skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
at the cheap end, looks something like this:

https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/204950584-airMAX-Using...

you can see how bad 2.4 GHz is using an old ubiquiti rocket m2 802.11n 2x2 radio ($70) and a small $85 omni 2x2 antenna.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNxXyP6QOqo

or any of the older 802.11n 2.4 GHz based ubiquiti products such as the nanostation loco m2 mentioned in the video
I do the same, don't even need a shoe horn, and my heel tabs hold up just fine.

Seriously, who has time to tie their shoelaces everytime they put on their shoes?
Really nice to see gpiozero being used in the wild.

https://gpiozero.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Taiwan tried a variant of it during Covid too-- they issued a bunch of vouchers that you could buy for NT$200/500/1000, and stores agreed to take them at three times face value, until the end of 2020.

I tried to get one for my banknote collection, but it got lost in the post. :/
I don’t know the answer to your question. I read on kindle and the main page is just a bunch of up sell ads.
Funnily enough, I seem to get 5 GHz interference from nearby buildings through glass. I’m very much looking forward to 6Ghz. I ran some 60Ghz radios for a bit, and that was great, as it was interference free, and a drywall layer would stop it.

Unfortunately, the hardware failed, and I didn’t see mass adoption of 60Ghz elsewhere. I hope that tech like local optical or 60Ghz becomes viable.
This guy seems overly angry and judgemental about something he could just talk to his neighbor about.

Also seems like some minor changes could avoid the issue entirely. I live in a large building amongst other large buildings and depending on which way the wind is blowing I can see over 100 wifi access points, not to mention devices.
First - that's definitely super frustrating and I'm sorry you're dealing with it.

It's possible that the person who's causing the problem doesn't know they're the problem. Like, if the underlying cause of this problem is "not super techno-savvy" then they might not realize what they're doing :)
probably not the best links, they're meant to be reference to a construction style of putting five wood framed floors on top of a concrete first level/foundation, called a "five over one". Then when the wood walls are divided up into 450 to 750 sq ft apartments, it's a LOT of individual 2.4 GHz APs all packed into a dense noisy space, with only wood between them.

https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=fiv...

cheap 2.4 GHz spectrum analyzer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc47pkUsLe8
Sweet! I’ve also been working on my own (toy) browser from scratch following https://browser.engineering - would definitely recommend to anyone who wants to get started on their own, granted it’s still a work in progress.
1. Only Accredited investors can invest in private startups.

2. Equity crowdfunding is a way around 1. but only too restrictive- limited fundraising, more disclosure, and follow-on venture/ traditional funding hard to come by.

Above is US-centric view. Using crypto instead of fiat currency is not a workaround regulations and reputation.

But look at BlockFi, it might offer you insight into workaround using crypto to raise an Angel/VC fund from crypto millionaires.
We don't know the backstory. There could have been confrontation or issues between the other IBM employees working on this with the employee asked to stop. Having him then demand to still work with those employees through the kernel as a "hobby" would then be problematic.

> But it's not the company's place to categorize what I do in my free time beyond what's stipulated my contract.

IBM is probably legally OK telling him he can't work on the kernel on a driver for IBM hardware that he started working on as part of a team at IBM without facing employment consequences.
Aliexpress has them for $3 including shipping. You put a micro-SD (AKA TF) card into it (FAT filesystem with mp3s on it).

First result from an aliexpress search for "mp3 player":

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002052211147.html
In my experience this isn't a very good take, I've been woke up 50+ times in a 7 night span of on call, that fucking incentivized me to fix the issues. But that doesn't FUCK ALL to the product/sales people that actually direct where resources are spent. If the on call people ACTUALLY get to work on the on call issues, I think on call can work.

But in my experience, every single place I've worked, has had insane on call hours. And you were ALWAYS expected to do your normal work on top of the on call hours and you were NEVER given time to fix the issue that woke you up in the middle of the night.

Until the actually engineers/developers are in charge of their own schedules on call shifts will be fucking bullshit.
I went to a college with that problem. After your mandatory password change, any device autoconnecting to wifi would trigger a lockout. Since the same password was also use to log into network computers, there was no way to visit the webapp to unlock your account.

Unless you had data on your smartphone or had a friend who was logged in, you were SoL.
>HN design and its spartan interface is an overwhelmingly and the primary reason for its success

I don't think so, even considering the paranthesis cases. People are addicted to its consistency. It stays the same, the way it worked, and stick to the principles of "don't fix if it aint broke". A forum is primary a forum, where people share ideas.

Trying to force in the industrial design principles of "best design" in to a forum is mixing up the true intention of "best design" thinking.

No such thing as "best design", there's just "different" design. Better design is the excuse producer give consumer to sell something similar yet different, implementing planned obsolecense through deisgn by making the consumer reaching for the "new" design. works for Apple, Nike, Stripe you name it because they constantly want to sell new products, that competes with their old product. To make a profit, the design becomes design for the sake of design. That principle goes against what a forum is supposed to be.
If the purpose of to get people to leave, then kettling them achieves the opposite. Having seen kettling used, I've yet to see an example where it was not abused as an authoritan means of punishing people.

So I don't buy the premise in the first place. In practice it's an authoritarian, abusive method.

If you have a legitimate reason to disperse people because elements are threatening violence, then disperse them - don't lock the those who are peaceful in with the violent elements.
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Here the issue is that he was an official contributor as part of an IBM team working on this driver for IBM hardware... and that IBM decided they did not want him to do this anymore. He then changed the maintainer file to point to his personal email.
I think I replied to the wrong comment somehow lol, just re-read this and can't see how my comment relates to the parent-comment. Don't recall what I was responding to either.
> What year is this, 2019?
It really looks like what e-readers should have been all along.
I'm slightly afraid of all the negativity here, but still kinda agree with the sentiment.

However, I still want to note that there are many cases where smart people simply don't have enough time to handle all the stupidity in their products. Often times, it's just little issues like communication cost and politics. But, also often, one should care about the revenue of one's own company or clients', which slows down changes a lot. Even a simple feature can take weeks and months to roll out.

In short, even without stupid people, life sucks. :\
We'd get situations like when Exxon sent one kind of ad messaging to left-leaning Facebook users ("we're fighting climate change!") and one to right-leaning Facebook users ("regulations bad!")[1].

Companies could have their products or services featured in a movie but set the context depending on some demographic feature of the viewer. And just like that you can give a positive impression of your company to two groups holding opposite positions. An example could be having the protagonist driving an electric eco-car in one version and a gas-guzzling 4WD in another; just make use of cheaper and cheaper CGI.

1. https://www.michaelwest.com.au/two-faced-facebook-how-the-di...
They'll strip the ads when they strip the watermarks.
What is pass-through blending?
Cops “almost 99.9% sure” Tesla had no one at the wheel before deadly crash
It should be 0.
>Your kids all else equal will be outsprinted by kids who live in more competitive cities

But it won't "all else equal", there are so many variables at play here that it's meaningless to talk about a hypothetical "all else equal" scenario. Also there have been so many successful people who were born and raised in what you'd call "less competitive" areas.

>The irony is that most educated people living in small towns want to get out, and a generation or two after they do they want to go back.

What's ironic about people going to places chasing things they desire? Big cities and small towns offer different things, and those things value differently to different people. The people who are leaving small towns chasing after opportunities and the people who want to move back to small towns from big cities are obviously at different stages in their lives and value different things.

>Will the cycle repeat itself?

Probably? But why is that an issue?
> this seems to be about wanting the open source work associated with IBM, their employer, rather than their personal email.

In this case, the employee had been part of the team maintaining it at IBM in an official capacity... and then IBM apparently decided they did not want him to work with that team anymore. In turn, he changed the maintainers file to point to his personal email address, and the managers involved were predictably not amused.
Listing all possible examples would indeed cause far too much output, but maybe the error should mention the possibility? Like: "If A and B are implementations of the same trait, you can use ...".
Jamming out to this in my home office. Someone hand me some upside down water.
Again yes, that’s exactly my point. They are double dipping on the good will; first as an employee perk, second on their corporate annual reports.
I've been interested to see that weed-smoking is starting to become normal where cigarette smoking might have previously in (at least) genre films over the last couple years, because, damn it, it does look cool and I kinda missed it, despite being a strict non-smoker myself (drugs are fine, but I saw too much damage from smoking—I just won't do it, personal choice). By "normal" I mean not used as a way to get the audience to pass judgement on a character, or to give other characters space to criticize them, either, as some cigarette smoking in film had been lately, so it can "just" be cool. I think it's still a big factor in ratings, though, so I doubt it'll become as widespread as cigarette smoking ever did in film. Possibly weed lobbies are paying for this micro-trend, though, IDK.
I've been arguing this for a while: I want a browser that deliberately cannot run random scripts; only from a vetted source.

That source will contain stuff like autocomplete and htmx or similar.

If something doesn't work with that it asks you if you want to enable "bloat mode - warning: unsafe" and I the user chooses it enables a full browser engine.
I guess one could tape their walls in aluminium foil.
My understanding is that wood structures compare similarly to others in a fire: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01095562
Oh again!?

I guess I will get it this time
I don't know anything about acid techno. Can someone comment on how accurate this is to the genre? I can't seem to get it to do much but make random beeps and boops, but maybe that's just the style of music?
Without having read the article: the art market is as rigged as professional wrestling. The notional value of a sale might have little to do with what the buyer has to give up to achieve a sale. It is in the interests of acquirers of art pieces to acquire them at notionally inflated prices, since that imbues them with value in the eyes of philistines and so their expected resale price.

Postscript: Having read the article, the high-end British auctioneers like Sotheby's, who handled this sale, are perceived to engage in this kind of price-fixing less (i.e., they are supposed to take measures to ensure that participants do not "cheat" by having different parties collude), although there have been scandals.
> Because in JavaScript, if something goes wrong, we just throw!

A bit out of topic: somewhat ironic that the JS/TS-based projects in my workplace we ended up using return and Result<T, E>-like struct, backed by TypeScript's union type.

Throws is only for never-scenarios and unhandled cases.

Rust-like approach has been very successful to squash runtime bugs, especially in big, complex products.
Not everyone can use 5Ghz - if you have one of those 50s/60s/70s houses that were build with plaster/chicken wire (rather than lath&plaster or drywall) then at 5GHz you're basically living in a bunch of faraday cages

(at a company I used to work at we once had to abandon a 5GHz product when we discovered that an appreciable numbers of customers would take it home and not be able to make it work reliably - it would have been a support nightmare)
> I have over 80 IOT devices

This is a lot to ask, but.. what are all those things?! (My house has 0..I think)
Yep that is definitely a thing, and you will see more of it coming in through glass in the 5725 to 5850 band, since APs can run at higher power in those frequencies. One possible mitigation is to choose the cleanest possible channel for your in home use in the bands where FCC-allowed equipment can only transmit at moderate powers (specifically disallowed for outdoor WISP 5 GHz equipment too), in the area of 5100 to 5300.
But that's exactly what the GP is railing against. Trying to hope you don't need to concern ypurself with setting uo the server and thinking about the resources it needs etc is unlikely to be a good idea, or even to work in real terms. AWS Almbda for example only really works if you understand the limitations of the VM and cluster that your code will be running in, and design your system accordingly.

I once worked on a product that didn't, and had ~10s "cold start" latency for any request, because of the size and reliance on lambda. And of course this "cold start" was actually seen all the time, because it was a new niche product that people pnly accessed occasionally, and because it's actually a "cold start" for every concurrent request.
> I hope that tech like local optical or 60Ghz becomes viable

Yeah, I was really fond of the prototypes a while back that used visible light; those would completely end contention in an apartment complex or office:)
People higher up the directory tree can effectively override subdirectory maintainers, all the way up to Linus at the top.
No, despair often comes anyways. Those high achievers simply don't just achieve; in the process, they often define what "average" means in something.

You see it in multiplayer videogames for example. The further, faster players often end up skewing the whole competitive curve, to where ranking players are a lot better on the whole compared to when the game started, but worse off by the metrics. A silver player now is easily equal to a gold player at launch.

You can spend all this effort on a skill treadmill spending more and more effort to remain the same, only to fall off of it. High achievers are far too efficient and things tend to optimize way too much over time to try and play the competitive game.

I think you can also see this in things like children's sports; the people who turn little league into portfolio activities end up raising the cost for everyone, who then abandons the sport.

This is something I am wrestling with a lot in my life, and I think a lot of competitive burnout happens due to this. I can try to be my best self, but the deep end of the pool is so deep that it gets harder to not seek shallower and shallower water till I get out or drown.
Working in the field (HFT market maker) and agree with this assessment. The book is pretty useless in practice - it's basically a vehicle of self promotion for his academic career.
I think I recall a comment from Art Spiegelman about his father who was a Holocaust survivor - something to the effect of, if surviving was winning, did that mean dying was losing?

Another case in point is Bruno Bettelheim - if you read his Wikipedia page, does he come off as a winner or a loser? He seemed very accomplished at one point in time. The article seems to indicate peoples' views of him changed after his death - that he was basically a fraud and an abuser, and did even more harm through the influence of his psychological theories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Bettelheim
I switched from Volumio to HifiBerry OS when buying their DSP board to my rpi. The OS supports Spotify, mpd, DLNA, BlueTooth and Airplay out of the box quite nicely. The nice extra feature is how you can connect a mic to the pi, and they have software to measure your room compensation to get the best out of your system.

Our living room has enough corners for any system to sound great without heavy acoustics paneling or carefully setting all speakers to boost or lower the right frequencies. This tool automates most of the hard work, letting you to tweak the result easily.
What are the good AAA or AA battery options?
These do already exist and there are many of them already on both Ethereum and Binance Smart Contract networks. More will be coming with SORA/Polkadot and I suspect it won't be long before they are on Harmony, as well (basically any EVM compatible network will likely have these).

I'm not sure exactly on the terminology, but essentially most large DEXes (Decentralized Exchanges) will typically get involved in funding new coins. Typically what happens is a DEX will (either through governance of via the DEX developers) offer to "host" a new coin in their liquidity pools on the DEX, and boost that coin by incentivising users with additional rewards for proving liquidity (typically in the form of tokens for that given startup). These incentivised liquidity pools are called "farms" and launching a crypto startup in this way is typically called a "Initial Farm Offering" or "IFO".

There are also more projects on the horizon that aim to further this idea of providing liquidity to developers in exchange for coins.
To expand on the pedanticness:

The letter in the D-subminiature line (aside: they really didn’t anticipate how small connectors were going to become) refers to the shell size (A through E, though not in size order). “DB” is frequently used colloquially as a prefix for any size in the line. There’s also some interesting variants like the DB13W3, which is a B-size shell containing 10 ordinary pins plus 3 coax connectors.

RJ11/RJ45 refer to the connectors and the way they’re wired, together. For example, RJ14 is the same 6p connector as RJ11 but wired to support two phone lines instead of just one, and the same 8p8c connector we’d use for Ethernet but wired for 4 phone lines would be an RJ61.
on what basis should anyone believe such a ludicrous number represents legitimate skin-in-game volume and not a handful of fee-free bots trading SQL queries back and forth without ever touching a fiat ramp?

none of these self-reported volume numbers should be considered remotely realistic. exchanges have every incentive to cook their metrics in favor of "volume" to draw in fresh meat.
The pseudonymous Internet allows us to not wear our increasingly politicized, some might say fetishized identities on our sleeves. Don't assume that minorities agree with the woke agenda. Many find it condescending or uninteresting at best.
Kickstarter has a much different customer base. This would nee crypto investors, not retail buyers.
Maybe I'm confused by all those doubleplusgood buzzwords that almost deliberately say the opposite of what's happening (like serverless servers).
Content authoring (3D, video, audio, etc), CAD, CAM, CAE, software for controlling custom peripheral devices are unlikely to move to web or even Electron.
Why the U.S. Can’t Go Broke
You're clutching at unrelated straws. Rather than comparing to Java, try comparing to OCaml, which is a language that's much closer to "Rust with GC". There's pretty much no safety gain from using Rust over OCaml. But if you use OCaml you don't have to worry about borrow checking.
Thanks. Yeah that's also a very inspiring micro framework to me. A bunch of people seemed to create new frameworks around the same time, me included, i think in part as a reaction to the main ones.
> And it's pretty obvious the person ranting doesn't feel this problem rises to the issue of "spend $50 to get a 5ghz router and dongle".

I'm all for 5ghz, but where are you getting an AP and dongle for $50?

Edit: To clarify, I'm skeptical, but if you're serious then links and/or model numbers would be appreciated:)
Congratulations, this might be the single coolest web project I've ever seen on this site

Add other types of sound (house, trance, etc.) and I will gladly pay a monthly fee to access it
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This is pretty much how it sounds - the particular synthesizer and tweaking its parameters (resonance, filtering, and so on) is the main defining feature, the particular classic drum machine used typically goes along with it - but there’s a lot more variation you can do besides just slowly modulating it like this program does, as well as crossovers to other genres (using that squeaky synth sound in other genres of electronic music).

This anxiety inducing song by Evol basically switches between samples of different acid tracks every other beat, serves as a nice primer for how you can vary it lol

https://youtu.be/2gWCNpSjUDM

And here’s an example of a cross over into electro-pop-driven house music, Peggy Gou’s remix of Shakedown:

https://youtu.be/tZbf2JR422w

Ishkur’s guide to electronic music has a good rundown of the genre and related stuff:

https://music.ishkur.com/?query=Acid#

(Though I prefer the old school Flash UI over this new one tbh lol)

http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/
I'm very, very deep into this genre, for decades.

This is a good algorithmic approximation of the quality of 50-80% of sub-professional acid techno live sets. It's a great minimum bar for "should you be performing live": you should at least be more interesting than this webpage of random patterns and sweeps.

To be honest, I'm going to leave this playing a lot. This is an extremely representative sample of a very specific minimal style, one I love a lot.
It's like your comment was completely void of any kind of validity and it was easy to immediately look for evidence to the contrary of one of your major points.

I'm sure it would be trivial to counter the point around water. Just consider any of the metropolises in the Middle East.

In terms of infrastructure, that can be built as well. See literally any other city larger than Bozeman.
If you want to run your own IoT devices then you're largely stuck in the 2.5 ghz range.

I'd like to know what 120-ish devices they're running. That's a lot of devices.
> so uninformed on the fundamentals of the FCC part 15 that ...

You mean... basically everyone?
> blablabla, is a person that I would rate as highly unlikely to listen to a logically reasoned technical explanation
https://www.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart/
Is there any proof of Renaissance not being just insider trading or a Ponzi scheme?
Making interesting music of other genres is a lot more difficult to do algorithmically. One of the big perks of acid techno (a pair of TB-303s and a TR-808 or TR-909 drum machine, and some simple effects processors) is how easy it is to get really interesting sounding stuff out of random patterns and simple filter sweeps.
Just checked BlockFi, but it is only about interest. How could it be used to raise a fund?