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Have you ever been in the hiring side of the table? Employers take a risk when they hire. They’re signing up to make large payments twice a month starting immediately. Yet they won’t know if the hire is any good for months. Both parties are taking risks and committing resources. That’s part of kicking the tires on a new economic partnership.
Thanks for posting that link. I learned two valuable things from reading that discussion thread:

(1) I saw examples of how to phrase comments in order to keep a conversation polite and constructive, even as tempers start to rise.

(2) I learned a lot about how Ubuntu "snap" installations work, and why "apt" better fits with my ideals.
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Love this. I was just without internet for a few days last week, and as a bit of a "prepper" I couldn't help but think if long term disaster situations and what I would want to do for internet and communication in such an event.

I'm actually getting a ham radio for christmas (don't tell my wife I know) and while that will fill almost every NEED for communication, it certainly leaves room for improvements. Text chat is very convenient, maps are very convenient, so I think this project is a great start.
I had security cameras installed at my home last week. We already had a security system. I dont like having the cameraa, but the final straw was when someone tried to break into my home while I was at work and my wife was home the Friday before Thanksgiving in the US. With no cameras, had nothing to give the police.

Id like to get a 12 gauge shotgun and teach my wife to use it, but she's gun shy. (I am licensed by the state, but dont own any firearms). There is something about the aound of a 12 gauge round being chambered that puts the fear of God in everyone (and I'm an atheist).
I was working on something vaguely similar to this and to LoRaHaM: https://github.com/elvis-epx/sdr/tree/master/LoRaMaDoR

but most hams around are stuck in 2M analog, some even find configuring a subtone too complicated, so it is difficult to work on something no one will bother to use.
Labor participation rates are historically low
> I dont think people are leaving Canada because they have to pay higher taxes or because they hate the healthcare system.

That's not what I said at all. I said Canadians are leaving Canada because they can make more money outside of Canada(ie. like close to double the salary in some cases). Raising taxes is not going to encourage them to stay if they are leaving because of monetary reasons.
A messenger pigeon could at least cary 1TB of micro sd card data. LoRa is like less than the symbol rate of honey bees.
This was much of Northern California last year, and indeed it was awful.
The listening part is what is really the most mind-blowing. I routinely get mobile ads about things I only talked about with others and never typed anywhere. Google can deny as much as they want: They listen to every single word
That sounds nice but it requires there to be a definition of "societally high-reward education". That is difficult. Even if you find some methodology to identify the quality programs that have an appropriate "societal reward" you have to deal with the problem that the costs for those programs will inevitably rise in lock step to the amount of tax dollars used to subsidize them. (See https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff...)

I would suggest the federal government get out of educational loans entirely. Let the private loan market evaluate and take the risks, probably with an income based repayment contract that favored degrees/programs that are likely to lead to reasonable incomes.
Neat little board and nice price point. This seems like it would be generally used as a client/relay for satellite transmissions? Any common applications to help me understand how it's used?
I’d love to find out how many people are stealing cars because they have no other way to make money.

My guess is very few. Stealing cars is just easy money.
Insurance has nothing to do with this not the remote car anecdote. And yes, we are that naive!
It’s like leaving your nice bag on the seat. It’s better not to do that. Wheater you’re insured or not. Anyway I’m happy there are people like you around, it means I will get robbed less likely!
Sorry for my bad English
900Mhz will punch through some stuff and the spread spectrum chrip Lora uses will do non-LoS[1] under some conditions. The bigger issue is to get that capability Lora is a really low bit-rate(on the order of bits-per-second) and polled instead of ad-hoc.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/10/lostik-usb-lora-radi...
Somedays I found that it would be much more natural and tidy if I could write code like this:

const jsons = await urls.map(fetch).map(r => r.json())

So Prray appeared. It is compatible with normal array, but comes with async method supports. And it is well-tested, zero-dependency.

It also supports async method chaining that makes somethings like magic.
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If the people who created this are here in the thread, some questions on the power system...

1. What is your baseline calculation for Wh per day produced by the PV panel?

2. More precise specifications on the PV panel?

3. What is the calculated load in Wh per day? How much of this is dependent on data traffic level? (eg. Does it go into a sleep mode?)

4. Have you calculated this for sunlight levels in mid winter, off grid, at latitudes 48 and above? The Wh produced in a day, week or month by that size panel somewhere like North Vancouver, BC, will be really low from November to February due to short day lengths and winter weather.
I'd immediately delete it. And I have done so with several other applications. Time-limited trials don't need anything other than the time limit and usefulness to make paying customers out of trial downloads.
The amount of pressure that kid would have been subjected to finish university in 10 months would have been crazy. I don't understand what these loony parents want to accomplish by doing all this.
I guess you're are talking about US, right?

Anyway, sometimes unemployment rate could be misleading. For example, Cambodia's UR is 0.3% [1]. However beneath the impressive statistic lies a harsher reality of widespread near-unemployment, masked by the methodology: Anyone who works just one hour a week is considered employed.

The employed include people aged 15 and over who, during the reference week worked for one hour or more for pay, profit, commission or payment in kind, in a job or business or on a farm,” notes a 2013 ILO working paper on its methodology. Which means that anyone who has some kind of garden in the backyard, and if they go and grow some vegetables on their farmland, they will always be considered employed [2]

In developing countries the informal sector holds about 60% of the ecomony.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_unemploym...

[2]https://english.cambodiadaily.com/editors-choice/cambodias-l...
I signed up for Keybase during the alpha because I liked the idea of PGP-verified identities on different web properties (and I still do). However I uninstalled their client when it was “upgraded” to a Mac app complete with a kext for a goddamn FUSE mounted at all times (that and the fact that the client was somehow spamming my DNS server). But at least the chat service makes sense for part of their user base. Then came the crypto nonsense....

I guess being a free keyserver and identity verification service (they frequently check all your signed messages across all linked web properties) just isn’t a viable business model.
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The last remaining few happen to live on the same small Thailand island as i do. I am very happy to say that they are not extinct although they are becoming fewer, unfortunately
If you love ham radio, text messages, and maps, boy are you going to get your money's worth out of APRS and digital modes. Haha. We have a digi-net here locally and whenever I'm able to participate I often end up just holding my phone (AndFlMsg) to my HT. Works great.
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I run a microphone blocker on my phone for these purposes.

Before that I used to wonder whether they were listening in; or it were merely coincidence and our brain just connects the dots where it shouldn't.
lol, it's fun to imagine going back in time to explain what you just said to my 2004 sysadmin self. back when I used to build servers, and colo them, and physically maintain them.
Might as well throw in EME as well ;-)
As I recall, it was a low cost 32-bit CPU essentially identical to the original 80386 (subsequently rebranded 80386DX to further distinguish it from the SX) which was introduced several years earlier and is the main CPU referred to when people say i386 without qualification, except that it had a 16-bit data bus and a 24-bit address bus.

> Think of it in the same context as the 8088 vs. 8086.

Yes, both of those are 16-bit but the 8088 is a later low-cost version with an 8-bit data bus, but an identical execution unit to the 8086.
I dont have stats, but in the 00's, my brother who lived in west Seattle at the time, had his SUV broken into 3 times in a short period. They ignored the stock stereo, hundreds of CDs, expensive set of golf clubs. Besides smashing a window, what was the damage? They stole his headlights. This was back when xenon headlights were novel.

From what I recall, the police told him was something along the lines of "we'll never recover the parts and we'll likely never catch the crooks". Basically, they cant fulfill their job, and my brother was told to get ready for the insurance rate hike.
I am not familiar with Snow Crash myself and I read the Wikipedia page [1] on it and it makes sense what you're going for; but just want to say that for someone who was born in HK, seeing the term 港幣 really can only mean HKD in my head, and it's difficult for me to process that it means something else. Even as you keep the name Kong, have you considered calling this something else in Chinese aside from 港幣 specifically?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
Well, from an aggregate population level it naively seems cheaper (more efficient) to insure people against car break-ins rather than subsidize low-density housing infrastructure (roads, water, electricity, internet, etc.). That's apart from the productivity increase resulting from higher density (eg: see Geoffrey West's work on the nature of cities), and the loss of forest/agricultural land in rural areas. So, while low-density suburban housing avoids break-ins, it leads to bigger unanswered questions.
Yeah, I heard the same thing. So now I own a bunch of 900 MHz transceivers, telemetry dongles, and equipment. I don't think it deserves the good rep it gets. It may punch to the other side of the house or do okay through some pine trees point-to-point but at the slightest hill or gentle dip it's done. It's best to treat it like a microwave link. And for a microwave link it has a pretty significant fresnel zone.
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Can anybody name a successful autodesk acquisition? Their record seems quite embarrassing, filled with lots of acquisitions of unrelated tech for inflated prices that they ultimately shut down.

(No offense meant to the companies being acquired, they’re usually great. Autodesk is the one who seems to screw everything up.)
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Why do I feel like someone is going through this list today and opening a new shop in Portland tomorrow?
"Flaws and weaknesses involving the deserialization of untrusted data will be a major concern, particularly in enterprise applications, like GRINDR, used directly by vehicle-based systems."
hahah
An excellent conference video explaining the event loop in Javascript (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ)
Hold on.

$10k on DO?

Are you serious?
> For every one place you see it built, there's many more places zoned in such a way to exclude it.

I've seen it in virtually every urban and suburban area of Northern California, it's practically the on-trend mode of infill development and has been for a couple decades. Either Northern California has the reverse relationship to the rest of the nation that it is reputed to have for development (which I doubt), or the assertion that this is prohibited in most US cities is false.
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The GitLab internal communication policy is publicly available and clearly mentions PRs, issues, email, video chat, and 1:1 communication as options:
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/communication/#internal-co...

And no, I am not being hyperbolic. Did you read the article? Employees at Away are banned from using everything above. No private Slack channels. No email. Only public Slack. I challenge you to name a successful company where that is the policy.
> I feel like keybase is great as a key-management platform and _that's it_.

I agree, although I'll freely admit I haven't tried to use the other features all that much.

However, I do find myself a little uneasy with the key management aspects too. The official keybase CLI package being ~500mb when installed, the background server, etc concerns me. The alternative of using curl with a heap of largely inscrutable commands seems unworkable¹.

I wonder if anyone has worked on an alternative, and easy to inspect, client to interact with keybase for just the key management aspects?

1. I largely used the curl method, but suspect very few others would.
I always thought it would be cool to make a little portable kit to fly an antenna/relay in case of emergency. The practical solution would probably be a parafoil, but a chemical hydrogen generator and balloon would be way more fun.
Grad school is difficult and stressful, but doing novel things normally is. Comfortable boring things make for not-so-good research topics.

Also a median time of 7.5 years for a PhD sounds unlikely... in my field (physics) that's probably more like 90th percentile. Perhaps that length is right for humanities, which do tend to be longer than the sciences, but there are an order of magnitude more STEM PhDs than humanities PhDs and many STEM PhDs are likely shorter than physics.
Even with a warrant, there shouldn't be an "enable surveillance" button that instantly cracks the targeted user's device and gives complete access to law enforcement. At the very least, they should have to physically compromise the user's machines in order to get any access. That should make things difficult enough to stop them from doing it routinely.
Reagan did not personally come up with the idea of deinstitutionalisation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation
However they want?

Some people might not remember the Liberty Dollar[0] from 10-20 years ago. The depository was raided after a few years, the company issuing the currency was shut down, and the owner/proprietor was convicted of illegally minting coins. Kong couldn't be shut down the exact same way - these aren't coins - but I'd be shocked if a similar thing didn't happen were Kong to become as popular as ALD (which, come on, it won't).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_dollar_(private_curren...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_(job_description)

Computer literally.
Oh, that's what that Twilight Zone episode was named after... Neat.
Tomorrow? It's only 9:15, there's plenty of time to start tonight!
I agree, I think airdrops with Stellar and a wallet on many developer computers could create the critical mass to more crypto applications.
Yesterday I bought coffee in a place that doesn't accept cash. Tapping a card is always faster than paying cash in my experience.
If you don't want to learn emacs, Sublime + the Sublime REPL package is quite nice. I've n using it to write SBCL but it can also use ABCL. Also REPLs for lots of other languages.
> 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.

In That 70s Show, there is an episode in which the Foremans get a microwave.
Funny. Personally I was just imagining... Say for (wild) example you end up going to war against a neighboring city and all you have for air support is whatever's parked at your municipal airport. You think a bombardier is going to be an obsolete person at that point?

A tad bit more seriously, but still related: I do find lists like this suspect when viewed in terms of their resiliency over time vs. localized changes in circumstances.
The primary use is for receiving our data broadcast in places that have limite/no/costly connectivity. We want to provide a basic information service that's available everywhere. Right now there is an audio stream coming down (Voice of America; it's free content), news feeds, weather updates, and the day's popular Wikipedia articles. It's a 10kbs datacast.

We also act as a relay for ham packet radio (APRS). Hams can send messages that eventually get picked up by internet-connected gateways. We take APRS messages tagged with OTHER and broadcast then over the two satellite beams.
Not this case, but i'm 100% sure they failed to hire a very qualified individual in the past due to their draconian non-competes (or at least their "we own everything you do" clauses).

particularly for anyone in software you have to heavily weight how good apple will look on your resume vs just submitting code to random open source projects.

As a hiring manager I definitely prioritize people who have code I can view vs people who's code has been locked in somewhere with vague claims of what they added.
Can I just take a moment to say how much I appreciate Hacker News?

In an internet filled with advertising, tracking, toxicity and trolls, HN is a relief.

The design is simple, fast and functional. The community does a tremendous job of legislating itself. The content is incredibly valuable.

Hacker News reminds me of the internet I grew up loving, not the thing it has become.
I’m very skeptical. While the idea is nice ( I love physical cash and use it every day ) there isn’t much control over counterfeiting, etc. granted, this is also true for Fiat, but there are more controls involved.

Make a currency exchanger that exchanges bits with a scan of your device, instantaneously, and you’ll have my attention.
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Maybe if they had _some_ cartographers in the maps team perhaps google would understand the importance of a having a scale shown on a map _all_ the time.

A map is by definition drawn to scale, having a scale on the map is what makes it a map. We may maintain proportions but by removing the scale, it simply becomes a polished drawing with zero intuition of distance.

I am old enough that I navigated forest/mountain treks with a compass and topographic map as a teen. To me not having a map scale when navigating to a new place feels really disconcerting.
The hardware section mentions:

> disaster.radio nodes are capable of functioning in most moderately sunny locations

I live in Northern Europe (54N) and wanted to use an old phone as a time lapse camera in a remote location without power or internet (hence the phone rather than something like a Raspberry Pi). The battery when fully charged would last ~3 days, so I just needed a solar panel big enough to keep it topped up.

I figured a 20W solar panel would be sufficient, as most phones use way less than that when charging. In my initial testing in direct sunlight this panel was barely able to keep the battery % the same, let alone charge it. I'm not sure whether I just needed or a bigger panel, or it was just the 20W solar panel I got from eBay not really being 20W. If anyone has any experience with this I'd still like to do the project :-)
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Allow me to show my work (within the confines of HN's mostlyuseless formatting system):

Raspbian:
[jachee@mmmmpi:~]
[23:10:54] ▷ ls -l $(which vi)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Sep 3 2016 /usr/bin/vi -> /etc/alternatives/vi

[jachee@mmmmpi:~]
[23:11:11] ▷ ls -l /etc/alternatives/vi
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Sep 9 2016 /etc/alternatives/vi -> /usr/bin/vim.basic

CentOS:
[jachee@jachee:~]
[00:12:29] > ls -l $(which vi)
ls: cannot access alias: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access vi='vim': No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 2294208 Oct 30 2018 /usr/bin/vim

[jachee@jachee:~]
[00:12:53] 2 > which vi
alias vi='vim'
/usr/bin/vim

Homebrew:
[jachee@gyrate:~]
[00:14:15] ▷ ls -l $(which vi)
lrwxr-xr-x 1 jachee admin 29 Aug 6 11:14 /usr/local/bin/vi -> ../Cellar/vim/8.1.1800/bin/vi

[jachee@gyrate:~]
[00:14:28] ▷ ls -l /usr/local/Cellar/vim/8.1.1800/bin/vi
lrwxr-xr-x 1 jachee staff 3 Aug 3 12:17 /usr/local/Cellar/vim/8.1.1800/bin/vi -> vim

No-Homebrew Catalina:
[jacobachee@jachee-mbp15:~]
[00:17:24] ► ls -l $(which vi)
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 Nov 19 11:46 /usr/bin/vi -> vim

Edit - for an actually-readable version of the above, see https://gist.github.com/jachee/eaa8610312ebd7723fc76e8d71da7...
> Density increases property taxes per sqft.

The trouble is that it decreases them per capita, and now you need more teachers and firefighters to cover the additional residents.

This is the dark side of funding services through taxation. The people with little money pay little in taxes but still consume services, so they're a net loss to the government which then has a powerful incentive to push them out of the jurisdiction.

One way to solve this is with a UBI. That would allow local governments to charge actual cost for local services rather than tying them to property values, without imposing an impossible burden on low income people, because then they could pay the cost from the UBI. Which would in turn remove the perverse incentives local governments have to inflate local housing costs or push out "unprofitable" residents.
Mobile devices interpret it differently because of the hide/show browser UI they often have.
Disclosure: I'm the TL of this project on Chrome and I work very closely with the Safe Browsing engineers regularly.

> What if Google's algorithms classify your new startup as "potential phishing", because users are re-using their own passwords on your site?

That's not how our phishing detection works. In fact, our internal studies show that a lot of users reuse their passwords often and while that's not the best password hygiene, it's the user's choice to make and we have to respect that and build protections with this in mind.

> How can you appeal?

Right from your search console.

> What recourse do you have against Big G's algorithm?

Ultimately, Google/Safe Browsing has a lot more to lose if their users stop trusting their product(s). I can tell you that we take false positives very seriously and try hard to provide a fair and speedy resolution.
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency employs ~16,000 people.
I once stumbled across a group of friends doing just that, in order to complete a project. While amusing, it worked and it was all they could think to do at the time.

It made me wonder when checking out your link: If those friends could talk to a real Computer (person), would that Computer (person) be able to give them any practicable advice based on years of experience? Little tricks, or things to watch out for? Was any wisdom lost to the ages when the paid Computer role faded from the world at a broader scale?
> No, hostels have limits < 30 days.

I've lived in a hostel for months at a time. At one point an employee mentioned their monthly rate (not advertised; I was paying by the night).