skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different bands have different physical properties.

One of the points of amateur radio is experimentation. Right now the old boys clubs that all ham radio organizations have turned into to have decided that packet networking isn't real ham radio and you shouldn't be able to do it on "their" spectrum.

Apart from talking to satellites, packets and encryption are fine there for some reason.
Iirc, it's mostly not practical to embed gecko anymore. Mozilla stopped maintaining/caring that ability and the best you can realistically do is to just fork Firefox now. Gecko is basically intended to just be part of Firefox nowadays.
https://www.levels.fyi/charts.html

Parent commenter didn't write "easily attained", so it's bad form to quote it. FAANG companies hire new grads, and when they do you can see from the levels.fyi charts that they're paid around $200k/year or a little below.
No. You are mission focused to profit and at the same time you are also serving public good. This is how the society works.

You don’t have to care about any social issues at all to contribute to the society!
Article is from 2019.

Here is the actual paper (which is much more interesting and thorough than the write-up would suggest):

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286741...
Two words: “cha ching!”
All the warehouses I’ve worked on have used ELT more than ETL, going back 20 years or more. I think that at the coalface it’s always been the more common paradigm. It’s just that the people doing it are too busy writing code to write blogs.
Error handling is one area I way prefer in Rust. It's trivial but having a single line "expect" to throw on some additional text to an error if it doesn't need anything else is really nice. In Go even something really simple might have a bunch of three line error checks everywhere and it just doesn't feel nice to me.
Apple rejects developer's horoscope app, says App Store has enough
It's rather tedious. I find it impressive they could fix the jaw. Who cares what material they used.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/506534/microsoft-sales-m...

According to that, Microsoft's budget was 20 billion. I bet quite a bit of that goes towards convincing developers to lock into their ecosystem
Oooh, thanks for pointing that out. I really enjoyed their "On the Metal" podcast while they were running it.
High throughput material discovery is one of the biggest fad in academia that has been draining money for decades. They started with high throughput experiments, then combined it with physics based modelling and now ML.

However not a single industrial relevant material has been created in decades but hundreds of millions of dollars have been wasted.

The trouble is most of them cannot be manufactured at scale because they are some crazy metastable state that can only be achieved at lab scale. Further, when manufacturing at scale, materials will have impurities, defects and the properties of such exotic complex oxides are highly sensitive to such changes.

As a result hundreds to thousands of papers are published every year and nothing happens except the professors getting rich and graduate students graduating either unemployed or going to become software engineers. Another reason to remove the incentives to create PhD from slave labour.
https://www.edvotek.com/303

first hit for
home gfp experiment kit
those element names have no creative attributes, and i would argue those individual element names do not constitute a copyrightable work.

The contents of the page (including the source code) is the copyrighted work.
Their remit is likely going to be much broader than robbery, and will likely become a kind of paralell internet ATF. I have every confidence they will replicate many of the successes ATF is known for.
Companies generally aren’t taxed on revenue.
This really makes me think of https://xkcd.com/927/
He was also using Facebook’s trademarks...

There's a distinct difference between using a trademarked term descriptively vs. in trade. The phrase "for Facebook" is clearly the former.

I'll note that on the Mozilla Firefox Extensions site, there are presently 1,305 results for the term "Facebook", the first of which ... is from Mozilla itself, "Facebook Container", by Mozilla Firefox.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=facebook

The Facebook Container page doesn't even include the usual trademark-infringement-bane I was going to suggest, "'Facebook' is a trademark of Facebook, Inc. Any and all other trademarks are properties of their respective owners."

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/facebook-cont...

Google Play's store doesn't provide the helpful results counts Mozilla's does (perhaps Mozilla could provide Google assistance with online search technology), but does reveal a wealth of third-party entries referencing Facebook.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=facebook

FB's and P&C's action here doesn't pass muster as casual enforcement of trademark claims.

(The prospect of genericising "Facebook" on the basis of this fact ... would be interesting.)

The user-data collection was truly de minimis; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28806696
A lot of their lack of focus predated Brendan Eich's 11 day CEO tenure. By 2014 Firefox had already lost a ton of mindshare and Mozilla was working on their unsuccessful Firefox Phone.
Yeah, in principle it's a great idea. Realistically no rational candidate would believe that the lunch escort has no input.
The most aggressive estimates I've seen are below 1% (maybe around half), which is quite literally a rounding error. Don't get me wrong I agree it's a lot, but it's a drop in the bucket on the global scale.

What about the fact that china is pumping out something like 1/3rd of the world's emissions?

What about excess livestock?

FWIW - I do agree that PoW is not ideal and will largely be phased out, but there are lower hanging fruit with regards to our climate change crisis than cryptocurrencies.
The dollar wasn't a fiat currency in the 30s. The dollar was backed by (and directly convertible to) gold until 1971.
I was breaking a bunch of unstaged changes into two commits, and the part I lost had not been committed.
At least on Monterey, the macOS passwords system preference has import and export password set options built-in. The format is an unencrypted CSV file.
> what happens when all else fails? Ham radio!(preparedness and emergency communications)

BGAN terminals and satellite phones?
My personal laptop has been an Acer-C710 Chromebook for some time now. I bought it because it was inexpensive, upgradable, clearly could run linux, had an Intel (specifically non-ARM) CPU which meant that I could use nixos's binary cache for programs (non-ARM is probably somewhat less problematic today than it was in 2013). I went through several layers of rooting my Chromebook, eventually replacing the BIOS. I upgraded the RAM and (this year) replaced the HD with an SSD.

But my laptop is getting old. The bezel is cracked and the screen cable seems ... ungrounded? Black isn't quite black. Still, I have been hesitant to upgrade to modern, non-upgradable laptops. But a few months ago Graham Christensen posted about running nixos on the frame.work <https://grahamc.com/blog/nixos-on-framework>. And then this guy also seems pretty excited <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rkTgPt3M4k>.

Unlike the Acer Chromebook, the frame.work laptop is not cheap. However, I'm no longer a post-doc and I am in a fortunate position that I can afford to splurge a little. So, ignoring the sunken cost of my recent SDD purchase, I decided to go ahead an place an order back at the beginning of August. The cheaper processor I ordered was shipping in October, and here we are in October.
Ask HN: Does YouTube seem partially down?
Like their account system is not working?

I'm noticing that it is not treating me like a paying user or picking up on my history for recommendations.

It's almost like I'm logged out, except that I can see my account and switch between them.
Someone else brought up planetary orbits as a prerequisite. Is there no other way to work out the laws of gravity? Again, we're talking about 200,000 years.

But yes, there's the larger point that Newton also needed mathematics and other things. And the laws of gravity might not be the perfect example of my point, but my point isn't about Newton or gravity.
The anxiety of nicotine addiction.
Mozilla killed Gecko embedding about 10 years ago to focus on Firefox. They resurrected it just for Android.
The author's point is that more effort should be spent removing negative outliers instead of hunting for elusive positive outliers.
These "doctors" are not up to date with the current science.

Natural immunity does occur but it is extremely variable. Some get an very good response others get almost no immunity. Since testing immunity can only be performed in a research lab, determination of degree on immunity obtained can not easily be measured by a physician in a clinic. Also the Brazil data shows that good portion of people infected by the original variant are re-infected by the gamma variety a few months later.

Vaccines on the other hand provide consistent immunity across the board. They also appear to provide a broad degree of immunity against variants.

Natural infection followed by two doses of the mRNA vaccine appears to provide the ultimate in immunity. They state it provide a consistent degree of antibody titers up to 8 months post vaccination. It also provides extremely broad immunity even neutralizing the first sars-cov virus from 2000s.

It worth remembering that these vaccines are designed to stop severe illness and that they do well. We now are asking them to prevent all illness...something they were never designed for.

The following podcast summarizes the data well. Start at about 4:30 and listen to about 10 minutes.

https://youtu.be/nEB4oxO9F1A

The remainder of the podcast is well worth it also but very dense.

Finally it is worth remembering, that Rand Paul started his own board certification association so he could avoid regulations that require continued upkeep of knowledge. Since we just want medical professionals to practice like they were trained up to 30 or 40 years ago. I guess that is why he is now in the Senate.
The Lambdoma Matrix
Sorry, the way I put it wasn't clear, but that was my point. Only putting "also" to indicate that is an error on my part, it's easy to interpret my statement in the exact opposite way. What I meant to say was:

"Coinbase decided to focus on consensus rather than pure raw technical competence. Companies that try to meet diversity quotas are also focusing on consensus rather than pure raw technical competence. These companies and Coinbase are similar in that way."
I've also used this for a few months. Here's some things that might bite you:

- Minification: The JS code is transpiled at runtime and there's some subtle errors that can occur once you minify your code

- Performance: Each time you pass a JS array into GPU land, it's copying the data into a texture. If you want to do repeated calculations on the same data you should not be passing the arrays in each time because CPU/GPU data transfer will become a performance bottleneck.

- Math.atan2: the implementation is incorrect and I burned a few days because of it. I PR'ed the fix a few months ago but the library maintainer no longer seems active.

It's an awesome library. I write mostly GLSL now, but I still will write the initial algorithm and transpile is using GPU.js and then tweak the output accordingly.
NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid at 15,000 MPH
What Music Is
Should have (2020) in the title
Yeah, I'm familiar with that concept too and actually nearly filed an action against a competitor for it (wish I had, as it was clear cut).

But, my understanding of the standard for that particular tort would make it difficult for FB to prevail. In particular, the two tests that might be hardest to meet are that FB would have to show damages and they would have to show that the developer's conduct led to the breach.

I'm not sure that merely creating a tool qualifies, especially for the latter. The user is not coerced or compelled by the developer to violate his agreement with FB.

Again, IANAL. Just thinking back to legal counsel I've received (and quite possibly misapplied here). Definitely plenty of gray area in civil law.

EDIT: Thinking back to this specific extension, it may be even harder for FB to prevail on tortious interference. The tool merely automates actions that FB makes freely available to its users. And to some extent all access to a site is "programmatic". So, I wonder how this compares to ad blockers or even other built-in browser capabilities that could "programmatically" alter the user experience when accessing FB's site. Really interesting.
Makes sense. Considering the considerable immunosuppressants needed for a transplant, it’s a waste of an organ to put it in an unvaccinated body.
This is a fantastically creative misrepresentation. No one demanded anyone apologize for contributing to a genocidal culture for anything. And yes I know you're referring to the pyramid. It also misses out on plenty of other content too, but that bit was fantastically creative, really.
I still can’t believe that there are so many people supposedly adult enough to drive, vote, manage money, etc that get tricked into some sort of addiction by Facebook algorithms. Really makes you lose faith in democracy.
Develop a life away from work.

Why is this important?

If your life is all work, you’ll lose perspective. Small work issues cause outsized emotional responses. You work extra hours to squeeze marginal improvements because work is your only activity and sole source of self worth.

With other activities (social, physical, intellectual) that engage you, you can deal with the many imperfections of your job more gracefully. You’ll laugh them off. You’ll be able to let go and not obsess over every little thing. It won’t stress you as much.
The term NoSQL is meaningless. It only means that a database is not SQL (d'oh) but people (such as the author of the article) use it as if it meant anything beyond that.

Talking about "NoSQL tradeoffs" implies all non SQL databases share similar features, operational models, use cases, etc, which is simply not true. For example, DynamoDB, Mongo, and Fauna have absolutely nothing in common.
Lots of greenery in this thread
Sounds like might have been your area, out here (west coast) most of the kids were from public school
"the Treaties and the law adopted by the Union on the basis of the Treaties have primacy over the law of Member States, under the conditions laid down by the said case law."

This does not read ambiguously. You asked for a citation, it was given, and now you're ignoring it. Unless you specifically show why this doesn't say what we think it does, you've lost your audience.
Yep, still works. Also does four digits iirc. For extended unicode.
That is a good illustration of the concept of vaccine effectiveness, but assumes infection translates into hospitalization 100% of the times. The real hospitalization rate is 1-5%, though half the country believes it is >50%...
Vidar stealer abuses Mastodon to silently get C2 configuration
Facebook wants you engaged; they don't give a shit what you're engaged with. If me chuckling about a derpy kitten lets them throw ads at my eyeballs, they're all for it.
Lockheed Delivers Laser Weapon for Mounting to Military Gunship
Apple just announced an appeal of the decision.
> If your only offering is “X, but we won’t ban you” then you’re going to collect the dregs of the internet.

Exactly. They’re the only people you have a value proposition for. Everyone else will just use X.
My Dad who's been to the same cardiologist for years, in my smallish town, can't get a timely appointment now. Was told the doctor is swamped with 50+ new patients.
Everyone came on board this agreement. I'm guessing that there is enough wiggle room that low tax jurisdictions can still operate without much problem. Also, I think that defacto the 15% will become a maximum, not a minimum, similar to how posted speed limits are defacto minimums not maximums.
It was on by default for me.
> California pushes 1st US vaccine mandate for schoolchildren

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-educa...
One thing to consider: we clamped down on a lot of those industries when we determined the hard was great and that's why you might not see them in your life as much.
I did this a few years ago to make Facebook boring, unfollowing is not enough you also need to add and follow random people from groups you have no interest in.

Spanish rap groups for example, then like every post by these people.

It worked really well, when ever I went on by habbit there was complete random stuff in a language I didn't understand.

Also try and follow only males for obvious reasons and disable people being able to find you and write to you wall.

This completely broke facebook and broke the habbit.

Over the years of going on once a month I starting getting to know these random people.

This male model from Pakistan who posted duck face photos, nice guy.

I would like something to delete all comments i have ever made, one by one if anyone knows the script.
I wonder how it deals with the lack of a garbage collector in C and C++. I could only find a single paragraph about it in the language reference and it doesn't seem to explain how to free memory in C, or how to deal with circular references in C++.

> Memory management is native to the target language. A garbage collector will be used if available in the target language. Otherwise (in C and C++), objects and arrays are allocated on the stack for maximum performance or on the heap for extra flexibility. Heap allocations use C++ smart pointers.
Interactive map makes it easy to get to the section for a specific state. It even worked on my cheap, dysfunctional phone.
Perfect example of a over-engineered and unusable product.

I worked in a bank which used the later Netscape server.

There was a project that consumed 10+ person-years of effort (easy) and produced nothing.
The laws were disproportionately applied to people of color.
More laws just exacerbate that problem.
Remove their rights to vote, own guns, and prevent them from competing on any playing field, level or not.
Listen to the Mark Fuhrman tapes, get past your unease with his words, and listen to what he says. His job was to do exactly this, as directed by the powers that be.
Adult conversations on these things are so fleeting out here, that everyone triggered on the word he repeated, and not on the fact he was being told what to do.
So how about we stop projecting?
I really had to dig into it to figure that out as well.

> We used the traumatic-film paradigm because it is a well-established prospective experimental tool for investigating intrusive-memory development. In this paradigm... participants are shown short films containing scenes depicting traumatic events. Such films reliably induce intrusions over the following week.
Their cost base is too bloated.

The reason I stopped donating to Mozilla is because they have too many people not doing things I think are important and are paying their executives too much.
I'm not sure Tetris counts as escaping to a new world.
I still don't see private corporations building better public infrastructure.

You get the quality of government you deserve. Remove corruption and regulate lobbying and donations and government money will be spent more effectively.
How could it possibly be more convenient than hooking a radio up to a laptop you like? Is it just a matter of all the software options being bad?
Not web, but another one for .NET is:
https://github.com/migueldeicaza/gui.cs
I've applied to this company twice before. Both times they've cancelled before the sit-down interview / personality quiz.
you can do it using this script : https://gist.github.com/renestalder/c5b77635bfbec8f94d28 , login, go to your news feed settings -> unfollow -> scroll down all the way to the bottom of the list (it won't work unless you do this!), then copy paste the script into the developer console.

UPDATE: I had to run it a few times, somehow even though it logged that it had unfollowed all of the items, there were still ~40 left the 2nd time, 3 the 3rd time, at which point i just unfollowed the remaining friends/pages manually.
'East Germans'? This was in the 80's then?
> Looking at Google trends, there's basically no correlation between Bidens election and "Black Lives Matter".

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

There is a perfect correlation.

> Do you support any group or organization that does policeor criminal justice reform?

It's not the issue here. I am not even trying to say you are wrong about BLM. My point is it's one of those issues where 2 reasonable people can disagree. And employers shouldn't take sides.

> Concretely, you're making an argument from status quo in a conversation about how we change norms.

Strawman fallacy. My only argument is that work environment shouldn't be politicized. Which in turn allow people with different ideologies to work together effectively in a safe non-toxic environment. If you were my co-worker I would refuse to discuss this issue unless we have a very close bond/friendship outside of work and we are comfortable discussing this kind of stuff.

We can effect change through debates, voting, protests, ...
Covid mortality is less than 0.1% for ages younger than 55 years old, and less than 0.0005% for ages younger than 14.

https://twitter.com/kerpen/status/1446202920106668034
It was on by default for a lot of users.
My first impression is that if you need a program to help you unfollow, you seem to have a problem already…
I’m a huge fan of projects like this (and Haxe) that compile to readable code in the target language. I think they should be a standard tool that people reach for whenever they’re writing logic (as opposed to plumbing).

I think they’re challenging to popularize, though, because people already like their favorite language and love all its unique features, while these projects need to be a lowest common denominator by definition.
Amateur radio is indeed about as practically useful as a miniature steam railway*, but that’s not the point.

It is also about as much fun as a miniature steam railway (imho, lots!) and about as variable in popularity, with a lot of overlap with the same kinds of people: grandpas and grandkids.

I find it thrilling to be able to communicate between countries using two bits of consumer electronics and an ionosphere, although I’ve only ever done it using someone else’s WebSDR. I’m glad a tiny fraction of spectrum is left open to actually do this.

*I like the idea of my local Mechanical Engineering Society having delusions of grandeur about laying new track, post hurricane, to deliver insulin.
All this fear mongering is just setting the stage for sale of the spectrum. The hobby is still growing and has been continuously for decades.

https://www.clearskyinstitute.com/ham/stats/index.html

It’s not growing like the Internet, but there isn’t space like the Internet. It’s fixed real estate that can only have so many people on at one time. If you cruise the HF bands in the evening there’s lots of chatter going on, there’s no room for 1000 times as many people.

Yes it could grow faster, yes it could be much much much more welcoming to new people. The industry could support it with cheaper hardware and technology that allows for more tinkering. But if we want make wholesale changes to the regulations, like allowing encryption, it’s going to have to be very well thought out.
They don't know in advance how long the wait will be, and time that has already passed is a sunk cost, so they are stuck waiting "another couple of months" over and over again. There is a survivorship bias in this story because we don't hear about the (presumably much more numerous) sailors in similar situations who got paid after a much shorter wait.
WSL2 works great for me
A U.S. nuclear-powered submarine struck an unidentified object last week