skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All it takes is a couple of lowly hams with mobile radios to cover a huge area...in practice during recent emergencies here in rural norcal, ham radio was really useful, for updates on general news, determining the status of communities around the county, passing messages, and fire spotting. Some of those guys driving up to hilltops were putting their lives at risk so the rest of us could benefit.

We practice every week, so everybody who is an active ham knows the local frequency and they know that there will be updates every hour on the hour.

On top of that, the local WIN System repeater (Western Intertie Network, check their website) was up on backup power, meaning I could have used my walkie-talkie-type radio to get help from distant places like Ireland or Hawaii, if it would have been useful. To say nothing of the amateur radio satellites and HF operation.

One of our local nets during the emergency was a tech-talk net, with about 41 check-ins, all but one on emergency power, when the usual is about 7-12 people. The time was used to discuss lessons learned and one ham is an expert with generators and warned everybody: Change the oil every few days if you are running 24/7. A lot of people were surprised to hear that. And many of them only had one generator to burn through.

To give another example of the usefulness: Imagine, your power goes out, and a day passes without anything exciting happening, so you take a nap, forgetting that the reason the power is out is actually high fire risk.

In a few minutes you wake to a phone call. Your ham radio friend tells you he just heard on the radio a wildfire started a few miles north of your community. This is not on Facebook, it's not anything your neighbors know about.

So you have no idea what to do but fortunately they keep calling with updates from the radio. Eventually they call and give you the all clear and let you know your evacuation warning was lifted, so you don't have to take whatever you can and leave town with your family, spending money and using every last nerve you have just to figure out the next 24 hours.

This is just one specific example that happened here. Everybody else would have warning via text if they were lucky (had battery, tower connection, and proper system configuration), and final warning via a sheriff's vehicle siren if that didn't get through to them. In this case the person receiving calls never got a single text message.
Creating the Ultimate ThinkPad T420
> Nope, it's in a smart contract that can be deployed into perpetuity.

But I would be receiving a physical object, correct? Which means one of the following must happen:

- you give me notes in a manner that is not controlled by you (e.g. in the mail) assuming I'll fulfill the contract in good faith

- you give me notes in a manner that is controlled by you (e.g. at a bank-like location) to prevent theft

- we introduce an oracle (i.e. centralization in a third party)

> You need to duplicate the private key from a secure chip designed not to reveal the private key.

Yeah, this is an example of a problem that becomes much more likely if you share "printing rights".

Ultimately, I remain unconvinced — this is as proposed today a centralized currency that is almost strictly worse than a government currency, with the possibility of new drawbacks were printing ever to become decentralized.
Sorry, forgot to mention mixing multiple times, using multiple Electrum wallets, in multiple Whonix VMs via Tor, using different mixing services, etc, etc, etc.

So sure, all that Mirimir spends is linked. But nothing is linked to my other personas, or to me in meatspace.

Edit: Bitcoin Fog was used to mix thousands of Bitcoin from at least two thefts. In 2013 from Sheep Marketplace, and in 2015 from Bter. And as far as I know, none of that was ever traced.

That's just one of the mixers that I used. So I'm not at all worried.
But federal student loan interest rates aren't low. Undergrads' loan options are determined by their parents' income, regardless of whether their parents are providing financial assistance. Graduate students can't take out subsidized loans at all anymore, even if they are on food stamps.

My loan rates are 6.55%. After 10 years of continuous school, that really, really adds up. I even had scholarships but they wouldn't cover my dorm, the mandatory meal plan, or summer classes so that I could finish undergrad faster. I looked to refinance with 3-4 different companies, like SoFi, but the lowest they offered was around 7% despite my very good credit score.
Those prices look good. I remember last time I checked they had a very good free plan but you had to jump right up to the very expensive enterprise plan if you had an internal app even if it was tiny.
And yet unemployment is the lowest in decades!
> we do need future poets and artists, and I am sure their jobs will not cover their loans, major loss

Do poets and artists need four+ year degrees, or degrees at all? Everything I've heard from friends who have gone to various programs have said that they actually really make it harder to be a good artist- whether from undermining your individual muse to cramping your style, or simply putting your mind in the box of what is "good" art.

For that matter, does society need full-time artists and poets who have not yet proven their abilities to the point where they can sustain themselves at a level they are comfortable living with? Maybe, maybe not. There are jobs related to art (say, visual design or writing copy) that can be done on full or even limited part time basis.
Shockingly, the browser made by the operator of several of the world's most popular websites is applies its security policies less strictly to popular websites.
I think encouraging them to be homemakers rather than encouraging them to be in the workforce would make them happier, generally, and that we should strongly prioritize catering to the majority. Do you think women are happier now than women in previous generations? Because all of the polling I've seen says no.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl... for instance. You can always blame it on there not being enough equality yet, or once they've passed men in whatever metric you have your eye on, you can always blame it on more abstract things.

But I don't think any amount of equality is going to make them as happy as they would be making their homes into warm and loving places for their families, and experiencing their children growing up and eventually having children of their own, in a society that appreciates them for doing just that.

If the small minority of women that that doesn't work for have a worse time in the work force because society prioritized things other than making it nice for them, too bad. I don't care. You make society strong with rules that work for the majority.
Its ok. Stadia is a google product, it wont exist by the end of 2020.
What the Internet Can Learn from the Printing Press
From the description I suspect it's a standard smartcard chip of the type used in SIM, EMV, and other access control/authentication cards.
Yay! I'm one of the devs on disaster.radio and we're big fans. We're actually having our weekly meeting at our hackerspace sudo room https://sudoroom.org/ in Oakland, CA right now and listening to your track Drop The Bomb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0S-HOOp_VY which has been something of an unofficial theme song for us!
You don't need sharp river sand for landfill. You can dredge regular sand from anywhere
> sharing a studio apartment with a spouse

That reminds me, I forgot the other big item. Housing costs have risen tremendously. (Yes, even in places that are not the biggest cities and/or on a coast.)

Basically: all the financial factors that changed, changed against new graduates. I'm struggling to think of a meaningful expense that is relatively lower now than it was in 1996, and I can't think of any.

I'm not saying it's not doable at all. I'm just saying that 20 years ago that $28k in debt might have been $14k instead, the $400 might have been $200, housing + other expenses would have been lower, and the graduate's relatively higher salary would have made the arithmetic easier.

Put another way: if one had to share a studio apartment with a spouse to make the math work in 1996, consider how much worse the picture would be today for e.g a person unfortunate enough to graduate college single and unable to share a studio with a spouse.

As you point out: there's less room for error now, which aligns with more people speaking and writing about the topic.
Lost the original link I had earlier today, but this one seems to make the same sorts of claims about the supposed limitations on the range of receiving the V2V signals.

https://youtu.be/3z09fCqmILU
It looks as if Apple took a page from a book of medical device manufacturers.
This appears to be the primary difference.

Lenders are no longer on the hook defaulting student loans. These loans are not dischargeable in bankruptcy, and it reflects on the sheer amount of loans given to sub-prime borrowers.
I don't see how micro-founded macro models equate utility with willingness to pay? Work-horse New Keynesian models begin with a representative agent so willingness to pay of different consumers doesn't even make sense in this context. Moreover, these models are (to my knowledge) seldom used for welfare analysis but rather to examine things like the effects of montetary policy on employment and growth. Models with heterogeneous agents certainly don't assume willingness to pay is the same as utility. I'm an econometrician not a macroeconomist though so perhaps I'm missing something.
Thanks for the repo!

PS Are you an actual pirate?
People who want to run docker don't want to run artifactory.

I'm not saying it's a good thing, but that's what I observed.
Fear of breaking stuff. We still have some MySQL 5.1
It depends on where you're getting the new one from.

You could be getting mad cows every time.

I think it would be nicer if you could build containers from scratch that didn't tie into a cloud based website or someone's business model.

Sort of like a Dockerfile, but for the prerequisites. Maybe go even deeper to gentoo level.
That seems about right, the caveat is that I get much more engagement on topics pertaining China.
Knocker-ups are one of my favorites. Essentially human alarm clocks, they would tap on windows with a long stick to quietly wake the room’s inhabitants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocker-up
"Perfect the environment, and we'll get wonderful humans" has enough truth in it to make it dangerously wrong.

Yes, bad environments harms people - physically, emotionally, and also morally. But perfect circumstances still leave all the selfishness, foolishness, and moral faults of human nature. The perfect circumstances just leave them more room to be selfish.

You can see this in US politics, for example. The nation has rarely been this prosperous and unthreatened. And what happens? Our politicians turn into bickering children.
I don't know enough about Monero's construction; wouldn't this be trivial to counterfeit? Can you use this key to ultimately transfer the funds?
Double eureka: Breakthroughs could lead to quantum ‘FM radio’ and end of noise
You need change your work, refresh yousefl
At Thanksgiving my ~60 year old parents were telling us that they didn’t have a microwave growing up and it blew my mind. Wikipedia says only 25% of households had a microwave in 1986 and my whole life I just assumed they’d been a staple kitchen appliance since the 1960s.

Then we had fun looking up a bunch of old TV show kitchens to see if they had a microwave. The earliest we found was Season 2 of Boy Meets World (1993) though there was a lively debate about whether the early seasons of Married with Children had a microwave or a toaster oven. Better than debating politics at least.
Biggest problem it's almost impossible to discharge student loans in bankruptcy.
Yes partially inspired by 0x10c, I used to post my updates on that subreddit a year or two back. Thank you for the compliment.

I integrated color VT100/ANSI support into the terminal emulator and had basic TCP/IP network working with a simple telnet+zmodem client as well. So you could log into BBS's on the Internet and download files to the CP/M systems:

https://i.imgur.com/6V97v57.png

https://i.imgur.com/fhqef4c.png

https://i.imgur.com/K44GT1W.png

Mine was really a prototype, since then I've been working on a 68000 based emulator and an OS for it which I might integrate back into UE4 day. The other issue I ran into was how to go about simulating the spaceflight part of it. Somebody gave me a pointer about that though earlier today so I might have to get back into it.
>>Apple has always been like this (even in the Jobs 1.0 days).

I remember reading in the Walter Isaacson's biography. Jobs would purposefully underpay or deny bonuses to top employees, especially top contributors to the products.

This kind of a behaviour comes puts up a giant red flag. Do only as much as what it takes to not get fired.
> As long as existing homeowners are incentivized to drive up the price of their home, none of our housing supply woes are likely to change.

I'm not sure it's that logical. If you own land and tomorrow it's upzoned to allow more density, the value increases immediately. Once the density creates enough foot traffic to support cafes and restaurants in a walkable space the value goes up again.

People are stuck on the idea that urban means blight so they need to zoning rules to keep out "the riff raff".
A record that lasts forever, about a product that lasts a season. I'm not sure I get the logic. It must be a buzzword marketing thing.
Show HN: Prray – “Promisified” Array in JS/TS
Hey Ola, I was at Autodesk Toronto around the time you were acquired and remember meeting you and your brother. I always appreciated how Pixlr solved a common problem (photo editing) really really well. Congrats on the rewrite.
Yes, I did also just watch that HAI video... :)
Because new jobs have been created, which didn't exist.
Pretty nuts if this is reproducible. Would be similar to decades of progress in shrinking super computers down to pocket sized phones in a few years time.
Y'all been to Newgrounds recently? It's still incredibly fresh and creative, just like it was back in the day. In fact, you yourself can contribute to it with tools that make it easier than ever!

I'm beginning to think people just never liked the old web to begin with because they had to put real thought into contributing.
Numbers have dropped a substantial amount in recent years but there are new people getting certified all the time. The cost of hardware keeps going down too. As a HAM its bad for me to get down in these guys for making an effort to produce a product for disaster readiness but...I think the common place FRS radio sets available in every big box store for less than 30 dollars are a more practical tool that everyone should own. CQ CQ CQ VE7 xray mike lima!!!
> A printer's devil was an apprentice in a printing establishment who performed a number of tasks, such as mixing tubs of ink and fetching type. Notable writers including Ambrose Bierce, Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain served as printer's devils in their youth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer%27s_devil
Don’t discount the former. Or performance art. Or a test for next season’s plot from Pied Piper or Hooli.

Are we not entertained?
Nay! Moveable type is still sometimes used to print that metalic lettering on high end cards. Before college, I worked one of those machines.
Next they’ll find out about audio tours
Seems like a lot of people are saying the airdrop and integrating Stellar to Keybase was a bad idea, but I don't think so. There's a lot I like in the Stellar-Keybase integration.

Keeping cryptocurrency keys secure has always been a challenge. Keep them too well, lose your money; keep them not well enough, someone can steal your money. It's a thin line to walk.

Keybase wants to make encryption user-friendly, and keeping cryptocurrency keys secure fits very well to that purpose. This is probably the least painful way I've kept crypto private keys.

Besides, the wallet is pretty functional, and is integrated to an app that's already sync'd to my phone and computer. It's without fuss and just works. Compare that to yet another app which I don't know, need to evaluate, don't trust to keep my secrets, or won't share them across my devices. Here, it's painless.

I personally knew Stellar already, but as a technical user (which I feel is a natural demographic for any crypto to start to get early adopters), this brought back Stellar in my mind and renewed my interest (or would've interested me if I hadn't known it).

Besides, I quite like Stellar as a cryptocurrency for payments: fees are low, and confirmations are near instant. And I'm not even naming the fact that it natively allows you to keep fiat money as a Stellar asset instead of exposing yourself to the risk of losing value to fluctuation. (Though there are caveats, but the infrastructure is there natively to build very useful things.)

I don't think this was quite bad a move as some make it out to be.
I was a little surprised to see "line infantry" and "heavy infantry", considering that grunt troops are pretty much the modern successors of line infantry, and Rangers (for the US) and special forces are the modern successors of heavy infantry.
I'm pretty sure you don't need that beefy of an FPGA board to accomplish this; there are cheap chinese Artix A7 100T boards with 100,000LUTs, almost 512k of block RAM, and 256MB of DDR3 RAM available for under $100 USD; I doubt a Z80 core would take more than a couple thousand LUTs.

For my own project I have a PicoRV32 RISC-V core running at 150mhz, with HDMI output, character set generator, sprite graphics generator, bitmap graphics output, and a UART all in under 8000 LUTs...
Facebook’s AI Head Is Wrong. No, We Will Not Hit the Wall
Most of the jobs listed are centuries old not decades.

Most of the jobs listed were before people started tracking things like unemployment.
It's not particularly strong end to end encryption, to note. It doesn't have perfect forward secrecy, for better or for worse.
About as confusing as receiving a cash allowance from your mom.
Good opportunity to start a business just do it you learn more than you can ever imagine
VE7XLM de KM6NHH. Good point on the FRS. I'm helping coordinate a local neighborhood FRS net here and we are looking at setting up a wider-area GMRS repeater as well; we just had the hilltop location offered by another ham and ran some tests.

BTW my recent emergency experience is documented here:

http://www.friendlyskies.net/fmk/index.php?tpl=PSPS-Ham-Radi...
Eastern Ruapehu Lahar Alarm and Warning System
The web isn't as much fun in many ways but seeing the jacket I looked at four years ago and rejected, appear over and over and over again since then, actually gives me much more of a chuckle than today's grim headlines.
Unemployment isn’t bad in theory, it’d imply that we’ve become more productive as a race.

There’s plenty of busywork type jobs in Japan and Australia, from what I’ve seen.
Wow, I haven't seen that name in a while. I had a SixPakPlus back in the day.

(I couldn't remember what the sixth function was, turns out it's "new compact size." http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/content/computing/AST/000490-...)
Where does DHH say his wife reported $0 income on her application for the Apple Card?
One minute of complementary breathable air is provided in exchange for each minute of advertisements viewed.
Arweave looks promising at first, but by reading their yellow paper [1], we realize they want the storage to be permanent and immutable. It seems interesting for archives that are not gigantic in size, but for websites...

[1] https://www.arweave.org/files/arweave-yellowpaper.pdf
Hi. Thanks! Some of our contributors have added support for some of the off-the-shelf TTGO ESP32 + LoRa boards but I'm not sure we're ready to call it stable. I'll ping them to come here and answer your question. The previous ESP8266-based solution was just a bit under-powered for serving up the vector tile maps and we're not supporting that anymore.

We're also about to finalize some new custom boards with ESP32 and two LoRa modules (meshing on a single channel kinda sucks) and will make an announcement on our site as soon as that's ready to try out.
Amazon Accuses President Trump for Steering Away Jedi Contract from AWS
Mapping America's Dirt Roads
There is much that appeals in this last creative act.
Bull, US employment rate at ~60.4% (2018) is down 4% from 2000 ~(64.4%). The sharp drop in the late from 63% in 07 to 58% in 2010 shows this is not a voluntary change.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/192398/employment-rate-i...

PS: It was higher every year from 1990 to 2008 showing just how bad things are right now.
Using 900 MHz means you only get line of sight which means you need height above terrain. In a disaster maybe you can get this without paying anyone any money so this might be feasible.

Using HF would be better in almost all ways except size though.
Galley slave https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galley_slave is not really a job, is it? Maybe the title should be copied from Wikipedia where it says "occupation" instead of "job".
Show HN: Apijack – API of All Trades
Ha, one of the entries is Hippeis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippeis
> Doing so would get your domain sinkholed

Is there any party out there trusted to wield this much power to decide what's "advertising" or "tracking"? Given that modern technology is all about running programs on the Internet. And assuming this could grow into something big, and won't just wither or die like myriad of networks that were out there.

.nojs/.nocookie TLDs could be a fun idea, though. Doesn't need any trusted third party to govern, just a bit of browser vendors cooperation (so, a slim chance).
I’m sure higher end hotels would have lift operators too.
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Among the first things you learn in microeconomic theory are the expected utility axioms (developed by Von Neumann and Morganstern), and Afriat's theorem. These results give conditions under which an agent's behavior is indistiguishable from utility/expected utility maximization. This is the standard justification for the use of utility maxmization in economics: that it is a good mathematical model of decision making, not that it captures what actually goes on in people's heads. This is not a heterodox idea, it has been mainstream since at least as early as the 1950s. Of course, modern economists like to empirically verify whether these models of decision-making are accurate or whether other behavioral models are more consistent with the data, because economics is a science. Praxeology, on the other hand, is the opposite of science.
I was hoping this would use meteor scatter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_burst_communications)