skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ham radio is a hobby around what communication was like back in the day. There used to be no Internet, long-distance telephony was in its infancy, and radio (whether "ham" or official) was literally the only way to communicate in real-time at a distance, and those radios were relatively crude, required lots of knowledge and manual operation because digital logic wasn't advanced enough yet.

Nowadays that is no longer true. Except in very specialized applications, analog radio is not typically used for communication, and digital isn't using manually-operated radios either, it's stacks of dozens of layers that eventually end up transferring IP packets or similar.

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but since ham radio no longer represents how the majority of people communicate today, maybe we shouldn't be holding onto the past and instead focus on how people communicate now? Maybe IP networks should be the future "ham radio", and we should have clubs around these things instead (and existing ham clubs should embrace them, instead of siloed things like digital modes over radio which are innovative but near-useless in real-world usage)?

Even in emergency situations (which is one of the arguments for ham radio), a satellite phone/modem will get you online pretty much anywhere in the world and the only barrier is the equipment, which doesn't seem too different from a ham radio where a good set costs decent money and can't easily be built from scratch and especially not in an emergency situation.

Imagine if ham radio involved into what I described above in which case being a ham could actually give you immediate, real-world benefits to you and your community in working around bad/nonexistent ISPs by building your own infrastructure? This would bring a lot more people into the hobby because those skills allow them to solve actual problems they/their community is facing.

(comment I originally left on a different story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23808659 but I feel is just as relevant here)
Accurate for my experience as well.
Years ago I read a story from a new animator studying with one of the "Nine Old Men" from Disney, considered to be masters of animation. The student asked his teacher what music he listens to while he animates. The teacher roars back something like, 'I'm not smart enough to do two things at the same time!' Unfortunately I cannot locate the book with this story to get the exact quote.
I've told this story to numerous people over the years and every last one of them dismissed it. 'I'm different' or 'actually I'm more focused when I listen to music.' Because additional sensory stimulus somehow allows your brain to dedicate more resources to your primary focus? We are so sure that we are achieving our full potential.
With Hollywood Accounting[1], you make taxable profits transform into untaxable expenses that you pay to yourself for services you rendered to yourself, and Ireland has been a common destination for this sort of money to flow.

Hollywood accounting can take several forms. In one form,
a subsidiary is formed to perform a given activity and the
parent entity will extract money out of the film's revenue
in the form of charges for certain "services". For example,
a film studio has a distribution arm as a sub-entity, which
will then charge the studio a "distribution fee" — essentially,
the studio charging itself a sum it has total control over and
hence control the profitability report of a project.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

Essentially, Apple USA makes billions selling iPhones in the USA, then pays those billions to Apple Ireland for the right to put little Apple logos on iPhones. Likewise, Google USA pays billions in US ad sales profits to Google Ireland for the right to use Google tech for Google search.

When the Irish loophole closes I'm sure they'll think up another "One Weird Trick" to make taxable profits mystically transmute into untaxable expenses.
Warren Spector's quote, for reference:

>"There's a tendency among the press to attribute the creation of a game to a single person," says Warren Spector, creator of Thief and Deus Ex.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2001/11/12/deus-ex-2
Trying to finish a blog post about how different program state spaces are easier or harder to understand. Also working through Concrete Semantics and thinking about building a programming language with some kind of integrated testing / verification.
You make it sound like Facebook engineers are unable to work elsewhere.
Sorry but with the limited time children have, I would rather they spend any available time on practical material like STEM, rather than material of limited rigor pushed by activists. I have nothing against a factual historical education, but we already have social studies for that. I have no doubt these new ethnic studies classes will be used to push controversial, poorly evidenced concepts like “white privilege” and “systemic racism”. The injection of grievance studies into public education is tantamount to turning them into indoctrination centers.
Sure, but $600 sat phones with $100/month (for 60 minutes) plans and $5000 high speed satellite terminals are still out of reach of many people -- the people that can least afford to flee to safety after a disaster. So hams still have a role in coordinating local communication to help communications get outside of the disaster zone.
Of course. Cartels are always about reducing competition. Even if a cartel between countries like OPEC or this agreement. Irland just killed the competition
The bandwidth is not only extremely limited, it’s shared over an enormous range. When you key the mic on a good 80m transmitter, you’re claiming that little slice of spectrum for a million+ square miles.

I think a lot of the new applications of digital modes would avoid conflict by starting off up in the 5 to 10 GHz range and work its way down.
Pandora Papers: is the world’s biggest leak the world’s biggest cover-up?
Probably, but it does seem over the last twenty years there has been real actual effort to close loopholes. It is slow which can be frustrating, but we’re also talking about changing the way many businesses work and quite complex topics which are not always obviously right or wrong.
I don't know if your choice of words was intentional, but if I am developer and you come to confront me - I would also be more aggressive in the communication.

> Every time I try to espouse an issue that I have with the design or architecture

If you start a conversation with "issues that you have", you are going to have a hard time. Always. Starting with "issues that you have" is bad because (a) it assumes that you know more than the developers who have done the work of designing and addressing the trade-offs of the system and went through the actual work of developing the solution, (b) it assumes that your needs are more important than those of other users who are satisfied with the solution and (c) places the burden of solving your issue onto their shoulders while offering nothing in return.

In other words: no one likes a know-it-all.

If you start the conversation with the intent of understanding why things were done in a certain way and why certain design choices were made, you will be more likely to get in an engaging and productive conversation than just showing up with a laundry list of things that you'd like to see "fixed". By asking why instead of "confronting" design choices, you are more likely even to get them to recognize when a choice is sub-optimal.

I follow a good part of the lead members in Brave on Twitter. I've seen a lot of conversations from them with other people. Most if not all of them are working with false assumptions and don't even bother to question themselves. Those that come right away aggressive against them or assuming malice are indeed met with brashness. It might seem rude, but I would probably do the same after fending off the 100th random person on the internet accusing you of things you haven't done or demanding that you do something about the token price.

Those that come with the intent of understanding and assuming good intentions are way more likely to be treated cordially.
Vantablack: It's blacker than black, but where is it being used?
Well, chalk one up for "Virginia politics are stupid and unnecessarily complicated". I just learned that our school "divisions" (not districts like the rest of the country) have no correlation to our municipal structure, but also are incapable of doing their own revenue collection. We still can't afford basic stuff for our schools, despite NoVA being regularly ranked one of the richest areas in the country. Urban schools get about 1% more per student than rural schools from the state. They claim to incorporate cost of living adjustments, but it's clearly not enough if we can't do basic things like hire enough bus drivers.

This bullshit is a vestige of the Civil War when West Virginia split of to be an abolitionist state. I don't understand the fetishization of such "culturally important" (sarcasm) things like municipal structure when what we have is not working. "This hammer was my great, great grandpappies, that he bought from the Sears Robucks Catalog in 1887. Yes, the handle is cracked and the claw can't grip modern nail heads, but by God, it was good enough for him, it'll be good enough for us".
LOL to live with the people that self select to live in a commune with people from THIS SITE?? Of all places?

Sounds like Hell
Can you fit any more FUD in there?

(Downvoted and flagged - Reddit tactics huh? Well, good luck pushing that garbage... anywhere. Contact me if you want better content).
> Consider a Stop sign. It is a red octagon on a post with the letters ‘S-T-O-P’ printed on it.

This is probably why he isn't very well known.

It's this kind of crap which gives philosophy a bad name.
Or giving you a bad cut/service if they disagree. Or, even worse, refusing you service based on ur ideas.
Did anyone else scroll their screen up and down in attempt to get rid of the dust more above the C?
Can you elaborate on these trackers, how they work, and where to purchase? I've been looking for the past couple years for something like this I think.
I don't mean to be curt, but if you really feel that way, nothing's stopping you from renouncing your US citizenship and moving to a developing country with vastly less government (and taxes) such as Afghanistan, the Central African Republican, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, etc. I personally enjoy the current arrangement I have where I pay taxes in exchange for (no offense to anyone) civilization & membership in the wealthiest country globally, but if you feel poorly served as-is no one's forcing you to live under your present government, so I don't quite understand the complaint
No. The claim is false. There is nothing close to "hijacking" going on. They are all very standard, highly parallel molecular mechanisms. I can't help that neither of you have basic understanding of biochemistry.
I wonder how much of the effect is owed to blocking out other stimuli that might be more disruptive?
it is possible to speak without vocal cords, for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language
I think you're missing why people's religion and race matter in the work place. Asking for a day off for religous reasons is bringing religion into the workplace.
Apple still controls the App Store, so Apple can require developers to offer an easy cancellation method for subscriptions that can be purchased from apps in the App Store. Depending the result of the Dutch antitrust decision, Apple might still be able to require developers to offer Apple's payment system alongside any other payment systems, and there would be no problem with that as long as developers are able to offer different price points to offset the fees for each payment system.
The New York blurb seems hilariously off the mark. Well water and septic systems are pretty much the norm around here, and it's solidly suburban to semi-rural. Yeah, NY is strict relative to many states, but it makes it sound like you need some super special variance to have off-grid water and sewage.

Also plenty of people up north have rather lax opinions about code enforcement. Been to many off-grid residences where code enforcement is a quick glance and a tire kick.
He argues for ZoomWorld, so his mileage may vary.
Yeah, if the most positive thing you can claim is "the rest of our Black employees didn't quit" then that is really saying something. I liked how he bragged about improving on some undisclosed metrics though, as though that kind of thing isn't trivial to game or even outright lie about
This is interesting, never saw this article.

I don't get why people struggle so much dealing with black people? Like just be empathetic and assume the best. I guess so many people are just racist. It's just crazy.
Which version of semver are you talking about?

Personally I'm frequently rug pulled by breaking changes in patch updates.

Imo, semver is just a way for lazy devs to break backwards compat and feel ok about it.

Which would be fine if they maintained their old versions, which of course they don't, so what's the point of semver? All the breaking change version change means to me is you've forked your library and left me holding the bag.

I either have to update my code to accommodate your changes or I need to change your code to accommodate security issues.

And fuck me sideways if I have you as a peer dependency.
The newer Baofengs exclude GMRS and FRS i thought?
this is such a great start up opportunity! we can use a search engine for buying land taking into account offgrid laws.
On Mac, hold down the "c" key and a little menu with accented versions (ç, ć, č) appears, with numbers to choose which one. The flip side is that holding down letters or numbers doesn't repeat them on a Mac.
Coinbase (YC S12) just made an abstract deal with ICE
I think there's research on driving.

Listening to music is bad if you're in city traffic and need to use all your attention, but good if you're on a country road and risk just losing focus.
Mac and iOS: hold C down, push Ć.
My apologies. I've since learned that TJ is a Fairfax County School Division school. TJ is smack dab in the middle of Alexandria. I didn't realize how unrelated Virginia's school division system is to its municipal structure. I didn't grow up here, so it seems absurd to have a completely different county's schools in our city.
Usually when you come up with an obvious solution around a problem that no one else has thought of, it's because it's not a solution.

The actual rule would prohibit this since it prohibits: messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning

And I think a "random word service" would also violate: nor may an amateur station transmit one-way communications except as specifically provided in these rules
This isn't a web server, it's the browser. I expect web sites to spy on me, but not my own user agent!
Sometimes. Or you may find that letting the news settle and digest for a week helps sort out what's more relevant.

As an interesting experiment, you can browse some websites in a similar fashion.

Searching HN for highest-rated items, limited to the past week or month, for example:

Top / past week: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...

Top / past month: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...

(Arbitrary time periods can also be specified.)

You can also use the "Front" links to look back in time. I suggesty at least one year, and preferably 5 or 10.

5 years ago today: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2016-10-08

10 years ago today: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2011-10-08

15 years ago today: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2006-10-08

(Time didn't exist back then, you might want to content yourself with 14 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-10-08)

There's no way to automate skipping back 5/10/15 years on the site itself, but a simple shell script would do that:

for i in {5..15..5} do
echo "https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=$( date -d "$i years ago" +%Y-%m-%d )"
done

Feed that to a browser or whatever, as you wish.

Reddit affords a similar capability by specifing a null search for "top" or "best" posts over a week, month, or year. Run that against a subreddit or user. Or a specific search term or URL for that matter.
exactly. analysts are always a step behind engineers when it comes to really understand what data really means and what changes are coming down the line. this always results in delays, broken pipelines ect.
modern tools like dbt make it easy for data producing teams to also own T part.
If you can write a SQL query or a set of SQL queries to do your transformation, then you can use DBT. DBT doesn't do transformation itself rather it helps you manage all the dependencies between your SQL models. Whether you can use SQL depends on your data and database/warehouse functionality. For example, JSON parsing support is pretty good now in many databases and warehouses. If your objects can be represented as JSON, then you could write SQL via DBT to parse the objects into columns and tables.
If it's deleted, then why would you care? It no longer has anything to do with you.
Right. As seen with the ability to get vaccines in the hands of everyone regardless of where they are in the country.
This is why the solution is for a background check to report “ok” for a standard job, but “no” for another type of job based on the crime. Companies can never do it because they open themselves up to lawsuits.
The Irish Times is not a primary source. Try again.

> ... but I recall some claims that the vaccine kills cells.

You are spreading your own ignorance.
Amateur radio is a different beast. A full license permits 400 Watts!

Not that you need it if you are building an Adafruit weather station for your garden. That is to say — and and I say this with the utmost respect to my fellow license holders — actually doing something useful with the spectrum.

A lot of amateur radio culture is more about building your own equipment from scratch and then trying not to cook / kill yourself with it. It’s like an open access drag strip for home made muscle cars, as opposed to testing your hand built recumbent bike on the public streets.
Have you been to Texas? From all my trips there it is a lot like California. Also California is very different once you get out of the big cities, which cover only a small surface of the state.
Then just use a service like Google who are public about using encryption between machines.
If I run an .io website selling services to the UK using AWS servers in Singapore and employ coders in India, where exactly do I generate revenue and profit?

Sounds like this could devolve into record-industry accounting.
Maybe you should learn how to trust people / companies than always being paranoid.
doesn't the zfs diff command mostly cover it? You have snapshots, diffs, and clones which is basically equivalent to commits, diffs, and branches. You're missing commit logs and that's it, right?
> Governments want to tax profits rather than revenues

Yes, but Hollywood Accounting[1] transforms taxable profits into untaxable expenses. (Search this discussion for 'Hollywood Accounting' for a longer post I made.) A revenue tax is more difficult to game with creative accounting methods.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
Informed consent should be coming from a discussion between you and your doctor if you have concerns, not the news or press releases (do you complain that magazine ads for drugs don’t give you proper information?)

You are leaning very heavily on extremely rare reactions and making generalizations about exemptions which aren’t nearly true. Of course there exists unreasonable responses on every level, but existence doesn’t equal a fair review of the situation.
They don't do 4 yr grants anymore. You basically get a recurring 1 yr grant, so your upside now is limited to just that year. It trades risk for upside.

https://blog.coinbase.com/how-coinbase-is-rethinking-its-app...
Note that what is considered "left of center" in America would likely be significantly right of center to a European.
>the answer is usually "use this airflow operator to dump it into GCS and then use this airflow operator to load it into BigQuery"

why not hide these steps behind a yaml file and construct dags from those. devs already are used to writing yaml files for ci, kubernetes ect.
In New York it very much depends on the county in question. The state allows local government quite a lot of authority.
Yes, though still not quite as compelling, because you still have to speak Dutch eg at the playground.
I still use a split address bar and search bar with "Show search suggestions in the address bar" toggled off, so until this version the address bar suggestions were only from bookmarks and history items.
> "The only way someone can be a 10x programmer is if you compare them to 0.1x programmers. Someone who wastes time, doesn’t ask for feedback, doesn’t test their code, doesn’t consider edge cases, etc… We should be far more concerned with keeping 0.1x programmers off our teams than finding the mythical 10x programmer."

I think I would add to that that 0.1x programmers are to some extent a product of their environment. Maybe there are people who are inherently 0.1x programmers and there's nothing anyone can do about it, but I think it's also the case that the local engineering culture can turn people into 0.1x programmers. So, the important thing is to figure out how that happens and don't do it.

Some examples: make people do arbitrary repetitive tasks. Hide information. Make infrastructure changes frequently to the point where people regularly have to ask "how do I do this important job function today?" Create domain-specific languages and don't document them. Use build systems that don't work reliably. Have CI systems that require users to wade through megabytes of errors to find the one line that failed. Invent new words for things, or use old words in creative new ways. Speak in acronyms. Create technical documentation (if at all) that never explains "why". Don't set aside time for training. If a question warrants a one-sentence answer, filibuster for ten minutes to prevent follow-up questions from being asked. If it warrants a ten minute answer, reply with a sentence. Especially if you're in a very different time zone, and every follow-up question adds 24 hours to task completion time. Treat "programming ability" as some immutable attribute that is conferred on developers by completion of a bachelor's degree in a computer-related field, and that these programmers are interchangeable and their skills always current and directly applicable to the task at hand. Create Byzantine labyrinths of web-based tools that none can navigate without first having been shown the way through.
what about meltano/singer
Any specifics I should check out?
> We will reject these apps unless they provide a unique, high-quality experience.

It makes sense. If there’s a crowded market but you’re good and unique they will let you in. Feels fair to me.

I looked around for the site thinking there might a web version. Can’t find anything. All the top hits just return articles about the App Store rejection. I feel Apple made the right choice.
I would sign up tomorrow if this existed.
The compiler is implemented in the language itself.
> Texas at least has the promise of a federal system to reign in its more unpopular legislative instincts, Poland not so much.

That's very weird? Wouldn't the state legislature, being elected by local people be more likely to be popular with local people than the federal government with is largely elected by people outside of Texas?

(Or do you mean 'unpopular' with people outside of Texas?)
I tried to wipe it a few times.
> We will reject these apps unless they provide a unique, high-quality experience.

Apple has a point. Otherwise I would not be seeing tons of Calendar apps on the App Store.

This looks like typical quality over quantity control here. Nothing to see here.
A web browser is essentially a website itself. It already makes web requests to load stuff.