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This happens to me all the time when playing guitar. I could be there blankly strumming wondering what the notes were, but the moment I get something right, I’ve got it. Or sometimes it’s that I can’t remember the rhythm at all and I try to hum it or anything at all that might help me remember and once I’ve got the first few moments it comes flooding back.

It doesn’t help that I’m relatively new to guitar.
One of the nice things about UARTs is that that's pretty much all there is to it. That is, it's about as much pain to implement as to use.

USB CDC is worlds of pain more complicated to implement, but quite easy to use. As long as you don't hit a bug. But USB stacks never have bugs, do they?
You should see 2.4 GHz noise floor when viewed from a spectrum analyzer in a densely populated, 5-floor, wood framed condo/apartment in a major urban area. Prototypical example would be some place in south lake union seattle.

https://archive.curbed.com/2018/12/4/18125536/real-estate-mo...

https://crosscut.com/2015/04/the-new-seattle-where-everythin...

a "one plus five" looks like this, structurally: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DZ2BLyticQE/VRMjELb1DYI/AAAAAAAAX...

Since 2.4 GHz goes through wood fairly effectively to moderate distances, it's a total half duplex CSMA hell...

One possible mitigation if you have older 2.4 GHz only devices is to run your own wifi on a 20 MHz channel, sacrificing throughput for better SNR. As channel sizes get narrower it cuts through the noise floor a little bit better. And of course to use your own choice of the cleanest 5.x GHz channel for everything you care about.
Army Training Outlines Ways to Give Soldiers Superhuman-Like Sensory Perception
writer always has to have a hook.
I recall reading something official that confirmed this (just don't remember where).
Every day would be a field day for Oracle/Microsoft lawyers and sales guys.
And AWS wouldn't exist.
I wish Zigbee didn’t pollute the WiFi frequency space either. Looks like Z-Wave is my only option, despite it being an inferior, closed protocol. It looks like the home automation community prefers Z-Wave for critical, high availability devices for this reason.
Love this amusing example of how context is everything!
I envy the folks who are able to do this. If I had the means, I'd probably have already fled back to the country.

I can't help but think that it is unsustainable though. Supporting a large, rural population is less efficient than urbs or even suburbs.

Global warming, increasing global competition... I can't help but think the people fleeing the cities will be forced back by incentives and economics in a decade.
Here's a chart showing California housing production. It's a pretty big failure over the past 15 years or so:

https://bendyimby.com/2018/11/03/california/
Shadow developer here! Disclaimer - I joined the project a little over a year ago. I'm not as well versed in some of the related work as my colleagues, but I can take a shot -

Mininet looks cool!

It looks like Mininet lets programs run pretty close to natively, using network namespaces to pipe data over its simulated network, and some other lightweight techniques for isolation and some extent of reproducibility (e.g. using the fifo scheduler).

Shadow intercepts the libc API via LD_PRELOAD, allowing finer grained control over the process's view of the world. In particular it lets us emulate time - we can run simulations with tens of thousands of endpoints on a single physical machine; even if we don't have the CPU power to run it in real-time, the simulation behaves as if we do. Conversely, small simulations can be run faster than real-time.

The down-side is that it's more difficult to support arbitrary software, since there are various ways of "escaping" LD_PRELOAD, and we don't support the full libc API. We're in the process of switching to a ptrace-based approach that is more robust, at the cost of some additional runtime overhead.

> Not sure exactly the extent of networking you can simulate with this toolset, but mininet lets you put entire simulated autonomous systems on a single laptop and you can mess around with BGP policies.

It sounds like mininet has a lower-level model of the network itself. Shadow simulates links between endpoints, including bandwidth limitations and drop rates. It doesn't model individual routers along the path, so yeah I don't think you could use it to simulate BGP.
And lose the chance to rant about it on the Internet?!
The economist has railed against suburbs before, and yes, overreaching suburbs built on massive sparse infrastructure is a huge problem, but this needs to be weighed against other huge problems that have developed in american economic geography, like how the economic gains of technology have accrued almost entirely to a handful of cities with sky high rents.
I am willing to cede the entire 2.4GHz spectrum to IoT devices. We can use 5GHz and 6GHz for full-fat internet devices (TV, laptop, phone). This is what I've done at my home.
> I wonder if people on HackerNews are aware that a huge percentage of female and minority engineers that I know find the HN community discussions completely disreputable and unappealing. And it's a direct consequence of how they treat these subjects as "uninteresting" and "off topic", because to the dominant in-group these subjects are just not relevant.

I don't quite see the connection here, too be honest. Just because D&I discussion is mostly not welcome (without judging either way) does not mean the community overall is unwelcoming. I can see why one dislikes the style of discussions on HN and that's fair, but "allowing" D&I topics without changing anything else would probably not fix it IMO. Or am I missing something?
Housing for All: The Case for Progressive YIMBYism
Open source projects built in or receiving significant contributions from India
Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook is working on a Clubhouse clone
Nice.

In CSS Level 5, "update", "color", and "resolution".

https://www.w3.org/TR/mediaqueries-5/
Is there though? Arable land is at a premium in the mountain west, because of all those mountains. And it’s not just land, but water is lacking...build a bunch of houses and then what will they drink? And infrastructure, if you build without building roads and schools...well, they do that in China and Russia and it doesn’t always come eventually.

It is easy to say the problem is that we just aren’t building enough in those places, but it really isn’t that simple.
This is a romantic view that ignores that many, if not most, small towns in the rural US are dying.

I'm from Missouri and I can tell you that most of the small towns are not idyllic rural paradises. They are farming towns which now have no purpose, no young people, and serious drug and suicide problems. These are not all friendly places.

They would all KILL to have an influx of young energetic people move in. They want to see the town survive.
Huawei Map Kit and Site Kit Widget in Non-Huawei Android Phones
It's likely that those are Unicode Smallcaps Letters.
This sounds like a nightmare. Yes, I always wanted to co own my place of residence with a faceless lumbering beaurocracy.
Cool. It reminds me of <https://viperhtml.js.org/hyperhtml/documentation/>. I'm a big fan of this approach over React or web components.
> I love the service

Thanks!

We will absolutely expand beyond Oregon and Frankfurt later this year. Our infrastructure was built to be cloud agnostic: we run on AWS, GCP, and Equinix Metal.
It's not unusual for businesses to move up the value chain when their segment commoditizes. Dairies are actually a couple steps up the chain from the farmers who grow feed or hay. Cheese, ice cream, etc. are next up.

In some places it's grass to baskets to warehousing to shipping. In others it's grass to sheep to wool to textiles to fashion. Still others it's trees to lumber to paper to stationary.

Other industries have their own moves.

In areas that can't manage this move up tend to see the local industries consolidate until some final monster exists and either also eventually fails too (to external competition) or rent seeks its way to a zombified existence.

There's other alternatives to when vertical value growth isn't possible -- like in developing countries, the businesses all coexist together, but tend to price each other into nearly unsupportable levels. Strong regulations tend to kill this alternative off leaving an up or out path one of the few viable ones available.
The Onyx Boox e-ink devices run Android and have wifi. I sync my Pocket account (using the app) and read via RSS.

They’re great devices, and you can even download the Kindle app and read your DRM’d books on them :)
If you're talking about Flimzy, yeah, he's a tool.
Arctic Vault is better than nothing :)
Einkbro: Android E-ink device specific Browser – pagination keys; reader mode
I think it’s just poorly phrased and what they’re trying to say is that their status as “IBM employee” is a boolean value. You either are an IBM employee (and presumably have some additional contractual requirements) or you aren’t.
Except for the fact that I commented on the author of the article. And also the source in Bloomberg and the information disparity they benefit from financially. And also I commented on the author's previous ridiculous statement about Archegos which is in the article as well...
Wow, I feel like posting to HN was worth it just to learn about your project alone. Thanks for sharing!
> essentially everybody is entitled to a tiny but nearly-free rental flat

That is straight out wrong. Migrant workers are forced to live in terrible, cramped conditions (a big contributor to the spread of covid in singapore): https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2020/opinion/why-si...
It's also an asset which earns them interest. Or in the case of the article and the Credit Suisse/Archegos situation, an asset they leverage to make really dumb moves with (and possibly fraud) to screw over pension funds and others in the process of their greed.

> most deposits can be withdrawn on short notice.

Except for the fact that person A deposits $X in the bank and person B has $X withdrawn, nothing physical happens. It's just an offset on the books and enables them to keep very low cash reserves.

"As of March 2020, the minimum reserve requirement for all deposit institutions was abolished, or more technically, fixed to zero percent of eligible deposits. The Board previously mandated a zero reserve requirement for banks with eligible deposits up to $16 million, 3% for banks up to $122.3 million, and 10% thereafter. The removal of reserve requirements followed the Federal Reserve's shift to an "ample-reserves" system, in which the Federal Reserve Banks pay member banks interest on reserves that they keep in excess of the required amount." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_requirement
Talking to old-timers, IBM back in the old days used to be very much like this.

Anything more public than reading a lesson in church services or maybe being a scoutmaster was viewed as very suspect and subject to highly manipulative pushback.
What's there to "keep up with"? UI-wise, desktop operating systems have been pretty much stagnant for a decade, and software-compatibility-wise, people already weren't expecting Linux to run all their newfangled commercial software.
IMO this still keeps production a previous thing. Next comes multi-version concurrent environments on the same replicated data streams. There is only production and delivery to customers is access version 3 instead of version 2. This can be proceeded by an automated comparison of v2's outputs to v3's and a review (or code description of the expected differences).
The pdf link:

ADVANCED SITUATIONAL AWARENESS APRIL 2021

https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN32030-TC_3-2...
I've had similar problems in my neighbourhood, I can't honestly find out who it is.. i kinda know the direction, and have tried talking to each of the units and everyone denies it is them.
Why sad? Passphrases are great. For example: thisisnotapassphrase is a great passphrase. Inaccurate and hard to guess!
I have been using this browser on my Hisense A5 pro CC and Hisense A7 cc for more than a couple months. It made browsing with eInk devices much more pleasant.
If a neighbour asks you to turn off half your devices indefinitely so their network works better, what exactly are you supposed to do?
This is definitely the right answer - I am fully aware that this is the case, but I think it's a useful signal that indicates that these alternative capital technologies are not mature, and that instead of everyone trying to tokenize everything for their own business, maybe some rockstar programmers should maybe elect to build out the core infrastructure a bit more first.
Not everyone has 5ghz laptops.
The problem is regulatory restrictions, that since 2017, have been used to shut off capital flows to token sales.

Token sales were one of the most promising avenues toward the goal of widening the base of individuals that could participate as investors in the venture capital market:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11408-020-00366-0...

"The average ICO has almost 4700 contributors. The median contributor invests a relatively small amount. The ICO market appears to have successfully given access to the financing of innovation to a new class of investors, which is a long-standing public policy issue"

That being said, it's possible you could use the JOBS Act's provision for crowdsales to widen the base of individuals that could invest through your platform:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpstart_Our_Business_Startup...
As someone who recently spent a couple days in Kanab, UT the collision course of rural natives with Californian expats has made me accelerate my plans to buy enough land to escape the cities and further enforced my feeling about the cultural divide in America.

EDIT: I was born in a small western town and find myself missing certain aspects living in a larger city working in Tech.
Same thing happens in my apartment, so much congestion it's ridic.
> but in doing so they may jeopardise the very things people move there for: space, quality of life and proximity to wilderness

This makes me roll me eyes a bit. The Economist is generally pretty YIMBY, but this sounds like the "character of the neighborhood" nonsense I hear from local wealthy people who are doing their damndest to pull up the drawbridge behind them.

* There is so much space in the American west.

* Quality of life depends on a lot of things. The 'quiet mountain town' where I live in Oregon has benefited greatly from having some more things going on locally. There's even a fantastic Italian restaurant run by a guy from Tuscany. You wouldn't get that in a true small town of which there are still so very many all over the west. For every 'hot' market like Bend, there are various depressed former resource towns like Burns or Lakeview.

* Proximity to wilderness basically means being near public lands like BLM and Forest Service. Those are generally pretty hard boundaries: just because your city is growing doesn't mean the Forest Service will cede land to it.
Thanks for raising that point!

The dairy I worked at does sell high quality local raw milk; they have a pasteurizer to produce cheese, but they can't use the same one to produce pasteurized milk.

Additionally, the cows usually produce an excess volume of milk, which is sold so it doesn't go to waste: it's important to remember that even if the milk is sold for, say, $6 at Whole Foods, not all of the markup goes to the farmer.
Lots of comments from people unsure what this actually is: It's an operating system primarily designed for single board computers that turns them into audio player appliances. It has some proprietary components that I don't like but there are alternatives, such as Moode, Picoreplayer, Roon, Rune, and so on.
And not all IoT is 5ghz. The spectrum is free to use, so I'm incredibly unsympathetic to him.
"You are an IBM employee 100% of the time."

The only way I could interpret this is "You are an IBM slave 100% of the time."

Sorry state of corporations.
Plenty of houses in Detroit.
The page says "Free and Open Source Forever.", what are the proprietary components?
>but it's not like selling the diploma prevents him from saying he went to Harvard

Which in my experience is something that people who went to these institutions will do, constantly. Goes down incredibly well in countries where the the idea of tiers has yet to catch on.
Singapore has no minimum wage. If its underclass were not destitute, I would think that would be rather surprising.
Is that house in the first image made of plywood?
Serverless is more than functions. Consider S3, LogicApps, or DataFlow.

Serverless is about starting with highly available, auto scaling, et cetera... assets and concentrating more on delivering business value.
I'm not sure how you conclude that. And you're inserting "ethics" into a bank's business decision?

He writes like that because he's part of the system. It's so entrenched it's all self preservation and tons of money influencing the media to say what they want them to say. But it's hard to parse because the experts that are feeding seemingly sensible info are former Goldman Sachs or similar.

Jim Cramer bragged about how he manipulated stock prices at a hedge fund and if he was short you can't "foment", on your own, an impression that a stock is down but you do it anyway because "the SEC doesn't understand it". You trick the "moron longs" and "spread a rumor on Apple because the writers want that story and Apple isn't going to comment on it". "this is what's really going on in the market that you really don't see". "what's important when you're in that hedge fund is to not do anything remotely truthful because the truth is so against your view that it's important to create a new truth". It's absurd. [1] And this guy is still on a major network with major influence.

If you are looking at that Archegos situation objectively, you would say clearly - that's fucked up for them to do with other people's money. Not Levine.

Yet when "normal" people risk their own money on something he disagrees with, he's writing a big diatribe about how ridiculous it is. When banks play with their money, nothing to see here people. They might have been doing a rational move.

Or in this article "yes credit suisse did two bad things" and "Still it is strange to characterize this as primarily securities fraud against the shareholders, to think that the problem here was lying."

Just characterize it as securities fraud secondarily I guess Matt?

I like his insight into the system but he does way too much early PR damage control and apologies for the embedded players and not enough objective commentary. But again, he writes for Bloomberg and is former Goldman Sachs.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6csjSGyEbUs
What does it mean to be inclusive in UX research?
We are already projected to have a water shortage this summer in the Rockies and it’s only going to get worse. Every state along the Colorado river is gearing up for water right battles and I dread to think what’s going to happen once the snow pack in the Rockies gets less and less every year
1) It's just as shitty for everyone except the person who's selling themselves as a "consultant" for X. And actually—they're lying, it's shitty for them too.

2) A bunch of other goddamn morons managed to use this more-broken-than-not thing to make something useful, so this goddamn moron (i.e. me) surely can.

Both almost always true. After the second or third time you realize something made by the "geniuses" at FAANG (let alone "lesser" companies) is totally broken, was plainly half-assed at implementation and in fact is worse than what you might have done (yes, even considering management/time constraints), and has incorrect documentation, you start to catch on to these two truths. It's all shit, and most people are bad at it. Let that be a source of comfort.

[EDIT] actually, broader point: the degree to which "fucking around with shitty tools" is where one spends one's time in this job is probably understated. This bull-crap is why some people "nope" the hell out and specialize in a single language/stack, so at least they only have one well-defined set of terrible, broken crap to worry about. Then people on HN tell them they're not real developers because they aren't super-eager to learn [other horribly-broken pile of crap with marginal benefits over what they already know]. (nb. I'm in the generalist and willing-to-learn-new-garbage category, so this judgement isn't self-serving on my part)
I have over 80 IOT devices and three aps. I also live in the middle of nowhere. That being said, I like how all the commenters just go straight to de-auth attacks. The proper solution is to get up knock on the door and talk to them about their signals, ask if they can clear one channel for you. Work with them. OR just you know, buy a router made in the last five years that supports decent 5ghz range and mount it up high.
In practice, many of the components used in desktop Linux distributions are developed by an IBM subsidiary called "Red Hat" which has 12,000 employees. Systemd, GNOME, PulseAudio, X and Wayland, all of these are primarily maintained by Red Hat employees operating under various shell organizations.
Cicoparser: Full game reverse engineering [video]
I think part of that is because these libraries do not live on github, or have different identities attached to them (different email addresses like @gnome.org for libxml2 stuff).

It is essentially a hard problem, one that ohloh.net (now openhub) tried to make fun a while ago, to encourage people to claim their own contributions to tie their identities together.

I do wonder if they could have used openhub data to improve identity links though. Still doesn't solve the dependency graph lacking.
He wants attention, but he has nothing to say. He starts out "The third decade of the twenty-first century is going to be a wild ride. There will be bad with the good — standard procedure here on Earth—but the pandemic and its concurrent demons have unwittingly provoked a backlash of human ingenuity that’s cracked through the ossified strata of work, technology, and more." Then he doesn't have anything to say about that important subject.

We could use some perspective on what's likely to happen next. It's not coming from that source.
The "MyVolumio" parts. https://volumio.org/my-volumio-overview/
Yeah, they should use median instead of average.
Your kids all else equal will be outsprinted by kids who live in more competitive cities. You can decide you don't care about any of that, but understand that type of that decision will ripple through to future generations, e.g. your grandkids will be less educated.

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. Will the cycle repeat itself?
You clearly have no taste for art. Schindler does this as a means of foreshadowing (warning: spoiler!) his transformation into a good guy.

The film was disgracefully meandering before the studio made this crucial addition.
Many years ago I lived in an apartment complex mostly populated by Comcast employees, with those horrid Comcast modems that broadcast two 2.4Ghz AP's a piece (Yours and the "xfinitywifi" hotspot)

My laptop picked up about 140 AP's from the couch. I could copy files from my NAS over Wi-Fi at a blistering 6KB/s! Sometimes bursting to 25KB/s
Yup. I moved to SF because that's where the good jobs were. Now I can leave and keep my good job. Huzzah!
Oh c'mon, that was a good'un! :D
In other words: "We choose your own adventure".
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You can disable JavaScript by default for some time and then look at the list of websites and apps where you enabled it again. It has been a very frustrating experience to me.