone.
My comment clearly explains the distinctions, and if you fail to notice them you're either being willfully stubborn or just don't understand basic reasoning.

One more time but even simpler: Bitcoin's structure is not designed with willful deception in mind. There is risk and some organizations working in the ecosystem are indeed fraudulent but the BTC blockchain itself is not. That alone makes it very different from a ponzi scheme.

Secondly: Earlier investors investments may grow or shrink in value depending on a number of factors. They're not dependent on new investors by default, and no transfer is taking place. Previous investors hold their same bitcoin and new investors hold their own, with their respective returns depending on market price of their assets subsequent to purchase, not literal transfers of cash/assets from new investors to previous ones to maintain a fraudulent picture of high returns. This latter process is how a ponzi scheme works, and The difference between these two things is obvious.

By your absurd definition of bitcoin as a ponzi scheme, much of the stock market and especially many high performing stocks with market caps way in excess of their book value could also be called ponzi schemes.
I was referring to a choice between WebKit and Chromium/Blink in Otter, not the web in general, though the sheer resources required to keep up with the Web(R) from other players may be leading us that way (hopefully not).

For example, after switching the preferred engine in about:config, it's even possible to leave Otter in a transitional state, having one tab load a web page in WebKit, and another in Blink, in the same running application.
You mean like NYC and DC winning Amazon's tax break war? Those "smaller places"?

You can do it by having lower costs in total. We just should incentivize market forces to work at the land/labor level and not bring taxes into it.
>I got to see, up close, what deindustrialization looks like, during the 1980s and 1990s in the US.

I don't have the same experience so I can't argue it.

> Allowing the US tech industry to be outsourced would be an identical repeat of the stupidity of what the US intentionally allowed to happen to its industrial empire

And yet it seems to me that you're doing rather well as an economy all these years later. Wasn't the capitalist argument that the size of the pie is not fixed or some such?
Man, that sounds like a crappy future for alcohol.
Venturing Out – Why I left my job to start a company
Since we will not need to rely on batteries for utility energy storage, battery production capacity is no impediment to renewable grid storage buildout.

There are plenty of known viable storage methods, which you oddly omit all of except compressed air. There are no impediments to their implementation beyond simply scaling up; no new materials science, no new physics or chemistry, or industrial process barriers need to be solved. It is just not clear which will end up cheapest in each use environment.

Other, less mature technologies, e.g. electrically synthesizing ammonia and hydrogen efficiently, need to be developed anyway, and once developed, will also be incidentally useful for storage. Their independent industrial demand will drive fast improvement, so they may come to displace the others.
Then you have the KB and KiB thingy.
Yea. First Windows 8 RT ARM devices used UEFI + Secure Boot. I don't see why they would change the model.
Both those countries also have sixty years of exposure to cheese through the US military presence, the change may be fairly recent and may be somewhat limited to areas foreigners are likely to go.
I have never claimed, that we would replace all fresh water used on this planed by desalinated water. This certainly is neither feasably nor necessary. At best, it can be an important contribution to water supply in many regions.

I was only answering to the original post which suggested we would build nuclear power plants to desalinate water. There I commented that solar would be cheaper (and more environment friendly) for the same task.
I have something like it, but this one looks better maintained. Thanks!
… While simultaneously living under the umbrella of the US taxpayers who fund a monster US defense department that sends young Americans to secure resources for these corporations by killing countless people in defenseless nations.
Did I miss something, or does the article not answer the title question?
Very true. And I can relate to that on a hardware startup I’m working on giving people bathroom privacy.

I went in thinking “oh I’ll just pay some people to fix all the technical things and I’ll do what I’m good at: sales.”

Money ran out and so far I coded a website from scratch, learned web design, written software for the unit and just finished the first circuit boards. And the further I get the deeper the rabbit hole goes. It’s probably gonna take 20 years to get where I wanted to be in 5 and that’s fine.
I live in Victoria, on the water, and this past Sunday and Monday were the hottest days I’ve ever experienced. Nicaragua in the summer wasn’t that hot. The European heat wave of 2018 wasn’t that hot. My friend who just moved here from Johannesburg said he’s never been that hot. People were baking cookies inside their cars. I was worried to leave my pets home during the day in case the inside temperature went too high. The lake that we swim in to cool off was bathtub warm.

And Lytton was 10 degrees hotter than that.
I exercised my agency by annoying my teachers. That tended to lead to me having much lower grades in subjectively graded classes. It was a lot of fun, but I cringe sometimes in retrospect.

Here's one example:

Slashdot posted a link to a place that would let you search all graduate thesis papers at about the same time I was starting an English class taught by a grad student instructor.

I looked up the instructor's Master's thesis and found it was on <Literature Period X>. While the instructor was passing out the syllabus, I said loudly to the person next to me "I hope we don't have to read anything from <Literature Period X>." The instructor just froze and stared at me mouth agape for about 30 seconds.

By 4 weeks into that class, the instructor informed me that regardless of my performance, I was not going to get a grade higher than a D. I did in fact end up with a D.
Background processing in functional Scala #2
I think it's the other way around with milk. Almost all mammals lose the ability to digest lactose in adulthood. Europeans slowly evolved to tolerate it, presumably because of widespread reliance on cows, sheep, and goats. It's a beneficial adaptation; milk is super-nutritious, and those animals convert indigestible grasses into digestible milk in environments where crops only grow for half the year.
Intriguing but highly disturbing.
That’s very truthy, but there’s quite a bit of jumping to conclusions and correlation-causation issues there.
Really disappointed by the marketing of these projects.
No information whatsoever regarding why I should both download and use the browser.
I understand that's something related to Opera revamping, but I just don't understand why such projects don't invest 5 minutes of time explaining features in plain English, and relegate everything to a niche.
What a pity.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2797030/
Silly frog, teaching agency to children is for the ruling class! The productives are best hammered into small-minded obedience.
No, you’re entirely wrong. Any call to nationalize just firmly placed you in the most left of the left-wing side of the Democratic Party. The one with no power and the one moderate Democrats like to distance themselves from.
> giant waste of my time and energy

Telling people not to go to school is bad life advice.

> I was [in school and thriving]

I don't, would you go into the time machine and like, not go to school, as a young person?
I think it's a bit different, as people adapted to milk which is usually been beneficial (if it's available).
“There are countless startups are trying to fix this, therefore it will get better gradually.”

Better how? By making WFH more like working in an office?
4chan asks the WM to censor it, but the WM actually does it.
isn't wtf8 'double utf8' ie the typical utf8 escape encoded in utf8 Ãƒetc?

wobble transform 8bit seems like an unnecessary hijacking of a well labeled error state
I don't live that far up north but I'm just a bit surprised 25C is considered uncomfortable, especially if it's only a short way from usual room 22C.
I would think that not thinking alpha particle as "made up" from protons and neutrons helpful abstraction in thinking about fission. Yes, they are, but we can't really form them or deform them at will. Specially when you already deal with free neutrons.
Slowfil.es – Deliberately slow-loading resources for testing
I would love an alternative Android store that's curated to filter out the 90% of crApps that show up for me these days in the Play store. Along with a checkbox to exclude those with ads, in-app purchases and other such tricks.
From a former Gap exec:

> How did your time at The Gap shape your thinking about what you do at Herman Miller?

> I interviewed a guy who became my head of digital. He had worked in retail, and he said, “Do you know what excites me most about coming to this industry? I feel like I’m going from making landfill to making heirlooms.”

The fashion industry is the landfill industry.
I think the Martian was great the first time through, but re-reading it isn't as much fun when you know what's going to happen. I didn't enjoy Artemis as much the first time, but I think it holds up better at being interesting and entertaining even when you know what's about to happen.

Hail Mary I haven't read twice yet, but my take is that it fits somewhere in the middle.
Very beautiful, and yet just the idea of what it must have taken to install the lights, floor strips and related extras to that space is borderline claustrophobic...
This doesn't have the answer I expected to see, which is that "2G speed" is often used in terms of throttling, and in that case it usually means 128Kbps. (There's no real consensus on what 3G speeds would be in this context, but carriers tend to aim low.)
They were brilliant and did not deserve to be bullied online.
Yes!! And things like Teddy Ruxpin, that penguin ladder thing and erector set/lego techniks!
I have been on the other end of that. Applied for a network engineering job at a university, as the role was publicly announced. Ended up having the internal "designated candidate" on my interview panel. Not entirely surprisingly, I did not get the job.

I don't think I was supposed to know the name of the internal candidate, but having friends who worked for the uni, I knew the name and, well, the internal candidate would certainly have had a better culture fit.
I know climate is a thing but is there local phenomena explaining this, like the polar vortices that made the US colder than normal?

The article says it's very dry and they're expecting low precipitation thunderstorms which will sadly probably lead to new fires.

e: Article didn't say but this one did: https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/temperatures-ease-in-b-c-as-al...

Apparently there is a big dome of heat trapped between mountain ranges, like a giant bubble. A combination of pressure and geography means air can't penetrate as easily to move it on, so it's just sitting, and getting hotter.
Broke: forced sterilization
Woke: forced gene therapy to disincentivize undesirable behavior.

(I note that another article on the front page is entitled "The most precious resource is agency", though I haven' gotten to it quite yet).
As a RH'er who has started to see a creep in contact coming from IBM'ers the past few days have been very peaceful.
true.

But (hopefully) most of the time good naming, parameters and return types and the context of the library does that.

But you are right, esp. complex methods or APIs require lots of documentation- but tbh I doubt it is in sources...
What about be the feature vector for each of the x_i in the sequence? Would it just be the numerical value? Or could you also add a time embedding?
The article's argument is that a state run distribution would have eliminated those manufacturing errors, but they could have just used them to their advantage.
> the smarter the agent gets, the less direct the derivation and the harder to explain it

at some point it should be different enough to stand on its own, right? then we have no problem with copyrights
Because the calling phone is under thousands of slabs of concrete
Use TOR browser
Are you willing to give up some of your salary to hire people in other poorer countries than where you live? Would you rather your neighbors and family get good jobs and/or training for good jobs? Or would you rather those jobs go to people in another country? Are you a “dirtball nationalist” going down a “dark path” for wanting people in your community to get these jobs?
The Values Encoded in Machine Learning Research
Official Playstation 1 Development Kit (Hardware) (2020)
What's really exciting for that sort of conflation is that wifi 6 does not support 6GHz, but wifi 6E does.
We followed the process with the IRS, doing a bunch of verification as you said, which gave us access to the API docs. We're only part-way through the full process of becoming an Online Provider per https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p3112.pdf

I wish it were simpler. I get why the IRS wants to verify who is submitting tax data to them, though.
> The system developed by Bell Labs, troff, was as different [from SGML] as could be: a direct typesetter with no imposed structure ...

Actually, the point of SGML's tag omission, content model, and shortform/alternate syntax features is to infer a document hierarchy from a flat, printer instruction representation. Though I'm not aware this has ever been applied to troff/nroff. James Clark should know, as not only did he develop the SGML reference implementation (SP/OpenSP) but also groff.
> So imagine you’re a small business

Is SparkFun considered to be a small business?
That way, the entire world owes India for inventing 0.

Past inventions don't count as brownie points in the present
Good on you Tim!
Прогрессивные веб-приложения: исчерпывающий набор ресурсов
> That’s what barrel makers told the horseshoe fitters :)

I'm not following - can you explain the analogy?
There's a nuanced point here that looking at GDP % vs inflation adjusted yields different results depending on the range. For example, from 1982-1990, military spending was up, even after adjusting for inflation. It was actually 1990-2000 where military spending actually decreased, both before and after adjusting for inflation.

Compare that to GDP % which would indicate a steady decline in spending. So now we very much do have to examine GDP here in order to look at the argument specifics if we care about 1982-1990. With that said, the cold war ended around 1991, so the military stagnation is more or less in line with the cold war ending. The context missing on the original claim is simply that spending shot right back up once American mucked up and got itself stuck in the middle east, being involved in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

But hey, none of this relates to the original post at all really - that claim was not actually doing any lifting in the original argument other than to serve as a light illustration of how the military spending is never cut in a significant way, and that is generally true save a small exception from 2011-2015. The best that can happen is an effective slow cut through stagnation. And all of THAT is just to say that the government gets pushback when trying to walk back policies.

So did it ever really matter how the cold war affected spending here? What's the point of calling this super nuance out?
We hit 46 in some parts of Maple Ridge, a suburb of Vancouver. It was brutal - when I hosed the kids off in the back yard some birds parked themselves in the mist and just sat there with open beaks. It's cooled back down now.
this complicated copyright problem shows we're still using last century concepts on new and emerging technology that surpassed it; it's time to think hard about it because we need neural nets and they need training data
The comments are about the contradictions between the patent and the blog post and the technical discussion are great. I would point out another angle.

I had a loud and irritating neighbour who patronized me (everyone) and I had hard time coping until I gave the guy a stupid nickname. When I was able to laugh the whole ordeal went away and no longer stressed me. This blog post is the same: it helps SparkFun shifting the seriousness of the threat into something laughable so it can be handled in a calm manner as it should be and to not loose another night of sleep over it. How exact or rational are the snarky remarks about the pattern doesn't really matter.
I beg to differ, this is way too simplistic. People pursued hobbies such as music, painting, theater, literature etc.

Raising a family and religion were important, but I don't think people were very different from our times.

To prove this just look at old folk musical instruments and their development. It is fascinating really.
“…just a quick finger in the air estimate really. We’re just looking for a “t-shirt” size. No one will hold feet to the fire over it”.

^^^^^^ This and other lies told by management. :P
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