skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the data scientists- what would it take to prove that there is/isn't a statistically significant correlation (not causation) between Mercury retrograde and tech large scale events / SEV1's
I unironically heard/read this from nuts on both the Left and the Right. As if Facebook would risk that much money to take their services offline for 7 hours.
>The trouble with HAM radio is that it isn't that useful anymore. We have amazing cell coverage, wireless broadband just about everywhere and the ability to socialize online.

All insanely prone to failure. Power outage is enough, as cell towers don't have backup or only a very short amount. They also don't work without the backbone infrastructure.
The primary reason I got my license wasn't to talk--something I do very infrequently--but rather I was interested in the technlogy behind shared locations tracking, but without infrastructure requirements. (think all the phone apps that show the location of your friends or family, but without needing a cell provider or cloud server.) The tech is called APRS and usually works at 1200 baud on 2 meter radio, and runs on top of AX.25 packet radio. It grew up more or less at the same time as consumer GPS in the late 90's (though I think it was first specified in the late 80s.

The article delicately hits on one of the biggest things potentially holding amateur radio back in the US (can't speak to other locations)--specifically that there is a strong and vocal contingent in the AR community that is negative, dismissive, and sometimes downright rude to newcomers. My age is somewhere in the middle--younger than most hams I've met, and probably older tham most people here. Fortunately, locally, most of the hams I've met have been very friendly and helpful, but online there is a lot of venom.

Part of it is political--people frequently conflate two interests, say AR and politics, and assume everyone else has the same two conflated interested. While I don't like to discuss politics with people, I'm not interestedin going to a AR meeting or event, and having to spent the whole time hearing people discuss politics. Part is cultural--AR is like a clique where a lot of people who've been in it for 50 years are resistant to people with different uses joining. It was a very long time before people stopped looking down on "no-code" hams--i.e. people who took their licensing exam after the FCC removed the morse code test. I also remember reding an official article on one of the most popular ham forums (not a trash post, but a published article) trashing "maker fairs" because it made him think of "homemaker", and that demeaned what he did.

Again, locally, I've never encountered this kind of attitude, but it is common enough online that I simply don't interact with other hams online. Its not whats interesting to me anyway--I got into it to get offline (I travel in places in my state that are over 100 miles from a cell signal, so infrastructure-free location tracking is great.) But I can see those attitudes poisoning interest from people younger tham me who socialize online and will think that this is the hobby, and walk away because they don't want to be a part of it. I hope I'm wrong, and I hope there are better resources online than what I saw a few years ago when I looked.
It’s literally not subjective. It’s their own land and country. The only way you can treat removing access to it as extortion or blackmail is if you feel you have a legitimate claim to it in which case you are by definition not recognizing their sovereignty.

That’s a position you can(and many countries have) take, but it’s an oxymoron to recognize a countries sovereignty and also expect a claim to their sovereign lands
Same here in King and Snohomish counties last time I checked. The SAR teams have been using repeaters. I agree re better cell coverage for that use case, which would include data that could make SAR teams way more effective by e.g. tracking search team coverage in real-time on a single view shared by the entire response.

A lot of ham culture is around emergency comms, and every now and then it's useful. But a single portable starlink dish absolutely destroys what ham can do. It would allow for e.g. 50 people on a local wifi network all taking comms requests from people in an impacted area, and sharing the same digital 100Mbps link to get those comms requests out. Can even be self serve. Ham requires an operator occupying dedicated spectrum, serving one customer at a time.
> Amateur Radio gives communities a means of long distance communication when all other infrastructure fails.

Starlink and a car battery can do the same thing, though. HAM radio has a future, but it needs to adapt.
You don't need to get too far out into rural areas to find places without "amazing cell coverage", and indeed no cell coverage at all. And anyone that's lived through a disaster (whether hurricane, blizzard, or regional power outage) can tel you that the cell phone network is just not that resilient.

Maybe low earth orbit satellites will make satellite communications ubiquitous through cell phones, but we're not there yet. (The iPhone 13 was rumored to have satellite capability, it did not, but it sounds like it's technologically possible so we could see it in the not too distant future)
'Modern' punctuation isn't about rules, it's about style.
I did a small trial of AVIF (using the AVIF plugin for pillow) with high quality photographs and got much worse results than WEBP. (Much bigger file that looked much worse.)

It could be my encoder sucks, could be I didn’t pick the right settings (command line opts look like the engineer’s console on the original 747). Most of the demos I have seen online with AVIF images are highly compressed images that look awful on close inspection. Maybe you can accept that for video but I can’t for my photographs.

I was disappointed.
True, though in general they try to be a bit honest. They still need to maintain reputation and repeat business is a big part of their clients.

That doesn't mean the slots will be more than 80% payout, but there will be a payout to someone.
> it will ferment all on it's own

Yes. I live on a small farm with lots of wild (I assume) apple trees. We used to have a horse that would only eat the apples on the ground, after they had fermented. You could watch her drunk ass standing there, swaying slightly!

Apparently animals getting drunk on fermented apples is a fairly common thing. Who knew?
FWIW, I just do this by never going to the feed. Ever. I open FB on my messages, check my handful of groups (who I sure wish were on forums, but aren't...) and never see the crack flavoured candy.

Also, a wonderful tool is Stylebot. You can make CSS overrides to hide auto suggestions, "you might need this dopamine rush", "other addicts got addicted to this" and all that crap. Makes reddit actually usable.
Weather - not hot, not cold, not raining all the time
Diversity
Friendly people
Liberal state
Tech industry
But you don't increase profits, what you do is spend that money recklessly on R&D that has a lower ROI than if that money was spent outside the company. However, once taxes are factored in the ROI is better than paying taxes due to an increase in the share price.

So what you incentivize is the misallocation of funds from their most beneficial use outside the organization to something in the organization.
I’m confused, are you saying that the minimum amount of energy in an infrared pulse sufficient to melt a fly’s wings (< 1mm) would necessarily also damage a human eye?

I have to believe there is a threshold value of safety, particularly with IR. You can tell me I’m wrong, but please provide a bit of physics to justify it.
That's lawnmower ageism.
I'll check Firefox again when they get rid of the leeching managing team going from blunder to blunder, and from unrelated to a web browser pursuit to another...
If encryption was legal the commercial sector would take over and fill all available bandwidth. The lack of encryption is what keeps it amateur and not commercial.
I have family there, let me know if I can help.
Perhaps you are unaware, but companies often shift revenue to countries where taxes are lower.

> these narratives sometimes look scandalous when they're actually following tax laws of foreign countries "correctly".

It could be both; nobody said it was illegal. Following the law doesn't make something right - many horrible things are illegal; the law isn't designed as optimal behavior. And in many situations, they write the laws for themselves.

Regardless, clearly they need to pay their share, and their share is more than 1%.
I wonder how much of the ban was from concern of poorly regulated voltage related device damage. Now at least FCC regulations alone protect against the worst because anything that cheap also tends to output significant noise on reserved spectrum(s).
I'm not sure I'm understanding this correctly... Rust libraries are generally composable, so that's not what makes no_std interesting.

I guess the advantage is that it sets a bar that means "can run in a wide range of environments" and it's a standard bar so that everything that's "no_std" can (more or less) run in the same wide range of environments.

But I don't know. A standard bar is nice, but I'm not sure it's really that much of a help.

I just dabble with embedded programming as a hobby, but it doesn't seem to me like non-Rust approaches (I'm thinking of C and Python) are suffering from a lack of composability.
They were quite fun to read at the time.

Here is an old archive link to some:
https://web.archive.org/web/20111223101839/http://thepirateb...
Reality is boring. The drones will be used for surveillance but the death will be delivered by regular firearms. The holocaust was "expensive" enough to justify shipping people into a central location where they are executed as efficiently as possible. What makes people think that a government would be willing to spend $5000 per killed civilian when it has to kill hundreds of millions?
What I want to know is how do we keep making things worse for Facebook?
I could see them considering a risk factor into that pricing. What "normal" person would look to travel this way? Someone with something to hide perhaps? Someone hoping to skirt some of the more rigorous screening of other travel options, specifically regarding their "luggage"?
This is a welcome step, but I'd expect the non-uniformity of accounting and taxation policies around the globe to still leave a huge amount of latitude for suitably sized companies.
The lack of context reltated to what the author wrote is a sin of omission -- because anyone reading a top-level comment that begins with a quote (like this) is, to a first approximation, going to imagine the commenter is responding to the position of the author.
Are corporations people now? Do they have their own special set of rights and privileges like people do?

Ultimately, corporations are groups of people. 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? Why is it necessary to tax money that the corporation would otherwise invest in R&D?
Sure there are. Have you walked into any FAANG office? There are a huge variety of West/East European nationalities and East/Southeast Asians. That's representative of over half the world's population right there. You can probably find an engineer from every single one of the ex-Soviet countries in an NYC Google office.

I suppose by diversity you mean the right kind of diversity then?
'Exactly'
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1446520043102162949?s=20
I imagine there might be other mechanisms for limiting abuse - e.g., limit the traffic that any given call sign can generate. The call signs can help ensure it's non-commercial. Plus, don't people like doing fox hunts?
Byzantine warrior with gold-threaded jaw unearthed in Greece
If you are interested in a more detailed story, listen to this Darknet Diaries interview with one of the co-founders of PirateBay.

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/92/
Reminds me of how many years ago I advised a guy who was being sold a real shit instrument at a musical instruments store that what he's about to buy is a waste of money and he shouldn't buy it. I also explained why that is. Things got heated and I was asked to leave, as well. :-)
This logic is disconnected from reality:

* There is no reasonable way to pinpoint the cause of a covid infection to a single person.

* There is no reasonable assumption that an unvaccinated person is infected with covid at all times.

* There is no reasonable assumption that only unvaccinated persons can transmit covid.
> I've only read it in Sapiens by YN Harari, and it sounded like a ridiculous idea written to provoke thought, not an actual opinion. "Yes, hunter-gatherers could starve on a bad year, and they sometimes got eaten by tigers, but look at how un-alienated they were!"

The argument I saw put more emphasis on things like nutritional deficiencies after the switch [1], reflected in average male height going from 5'9" to 5'3". Obviously in the long run agriculture became very efficient, but he makes a reasonable case that in the short run individual quality of life went downhill, with the main advantage being reaching higher population densities before being at the limit of the food supply, and so winning any conflicts with hunter-gatherer societies.

[1] http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html
Is the language barrier really an issue when you have nations like Germany where half the population speaks english? When you consider knowledge worker germans I wouldn't be surprised if this jumps up to U.S. proportions where 78% of the population speaks english.
> We should be far more focused on avoiding 0.1x programmers than finding 10x programmers

I disagree here. A 10x programmer (or whatever other metric you want to use) brings a high level vision and uses that to turn around things faster like building Dynamics UIs, automation, or other tools.
Check out LoRa.
The crucial difference is lack of a right of way. The thing which creates an actual monopoly instead of the language degradation of monopoly to mean "But it is big and I don't like it!".
You should ask about vacation and sick leave both, not generic PTO. The two can be very different, or the same thing.

I get vacation that I'm required to take every year. I have unlimited sick leave - but I actually have to be sick to use it (going to the dentist for a regular checkup counts as sick though)
It will be useful (and popular) again when SHTF...
Top third of a page has a login/sign-up section. Which means what I'm looking for isn't immediately visible (phone number/menu). And having been to FB and had issues before I no longer longer even click the links. To be honest I can't remember the last time I saw a FB link in my Google search results, it's usually a link someone has sent me
>In the US, however, public health officials are unequivocal in their approach: people are categorized as either vaccinated or unvaccinated, regardless of prior infection. It's an approach with many strengths, including robust scientific data supporting vaccination for people who have recovered. That data—which we'll get into below—has consistently shown that immune responses from natural infections are extremely variable, thus unreliable.

It's easier to prove this with data when multi-billion dollar industries sell vaccines, domestically and globally...
yeah lets all spend our lives perfecting our social signalling rather than working on you know the actual content
How do you know whether Joe Blow H6F5KY is sending out personal messages to his wife from work, or broadcasting orders to his fleet of delivery drivers?
I’m pretty sure it isn’t meant as a legal argument.

What entitles me to control of my computer? “My computer is mine, and you cannot have it.”.

That being said, I’m somewhat more open to the validity of restrictions for how to interact with the server.

If someone e.g. is running an MMO with e.g. in-game items with real money value, and someone else is like, distributing cheats to get these items immediately, it seems fair that the MMO owner should be able to make them stop (though, like, ideally their game would just be secure?)

But if users are permitted to interact with the server in a particular way, I see no reason to allow requiring that users actually touch their mouse and keyboard while doing things they are allowed to do using their mouse and keyboard.
I do. And I live on Orcas Island, so lets use that as an example. We have repeaters on Mt Constitution which is 2300 ft. I live right next to it and I'm in shadow for repeater coverage. When we hike the lakes in the area, we also can't see the repeater, or each other thanks to topography. HF gear is too bulky to take with - even the QRP gear, and who has time to throw an antenna over a tree.

Trust me, I want to believe. But the only practical use that my wife (KF1J) and me (WT1J) have for our ham gear is in the rare case where I'm on the boat far away from her and out of cell coverage and need to check in via the HF bands. I'm almost never away from cell coverage. For transoceanic stuff, that is still a common case, but it will soon be better served by portable global internet.
Weren't "ads" included in 92 already? And what "tracking" do you mean?
Blavatsky was an anti racist. She deliberately tried to integrate wisdom from all sources, seeing common truths. nazism that’s nonsense. Read original work, please.

Even in the first article you cite, it says: The first aim of the Theosophical Society she founded is "To form a nucleus of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity, without distinction of race, creed, sex, caste or colour”

That’s pretty chill for 1870.
Why not just turn off "Contextual suggestions"? Using unpatched version of browser is very risky these days. Or at least use Firefox ESR, that receives security patches, but lags on features.
Directly, it usually it leads to poor working conditions when you have non-residential workers, especially ones in a quasi-legal status.

For factories, you sometimes have the problem of the factory shutting down after the locals become dependent on it.

For migrant working, it's hard on the children of the family and it causes tension between the families not participating.

Philosophically, one could argue it's exploitation and is very close to slavery except the small amount of pay. Until this type of work is extinct I don't think one can morally campaign for UBI can you?

Currently this type of work is apparently necessary so we've accepted that the system cannot either pay the more wealthy citizen's wage nor up the wage of the foreign workers.

Is there a demand to up the wage of these non-represented workers that make far below minimum wage?

Is there a demand to up the wage of minimal wage for citizens and are the foreign workers mentioned?

Is there a demand for UBI for citizens to not work at all while foreign workers pick up the slack?
I got my General at age 14. I sat in the dark every night in my bedroom, which my grandmother had taken over in her (fatal) illness, to do CW practice.

Nostalgia? Yeah, I'm afraid so. Most of the "conversations" were just reciting what equipment we were using, and how good our signal was for the other side. That stuff IS pretty outdated. There was a blind man down the block who was really into ham radio, and he had Braille on his equipment. He was very helpful to me.

Emergency communications are a valid use case, which the younger generation seems to have recognized. But the thrill of working a station on the other side of the world? Not that much.
The bandwidth is abysmal, IIRC.
Streisand effect in action. Installing extension now. Thanks FB legal team!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
I think you're thinking of the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh, released in spring 1997 a few months before Steve Jobs came back as CEO. He reportedly hated the computer[1] and canceled it soon after he came back[2].

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2009-03-20-remembering-the-tam.html

[2] https://www.fastcompany.com/3066213/the-one-jony-ive-compute...
According to my napkin math it would cost 1.5 trillion USD to kill every American with drones and I am already assuming very cheap and capable ones, that you deploy them near the target and that the target is incapable of defending itself. The cost of deployment itself isn't even included. Nuclear weapons are very cheap in comparison.
Side note: We use Hughes Satellite internet when camping in BLM land and it works great. The only down-side is that the dish is almost 1 meter and takes up my entire truck bed. It takes 15 mins to point at the bird, which isn't a biggie. But the propagation delay is a killer. Around 900ms.

Can't wait for RV Starlink!!
Well sure! But given that it’s so important why reserve it for amateurs? Why isn’t a spectrum dedicated for use by police, fire, emergency response, and local governments who would be required to have the equipment on site and at least one person on staff trained to use it?

And then if you’re not within some reasonable distance to a HAM operator then you as a civilian can apply for a license so you have a way to reach emergency services.

Like this seems like a self defeating argument that HAM is crucial for emergency situations because if I agreed with you the logical thing to do would be to take it away.
I've considered places like that - but none would offer me 5x market pay. If they would pay me 5x what I'm worth - I can save the extra for 5 years and then retire.

I'm not sure if I'd take such a job if it was offered, but at least it would be an interesting offer.
Right, but could we relicense a place whose license lapsed, if they didn't start physically decomissioning it?
> Are corporations people now? Do they have their own special set of rights and privileges like people do?

Yes, that is why the legal structure exists: They've always been 'fictional persons'. That's what a corporation is: A separate entity where money can be pooled and personal liability (and taxes) limited, with it its own rights and privileges. It's fundamental to a corporation.

> Ultimately, corporations are groups of people. 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? Why is it necessary to tax money that the corporation would otherwise invest in R&D?

That's called a partnership, and you are free to setup your business in that way. I'd talk to a lawyer first; there might be a reason that every major business is setup as a corporation - there must be something they like about it.

Why must I personally pay taxes on money I'd use to invest in other things? All money in the economy is productive, yet we must tax something. Why does the corporation get off free while, requiring me to pay more?
yeah I don't want encryption on the amateur bands.
Ha ha. Streisand Effect!
Because Firefox 92 is the last Firefox version I'll use. Looking for a better alternative as we speak.
While living overseas, I had the option of postal banking and commercial.

My employer had a relationship with the commercial bank, vouched for me, and generally made it easy. Had I used the postal bank I would have had to jump through more hoops, bring a translator at every visit, and wouldn’t have had access to all the same services.
> The only problem is Facebook is huge and is willing to drag out lawsuits they won't win just to destroy people's lives because they can afford to hold out much longer than everyone else.

There is no certainty in the legal system, they could very well win even if they are in the wrong. More so when they can employ an army of lawyers and put economic pressure on the system.