skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is something weird going on here. Is this a turf battle between FCC and FAA? Does FAA not really have tech experts anymore?

This process has been going since 2011, with lots of input from stakeholders (the usual slow govt process). The FCC carefully studies interference before opening a band up.

The guard band is absolutely ridiculous at 220Mhz - I thought this was a typo when I saw it. Looking at Boeing comments, Boeing had requested a max guard band of 110Mhz and the FCC doubled that.

We have 30 - 40 countries already operating mobile services in this band. I haven't heard of credible reports of interference.

Finally, longstanding RF rules require that your RF equipment operate in its assigned band. The fault here, if any, lies with airlines and aircraft mfgs to update their equipment if needed. That said, I doubt it's needed.

So seriously, there is some weird FAA stuff going on now.

We wonder why the US infrastructure costs so much. Instead of doing some tests in the years that this was in the cards, the FAA is now throwing up all sorts of roadblocks, just as biden gets ready to spend $1.2 trillion on infrastructure.

Seriously, if this is a real issue, have every airline land near a test deployment of C-band, and figure out which altimeters are so pathetic they need a 200Mhz guard band.
> Only if you ignore unintended consequences

Some people seem to think the hand-waved threat of "unintended consequences" should be enough to kill any policy they happen to dislike. It's not.

I'm tired of the broken record fearmongering about unintended consequences, especially when it's paired (as it always is) with no constructive alternative to address the problem in question. It's an unpersuasive attempt at preventing improvement to the status quo.
Ordering by appearance also seems to be common.
> I do. But no one hyped Java as the Silver Bullet or the Holy Grail.

Well Sun did actually, apparently Applets were going to change everything.
Surely this huge company with lots of people, where most people didn’t ask to buy a new company, is doing nothing but sitting around waiting for this guy to give them some work??
What economic damage can be done in the interval between a private key being accessed by a criminal and the key being revoked?

Depends on the systems connected to the private key of course, but billions per incident are certainly possible in some cases.

Even if this is just private chat on messenger platforms rather than 2FA or HTTPS, imagine how blackmailers would respond to getting all the nudes, the drunk confessions, the adultery, from 30 minutes access to all of the 10th most popular chat app in your country.
Source code and no BLOBs.
I know, I learned ancient greek in school, the history and writing was a large part of that. Most (I'd guess > 95%) of the Greeks weren't able to recite the Illiad if I remember that correctly, oral tradition or not. Even the best educated of them wouldn't really have been able to do so. They were familiar with the content, of course, just like a lot of people in what we consider the West are familiar with what the bible is about.
But I'd be happy to be proven wrong about that, school was a long time ago :)
This is a very well studied field, just do a Google search
I think if I'd have thought of these expenses as "buying physical fitness" I would have spent more. Thanks for the perspective!
No one is saying awful things haven't happened. It's just that humans, no matter how logical they are, still respond emotionally to awful things. They're awful, and it'll be hard for us, and to be honest that makes a lot of people really scared for themselves or their kids. I don't know many people making the argument that humans won't survive the next 30 years
Hi folks! I'm one of Tuple's cofounders. Happy to hear any feedback or answer questions :)
I don't know much about OCaml, only Scala and Cats Effect/ZIO/Monix, but would appreciate if I could get a gist of what Multicore OCaml brings to the table.

Is there somebody who's familiar with both worlds and could compare them and explain how Multicore OCaml (and possibly the new effect system) work?

Thanks in advance!
For 2.5GbE, this became very much not the case.

> Use Intel if you want working hardware

Sadly Intel totally dropped the ball on this.

i225-V (Foxville) NIC early steppings were awful. And no driver can fix that, it required Intel to produce a new stepping... countless motherboards are affected by that one...

Realtek NICs are fine at this point in time.
But for one crucial detail: Gears wasn't set in South West England.

I can see why. It's a bit... understated.
Here you can find many FOSS utilities:
https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps
Also, check r/apphookup on reddit for discounts (every day there’s a couple iOS apps that are made free and they’re often compatible with the Mac too thanks to Catalyst). If you have an iPhone you can use the Pager app and set monitors for the subreddit to receive notifications.

Eventually you can pay for a SetApp subscription (10 whatever your value is + 3 for any additional device).
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Yes, not much interesting there. I became a developer on the side while doing support and then switched teams. I think pretty much every dev should do ongoing stints as support to understand the clients needs

It gave me a great foundation of understanding the clients mindset. There basically is no "they are doing it wrong" it means it was designed wrong
Sometimes I try to imagine living in the past or far future and I can’t help but have a feeling of “Oh dear lord I’m lucky to be a working age adult in _this_ particular moment of human history”

The far future an individual human is perhaps unlikely to be able to contribute much - perhaps as you say, we’ve reached a plateau of development

And in the past individuals had less mobility to contribute to what they wanted

But right now we’re in the middle of an exponential explosion of development and we can’t get enough smart motivated people to power it

So right now it’s possible to get involved in so many exciting projects and make a decent contribution - including making humans multi-planetary if that is your dream
Man, unvarnished, lacking agenda---besides the stroking of one's ego---and blunt communication: I missed you so.

I agree with the sentiment. Being an "adult" is about restrictions, limits, boundaries, and confines; you can't just willy-nilly do whatever you feel like. You must now realize and accept that we all bend the knee to something. We are not immortal gods, free from all consequence, but merely ants allowed to live by the systems we inhabit.

Perhaps the most authentic post I've seen on this entire site in a long time.
When you say "is this the best management can do", I believe you are thinking about it in the wrong terms. It's a trade off. Almost all these decisions are trade offs and there isn't a strictly better option available. I read most of the explanations here pointing to that trade off and understanding it.

Let's assume for a minute the poster has joined google. Do you want some random person changing code in a system used to deploy applications? No. That same code deploys Google Search. That thing pumps out over $50 bill a qtr of high margin revenue.

The process described could be at Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Apple. These are Fortune 500 companies and while they will die eventually, it isn't going to be in any time soon and it isn't going to be because the team working on internal infra doesn't move fast enough.
Plural - lives and deaths - were they parallel, or ... chained?
It seems like you're still assuming the hard part, ensuring that isort etc. Are installed and have the same configuration (.rc files).
OpenWrt probably has to do everything through the CPU. Not hardware accelerated like in the stock firmware.
I don't see anything on this list I can't already do in Emacs with support from a few external tools. I would not pay for your text editor.
The freedom argument immediately falls apart when asked to define
"computer." Stallman appeared to be fine with his TI-30, but not the
Xerox printer driver at CSAIL. What would he think of the flight
control system of the plane he boarded for his all-expenses paid talk in
Redmond?
> while I cannot get how hardware can die from install different "driver"

There are many ways that could happen. For instance, the software could configure as an output a pin which, on that particular board, is hard-wired to a power rail; when the opposite value is set as the output (low when the pin is hard-wired to power, or high when the pin is hard-wired to ground) it would be a short-circuit. Or the software could configure a programmable voltage regulator to output a voltage which is higher than the maximum allowed voltage for one of the chips on that power rail. Or the software could configure more than one chip on a shared bus to output opposite values at the same time (again a short circuit, unless it's something like an open-collector bus). Or it could program invalid values on one-time-programmable antifuses, for instance setting the chip to use an external clock which doesn't exist. Or it could write an invalid program to the bootloader (for instance, it might be expecting memory to reside at a different address, so it always crashes) and there's no recovery method other than externally flashing the NAND (that one is technically a "soft" brick, but most people wouldn't be able to recover from it). And so on.
They are upstream nowadays.

Supported mainline by the r8169 driver.
> I doubt FAO is talking about the upper classes eating Octopus or Lobster in some restaurant

I see. So the problem is that at this moment, somewhere, a rich could be eating well and having a lot of fun... and this is unacceptable and outrageous for some reason.

Or that you want to play the envy card, and convince us to start a revolution? Send us to take the capitol dressed as captain shrimpmurica, Qmejillon, or something?.

I don't think so.

Bad news for you. I'm adult, and not impressed by such dumb attempts of emotional manipulation. In your little world only royals eat octopus and lobsters? Really? You obviously never has been in a Mediterranean country. Or in Southern Asia. Or in South America.
I don't get it. What difference does it make if US delays roll out when many other countries are going ahead already? It's not like Boeing and Airbus planes don't operate in China, for example.
I aggree that the situation the author describes is unacceptable.

But I am wondering why the author does not value his personal time. I can‘t help but think of opportunity costs. He spends a lot of time writing this article, reverse engineering backups and whatnot instead of shelling a hundred dollars to get a new device? I see this pattern so often in the tech world.
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Military training will suck the fun out of pretty much anything. I've been on both sides and can honestly say I enjoy shooting a .22 with my kids way more than an automatic weapon in the Army.

And it doesn't have to be about killing. We play shooting like people play darts. Hit the target for fun.
I've always wondered myself. Maybe it's because it's mostly useful for analytical workloads instead of operational ones.

Redshift, famously based off Postgres, chose to implement it
I love it until it stovepipes again.
You gotta pay the upline!
There are two preconditions for performing the analysis the same way. You need a standardized set of roles between companies. And you need a corpus of existing org-charts. Between those two, you could compute the "most common" org hierarchy. It actually would be interesting just to understand how how common titles align across firms, even independent of hierarchical structure.
Eero seems like a company which makes simple, plug and play mesh routers and doesn't seem to pull anything funny with their equipment.
What class are "generic" objects and what would be a typical representative? ;)
The roundrects give the design a deep kind of uncanny valley effect for me. They suggest some kind of human characteristic, either a hooded face or an orifice of some type, depending on the angle that you look at the building. From street level (e.g., your first photograph), it's like a series of six hooded figures, with another six hooded figures towering over those figures or standing on their backs.
The whole post is meant to be tongue-in-cheek. I doubt people really want:

> - pillboxes that shove politics down your throat.
can you post the emails?
I put it to you that (although amateur) "it won't work and may cause the listed side effects" is an entirely reasonable to spout it on the internet. You may be misinterpreting my comment.

This isn't a conflict situation and there is no obvious downside for anyone. The doctor isn't giving in to anything. The family is making a stupid request, yes. No skin off the doctors nose to grant it though and if it'll make them happier he may as well. If he thinks it is significantly harmful then he needs to make that argument instead of dismissing them.
Ah, except for capital gains taxes and other transaction costs.
> Shooting is just another skill you practice in order to kill.

True if you are a solider. Not so for most other people.
> But I am wondering why the author does not value his personal time.

Maybe, because it is fun reverse engineering stuff?
Oddly,

The article seems to have forgotten to say what is/are the things one should blame other than two sentences:

- We must work to reduce crime. Investments in the social safety net — providing safety for all — goes far.

- We should be focusing resources on opportunists who intentionally seek out to commit these crimes

but aren't the under-privileged and the opportunists already the ones being blamed? If it is not these groups, what groups are being incorrectly blamed?
Oh, please tell me that machine will break Bitcoin, so I won't have to listen to these religious crypto people anymore!
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There’s a great piece of Ghostbusters fanfic about this building: NYNEX, Embedded Angel of New York City

https://www.bldgblog.com/2009/06/nynex-embedded-angel-of-new...
Can someone with insight into radio technology explain this?

> The 5G network deployment in the U.S. starting on December 5 is in the 3700 to 3800-MHz bands then later in the 3700 to 3980-MHz bands. Radio altimeters use the 4200 to 4400-MHz band. [1].

Are these not sufficiently separated? Can this not be tested easily, by blasting 5G frequencies at a bunch of different planes in test flights? They've had like a decade to do this; I'd expect something more concrete then "concerns about potential interference" at this point.

[1] https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2021-1...
>[0]: https://www.gl-inet.com/

I just checked out their site and their offerings look underwhelming. Their top of the range home router costs $90 and supports 802.11ax... but only at 1200Mb/s. You could buy a mid-range 802.11ac router with similar speeds, made by ASUS years ago, on sale. I guess you could argue "Openwrt" is worth the premium, but ASUS routers have asus-merlin for open firmware.
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For anyone interested in the history of NeXT, I highly recommend Randall Stross's "Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing."[0] (And I regret that I may have personally had some role in the current outsized prices of used copies -- my apologies!) We also had a really interesting Twitter Spaces discussion of both the book -- and on NeXT more generally.[1]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/226316.Steve_Jobs_the...

[1] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/twitter-spaces/blob/master/...
Omicron Post #8
> Auto-completion is no doubt a large part of what's enabled your AbstractBeanFactoryProviderImpl to get those 33 methods in the first place. Which is a big part of my point, autocompletion shapes the way you think about code, shapes how you write code.

Sure, but that doesn't necessarily make it better or worse. People have written horrible code without auto completion, just like they have written horrible code with auto completion. I'm not convinced that you just magically get better at thinking by making your life harder and typing more for no real reason.

> There are also a lot of examples of functions that, by name alone, do not do what they seem to do. That shouldn't be, you might say. But even in the face of that objection, they do exist. It would be very easy to jump to the conclusion that for example "Boolean Boolean.getBoolean(String)" parsed the string and returned its boolean equivalent.

And not having auto complete doesn't help with that at all. Auto complete MIGHT also include commentary for the function and explain what it does (if that commentary exists in the first place) and at least help with the issue.
That last point was so infuriating. Was home visiting family a while back and helped them set up their new TP-Link network. Reluctantly installed the management app on a device of mine, and made my family member admin with full permissions (or so I thought).

Only after I left town did we realize I'd have to hand them my account to actually give them the admin rights.
Got rid of Ubiquiti and the breach was just a footprint. Personally I'm really happy with Mikrotik. I do not recommend it if networking is not your thing and you just want some plug and play. So far I love it, wifi performance is better to me than unifi but that has many dimensions (I care most about reliability and low latency), plus it allowed me to have 10Gbe at a reasonable price.

It's still closed source, but if you're a bit paranoid then OpenWRT does not solve your problems (re some other comment). Switch chips are computers on their own and you have no control over them. I would be really really surprised if they don't have tons of adventures in them. Reacting to magic packets or even something that may not be visible to L3 sniffer seems trivial to implement in ASIC. Firmware of network cards is also something outside your control.

Long story short, I would suggest starting to treat your local network as if it was public Internet. E2E, firewalls, honeypots (obscure ones) and backups. I mean, if you care, perfectly fine not to, life's short.
I had autocomplete more in mind.
Its not the same 5G in the us. Its the 5 grapefruit wavelength standard. If you measure them differently, different standards may apply.
Old servers make killer workstations, so perhaps base your specs around that. They often support far more memory and better CPU options than anything else.

Having said that, my 2nd programming workstation is an older gaming laptop (an Acer Nitro) - core i7, 32gb of memory, two SSDs. It's not quite the monster that my main machine is (a truly ancient HPE deskside server with dual xeons and 96Gb of memory) but it's pretty darn fast. The server is faster though, especially if you have 3 IDE's running (debugging an IOT project) and a couple of VMs to mimic your deployment scenario.
Functionally, I guess the only advantage that the em-dash has is that it fails loudly and miserably when nested. For example:

Parentheticals -- already a bad -- although sometimes unavoidable -- habit of mine -- should never be nested.

Completely incomprehensible.

Parentheticals (already a bad (although sometimes unavoidable) habit of mine) should never be nested.

Dangerously comprehensible.

However, em-dashes do make the reading voice in my head change over to an old-timey radio announcer so that is cool.
No, that is not what I am claiming. If you read the article, the author claims that the 2 unused networks are a source of interference. I'm simply claiming that a busy or utilized hotspot will be a much larger source of potential interference than an unused network doing nothing but broadcasting a few beacon frames every few ms.

Your power calculation is only based on the power of the broadcasting signal, not evaluating the electrical load on the router to do so or to process received signals and process traffic (performing NAT, encapsulation, etc.) The article I linked you to clearly states this

>According to Speedify’s testing, the router draws 0.14 amps when idle and 0.22 amps when loaded. By the company’s calculations, this comes out to roughly $23 per year at mid-Atlantic power rates
For those unaware, jackfruits are huge. They're usually sold in quarters or eighths in US supermarkets. That's already plenty of jackfruit. Then you have to pick out the egg-sized seeds, which has the feeling of performing a C-section. Afterwards, the meat is mild and tasty.
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While we're talking routers I'll plug Mikrotik. Some basic knowledge of the Linux networking stack is required so they're not great for a general user, but for ~$50 I got a device that handles my setup with ease (Ipv4 over PPPoE and IPv6 over 6rd) and I'm seeing throughput significantly higher than my previous router which was a Zotac mini computer running pfsense. If you are more toward the power user / networking nerd end of the spectrum I'd recommend Mikrotik.
Since you mentioned using IntelliJ, I can't resist asking the question: Have you played with Scala too? If yes, how would you compare OCaml to it?
On the flip side, I don’t think it’s pricey, $25 per user, per month for something that will make developers more efficient is well worth it. Sent to my Tech Lead to see if he wants to sign up.
> "Right of repair" being focused on hardware is a neat little trick to enforce the illusion that changing software is beyond your rights as a consumer.

Is it a trick, or just limited imagination?

My impression is that "right of repair" came from mechanically-minded people seeking to maintain their traditional ability to repair physical devices in the face of corporate hostility (e.g. farmers vs. John Deere).

> Yes, you can fix the antenna when it breaks, and focus on how hard the fight was to get the right to fix the hardware you own... which you don't own as long as the company uses software to control what the hardware can and cannot do. But you sure physically own those mostly-useless atoms real good!

This seems more of software-centric Free Software attitude, which is not a place someone with mechanical skills but not very strong software skills is likely to arrive at themselves.
But compared to France, Germany's energy sector is much more diversified with the EEX as bonus. The pro-nuclear argument falls flat here by example as building new reactors takes too long to fight global warming and is much more expensive than investing into renewables. Which is what Germany does and will do even more with the new government. They'll also phase out coal completely. There is a law for that and it will probably even happen earlier with the new Government.

It won't happen earlier with nuclear kept alive and it wouldn't ever have happened as the reason for keeping coal alive is primary those jobs which get lost in already troubled regions.

Bringing up Germany in the nuclear debate is ridiculous. There is no useful argument for nuclear there but it still comes up over and over again. The main reason for that is Michael Shellenbergers Astro-Turf campaign which got loose on social media and which lead to hordes of knowing and not knowing participants who parrot those false and easy to disprove phrases which got prepared by Shellenberger and his "Institute". Not even HN is safe.

They actually were early adopters. As they often are.
Ubiquiti was nice. But updates were horrible.

If there is a power outage, or cloud key gets restarted without shutting down, database gets corrupted. None of the other hardware - microtik, ruckus, Aruba instant or OpenWrt - has that issue. Ubiquiti added a battery to new cloud key to fix the issue.

I moved my hotel's wifi to Ruckus & another to Aruba instant on. It's been more than 12 months, and everything is working without any issue.