skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"(not least because rolling 1month SIM plans are common here,..."
Does that just mean prepaid SIM cards? If so how does the rolling part work? Does that mean you can roll-over unused bandwidth to the next month?
> No, if anything, it's the very opposite.

How?
Is this satire? I honestly can't tell anymore.
Different frequency allocations in different countries. Nearly nothing uses the frequencies FCC wants to enable at given powers and rules.
Makes me think of this clip I saw recently from Joe Rogan. https://twitter.com/springspringb/status/1481638495172972552...
It’s actually ironic but the author claims the problem is that we don’t teach science, when in reality their complaint is that we don’t teach the history of science. They just don’t seem to realize it.

And they are probably right. We should maybe teach less science/math concepts, and spend more time discussing how those concepts were created. What were the motivations of the people who came up with these concepts. How a certain individual came up with 1 concept and that was refined by another, etc to the point we got what we have today.

The true problem is that we don’t have enough social science about science/math.
Not just Japan, it's the new take on filters for the cool kids in Asia. China/Philippines/Indonesia - look at their local market places for camcorders and digi cameras and even film too an extent. More Instax, but even regular film devlopment and such.
Perhaps it's a failure in this communication mode. It seems to be that you've argued yourself down a garden path. From my understanding your statements are

A) using incorrect concepts (moment in time? A 15 minute infection window turns into a 20 minute infection window)

B) simply irrelevant. Unless you can provide evidence to the contrary, cloth masks aren't trapping any relevant amount of virus
How does that make graph transformations easier and avoid issues with memory management related to those? I tried looking in the docs at your link to see (because it looks a lot more like a syntax extension for an assembler than anything that helps with the problems the author noted), but the page notes,

> Sorry, right now there is no proper documentation included other than some Examples and of course the source code. The source is well documented, though (IMHO).

and the example doesn't seem to have anything relevant to the problems identified above.
If I may riff and provide a potential view of a tangential alternative force that was at play that made the project destined to be doomed (via this approach you mention about un-implemented features across lower cost legacy hardware)

The declining costs of the hardware (screens, capacitive touch, battery, processor, memory, etc etc) via a Wright's Law/ Moore's Law type curve meant that over-optimizing around lowering the costs by choosing 'imperfect' hardware meant it was very difficult to ever get this going as a viable platform - which if we imagine a world of these costs declining 1/4 the rate (4x slower), this ecosystem would have more likely found enough backers and funding to get some more roots and sprouts going.

Ultimately, the cost curve declines of the other equipment meant that smartphones/Netbooks/tablets were bound to leapfrog it well before this OLPC 'formulation' was able to take off and be sustainable on its own.
They actually developed a discrete GPU starting around 2008, even demoed it a bit, but ended up canning the project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_(microarchitecture)
The problem I personally have with the Fermi paradox is that it essentially works if you assume that every non-zero probability is one, and justify that with there being enough chances for life to get going that it's bound to happen. Except... there really isn't all that much slack.

Another point that I don't see addressed much is the possibility that interstellar travel may just simply be impossible: that building machines that can travel to other stars, let alone ones that are capable of hosting a colonization process, are just simply not within the realm of materials that can actually exist.
I think the game Nim is a great example of this! All non partisan Combinatorial games reduce to Nim. So you just solve this one game and you solve all xoxo
There are also synonyms for "wrong" which can soften the blow. For example "inaccurate", as in something like "unfortunately your response to the question is inaccurate because since version 5 that is no longer true."

By doing this I'm making it clear what is wrong, and not using the word "wrong". This separates the person from the statement, and by implication does not make their statement theirs.

Contrast with "you are wrong", which makes the statement personal, and implies the _person_ themself is defective.

A flat-earther has an inaccurate source of information, and has come to a misinformed conclusion, resulting in a unfortunate assessment of the current earth shape. If we start there, and recognize that (to a much lessor degree) we all have blind-spots it helps to engage with them.

But the quote above is true, you cannot rationalise people out of a position they did not rationally get in to.
In case any readers are (like I was) torn on the question of whether such a patent based legal monopoly (or duopoly or oligopoly...) is justifiable compensation for the resources these companies undoubtedly invested, check out this short intro to a highly recommended book that deals with this issue:

http://www.dklevine.com/papers/imbookfinal01.pdf
Several of my coworkers use it instead of Vim. It seems pretty nice, and I've been tempted to try jumping ship now too.
Soloway's work [1] might speak to you. In essence, Soloway referred to this association as "templates", in which we associate problems with those we've seen in the past. While the linked study points at it as a potential negative, you aren't far off in assuming its beneficial as well. When I teach Data Structures and AI courses, I refer it the phenomena as "neutralizing the problem" (borrowed for my years training martial arts). Again, the idea is to model the problem as something we've something seen before - because then, we have solutions for it! The biggest issue is knowing how to best model the problems so that we're not trying to shoehorn everything into a particularly inefficient solution. However, this is a "fun" bit of research, seeing which models best work with which problems.

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/32/5010265/05010283.pdf
There is actually an API for this:

evStart: start speaking in an erotic voice

evStop: stop speaking in an erotic voice

evQuery: query whether you are speaking in an erotic voice

evLinuxClassic: enable the inability to speak until Firefox is closed (experimental)
There is no mention in the article about these people being engineers. These people were fired "to address allegations of sexual harassment and other misconduct". These are the bad guys. And finally, there isn't that much overlap between "perf tuning in AAA game engines and improving cloud workloads".
> you don't deal with institutions and collectives the same was as you do an individual. It is a useless comparison.

I agree, in general. Until they forget that they are dealing with live individuals, not abstract bits in a statistical model. Once they overreach, I have no other mental model for them.
Also, there seems to be a sniff of "I was only following superior orders" here. It was invalidated as an excuse in the court of law some time ago, and never was valid in the court of public opinion anyway. The institutions are run by individuals and it would be beneficial for them to remember that the hangman deals with individuals too. As Russian saying goes "They punch your face, not your passport" ("Бьют по роже а не по паспорту").

> Get some psychological help dude, this has nothing to do with science or medicine.

Sure thing, it hasn't. Except I did not need any help before all this. And now, before I get anywhere, I need to beg for exemptions. Not going to happen.

This is all to say that for some unbeknownst reason covid enthusiasts insist on destroying any possibility of peaceful existence post-panic. Some people will quietly depart from the world, but some will put up a fight. Why doesn't it come to mind?
VS Code extensions for web development in 2022
Radar altimeter is used for low-visibility approach collision avoidance and for triggering events in last few meters on AUTOLAND-equipped planes (this is rarer in USA but common for example in UK airports). The main glide slope is managed with barometric altimeter, sure, but that one lacks the detailed resolution of the radar altimeter and can't detect ground - it can only follow the difference from specific pressure according to standard model atmosphere.
> It is expected, just disappointing. "I got mine, fuck you" is not exactly the kind of thinking we wish our fellow citizens engaged in.

What it too to get mine, required very hard work and literally signing my life away for 4 years. Then, when I started gaining, I got fined for not having health insurance. Now that I can comfortably afford my health insurance and am starting to look at buying a house, here’s the left again saying I should help others, when I received no such help, and taking away the money I worked hard to earn. Imagine not having a degree in the software engineering field. The struggle is real, and if I can do it then what are others excuses?

No, I’m sorry, I will fight to force others to follow my path (albeit in a different field should they choose). I will not willingly pay for others to have an easy life unless they are related to me.
macOS & FreeBSD too, and under WSL on Windows obviously.
Belief is a keyword here. Most of "spherical earthers", alas, also believe what they are told. They happened to pick the right set of beliefs - kudos to them - but there's no critical thinking whatsoever.

We watched some time ago a why-do-we-think-earth-is-flat movie with friends and I asked: okay, so what's wrong with their explanation? For an extra credit: how a layman like me can check what is the shape of the earth?

And suddenly it turns out that these questions are a bit harder than it seems.
“workplace culture” sounds like an unwarranted euphemism for what is very clearly sexual harassment.
Mindrape was a friend of mine. He's since passed away unfortunately.
In addition to this list, for those doing node monorepos in 2022, the extensions that I think you must use are:

- Github copilot - like autocomplete on steroids.
- peacock - change the workspace color - helps reduce mental load when working on different projects.
- tag autorename - this should be built into vscode, saves a bunch of keystrokes
- snippets - this is a category of extension. Find whichever snippet lib is out there for your stack.
Sure, I don't disagree with any of that. I was just taking exception with the claim that the First Amendment and Freedom of Speech are the same thing. I'm also generally on board with Freedom of Association though. I wouldn't, for instance, put up with someone screaming obscenities in my front yard simply because stopping them would violate their Freedom of Speech.
So, people that worked and earned what they have and are compensated accordingly don’t deserve it?
I'm sincerely trying to remember my time in SF, and whether or not the SF Chronicle is satire.

Please let this be satire.
Which is pretty common for old-school emulators. ZSNES was written in x86 assembly, and Kega-Fusion was mostly assembly except for the UX in C. Both of these were, for a long time, the most popular emulators for their systems.

Thankfully ZSNES hasn't been relevant for some time, though Kega-Fusion is still a big deal because the Sega emulation scene is a mess (I think BizHawk is the only other decent Genesis emulator with Sega CD and 32X support). Hopefully Ares will catch up one day and put everything else out to pasture.
Different strokes for different folks.

Forcing yourself to do something can be considered discipline, but for many that's just stubbornly using the wrong tool (mental state) for the job. Which usually takes longer, gives poor results, and leads to fatigue and burnout.

However that approach does work well for some. (Seems to work much better for morning people than night people in my experience.)

For others, discipline consists of using the right tool for the right job to maximize both productivity and health. Which means given the tools available, pick one of the many tasks that need doing and can be done with that tool. Resulting in more productivity, better results, and an uplifting energizing feeling that makes other tools available.

Although for some people, that second approach might just result in procrastinating, in which case they should consider trying the forced discipline approach.

So finding out which path fits your temperament and taking advantage of it is the way to go.
Specifically which parts of Europe? It's a big place, and I have given negative references with no fear of liability. And that includes across EU borders, including the UK.
Yeah, text-to-speech is and has been easy for ages; I'm pretty sure I used espeak like a decade ago. On the other hand, I have tried... pretty much all the big names in speech-to-text, without success, or at best "I kind of got the demo to work but couldn't figure out how to do anything useful with it". Kaldi, sphinx, julius, a handful of tiny PoC things I found online... maybe I'm just bad at following instructions, or I'm trying to do something that they're not trying to optimize for, but I have not had a good time.
Check out helix [0] for a kakoune inspired editor with some nice modern features included by default.

[0]: https://helix-editor.com/
I appreciate your feedback. But I agree with the other poster's comment that the reference to COBOL is a shorthand way of indicating that it's antiquated. Ways this manifests for the user are evident enough (e.g. 2-3 day ACH transfers).

The idea that Musk only thinks COBOL sucks is because it's old... well, most of Tesla's self-driving code is written in C (invented in the '70s).

Overall, I maintain that Musk's opinion is at least relevant. PayPal was disruptive to the financial industry, and Musk was very technically engaged there.

Like the OP, I'm not a Musk fanboy. But I appreciate his perspectives and contributions. Maybe any ire would be better directed towards corporate raiders that aren't manufacturing anything valuable for society, etc.
Conversely, if someone makes their sandbox publicly available, they accept some risk that someone else in it may behave in a way that they don't like.

You can argue that Blizzard was well within their rights in punishing Blitzchung, but then Blizzard's audience is well within their rights to be upset with said punishment.
Monads are possible in Common Lisp, although not widely used. If you haven't already, check out this old discussion about it from 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6398393
> That's the whole point of voting on things, to resolve conflicts.

It doesn’t resolve the conflict, one side is just forced to accept something they don’t want. The hatred, and therefore the division, builds regardless.
FYI, this was a WSJ exclusive story, which reuters seems to just be reporting (confirming the WSJ report). I had submitted it this morning, but didn't pick up.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29966958

https://www.wsj.com/articles/activision-blizzard-pushes-out-... (mirror: https://archive.fo/jQdI1 )
I think whether it's currently unnecessary might depend on where you are and what network you're on. T-Mobile has mid-band spectrum that isn't C-Band spectrum and they've been able to deploy it sooner. They're seeing 300Mbps+ speeds on a lot of their network already. We're also seeing battery life get better fast. X50 phones were problematic. X55 phones had some degraded battery life. X60 phones seem to be doing pretty well.

I think it's easy to forget that LTE wasn't as big a jump initially as we see today. Back in 2012, T-Mobile's HSPA network scored 5.5Mbps in PC World's testing against 7.4Mbps for Verizon's LTE and 9.1Mbps for AT&T's LTE. In PCMag's 2013 testing, T-Mobile's HSPA got a similar 7.7Mbps while the 4 LTE networks got 5.1Mbps, 10.3Mbps, 13.1Mbps, and 16.0Mbps. Again, LTE networks were seeing marginal improvements. Over time as network deployments matured and new LTE releases came out, LTE's improvements went way beyond HSPA.

But the first round of LTE phones on Verizon were terrible - way worse than any 5G device we saw. Some people wanted to be a first adopter. I think waiting a generation or two gives you better results, but some people always want to be first.

I actually think the reason the US pushed LTE so quickly is simply because Verizon didn't have an upgrade path for their 3G network which was stuck in the 1Mbps range while HSPA-based competitors were pushing into the 4-8Mbps range. In Europe, carriers could delay a year and offer dual-channel HSPA service in the meantime.

LTE was still better even in the early days, but the fact that CDMA didn't have an upgrade path put Verizon in a tough place. They could either watch AT&T offer 5x faster speeds than their HSPA network (at a time when AT&T had an exclusive on the iPhone) or they could be an LTE early adopter. I think AT&T would have liked to milk their HSPA investment a bit longer (as many carriers did around the world), but once Verizon started marketing LTE they had to follow.

And you're saying that the upgrade was huge - and it certainly has been. However, it was more marginal at the start. That's not to say it wasn't a good upgrade even initially, but it wasn't anywhere near the 40-50Mbps that LTE averages today in the US. If 5G can follow a similar trajectory, we'll be able to support a lot of things we can't today.
I (also peripherally involved) suggest OPLC had a unicorn-or-dead business plan, but stalled unexpectedly long in not-quite-dead but not-unicorn-yet, and didn't adapt well. Intel and Microsoft/Gates put a lot of effort towards dead. A unicorn story of "succeed (massive country-wide deployments), and they will come (developers, content creators, educators, etc; also network and power infrastructure, next-gen laptops, maintenance and deployment infrastructure, supply chains, etc)" means you're doing a minimum viable unicorn launch. So for illustration, when you're bouncing along, running out of runway, and Guido (python BDFL) publishes clueless criticisms, and the python open-source community isn't "showing up" to help, do you spend scarce funds on hiring a community outreach person to nudge that, or focus on making your next bounce just that little bit higher enough to ignite your unicorn rocket engine, and make training wheels and bootstrap wings a non-issue? Especially when a critical bottleneck isn't technical, but Bill flying around offering politicians Microsoft and Gates Foundation bounties on unicorn eggs.

So I suggest the goal was to trigger mass deployments, supporting subsequent refinement. I'm unclear on what/which technical improvements might have been sufficient to alter the deployment outcome. But people have been critiquing the unicorn-pathfinder-prototype-alpha-preview-0.0.3 unicorn corpse ever since. :)
I have a co-worker who worked many many years in Research. He is currently the oldest or second oldest employee of a large research organisation. He finished his PhD a few years ago when he was 60+ years old.
They are probably working under "at will" employment agreement so can be terminated without establishing a cause.
I studied machine learning and AI, I think it would be relevant for you to look at Transfer Learning - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_learning

(By the way if anyone is looking for a Software Engineering Manager in New York City with a specialization in AI, see my profile and get in touch!)
Another vouch for Salmon and Bannock.
Mr. Bannock is a North Vancouver food truck, often does some interesting fusion things.

Kukum Kitchen in Toronto seems to have closed over the pandemic, but I previously enjoyed their food, and their website is still up - I hope they are able to reopen.
> technically still roughly 10^157 possibilities

And they say dynamic programming has no real world applications.
The specific URL on mitmh2022.com might not work as intended in all web browsers. To reach the puzzle in question, you may have to click on this link once, press the Public Access button on the resulting page, and then click on the same link a second time. Ultimately the https://www.bookspace.world/puzzle/lists-of-large-integers/s... URL will be shown.
When you say, "layman like me can check what is the shape of earth?" Like reviewing satellite footage? I mean this seems ridiculously easy, unless you mean like can you prove it from your front yard.
Blizzard, Ubisoft and gaming industry in general seem to be plagued with sexual harassment problem. is this the result of Silicon Valley bro culture?
For those who want to do a deep dive, here's the altimeter test data.

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/12070826325320/AVSI%20AFE76s2%2...

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/12070826325320/AVSI%20AFE76s2%2...

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1207722514473/AVSI%20AFE76s2%20...

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1207722514473/AVSI%20AFE76s2%20...

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/12072133610936/AVSI%20AFE76s2%2...

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/12072133610936/AVSI%20AFE76s2%2...

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1207848621283/AVSI%20AFE76s2%20...

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1207848621283/AVSI%20AFE76s2%20...

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/12221132030652/AVSI%20AFE76s2%2...

https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/12221132030652/AVSI%20AFE76s2%2...
I watched this video[1] about a driving game track designed to be as long and boring and reptetitive and self-similar as possible, as a challenge of patience. The streamer is trying to be the first person to complete it, moving carefully over a flat grey pipe just as wide as the car, with only 90 degree turns, in gray fog, without making a single mistake for three hours.

After 42 minutes, he fell off, and had to go back to the start. After that much time and getting a bit complacent, he was not happy.

Then restarted, kept driving, faster this time. After about 30 minutes he suddenly says "wait, was it this corner? Wait, does this look familiar? This looks familiar to me; I think it was here. I'm just having flashbacks. I think it was exactly here where I fell. I just had deja vu. I'll never forget the moment I fell here. I think it was here".

Check out the video and see there is no way a casual glance would tell any corner from any other. He beleivably seems to have encoded a "whoa" memory from a negative experience, which triggered then. (I'm not really interested in "is it fake", even if it's fake it's perfectly relatable. That after 45 minutes of concentration, he can tell where he is on the self-similar map much more accurately than the viewer with a video open on a second monitor, and that there could/would be an emotional "beware" kick at that place next time).

[1] https://youtu.be/0oEtbjFHVo8?t=555 (16 min highlights)