skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've fallen behind on recent ham tech as far as I have, this might help (from the WSJT pdf [0]):

"WSJT-X is a computer program designed to facilitate basic amateur radio communication using very weak
signals.... JT65 and QRA64 were designed for
EME (“moonbounce”) on the VHF/UHF bands and have also proven very effective for worldwide QRP
communication on the HF bands.... JT9A is 2 dB more sensitive than JT65 while using less than 10% of the bandwidth.... These
four “slow” modes use one-minute timed sequences of alternating transmission and reception, so a minimal
QSO takes four to six minutes — two or three transmissions by each station, one sending in odd UTC minutes
and the other even."

[0] from the WSJT-X 2.2 User Guide PDF (offers 10 languages) at: https://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html
There are different issues in PR... Like how long it takes to get power back after a hurricane
Ask HN: Having Children
My partner and I are approaching the age where we must start to seriously consider parenthood or it will not be an option anymore. While neither of us are particularly compelled to have children, there is still a sense of FOMO around it. We both enjoy our work and our time together immensely, and the current outlook is that we just want to enjoy comfortable lives together, without the extra life-altering chaos of children.

It feels existentially lonely though, and I am wondering how other people in tech feel or have felt about the their decisions around having kids. Do you regret your decision? Did you have kids but wish you didn't? I know the latter is a taboo thought, but my understanding is a lot of parents have it from time to time.
the setup to your question is flawed, since you're starting from the perspective that someone should be on one side or the other. Epic is suing on multiple points, and there are probably very few people that agree with Epic on every point.

iOS is widely regarded as being the safest consumer OS in widespread usage on the market today. Much of that is because of the restrictions that apple places on developers ability to install arbitrary code on the user's device. Epic is suing for the ability to create an app store that would allow third-party developers to install arbitrary binaries on iOS devices without oversight from Apple.

that level of restriction is a part of the product. It's what people are paying for when they buy an iOS device. People actually want that. And there's no reason why there shouldn't be an option for consumers to pick a locked-down platform. Many developers are hostile to users, and many users consciously want a device that makes that hostility harder for developers.

The 30% take that Apple charges is steep and is replicated by basically all other vendors, so I'd be happy to see that reduced since it improves all ecosystems. But the app approval process and the single app store ecosystem is a thing that I think differentiates iOS, and I wouldn't want to see that changed.

fwiw, I have an Android phone, which I picked because I wanted to use Daydream. I never really use that, so my next phone will probably be an iPhone.
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Bayer announces resolution of U.S. Essure claims
> Apple acts on my behalf as a security officer - they have no interest in selling me ads

Search Ads. Every search result in the App Store has a big ad above it with an app you weren't searching for.
The company will pay approximately 1.6 billion U.S. dollars (1.35 billion euros) to resolve these claims, including an allowance for outstanding claims,
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> At what point does a company deserve the right to compete with you on your own product?

I get where you're coming from, I do -- but the answer to your question is somewhere around "when that company controls access to billions of eyeballs around the planet".

These companies have greater access to and control of people than any government. They are beyond review, beyond accountability, and beyond reach. They are dictatorships controlling access to billions of people, the kind of power that would make any dictator in history blush.

And I am not saying we should take from them all their power. They DID earn it, it's true and most of it is quite benign. But... giving them absolute power over who everyone in the world can do business with, just because they chose to buy that device (probably not knowing what the limitations would be)? For the sake of the future of the entire species I should think that this is not a situation we would consider ideal.
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>And yet, inflation is likely to achieve an effective rate of 0.44% this year.

I don't know how to construct even a vague estimate of coming inflation.

On the one hand, TIPS are paying a real rate of about -0.4% for 30 freaking years. If I'm not completely confused, that's saying people think locking up your money for three decades and getting less than 90% back in constant dollars is a good deal. Which sounds like deflationary expectations.

On the other hand, gold seems to be going up in the same exponential way as Apple stock. Warren Buffett supposedly was buying a gold miner.

On the third hand, the Fed seems to have declared they will stop at nothing to print money as long as unemployment is high. If they want inflation to be at least 2%, surely they can get it there?
Facebook says Apple blocked it from informing about App Store 30% fee
Hypothetically speaking, what would you see as the downside of Apple allowing users to install alternate app stores?

Presumably almost every user would just use Apple's app store and be satisfied with that, but for everyone else they'd be able to use their iPhone with much more freedom.
All you say is true, but you are talking about an extreme event in the order of magnitude of a war. But inflation has happened all the time in history and isn't caused by such events.

If you look at two hundred years of US history, you won't explain inflation back shortage of supply.
The natural change in daylight hours is pretty sudden, actually. Either sunrise or noon (or both) have to move. DST is a compromise to keep them from moving too much. But sunrise is a more important time than noon.

So I've proposed something I call Sunrise Standard Time. It abolishes DST and splits the 24 primary longitudinal time zones into as many as 120 zones by cutting at the tropics and polar circles. Clocks adjust gradually each day to keep sunrise near 6am. The tropics would follow sunrise at the equator, and the temperate zones (between the tropics and polar circles) would follow sunrise at ~ 30deg N or S. That adjustment is about 1 minute per day.

To refine things slightly, sunrise can be fixed at the latitude which divides the population in half in each zone (with the constraint that the N and S zones are mirrored). Those latitudes are approximately: 13.5deg for the tropical zone, 34.5deg for the temperate zones, and 68.5deg for all 2 million people living in the polar zones.

A further refinement is to split the per-capita sunrise aberration instead. This pushes the boundaries to slightly higher latitudes. For the temperate zones, the minimum per-capita offset of sunrise from 6am on the solstice is achieved by following sunrise at 37.5deg. That's pretty close to Washington DC (39deg), Beijing (40deg), and Tokyo (36deg).

I suggest the tropics use the equator for simplicity.

SST will improve sun tracking for the vast majority of the world's population with no sudden changes. It will also be easier to understand than DST. There are no dates to remember and, because the N and S zones are mirrors, it's easy for someone in e.g. New York to understand what's going on in Sydney.

Supporting links:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Hours_of...

http://world.andersen.im/
I’m not saying humans are doing probabilistic search (not saying they are not either). I’m saying that if probabilistic search produces a result that people see as creative, then we can regard probabilistic search as something that produces creativity.

Furthermore, just because we don’t have the computational capability yet to replicate human thought processes using, for example probabilistic search, does not mean that probabilistic search is not part of replicating human thought processes.
Luckily I don't have to put myself into all of this nonsense since I'm living in the equator area.
author of the vis here. Yes I'm working on a new infographic on this dataset that shows aggregated fires grouped by causes.
You need a good daycare or babysitter so you both can work while the child is growing. Family time is quality time. Spend time with your child and watch child movies with them. Teach them how to use an iPad and get them child games. Have playdates with other children so your child can develop social skills.
> Hazel is a live functional programming environment that is able to typecheck, manipulate, and even run incomplete programs, i.e. programs with holes. There are no meaningless editor states.

Suppose I have an assigned variable, which later I plan to use. When I'm about to use it, but not yet did, I have a hole. Suppose before filling the hole I've realized that the current type of the variable - and assigned value - is wrong, so I want to use the correct type.

Can hole-oriented programming help me with that change of mind? When we use a program, using a configuration file but also allowing command-line overrides of values, we assume last-time command-line overrides have precedence over values in the configuration file. Can we consider later-time use of variable with different type overriding the previous type, which now considered to be incorrect? Of should the language catch us making a type error here?
I'm starting to see something like this happen with devs that pursue many contract work (non community projects) and pool effort/work and split the spoils (its a group of two, one usually does db stufff, one usually does application stuff, but both can write/ship code. I might work with them in the future, working with one them now).

But overall, I'd agree, something like this is a non starter if each individual in a "squad" cant some how contribute meaningfully in part to its wealth.

Analogy might be to a specops squad to killing: might have a sniper, a couple of riflemen, a grenadier/demo, someone who can handle heavy weapons, and maybe a tactical communications/CAS person; all them can kill you in their own way and in a variety of environments, missing one reduces their ability in said environments.
I think the main difference here is that Musk's other ventures are all about technologies that already existed, but were prohibitively expensive or difficult to sell to a mass audience. He and his companies have done great things to promote these technologies, and to refine the tech to make it cheaper and more sustainable, not to mention fighting entrenched players who have a financial interest in seeing him fail.

But figuring out how the brain works and how to interpret its signals using a computer is in a completely different league. Maybe he'll prevail nonetheless -- he's assembled some really smart people in the field to tackle the problem -- but I think it's reasonable to remain skeptical at this point.
I can probably claim whatever I want, but given I've never even looked at a Lexus dealership in my life, I doubt I could pull it off.
Sure! Happy to write that up as a succinct, carefully researched, and coherently argued report for you, along with supporting case history, extracts from current legislation, and recommendations for your commercial options toward avoiding regulatory action and maintaining consumer trust. Where shall I send the consulting invoice?
It's possible Apple would then proactively reach out to the largest developers to make similar deals, but the risk is pretty low to Apple if it takes a company willing to launch a multi-year lawsuit costing millions and millions of dollars; many companies, even large ones, don't have that cheddar.
> but a ban on specific implementations that make it easy to join specific communities which encourage hatred and real-world violence

So basically, Google only supports the Fediverse if, like itself, it engages in censorship. The Fediverse exists not to encourage hate speech, but to discourage censorship. Hate speech is the inevitable result of allowing humans to say what like they like. Some people will choose to be nasty. Many people believe the greater good is the free flow of information, and that adults are more than capable of filtering out and avoiding those information sources which make them uncomfortable. Instead, Google wants to treat everybody like children, and be the helicopter parent that swoops in and removes anything objectionable.
> on an operating system designed for general computing

Apple could easily make the case that the platform was never designed for general computing. It was never an open platform, and what Epic is asking is for the government to 'compel speech' from Apple in the form of changes to their product in order to make it one.
> A valid opinion is that those rules are illegal under current federal statue. Another one is that although they currently aren't, they should be.

If you think about it it's not really valid.

Retailers take a big cut of the price to sell your product and its legal.

The rules were defined many years ago, and its a free world - don't like it - don't buy it.

Why would it be illegal?
Perfectly reasonable solution but somehow just unsatisfying.

In the old days, when I ran my own mail server, I used to enjoy rejecting them with custom SMTP 550 messages.

Now I can't do that so I hard to resort to bothering the poor folks at abuse@.

In my defense, they have emailed me from 3 or so different domains/services, so I've had to set up a filter more than once.
Historically, the position of the censor has always been as the governmental authority. Censorship is a threat from a governmental perspective. The assertion that moderation of hate speech on private platforms is censorship is a form of moral panic. As the owner of private property if someone were to graffiti my walls without permission it would be absolutely absurd to suggest that the person who vandalized my goods without consent has more rights than I do to display the building in a manner I don't agree with. Tell me how that is any different from moderating a site to remove content that I consider contrary to my interests.
Instead of employing them to shuffle paper, we could just directly pay them to burn money?
there were a time when game consoles were just a hardware that would run any cartridge that you inserted.

restricting what could run in it is recent.
Maybe. Maybe not. But the real question is whether people in 10 years time would prefer a walking mobility scooter or a wheeled mobility scooter. When the Star Wars generation hits this point en-mass in 20-30 years, I predict there will be a huge market for personal AT-AT walkers.
> expected from a device costing like 5 times more.

It's not 5x, it's less than 4x.

The $199 PinePhone is the one that should be used in comparisons
> just let people figure out sleep patterns that work the best for them, do we really need a national law around this?

We do. It's already essentially dictated (at the city level)

Every city I've lived in have quiet hours of 11pm to 7am. If your neighbors are assholes, unless they're REALLY pushing it, there's fuck all you can do until 11 (and even by 11, good luck having anyone to anything about it). If there's construction in your area, it will start at 7 on the dot (and often earlier, because again, good luck getting someone to enforce this strictly).

If you need 8 hours of sleep (and that's in the middle. Teens can need even more), you have to be in bed precisely at 11 (when the loud music stops) and be ready to go at precisely 7am (when the jack hammers start). Hope your cycle matches that, you fall asleep instantly, and you're not on the upper bound of sleep requirements. Else move in the wood or get fucked.

If that's not an issue for you, you're quite lucky and privileged to either have great neighbors, or have been blessed by mother nature. Alternatively you're in sleep withdrawal and running at a fraction of your full potential and think its normal.
Does Acorn have a ‘content aware fill’ type feature?
Are we applying the same measuring tape to Musk as to other great businessmen?

How many lines of code did Steve Jobs write? How many circuits boards did he design? Show me the work that wasn't done by his employees that he slapped his name on?

How many lines of code did Bill Gates write for Windows? For Excel? For Internet Explorer? He's clearly a technically incompetent fraudster stealing credit from his employees.

How many warehouses did Jeff Bezos design and build? What's his technical contribution to Kindle? How many packages did he personally deliver? Clearly he's technically incompetent fraudster stealing credit from his employees.

Musk conceived, funded and managed all his extremely successful companies. In case of Zip2 he was even the first (and only) coder. I really don't get this desire to bring him down by denying that his achievements are extremely impressive.
Neighbors and city noise ordinance dictates when you can go to bed. Neighbors, city noise ordinance, work and school hours dictate when you have to wake up.
Although hopefully becoming weaker over time, people still hold biases against different groups.
Until these biases don’t exist it makes sense to be aware of them and try to correct
World war? Indiscriminate ire at Baidu execs?

The horrible reality of humanity is that people follow orders they shouldn't, because you don't want to be the only person to say no, achieving nothing. It goes even further in the Stanford prison experiment. That's why autocratic regimes like Belarus's persist long after everyone knows they have no legitimacy.

Also, (Re: "PRC supporters and enablers") I assume the vast majority of the people working in the Chinese government are decent people and have never had to do anything immoral.
This is part of the problem; there are entire industries now that rely on mobile device deployment. It would be untenable and unreasonable to say "hey you don't like it, F off, just don't deploy on iOS, you can always willingly give up access to over 1 billion users you know". It just doesn't even sound reasonable.

In those industries - mobile gaming is one, a $150 billion a year market reaching a whopping 50% of all mobile users across platforms, that requires presence on iOS if you want to build a business in any serious way.

This is where Apple is going to have a really, really hard time avoiding an accusation (and judgement) of antitrust. They literally control industries. This means that they probably have to give up some control of their platform.
At some point you have to think about what kind of world you want to live in. I want to live in a world in which independent bookstores exist, rather than a world where Amazon has eaten up every other kind of business. Yes it's more expensive but I think of it as an investment.
>I do not care much about arguments, I just buy some
bitcoin because I think technology is the future. Is it blockchain? I don't know, don't care, but sure I'm not gonna miss it.

People thought the same 20 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooz.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beenz.com
Hey! Miirc here! I really have to get my plant back up and running. Plant, RIP.

You've done a great job with the community. Thanks for all you do!
Came here specifically to see if this had been added yet, glad to see it!
What if we did winter time but switched to a 1-5 workday? The 9-5 schedule came from an era when roughly half as many people (per capita) were in the workforce. :)
Apparently the far-right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany became the third largest political party in 2017, winning 94 seats in the Bundestag. So doesn't look like those hate speech laws are very effective.
Then there would be a thousand timezones and no one would agree what normal business hours are.
Well, I tried it along with ~10 other people who already knew their prescription and it was self-reportedly accurate every time.

It would be nice if this was at least an option for people who might not have vision insurance or for whatever reason don't want to proceed through the traditional system
It got submitted, but only got 4 points and 3 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24282729
Couldn't this comparison be made at any timezone border? Two places, a clock-hour apart (usually), with basically the same sun schedule.
Author of the vis here. Thanks for posting this! I'm working on a better demo that shows causes of the fires more clearly, as well as changes over time. Stay tuned!
Please don't sneer at others in HN comments, including putting down the rest of the community. Believe me, I understand how annoying widespread ignorance can be, but the only thing that has a chance at helping is patient explanation. Adding more poison only makes things worse.

If you know more, the thing to do is to share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn. You've done this in previous comments, which is great.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, as they have very low margins.
When have ever you seen a price that is based on what someone deserves? In charity only.

In business it never was a case, and why should it be?
>I'm not sure what the end-game here is for Google, or for Apple, both of whom have recently been pretty openly flexing their monopoly power. There seem to be too many of these changes to be a coincidence, although that's obviously a possibility.

For Google, seems like it's because there's an election in a few months and Google's doing whatever it can to stop Trump winning again.
In other words, pulled up the ladder behind him? That's pretty rotten.
>That is, if these reasonable people have virtually no chance to bring about any substantial change in whatever system or collective actually governs/controls the USA, then how much does it really matter?

There's still room for optimism if you choose. The current administration is campaigning for re-election on a record of no new wars.

https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/rand-paul-2020-rnc-spee....

No one is beyond criticism and this rule goes doubly for politicians. I'll also add the disclaimer that I view politicians as a class of professional liars. However, the media climate in regards to the current administration should be viewed through the lens of this anti-war stance. The pro-war establishment has demonstrated its media influence as you mentioned above.
My wife is absolutely obsessed with getting the latest iPhone when her current device (Android) either breaks or otherwise stops being useful. Her reason? "It's the best phone". Why? "Because it's super expensive". Why? "I don't know everyone says it's the best phone."

It would surprise me if any conversation about why to buy an iPhone ever went deeper than that, 99.99999% of the time. The HN crowd is absolutely an exception to the typical buyer.
Is It a Cheetah?
Any particular reason you need so much cash on hand?
More specifically they proved that electric cars can be "cool" and people would want to buy them regardless if they're electric. Before Tesla most electric cars were klunky, low performing, and generally meh.
Can’t Epic build their own phone? Are their barriers to entry that Apple has put in place to prevent them from building and selling a phone?
The US government spends around as much or more on healthcare per capita as any country with socialized healthcare. Every penny that you pay and your employer pays on your behalf is due to graft/rentseeking.