skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once you decide sending packets from point A to point B is a good idea, one must look at what percentage of the available bandwidth is actually usable.

Many hams think of packet radio in terms of building a single station, for a user-end-terminal, or for a relay, and generally going along with the current in-use frequency for the purpose of getting access to existing other stations.

This turns out to be a bad idea though because channel bandwidth is mostly wasted when participating on the same channel as other disinterested parties to whom you will be interfere, and take interference from. The channel bandwidth actually achieving good result (i.e. message delivery) on a shared channel is pretty minuscule compared to the available bandwidth, because of necessary redundancy, or because of retries, combine with channel time lost to collisions, weak signal, and back-off channel sharing timers.

A much more efficient approach works by having the new station actually consider themselves part of a network, and then creating a cooperative dedicated collision free channel to the next station. This, however, requires considering two stations at a time when "getting on packet". I highly recommend this method as it results in far better channel performance.

NCPACKET.ORG has 35 stations in a well thought out network, and they can run IRC-LIKE 20-way chat sessions which are lively and non-directed, with impunity, and low latency (60 seconds or less from end to end of an 8-hop-wide network).
Obviously. My issues is the difficulty in explaining this to tech support even when confronted with evidence.
The obscene amounts of funding in Silicon Valley seem like a reasonable consequence of the obscene amounts of profit funded companies sometimes achieve.
Fortunately I have a rather unusual last name so I have first@last.dev. It comes with the bonus of having it work for my future children as well :p
Most world economies keep their reserves in USD or are highly leveraged with USD transactions. The denominator by which everyone has to abide by is the USD and its probably why the relative advantage you are speaking of doesn't present itself.
I liked this book:

https://www.newline.co/fullstack-d3
> This is thing is slow and bordering useless, but I genuinely never had any tech product for 10 years work for well. 10 years, only changed the charger and HD once. Everything else is still working, including a really nice touch pad.

Same here! I still do web browsing, mail and audio editing on my 10 year old 15" MBP. My FireWire audio interface still hooks up perfectly all the time.

The 2010 MBP range honestly seem like the last ones that were built to last. I've upgraded the OS HD to an SSD (made a world of difference) and replaced the CD/DVD with a second 1TB storage drive.

Looking to move to a system 76 or purism as most of my development is happening on a Linux desktop. I've been way more productive and enjoyed myself more developing on Linux.

Not overly concerned about the trackpad conversations -- I like me so buttons to tap. Only concern is battery usage, but the system76 lemur pro seems to have that sorted pretty well.
The lack of due process?
Not sure what' worse, Zoom or Teams. Seems like "pick your poison". A coworker once looked at Teams console. I had logged over 700 errors. Often we cannot hear people, although their tech is completely fine. It's just Teams being bug ridden and excluding people.
The courts decide what is a large platform. And they decide what is "not illegal"

In Germany, there were actually cases where courts have ruled that facebook is not allowed to delete non illegal posts:

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Oberlandesgericht-Me...

One big part of the argument of the judges was based on contracts. When a user makes a facebook account, it creates a contract between the user and facebook. The user agrees to share their data for ads and stuff, and facebook agrees to publish their posts. Thus they have to do that, they cannot just decide to not publish some posts, that would be a contract violation.

Just like when you order a pizza with 10 toppings, the pizza service cannot deliver a pizza with 8 toppings and still expect you to pay the full price

And as second part, the court has ruled that a clause "we choose which posts to publish" would be invalid in the contract, because a contract must be fair to all involved parties and not violate basic rights like freedom of speech.
In emergency situations, flights on the ground are held on the ground, planes in the air get pushed to a holding pattern or diverted depending on need. ATC wants to give the plane in distress clear air to make the maneuvers needed without worrying about traffic.
I got my license at age 15 in 1999. I'm 36 now, and still among the "young" people in the local club. That said, ham radio has been a huge, important part of my life, and is what inspired me to be an engineer. The people I've met through it, both young and old, have been really great.
Do you have examples of what you mean by red tape from the EU that prevents a bootstrapped startup from thriving?
A lot of your manufacturing is down south because of how hostile it is to unions down here. I know in SC, we have BMW, Volvo and I think Benz along with Boeing on the coast.
I opened this door, but I'm not gonna walk through it.
Thanks! And more proof for this comment is the sheer number of questions / blog posts written about sessions and JWTs almost weekly on reddit, HN, stackoverflow etc..

If this was very simple to solve, securely, those questions, blog posts would not exist.
Jitsi is pretty well-known and you can run a server yourself; are there any problems with it?
> In the case of growth companies, it's definitely not a talent thing, the American financial system has a well developed pipeline for growing ideas and providing endless access to capital.

This doesn't just apply to growth companies, or tech. It's a fundamental difference for all companies no matter how you segment Europe.

It is a difference that I don't think Europe will ever get past because changing it will be viewed as an attack on beliefs and ideals which can't trade-off to be similar to those in the US or China.

(FWIW: I'm an UK/Irish citizen living in the US.)
Excellent. I was ordering if a possible optional setting could be to ignore upper/lower case so that way I focus on hitting the right keys and not worry about the shift key? But thats just a thought. It’s an excellent tool and I will be introducing it to my 8 year old daughter. She is just learning to use a keyboard and she loves reading the classics and she has been complaining about how boring the typing tutors that she has been told to use by her teacher. Maybe you could promote this to elementary school boards?
It sounds like a dramatically long distance if you live in an urban center.
I always find polished Linux DE's like cinnamon, Gnome 3, Pantheon and unity to be top notch and more usable than OSX.

I'm surprised Mac OS has never had an overhaul of the look, on their windows, buttons, icons or anything.
On the other hand, I absolutely find it to be nightmare to navigate
in Finder - the shortcuts are a mess.. and there is no address bar at all!
Other than that I also do find Mac OS to be slower than Linux due to some bloat. On an overall scale, software availability is almost on par with Mac OS. The only drawback for Linux is graphics applications like Photoshop aren't just either available, or not hardware accelerated properly.
The distribution of outcome in one generation is, rather explicitly, the distribution of opportunity granted to the next one. Policies like progressive taxation and universal welfare programs that can be cast as equal outcome initiatives are, in the minds of their proponents, often about checking this runaway feedback loop that might otherwise leave all the opportunity (wealth, by another name) piling up with fewer and fewer people.
Some tips from someone who's been doing this linux laptop thing for a long while now (6 year's ago, I replaced my aging MBP with a cheap HP)

0. TAKE NOTES! Make a setup doc that keeps up with the issues of setting up your computer. ie... I have to do some funky things to get my onboard speakers to work, I never remember how to do it, but my notes remember it for me.

1. The trackpad will suck. Just get an external trackball or mouse, use it instead.

2. Pay for a good built-in keyboard.

3. Make sure you can swap your network card. I have my preference on manufacturer. For historical reasons I typically replace whatever it comes with.

4. If graphics matter to you, avoid NVidia GPU's.

5. Avoid laptops with restrictive bioses. (wifi whitelists, wont let you change boot order but supports two drives, etc)
I got a bunch of hate mail via GMail.

When can I expect gmail to be removed too?
There was a protest/riot (depending on who you ask) that night. 12mi is probably below the median travel distance of all people from all sides who partook and everyone who partook was also putting themselves in a dangerous situation willingly. Nobody there should have that held against them.

His actions prior to getting chased by and shooting the first guy are what I have serious questions about.
I was inferring the opinion of the previous commenter. No consideration given to his comment on some book.
CoinJoin isn't a serious solution. If you want privacy, you need Monero.
The knife was in his car and they found it afterwords, it wasn't on him at the time.

Not complying with officers should not mean a death sentence. This isn't Judge Dread. Other countries besides the US manage to not regularly murder black people- in fact most countries don't have anywhere near the level of police murder that the US has.
bingo! I fear that people are encouraging and instilling agoraphobia.

There’s unmeasurable effects of all this hysteria and confinement. And if the over-cautious lockdown side is going to assume worst-case scenarios of covid, let’s assume worst-case scenarios for the cost and side-effects lockdown - the true worst-case is that the benefit is marginal and we suffer every drawback.
Alacritty + tmux is pretty good too, but not very user friendly. Although.. it's a lot faster.
This is a case of advocating to suppress one kind of speech because it will lead to the suppression of another kind of speech. So maybe there isn't a problem here?

If the act of criticizing Facebook changes Facebook's behaviour because we've observed people are doing bad things linked to Facebook's current practices that is just the marketplace of ideas in action, isn't it?
Firearms are not illegal in Wisconsin. It is open carry. As for Rittenhouse being underage, there are exceptions for guns and rifles for 16 and 17 year olds.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2020/08/26/wiscons...
What about Google meet? It has the same security regulations as the rest of their enterprise software.
Irrelevant nitpicking. So it's pseudonymous, there is no practical difference.
When I hear people say "mostly peaceful" when referring to the protests and "a few bad apples" when referring to police I like to remind them of the fact that the peaceful majority are irrelevant when there are radicals in their ranks.

Just look back at the lesson of history.
https://youtu.be/YnOF7y-KuHE?t=127
Maybe It's Time to Retire the Phrase 'Big Oil'
> The rationale they gave is that hate speech appears on these apps, because some of the microblogging sites that can be accessed via Fediverse have this kind of content.

Do the apps connect by default to a server that allows hate speech? If that's the case, is this an instance of bad defaults? Maybe the apps could work around this by just connecting to a server that's moderated to be acceptable to Google, but leave it configurable.
Same, haven't had a single download issue in months, except for
the odd connection failure where I needed two attempts.
Stateful isn't inherently good or bad. It's a tradeoff. But the more programming I do the less I think it's a tradeoff worth making.
This is one of the biggest reasons that I follow our governments recommendations on travel, working from home, masks and so on. There is people that have it as a full time job to calculate these risks and produce recommendations for the rest of us.
You do not see the forest for the trees.
There's a danger of bad reasoning being involved, but I argue that "well-reasoned people" and just-so stories are problems either way. But I think that attaching a specific model to a problem grounds the conversation in reality.

Taking the carbon exports example I pasted, the model presented structurally tells you that carbon footprint is going to grow with exports. We can haggle about "how much", but - under this model - not about "whether". You can tweak the parameters to mitigate impact, you can extend the model with extra components and tweak those to cancel out the impact (and that automatically generates you reasonable solution candidates!). Or, you can flat out say that the model doesn't simplify the reality correctly, and propose an alternative one, and we can then discuss the new model.

The good thing is, at every point in the above considerations you're dealing with models and reality and somewhat strict reasoning, instead of endlessly bickering about whether A causes B or the other way around, or whether arguing A causes B is a slippery slope, or whatnot.

I strongly agree with teaching examples, both real (serious) ones and toy ones, to teach this kind of thinking.

Jevons paradox is indeed great to dig into and I suppose offer some sort of counterexample to what I'm talking about. The nature of the phenomenon is in a feedback loop, and whether it'll go good or bad depends on the parameters (the increased use can reduce the value of the intervention, cancel it out, or even make it worse than doing nothing). But from what I hear, people sometimes pick one of the possible outcomes and use it as thought stopper (e.g. "we shouldn't do X because obviously Jevons paradox will make things worse!").
U.S. Tech Stocks Are Now Worth Over $9T, Eclipsing Entire European Stock Market
The obscene amounts of funding exist for various reasons. I don't disagree with it being bullshit, but the analysis of why this occurs is relatively straightforward. Implementing a solution to balance the situation is the difficult part.
I agree police reform is needed, but the rioting doesn't seem like a good way to deliver this message and will instead make enemies of those who could otherwise be allies.

I mean what does some guy who owns a furniture shop in Seattle have to do with a police officer shooting someone in Chicago?

At this point I fear that the good that could come from this is being drowned out by the violence and the destruction and if it continues it will be counter-productive to the movement.
I don’t know where you got that idea from, the UK is one of the easiest places to start a business.
I don't understand how they plan to seize the accounts...
I mean, in a lot of cases, it's backed by cash flow. I get what you're saying, but FAANG stocks aren't these pie in the sky high P/E kind of stocks: they are delivering insane revenue and gross profits.
Interesting but difficult. What would one do about the rioters wearing "press" on their clothes?

Seems double edged considering the murder / suicide we saw this week in Kenosha
>...take over the company but run it in a way that doesn't destroy the company

Obviously, there is selection bias, but rarely have I seen "investors" take over something without hollowing it out withing a few years. Looking at you Sencha and Thoma Bravo...
To me this is preferable to putting it in a large cardboard box with bubble wrap like they seem to do for even tiny but durable products like finger nail clippers. It’s much less of a waste and I don’t mind if a book is slightly creased.
Lessons from Password Policy Science
yes.

So again... Reddit and Twitter are already a cesspool of hate. If you are bad enough to be banned there...
Interactive: Programming Languages 2020
China’s Dangerous Taiwan Temptation
A very amusing (to me) take on this is the Emacs Antinews section of the manual.
This is THE textbook on the subject: https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Quantitative-Jo...

There are older editions available free online that cover the same concepts, they just don't have the very latest info.
The big news is that Honeywell was added. I thought they had drifted away in the '90's. Guess not.
There doesn't seem to be a lot of undirected spam. No one seems to be harvesting git repos, for example.

I keep dedicated email addresses for most purposes, and the two that are getting any are a random mailing list, and the kickstarter address. That one has been caught in a vortex of spam, clearly meaning that kickstarter can't keep their mouths shut about customer emails.
The thinkpad X1 carbon screen is 14'' though
5 days of riots after MLKs death got us a landmark civil rights bill.
They're selling corporate bonds at extremely low interest rates right now:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-bonds/google-own...

"Of the $10 billion on offer, the $1 billion five-year tranche was issued at a coupon of 0.45%, the lowest coupon seen on a U.S. corporate bond at that maturity, according to Refinitiv data, which goes back to 1980."

I can give similar links for Apple: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-joins-tech-borrowing-bo...

The Coronavirus CARES act enables the Federal Reserve to buy Corporate Bonds. This is one of the factors driving down the bond rates: https://www.proskauer.com/alert/corporate-credit-facilities-...

"The SMCCF, initially funded with $25 billion of equity from Treasury, will leverage its equity ten times when acquiring corporate bonds from investment grade issuers and ETFs whose primary investment objective is exposure to investment grade corporate bonds. It will leverage its equity seven times when acquiring corporate bonds from issuers rated at below investment grade, and from three to seven times when acquiring other eligible assets, depending on risk."

So if you're a large corporation capable of selling bonds you can get a loan for far less than even the extreme low end inflation predictions. The big tech companies have the ability to take advantage of the current climate.
I loved that we could experience it in fast mode, or get that vintage experience as well.
There are some non cancerous communities that aren't welcome on reddit.

Lots of legal gray area ones that revolve around data hoarding / archiving are constantly threatened and sometimes taken down for piracy. The subreddits try to police the most blatant piracy but due to the nature of why people archive/hoard data it can be difficult.
Have you been poor and middle class? Because this description doesn't match my personal experience at all.

Most of my adult life I was poor. I had a wife and child. I worked as a customer service rep for a well-known cellular provider. I made just over ~20K and my wife didn't work. It would have been awesome to make more money, but I could leave my job at the office and my free time was 100% my own. I was carefree.

Later I decided I needed to keep up. I mean, I'd always been ambitious but I didn't know how to make myself actually do stuff. I figured that out, became a developer.

Now, I make by far the most I've ever made, well over 100K. And I can't leave my work at home. And my company is constantly struggling to make ends meet and I'm a critical piece in making sure that happens from payroll to payroll so people don't lose their jobs and so I don't lose my job. And that's why I get paid what I do. But the stress is incredible. I often wonder what the point is. I work >8 hours every day, because I can work from home.

And people say, you should be happy you have a job! I remember being happy not having a job. A bunch of people I know don't have jobs but have been making a really nice income off unemployment and get to do whatever they want all day. A family member I know who tells me this is on disability (the outcome of lifestyle decisions very much under her control) and owns a house and goes on vacations every month or two. She must be a wizard with money, but still.

Figuring out how to force myself to produce, every day, all day, didn't make me happier. The reason I wasn't producing is because I do not want to produce all day, every day. It sucks. The machine incentivizes me to. The machine requires it.

If you want to be middle class, you have to do what the machine tells you. For a very large fraction of the population, I'm guessing doing what the machine tells you doesn't make them happy so they never quite get the hang of it and stay poor.

The happiest and most stress free times in my life were being poor. Of course, it'd be nice to have more money too. But you only get that from bowing to the machine or making other people who are bowing to the machine give it to you, which is an extra layer of evil.
I feel there should be some laws for when someone calls themselves news or journalism. So no monopoly for news, but when does call themselves this, there should be some ethical and truth finding considerations attached.
Indeed, I don't get what they're talking about either.

I use youtube-dl every few days, and it works perfectly for me. I'm always amazed by how when it stops working, an update is released a few hours later.
check out a $30 four-speed KISS TNC for $30 called "NinoTNC".
Also a ham radio cable manufacturer called hammadeparts.com

Beware that the Baofeng radio has many configurable elements, some of which get in the way of doing packet. Also, the radios are built like crap and can hurt you during operation.

There are used radios like the Kenwood TK760g for not much more than a Baofeng but they do 25watts output. < %70 each. Sometimes down to $30.
I've yet to go to Portland, but if I ever do I intend to make a stop at Powell's assuming the world is in a place where that can happen. Thankfully we have our own good indie bookstore where I live that's a stand in until I can make it there.
Maybe that's what I've been experiencing. He's four and a half so mostly we've been buying slightly "younger" Lego I guess.

Those 3-in-1 sets really impressed me though! We've got two of them and as you say they come with instructions for several different ways of using the same pieces, and they're generic enough that you can build mostly anything.

We're definitely picking up more of those as both me, my dad, and my kid all like to just free-form build things most of the time. The creator pieces are actually really great because of the slopes and curved pieces that complement your ideas and help put the finishing touches on things.
Are there any other examples?
> But in many of the verticals in these sectors—such as banking or mobile phone services—no single company dominates the market.

Gmail dominates e-mail in a similar matter.

And remember just a year ago barely anyone had even heard of Zoom -- there's still Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, FaceTime, Skype...

This piece feels like it's trying to stir up worry over nothing. Yes, critical business software tends to have outages once or twice a year. But no, Zoom doesn't appear to be any obviously better or worse than the competition.
Maybe I have it wrong, but I would replace "are now worth" with "are now valued", I always feel like "worth" to be more suitable to something more tangible than stock values, which are often crazy on both sides of the pond.
Hopefully people become more responsible before a politician decides autopilot is too dangerous
Just the free markets at work nothing to see here!

Its not like we have a MONOPOLY problem in tech!

The markets will just sort it out.
Errr.. that's not true at all for the monitors or the mice.