skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a ham and the only radio I own is in the 2m band. I don't use it much day to day, but usually join in at least one disaster drill a year and help out with ham support for a local bike ride in an area with little cell service.

If I get kicked out of the 2m band, I doubt I'll move to a 70cm radio, why spend the money (including helping the local ham club replace their repeater) if there's no guarantee I can stay there.

The USA gets what is essentially free disaster communications in return for a few MHz of bandwidth. Seems like a small price to pay.
> There are places where $1000-1500 covers you for the month, even with non-local, white guy pricing.

This is hilarious. There are places were $300 covers you for the month. I was paying $7 a day rent at a hotel at one stage.
Hilariously, Apple is the most likely candidate to ban it and release their own.
You know what's ridiculous? That we are giving a single cent for US-China collaborations. That $5M should be going to US researchers only.
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The Wall St Journal is biased right of center.

For example they have an anti-regulation bias that they wear on their sleeve editorially and which informs their news reporting.

You might consider the possibility that you like it better because it is consistent with your world view rather than because it is less biased.
I’m first-generation and my family is Nigerian, and while I personally don’t eat the heads, we do entire dried fish quite a bit. Locally, we refer to it as “oporoko,” and it’s primarily imported from
Norway, rather than Iceland, as another commenter has mentioned. It’s also very widely available in African and Nigerian food stores in the United States.

Similar to the what’s said in the link another commenter posted, I would say it is one of my favorite foods.
>hmm -- the collateral in this case is ether.

What happens if eth tanks in value? Now you'll have $0.10 of eth backing $1 worth of stablecoin. Also, if it's backed by eth, who has custody? If it's the controlling entity, they can refuse to redeem your stablecoin for eth.
Zuckerberg et al Snapchat a WeChat?
What did you expect to happen with the endless feature chasing?
Hmmm, I wonder if, no, it can't be. But I do wonder, sometimes, if you get what you pay for.
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This is outrageous.

The good news is that there is enough 2m equipment out there that there could actually be a feasible mass radio protest and intentionally render the band unusable. There is no way in hell the FCC or similar authorities abroad could ever actually track down all the equipment or have the manpower to deal with violations. They cannot even stop robocalls in the US.
Good deal. Public access is a continual fight.
It would only be exploitive if it didn't come about as a result of consumers freely choosing in the market. Since that's not the case, the criticism is unfounded.
Yeah, Jordan Peterson is a fraud and a charlatan. I'm sorry you got snookered by him, but it's not too late.

That all-meat diet sure isn't helping you. Your attention span didn't even last for your whole post before you got confused, hit send, and wandered off.
Lol lemme ask him if he has a link to the case number of something. You in a similar position?
Tether and Gemini can freeze/suspend anybody's account at any time for any reason with practically no effort if they wanted to. All they have to do is refuse to honor/reimburse anybody for the particular tokens assigned to a particular account. The public blockchain ledger makes this super easy. You can even track your blacklisted token amounts through middlemen and mixers.

The main thing to keep in mind with stablecoins is that your coins are only worth something as long as the producer (Tether/Gemini/Facebook/etc) is willing to give you actual hard currency for those coins. This gives the stablecoin "bank" total control over the system regardless of how the cryptocurrency is set up. (Similar issues do apply for private stablecoins, but the freezing/suspending will occur per an individual user trying to redeem their currency).
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Open source software produced by consortiums of corporations is sort of a way to engage in anti competitive cooperation without running afoul of anti trust laws.
Corrupt government and an apathetic electorate. Not quite a failed state yet, but getting there.

It’s a shame; the people of PR deserve better.
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It would be a shame if, in the event this passes, all those transmitters were to squeal across the spectrum in a coordinated fashion and render the spectrum basically unusable... hehehe.
Why not colour the walls, why does your design aesthetic trump mine?
Safari has traditionally used a different extension API, which coupled with this smaller adoption has hindered the progress of extensions in the platform. A recent change to an app extension model has hurt the ecosystem even more, as it killed a significant portion of the already few extensions that used to exist.
I hope we call it ZuckBucks.

It also is good for shorthand: 10 ZB.
As a ham operator this seriously disappoints me. The way it sounds the 2m ham band was targeted because it is world wide. Taking it is the easy way out for the producers.

The 2m band is the most prolific uhf/vhf band. Next would be 70cm band but if you get a single band radio it’s most likely 2m. There is a lot of equipment out there that would need to be replaced by people and clubs without a lot of financing. The repeaters serve immensely important roles.

For instance around me in Texas most of the storm spotters for NWS (skywarn) use 2m bands. Not having the repeaters may mean the difference between people being dead or alive when a tornado come through. I can’t over state the importance of these repeaters. But if forced to replace them there will not be enough funds to get the new equipment, antennas, etc.

I do however have hope the ITU has the foresight to protect the band.

Edit: oh and I forgot to mention iirc the ISS uses 2m as their backup communication. It’s used at least a few times a month. That’s how prolific the band is.
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how bandwidth-hungry is teleoperation?
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Given the wild wild west culture of 'crypto' up to this point, I'm not sure it is possible to have a non-disingenuous and non-hyped usage of the word.

This Facebook experiment may indeed just be a Venmo that's connected into their tech+business ecosystem. However, the sheer size of their user base should at least give you pause when claiming this experiment is completely uninteresting.
Then what is it?
Would that not be the Jones Act not so much Puerto Rico? Tesla wouldn't be affected by it but any other project that wasn't US-based would be.

I find it amazing such archaic thing as the Jones Act exists. It's like a forgotten laws you sometimes see mocked in newspapers.
There is a metal strip in the real 100 RMB notes that most of the copies don't have.
It's also not even the nation state of France. France has many hams who are likely upset, too. It is a sketchy defense electronics company that has pitiable revenue. I suspect the French people/the rest of the world would see this an unjustifiable corporate power play and act of oppression if hams get the word out.
I love that the FTC uses the word "legit". So legit.
That does of course assume the ability to buy good roasted beans somewhere relatively near you.
A hotel that charges $1,000 per night with 261 rooms is charged $1,600,000 for multiple years worth of violations.

If I understand the math correctly, this hotel, when fully booked, would make that much in revenue in a week.

I'm continually reminded why many companies have employees who choose to do unethical things: they'll make more money than the fine will ever amount to.
(Benchling PM here)

As far as sweeping generalizations go, I think that's a pretty reasonable one :). I'd imagine that almost all of our users (including most lab admins who assign permissions) don't want to keep a complex permission system in their head.

What we've seen is that this system ends up leading to a small number of well-designed and well-named roles. Most users see the roles themselves ("DNA Designer"), but don't need to worry about exactly what the configuration behind it is.

Somebody needs to be aware of the powerful (although not quite turing-complete) configuration system, but what we've seen in practice is that it's usually one or two technical admins whose job it is to gather requirements from the different teams and figure out how to translate those into a few digestible policies that everybody else can assign.

We certainly didn't invent this model (it's basically RBAC), but we've found it's a good way to address the often-complex demands of a big pharma (where IP is crazy regulated from like, 3-4 angles) without taxing the individual scientists too much.
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I wonder if learning to program at age 40 vs age <10 would be similar?
Wow, I didn't know that about Japan. It makes sense. Tons of amateurs everywhere are using Yagi-Uda antennas, would make sense that they have a strong radio culture having contributed so much.
The ability to mute would be useful for more than just the harassment example. I frequently get useless notifications from Slack bots, which either give me useless tips on how to use Slack or ask me some useless gallup questions. It's mind boggling that Slack not only thinks these constant interruptions to everyone's workday are somehow beneficial -- but also that people shouldn't have the ability to turn them off.
> but this is a massive change to people’s lives that’s being forced upon them without the slightest consultation

I can't tell if this is satire. Who's forcing them to do anything? What even is your point here: people shouldn't do things in other countries? Who's even talking about replacing their national currency?

Or, to put how ridiculous that is another way:

> Did the people who live in those countries ask Brian Acton et al to come and replace their national post with one which allows Brian et all to control who they're allowed to message?
And the fact that I'm getting downvoted for this, maybe because someone didn't think it was legit. Oh HN, I love your utter lack of a sense of humor :)
GA says our visitors are clicking an average of 3 times after we added more modals. That's engagement, bro!
>the point is to avoid the power struggle. //

One of the children in my care always pushes the issue to a power struggle, regardless of how much one seeks to avoid it. They're very clever and try to manipulate the situation to apportion blame to the care-giver when it should rest with themselves. Frustrating and impressive in equal measure.

We scale timeouts according to age, 1min per year. Truly longer timeouts (for us) just result in punishment then ending up focusing on the timeout and the subject's failure to abide by the rules of timeout; which causes escalation.
You can do that by creating a folder with all the bookmarks you want, then right click on that folder and select “Open all bookmarks”.
http://archive.is/roYY9
Sounds sort of like tab groups, a function that was removed from firefox. It can be added as an extension.
I didn't see that, but it might be because I block JS in general by default.
Nah, you are thinking like an engineer. What my wife wants is “papers scattered around the desk” in a digital form.
Just go away.
I understand the feeling, but the site guidelines ask you not to reply to egregious comments (or comment on them at the top level, which is the same thing but worse). In other words: please don't feed the trolls. We've banned the account, but the damage that comment caused has now spilled over the entire thread.

If you flag the bad comment, that alerts moderators. In egregious cases, email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look at it sooner. But starting a new off-topic subthread about how shitty a shitty comment was merely makes the thread worse, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
average booking rate is likely under 50% (high dollar hotels will always have rooms available), and you can bet their expenses are through the roof. $1.6MM does not represent a week of income. It is definitely a big hit.

No matter, the fine is purely penalty anyway. They aren't making extra money from denying public beach access.

I've only been going there for a few years now (for a meal now and again), but in those few years I see clearly marked public parking, clear signs that "public beach access is this way", and about half the time, the person in front of me is clearly telling the gate clerk that they are there for public access, and they are directed to the public part of the garage. So this fine is puzzling to me.

Perhaps at the times I go, heavy visitor season (3 day weekends, mother's day, etc), they follow the rules but "most" of the time they ignore them? Still, to my eye, the signage is very prominent and it's clear that public access is available.
Percentage linked penalties of gross earnings or pre-tax income is a better way to hit companies or individuals.

GPDR follows this method, and it should be continued. - if you're going to lose 4% of gross earnings by violating a law, you're much less likely to do it.
Electricity required combustion to produce at the time, and still does today. Battery waste is also not neglible, and battery mining is as dirty as oil.
How can an infinitely large napkin have a center of mass? It seems to me that all everything would get sucked on a trajectory normal to the napkin's surface. Any horizontal force would get cancelled by an opposite force, at an opposite point on the napkin. Also, force of gravity drops off with the inverse square of distance, so the force would have a finite value, depending on the density of the napkin. Similar idea to a common homework problem for introducing electrostatics: calculate the electric field generated at some point by an infinitely long wire with some charge density.
Electricity required combustion to produce at the time, and still does today. Battery waste is also not negligible, and battery mining is as dirty as oil.
I still find writing Objective-C relatively enjoyable in this decade. It’s much nicer than C++, for example.
>and that officers need some mechanism for administering a field sobriety test to someone who may not even be in the jurisdiction.

I wouldn't be surprised if you eventually have to end up getting police to stay on site with the drivers for this scenario.

Sobriety tests not withstanding, your non-security staff probably won't go tackle a teleoperator if they cause a bad accident and try to flee.
For me Apple Watch with ECG caused panic attacks.
Related article (by Alexis Madrigal), "The Electric Taxi Company You Could Have Called in 1900" about an attempt to roll out an electric cab company in NYC and the rest of New England.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/the-e...

Another article which touches on the subject: https://grist.org/article/2011-03-28-alexis-madrigal-crazy-g...

"At a time when many people were stuck inside new urban confines, unable to get outside to private spaces, having a car that could tour, a car with a lot of range, was quite appealing.... And it was just sexy to go fast. People like to go fast."
analogy doesn't fit because there's no analogy for immigrants in sports. if the kid lands a job at fb and immigrates permanently he increases the tax base. now you might say that he's taking a spot from an american but i thought america was a meritocracy? if this kid is better than all of the americans competing for that spot then so be it - the americans should work harder.
I get providing an easement, but requiring not just a parking lot, but to build it is a shakedown.
I saw the home version of this in Norway near Lofoten where people literally nail a gutted fish to their boatsheds: https://photos.app.goo.gl/UNEA7favnWmQ4TCV9

If you ever have the chance to go up there, do. Its one of the more naturally beautiful places I've been: https://photos.app.goo.gl/d6EpUXrbwjMUZS2v5
It's not the first time they've been fined either.

Future fines were agreed to be 25k per violation/day so here's hoping that actually puts some pressure on them.
Fiverr is awesome. Where else can you pay someone to dress up like Jesus and record a personalized Happy Birthday video?
i wasn't talking about comments on hn - i was talking about comments on the linkedin post.
Cool. I should have just flagged and moved on.
Definitely not. They agreed to it during the permitting phase. Companies are often required to build public access 'stuff' regularly - nothing different here, really.
Yep, I've done a variation of that as well, to ensure compliance. One time a full garbage bag full of toys got thrown out.

But the meta-point is: kids are all different. Parenting advice happens to be mostly written by people whose children are already pretty well behaved and don't need much (if any) correction. These people think that they're really great at parenting, but in all likelihood the larger reason is that their children aren't shitheads to begin with. Not everyone is lucky like that, and humans are _very_ hard to debug. This is particularly annoying if the parent wasn't a shithead him/herself: there's this implicit assumption that the kids will be just like parents, but there's no guarantee whatsoever that it'll turn out like that.

In fact anecdotal evidence from my friends would suggest that very few people are "lucky". Only two kids (out of something like 30 in my circle) are what I'd call "good kids". One is a really smart girl (good at math, plays chess, in general just tends to do what's good for herself), and another kid has mild Asperger's, so he's in his own world: does super well in the accelerated program in school, knows how to code, but doesn't know how to interact with people, at all, and has no friends, or desire to have friends.
What we fear most: Kids with Guns.

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It may be too difficult to maintain fine grained permissions for each bespoke professional role, but it seems the investment could be worthwhile for large homogenous groups. Example: CSRs only need access to accounts relating to assigned, active cases.
Posts like yours are the reason I come here. Great stuff. And yes glycoPTMs are insane.
MakerDao has complex mechanics that I probably would fail to explain accurately, so if you're interested in this, I'd suggest googling. That said:

1. ETH has tanked in value by basically that large of a drop since DAI has been in existence, and it's held its peg. Recently, I believe some of the parameters that control DAI's stability did cause people some concern given how high they went, but so far, DAI has been remarkably resilient.

2. I believe the ETH is locked in smart contracts, so nobody has custody (although it may be vulnerable to bugs). Not 100% sure though.

3. DAI is moving to a multi-collateral model, so it can be backed by ETH, BTC, other stable coins that are backed by fiat in various jurisdictions, other coins that are backed by gold reserves, etc. That seems like it will make the model much more resistant to the attack that was suggested above -- i.e. that a single government could interfere.
True if the napkin is perfectly flat. Any imperfections would negate the cancelation of opposing force, no?

The drop off would only apply if the napkin has finite mass or infinite size, correct?
The modern way to write Windows apps is Win32 again.
The California Coastal Commission is like the IRS out here in California. Maybe one of the best run planning bodies in the country.

They will find out if you're not abiding by the law.
Some kids are distraught when separated from the family, others are quite content. IME timeout can be far more emotionally damaging than smacking. A well timed smack is a punishment for action; a "timeout" appears to be a desire for separation originating with the little-person's most loved-ones. A short-cut to the brain telling it that a behaviour is unwanted (smack) vs. an emotionally loaded action telling them [seemingly] their loved ones don't want them around.

I've smacked and ended self-destructive behaviour immediately and permanently (with ongoing reinforcement); done timeout and simply made a child distraught and supremely insecure.

Horses for courses, as they say. [That is, people vary and what works for one person will not work for another.]

Slight aside, isn't all correction for "harmful things" just at different levels of harm? I don't for example correct my children's "poor manners" in putting their elbows on the table because I don't consider it harmful in any substantial way; presumably my parents found it harmful enough to chastise me over otherwise why would they do so. My presumption is that they felt I'd be somewhat excluded by polite society for failing to adopt societal norms of table manners.
I don't believe this kind of snark is welcome on HN
Other sources of news - radio, TV, and the internet. And other sources of commentary - radio, TV, and the internet. And other sources of advertising - radio, TV, and the internet.

Newspapers aren't in the paper business. They're in the news business, and commentary business, and they're really in the business of finding ways to get you to see advertising.

[Edit: Newspapers mostly don't compete with other newspapers because almost all cities are down to only one newspaper. Their only "paper" competition is USA Today.]
You wouldn’t satirize the Nanjing massacre in China in the same way you wouldn’t satirize the Holocaust in Germany.
How many developers actually wrote code using garbage collection that had a hard time updating to ARC?
It has worked (or at least maintained a pretty narrow band of 96 cents to 104 cents) for nearly 18 months now: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dai/.

I'm also not convinced it will work forever, but it has been remarkably resilient to date, even in the presence of the value of the collateral (ETH) dropping 90+% in that time frame.
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The point was that the arrest happened after the messages got exposed on social media, and not just after the words were uttered in private
This is well-disguised spam from a green user account who has never commented on HN.
This reminds me of Goodhart's law:

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Why, did it report anything unusual?
Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16985046
Thanks, I like the 'highlight new comments' bit, I hope HN will bake that in someday.
GitHub Package Registry no longer allows package deletion
Is the additional 27-acre space they're using the funds to purchase the Wavecrest Open Space that was acquired in 2017[1], or additional open space?

[1] https://www.hmbreview.com/news/nonprofits-acquire-acres-in-h...
Just have your features be temp^2 and (212-temp)^2
Just because an institution seeks to cure cancer, does that mean all their techniques, trade secrets, and knowledge that is unrelated to a cancer cure is up for grabs?

No one has cured cancer yet. If you steal from one of these institutions, what you are stealing definitely isn’t a cancer cure.
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