skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While we're on this topic... What's the deal with having multiple wifi access points with the same SSID? I have heard some people say you should always use a single SSID because the clients know how to automatically pick the best one. But I have heard others disagreeing and saying that to ensure you're using the right access point you need to use different names for each one and also 2.4ghz vs 5ghz. Anyway, who's right here?
Ask HN: Is Bitcoin a v1.0 software that will need a major refactoring or not?
This is a software engineering/software philosophy question.

I'm not a bitcoin code contributor. I'm a software dev and in my experience every software shows its age. It's either refactored or replaced by new software that builds on lessons from v1.0.

Since bitcoin is the first of its kind -- decentralized electronic money -- is it possible it will undergo refactoring in the future?

I can't think of any widely used software that's been running for 10-15 years, more or less with the original architecture or code.

How is bitcoin different than other software like linux, windows, macOS, etc, in that it won't have to be refactored from the ground up?

Just a thought that occurred to me years ago that I still haven't found the answer to.
AFAIK it's not about Apple, but about other producers either polluting spectrum or plainly ignoring specs.

There was a post about Logitech not creating a lot of interference with their MX products (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31939424). Interestingly enough getting rid of Logitech devices fixed most of the BT issues I had.
This went around a few weeks ago. It's clippings going back 100+ years of people saying no one wants to work anymore.

https://mobile.twitter.com/paulisci/status/15495277489508925...
Porkbun is great - their live chat support in particular was really great to me recently when I was trying to recover a domain. They could've tried to upsell or pressure me in to paying the (extortionate) recovery fee but they didn't and instead advised me on the process/when I'd be able to register at normal price
Sure but solar wont help you get through the cold winter, where biofuel will.
Phone is a Librem 5 in case that was what you wanted to know.
if storage and compute are separated - how is storage mounted on to the compute? Generally you can attach a volume only to one server at a time
> At least that’s what I gather from friends that are struggling with the app-centric dating landscape.

There's the real problem. Most of the women I know who use apps hate them, too. The incentive structure around dating apps is terrible, and from what I can tell, it's deepening the already ridiculous polarization of gender. Men and women alike reduce eachother to the worst stereotypes, and their dating preferences get twisted into cynicism and materialism contrary to previously-held moral stances.

If you think the problem is that women have it easy, I've gotta question if you have friends that are women. The problem is the loss of Third Places, which creates a market that dating apps monopolize.
How much harder is it to own one of these phones vs an iPhone? I loved hacking on my smartphone when I was in high school, but now I'd like something that just works (or at least requires only a small amount of effort).

I'd really like a barebones phone that has only the bare essentials, ideally not even a web browser.
My house’s electrical was already inspected too. It still needed inspected again when I had maintenance done on the system.

The inspection is because electrical systems can burn houses down if they’re not installed correctly.

It has nothing to do with the source of the energy at the other end of the wire.
How could anyone asking questions about somebodythat bought a town be framed as being anything but political?

I’m sorry that you didn’t like my factual summary of events, but I provided direct references that were very easy to click on and read more about and I’m glad that you availed yourself to those resources.
For a legacy/broken FS that permits non-utf8 filenames, and has them: have the FS driver map them into UTF-8 as best it can by making some sort of compromise. E.g., use the PUA to map malformed sequences in/out.

For untar'ing a tar archive: error out by default, but provide a flag or option to permit untarring using some sort of escaping to map the malformed names back into Unicode. I think here I'd map to something printable, though, like "\xnn" or something.
Working in IT is:

* 3h/day of work

* 2h/day pretending you're
working

* 3h/day of bs meetings
>I started studying Japanese [...] assumes that you can read hiragana/katakana

Can you explain how this works? This sounds like you were familiar with Japanese, not "started studying".

>When you study Japanese in Japanese

I've heard this before (with other languages, as well) but just can't wrap my head around it. The only example I can think of is full immersion (e.g. moving to Japan or wherever you're learning the language) and being surrounded by it 24/7, where context clues sort of boot-strap you into learning more. But how does this work without full immersion?
You nailed it at the end. It’s traditional media and social media that vilifies these industries and companies. Which if we know anything is not a common opinion held among most people… it’s just the loudest and most polarizing.

Everyone has beliefs that put them against certain companies and industries but it’s quite varied and hardly anyone is the same.
I started - but rarely update and kinda forgot pushing to github - some small scripts and knowledge snippets. One of them being a network/ssh based distributed unseal mechanism (using shamir algorithm) to allow machines to boot and decrypt their OS partition.

https://github.com/maulware/maulstuff
> Don't downplay it's importance and it's disadvantages that came along.

This is rather unfair.

Your previous comment referred to NPM in the broadest possible sense, so what else would you expect its audience to do but to interpret it in the same way?

It is primarily a package manager and so I assumed you didn't like it for how it functions in that capacity.

That is not to say that I disagree with you - it's their priorities and stubbornness on major issues that I myself take issue with, but I'm complaining too much already in general so I'll leave it at that.
> Is the fear of "people selling your email to spammers" a modern myth, or are spam filters that good?

A decade ago I worked for a service that let you send bulk emails.

Any time we thought a customer was using a purchased email list, we came down on them hard or booted them off the platform. Same for other forms of spamming, not including an unsubscribe link, etc.

This wasn't necessarily altruistic: if their emails were marked as spam it would poison the reputation of our sending IPs and threaten the business.

It's clearly imperfect, but the industry's incentives seem to help.
Seems like accepting lots of part time work would be a great way help employers pay us less and take away benefits/working hours flexibility. I don't wanna be a gig worker. I want a salary, benefits, and a 4 day work week.
I'm sure you can get better tex-mex food within 3 miles than I could find driving for 3 days. My concern in that region would be drought and aquifer health, and yet my lawn is also dead here in New England.
I'm curious how many nodes end up in the consensus group, presumably you don't want more than 3 because throughput scales 1/N, unless their implementation can alleviate that significantly.
This was one of the original uses for Bluetooth - replacing PDA cradles, serial/USB cables, and IR for syncing things like contacts, email, calendars, etc.

There were articles in the early aughts about the "failure of bluetooth" [1] since syncing with 802.11 to a network was a better option.

1. https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/bye-bye-bluetooth/
Isn’t it annoying to get all new mnemonics? And since you have to start over regardless why didn’t you start all over on wanikani?

> at level 28 I was far better at kanji recognition than I was at any other relevant language skill

Ironically that is what RTK recommends students. Learn all the meaning and readings of kanji and then start learning the language.
I'm pretty sure Apple got some tweaks put into the Bluetooth chips they use to help out with some of the connection reliability issues. Put in at the bare metal level before the stack so as to avoid breaking the "standard".

Apple has also used out-of-band pairing mechanisms to enhance the customer experience. But again, there is only so much they can do.

There are many problems built into the standard and so there was only so much they could do.

Ironically, the standard itself is preventing better experiences.

It's been over 10 years now since BLE came out. Many companies have crashed and burned or abandoned products or just accepted poor user experiences in those 10 years.

The Bluetooth SIG is a monstrosity. I bet you would have to break off to fix the problems in under 10 years. And the SIG would probably sue to prevent that.
How autocorrect thinks “pgenome” is a correction for “phenomenon” is beyond me.
Do you have any evidence to back up "if they even get their freedom"? I've never heard of this being a problem, I assume (although no article I can find gives much information) that this only happened because stolen identities are extremely common on the Mexican border where people try to enter illegally, and cops are (often rightfully) suspicious

I'm also not sure that she's white, I suspect she's Mexican but, again, the NPR doesn't usually go into detail with facts they're much more into opinion reporting.
Iportantly, this is not callous victim-blaming based on some legal technicality either.

The terms and the outcome are actually perfectly reasonable and expected, not some crazy unsuspected gotcha buried in fine print to ensnare hapless victims.

This is not actually a case of "You didn't read 40 pages of deliberately inscrutable legal triple-speak and so it's 100% your fault and not at all the author of the deliberately inscrutable contract."

The the outcome here is exactly in line with a surface layman understanding of the terms without reading them in detail. No way would they be able to show any sort of misrepresentation.
The options vary greatly depending on state and county. There is also a problem in some states where if your income is too low, there might not be any affordable plans.

For many in tech, it’s probably not as dire as it seems, but it’s definitely not a solved problem.
Real estate near major metropolitan centers is not cheap either. With modern orbital delivery dropping by orders of magnitude, the entire equation changes. Get with the modern agenda!

The advantages of orbital are nearly 20X generation per panel to start with, even before considering support structures (none) and weather-proofing (none). That leaves lots of room in the cost equation.
Do you have other non-Apple devices with which you encounter pairing difficulties?

My experience with Bluetooth headphones was that on an iPhone they were occasionally annoying, while on Linux they were quite poor and on Windows they were more like a practical joke. This would have been like 4-5 years ago though, maybe all the stacks have been improved.
>"Please allow me to suggest you consult some actual, you know, facts."

You're free to provide them. Call it concern-trolling if you'd like, but I definitely sense you've got a "why don't we just" mindset, where any potential downside is literally a non-issue. You dismiss all concerns and then wonder why something isn't being done when the solution looks so simple.

>"Since solar may use up exactly zero acres, its watts per acre may be infinite."

If it has mass and surface area, it will take up some sort of acreage. Solar panels block light, so obviously anything needing light to survive is going to struggle being underneath them. And, who knew that we could get an infinite amount of wattage out of zero acreage, why haven't those fools designing our electric grid realized this yet?!?

>"But most crops do not, and benefit both from reduced heat stress and reduced water loss."

So you've acknowledged that corn and wheat need full sunlight, but again, it doesn't matter, because in your view solar has no downsides whatsoever. Anything bad is actually good!

>"Please do not make up BS problems."

And you say I'm being the troll here.
My biggest spam vector is an email address that is old enough that I used it on usenet back in the day. Pretty much any email that was used on email ended up in every spam mailing list.
Sure, but if your house already had grid-tie solar and you wanted to add a natural gas generator, you'd need the same kind of inspections.
10 panels and was done by 5 guys, two of which were electricians. Total labor was $1.3k and they did an awesome job. Then again, this is in South Africa!
The future of work is consuming exactly the amount of value that you produce and not having your production removed from you
That is totally fair. I will say that I got quite a lot of value from being able to see how tailscale-android works when building my own gioui app[0]. I suspect that being able to see the same thing for a modern iOS app would be useful to some small set of developers, even if they couldn't produce a fully working tailscale binary on their own dev machines.

It really does feel like Apple just doesn't care that their app policies are hostile to developers because they have such a strong monopoly on mobile app distribution.

[0]: https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william-mobile
> Distinguishing messages as urgent vs. non-urgent (no notification) _could_ alleviate some of this issue, but it's ultimately a culture issue, not a tech issue.

I think drawing a hard distinction between culture issues and tech issues is a mistake. Tech influences culture and vice-versa.

The fact that Slack saves the full message history is great for being able to refer back to previous discussions, but the fact that the history view of every joined channel is the default interface encourages this sort of asynchronous messaging.

IRC was closer to synchronous in that you could leave channels but retain permission to rejoin them. So you ended up with a sort of split in the culture because it supported two different usage patterns; some people would use a bouncer and idle in every channel (this is basically Slack), while some people would connect and join only the channels they wanted to be in at the time (unsupported by Slack). And of course there are levels in between those two.

MUDs could be considered the option that’s fully at the latter end of that spectrum. You may go AFK and idle, but you’re only ever idling in one room, and it’s often made clear if you’re AFK or not in the interface. The result is that for synchronous chat, there’s one single place to pay attention to: the room that you’re in. (Whispers are supported but they typically show up in-line as a message.) For asynchronous chat, there’s a separate mail system (which often forwards messages to your email address as well). The two are distinct in the UI.

I think MUDs got the sync/async distinction right in a way that modern chat apps don’t.
> Since 1946, approximately 630 French ordnance disposal workers have died handling unexploded munitions.

That's a lot of deaths for unexploded munitions to cause.
I'm almost ready to swallow my pride and accept the heresy that WiFi might be good enough, now that we are in the world of 802.11ax

Wireless is fine if it's only half of your loop. For example, suppose you want to stream a game from your powerful computer/console to your phone/tablet. There's a perceptible difference between having just the receiver wireless and having the sender and receiver both wireless.
How does the vigilante business make a profit?
I recently saw a Twitter thread with citations for sentiments like "nobody wants to work anymore" going back to the 1800's.
> Any phd student could do the research and publish it. And if they are right the research paper will become famous.

Absolutely wrong. If a medical student publishes such a paper, the following will happen:

1. Lancet & co. will reject publication. Peer review will be rejected because no one can be found to mess with the pharma industry.

2. student decides to upload it to an open access server. A link is posted to various interest groups.

3. FB, YT and Google will add a warning to each posting with this link that it's contradicts current CDC findings.

4. a fact checker will quickly write an article pointing out that experienced medical professionals do not see any correlation and the student should rather continue studying

5. the university will distance itself from the paper

6. Anthony Fauci & Christian Drosten will publish a joint statement calling the data insufficient and the analysis flawed. Then they will point out something about correlation and causality and simply deny a connection between birth rate and vaccinations

7. the medical student's career is over before it has even begun

P.S.: this has happened already several times. But fair enough - not everytime Fauci & Drosten had to intervene to keep people silenced.
Nope.

From the docs:

> Typescript is a strict syntactical superset of JavaScript

Typescript contains more than JS. But all JS is valid Typescript.
If you're using oh-my-zsh, the macOS plugin has "man-preview" that does the same thing, probably a little better. I updated mine to alias pman=man-preview
Bluetooth was _adopted_ by IEEE 802.15, using Bluetooth as a base. It didn't invent it.

I'm also older than that. I was referring to the initial Bluetooth papers by Ericsson Mobile in the early 90s.
Monkeypox: Lack of vaccines sparks pause in UK rollout
Multiple reasons (as outlined partially by others):

- It is incredibly hard to make something so versatile work well everywhere, all the time, for everything
- It is even harder to get multiple stakeholders to do this consistently
- And it harder still to do this if the business case doesn't allow for (long-term) support

This is mostly a business problem and not really a technical problem. Wi-Fi is similarly pretty badly implemented, for similar reasons, but the upside is that it doesn't have a billion specialised profiles, it generally just has to pretend it's encapsulating network frames the same way ethernet does. As long as it can do that, people can make use of it.
Welcome to HN as a commentator!

Where is "ultra-nationalism" in my two comments here? Or which "random facts'"? I quote English Wikipedia and these entries were edited by Croats. That one link with the list of "croatian" rulers is identical to the same entry in croatian Wikipedia.

OP was "pedantic" and has claimed something that was plain wrong. And using his logic, I was pedantic as well - to set the record straight and provide background info. The alternative is to let Croats claim whatever you want while betting on ignorance and lack of knowledge of others.
Lego builds on generational shift as ex-CEO steps down
Is it the future. We already have zero-hour contracts.

The cynic in me just sees larges swathes of white-collar work increasingly falling under zero-hour type capitalistic revenue models, to spin a euphemism.

I don't really buy the idyllic spend half you time raising chickens and the other half coding picture, at least not for 95% of people.

UBI, and to pay "essential workers" more than a "living" wage would be a good start.
I don’t think it is. The ability to tether X-series cameras is severely limited compared to Canon.

That’s a shame, since I love my X-Pro3 dearly and am not willing to give up the camera for those features. I’m more likely to just get another camera for those purposes.
I am simply pointing to extensive case law affirmed by the Supreme Court that the right to bears arms in almost universally held to not be unlimited, which I agree with as do most even staunch conservatives.

There may be a disagreement on how limited the right is but your extreme viewpoint the even nuclear arms should not be regulated due to them not being called out explicitly in an amendment is obviously held by a very small extremist minority.
I would definitely take a pay cut if I could keep my benefits and work 3 days a week.

As it is my company lets us buy extra time off, but it's only 5 days a year. If they gave us the option I would pay for 100
It's a fun quote, it reminds me of the "every sufficiently advanced program contains a bug-ridden implementation of half of common lisp", or something along those lines. But there really is a wide world of distributed consensus systems out there (although Paxos is easily the most elegant).
Having your email in a mailto: link is no longer the spam vector that it used to be. I’ve had my writing email posted as such on my website for over a decade and it gets no more than one spam per week and those are all caught by the gmail filter.
https://archive.ph/jwcto
My noise cancelling bluetooth headphones will still work without any power if you plug them into 3.5mm. Of course, they were horrendously expensive, so any longevity gains are outweighed by the cost.
Haven't dual quaternions taken over for their ability to represent all rigid body motions?

Quaternions are still important for building intuition for dual quaternions.
> A few vendors got upset that I had their name in the address

I have had this happen a few times.

> Canaries are also a good indicator to detect if a company has been compromised.

Yep, this is a fantastic use case.
So... like del.icio.us was, back in the day?
Honestly, the latency is the biggest problem for me.

I've got a bluetooth game controller and headset for my phone (Pixel 4a), but the latency makes using them both at once impossible. If I switch to a wired headset the controller bluetooth gets better and the game becomes playable.
If it can be computed, it can be computed slowly. (Of course, if we have to make N iterations to get at a working design, and N is really large, then speed would make a massive difference as to when we get there...)
I, personally, lost trust to all domain registrars and just moved domains to the local registrar in my country. At least I can visit their office with my government ID and talk to them face to face if the need arises. Or even sue them. Too much issues with those international companies, they treat their clients as some disposable kubernetes pods. Yes, my local registrar has lame console from 90-x, but it works anyway.
People say this, I don't find it to be true. I still got the cable stuck on door handles all the time when it was tucked into my shirt, because finding the perfect cable length is impossible. Either way, the main problem remains; I want to be to move around a room with my headphones but without my phone/computer. That requires wireless.