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>5G Self Driving Vehicle crap.

I live in a dense suburb of a large city and 5G coverage seems not that great. I'm not sure why self-driving requires or gains much benefit from 5g anyway, but I wouldn't want to rely on it. You can certainly do car-to-car communication & coordination without it, and you wouldn't want a minor network outage turning the system into chaos.
> Right to work laws in no way limit who can or can not be hired.

I don't think I said they did.

> Everyone is still free to associate, or not associate, with whomever they want.

But are limited in the ways they can associate: certain contract terms are prohibited. Again, whether or not this is good is a distinct question. Minimum wage laws prohibit certain contract terms that I consider predatory (but in a sense the government is simply collectively bargaining on behalf of all workers in setting a minimum wage). Conversely, a government setting a maximum wage would probably be considered problematic. But all three, a minimum wage, a maximum wage, and "right to work" laws, limit how you can associate.
AFAIK, this is CBRS as a Service, which means it uses the 3.5GHz PAL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Broadband_Radio_Servi...

https://www.fcc.gov/35-ghz-band-overview
I was initially excited about this as I think it might solve our Redshift pain points and potentially avoid us having to deal with a migration to Snowflake but then I remembered when AWS account managers promised Athena and Spectrum would solve these same problems at a previous company I worked for a few years ago. I'm assuming the developer experience will still be terrible with lots of knobs to tune to actually get any decent cost/performance.
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Yes oh god, anytime i search for something simple in my own language i get tons of auto translated articles (likely with google translate, heh) which are completely botched with no useful info, just clickbait and jumbled sentences using as many keywords as possible. The spam content is killing the web.
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The IMF didn't deny this happened. It's pretty clear that he was saying the truth about this, unless you think all bad people behave like Bond villains. Also, you'd have to assume that no other nation state has spoken about this.

You think it's okay for NGOs to create a catastrophic economic situation causing many nation's markets to become dependent on relief funding, then having said NGOs put agenda focused conditions on the relief they provide? You don't see this as a common strategy of extortion?

I feel like you'd rationalize business "security" provided by the mafia as something good if saying otherwise conflicted with your worldview in some way. Next you'll buy into a Ponzi scheme and start extolling the virtues of pyramidal finance structures.
If the owner-manager of Delphi goes home for the night, automotive parts do not stop being made. If the owner-manager of JBS goes home, McDonald’s still gets their hamburger patties. Semiconductors. Raw ore. Train wheels. All of those things were enterprise businesses, not shops, long before computers were heard of

Your response is through the same exact lens being critiqued. Even today there’s a vast economy of businesses, not shops, that fulfill key parts of the world economy and aren’t building for an exit. The idea that that’s weird/lifestyle is a modern, SV VC phenomenon and has nothing to do with computing nor the industrial revolution at all

This is obvious enough to most people that we sometimes wonder why we call startups businesses. Really they’re a new model of offshore R&D which often amounts to a hole into which to pour capital speculatively in hopes it will grow a tree
Massive rents your spare compute power to pay for apps ($11M round)
Queen of Clean
> There is one plan which they've never considered and probably never will: something like Twitch, where you can pay for the "content creators" you like.

They will never do this.

Twitter has become a self-absorbed status tool for people who believe the supposedly correct things. These days, one of those things is thin-skinned censorship. Allowing payments would reveal that their most popular users are people that do not agree with the worldviews of the Twitterati.

If it comes down to charging marketers for some hand-wavy conception of "reach" that can't be attributed, or direct attribution that would definitively show that Twitter is a biased dumpster fire, Twitter will always pick the former.
to be fair there's not much on the air these days to pick up using a crystal anymore (around me at least)

but an SDR would let you teach much much more about whats going on in the invisible :) https://www.hanselman.com/blog/software-defined-radio-is-a-g...

https://smile.amazon.com/NooElec-NESDR-Mini-Compatible-Packa...
If I was in your position - I would push for integration of some sort while keeping the two products separate for now. Then have a separate team from both organizations start on a new product that borrows from both products. Obviously it’s easier said than done - ego have to be put to the side.

The advantage is you keep the status quo with minimal customer and cash flow distraction while working on integrated solution.
yeah, I can see it being very risky, a lot of people want Facebook to turn off but feel ensnared or addicted to it.
Let me put my perspective, coming from a guy who is involved in private Cellular networking (US as well as other countries):

1) Private 5G can be deployed either with licensed operator (Cellular provider) or in CBRS band (CBRS band is opened by FCC for the private cellular deployment). It can be used free or paid, different options. (Fees is minimal).

2) CBRS still doesnt support 5G. No idea how AWS will provide. But even if it is private 4G, for the end user it doesnt matter.

3) Your available bandwidth is limited by the air waves bandwidth you are using, nit by 4G or 5G. Per enterprise, CBRS band is limited to LTE equivalent band (20MHz). Total CBRS band is 200MHz, if I am not wrong). You are not going to get giga speed just because its 5G.

4) Not all phones support CBRS band. You will be limited to CBRS band support in handset feature.
5) Each end device will need SIM (SIM card either physical or virtual). Its not like your laptop will be connected with private 4G or 5G. You will need modem as well as SIM card (unless your devices support these features).

6) Its really for small geographic reason. Its not that easy to take the equipment with you and start using. (like in car or train etc).

7) There is a concept of SAS server, that's why AWS device needs to be connected to this server in cloud (There are SAS license holders, to them). Once you install the system and that is connected to the SAS server, first you get the frequency band which is open in your area. If some one using that band (another CBRS player), you are out of luck (ask me , who has to call different teams when deploy in lab). PLus, there are scenarios when these licenses can be revoked (if you are using free band). The law enforcement can ask FCC to use the band temporarily. GCC can revoke your lic and stop the system.

What AWS did is big, but for enterprises.
I’ve yet to play Undertale, by the same developer, and reading this article I’m more curious, interested in games that do not necessarily hinge on violence.
I'm not so convinced I'm seeing the limits of resolution, either angular or depth.

Using parallax to calculate depth undoubtedly has principal limitations in far away details, and mapping to an 8-bit depth buffer is another very reductive step in that regard. (regardless, I'd expect even the folds to show up, at least qualitatively, if I'd looked at an 8-bit rendering of a 3D scene's z-buffer; the gradient contour steps are clearly visible, and dense, yet fail to follow the folds, indicating that the underlying depth data simply doesn't track them at all)

Let's take the sleeves then -- clearly a large difference in relative depth, yet they blend into the rest of the garment. My impression is very much that of standard depth reconstruction "AI" that more or less guesses depths of a few image features, and does some DNN magic around where to blend smoothly and where to allow discontinuities, with the usual "weirdness" around features that don't quite fit the training sets.

Possibly all we can get out of this "parallax" method of depth reconstruction isn't a whole lot better than just single image deep learning, which would not surprise me, as it ultimately relies on the same approach for correctly recognizing and mapping image features across the 9 constituent images in the first place, vs. a true lightfield sensor that captures the actual direction of incoming light.
See Azure Private Edge Zones, part of the full product. Azure is offering both network-provided and private 5G as options in the same service.
I sometimes watch 'drops' from a few brands, and it's jaw dropping how fast some of the items disappear, and I'd always wonder if there were bots that make organized efforts to buy these items for resale. Even things like keychains sell out in moments, and pop up in secondary markets almost as fast.
> social graph is so important that it wouldn’t make sense for any one person to go to a free Twitter clone

Twitter doesn't have as connected a graph as e.g. Facebook. This lets a few hyperconnected users credibly threaten defection.
Nature Is Becoming a Person
Apple M1 isn't in a proprietary walled garden, it's a general purpose computer like any good old x86 laptop. It's not designed with industry standards in mind and doesn't have any official documentation on internals, but it's not locked down in any way, and reverse engineering is solving the documentation problem already.

(Also Qualcomm Snapdragon is a far more cursed platform internally.)
Glad to see the NYT return to groundbreaking journalism.
I once borrowed a book that hadn't been checked out since 1959. Instead of stamping the card, the librarian simply put a barcode on the inside cover and scanned that. I felt a little sad that the history of the book is no longer stamped into it anymore. I felt a sense of connection knowing just how many people had read the same book in the past.
That is how the marketing goes, anyway.

The facts on the ground probably have more to do with improvements to the C++ code being obliged work as deltas against existing C++ code, where the Rust code was a complete re-implementation, thus not constrained.

Both C++ and Rust are today different languages from when that project ran.
$275 was much, much cheaper than a Unix workstation. Linux with X was only a year away, though, and that put a nail in the coffin of DV/X as cheap-PC-as-X-server.

Universities in the early 90s had networked X services everywhere.
The Art of Lost Sleep
Which is ironic because France strikes me as one of the least "woke" countries in Europe.
>I'd go so far as to say characterizing camel sports and shows as beauty contests, a phrase that implies "women" to pretty much every english speaker, is probably the most farcically and unselfconciously racist thing I have read in an edited publication.

Or they're just trying to distance it from dog shows and farm animal competitions like you see at state fairs because those are boring and well known and won't get western audiences to click.

Not everything is racist.
i can firmly say that installing emacs and doom emacs is well worth it solely for the magit interface. simply phenomonal.

if you know the bare basics of emacs(like a few file commands and how to exit), magit and vim that is a huge productivity win. magit is simply the finest complete git gui that does most things seamlessly.

simple workflow

in the project dir

$ emacs

spc-g-g to enter magit

? shows help(and every command pops up a menu with options)

j/k to navigate lines up and down

s and u to stage and unstage chunks of text/files/lines

x to delete something

cc to initiate a commit

edit the commit message

ctrl-c ctrl-c commit.

ctrl-c ctrl-c abort commit

q or escape goes back a "page" like from viewing the log to go back to the staging area

the trick is everything follows that basic form where [a-zA-Z] starts a command, pops up a menu and shows the next options but the general trend is that it usually is the same two letters. bb is checkout a branch and it usually pre-populates the thing you are on if that is applicable. ll is log this branch. la is log all branches and everything in the log is interactive.

it's pretty magical.
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Now be my guest and define "something changes" please. You will see what I mean.

Gaming is exactly one of the problems and all those sites that lie on spectrum between news to gaming and utilize some aspect of dynamic presentation.
it should not be blockchain but cryptocurrency and crypto exchanges
We are not talking about steady state dynamics, we are talking about specific numbers of births each year in the past, and an intervention that would shift the distribution of life spans.
You should read the rebuttals to the NPR piece which I think is one of the worst reports NPR has ever done. The journalist should have done better research. This was something I would expect out of a conservative think tank and completely missed the boat.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/04/18/177745599/form...
I had never heard of the quote attributed to Summers, which seems really bad, to the point I questioned if it was real, but in fact there's a Wikipedia entry just on the memo in question! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summers_memo
Although I agree that air pollution that is a hidden problem that needs to be addressed, I would push back on the argument that people should be comparing deaths from coronavirus with reduced life span from air pollution.

The first source of death grows exponentially, while the latter does not. Therefore, they should not induce the same types of immediate panic.

This means that if an event ever arrives that destroys half the human population over one year, the chances are much higher that the event was a pandemic rather than from air pollution.
A simple explanation is that the nature of a cellular network requires that all base stations have a relatively large amount of shared state (which can get as fine as TDMA synchronization) and the ability to exchange information with each other in realtime. WiFi generally doesn't have this requirement, especially now that roaming extensions have mostly obsoleted AP virtualization (which is what pricey enterprise WiFi systems with a dedicated controller used to add).

An even simpler explanation is that the architecture of the cellular network is both old and comes out of the telecom industry, which both mean that it has many layers and strict requirements for QoS, traffic engineering, etc.

In a little more detail (given that this is not a topic I'm an expert in and it can get confusing): most of the magic in 5G happens in a component called the RAN or radio access network. The RAN is basically everything between your phone and the "core network" that provides actual services like telephony and IP access (which is going to be in a data center). The RAN can be fairly complex as in newer technologies it involves things like making intelligent heuristic decisions about which base station a given device should be communicating with.

Historically base stations were expected to be largely independent and handle basically everything between the phone and the existing ISDN network, which just sort of dated back to how analog radiotelephones had worked. This required a lot of equipment to provide the entire RAN on-site. The new direction has been to absolutely minimize what is located in the field, both for size and power savings but also to simplify management since there's less field equipment to upgrade and maintain. This means that a typical 5G gNB, the actual radio station, basically does nothing but encode/decode to/from binary, which it then sends to a "virtual RAN" or vRAN running in a data center somewhere. All of the actual protocol implementation, access control, traffic engineering, etc. is done in the vRAN. This adds a lot of flexibility since the vRAN can be maintained and iterated on more easily and can flexibly allocate resources between sites. It also simplifies field installation because the site only needs connectivity back to the vRAN, which is a little simpler to arrange (via VPN, fiber, metro ethernet, ISDN, whatever) than getting the site connectivity into an actual mobile exchange, and to IP capabilities, etc.

Or in other words, your WiFi AP does contain the business logic of IP switching and 802.11 session management. But that's relatively simple and done for a relatively small number of clients compared to a cellular base station, and WiFi has (mostly) always been designed with the idea of minimal to zero requirements for inter-AP communication beyond existing IP capabilities.
See also the age old proverb applied to anything is highly male:

"the men are men the women are men and the sheep are scared"
Not entirely related, but one doesn't necesarily use the advances as cash in the pocket -- you dump it into assets that pay you money (e.g. bonds).

Taken to an extreme, you see David Bowie who floated the royalties of all his records as a financial instrument that you can buy. [0]

[0]: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bowie-bond.asp
I use tig exclusively to stage commits. Alias tigs='tig status' lets me select / discard lines.
If you show someone a painting you made and they tell you "That's beautiful", you may reasonably conclude that they think you're a good painter.

Similarly, if you come up with an idea and someone tells you it's stupid, you might conclude (especially if it's a recurring pattern) that they don't think you are very smart. If that is not the conclusion they wanted you to come to, it is on them for not communicating better
As far as I know, AppSync doesnt provide GraphQL resolver on top of an RDS out of the box, one needs to write these resolvers by hand.

Or am I missing something?
So it seems like your critique here is overdetermined: you want to say that the author has certain ideological biases relating to wealth in general, which are mobilized in a certain disingenuous rhetoric towards fallacious arguments, but at the same time you want to say that even if they weren't biased or fallacious, they are wrong to attribute the amount of wealth to Elon that would justify the critiques in the first place. Is that right?
Your statement reads like you're saying:

'I can still see at the top: "US labor board official orders...", with no mention of union action at all [and the omission implies there was none]. I don't think it's the union [because they are unmentioned, rather I think it is some other entity] making the bad faith argument here'
David Bowie was a pioneer in this space as well -- he had his own ISP, BowieNet:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/11/david-bow...
https://rickcaylor.websitetoolbox.com/post/the-beginning-of-...

Here’s a discussion from the side of the nerds who still consume these feeds.
> we paid upfront for Confluent's enterprise feature version to get us out of the immediate bind we had in 2020.

Definitely agree it's an essential feature for large datasets - in the past I've used Kafka Connect to stream data to S3 for longer term retention, but it's something else to manage, and getting data back into a topic if needed can be a bit painful.
Maybe first try rendering literally anything when javascript is disabled. Then worry about adding GIFs.
My family has really taken to it. Granted it's mostly just message family app to them, but they are very not technically fluent but yet seemed to have picked it up just fine.
I really think this is not discussed when hacker news brings up secure messaging. The user experience is so much more important than the underlying tech. My family doesn't care about end to end encryption. They care about video calling with the press of a button, and easy features that are just there and work like zoom or the many other software products that they have to use work.

Thank you Signal team for focusing so hard on the user experience.
> “I don’t think anybody here has seen a book” that’s been away for so long, she said.

Those quotes gave me a laughing fit.
I can't reproduce what I'm saying! Well that's interesting. Thanks for pushing me.

I wonder what I was seeing in my code...
I'm wondering how this was obtained, and how old this is?

For WhatsApp:

> if target is using an iPhone and iCloud backups enabled, iCloud returns may contain WhatsApp data, to include message content

Probably not true since WhatsApp launched encrypted backups.
The average workplace is already full of politicians and fiefdoms. Many are actively working against you behind the scenes. Entire departments are devoted to it (HR). If they choose to have a small world view, they can never be helped. As someone living in Los Angeles at the time, many union jobs are well respected (e.g. studio, trade, etc).
> This could be extremely useful for security. Maybe even the death of VPNs.

You can already get plans from the existing cellular providers to drop you onto a private secure network that behaves like a VPN though... that's common for people who need secure OOB access to their network gear: but install routers with 3g/4g/LTE expansion cards, get the SIMs on one of these plans, and voila -- OOB remote network access that isn't exposing your devices to the internet
Unsure. But private LTE is already a thing where you can install your own towers onprem and configure your devices to connect to those towers instead of the ones of your standard AT&T provider (or whatever). I don't think there's any magic voodoo involved. I assume there's a way to configure 5G capable devices to connect to some local physical network you set up at a factory.

I don't expect this is for telephony, but rather a faster (I guess it's faster...) wifi. But who knows. Maybe if you install your own telephony servers or whatever you could call people on that network. Unsure anyone would care about that unrealistic usecase.
by doing it better?
Signal recently added 'disappearing messages' which lets you specify how long a chat you initiate remains before being deleted.
> compare to free to play videogames

What's the music equivalent of abusive lootbox and gatcha mechanics? Those seem to drive a lot of the free-to-play profit..
I feel like I looked a month ago and it was still a round number. Happy to be wrong though.
> if you suspect the worst from people one would expect the CEO of Biontech to escalate the threat not to downplay it

I don't expect the worst from him. I expect him to say that BioNTech vaccines are effective based on preliminary evidence, which is not necessarily evil, but also subject to changing when we get more data.

Also, he's not saying that omicron isn't a big deal. He's just saying that you don't have to be scared because you can use their product.

From the article:

> “Don’t freak out,” Sahin said. “The plan remains the same: Speed up the administration of a third booster shot.”

> The comments from the chief of BioNTech, Pfizer Inc.’s partner on the Covid vaccine, add to a growing range of views from vaccine developers on the efficacy of their shots against the new variant. Amid a shortage of hard data, some of their positions have seemed contradictory at times, fueling uncertainty among investors about how to react to omicron’s emergence.

This is exactly what we would expect from CEOs that are worried about their stock prices.

Of course everyone should still get their booster, but we still don't know for sure whether omicron is something to worry about or not.
Your example does work for this.
(a, b) -> (a, (b, a+b))

funny it's almost graphically equivalent to the geometric ratio
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