skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reposting from a previous Ham Radio comment thread [1]

One factor that I bring up whenever the “ham radio is dying” discussion happen is the FCC public database and safety/doxxing, specifically for marginalized communities such as Trans individuals and Black folks. It, itself, is creating a safety concern in modern society for people that may want to join the hobby but fear doxxing and harassment.

If I give out my call sign on the Internet (or on the air) you now know my real name, address, and every past address I’ve ever used. So let’s say I registers as Bob Smith at 123 Fake St 4 years ago, and now I go by Susan Smith at 456 Example Blvd you’d know all that information with a simple lookup.

The only real semi-workaround is when someone first licenses (and you probably don’t know this at first) is to use a PO Box, otherwise any address change will be on record.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24308712
> It’s just a bar code that guy scans to retrieve the official record with photo ID on their server.

This would require a fully connected graph between all Departments of State around the world (i.e., the holders of their respective countries' passport DBs), and that is definitely not the case. It will also never be the case, since there are various geopolitical advantages to having a secret passport database (like being able to mint identities for spies, or deny the existence of a person).

The bar code you're referring to is just a machine-readable version of the information printed on the paper. It doesn't carry any proof of authenticity.
Of course it's decoration. The choice of style and materials used in furniture is a central part of interior decoration.

Even choosing furniture purely based on function is a stylistic statement.

In any case it's obtuse to focus on this as the point of my statement was clear: that customizing an environment you spend much of your day in matters - that applies whether you only care about function or care about appearance too.
Funny how a crude joke about someone's wife liking to sleep around almost two thousand years ago gets applied to a conversation about legal frameworks and regulation of one of the most significant corporations in the 21st century world.
Probably a lot easier to run a starlink node off a car battery than to use HAM radio in those situations.
Tesorio (YC S15) is Hiring a Head of Talent to help us grow 2x next year
Playing Tetris helps me wrap my mind around systems or problems with many moving parts.

When I feel stumped or overwhelmed, it helps me to play a game or two. I use a hand-held Tetris game.

Traumatic memories and especially their after-effects are also systems with many moving parts.
> But so many kids are left to their own devices without parental oversight on this subject.

It's very "Lord of the Flies", isn't it?
The idea, at least as I’ve seen it a number of places, wasn’t that agriculture was a long-run bad idea, but that for a very long time it decreased the median quality of life (while also greatly reducing volatility in the quality of life for most people, and enabling extraordinary improvements in the quality of life for – again, for a very long time – an extremely narrow elite.)
If the transmission consists of <CALLSIGN><ENCRYPTED PAYLOAD> then there is no way to determine if the payload is commercial in nature. One particular example is business owners using amateur radio spectrum for business communications. Or some wise-guy using amateur spectrum for his high frequency trading to beat the speed of copper.
Repeaters fail too. And the solar cycle has been at a low for the past few years for HF, but if you can wait until 2025, it's going to be amazing!! ;-)

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression
Considering Coinbase isn't seeing any attrition above normal for tech and isn't having issues recruiting, I think nobody really cares.

Also, if you're white and claim diversity and social justice to be "critically important" then why don't you give up your job so that a minority can take it?
> If you want a better conspiracy...

Honestly, that's not very far out as far as conspiracies go. Zuckerberg has been asking for more direct regulation for at least a couple years [1]. Then listening to some of Frances Haugen's testimony I started to wonder if Facebook was consistently optimizing for engagement and profit because if they didn't, then some competitor eventually would. If Facebook decided to be more benevolent now, then that future competitor might go full evil and overtake Facebook

It's very Machiavellian, but by going full evil right now, Facebook might force the government to intervene and essentially prevent future competitors.

[1] - https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-chief-mark-zuckerberg-...
If I take a dump I have to ensure to dispose it properly, because the fecal disposal is tightly regulated by many states, therefore taking a dump is a political issue.
GMRS has been growing a good bit, at least in the off-road community. It’s a step up from CB but much less involved than HAM. It’s certainly more limited, but generally more than sufficient for most. Even better, when I go out with my immediate family+ for various outdoor activities they are covered under my license.

I’ll keep my HAM license active, but I rarely use it anymore.
I know tons of people who don't invest in 401k because they don't understand.

I know tons of people don't know how our income tax rate bracket works.

I just learned yesterday that you can invest in bitcoin using self directed IRA. I am trying to figure out how to do it, but kind of lost.
I would suppose for any extension to work with Facebook the site it would need to be developed with knowledge of a Facebook page's DOM, as such the developer would need to go look at the page to be used and write code to do what the extension needs to do.

Thus I guess one legal argument would be that the ability of the extension to work proves the developer's use of Facebook the service even though they have been banned. So maybe there is something from that they can build up an argument, although it starts to sound far-fetched enough I might expect a judge to not buy it.
This helps with the timezone, but doesn't solve the format problem. If the browser decides 1/2/XXXX is 2nd Jan and not 1st Feb because locale detection went haywire, I can't know what the user really meant.

Besides, once I need to write js it's just as easy to pull a datetime picker and use that...

I'd like to use <input>, but they need to make it work and also allow a reasonable way of overriding the autodetection.
I get roughly 46ms from a cheap distant vps with no particular care for performance in my Django app so these numbers are strange.
>"We need to dispel the myth that Silicon Valley engineers are working for health insurance."

The OP was referring to US companies in general not FAANG companies, which are outliers by many measures. If you read the sentence before the one your quoting it provides the context:

"By comparison employment in the US is messed up enough that if you leave your job you lose your health insurance."

Also smaller companies generally pay significantly more per employee than a megacorp does. And this is the amount one assumes when COBRA kicks in. Also for 10K I'm guessing you have an individual plan and are not covering family dependents which would also add significantly to the premium.
Agree with you there; my comment was in the context of a FB user interacting with the FB functionality.
People pay taxes, not companies.

These taxes are poor, because they obscure who is really being taxed.

Is it the owners? The employees? The consumers? Most likely the last two groups.
What do you not like about this book? Would you have better recommendations?
People overestimate the cost of bullets and underestimate the cost of advanced military weapons (drones in this case).
It’ll never be possible. Locally produced food/gadgets were made using raw materials and equipment that were likely imported.

The raw material was extracted and the equipment itself was produced by yet another layer of equipment. And so on, until you get to the iron ore and copper and so on. No way will all of that be local.
I think this uses Canvas/WebGL to provoke the GPU into performing calculations behind the scenes. If that's true, I imagine this solution will fall by the wayside as WebGPU becomes production ready.
Just text on the page, loads immediately! No stupid ads, auto playing audio/video, nagging popups.... This is how the internet should be. Joy to read.
Just to reinforce this point, here are 3 mom-and-pop pizza places off the top of my head. All of them have a website:

https://palermospizzamenu.com/

https://www.michaelsitalianrestaurantdelimenu.com/

https://goldengateindian.com/
Not anymore. Go to Redfin and see for yourself. I wasn't even looking in the "city proper", I was looking within half an hour drive to Austin downtown. I consider it dumb to buy property without any land to go with it, so I wanted a decent house with an acre or two of land at least. The only decent options I was able to find were all over a million dollars. And then there's flood insurance to contend with in Austin area - you really have to look where it does and does not flood or you could also be on the hook for $1K/mo in flood insurance, without which the bank won't issue a loan.
Interesting. I updated and yeah I had to opt out too. So get the pitchforks, I was wrong. Could be the installer on linux?
Starlink needs a commercial contract with a company that may choose to terminate your service or be dictated to do so.

Starlink contracts specify a cell region in which you're receiver can work.

If you fall out with a benevolent or not so benevolent government or you are running away from disaster region or war zone all of these solutions fall apart pretty quickly.

I will repeat my own quote, Amateur Radio gives communities a means of long distance communication when all other infrastructure fails.
Yeah it’s a bit like your a big tobacco company and someone is selling nicotine patches.
WordPress has automatic updating of plugins now. It's almost completely solved the problem.
This maybe why the no-code low-code movement, if can call it that, maybe be very useful. If one can easily create such an app and run it for themselves, what Facebook are gonna do ban everyone from their platform?
We need to dispel the myth that everyone that works at a Silicon Valley company is an engineer.

Coinbase in particular will have legions of support people (who do you think answers the phone/customer emails?). I would bet that $10k (or maybe $15k for a family) is a meaningful fraction of the annual compensation for many roles at Coinbase.
I can already imagine people complain how the military is wasting its budget on drones and should reinstate German extermination camps to save money.
Seems like there was a failure just recently. Something about Facebook's BGP route?
What do you mean by rough? Not as smooth and responsive as say iPhone or iPad or Macbook?
OK but when can I run gcc on my ipad
Unboxing starlink was a transformative experience for me. It was a weird feeling literally getting internet in a box without cable, copper or DSL or even a rural dish pointed at a local tower where you have to worry about obstacles. I plopped the dish on the dirt and it just frikkin worked. It was at that moment I realized how that technology will absolutely transform global society. I'm from Africa and now do philanthropy in rural areas out there, and it's going to take a minute, but it's going to absolutely transform regions like that.
Google to give security keys to ‘high risk’ users targeted by government hackers
An even more unfortunate trend is the very small businesses that only accept orders by Instagram message. Believe it or not I've seen this at two different local food delivery businesses that I wanted to support but couldn't because I don't have an Instagram account.
Facebook engineers lurking on HN reading this: you are complicit in things like this by developing the technical infrastructure that makes it all possible. If your motivation is money, you can absolutely find that employment elsewhere.
Apple iOS 15 Privacy: Inspecting App Activity Data
This is just rescaling. The author is actually acknowledging that there exists 10x differences but divides by 10 for some reason.
Chrome doesn't require extensions to be signed? Or hasn't revoked the signature?
When I go for a walk with a friend, is that political? When I play a puzzle game on my computer? When I read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? When I cook dinner?

I suggest that there is much activity in life that is not political.
That is very much illegal though. If the jet is for personal use and the company isn't compensated for it then it's tax fraud.
> Are corporations people now?

Always have been, legally. That’s the defining feature of the corporate form, as opposed to classic partnerships.

> Why isn’t it sufficient to tax the money when the owners of the corporation are trying to cash out through dividends or in some other way? Why does it have to be taxed every year like income?

Its the insurance premium for the liability shield that comes with the corporate form.
>The one area where it's still relevant is disaster response, but even that is questionable.

I mean it's more than questionable, it's tending towards the ridiculous with no well-formed concept of operations. Even in large scale disasters, virtually the only real usage of ham radio has been for 'welfare' traffic ("tell Bob at 212-555-1212 that Alice got out before the fire reached her house").

Cellular providers now have COWs and COLTs for reinforcing networks where the fixed infrastructure has been affected. Iridium phones are easily available. Inmarsat BGAN terminals with high-speed data fit into a messenger bag.

HF radio may be the only game in town if the really-big-one comes (HEMP / similar scenario) but it's just not relevant to either command-and-control or tactical operations in most disaster response scenarios.
Go to the "bad side of the tracks" and walk in. All towns have a bunch of generic machine shops that can manufacture. Look for welders, machinists, sheet metal and that type of thing in the name. Then walk into the office.

Note that few of them will do the design/engineering work for you. But if you have a "blueprint" they will build it. Be prepared to pay - they are all making good wages for your city not third world step above slave wages.
This is the precise problem that rural America has with youth abandoning the rural areas.

The cure for this is immigration, but the people that remain in the rural areas are very right wing and very xenophobic.
> does this mean the days of trying to find/create your own (good) datetime picker component are gone?

It won't look and behave like how designers wanted in your company. It will look different in different browser and OS.
This is the kind of malware I can get behind.
A nosy customs official can flip through the other stamps in the passport to see if you've been some place that makes you suspect. Also, certain countries will tag your passport which marks you for automatic extra inspections without even looking at your photo/name info. This happened to me specifically in Australia.
> In Colombia, we arrest thieves.

Not to minimize their pain, but thought this was hyperbole considering areas of Colombia are controlled by ELN terrorists / gangs
Isn't that like... everyone?
> If you're reading HN, you're probably the kind of person that would find stuff to enjoy in ham radio

Agreed. Plus if you want to just explore the ham world without going the license route, there's an abundance of cheep software-defined radio dongles (rx only) you can hook up and listen in with. There's a lot of weird and cool stuff on the air that'll keep you occupied for hours.
https://vividmaps.com/germany-is-still-divided-by-east-and-w...
I meant more structural, based on your mention of NYC Mesh: high-speed, carrying all-purpose (including commercial) traffic for random users. You are not getting that by allowing encryption on ham bands, that's fundamentally something different (and regulation world-wide would never allow that under "amateur radio"). What you want for that is expanded spectrum/power/easier permits for long-distance links, e.g. in the 60 Ghz band or even in WiFi bands.

Edit: or in reverse, what kind of current ham radio use would you want to use more openly? Maybe I'm misunderstanding your scenario.

Edit2: E.g. the closest thing maybe is hamnet. Which is literally IP networking, unencrypted, on modified Ubiquiti or Mikrotik WLAN gear so it uses ham bands right next to its usual frequencies and more power. As soon as you take the amateur radio restrictions out, it's just long-distance wifi links, which already have a clear space what they are regulations-wise, the regulations just don't permit as much for it.
I really like the thing about containers that they can be mixed in a window.

Personally I think both options should be possible. Choice is good
One thing that I've noticed is that Americans are hyper-focused on raising awareness. Most people should realize that Coinbase making a statement about BLM would lead to zero progress towards the advancement of Civil Rights. However, for some people, it's so important that they'd sacrifice their job for it.
Venture funding hit $158.2B in Q3'21, a 105% increase YoY
What are their diversity numbers? What are their metrics? Are diverse hires paid fairly?

I ask because they have a concrete history of discrimination towards black employees!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/29/technology/coinbase-pay-e...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/technology/coinbase-crypt...
Public companies can't do that, unless they want to have at least as many tickers.

The 890 million treshold is calculated for the holding, not the subsidiaries
You seem very confused on the basic concept of morality.

It used to be perfectly legal for companies to openly refuse to hire or serve black people, or even let them in the building.

Many people felt this was morally wrong, even though it was legal. And now we're talking about something that is illegal.

If your company freely does business with a company like this, would you really be surprised and shocked that people would also judge you for doing for business with them?

Wouldn't you expect a company to do the right thing and refuse to work with openly racist and/or criminal companies?

If a newspaper was printing false ads from a person impersonating a company and committing fraud, wouldn't you expect them to stop printing the ads?
Depends. HR does everything they can to ensure I don't consider the questions I'm asked when deciding if we hire them. They can't stop me, but it is tricky to shoehorn your questions into their form so I don't try.
> I don’t know much of anything about how smell works. Does it involve quantum mechanics in ways which don’t fall under “chemistry” (with chemistry being an implication of quantum mechanics) ?

Arguably, yes. You could call smell a chemical sensor, but it's not sensing chemicals through a chemical reaction. Instead, it's sensing the modes of excitation of a molecule, i.e. the distribution of available state transitions, which is inherently quantum mechanical.
I believe it is an implicit "you make them look shoddy" if your product doesn't work after they change something. Self-produced ones at least they can check for backward compatibility but they have no way of guaranteeing any of their changes would break any fly-by-night or obscure adaptors.

Rather overkill in practice for a legal doctrine. But I can see their concern, and why a company would dislike it over the sheer tech support call volume alone. Their first response being "stop it!" makes sense in that light.

Open standards are a good way to prevent issues while keeping both sides happy (notably it also keeps company names out of it except in deniablenways such as say listing GMail as an example of a POP3 user - it doesn't equate the two). Open standards aren't automatic or free though and there may easily be gaps because they never thought to specify a given portion for interoperability.
Dapper Labs Took NFTs Mainstream, Now It Wants to Do the Same for DAOs
> your outrage does nothing

It's a trendy thing to say these days, but history shows that outrage and public opinion do quite a lot, and that is why people work very hard to manage it (including, these days, to try to appear unbothered). There are plenty of labor laws that the public has passed, and you can see, for example, SV companies responses to publicized labor abuses in their supply chains.
The nuance of how "we put up a service ... talk to it on our terms" is enforced is what is deeply concerning to me. Is that up to Facebook to use technical means to enforce their terms or is the force of law behind them? Where is that line drawn?

If I modify the DOM with an extension to hide content I don't like am I running afoul of the law? How about using Lynx instead of Chrome?

What constitutes "talking to" a service? Is it data I send to that server, or is it how my computer processes the data I receive and how I interact with it?

Different people are going to have wildly different opinions, and some of them are very troubling to me. Committing fraud is one thing, but simply using a service without exceeding your authority in a way the service provider doesn't prefer seems like something the service provider should handle without the force of law behind them.
I see the effects of redlining in the US carry on for decades after physical barriers like highways have been removed, so I absolutely believe it.
True, but the only way to prevent that is by stripping users of autonomy.

And in a choice between user autonomy and service stability, I can't side with the latter over the former.
IMO having at least a minimum ongoing Ham community is necessary globally as a precaution for society in the event of disasters.

I don’t know how to go about maintaining that group, but it needs to be done. Call it a community service activity if needed.
> Not to minimize their pain, but thought this was hyperbole considering areas of Colombia are controlled by ELN terrorists / gangs

Tourists flying to San Francisco as tourists likely are not from those areas, and are likely generalizing to their country from the more specific place they do live.
I reviewed the aho source code a month ago and was blown away by the quality. It helped me advance my Awk skills.
> As things stand now, retiree healthcare, pensions, and workers’ compensation are unfunded by about $86.6 billion.

USPS pensions etc. were extremely underfunded for a long time. The size, scope, and quasi-governmental nature of USPS meant that ignoring the problem was more likely to involve a bailout than responsible operations.

IMO, the only unreasonable pension expectation levied on USPS is that for veterans: They’re required to pay some amount of veteran retirement benefits for some reason that I haven’t been able to make sense of.
I think it is more a case of “talent x perspiration = skill”. Everybody can get better by working at it, but some people advance more quickly.
One usually cycles through retorts when one is confronted with the same propaganda!

> Oh those pesky anti-vaxxers taking up ICU beds, that's how they harm vaccinated!

Ok so we should make sure all the risks of covid are minimized, lets encourage the reducing of the leading morbidity of covid and other diseases by forcing people to eat healthy.

It seems to me people like you are more accepting to force people to inject something into them than you are to force people to exercise or eat right.

Both are appalling, one you see is appalling, the other you do not.

If the vaccine works for you, great. Unvaccinated people are not a risk, the ICU is not going to crumble and there are much more dangerous things in life to give up your freedoms for.

Just incase your precious ICU fills up, first you could kick out the "anti-vaxxers", then the fatties, then anyone with a criminal background, next we can have a government panel decide who does or doesn't get care!