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I’m N0SSC, unfortunately the pretty face on this article. It is really nice to see my thoughts from my old “Millennials are killing ham radio” [0] being amplified by IEEE spectrum.

This thread is a good confirmation (bias?) of the issues facing the hobby (and the service) in the modern era. But still, I - 29 year old millennial - still think it’s an immeasurably fun and worthwhile hobby. I’m a co-founder of Youth on the Air [1], an IARU Region 2 (North/South America) spin-off of Youngsters on the Air [2], which is an initiative to connect young hams together and generally promote youth in the amateur radio and the art and science of radio and wireless.

So many believe that ham radio is no longer relevant in the 21st century, because of cell phones and ubiquitous internet, and a lot of us hams have one or two common refrains to rebut that:

1. what happens when all else fails? Ham radio!(preparedness and emergency communications)

2. it was hams who created the technology and trillions of dollars worth of infrastructure that make those things work

I take different approach that might be more welcome on this forum - ham radio is a wireless technology and radio science sandbox that is not only a really fun ultra-multifaceted hobby, but it’s also a prime extracurricular opportunity for young people (relative to the average amateur radio operator - a 55 year old white American).

I’d wax eloquent on the relevance of ham radio and how we can both bring the hobby back into mainstream but I’m with my family enjoying a long weekend after way too many hours of work, so hit me up [3].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23808659

[1] https://youthontheair.org

[2] https://www.ham-yota.com

[3] https://linktr.ee/kawfey
Not necessarily, there are a lot of variables. If someone is a fugitive of a government and is using ham radio while also being stationary, sure. I think most HAMs are aware they can track signals that are stationary quiet well. After all, the cats who get caught breaking the rules are usually doing it daily for months. Think of the occasional crazy old bat who decides to do a pirate radio station. But so long as the individual is on the move it becomes more difficult. That is also supposing a government from a federal down to local level are monitoring all ham frequencies 24/7.

Now if we are talking like a rebellious faction within a country, well they are technically breaking all other rules of the nation anyways, so no-encryption HAM rules suddenly becomes the line in the sand they draw as to not cross?
Nothing the federal government is doing now appears to be motivated by public health concerns.
I wonder if Bitcoin could ever be legal tender in USA. Why would the US government allow the use of a currency it cannot control? I certainly do not understand who would any country make Bitcoin legal tender at first place, unless that country has no stable currency to begin with, and even so, why wouldn't they peg their currency on the Dollar or the Euro instead?

From a financial perspective, I see no advantage in adopting Bitcoin.
Blows my mind that they recommend keeping Airflow just for the scheduler, which is basically the WORST part of an overall bad tool.

Use Jenkins. You'll be happy you did.
A lot of the industries you mention don't try their hardest to get my attention and monopolize online social discourse. Facebook does.

Alcohol bottles, cigarettes, sodas, burgers and high-frequency traders don't follow me around everywhere to get me to drink them. Facebook does.

Alcohol bottles don't monopolize socializing and drinking; I can still go to the bar with alcohol-drinking friends even though I would only order a soft drink. Facebook tries to, there's no way I can communicate with Facebook users unless I am also on Facebook and accept the ToS and "privacy" policy.
At least a third of the company quit. That is not something that happens over something “deeply disingenuous”.

I’ve got a timeline put together on it https://schneems.com/2021/05/12/the-room-where-it-happens-ho... the post also goes into detail about Rails governance internals from my experiences as a contributor over the last decade.
Ask yourself, where does the money the corporations use to pay the tax come from?
It could be cited in a manner that more clearly signals "There are limits to what we know about them, but our limited knowledge includes this historic stuff."

You know, if you listen to people on the internet from various cultural backgrounds, they routinely roll their eyes at how mainstream media presents them. I'm making the same sort of observation here: That it aggravates me the way we implicitly signal our assumed superiority to older/other cultures.

That aggravation is not based on a single article. It's based on noticing patterns typically seen in such articles.

It aggravates me in part because I think it harms our scientific understanding. I think you need context to properly understand things and we generally do a poor job of recognizing that we lack that context.
Looks interesting, will check that out!
I think there is ambiguity about to which particular idiot you are referring.

In any case, if I wanted spyware parity with Chrome, I'd use Chrome.
> “If cryptocurrency exchanges want to be the banks of the future, we need to make sure people can have confidence in these systems,”

That's all you really need to know about the intent. They see an area where they have little influence, and as "the government" see the need to inject themselves where they aren't wanted. Vipers and leeches, them.
It matters who is not in. Cyprus doesn’t seem to be on the list, along with many others. All it takes is one country to make this irrelevant.
In the US, that is not true at all. It is perfectly legal to discuss politics. It may be discouraged by other hams though.

And it's particularly discouraged when talking with hams in other countries where the laws may be different.
I date all my files.

filename-yyyy-mm-dd-n.xlsx

I don't worry about anything beyond that. The file system manages snapshots without my attention, messy software like Box or SharePoint can manage versioning if files need to live there, the OS can try to manage metadata, all of that is separate from my needs: fast easy access to old/new versions of documents.

When I'm working on something and I feel like I'm about to make major changes, I save with today's date. If I want to know what I presented to people at a specific meeting, I look up the meeting date. If I want to branch or add a version or tag (final_FINAL_V2) then I'll rename the file, but I always update the date.
That’s assuming there is competition from companies that can avoid the tax, otherwise their margins stay the same and the industry ends up with higher prices. In effect it’s roughly equivalent to sales tax, though one that also applies to suppliers and therefore promotes vertical integration.

Which is the real reason countries tax profits, it can’t be passed on to consumers. Aka a company that maximized profits at some price point can’t raise prices without lowering profits.
Bunch of presumably white folk downvoting away. Sigh - utterly predictable, unfortunately. If you feel so strongly about a good world/society, please indulge in effective altruism or donate a large chunk of your money to help poor brown and black folks in the poorest nations of the world. Your signaling is useless.
How do you tell an apolitical workplace from a conservative workplace if the conservative workplace claims it’s apolitical?
I assume they're talking about Jamstack-dot-org by the mention of an SSG page with filter buttons: https://jamstack.org/generators/
You are permitted to submit a PO Box, work address, etc. It just needs to be an address you can be contacted at.
Mybfio Golang contest has 9 participants now
#mybfio golang contest is a completion of opensource projects written on go.

We have a list of 9 project participants now.

https://mybf.io/contest-list

Deadline ends within 1 week.

If you are opensource developer writing on golang, please join!

The contest will spread a knowledge about your project and you can
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With respect, as a NYC public school parent who served on education councils, the G&T program was neither. It was a fraudulent vehicle for bringing white families into the public school system. It's good that it's over, at least nominally.

In most cases there were no differences in the curricula between G&T and non-G&T, just differences in the skin color of the students.

Over the last decade the DOE has become quite adept at delivering differential learning in classroom, dependent on only one thing- how many adults can be in the classroom at one time. G&T program operation actually detracted from that capability. Again, it is good it is gone.

In terms of the bullshit equality of outcome argument- it's a strawman. Complete garbage. The NYC wants all students to graduate, but meeting students where they are, then enabling differentiated experience and outcome is entirely what the system is designed for, and, better than any other education system in the country, delivers.

In terms of Jordan Peterson- JFC, the best thing I can say is- he is not an education advocate. In terms of philosophy he tells fanciful fictional stories that have nothing to do with reality. Best find other sources for your education about education.

Best wishes.
It's easy to write something with an assumed context that is easily misinterpreted by readers without that context. I think it's unreasonable to interpret that as 'misrepresenting' something unless you can show that the writer knew their audience wouldn't have that context.
That would violate a bunch of treaties. Also, what would stop other countries (or the EU) from doing the same thing?
> When and how will the taxes help you and me?

In the US? On our 65th birthdays. Military spending is big, but Medicare is bigger.
>” We’re becoming the Texas of Europe”

In what way? A ton of businesses are moving to Texas for more favorable tax treatment, fewer regulations, and lower cost of living. Is that a happening with Poland, too?
My kids took that test at ~age 6. My daughter blew the school away with a score they had not seen, while my son bombed it the first time - we were told he agonized over his answers, so, after working with him to hustle and be prepared to make mistakes, he passed it the next time around. Around here, kindergarten generally starts at age 5 - not 4, and the tests were given in first grade. When I grew up, there was no such thing as "gifted and talented" and I don't think I even heart of an AP course until many years later.
How often do people really negotiate PTO? I have been flatly refused the times I have asked about it. It seems to be much more difficult than negotiating salary or other comp. Companies handle those individually so they are used to negotiating on them. PTO is often handled at a departmental or company level and companies can be hesitant to make exceptions for an individual employee.
I have no idea if your figures are correct and I'm not entirely sure what you think was invented 250 years later.

I'm not trying to pretend I have a better theory. I'm only trying to point out that our knowledge of what actually happened is limited and the article could be better written.

I don't know why people here seem to have an issue with those criticisms. (shrug)
If you work in customer service, just don't make fun of your customers. It makes it harder to do your job well.
The American Civil War was over 150 years ago, and yet "the South" is still considered a distinct entity within the US.
I used to use custom friends lists to achieve the same effect (although I've been off Facebook for maybe a year now), I only saw content from explicitly whom I chose to add to those lists.

Now however when I just checked I can't seem to find a way to browse those "custom friend" feeds anymore. They're located under Friends -> Custom Lists but that only takes me to editing them (seemingly without a purpose). Does anyone happen to know if it's possible to actually use (browse using) those lists or if FB has discontinued the functionality?
Ask HN: Have you ever read a tweet that made a meaningful impact on your life?
I'm curious, are there any tweets that are actually valuable and insightful enough to make the whole thing worth spending time on?

Have you ever read a tweet that made a meaningful positive impact on your life?

Can you share some examples of tweets that are actually worth reading?
Such a weird ass.

What type of people want power in the first place?

What type of people want to be held responsible for the entire chimp troupe?

What type of people put their hand up and say, without me things wont work.

Its ALWAYS been the clueless or the crazy.

They get loved and respected for the level of cluelessness and madness happening in their brains. It allows networks of power to prop them up and use them.

So if you aren't either clueless or crazy your brain is definitely going to feel weird if thrust into the spotlight for too long.
How you strengthen your body?
Someday they mite.
Yup... A different liability and legal profile.
What is an overachiever? How much should a person achieve?
What you are talking about is Microsoft in the Balmer years. No focus on delivery, no focus on perfection, churning out half assed products. See where it got them? Lost out on mobile, lost out on Cloud, Playstation is still a better gaming console, etc.

Leaders inspire, letting things slide is bad for the culture of succcess.
And by requiring an Apple Developer Account and associated tooling, they've made them just hard enough to develop that the long tail won't bother porting.
Half the country voted for Trump. A small percentage of those, but still millions of people, voted for him in part because they believed he was going to save them from a satanic ruling class of pedophiles.

"A lot of people did something" is not a solid reason to respect what they did or why they did it.
I'm fairly sure that dead people's estates get liquidated upon death.
I'm still able to create a new list and there it says "Create a list of people so you can easily share with them and see their updates in one place.". Weird.
Furious. I encourage users on Linux distros to file distro bugs about this. I just handled the Gentoo bug report[1]. We can't trust Mozilla upstream at this point to resolve these issues.

The issue wasn't so much that they added this functionality to grub some extra money, the issue was the opt-in happened on our targets without any notification or informed consent.

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/817014
Information Deficit Model
I had a conversation several years back in Silicon Valley with some smart people about "epistemologies" of the classroom. In general, the epistemology there is called "Just in case" where you are hammered with "facts" and tested on them just in case you might need them. I brought up "Just in time", and got a different response: "Just for me".
Also, he is pretty serious about selling 'em trucks. Next up T-nutz!
If your feed is totally empty, Facebook has nowhere to put the ads.
I don't think that's a fair comparison. Your DNA in a database is much different than your DNA needing to be individually targeted to be sampled.
Very good article summarising some achievements of Charles S. Peirce. This is impressive:

> The importance and range of Peirce’s contributions to science, mathematics and philosophy can be appreciated partially by recognising that many of the most important advances in philosophy and science over the past 150 years originated with Peirce: the development of mathematical logic (before and arguably better eventually than Gottlob Frege); the development of semiotics (before and arguably better than Ferdinand de Saussure); the philosophical school of pragmatism (before and arguably better than William James); the modern development of phenomenology (independently of and arguably superior to Edmund Husserl); and the invention of universal grammar with the property of recursion (before and arguably better than Noam Chomsky...).

> Beyond these philosophical contributions, Peirce also made fundamental discoveries in science and mathematics. A few of these are: the shape of the Milky Way galaxy; the first precise measurement of the Earth’s gravity and circumference; one of the most accurate and versatile projections of the 3D globe of the Earth onto 2D space; the chemistry of relations and working out the consequences of the discovery of the electron for the periodic table; the axiomisation of the law of the excluded middle, or Peirce’s Law: ((P→Q)→P)→P); existential graphs and the transformation of mathematics into an (quasi-)empirical component of studies on cognition; one of the first studies of the stellar spectra, particularly the spectral properties of argon; the invention of the then most accurate gravimetric pendulum; the first standardisation of the length of the metre by anchoring it to the length of a wavelength of light (which he figured out via his own experiments in multiple stations around Europe and North America).

I wanted to share a classic dialogue put together by Susan Haack, "We Pragmatists..." Peirce and Rorty in Conversation—using only the philosophers' actual words—contrasting Peirce's pragmatism with Rorty's of ~100 years later. It's like night and day, with Peirce = day! It gives a very good sense of how they talked and their wide differences. And it's very funny.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312041697_We_Pragma...
If you did actually commit, you should be able to find the changes on the reflog

In magit, it's accessable from the log menu

Create a branch, reset it to the badly worded commit hash and then you can try to ammend again.
“Build Back Better”
Send a request to Google for all of your data. It won't be in there.
That's an unlikely counterfactual. Most likely if you don't complain, fewer people are aware it's even a problem and the company would just assume no one cares.
I'm sure Firefox developers read Hacker News, so I'm going to talk here.

I have "Provide Search Suggestions" disabled. All 3 of the options underneath them are disabled, because search suggestions are disabled. This makes sense.

THEN, I click "change settings for other address bar suggestions" and in *THERE* everything is in there, INCLUDING "Contextual suggestions".

What do you think the first disabling of suggestions meant? You're searching without my consent. If I would have consented, it would have been in that first check box. What are you guys doing? What happened to the Firefox I trust and choose over Google to avoid the monoculture?
You certainly know the program better than I do.
But my understanding is that white students are underpresented in G&T, the same as black and latino students.
It's the asian students that are overrepresented. Reflecting their community culture that value academic excellence. I don't see a problem with that.

If your argument was true, that the program is a vehicule to bring white families, then why is it being dominated by asian students?
I use waterfox because I already hat enough of the firefox bullshit. But even there you now have to enable the search bar. And pressing tabulator when inside the address bar does no longer jump to the search bar but directly into the browser windows.

Dark patterns shit all over this. "Oh sure you can reenable the search bar, but go suck a dick if you used tabulator for switching to it"
My grandfather was a HAM radio operator (KB2SX) and ran at least one ham radio group.

My experience with him was that he'd go on nightly, or semi-nightly, and meet virtually with other HAM radio operators.

He wanted me to take a HAM test, but by the time I was at an age that would have been appropriate, there were other technologies emerging such as BBSes, online service providers (Compuserv, Prodigy and AOL), and then later the Internet.

These technologies were so exciting to me, and I am sure that had they existed when my grandfather had started out, he would have used them instead of HAM radio, as for him it was about the socializing and connection.

For those younger than me (43), I imagine that HAM radio has an appeal as a retro technology, but not much else. One can't even transmit encrypted data across it legally, limiting even basic data transmission technology.

This isn't so say that there isn't a part of me that's nostalgic for sitting on my grandfather's lap watching him tune the dials and adjust the glowing meters, but even for someone as middle aged as me, HAM radio was more of a nostalgia technology.

You're also right about the younger folks finding many HAM operators to be curmudgeony. They're protective and can be somewhat elitist, with a high degree of friction (time, energy and cost) to even begin in the hobby, a smart kid who wants to tinker can find more welcoming hobbies.

Heck... telephony technologies are now considered retro! Many kids today have grown up without a landline in their home.
Also what the federal government says.

You can still experiment with and build an encrypted mesh network, but you need different licenses to do so.
Or if you have dual nationality, You could use your other one.

Really though, most embassies will issue travel documentation if your passport is lost without too much difficulty ( it is effectively lost if you cannot get access to it).

If that sailor really wanted to leave, he can get another one from his embassy. This is more power dynamic between employee/ employer , I have seen similar stunts pulled by agents who get foreign workers in middle east.
> managed at the state and local level

Paid for with money raised from ... tax
Having everybody take the time off can be good, but it doesn't achieve the goal of making sure all processes can go as usual while any individual isn't there, as mentioned in your peer comment about banks.
> trouble-makers/unmotivated kids

Are we still talking about four year olds?
If you stay put, you start to believe your own PR. IF you move around you see that most of the things people fixate in aren’t that important or critical, and meanwhile some of the things they refuse to look at are and probably should be fixated on. The apparent differences in priority aren’t necessarily bad or even indicate less concern. They just aren’t as interested in the pet concerns of some verticals that are not universal.

If you’ve been at the same place 5-10 years you have seen only a few rodeos, as it were. Their speculations on how things will play out are based largely on hope, not experience.
What's worse is that even if you have "Search Suggestions" disabled, which I do, then the "other address bar suggestions", which includes "contextual suggestions" *remains enabled*.

This is unacceptable.
I just don't understand what kind of person expects their idioms and mental models to have a literal 1:1 match. If I wanted to say exactly what I'm thinking, I wouldn't be reaching for idioms.
> At least a third of the company quit. That is not something that happens over something “deeply disingenuous”.

You leave out that basecamp gave 6 months of salary to each person quitting. I'd assume that most of those would have quit under those conditions even if there wasn't an incident at all. As we can see here at the Coinbase incident where they didn't give a ton of money basically nobody quit, basecamps case would probably look similar.
Exactly, amateur radio needs to be bandwidth for testing and experimentation not building out long term projects on it - basically just assume someone else is going start using the same frequencies.

Also, my understanding is that the encryption rule isn't really enforced but still prevents mass abuse. Plus if the entire stream is encrypted then you can always claim to be transmitting random data as a public good for random number generation.
Because it's normal in marketing. Most web servers log your whole IP yet people don't freak out about that.