skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forgetting the differences between TX and RX, a loop antenna is a transformer and works on a different principle from what most muggles think of as an antenna. The "radio" part of a wave is one half E-field, the other half of the wave is the H-field or the magnetic component of the wave. What you think of as frequency is the EMF field resonating between the E and H fields. An E-field antenna is what most people think of as a "normal antenna" and it resonates with the E-field.

However you can just as easily resonate and capture the H-field or magnetic component of an EMF signal. A loop antenna is half of a transformer and it freely resonates with EMF that it comes in contact with. The tuning capacitor if your AM radio tunes the loop to resonate with the H-field. Loop antennas have different characteristics from E-field antennas, one of which is the ability to be much more compact for mediumwave and shortwave signals. This is why loop-bar antennas are used for AM radios and not much else in everyday life.

http://www.emagtech.com/wiki/index.php/File:EM_wave.png
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMpEeag7kkM ("APL Flashback: 1965 - The "Hopkins Beast" Mobile Automaton
", taken from the 2nd external link in the Wikipedia article, of the Mod II)

also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szGFt28BiBY ("APL Flashback: 1964 - "Ferdinand" the Mobile Automaton", a similar device)
> I've never had to debug corrupted memory

You're lucky! When OpenJDK was still closed-sourced Hotspot from Sun, we have chased bugs that Sun confirmed was a defect on how Hotspot handle memory (and this is on a ECC'd system of course), although these days I can't remind of anything remotely related.

> or how a use after free bug let people exfiltrate data.

Technically you're just outsourcing it :)
Seconding this recommendation heartily!

"Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking"

It's surprisingly relevant to what folks like us go through, and how we relate to our creations, intangible though they might be (at least if you're purely in software).
"How did you go broke?"

"Slowly at first, then all at once."
I find it inconsistent to have it for some public methods and not for others. I guess you could add a (!) depending on the context:

// function to get the recipes (!)
function getRecipes()

Or just document what recipes actually mean within the application context.
Even if you believe that Facebook, whatsapp, insta, quest, etc are a new negative they there can still be a subset of people who they offer utility to.
Thank you eesmith for sharing this. That was a wonderful story I would have never heard of if not for you! For others that are interested I did find the second part (The Story of Heart's Desire [0]) available online.

[0]: https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20170627
Many FB datacenters use evaporative cooling systems rather than traditional A/C, basically spraying water into the incoming air supply to cool it below outdoor ambient temperatures. The hotter it is outside, the more water is needed to cool the air, trading temperature for humidity. But this water can't easily be recaptured without using significantly more energy than normal A/C, so the evaporated water is exhausted as part of the hot air from the DC aisles.
> most of my social activity occurs on Discord.

Explain like I’m 60? How do you use it?
I appreciate this, thank you.
The ethanol with methanol additive ("Denatured Alcohol") is a tax issue as well. Government wants to tax consumed ethanol.
Perhaps if our elders did literally anything at all about the climate, children and younger generations wouldn’t be so scared.

But we’ve come to the conclusion that the Earth is being ran into the ground so some boomers can have their yachts.
> Like anyone else, politicians respond to incentives.

Sure, but it's not like they don't have a choice. Regardless of any incentives, they're the only ones actually empowered to make these decisions. Lobbying, offers of bribes, campaign financing promises, etc. do not in any sense detract from their ability and responsibility to make the right choices.
I've noticed that the guardian is very prone to using language that implies something is teetering on the edge of collapse. Then I check back a year later, and it's still operating. Since the system didn't collapse, I have to assume the loads are not actually unsustainable for the employees.
Should not be a problem, but you can also consider relocation to Armenia. It’s super-friendly to Russians at the moment and government is counting on the opportunity to double their GNP by relocating enough engineers.
I don't find anything brainwashing in Peppa Pig and Bluey, both of which are a huge hit with the kids/toddlers. I watched many episodes of both and in my opinion they are great.
I am not sure everyone has the same idea of pair programming.
I have never done it but it simply seems like: 2 people solve a single need.

How? "Deploy personal + company resources as appropriate to get the job done together" - however they damn well want to in that framework. It is between them. The pair could:

Use a whiteboard for 5 minutes every 3 hours and go their separate ways otherwise.

Sit together hunched over a single laptop.

Work from two entirely separate locations with collaboration software so they can see each others cursor and typing as they voicechat.

I mean, isn't it all about simply getting along and getting a job done?
relatively simple until you get into cache coherence (not an issue if you mark the memory as volatile)
https://archive.ph/6EK3p
Did he laugh at you for oculus or instagram?
Yes, people's interests don't all align. But they'd actually be better represented with proportional representation than one representing people solely by geography.

Because geography is just one thing that matters.
fastmail has been great for e-mail.

Using it as a google drive alternative though but I'd like to move to a solution with client-side encryption. Should actually be doable with the webdav that fastmail exposes and rclone: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277882-Re...

And I miss google sheets.
The same way you eat an elephant: one bite at a time.
Of course Lewis isn't explicitly humanist - Humanism is a "worldly" movement, and we can't let the "evil", "fallen" world take credit for anything good. I would be more inclined to buy Lewis' depiction of the Christian god if it didn't clash with all of Christian history up until, serendipitously, humanistic principles gained traction.

Testimonials are not evidence.
My eyes popped when I learned it functioned with just some basic transistors and could find outlets and recharge itself. Amazing!

Is there a surviving photograph?
I use Fastmail for my personal email and Outlook for my work email.

If you have any need to use Microsoft products for work or home (gaming), then it's worth getting an Office 365 subscription, since it also gives you a terabyte of space on OneDrive, which syncs pretty seamlessly on Windows.

You can de-Google a big chunk of your Android if you don't mind using Microsoft instead. Outlook for email, OneDrive for sync, Edge for browsing, OneNote for notes etc.
Yeah... he got this backwards I guess?

Is anything correct in this article?
I deleted my Google account three years ago and haven't looked back.

Email was really the only thing I made heavy use of: Gandi, who I already pay to keep my domain registered, offers 3 GB mailboxes for free. This works fine for me since I archive and delete old mail annually. You can purchase 50 GB mailboxes for a few dollars per month.

For file storage, I host my own NextCloud instance and handle (offline, geographically redundant) backups myself. I also pay for a MEGA account and back up critically important documents there.

My primary phone runs Android 6 (terrible, I know) and I haven't had issues using it while not logged into a Google account. The artificially limited capacity of Google Maps' search history is a disappointing dark pattern, but that's about it. I plan on switching to a PinePhone eventually.

I do worry about the usability of newer Android versions without a Google account. Not sure what's changed, do you have to sign in to use current Android phones?
Netherlands is only behind US in agricultural export because of those open spaces. Of course there's money to be made and latency improvement would be great for EU but if the usage of the land takes more from the locals and the peoples of importer countries than it gives then it's not worth it. Company being FB seems to be just making this argument stronger.
I’m truly not trying to be obtuse when I say that not only does it not force me to think about gender, it doesn’t specifically evoke gender for me at all. Our radars seem to be calibrated differently. It’s often said that to seek offense is to find it.
Before COVID, I managed to find three after combing through local Meetup and Eventbrite: the SF Rust group (I remember a session with Tokio contributors where I ate a lot of delicious, free balsamic & fig pizza), the Peninsula Rust group (I went to a session at the Intel offices in Santa Clara that had much less exciting food and a lot more Intel marketing). Oh, and there was a drop-in informal Rust meetup in downtown Mountain View, at the cafe where I'm sitting right now.

There wasn't a lot to start with (the official groups averaged less than one event per quarter). And it's all gone now. Where's the excitement? Western Europe? Seattle?
You don’t really have to fit things into logical registers before you can speak of them. If you stop trying to do that you will find that you can speak your mind directly, which requires a lot less effort. The recipient of your message is also a human mind and while you will lose the handrails of logical clarity you will gain the safety net in abundance of bandwidth and feedback loops.

It’s a trained skill tho.
Wow, I did not know Oregon had repealed that already. Apparently, this past June: https://www.chpa.org/news/2021/06/oregon-repeal-unnecessary-...

IIRC, early attempts to repeal failed stalled. (I presumed due to some pharm lobby)

I wonder if Covid and focus on flu like symptoms led to it getting “fast tracked.”

Looks like pseudoephedrine OTC products became available for sale January 1st 2022.
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/politics/2022/01...

I made the drive from Portland to Vancouver, WA multiple times over the years (usually while sick) to resupply with something that worked.

Glad that is done with.
well, like IRC.
That's entertainment and media.
A sibling comment uncovered not just a photo but a whole video demo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30861972
You probably should set your sights more on becoming a lead developer, where your experience as an engineer will be respected but you can transition into management later on. Also focus on discussing your mentoring experience a lot, including the outcomes you've helped achieve (ex. 200% growth in X, 50% fewer bugs in Y, etc.)

As someone who hires for this role, I look for people who can handle teams well and deliver outcomes, not just code. This means I need to be able to trust you with the careers of the team and the project results.

A good transition is actually consulting on tech teams, which is somewhat a leadership role that will give you the management experience needed later on. More often that not, companies absorb good consultants if they jive well with the team.
I was also spammed by several Amazon recruiters recently. I suspect they hired a bunch of new recruiters and they all got the same leads list.
It’s okay for hacker types. Not so much for others.
So where does the data center go instead? Is that country not reliant on Russia?
Historically, economic and technological development has relied on increasing energy consumption. Green energy now offers us the possibility to increase the marketed energy supply far beyond anything imaginable with fossil fuels — 2Y, 10Y, 100Y, 1000Y — enabling currently unimaginable technological benefits. (More centralization of computation and speech under Facebook's control would not be beneficial, of course.)

However, it will only become abundant and cheap if those sales are permitted and investors expect that such opportunities will continue in the future, providing them a positive ROI on building 10Y or 100Y of generation capacity. If they expect their energy sales to be capped at X+Y due to hostility from the ignorant public, they will not build.

Let's opt for a solarpunk future where we pass Kardashev Type I and rapidly accelerate toward Kardashev Type II, not a post-apocalyptic dystopia.
I banned you for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our requests to stop, in the light of your long history of breaking the site guidelines, ignoring our requests to stop, and getting banned for it.

None of that depends on what other people did, though you're certainly right that they shouldn't have attacked you (and we'll ban them, too, if they keep posting like that).

If you don't want to be banned, it's not that hard to read the guidelines and follow them. The vast majority of users here manage that just fine.

I don't want to get locked into hostility here! It's nothing personal, and if you genuinely want to use HN as intended, there are always ways to correct the situation. We just need reason to believe that you do in fact want to use HN as intended and that the pattern of breaking the guidelines won't keep happening in the future.
The OSDev Wiki is a great resource on how this all works from the perspective of actually programming it at least on x86

For example here's the page on talking PCI-E https://wiki.osdev.org/PCI_Express
Yes. My older relatives are still on Facebook and most of them use it heavily. My younger relatives, while most of them do have an account, are seldom if ever on there.

I stay on because the older relatives are there, and I like to stay in touch with the extended family. If it weren't for them, I'd be gone as well.
I've had those but I've only ever seen FM ones
> So "math.isclose()" is for people who cannot use "<" or ">" operators?

No, it's a shortcut for `abs(a-b)<tolerance`. Is `math.sin` for people who cannot implement Taylor expansions themselves?
I think they don't support bringing my own domain for privacy reasons [1]; as I mentioned near the end of my comment, I own a domain that I'd like to keep using for email, I use Google Workspace for this and lots of people and companies have that address, so switching to @posteo.de would be a waste of a neat vanity domain and a huge hassle. I probably could build something using Cloudflare and AWS as a sibling of your comment mentioned, but that's a lot of moving parts I need to manage myself. I'd rather if email just worked and when it doesn't, there's support I can ping to have it fixed.

1: https://posteo.de/en/site/faq "Can I use Posteo with my own domain?"
what are you using for self-host firefox sync?
The linked article is pretty good https://hiringengineersbook.com/post/autonomy/
They are not comparable at all.

The guitar hero guy was outright cheating - speeding footage up etc. Mercedes rear wings were 100% legal.
You have a family doctor who you are signed up with. You can't signup with another without losing your family doctor. You can't just go see any doctor. They have to decide to take you. Then if you are lucky you get a referral for a year later. You do have places you can walk in but there ability to refer is much lower.

In the USA you literally shop around. They advertise. You can literally look for the best surgeon and ask around.
Did not know them, will check them out!
Most scientists do not think that black holes have a "real singularity." The idea of a mass that occupies a single point in space comes from taking Einstein's equations beyond the event horizon, ie. the curvature of space is greater than light so means nothing can have any resistance to distance/size. At some point between the event horizon and the center, quantum gravity (which is not understood) has to come into the picture. One idea is the "black hole firewall," which is that mass gets "stuck" at the boundary of the black hole.
>A PCB trace can't.

Sure, but physical damage can disconnect it.
I call BS. I can’t find any details about how mosix handled storage, but what I did find suggests nfs semantics. That’s totally unusable which is probably why the project died decades ago. (And apparently you had to recompile every app because they changed the syscall ABI to add a node ID to every inode or something? Guess they were speedrunning obsolescence)

> we could implement a lot of it in userland

Yeah that’s k8s, etcd, ceph, and the distributed database of the week.
No.

The people I know in progressive countries are shocked at the rampant violence that is tolerated and no prosecuted and punished in the US. It wouldn’t be tolerated in their countries.

Hell, the lefties I know in Europe look at the West Coast of the US and ask “what the fuck are you doing?”
As does this: it's bots all the way down ...
While I do think the parent commenter’s callout was unnecessary, it’s also true that if someone’s pronouns deviate from the norm, you’ll find them, meaning not finding them likewise has high signal.
> I really want to like ddg but it's just awful

I use duckduckgo almost exlusively and I don't have any trouble finding what I'm looking for
By his own admission he basically did nothing but coding all day long for most of his life, to the point where if he took a long vacation he'd be worried about getting rusty. For SerenityOS he basically holed up in a cabin for 6 months coding. At dayjob it was "60-80 hours a week", not forced but because he wanted to do it.

That kind of sustained and focused work compounds over time and you just get better and better I guess. Reading stories like his makes me think I'm probably in the wrong industry because I don't enjoy coding that much and definitely have a ton of other things I'd rather do.
If Steve warns you 2 years in advance that he’s doing to stop working for you, with a gradual ramp down in service and comprehensive transition plan, would you really say he’s unreliable?
See the Ports directory [1] if you're interested in porting software over. Basically, there's a porting script framework with dependency management that you use to download and (cross-)compile into the Serenity disk image.

There's no X server and we don't want to have WindowServer support the X protocol as a standard feature. If you're porting a GUI app, your best bet is SDL2, for which we have a battle-tested well-working port. However, you can just as well port an X server that talks to WindowServer or the video hardware directly, it's just that that doesn't currently exist. But I think such a thing would be perfectly accepted as a port.

Sidenote: If you want less decorated windows, there's System 7-like themes and other minimalistic ones. Or make your own :^)

[1] https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Ports
> Older CPUs - the CPU had a bunch of A pins (address), a bunch of D pins (data).

And on some buses, some or all A/D pins where multiplexed, so transaction divided to address set part and data read/write part.
In terms of statistical risk, being banned for a dumb reason is "probably" rare enough that you're reasonably rolling the dice with a company like Google.

My thought-process in choosing to use them or not would revolve around whether or not I'd want to reward their behavior. It's one thing for Google to be working really hard to provide some kind of reasonable customer service to solve occasional problems and just being unable to do so because of their scale. That would suck, but be understandable in that it's a hard problem.

But Google directly spits in the face of paying customers daily in evil, scammy ways. And when Google employees post here about this topic, it's clear they huff their own farts about how good their algorithms are and how rare false positives are. They don't appear to give half a shit about the businesses and lives they destroy.

This is a personal value judgement: but I think a reasonable one. This despicable, scammy behavior cannot be rewarded by this community.
Not alone, but not in the majority I suspect.

I touch maybe $100 in actual cash a year. Mostly for like a random garage sale or two. The less I touch the better.
> A team with one expert and pairing is now a team full of experts.

I’m sorry, no. That’s not how that works.
US astronaut returns to Earth with Russian cosmonauts
FDR got his pee-pee slapped down for trying to do a run around on the constitution.

But you keep working on your anarchistic utopia while the rest of get “exploited” and pay taxes that actually support the people who you claim to care about.
Not sure if you like Microsoft any better but after over a decade of Gmail I’ve moved back to outlook and prefer it. It’s a lot better than it used to be. One Drive is much better than GDrive, and MS’s office programs have always been significantly better IMO. I find the whole Microsoft suite to be affordable and enjoyable to use. Obviously iPhone is an (or the) alternative to Android.

I still don’t find much better than Google for searching but I guess Bing and DDG are at least a lot better than nothing. I do feel like my user satisfaction with Google search goes down a little bit every year.

Depending on why you’re moving away from Google these may not be options you’ll consider. But if your opposition isn’t to big tech in particular but to just Google give MS products a try if you haven’t in awhile.
And this is why they got hit with the banhammer. A known bad actor had access to their account.
> I see the flow of constructing custom tools during development, and, ideally, for every single development problem, as the next major leap in software development.

I wish I could transmit this concept in my organization.

1) E2E tests as business requirements living documentation are the best first step any organization/project can make besides their tremendous technical value. At least remove the need from contributors to figure out business from code.

2) Confluence-like services cannot work as technical documentation. There's plenty of tools that allow you to generate docs from code, use them!

We should lessen the friction from abstract to development,and that starts with providing good tools that bridge tge two.
The answer to this is to band together and fix the governments. I understand that this is not libertarian orthodoxy, but libertarian orthodoxy got us into this mess.
> What's the difference between importing some hundred's of lines from thiserror in rust vs importing the "error" package in go?

Again, you're comparing apples and oranges. It seems you didn't see my previous
example, here it is again:

type errorString string

func (e errorString) Error() string {
return string(e)
}
More important than privacy issues, is the issue of control.

Your credit cards can be turned off and bank accounts frozen. If all your money and payment ability is digital and controlled by a central authority, your ability to transact can be turned off with the flip of a switch. And in the complex world we live in, that can literally mean that your ability to keep eating can be digitally switched off at almost no cost to your attacker. Is that something that can be continued? Maybe not, but the attacker could drag out the issue in a bureaucratic and legal mess for long enough for you to fall into homelessness and despair if they're motivated enough to destroy you.

Cash has the nice property that it enables permissionless economic transaction. We can exchange cash peer to peer without anyone's explicit or implicit consent. And being private is also nice because it gives the people you transact with some protection from potentially aiding some kind of blacklisted individual. I wonder if people like Harriet Tubman and the people that aided her would have been able to do what they did if their money could have been turned off due to their illegal actions helping slaves escape.

Permissionless and peer to peer cash is a critical feature of a free society that we should be very fearful of losing.
GParted 1.4 released – live partition-manipulation tool