skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My wording ("above the noise floor") was not well chosen. What I mean is simply this:

Your receiver will have a certain noise floor which you will see/receive even without an antenna connected to it (internally generated by imperfect components).

If you connect an antenna, this antenna has a certain "antenna factor" which describes how much of the field strength of a signal "in the air" will be converted an electrical signal at your antenna terminal.

For a very short antenna, this factor is small, for a "good" antenna this factor increases.

Assuming both your "bad" and "good" antennas are still good enough to pick up background noise and desired signals above your receiver noise floor (which is usually the case, even if you put your finger into the antenna terminal!), all you get is a difference in absolute signal levels while the SNR (ratio between the desired signal and the noise) will not change.

So this principle is universal, independently of the modulation scheme.
> They've pled guilty in the original DRAM price fixing collusion and they just got sued last year for the same charge, it's ongoing.

Now you are making stuff up. We are in 2018, not 2006. There is no regulatory investigation by any gov't antitrust agency. China's NDRC announced that they had "massive evidence" of price fixing by Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix, in 2018. It turned out they had nothing, so instead they tried to blackmail Samsung and SK Hynix to drop all pending and future patent lawsuits against China's domestic companies in exchange for dropping a multibillion dollar fine and antitrust violation that they couldn't prove.

You clearly haven't read the class-action lawsuit by Hagens Berman in which the law firm alleges that the memory companies "coordinated" by signaling each other via PR. Do you understand why the class lawsuit is not going anywhere?
HyperCard was a great gateway to programming for me as a kid. I've seen Vipercard.net's faithful reproduction, which is pretty cool. What's the closest thing to HyperCard that is modern?
please submit the original source, not articles reporting about the source. In this case, it even had been submitted to HN by the creator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19768072
I've been using it for many years with no problems with fulfillment. I like that there is a record the letter was sent.

The biggest annoyance is the horrible UX for entering recipient's address. I'd like to type the two lines on the envelope. Instead, I need to go through this form adding them as a contact, with fields for e.g. city and state. Most of my letters are one-offs, and it's a bunch of cut-and-paste work. Still beats doing my own mailing, though.
> while it certainly hosts a lot of it, github isnt open source.

Yep. This was something that surprised me

https://github.com/github/markup/issues/1266#issuecomment-48...
When App Stores Behave Like Monopolies
True that. Great minds really do think alike :)

I came to the conclusion the hard way when I focused on UI/UX (it should look good) instead of focusing on providing the best possible solution. This is the most important learning I took from the entire entrepreneurial experience.
Is Microsoft still a bad place to work? My impression was that they've gotten their act together over the past decade, and they're near the top of my list for the next time I look for a job. Their strategy and execution seem a lot better from the outside, but I don't personally know any employees to verify what it's like to work there.

(I can personally attest to Google being a demoralizing catastrophe of mismanagement, and many of the colleagues I most respected while I was there have left in frustration or in protest.)
awesome, just signed up for the beta
Maybe I'm weird, but being right-handed (like most people), I prefer directional controls on the right hand and action buttons on the left. Your characterization of the former as "left-handed" and the latter as "right-handed" controls seem backwards to me. So, to be honest, I don't even use WASD (or ESDF).
Yes, I made a playthrough on YouTube if you prefer watching it ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSW4QmNz1JY
The Right Way to Quit a Job to Launch Your Startup
How exactly does that seem noble?
Now you've created bugs where you overturn "not guilty" verdicts, expunge verdicts of cases that tangentially involved cannabis, and fail to expunge verdicts of cases where cannabis wasn't in the text but that still fell under the law change.
> good software is not enough to win

This might give the idea that good software is necessary [1] to win, but history has proven this is not always the case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_and_sufficiency
Read a book that has changed my life: Atomic Habits by James Clear

Just do it and thank me later.
NameSilo have the same price for reg and renewal.
Staying motivated for personal projects is different than my day job.

Counter-intuitively, I stick with them more when I am less fired up about them. Passion fades, but a habit of spending a few hours a week on something doesn't burn you out, and you make small improvements over time, resulting in a product. I spent years on one side project, coding it in a weekend, then being very patient as it grew, adding features when asked (and they made sense), never in a rush. Eventually it made some money, and eventually I sold it, but it was a long, slow, small weekly effort for about 5 years.
Very surprising result. Suppose it did help people with various issues, there are negatives with meat eating, especially if you vastly reduce plants, higher cholesterol for people with sensitivity to that plus, much more impact on the planet through production of meat, and animal deaths.

I love eating meat, even though I have tried to cut down for all those reasons. Hope there is more study of this.
Well, I think the internet can remove all middle men except one. The one that remains is de facto a monopoly. So prices go down as long there is competition and more then on middle man. The less middle men there are the higher the prices. And then there is no way back neither, so the remaining middle man is running a global experiment on price elasticity until growth declines.
Maybe 3D printing will be different due the physical aspects of it.
I personally have a small carbon footprint, considering I live in Europe. But I know that it’s no more than virtuous wishful thinking if I were to start a vegan diet out of love for the environment. What we need is practical, economic solutions that actually make a difference - and to get there we need an unemotional discussion based on facts.

A tempo limit on the German Autobahn wouldn’t have a big positive impact on the environment.
I'd support a general CO2-emission tax (there‘s already a europe-wide emission tax for some industries [0]), but not as big and grand as Fridays for Future demands it - it'd make a lot of things much, much more expensive, and mostly low-income households would be affected, while the green upper middle class would just pay the premium.

However, like Greta Thunberg said: The fast and emotional exit from nuclear power for example in Germany was a wrong move. It could’ve been the best transition to renewable energies. Now, energy in Germany is crazy expensive, but thanks to coal they’re even further away from reaching the paris agreement.

It’s a good thing that Fridays for Future caused lots of discussions and that young people are getting active in politics. But scaremongering does not help. The whole thing smells like climate-populism.

Who says life will be over in 50 years?

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/ets_en
Yes that's the real solution to the problem.

If you have to access something in lots of code, don't make it go away asynchronously. There are many techniques to archive that. Keeping objects around in an error state is one easy way to do that.

You never want memory management to be too fine grained. Even if he could implement the fine grained memory management it would likely be impossible to test all the corner cases.
Apple Poached Intel Smartphone 5G Modem Lead Before Resolving Battle W Qualcomm
I assume the compiler can easily optimize something like that similar to constant folding. Isn't that the case?
This is the new language by Mark Sibly, but haven't really used it yet: http://monkeycoder.co.nz
It's a real stretch to equate civil disobedience over equal rights with access to mere entertainment content. No one really needs to watch Game of Thrones or whatever.
Show HN: Passwordless – Enable User Sign-Up with SMS via AWS Lambda
I thought it was essentially Latin, so gibberish for most but possibly readable for those with a penchant for dead languages?
> pro-West propaganda

Ha! I would say it's mostly just pro-europe considering the amount of outrage porn there is against the big US tech companies, US government/culture on things like social safety nets, the US military and what not which is ironic considering this website is hosted by a US venture capital firm.
There is nothing stopping you from using AirWatch for personal use. It’s a per device service. The difference is that you as the end user controls the maintenance of the profiles and control over the data being sent.

From the press release “No one, except you, should have unrestricted access to manage your child’s device.”.
I haven't tried https://github.com/agile-leaf/50mm yet. But am curious about it and similar solutions.
Exercise of monopoly or monopsony power to drive prices away from the efficient level is an economic concept that applies to pretty much every situation where things are bought and sold.
That wouldn't necessarily tell you the sex of the writer; I'm not sure why it's important relative to anything here though.

FWIW the English generic pronoun is he.

I wonder if the author cares, what seems more pertinent is that she's an experienced pilot and good writer.
>Tap water here in the Netherlands is excellent, and I’d much prefer it over bottled water

Tap water and bottled water in Utrecht are pumped from EXACTLY the same source. :)
The last thing is want pisses me of the most, also the reason I don't maintain whatch lists anymore.
Intel Advises Woes Won’t End Soon – Channelnomics
I agree and was going to say the same. That there was a huge challenge in writing code to manage memory ownership, is not surprising because memory ownership is so fluid and adhoc in C and its derivatives. And when you are asked to make that ownership explicit, if the original designers hadn't been thinking about it, you get a lot of cases which they would not have considered.

I would like to see a compositor written in Rust, I think it would make for a robust window system. I also know that starting from the position of "this will be written in Rust" would force the issue of memory ownership to the fore and result in a different architecture from the start.
I see, this all makes sense to me. This is definitely not the message Apple is conveying in this statement however, if you ask me.
Signed up for the beta! I've been looking for something like this for my ~1TB photo database ranging back to 1999.
Which is odd, since a single campfire likely releases as much carbon as an ICE car does in a few years in hours.
+1 for Matrix. Awesome technology.
Black Hole's Tug on Space Pulls Fast-Moving Jets in Rapid Wobble
"All single board and accessories sold on the Pine Microsystems Inc. (PINE64) store are entitled to a 30 days Limited Warranty against defects in materials and workmanship."

I searched the linked page for "90" (days) and "3" (months) with no results, other than the "30 days" mentioned above. Where do you see 90-day warranty?
Totally stupid .. rosé is not a flavor. Bullshit article.
Tokamak research gets almost all the funding.
I find listed measurements on AliExpress to be accurate and true to size. I rarely have issues buying clothing from China after measuring my body and writing everything down. I buy a lot of cheap 'beater' pairs of daily use flats from China because I can't justify spending $60-$100 for that little of a shoe, and they fit better than most of the things I have sold by Nine West or CK.
Not all of us. Some of us avoid the products and services of surveillance-based companies like Facebook, Google, etc., and block traffic to them to the greatest degree possible.
Ask HN: If an obvius idea wasn't tried yet, is it a bad one?
I have an idea for a key-value database architecture, and it seems quite obvious for me and how could one come up with such idea. But when searching for prior works, I haven't found anything. Could this mean the idea is bad, as I think it should've came up for at least few CompSci students before.
I had a similar idea, with storage limit of a classic 1.44MB floppy disk. Imagine an entire website which fits in a floppy disk.
This is simply not true. While I strongly agree that GitHub has the current "best" workflow, other styles do get the job done.

The Git project itself, the Cygwin project and Gawk project all use primarily mailing lists. Again while I prefer the GitHub system all 3 of these projects are responsive to emails and changes are made quickly.
Totally agree. To be clear, I wasn’t trying to overhype the ‘cure’ but rather emphasize that the problem is way more complicated than many believe because of the islet regeneration. That’s why I’m a believer in the tech we have now because it’s the most viable path to long term management.
How's vi relevant? I use it daily, but certainly not for gaming.

How are the first FPS games relevant?
It looks like SuperCard is still around, can't speak to how modern it is https://supercard.us
I really prefer movement controls for arcade-ish games on the right hand, but I guess it's a matter of taste. Haven't decided yet if I want to go further with this project, but will definitely added support for a custom scheme if I continue with it. Thanks for your input!
I disagree slightly - if people don't pay for the service, they'll cancel it
WARNING: This triggers a file download (unsuspiciously named bcc.pdf) immediately. My mobile browser downloaded it automatically.

My malware senses are tingling, tread carefully.
We've actually been working on something similar. Our goal is to make it as dead simple to send a letter as possible in USA. We'd love any feedback people have!

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Feel free to drop us a note at support@papermail.in if you have thoughts :)
Node v12.1.0 (Current)
A lot of what a normal person would think of a fraud or corruption has been written into the law of the USA
I have ~1TB of photos from various sources, including backups of old iPhoto libraries. Therefore I often have one photo available in many different sizes, cropped thumbnails, etc. I'd pay money for working duplicate detection :)
it's def an unserved niche. Rn the answer is basically, niche streaming services (Criterion, OutTV, Shudder, HBO etc), torrents, and DailyMotion+Youtube
Old people are an increasing burden. Must our young be the ones to shoulder it?
To be honest, I can't really tell much of a difference between the examples they list in the article vs. the usual influencer.
> Then they are useful for you, use them.

Something can be extremely useful but still too expensive to justify. Facebook, etc. count as "too expensive" in my book.
> How can you have an entire article on .... without using the word "monopsony?"[1] Is it simple ignorance or deliberate deception?

There is no call to denigrate the author for not finding a discussion on broad economic categories as central as you do.

Would you feel this way about an article discussing military arms procurement that failed to characterize the situation as a monopsony ?
> Wouldn’t it be the person who wants...

Ah, yeah, definitely, in the ideal world. I wasn't thinking about other people, though, but about being clear to the person for whom you're feeling the feelings.
Three questions of philosophy, social science and monetary policy
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People seem to hate bundles. And they love a huge catalog for one price like Netflix used to have. I think most people would hate paying per show.

And I don’t think the pricing per show would be much of a discount. I’d imagine the median number of shows HBO viewer actively watches is 1-3. And the cost of giving you access to shows you don’t Watch is actually less than nothing since it would take resources to lock you out of it.
It's a PDF with the interview. Didn't automatically download for me in Chrome, just loaded on the webpage.
Graphene sponge helps lithium sulphur batteries reach new potential
It definitely improved over the past few years. But a lot of the people who made it to the top under the old system of bullying and undercutting your peers are still in positions managing people, so you can still see a lot of capriciousness, bullying, politicians hiring politicians, retaliation, so on. Stack ranking is meant to be long gone but you still see managers handing out zero ratings to teammates that clearly don’t deserve it.
I think the dream was that Netflix would actually become the one-stop-shop for absolutely everything old and new. That you could watch the latest GoT as well as get your fix of all of the old Schwarzenegger movies for 10 bucks a month. Obviously that never worked out. For me it's clear that in the near future every production house will have its own streaming service and they will essentially become stream-channels once an aggregator comes in and gives you a package deal. You'll save 10% if you bundle up 10 different streaming services, etc. I'm sure the next step after that will be to re-introduce commercials? Why not profit even more by having people pay monthly and serve them ads at the same time? At that point the cycle will restart as a new wave of piracy will begin because obviously people don't want to pay a fortune to watch ads and have access to a bunch of crap they never watch.
Alternative Homeownership Models: Land Trusts and Co-Ops
It's not about staying disciplined, so more as picking appropriately-sized projects.

I tend to be over-ambitious, and never fully finish large projects. The only ones I'm able to finish are ones that last between 3 weeks - 1.5 months. Any longer and I usually fizzle out with no energy or motivation left.
That's sort of two ways to frame the same objection: I don't want to pay for all the extra shit I don't care about, whether that means a bunch of channels or a bunch of garbage programming across a half dozen platforms.
that is a very narrow view of it. monopsony is pretty much the way things are done for drug pricing in every first world country except the US for over 50 years
A factually-correct statement isn’t “propaganda” just because you don’t like it.
Too dark :(
Great game. Hard, but not impossible.
The State of H-1B, Two Years After Trump's Executive Order
Promise promise this isn't malware, it's just a segment of my ebook so people can see what its like if they want to download the full thing.
Thank you! The Amazon listing is gone.
I would hope the entire source is available. We should always be wary of secret algorithmic decisions in court cases. The algorithm should be openly available for the public to see in the same way that the law is to be openly available.
Laser radio transmitter/receiver paves way for ultra-high-speed Wi-Fi
Source code is missing a license as well, FYI.
I find the term personally confusing when only one individual is involved. Most definitions of the word include multiple people. It would seem that's an unpopular opinion here. Meh, can't win them all.
But there isn't any way to block them from gathering data about you from non-internet and third-party sources.
Maybe people don't want to watch exclusively Netflix's originals. I personally wish there was a UI feature to just hide all of Netflix's own crap and show me what else they have. Of course that feature will never exist.
> If OSS wants to be widely used, it needs to take UI seriously, and not dismiss it as frivolous “eye-candy”.

More than this, if mass-market OSS wants to be widely used, it needs a mass marketing budget. Not many deep-pocketed stakeholders in a community united around non-profit work.
You already have ample examples of how this could make sense, so here's a mental model that will serve you well in life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence

>> 'In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."'
You would expect so but I haven't tried it personally because I had a spare NUK laying around anyway.

I think the real question is how old or recent are the games you're wanting to play? Games consoles would have to be emulated too and the Pi can still pull of some N64 and PS1 games.
Well, what are your options?

Either move away the heat, which needs things like heatpipes and fans and stuff that dissipates... or create less heat.

So if you've got no more place for bigger fans, more heatpipes, more surface area to dissipate heat, you can only start to create less heat by throttling your chips.

I think if MBPs were 5 mm thicker, you would have no heat problems at all because you could just build them different.
Maybe you should buy from a non-free news service if stuff like this bothers you. I know they would appreciate the business.
Matching the style that's already used in a file is certainly timeless advice.

Still, if a particular project or group has stringent opinions about code formatting, but at the same time can't be bothered to work out how to get a tool to apply most or all of that formatting, it's a bit of a bozo situation. Automation is what computers are for, after all.
Combat Vet Who Stopped the Synagogue Shooter: ‘I Scared the Hell Out of Him’
We need easily accessible tools. I used to ignore mobile viewport sizes. Now Chrome has button to emulate smartphone or iPad. I can check my web page with a single click. So I often spend a bit of time to ensure that it at least works good enough in mobile. I did not see anything comparable for blind users. If Chrome developers would add something similar to their developer console, I bet, a lot of new pages will be checked.
An Interview with the Core KiCad (FOSS EDA Software) Development Team