skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That depends a lot on where you are and what you're doing.

I took my amateur test at the Marin Amateur Radio Society and joined the club and the people there were very helpful in helping me to learn how to use my equipment. I did a number of events with them and have had good experiences (mostly providing radio support for events like bike rides and long distance runs)

Though I've pretty much stuck with VHF/UHF comms, haven't really tried anything on HF, maybe that's where the grouchy old timers hang out.

I live far from the bay area now, but still check in to my local area nets once in a while just to make sure my equipment is working and they all seem nice enough.
Even if you specify them by IP? I specifically redirect addresses like 8.8.8.8 to my pihole (at the router) to prevent cheeky applications circumventing it.
> The only thing DoH does is stopping DNS spoofing at the cost of handing your data to a third party.

It sounds like you think that's not worth it, but the evidence is that others disagree. Personally, I see both the pros & cons and have no strong feelings either way. I trust Mozilla's evaluation of the pros & cons more than I trust my own so I'm happy to do whatever they think is best, and I suspect most users feel the same way. If you disagree with their evaluation, you can toggle it off in Preferences, and they even show a banner on first start-up giving you that option.
An HRA lets you deduct 100% of qualified medical expenses by paying for them through your company. An HSA lets you deduct up to $7200 for future medical expenses.

In 2016 we deducted something like $40k off of our income between premiums, deductibles and copays (HRA) and maxing our HSA.
I think it matters who your audience is.

If your audience is mostly programmers then just use `*`

If your audience is physicists or mathematicians then `×` or `·` may be a better fit.

When turning a math expression into code, it is often handy if the code looks a lot like the expression. Even better if you can just copy and paste it. It's hard to translate an expression wrong if you aren't translating it at all.
The landlord can decide if it's worth paying them then
I thought the indulgences of the 21st century were carbon credits.
Kuma is probably fine but I haven't used it so I'd probably use other tools I had used in the past. For example: cilium & stuff by weave.
It seems unlikely. It's just radio waves. Non-ionizing radiation. How have we all not been cooked by every other source of radio waves, many much more powerful than a cell phone, if this is so terrible?
This is darkly funny; of course their loyalty is to money rather than any ideology. They'll be Communists if there's money in it. After all, this enhances shareholder value for the shareholders in the US, and isn't that the one and only thing that matters to a modern company? There's no risk to the bosses and shareholders of being expropriated.

Well, unless Dow's local operations get seized ..
You have to trust the local OS config. No amount of clever application programming will ever let you get around that.
Woah as a former landlord, this software is awesome.
Yeah, last year it had briefly seemed that broker's fees had become illegal, but this year that was "clarified" and now they're definitively legal again. [1] [2]

Previously it had seemed like nothing could get rid of them -- landlords mostly didn't care since it was mostly tenants who paid them in the end.

But COVID suddenly made everyone a bit more willing to consider other options (like virtual tours), and with some rents down landlords are perhaps a bit more willing to realize that if there's no broker's fee, tenants can pay a little more.

I'm actually really excited about this lockbox technology, I genuinely think it could be the key to "unlocking" competition again.

My only concern is that a lot of buildings don't have anything obvious in the front to lock it to, as well as plenty of buildings prohibiting tenants from storing keys in lockboxes in front, both because anyone can take a hammer to one and smash it to get the building key, and also because they don't trust it's not someone running an AirBNB.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/27/nyregion/broker-fees-real...

[2] https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/you-will-still-have-to-...
>Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

We're destroying the planet, but at least we have cheap consumer goods. Future generations (if there are any) will look very poorly upon us. We're fine with any level of environmental destruction because we believe the future always gets better. We implicitly believe that some future genius will invent a solution to climate change that doesn't involve any sacrifice from us. We can't keep assuming a magic solution is going to drop in our lap, we need to start fixing the biosphere now.
Yeah, I realise that now.

However, where does one draw the line between fair use and derivative works?

Creating something based on other stuff (Google creating AI books from the existing ones for example) would possibly be fair use I think but would it not also be derivative works?
I was talking about each silo of data; which is orthogonal to each monolith's code being refactorable.

> If each business unit/domain has their own "monolith"

This furiously looks like accidental microserviced data; which is kind of ironic considering the original comment was about "Avoid microservices entirely".

And yes, important business objects managed by different microservices are a PITA to merge; basically you're going to ask the users themselves to merge profiles, and they'll answer "we're divorced now" / "I like it better having multiple accounts, I get more promo codes" / "Why should I?" / "I don't care" / "Who are you?".
> Why is that a bad thing?

It inhibits tax collection, which funds common goods. It also thwarts law enforcement, which is counter to public benefit.

We can debate whether taxes or laws or governments should exist. But they do, and most people seem to favor that. Debating a thing and actively subverting it are different. Just as subverting a thing and expecting such subversion to have no consequences or response are different.
ahah not sure about the passive aggressive tone but thanks :)
Consumer VPNs don't provide any meaningful privacy, but putting that aside... They wouldn't work any differently. They can NAT66 all their customers behind one address if they want. Or maybe they could use a turbocharged version of privacy addressing, constantly rotating customers through different addresses.
>Khan responded: “We’re a nation of laws. U.S. Congress passes them. In the case of tax laws, the IRS applies and enforces the regulations, which are absolute. We simply and fully comply with those very IRS regulations.”

I think this says everything that needed to be said. The core of the issue with all rich tax evasion, are the laws themselves allowing for it to happen legally, albeit not morally.
> What to do!?

Given the context in this topic; See a therapist, perhaps?
This IRS leak clearly demonstrates something nefarious or shadowy. Nefarious things like using appreciating sports teams for claiming depreciation can be totally legal.

Billions of tax dollars have been recovered due to the Panama Papers alone [1]. The Podesta emails were BS, but everyone in the know always have agreed on that.

How you can claim that the ProPublica IRS leak isn't good journalism is unclear to me. In the few articles they've published, they've clearly exposed the nefarious practice of legal tax avoidance using specific leaked information that wasn't documented or widely known before.

[1] https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/panama-pap...
I lived in a UDR apartment property for the past 3+ yrs. They first had 2 full-time sales persons on site. That went down to one, then to zero. Now they lease based on GOOD 3d drawings of apartments, virtual showings, and easy Docusign based lease agreements. You can check it out here: https://www.udr.com/washington-dc-apartments/arlington/cresc...

No value seems to have been lost in going from humans to software. Yes, vacancies are up, but that is probably due to the 15-20% rent increases and general migration away from the city. I'm sure they are also saving a mint on the two fewer on-site sales FTEs. Seems like a big win for both the tenant and landlord (hopefully the savings are being split.)

EDIT: I dont think virtual showings are a replacement for a physical walk-thru. However, it is a great way to filter out obviously mismatching apartments and a way to not waste time visiting apartments way out of your requirements. For example, if I just want to see the size of closets (a big deciding factor for me), i can do that on a floorplan easily. I can easily filter out apartments w/o walk-in closets.
Mongoose: A small toy OS with no memory protection
How to Find the Right Renovators for Your Home or Office?
There are several simultaneous activities taking place when a renovation is being done. This applies, especially to a kitchen renovation in Cambridge or any other section of the property where plumbing is built into the structure.
Linux + nftables isn't a bad combination. Certainly an improvement over the old iptables userspace.
> two tend to blur into each other

Not entirely. Capital controls and currency bans are distinct from AML.

South Africa's proximate problem is capital controls. Cryptocurrencies make those controls easier to circumvent. If you look at the countries that are responding forcefully to crypto, it's the ones who want a sovereign monetary policy and relatively fixed exchange rate [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
The law isn't new and expecting cryptocurrency to get a free pass. The guidelines for how to follow those laws make sense. If there is anything to be upset with, it is the law itself which is something that South Africans have had a long time to get changed.
Kube gives you portability. You can move away if you need to. Very difficult to do that with AWS Fargate.
The whole crypto is bad, reminds me of the crypto wars where governments to this day try to outlaw encryption technology because bad guys can use it also.

You know ransomware encrypts data to make it inaccessible - we should ban encryption also.

Funny how it even shares the name with cryptocurrencies
I had to scroll for a while to get past the politics or explanations of how the radiation is produced. Here's the only explanation I could find of what "harmful" entails:

> Many biologists and electromagnetic field scientists believe the modulation of wireless devices makes the energy more biologically active, which interferes with our cellular mechanisms, opening up calcium channels, for example, and allowing calcium to flow into the cell and into the mitochondria within the cell, interfering with our natural cellular processes and leading to the creation of stress proteins and free radicals and, possibly, DNA damage. And, in other cases, it may lead to cell death.
There is definitely a catch and the catch is that you still pay taxes on that stream of income, but not as much as you would have if you paid the tax on capital gains and yes, some funds still go to charity in the end. Like I said, my description was simplified for brevity. Here's the full video [1] about this as it pertains to crypto (but it doesn't have to). He goes into explaining how to actually distribute the wealth to your family after your death (via Irrevocable Life Insurance Trust) at the end of the video.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CMks9_PVqs
Free market... "No person shall, except with permission granted by the Treasury and in accordance with such conditions as the Treasury may impose — take out of the Republic goods, including personal apparel, household effects, and jewellery which have a value in excess of 600 Rand (approx $40) or of such greater amount as the Treasury may determine;"
According to Chainalysis, in 2020 only 0.35% of crypto transactions were associated with illicit activity.

Cash is still king when it comes to crime. Crypto can help make it harder for criminals.
> In a recent opinion piece for Scientific American, Joel M. Moskowitz warned of the ostensible dangers of radio-frequency (RF) radiation, stating bluntly that 5G technology could be dangerous, causing cancers and untold harm. Moskowitz concluded by insisting readers join his fellow activists petitioning against the new technology. His piece has resonated with the anti-5G movement, generating heated discussion online—but, alas, it is one that pivots on fringe views and fatally flawed conjecture, attempting to circumvent scientific consensus with scaremongering.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/dont-fall-...
Thanks for the warning. I think the form problem happens if you don't have cookies enabled. I will look into it.

We don't use Vega, we have created our own graphical grammar engine.
It doesn't matter where the code is hosted, just that it is publicly accessible. If developers hosted code on their own sites, someone could still scrape them and use that to train models.

(The question of whether this is sufficiently transformative to count as fair use is still wide open)
> Nicotine gums and patches as smoke cessation products are widely available as OTC.

The first nicotine gum, Nicorette, began as a prescription-only product in the US.
Just make the cheaper devices refuse to display anything on it. It can just be hard-coded to display only function keys!
I personally use split horizon DNS for my home lab. I have several things that I put behind Cloudflare, but I don't want my local access to go me > cloudflare > me, so I use split horizon DNS. If you're not behind something like Cloudflare you can use NAT reflection (hairpin NAT), but those are a bit of a hack.

Canada also has some large, private networks used by provincial governments that use split horizon DNS and DoH is going to be a huge pain for them. One specific example would be libraries that are on a private network and have access to resources handled differently depending on how you connect; via the private network = no auth, but via the internet = auth required.

Split horizon DNS is a simple, practical way of affecting how traffic is routed in a lot of cases.
> can compel the bank directly, no one can "force" the blockchain do to anything that's not programmed to do

This doesn't work with banks outside a court's jurisdiction. That doesn't stop enforcement.

We already have tools that informally designate tainted versus untainted wallets. Incorporating that into the law wouldn't be that difficult nor, I suspect, controversial.
> To this day, I cannot remember which is which and I do not know the original French spellings. According to Google translate, _fiş_ is "prise de courant" so what the heck is _priz_ then?

_priz_ is "prise" (socket). _fiş_ is "fiche" (plug). The thing is that both can be either male or female.

> When I think of a socket, I think more of things that are more permanent things like wall sockets or sockets on actual computers

That's definitely the case. A "prise" is a wall socket and a "fiche" is on a wire. I believe it's the actual definition of the terms.
> Why is that a bad thing?

It was decided it was a bad thing when the US coerced the rest of the Western world into the war on terror. If you are not with us, you are against us etc.
if you get to a very high number of cooperative threads, then each such thread will have a very small stack (otherwise the OOM killer will get you). i am not sure that you can impose such limitations on the stack size in java.
> Any American Government official requesting a removal of anything from social media sites would probably lose their job

You missed FOSTA/SESTA then? That forced the removal of anything that even looks vaguely like sex work from social media.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowpox

The relationship between Smallpox and Cowpox was well known even in the 1700s. (Though the concept of infectious diseases was not understood until the late 1800s, the people who hung around cows a lot didn't die of Smallpox as much).

Turns out that Cowpox was the same viral-family as Smallpox, and that Cowpox could be used to lessen the effect of Smallpox.

So there were absolutely animal reservoirs of the Smallpox viral family. The disease was shown to hop from different species (from humans to cows and vice versa).
Super rampant here in CA with Craigslist. Scammer will post a rental ad for a house that is currently for sale in Zillow. You know it's a scam pretty easily, but not everyone does. If someone other than Craigslist can get in this market and do a better job, one that verifies the Lister owns the property, and there is no funny business about who gets the property, that would be excellent.
Exactly, even a smartphone is worth over $40. Personal apparel is usually not worth 10 grand.
when the law is wrong

Yes, although on a volume basis money laundering for criminal (as in organized crime) is likely much larger than refugees fleeing their country & attempting to take some of their money with them.
كلمات اغنية اتشابه وياك مصطفى الربيعي
Not really, because for undecidable problems semidecidability can only hold one-way. If it held in both ways then the language would be decidable.

Take the Halting program for example: For a program p which halts, you can determine whether it will halt in finite time (because by definition it halts). However, there is no semidecidable algorithm for "this program runs infinitely long".
Theses on Technological Pessimism
Ask HN: How to go about getting help for mental health?
Throwaway account for obvious reasons.

I've come to realize that my mental health has declined to an unacceptable state. I know it has negatively impacted my work to the point that my employer has noticed. I intend to seek help but am uncertain how to go about doing so and how much I should share with my employer.

I suspect that I should seek out help independently of the company but I'm wondering if there is a better way than just picking someone I find online?

I have an upcoming meeting with my manager where I suspect my declining performance will be brought up again. I doubt I will have been seeing someone by that time and am unsure of how to go about talking about it (if at all).

I have been looking at getting a new job as I know this one is contributing to my issues, so I don't think I could go about asking for time off for health issues and then leave shortly after.

I'm the sole source of income so taking any time off isn't an option.

For further detail I would say that it is severe anxiety that worsened as a result of thinking it was something else entirely.
DNS Resolver for Tor (2018)
What are universals in story, and where do they come from?
https://blog.cloudflare.com/deep-inside-a-dns-amplification-...
Thanks, this is good advice. There are some super featureful diff tools out there. For example, https://github.com/dandavison/delta does a line-based diff but it also syntax highlights its output.

I'm hoping that defining syntax in a separate TOML file will let end users extend difftastic for their own languages/config files. I want to keep difftastic small and manageable.
> So in a sense I am not strictly practicing my approach

Developing in an IDE that compiles almost continuously is about as far from the development philosophy you're advocating for here as one could get :P
They cam force the those who control access to specific assets on the chain to do something in the exact same way they can force a bank to do something.
I think "1bn" it makes for an attention getting but not an especially useful headline.

It seems like the real story is that mussels can't survive more than a few hours at 40 degrees and died en masse. This has many ripple effects in the ecosystem.

- mussels are a primary food source for many species, like sea stars

- their shells are used as habitats by hermit crabs and other crustaceans and worms

- they help filter the water and keep it clear.

- low oxygen in the water as they decompose

This isn't a longitudinal study, 1bn is just back of napkin math, but it sounds like it is fair to assume that there will be dramatically reduced biodiversity and biomass in the area for years to come. And if another such anomalous temperature event takes place in the next few years it will compound the issue.
The feeling of being "on autopilot" when doing a task has to do with your, let's call it, supervisory process being otherwise occupied. It doesn't suggest that that the other mental processes which are responsible for figuring out the actions have changed their character or mode of operation.

"You" are just not paying attention to it in that moment.
Interesting idea considering Microsofts copyright-dependence has reached an all-time low point since they move as much as they can into their SaaS and PaaS offerings. Nothing left to copy, except for employees, but you don't need copyright to bash their heads in, legally speaking.
Here's a blog post from someone who uses nginx 'doh-to-dns' to connect their DoH clients to Pi-hole.

So, yes you can blacklist domains, as long as you can configure the DoH servers that the client uses.
> That plus forcing the company to hire government-approved executives

Where did you get that from? Completely untrue.

The new IT rules mandate the appointment of persons in certain executive roles, and companies, including Twitter, have the freedom to choose whomsoever they please, as long as he/she is an Indian resident - they don't have to be "government approved"

Twitter didn't want to have a responsible officer in India. The managing director of Twitter India said he was only responsible for "marketing" and did not have control over the day-to-day functioning of the company.

> controversial hash tag related to farmer protests

It wasn't just a controversial hashtag. A farmer sped a tractor into a barricade causing the tractor to overturn and was killed. The whole thing was clearly caught on camera[1][2]. Within minutes there were blatantly false tweets flying around saying that police had fired on the farmers and there was a genocide in progress (with an associated hashtag). Twitter refused to take down such blatantly false and deliberately incendiary tweets.

Edit:

1. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgSLaOMEzHY
Indeed, a mumbojumbo word soup.

Light from the sun is more powerful than cell phone radiation. Being outside, or by a window, is far more dangerous.
No, this is the time complexity of type checking before any computation on the terms is performed.
Didn't we already discuss this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27756993
Anecdotal evidence:
My girlfriend has been smoking since she was 14. She had no motivation to quit, no matter how many times I annoyed her about it. After she switched to vaping, she can't even bring herself to smoke again because the smell and taste are much more obvious to her now, even with flavored cigarettes.

In a separate but similar case, the same thing happened to me with marijuana smoking. I never had an issue with the 'smoke' aspect of consuming cannabis, but now that I have tried cannabis vaping products (e.g. precision heating dry plant material or liquid concentrates), I nearly gag when I try smoking it again and I am immediately aware of and irritated by the awful smell that clings to me afterward.
> "it has been estimated that 65%-80% of all copper ever mined is still available (having been repeatedly recycled)."

Any more info on this? The Wikipedia source is a broken link. What would make copper not available anymore? Do they just mean it is sitting in a landfill somewhere?
Good for your. Canadian government did a great job with the recent CRTC decisions, right?
Then why is Pelosi still employed?
https://sputniknews.com/world/202002081078259986-facebook-tw...

Twitter declined this time, but I have a hard time believing the Democrats had no hand in twitter blocking the Biden laptop story or removing Trump from the platform