skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am with Tim Bray in that there is an enormous amount of woo woo spouted about 5G. Perhaps a better question to ask is what is possible now, in our current paradigm, and what might be possible if there was ubiquitous high speed coverage blanketing a complete society. The first is dull, and dubious: a bit more speed. Great. The second is the province of speculation and the source of most of the nonsense.

However, telcos are afraid of missing out on the value chain of 5G like they did with 4G (all that money going to apps, and not a bean to telcos). So they sunk billions into 5g spectrum believing that was the gateway, and they they need to hold on for dear life until those fancy use cases come alive. That could be 1 year from now, ten years or perhaps never. who knows?

In the meantime their investors are watching closely at the only metric they have which is uptake in the consumer domain. However this is weak beer since you don't pay off $70B of spectrum costs $10 at a time (ie consumer behavior along wont bring ROI).

So, pivot to businesses some of which really are groping their way to 5G. Metal buildings, outdoor coverage, military, these are real cases where existing solutions are not great. The gazillion dollar question is whether 5G from a telco is the solution. Maybe its CBRS with 5G, which cuts out the operator. Maybe its wifi 6E, which is fundamentally different from wifi 5 and has learned a lot of lessons from how cellular networks are built. imho there is real risk that 5G vs WiFi is tbe betamax/vhs or bluray/netflix battle of our time.
EU army means French army, since it's the sole remaining global power. And for us, EU Citizens, that would be a very good move, but the biggest real barrier is linguistic and even with social willingness (almost present even if, of course, does not emerge on mass media) and political willingness (not present almost at all) such barrier can't be solved.

My own personal view is a smaller EU:

- France

- Spain

- Italy (too tied to NATO due to WWII past, but less than Germany)

- Portugal

- then Germany (too tied to NATO due to WWII past)

That form a new core EU in fiscal terms (even if all those countries are different real differences are limited), then in political terms with "cross-border parties", then in military terms like a small scale NATO lead by France. The the rest, smaller western countries can only follow, northern part who now talk out loud but in real terms can't live alone would have no choice but follow. UK can't do much now, with "the Commonwealth crisis" and the domestic intra-UK crisis there isn't much room to maneuver. Russia would not like that, of course, but between China (a historic enemy and still not really friendly and much interested in Russian eastern land) and a really united EU they'll jump the ship quickly: most of their infra, the tech they need is in the west and EU mutually need Russian resources instead of just tapping them giving back only industrial mass production.

It's really unlikely but our best interest.
Oh so Xbox Live?
This is a project that has been in development for years now and also makes use of the Cleavir compiler framework (https://github.com/s-expressionists/Cleavir), which is being developed as part of another new Common Lisp implementation called SICL (https://github.com/robert-strandh/SICL).

Congrats to the CLASP devs, this is a huge accomplishment and it's really exciting to see a new CL implementation get a 1.0 release.
> Maybe EU should keep some weapons for itself, instead of exporting everything:

They got the message. IIRC, Germany's going to throw something like the equivalent of two years worth of extra defense spending at addressing its military under-funding problems, plus actually meeting its NATO obligation of 2% GDP in defense spending in the future. IIRC, there was even talk about making that a constitutional requirement as well.
Rebel Without a Crew by Robert Rodriguez. I'm a filmmaker and that book glorifies guerrilla filmmaking like no other. Really fun book by the guy who unfortunately didn't go on to make very many critical successes but did create the masterpiece of cinema that is Sharkboy and Lavagirl
By the way, HF does stand for high frequency, but it's actually the 3 to 30Mhz band.

5G mmWave would be the SHF and low EHF bands. (Super high/extremely high)
Except a good scientific explanation of how transistors work, how to build an amplifier given a number of constraints (power, bandwidth), how to design an antenna ...

It's a nice book for hobbyists, though.
Why haven’t Facebook/Rayban sunglasses been “hacked” to get open drivers yet?
The Kinect got open source drivers written in weeks after release. It’s been 6 months since the Facebook Stories by Rayban debuted. There was a bounty for Kinect drivers to get written. Maybe the same needs to be done for the Facebook Stories glasses.

I want to save videos to my computer, post to YouTube as stereo video & watch on Oculus in 3D. It would also be nice to be able to record more than 30 seconds of video.

https://www.ray-ban.com/usa/discover-ray-ban-stories/clp

Help!?
If you're looking into user experience/usability, then:

"Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug

"Design of Everyday Things" by Donald Norman
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My oldest kid is just aging into gaming. We’ve got the Disneyland Adventures game and a Kinect for her.

Can confirm, Kinect is dead. You can only get them refurbished now, they’re no longer manufactured. The new consoles no longer support Kinect, we had to dig out an original Xbox One for her.

When the Kinect launched, Microsoft had trouble getting a critical mass of players that would attract developers. Without developers adding support to their games, Microsoft had a hard time marketing the device. This led to them bundling it with the Xbox One, but consumers were upset that they were being forced to buy the accessory.

I’m impressed they held out as long as they did, but eventually Microsoft caved and removed the Kinect from the bundle and dropped the price of the Xbox One. At that point, the Kinect was essentially dead. They quietly stopped manufacturing them and the new consoles no longer support them (though I’ve heard rumors you can buy 3rd party USB adaptors).

It’s a shame. That device is SO much more engaging and approachable for kids than trying to teach them to use a controller.
https://www.ray-ban.com/usa/discover-ray-ban-stories/clp
>Al Jazeera

Yeah no. Might as well start posting RT and CGTN

Also, 20 days old account https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ShivShankaran

HN is getting astroturfed more and more like reddit
If you're using your mouse to refresh why not right click and refresh instead of moving the cursor all the way up to the top left of the screen?
This is precisely the way China would like us to view things.
"Hey the US is worse, access for China should be open slather.."

I can't imagine a similar kind of view (China bad!) doing much for your career in China.

This might be a reason why China wins....
> Based on the frequency with which this sort of post gets significant traction it's pretty clear that no one at Google gives a crap about this issue.

Lots of other reasonable explanations that match the available evidence and involve Google caring about this issue. For example, their hands could be tied by legal forces beyond their control. Or they could care a great deal, but perhaps they have been unable to resolve this issue with an acceptable false-negative level on actual bad actors. Another possibility is that the ban was well-earned and the article's author knows this and simply has not disclosed the fact to the readership.
I feel like your example disproves more than it proves. The difference between Micrsoft Edge and Edge Chromium was that one day you launched the browser and it looked/worked a little different. Using Google for chat on the other hand is still extremely difficult because there is no clear path (as indicated by all your question marks) who is to migrate where and when they're supposed to do it.
Every hospital needs these in every room ASAP.
I don't think busy loops are damaging to the hardware. They just pointlessly waste CPU time.
OneNote not being able to use local files is annoying as hell.
> every few months I'd encounter some speed bump caused by Apple and I'd have to find a workaround
> switched to an older thinkpad that runs Linux natively

The idea of using an older Thinkpad with Linux having fewer “speed bumps” than any Mac seems hard to imagine based on my own experience. Guess it depends on what you use a computer for.
If we follow the money, the major "social media" businesses are mostly American. The economic interest to promote these businesses as the only medium for discourse.

The "shaming machine" monetises strife. It is a new, lucrative medium.
Me too - I have an air filter (noise/replacing it) but I rather this. Do you know where I can get one?? Figure it'd be easy to get
5G might be great for some people. My experience with it is that in the places where I used to have poor or no connection I still have no connection. The places where I used to only have a 3G connection I now have no connection at all. The places where I get a 5G connection my phones swaps back and forth between a fast 4G connection and a pathetically slow 5G connection which repeatedly interrupts my data. I modified my settings and turned 5G off entirely. Good riddance.
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Yeah, sometimes I wish MS would be a little more aggressive about killing off products. There are a few developer technologies that are in an awkward no man’s land: just barely supported without much of a future, but MS won’t say that so it makes for a lot of confusion if you’re new to the space and wondering what technology to use.
Default keyboard shortcuts were one for me. Cut, Copy and Paste in Terminal for example.
Sounds like we should regulate food then maybe?
Peak Firefox UI was when the "close current tab" button was always in the same place and I could do it with muscle memory instead of hunting for wherever my current tab is on the list.
I had no idea Edge got discontinued.
Skype was amazing until it was acquired.

Would Zoom even exist today if Microsoft never bought Skype?
You’re right! I got them mixed up.
excellent post. It is important we get beyond the moral grandstanding phase, and fully consider the implications of the weaponisation of ostensibly apolitical systems in finance, law and technology.

If these systems become instruments of the foreign policy of any single actor, wielded unilaterally without any oversight, then it represents a threat to the sovereignty of every country who still cares about the notion.

Perhaps the future will be independent national systems with a decentralised protocol for interoperability.
Product designers should definitely favor local OS norms in most cases. Using one design for all OSs might be organizationally easier in many ways, inter-OS visual consistency offers little benefit to users and doesn't leverage their familiarity with similar idioms in their environments.

> Another important change is the introduction of a skeleton screen to make the start feel fast

Yeah. Sometimes you do have to make users wait— e.g. parsing a huge cache to put in a dialog or making shaky network calls— and most designers mental model for addressing that frustration is the slow elevator problem†. Skeletons seemed like a good way to address it. We don't parse screens instantly: we first interpret structure/visual hierarchy so we know where to scan for titles, ordinals, controls, or whatever else we need. Skeletons theoretically let us do that while content loads. More recent research doesn't corroborate claims of silver-bullet efficacy:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326858669_The_effec...

† The related anecdote goes something like this: Tenants of an NYC office tower complained of slow elevator service during peak use. The property manager consulted with experts to evaluate the algorithmic efficiency and mechanical components, but it resulted in little improvement. The property manager then turned the exterior elevator doors int mirrors. Most riders were sufficiently emotionally engaged by a life-sized version of themselves long enough to make the wait seem much shorter.
Show HN: I'm writing a free book called Computer Networks from Scratch
If we're talking about LED lights I don't think it's that simple. Wavelengths produced are related to the emission spectra of the elements which make up the diode junction. If I'm remembering my highschool physics correctly.
I am from, and currently live in the Azores. Friends from São Jorge Island have told me that they are not overly concerned at the moment and have evacuated only to another part of the island. Many people have gone to other islands.
Before you think it's silly that people seem unpreocupied, please remember that vulcanoes and earthquakes are, and have been, a part of our lives since our ancestors populated the Azores.
* expect and endure suffering
Here in South Africa the private healthcare system is excellent. There's also public health care which is good in some places, atrocious in other. If you've got medical insurance you're good.
Swoole a php extension has solved this mostly, and has coroutines like golang.
Why collapsing the cost of trust and verification is profitable
> The amount of data on these platforms is enormous and having people review the videos/apps/whatever would be simply prohibitively expensive

Let people pay for a manual review (say $300) with Google refunding the amount if it's found to be erroneous.
Highest in the 5 years is still ridiculously low.

With a much smaller population, we used to frequently see 2m+ monthly starts. We haven't been close in coming up on 20 years. Yet the US population is higher than it has ever been.

(image of graph)

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zYvA49j3pFA/XxGa4SdGiOI/AAAAAAAA1...
Contrary to the modern interface philosophy as there is no abstraction

Modern interface philosophy means that if you don't use something every day you have no fucking idea what it does anymore. For example, every time I use the desktop Gmail interface I have to wait for tool tips just to figure out which inscrutable icon does what.
One of the interesting though prosaic uses of 5G is the ability to replace a bunch of bespoke over their air protocols for "smart" devices. These are boring devices like utility meters, SCADA stuff, and all manner of remote monitors.

Since they can just be "5G" devices they can massively benefit from economies of scale. They can also end up more secure than existing devices because they can more easily be on an IP-based VPN on top of network segmentation/encryption 5G provides.

One of the goals of 5G was allowing low power devices to also have a nice low power radio that can benefit from existing public networks. Not having to maintain custom base stations and relays for some custom radio stack makes a lot more remote monitoring projects economically feasible.
Does it though? At what frequency? In the limit of f=DC this is trivially not true.

Also, if that were the case, an airplane couldn't be made into a Faraday cage.

Also, the cage+Earth system would itself be an antenna.

If you need ground for a topologically imperfect cage, maybe… but I doubt it.

I think (but I don't know!) this is like the legends surrounding engine torque car guys believe. Electrical engineers putting everything to ground because they got burned
Arizona is the first state to accept digital driver's licenses in Apple Wallet
I think there ought to be a book that explains how the modern world works at large, that'd include many many fields of study and explain how they all work together.

I'm not aware of anything of the sort. If anyone else knows, let me know :)
Stadia is still alive afaik.
As a small (or even medium) developer, relying on a Google Play app is very dangerous. Our app with user generated content was pulled from Google Play store, because they found one profile out of 36 million (!) that had a suggestive photo. They used our profile search functionality to find it, you could not get it just by scrolling profiles. We have a neural net that rejects anything resembling porn and extensive word vector based text filtering, that forbids searching for anything explicit (unlike their own Google search app). The app cost us about 1m. Appeals were rejected with template emails. The enforcement is clearly selective, because Twitter has plenty of much more explicit porn.
Why are punch card readers no longer in use?
I use Zig and cargo-zigbuild to cross-compile my Rust projects. It simply works, without Docker, if I want it to use older GLIBC symbols for an embedded Linux target running an ancient kernel/glibc version, or if I want to cross-compile to an M1 Mac from Linux. Of course, you still need to provide all the pkg-config/libraries/headers for the target platform, but that’s simple enough.
Deepfakes are now trying to change the course of war
AI platform to advance stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for brain tumor patients
4 years ago, I posted here and reddit to introduce some work I did using AI for breast tumor detection and classification:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/8rdpwy/pi_made_a_gpu_cluster_and_free_website_to_help/

That post gain some traction on Reddit and I hope you would like the one I am gonna introduce here again.

In the recent years, I have been shifting my focus from cancer detection to the actual treatment.

One particular problem we really want to solve is to have more brain cancer patients to be accessible to stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) which has a lot better treatment outcome and much better quality of life (QoL) for the patient than whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) which is more common for patients with multiple brainiest (say more than 5 or 10).

The reason behind that is it takes a really lot of efforts for physician or neurosurgeon for the SRS procedures for multiple brain mets patients since each lesion needs to be correctly contoured / labeled / tracked and also a lot of efforts for medical physicists for treatment planning for these kinds of multiple lesion cases.
Therefore starting from 2019, we collaborated with UTSW and Stanford trying to tackle this problem. We have since developed models for auto contouring / labeling brain mets lesions, together with Organ-at-Risks (OAR), also we developed models for fast false positive reduction based on SVM-radiomics. In addition, we developed models for quickly splitting multiple mets into different treatment sessions based on optimized radiation dose maps.
This work will be presented tomorrow at 2022 AAPM spring clinical meeting by our collaborator at Stanford

https://w4.aapm.org/meetings/2022SCM/programInfo/programAbs.php?sid=9476&aid=60551

And we are accelerating to trying to have this technology and platform available to the whole SRS community very soon.
We really hope this platform could bring more patients to SRS procedures instead of the brutal whole brain RT. And we have seem patients keep coming back every a few months for SRS to extend the quality of their life (comparing with WBRT which is a once-in-a-life treatment which has not other treatment methods after it when the patients have reoccurrence occurred after 3 months).
Hope you like this work.

Hao
The entire ray tracing in one weekend[1] series is really good book for getting into computer graphics. It covers a simple implementation of path tracer and getting the image is really satisfying! Modern hardware and light simulation makes art fun!

[1]: https://raytracing.github.io/
Scrolling through hundreds of replies not about the topic, but a small, pedantic, niche interpretation of it, or events loosely connected to it. So comically so, it's as if bots were written to reply to posts and they miss the point completely.
Minecraft Earth never really got out of beta, but I thought for sure it was going to be a hit. The fact that it died makes me think AR is just never going to take off. Pokemon Go was 5 years ago and we haven't seen even a better novelty act since then.
Several years ago, Blake Harris wrote a book called “Console Wars” which is largely about Sega competing against Nintendo. It’s a great read.
I remember reading in Steve Jobs biography that when Larry Page became CEO of Google for the second time he reached out to other CEOs in the industry for advice on being a CEO. Jobs advice was to get rid of all the myriad of products and only focus on 3 or 4 key things. If I’m not wrong, spring pruning started with Page as a CEO.
ImGuiWindow is an exception to the rule in that it basically serves as a canvas for other widgets to be drawn on.

Regarding complex widgets like TextInput or Tables having state, I'm completely OK with that. The problem with state in a retained-mode GUI is that it's stored in two places and can easily fall out of sync/create performance-related footguns/create unnecessary work building widgets. Whether or not they're "pure" immediate mode is not the point.
> Google really should have a manual process with actual humans one can interact with when Google accounts that had enough money pass through them are involved

Flip side of this is compromised accounts, or those doing illegal or dangerous things would run far longer.
What sort of legal issues would prevent Google actually providing some information on the reason for the ban, of prevent it actually engaging in any kind of useful communication?

My issue with these bans is not the bans themselves, but the Kafkaesc process in which you are supposed to argue why you think their decision is wrong without knowing what they based the decision on.
Ask HN: What are your expectations for *next* web UI framework?
Let's assume React/Vue/Angular/Svelte and all the rest of all popular frameworks are going to be superseded by some next generation of library/framework/language/system. What will it be and why? How to escape the hell of new JS framework popping up every hour?

Of course I have my own thoughts and I'm going to present them soon in some blog post, but I'd like to ask what you guys think too.
The Philips BDM4065UC has a better speaker. Conners are difficult to see, in my experience.

That’s why I prefer the BDM4037UW and add an external speaker.
Syria and most of Africa are not "known terror states", or at least they weren't before the nightmares of civil war that enveloped them and made the people flee.

But I dare to guess that you meant to say "Muslim" without saying Muslim, but even that doesn't hold as many refugees from Syria and Africa are Christians or other religions. Kurds (often Christian), jezidis, zoroastrians, ...

The only other clear differences are the proximity and skin colour of the people.

That said, Europe has always supported refugees, e.g. Vietnamese, Turkish, etc live across Western Europe. Even the Syrian civil war initially saw a warm welcome with wide open arms - it is the sheer number of people fleeing, and indeed that often mainly younger men arrived (with women less likely to flee and more like to get stuck/"married"/trafficked/killed on the way) which turned significant parts of the population to cold hearts.
Considering how long it can take a SAAS company to build one product, 13 years and counting is not that long for re-platformimg the global economy.
5G is just a larger wifi basically, you trade high speed for short distance, it is useful for hot area(populated places, campus, factories, stadiums, etc), but it does not make much sense for wide spread locations, for those 4G is enough and much much cheaper with a much cooler radios(and in much less quantities) on cellar towers.

IMO, 4G is already an optimized tech considering its price, distance, speed,etc. in the future, it's more likely 4G will still be dominant while 5G can used in those hot zones where 4G speed is not enough(again, the crowed areas as mentioned above).