skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems we hugged the site to death. Here's archive.org's snapshot from today:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200828183315/http://js8call.co...

And a related presentation on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZKhVcFOljY
Having worked as a mover for a while once upon a time, I don't think it would make much difference as it is now. It's very rare for any moving job to require more physical strength than an average adult male has. The challenge is more like understanding how to handle items without damaging them or the building, what order to move things in so that a truck can be packed well. We'll need a lot more real-world intelligence from robots before they can do something like that.

Unusual physical strength, or powered mechanical aids, are mostly only used with unusual items. Ex, most "gunsafes" are more properly Residential Security Containers, and aren't all that heavy (~200lbs) and can be moved around, including up stairs, by two average adults. Real safes weigh more like 600lbs and are much more rare, partly due to the difficulty and expense involved in moving them anywhere remotely tricky. I have heard of powered stair climbers being used to lift such things up a flight of stairs.
Even WebEx is still around and, ironically, works much better in a browser than Zoom.

I had a videoconference with some Apple people this month, and they were all on WebEx.

Maybe there's a reason. I couldn't tell you. My company is a hodgepodge of Zoom, Teams, BlueJeans, and who knows what else.
As an older millennial and prolific fiction reader (more so when I was younger and had time), there seems to be a 1:1 correlation between lack of consumption of... "intentional" creative media and lack of hope.

Zoomers and younger millennials don't (as an aggregate class) seem as interested in working through challenging material, given the infinite fire hose of more easily consumed alternatives.

I've shown Kurosawa, Leone, and Tarkovsky films to the demographic, and it was literally like they didn't possess the capability to focus for the requisite durations.

I try to avoid being alarmist from limited sample sizes, but it honestly worries me about what "app-ification" is doing to a generation's brains.
the kids in elementary schools were born into the digital age. they're digital natives from the get, and are probably more comfortable using digital tools than we are
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Why Wikipedia doesn't display ads unlike other content sites?
You need some form of barrier (lock/mfence/cpuid) prior to compare instruction to make the snippet correct.
I'm not arguing for either option - both are essentially the same thing.

I'm arguing that sometimes you need a new culture, and the old culture needs to be destroyed. So let it fail and just start over again.
- Brightness check [y]

- Audio on/off switch [y]

- Mouse axis inversion switch [x]

My brain hursts using the mouse to look around that way, I'm too old to learn new tricks!

Great game and proof of concept w/ CSS/HTML, you get 10/10 xD
> It is a horrible, horrible tragedy.

A tragedy is something no one could have prevented. This is outright cruelty, bordering on genocide (particularly given the ways predominantly-black and native communities have been treated during the pandemic).

This was foreseeable and preventable, and the group that is to blame for it is glaringly obvious.
Is having your coins flagged by an exchange for using privacy features convenient?
That sounds like a perfectly reasonable balancing of risks and benefits, and as far as I'm concerned you have nothing to feel guilty about.
I'll be 'at' cascadiajs. I really look forward to this.
Virtually no one is talking about us moving to "zero reserve banking" in March. It happened under the radar. I'm not an economist, but at the very least this seems like it is a huge deal and at most an indicator of impending catastrophe.

https://medium.com/navigating-life/we-just-went-from-fractio...
Nah how about we just drown the whole defense sector in unaccountable hundreds of billions annually, I’m sure they will produce something useful right?
Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Worlds Oldest Continuously Run Libraries
> I see a lot of anecdotes of special distaster cases when HAM was the magical solution, but I don't remember normal communications infrastructure not being available for the last 30 years. Perhaps this is more of a thing in sparsely populated countries?

I'm in North America somewhere densely populated that you could reasonably expect a massive earthquake to hit.

Nobody realistically expects that this will be an issue any time soon. It hasn't been in the past 30 years, and hopefully won't be for the next 30. The government here _does_ prepare for it because it would be irresponsible not to. It's at the same level as maintaining a stockpile of medical supplies to prepare for a one-in-a-hundred year pandemic. Looks silly until it doesn't and tens or hundreds of thousands of people die following a disaster due to a lack of preparedness. And in this case, "preparing" is basically letting a bunch of volunteers provide these services largely for free.

I volunteer with an organization that is integrated into the disaster response planning at multiple levels of government and with the local police. The group spends a lot of time building out and maintaining backup communication infrastructure throughout the area as an integrated part of the emergency response plans. Not just with amateur radio, but with satellite phones, the police radio systems, some of the regional backup radio systems the government maintains, some of the city departments' independent radio systems, etc. We're tied into it all. There's another group here that maintains a microwave link from within the city to 250 miles outside of it that provides communication outside of the potentially impacted area.

Our systems are the _only_ point to point communication systems left in the city as far as I know. Every city radio relies on a repeater or system of repeaters. The police radios are all cells with a physical back haul between sites. We have systems tied in at most main city services, community centers, the regional staging areas, etc and plans for how to get the appropriate information where it needs to go and people trained to do so if it ever needs to be turned on. The tie-ins with the other radio systems at points throughout the city allow us to act as a backup route if for some reason part becomes segmented and direct communication isn't possible. No matter how bad the physical damage, our system will be working as long as there are people still alive.

Some people volunteer at a soup kitchen or animal shelter. Myself and a couple hundred others use our technical skills volunteering to maintain a resilient communication backbone for the community.

And I mean... it's fun?
I love FT8/FT4. It's a safe place for introverts and those turned off by the vitriol on phone to experiment with propagation and get awards. But I want phone to be a safe place, too.
Surprising results from one of the earliest Covid-19 surveys
Oh, please don't suggest banning RSS apps - Apple is already doing that, they removed Pocket Casts and Castro because they allow access to Podcasts that offend Chinese censorship, while Apple's own podcast app remains because it blocks those particular podcasts:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/12/apple-rem...
medical is a little different because those comms tools need to be HIPPA-compliant
Under 100 for radio and TNC, sure. See the NinoTNC http://tarpn.net/t/nino-tnc/n9600a/n9600a_info.html. For radios we use second-hand commercial radios that we reprogram for Ham use.

However, coax and antenna can easily exceed 100 alone.
I found a tin of cocoa powder manufactured in West Germany during a kitchen renovation. I opened it and it smelled exactly like freshly bought powder. No idea what I'm going to do with it, but disposing of it is right out. Eventually I should probe it with a butter knife to see if the previous eccentric owners stashed anything inside...
Oh I agree here. I think if you go into business to make cakes, you should vow to fulfill all your cake orders.

Likewise, if you say you're a webhost, you host websites.

If there's a legal issue, you report it. That's it.
If we're going in that direction, might as well get rid of those useless bio legs and replace them with robot legs
There's a difference between the address in the "To" field of an email and the "envelope recipient" that actually controls the delivery of the message. The "To" field is never used for delivery, and in fact an email will be delivered perfectly well even if there's nothing in it. That's why you can Bcc everybody and they all still get the message.
You are correct. I've adjusted my comment to not confuse my point.
That's fine and reasonable on an individual level, but not only does it seem like a clear case of violation of duty to shareholders to make otherwise unsound biz decisions on the basis of "it's moral", it's also just not an accurate depiction of the business process.

Google is a business, and at the level these decisions are made, the decision is made overwhelmingly through the lens of business. A more fitting phrase in the context of a business would more accurately be "never attribute to goodwill that which is adequately explained by sound business thinking".
The problem isn't the user, it's the software.

I'm no Zoom fan, but in the Zoom meeting I had this morning with 38 people my 2015 MacBook Pro's processor peaked at 11%.

Zoom knows how to do something better than the other companies. They really need to catch up.
Somebody should train an image classifier to classifiy food items in the 6 cube theory categories. Then we can test the theory by looking at how often the classification result matches the predictions of the theory.

What? It's how science is done in the future.
I work from home for the last 20 years. My clients and my workforce/subcontractors are all over the world. I had to use Zoom only with one particular client as of their insistence. Other then that I do just fine with the Skype. Not sure what is so "critical" about Zoom in particular.
Hey! I'm fiddling around with this right now for a submission. What I've found so far makes it look like hate speech is not easy to catch:

1) Slang evolves.

2) Combining two languages, especially under-resourced languages, mean that a chunk of words fall outside the range of a hate-speech lexicon.

So maybe in languages which have huge resources devoted to it (English), its easy to figure out, but I don't know how well covered the evolving edge, and the code-mixed (language mixed) edges are.
Exactly. Git for Word doesn't make sense because software applications can be edited independently because of abstractions -- you can't have different people changing different parts of a Word document without ANY idea of what each other is doing the way you can in software. You can't change the tone in one section to conversational in isolation.
> This guy compares learning Morse code to learning a foreign language! How does learning the alphabet, numbers and a little punctuation compare to learning a language?

I got my General license last year and this month I decided to give CW a try. I do have to say that as an absolute beginner developing my listening skills brings me back to when I was first learning Spanish in high school and how much effort it took to figure out where words started and ended. Obviously it's not quite as hard because you don't need to learn a large vocabulary, but don't brush it off as trivial.

> When I started over half of us built our own rigs, now it's probably 5%.

I think this has much more to do with economics and the progress of technology than it has to do with lack of interest. The Antique Wireless Museum recently posted a series of videos on their YouTube channel on the history of amateur radio and one of the things I learned was that before the 1950s commercially-produced transmitters for the amateur radio bands largely weren't a thing, so building them yourself was pretty much a requirement to get into the hobby.

Additionally, up to the 1960s commercial electronics were largely still made entirely of discrete components hand-wired point-to-point which was a very labor-intensive method of construction. If you bought the parts yourself or you bought a kit you would be doing pretty much exactly the same thing they would be doing in the factory but on your own time, giving you large savings of money since you weren't paying for someone else's labor. Since then electronics manufacturing has advanced greatly: PCBs, surface mount components, pick-and-place machines, wave soldering, integrated circuits, etc. Many electronics devices you buy today would be much, much harder to try to build in a DIY environment than they would in a factory, even with a kit, and the labor costs are so much less due to these innovations (and overseas manufacturing) that you don't get the savings you once did.

I see the surge in interest in SDRs (which bring the infinite malleability of software to radio at zero marginal cost once you have the SDR itself) as a sign that this interest in DIY never went away, it's just the accessibility of it that did.
Possibly, I looked up cox.com and it redirected to https://www.cox.com/residential/home.html so I thought that might be it.

I remember seeing @cox in the email though.
I thought that sounded familiar. I got the hardcover from a dollar store (for a dollar vs $27 cover price, first printing; I guess they made too many copies?). I'll have to give it a read.
How I built DomeCode, an open-source coding platform and key takeways
Technical debt by itself is a bad thing. It's just that, much as with actual debt, it's often worthwhile to accept a little bit of bad if you get a lot of good in exchange.

I was going to write that there's no reason you'd want financial debt qua financial debt, and that's sort of true but I realized that credit ratings complicate things. Sometimes an important part of what you're getting in exchange for the debt (and its repayment) is capacity for borrowing more when it first-order matters in the future, by way of establishing a reputation for being able to handle debt correctly.

Mapping this back to software seems interesting. I can't think of a parallel for credit reporting agencies, but it's certainly the case that a team might be more (or less) willing to take on technical debt to meet the schedule desired by a manager or a PM if there is a history of allowing them room to pay down the debt later (or failing to).
Sure, but I think if you can't use your legs, some robot skills are required by your exoskeleton to not sway around or fall down a stair.
I keep seeing this reported, but are we sure it’s defragmenting? It says “Not Optimized”, and Windows knows to run TRIM, not a defrag on SSDs.

EDIT: Apparently, it does defrag if you have “Volume Snapshots” enabled, but I don’t know anyone who uses that feature.

> But if volume snapshots are enabled (so you can revert to a backup using System Restore), it will in fact defrag the drive even if it is an SSD.
Their bark is worse than their bite most of the time.
Anecdote: One of the most often repeated exam questions in the UK is 'if you don't update your license every 5 years ... all manor of trouble will happen'. Well, life happened and I didn't do anything for over 15 years and then I wanted to get back in to radio and of course I expected to have to grovel and take the test again and whatnot, but no, the actual government body, Ofcom (UK FCC equiv.) didn't really seem to care and after confirming that I was still alive all was well, in fact it was completely automated I think.

Like most things in life, if you're not actually actively causing trouble things will probaby be ok. But yes, some amateurs do seem to be a rule loving/enforcing bunch. Anyone would think they were regulating something actually dangerous, like getting a driving licence.

(Note, I'm not belittling the importance of being a responsible amateur - just that a lot of the time the general tone seems a bit 'DO NOT DO' more than 'do...')
Word is not the best anything. It's not the best for layout (InDesign) or best for tracking changes/collaborating (Git) or the best for visual archiving (PDF) or responsive layout (HTML) or…

Basically, it's a "good enough" WYSIWYG, and a number of industries have standardized on it, in spite of the fact they should actually use an open standard + tool that actually fits their needs. I think screenwriting might be the one industry to escape Word, since they use Final Draft as I understand it.
This is such a good idea. Why is it 2020 and programming tools don’t give us this sort of visual insight into data structures?
The app I'm making called Repla (https://repla.app) is designed for this purpose. To be able to take the things typically done in the "preview" side of VS Code and break them out into their own window that's usable with any text editor.
Basically if I want technical questions answered, I'll post on EEVBlog. If I want to talk about how these dern kids and political correctness blah blah blah (I don't), I'll go on ham radio general/technician bands.
Everyone in this thread is replying with instances of receiving emails meant for other people, but dots have nothing to do with that. It's people typing in the wrong email address in a signup page (with dots or without), and the service not verifying it. The latter is what really needs to be fixed.

I personally find this Gmail feature (as well as the ability to append +anything to your email address) extremely useful.
> there's nothing wiser or more edgy or purer about cyberpunk that would have prevented this from happening to it. If anything, it's very apropos.

But that never happened to punk musi... oh, I see your point.
auth0 and Okta are basically private SAML (+OAuth +OIDC) federation facilitators. The pieces to build what you describe are all out there, but there aren’t a ton of pre-assembled packages.

Keycloak is a pretty competent all-in-one solution, but has weak support for some standards that are critical for higher-Ed (who tend to drive most of the new work in IAM).

FreeIPA is also worth a look. If you add Shibboleth or SimpleSAMLphp and a web UI, you’d be close to Keycloak in terms of features (but maybe not maintenance).
Just create a filter to auto delete them
> Still, so maybe we should be mathematical about this: how much it costs to fix this and tax every new satellite proportional with it's pollution.

That hinges on the quantifying and pricing of the solution. A smart accountant could probably figure out a fair calculation (something along the lines of % of wasted observation time, against operating costs of telescope facility in that time + depreciation). I'd love to see it.

> SpaceX tried to "fix" things only when bad PR hit them, before that some leaders there decided that this is not an issue.

I'll concede on this since I haven't been following the story until it hit media, and only then I've heard about SpaceX painting the satellites. I'm guessing they just didn't consider it at all, or were betting on astronomers not being that upset.

> IMO if you managed to somehow have electricity and old fashion telephone cables then what the hell is expensive to drag a new cable for internet to this places ?

That was before telcom monopolies, and also before people figured out they can hold infrastructure projects ransom, or block them out of spite, just because they own a piece of land that needs to be dug up or paved over.
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Oh neat, thank you for the link.
I'd assume some people aren't fond of surgery.
this is probably a lesson in how powerful marketing and timing can be

No, it's a lesson in how powerful "just working" works.
I am actually ok with some censorship (e.g. clear-cut harassment, not just offending someone but for example death threats) as long as it is implemented very fairly and very transparently. The problem I have with tech censorship is that it is neither of those and tech companies now wield immense power over peoples' ability to communicate.
> > How is this software licensed?

> I don't know. Do what you want.

People tend to be afraid to use software without an explicit license do to the way copyright works (at least in the US). If you don't explicitly give people permission to use your software, you maintain the full copyright rights to the work. In other words, if I started using your software and you decide you want to charge for the software after all, you could go ahead and sue me.

If you want people to "do what they want" with your software, the MIT license or BSD license is probably the closest to this sentiment. Pick one and add it to your project, it will make it much more comfortable for other devs to pick up your code.
ditto this. amazon, in its current form, will never be able to emulate a brick and mortar bookstore. a dedicated staff with exceptional customer service will curate books and recommend books that an algorithm will never catch.

also, local bookstores tend be an integral part of the local, geographic community, where you can engage with likeminded folks who live nearby. amazon can't do that in 2020.

and, amazon has so much power that they force publishers to offer lower prices. that's bad for your margins if you're a publisher and causes the quality of book to go down since they're gonna want to sell more of what sells. what sells well doesn't necessarily mean better quality. i don't want the good publishers to go out of business.

and! amazon can't do readings and book signings. if you're not into that, then ok, but book signings are very important for a thriving literary culture.

keep buying on amazon if you want to save money but consider throwing a few bucks to your local independent from time to time, please
The sick and the healthy were quarantined together on the ships. In the days of ship quarantine, germ theory of medicine and understanding of communicable disease wasn't where it was now; they understood disease communication but not the mechanism. The best solution they had was to have the inbound stay separated from the general populace, because whatever the mechanism, no disease had ever taken as long as 40 days to show up.

Once a disease got into a city, entire cities were, indeed, cut off---the sick and the healthy together---because nobody could be sure how the disease would spread if free commerce were allowed into the surrounding cities and towns.

(There's an interesting parallel to COVID-19, in that while we do understand germ theory of medicine, we don't have accurate enough testing to determine if the average healthy-looking person is a carrier. So the practical solutions lean towards the conservative side of safety. More accurate, higher-speed testing could decrease the need for general behavioral constraints in the population... If, for example, there was a 'forehead scanner' to tell us if someone had COVID-19 to 99.999% accuracy, instead of merely had a fever, we could install it at every store entrance and forego masks).
A good rule of thumb when dismissing some new technology is to ask, "what previous technologies would I have dismissed for the same reasons?" And if those technologies became successful, try to learn from the mistake.

In this case, clothes washing machines and vacuum cleaners seem to fit your thesis.
I feel you’re being overly literal to the point where I’m not entire sure you understand English as well as you think. Hyperbole is an acceptable literary device. To say “No one has heard of this band” is colloquial to English, but obviously other people have heard of the band, the hyperbole is used to emphasize how few people have heard, not that no people have. To correct someone here isn’t correct, it’s suggests a sheltered existence.