skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While not directly answering your question, here is a suggestion that may improve your understanding of CB and help inform your decision about what radio service to use.

There are a number of WebSDRs available that provide a public web interface to radio receivers located in various places. They are live streams of radio traffic that can be tuned to your frequency of choice. If you go here[1] and filter by the 10m band and the North America region, you can find several that cover the 26-27MHz frequencies used for CB channels[2]. While none of these are located in the Bay area, it should give you a sense of how active CB is and what typical usage looks like. You can also use web SDRs to listen to ham (look up 2m/70cm calling frequencies as well as local repeater frequencies) and FRS/GMRS frequencies[3] in your area.

To be perfectly honest, I feel like GMRS may be best for your use case, but the beauty of WebSDRs is that you don't have to invest in any equipment to listen. This way you can learn more about these different types of radio services and decide which is best for your use case, without lots of expensive and time consuming buy-in.

[1] http://websdr.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_band_radio#Standard_c...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Mobile_Radio_Service#F...
There are really only 3 subjects that matter math english And science in that order. Everything else is nice to have make you more well rounded but not strictly required. If you can create good engaging modules in any of those that’s all I really care about. The problem is that many have tried but I have found nothing out there that works well. I have a preschool age kid and nothing really is engaging
Trump files lawsuits against tech companies for violating the First Amendment
Throwaway for obvious reasons. I'd caution you against getting too smug about this outlook.

> Socialization is still a concern. But socialize your children to adult society. They don't need to be socialized to public school society.

I was homeschooled and my parents explicitly went for this approach. It's a great way of turning out a materially successful miserable loner; perfect adult-pleasers who've never had real friends. You may think you're only cutting them off from bullying or emojispeak or whatever, but what you're really eliminating are opportunities to learn the dynamics of peer relationships. And no, socialization with other homeschooled kids doesn't count.

Parents tend to vastly underestimate the importance of cultural fluency in the formation of peer relationships, and I think that's a tragic detriment to a lot of kids, especially the ones (like me) who internalize the sort of bullshit elitist attitudes that often inform non religious decisions to homeschool. And yes - my parents weren't religious and were highly educated on all the trendiest homeschooling topics.

I'm obviously fairly steamed about this and deeply personally biased, so take my words with a grain of salt. This isn't intended as a personal attack in any sense.
Yes, but how many programs written for the real thing have hard coded values dependent on cycle times?
Beautiful. Would love to learn more about your journey. Contact details in my profile if you’re so inclined.
I don't disagree with you, if anything I'm in a similar camp.

The incentives just so happen to end up supporting features like the ones this post refers to.
I suppose in principle, but in practice I want to be around longer than a year anyway. After a year it’s a wash.
> one

I'll give you three: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
There are times when changing things up is an improvement as well as times when it's not.
The game is modeled around mid-sized European nations. Westerners care so much about privacy and freedom that hard lockdowns and extensive contact tracing is politically impossible.
Gmail can still exist without Google in its current form, or without Google entirely. It is likely one of those services that does not require surveillance to remain profitable, and competitors would be falling over themselves to claim the data and domain names if Google claimed otherwise. Losing integration to other Google services would likely win more hearts than gutpunch users.
That's a very specific "class" of aircraft. STOL. Short take off and landing. It's popular in the back country though.
I have no real idea if this is good, because the landing page has only some images, even though it's supposed to be about video. Show me some video, then! There's a slider gallery showing a series of still images of an editing interface -- why not show it in action?

Likely there's something I'm missing, here.
> But socialize your children to adult society. They don't need to be socialized to public school society.

They don't need to be socialized to any particular public school society, but they do need to be socialized to the society of children. This is not adult society, and the difference is important. Sibling relationships are important but necessarily unusual, it's also necessary to go beyond this.

If you try to inculcate adult society only in your children, I think you are doing them a great disservice.
A big difference is the bar to entry. In those days it was “you know HTML? Get in here!” Now people have to get their craniums examined before receiving an offer.
The problem is that many people, especially advertisers, don't want to be part of a marketplace with ideas that will cause great backlash. Parents don't want their kids in a marketplace with ideas they don't want to expose them to.

The principles of a marketplace also apply to marketplaces.
> Do I understand you correctly?

Nope, the original question was if we should "abolish the idea", not the thing itself.

I'm saying that the idea is a myth in the same way that "unbiased news" is a myth. Both sound like a nice idea on the surface, but with both eventually it all boils down to humans making decisions that elevate one viewpoint (bias) over another, and this holds true whether we are publishing newspapers or publishing HTML documents.

Adding another step (e.g. "human writes code; code publishes HTML document") unfortunately doesn't fix this either.
It is also interesting that at some point, quietly, the Arduino engineers have quietly switched from Eagle to Altium.

People may complain Eagle is not Free software, but at least it has a free-beer license available to view and edit the files for noncommercial use, and it runs perfectly on Linux and MacOS.
Sick burn, and all too true in my experiences as both student, homeschooler, and parent of traditionally schooled kids. “From what I’ve seen, the goal of school is to do an adequate job preparing our future workforce to do jobs that were relevant yesterday.”
I crammed 15 minutes in front of the door for the Technician exam. It's stupidly easy. I studied the General with a question bank for about a week while I'm doing something boring and passed General and Extra.
Probably something like the following:

1) Add sqlite_log.[ch] files to bash source repo.
2.a) Add sqlite_init_db(...) to init a database per bash_sqldb_{date}_{pid}.db per bash pid on ~user/.bash_db/ dir.
2.b) Add sqlite_log_cmd(...) to log the cmd, evn, pid, to the opened db.
2.c) have the bash command exec routine to call the sqlite_log_cmd(...) on each cmd execution.
3) Query, report of the commands execution will be handled outside with bash scripts/sub commands/web intf.

* Should be very low overhead (micro-seconds) for each command.

Now I think this out a bit more, maybe it is better to write ebpf script and pipe all the cmds exec to one centralized sqlitedb (instead of per user/pid and only for bash). Likely more useful from system security auditing POV, easier to extend by adding network connetions, file open, privilege escalation type events to the DB.
> I don't know, do you think the world would be better if people could sell their organs? "Voluntarily?"

If someone meets the criteria to donate organs, for free, why shouldn't they also be able to charge for it?
Blanket prohibitions are ... difficult creatures.

Highly progressive taxation seems to me a better practice, along with specific prohibitions and/or penalties. I'd floated this suggestion about six weeks ago:

Taxation will reduce overall amounts of advertising. Taxes raise costs. Quantities of price-elastic goods or activities decrease if taxed. Ergo: an advertising tax results in less advertising.

Individually targeted advertising is regulable through both practice and rights. Government can require or restrict technology. Government can give rights (of privacy, of control over personal information), or remove them (the ability of third parties to exchange, sell, or otherwise utilise personal information other than at the express direction of the subject of that information, say).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27219556

(I agree largely with your characterisation of advertising. I do believe that there are certain categories and types which are less overtly socially harmful. Those largely represent small corners of the present advertising market.)
Good to hear that he's pursuing it along legal channels.

It also highlights the importance of managing your private information online, and what can be derived from your various "profile names".
i would be interested in hearing how you think the government is at fault for this
I just started a new role and I really hope I don't have to commute to the office. WFH and gaining back time otherwise spent on commuting has been a blessing.
Threat mitigation is largely nuclear shield; but if you’re taking about maintaining air superiority then the F-22 is where it is at. The Navy carrier fleets and Marines are force projection.

The JSF were sold around cost savings; half the price so you could buy twice as many.
> They will google it

I'm sorry to tell you this, but sooo many people in the US alone are not technically literate enough to know how to debug an issue like this.
You could have said the same exact thing about aerospace in 1970.
?? There are a bunch of videos on the landing page
This does seem like a 'bring the mountain to Muhammad situation' Upload and download many GB of video every time you want to use it, rather than download the program once.

People who do a lot of video editing usually already have decent PCs on which to do it.
Ian M. Bank's The Culture universe is such a future, which I think is attainble in a few millennia.

Powerful super-human AI minds will eventually and inevitably take over; which I think is fine provided they recognize all sentient beings as equals.
Well... Cloudflare Workers does enable you to bypass CAPTCHA walls.

https://www.freebuf.com/articles/web/267964.html (Chinese)
A middle ground is requiring those courses but letting students choose when. Further to the obvious absurdity of everyone learning at the same speed, is the idea of everyone being equally interested and enthusiastic about every topic at the same time as everyone else. Let me go on a History shtick and then get my math together and then...
mRNA is incredibly complicated to make.
My highschool was similar to my college - there was a collection of required courses that covered all subjects, and there were electives you could choose from.

In high school, the majority of your schedule was in required classes. In college, the vast majority was in major courses / electives.
We didn't even know about git for one of my first projects, so we did that too.
I run a mobile GMRS in my Jeep with a couple of 5W HTs for spotting and keeping touch on the go - most folks I know have moved off CB entirely. There are excellent ground-plane independent antennae from Larsen and Laird that work well with the "challenging" Jeep installs.

Having a HT or base ham radio is nice for SHTF scenarios, but I haven't really found the need for a mobile.
A simple issue? This isn't a simple issue. I challenge you to cover it in 5 pages.

And spending a time on something that could potentially save everyone tons of time, and improve lives? That's exactly what people should be spending their time on. All of us.
I've been reading their reviews for what seems like a long time, but I never realized it was that long lol. That's pretty impressive.
People selling their organs isn't them doing what they want with their own bodies and minds. It's them engaging in a mutli party business transaction where one person literally buys part of another person.

Maybe we should make that sort of business transaction illegal, maybe we shouldn't, but it has no bearing on whether or not people should be allowed to do what they want with their own minds and bodies.

People should be allowed to remove their own organs, it's only the selling (the business transaction) that you might (or might not) want to outlaw.
Systems Engineering
Indeed. I'm not sure why anyone thought this was a good idea. Or why they didn't listen to programmers/architects telling them it surely wasn't.

Successfully untangling this could result in some promotions once they realize the idiocy of this.
It's no axiom that applications of conservatism hinder progress. For instance, being conservative towards something that presents an existential threat to humanity could be enabling of progress. I say this as someone who's predominantly 'liberal'
> You could have priests giving their parishioners strong 'advice' on how to vote for every name on the ballot.

None of the Holy See, State of Vatican City, or Diocese of Rome are US 501(c)3 orgs, so I’m not sure why you think that the tax exemption rules applicable to US charities have any bearing on that decision.

The Pope had plenty of reasons not to endorse a particular candidate (the ones that are diplomatic and based in Catholic theological distinction between moral and prudential decisions and the role of the Church heirarchy in each being applicable across nations and particular elections.)
Except this formula is exactly how businesses determine what operating systems, browsers, and devices they support are.

They plug the numbers into the formula and see "If we block IE11 users from being able to use the site, we lose 1% of our traffic, which equates to X dollars. Is that a substantial amount? If so, we support IE11, if not, IE11 support goes out the door."

So yeah, you can plug in the numbers you did and try to negate his argument, but that doesn't make his argument wrong. Just means you understand the argument but fail to accept it.
Australians and New Zealanders are westerners too
Most areas of study up being S-curves, not exponential gains forever.
Yes, but it's generally done on a national level. The waste in the American system is the requirement for an extra 73 rounds of paperwork for every interaction with the medical system.
Or that the government is paying people who don't want to work.
Sometimes I feel like Facebook shuffles things around just to make work for themselves.
Maybe the architects are relying on untangling to get promoted in the future?
It’s not really an “industrial control” device. By brief inspection, it’s a BGA SoC breakout with 1.8V or 3.3V logic levels, directly from the SoC to the outside world.

An industrial device like a PLC would have galvanically isolated 24VDC digital inputs, 0-10V and 4-20mA galvanically isolated analog I/Os and galvanically isolated, short-circuit tolerant 24V high-side driver outputs, a case with a DIN mount and screw terminals.

This device is no more “industrial” than any other SoC.
I think where we disagree is I don't think npm audit is pointing out useful information. Or, at least, it's including a lot of useless information that makes finding the useful information hard to see. Now that it's the default when installing packages, most JS developers are going to have to deal with it. Given a lot of the data is not applicable, unnecessarily repetitive, and has severity mismatch with reality, I think most people are just going to ignore the output. If not that, they're going to blindly update packages and when that doesn't work due to dependency chains and such, they're going to start saddling open source maintainers with busy work. The net result is that when the next real mass security issue hits, it's going to get overlooked or ignored with all the other noise.

What could have been a useful tool for CI is not going to be enabled because who wants their build failing for a week while trying to orchestrate a mass dependency upgrade? I just took a look a Create React App (CRA)-based I have and "yarn audit" indicates 2,288 packages were scanned with 337 vulnerabilities (that's pretty good, I've seen it list over 500 vulnerabilities in the past). This is an app using CRA, with Relay as a code generating GraphQL client, and Antd as a component framework. There's also supporting tooling such as TypeScript, ESLint, and Prettier. Beyond that, very few dependencies are being used. Almost none of them are actually shipping in the product, whether that be due to them being build-related tools or because tree-shaking just strips most of the library out. It's a SPA hosted in CloudFront, so even DoS attacks have a very different profile than products where the server is rendering views. In this particular case, there's no shared user-generated content and XSS mitigations are in place, so the best a customer could do is DoS themselves.

I try to be very diligent about auditing dependencies before upgrading, but I can't reasonably extend that to transitive dependencies. 2,288 packages is an absurd number and this app isn't even doing all that much. I believe it's quite likely that it'd be impossible to get the npm/yarn audit report down to 0, given how quickly the JS ecosystem moves -- upgrade one dependency, deal with whatever API changes are needed, and now another has a vulnerability of some sort listed. It's certainly a burden on a small development team.

Just to be clear, I'm not advocating sticking your head in the sand and pretend everything's fine. I'm saying when you have vulnerabilities listed as high severity and you've verified they're not problematic in a project, then you've addressed the issue. But, now you have a tool that you need to satisfy and if you don't then you're going to miss the next security issue because CI shut off the "npm audit" check.
The NEET Revolution: Why NEETs Will Change the World
what do you mean "joke"?
I’m not going to read the article, but if someone has an article from a more scientific source, that would be interesting.

But the answer is probably nothing isn’t it? You need some kind of delivery mechanism. Even then, what do you expect some random fragment of mRNA to do? You might get some temporary effect, but RNA gets digested relatively quickly. I’m sure you can come up some random horrific scenario that is in practice very hard to get working but…

More realistic scenario is “what if biohackers start making their own COVID19-like viruses”. Perhaps someone gets the crazy idea of creating a less harmless variant and synthesizing it? (This suggestion was pretty popular on HN a while back, it’s a bad idea FYI).

Probably possible for a Biohacker to try this now, but also not very easy to pull off…
I made an account just to comment on homeschooling since I grew up homeschooled in the US and have a lot of opinions about it.

It's great if you have intelligent parents who know when to say "I don't know," but if you aren't an expert on a given subject, you should bring in a private tutor. This means that for most parents, once your kid hits highschool you can't teach them anything outside of whatever you have a bachelor's in, so to homeschool effectively you'd have to just pay for a bunch of private tutors for each subject and then you're not really homeschooling anymore.

Also, depriving your kid of the socialization they'd get from more traditional non-cult schools in the US is almost universally seen as bordering on child abuse by people who grew up homeschooled, so keep that in mind moving forward. Learning how to be likeable is already difficult enough for kids who have social opportunities all day every day. The stigma absolutely did not come out of nowhere. It's unfortunately common for homeschoolers to leave the house and present as if they have autism or some other social learning disability. For some reason it isn't taught as a learnable skill, but I think nearly everyone would agree that it takes practice. There will be obvious differences between a kid that practices 2 hours per day instead of 30 minutes a week.

Edit: I'd also caution anyone against giving too much credence to the stories of parents who homeschooled their children but were never homeschooled themselves. Parents and children often end up having wildly different perspectives on this subject.
I wonder what the long term plan is with this. Instagram and Facebook become one app? Surely they see that's not a good idea. Personally, I think Facebook as a product is struggling heavily and instead of letting it die, they're going to take down their other apps with them. I won't complain if they want to destroy themselves though.
No, that's almost certainly incorrect. Here's a decent summary of current research: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sT6NxFxso6Z9xjS7o/nuclear-wa...

It would be an unthinkable catastrophe, but almost certainly not the end of the human race (and likely not even modern civilization).
Heck, Standard Oil was accused of this.

EDIT: Although it may well be that they actually didn't: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~twod/oil-ns/articles/research...
Japan’s unusual way to view the world
> By your standards, swatting is a perfectly acceptable outcome as long as the victim had the opportunity to mute their harrassers.

Folks don't get swatted via tweet, meem, or fb post. They have to pick p the phone and commit a real crime.

> Likewise, poisoning someone's reputation and making them unemployable is fine too. It's just words, right?

We have had laws against this long before the internet. Maybe they need strengthened.

Edit:

We are clearly talking about two different cases. We have things that are already illegal, and should continue to be illegal. Your examples are both something covered by existing laws.

On the other hand, we have folks who want to ban things that are legal, simply because they are offended. I can name a few, but in this clement, it would not be wise.

Oh, look at that. Self moderation.
I think it's fundamentally a fear that political ideas you don't like will become popular and end up having actual power. If they spread enough, people might vote for them, get laws changed for them, etc. or they might just change their culture in a large scale way that affects your daily life because these "wrong" people might be all around you.

Of course that's pure arrogance and complete disregard for the concept of democracy and respect for other people's ability to think.
It's conspicuously lacking testimonials. I personally hate testimonials and never have understood their appeal. I don't care what some person I've likely never heard of has to say about this product. I'd rather see what it does.

Relatedly, I've never understood why some books have 4 pages of testimonials in the front. Once you get past 5 of these are you really more likely to buy the book?
I agree FLoC is tracking (though not at the individual level). The question we've been discussing, however, is the effect on competition in particular: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27763345
With universities there are usually some basic requirements for graduation, which may include things like math and writing requirements (along with other requirements such as sciences, humanities, languages, etc.) but there is flexibility in how and when you fulfill them.