skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cell towers are designed for terrestrial users because their radios aren’t pointed at the sky.

Gogo provides inflight Wi-Fi in the US through its ground based towers and all the antennas are pointed at the sky :)

Flights (at least in the US) fly roughly a direct route, but ATC spaces out planes and small weather diversions are common. So it’s more like a band of coverage needed between cities. Also, the combinatorics of considering every US city pair that currently or has previously had commercial service between gets long. Then you would have to consider every route that an airline in the future may offer, even just seasonally. Then if you calculated the optimal route between each pair and figured out the width of the cellular coverage at 30,000 ft from a single cell tower below, I don’t think it would be possible to offer service to every domestic flight in the US without achieving complete coverage of the US.

China on the other hand has a limited number of very narrow flight corridors that all commercial aviation is restricted to because the majority of the airspace is government controlled. That’s the only nation I can think of that would have enough air traffic to justify terrestrial tower installation but whose domestic flights are confined to a such a small part of the airspace that it would be possible to provide service to all domestic flights without achieving coverage of all Chinese airspace.
I already have my own backups. Chaining me to a specific phone number on top of that isn't a backup, it's a liability.
Title is misleading. It's not that they betrayed their informants, they just suck at tech and informants got killed as a consequence.
You can start a fire with a 24v car battery (and dry tinder, and skill). However, PoE switches only supply power after successful negotiation with the client. You would have to be _seriously_ unlucky to get a cable intact enough to support a connection but damaged enough to start a fire - I don't think I could do it on purpose, even if I had a few days and a stack of spare cables to try.

I'd be more concerned about the power supply (between the wall and the router) than the 48V lines. Would definitely want to be sure that was good quality.
The reason for that one I've heard from pilot friends is just that they want you upright and alert during takeoff and landing. I've been told to stop reading a book during a landing once. But imagine most of the flight crew don't want to deal with the potential fights from telling someone to put away a non-cellular device.
What kind of support do you think you're going to get with cheap unmanaged switches? We couldn't get meaningful support from one of the big name vendors with their top of the line routers with millions of dollars spent on hardware purchases and support contracts.
Running opnsense on one of these that I got for ~$150. Really happy with it.
The switching ports are probably fine.

I wouldn't trust the power-over-ethernet at any distance where I couldn't still read the UL approval sticker.

(Which it does not have.)
If you assert that a cluster of distinctive cancers is caused by the local chemical plant, pointing out that similar cancer clusters are cropping up other places nowhere near a chemical plant is an evidence-based rebuttal to your theory.

It’s possible that the drug war is caused by racism in the US, and by entirely different reasons in Bangladesh, the Philippines, Nigeria, Japan, or China, or Russia. But the cited “evidence” hardly suffices to establish that.

“Historians” are, as a general matter, terrible at describing why things happen. They’re not data analyzers, they’re story tellers. The same few anecdotes from people in Nixon’s orbit get spun out to explain a decades-long social phenomenon. But was Nixon in Japan and all those other places that have drug wars?

The drug war happened because America is a rigidly moralistic society, just like Japan, and such societies almost uniformly condemn drug use as a moral failing. Nixon also happened to be racist, and a hallmark of racism is the tendency to attribute immorality and lack of character to out groups. But that’s not causation.
It was vastly more screwed up than that. The MI6 agents were bound from Moscow and being followed by KGB the entire time, but just managed to shake their tails for long enough (basically less than five minutes in several hours) to pick up Gordievsky at a rest area, and then the KGB ignored this and didn’t bother to search their cars at the border. Gordievsky himself managed to escape his KGB tails while under active suspicion of being a double agent, but nobody thought to throw up an alert that might have gotten him caught on the train or tighten security at land borders, or (even) pay special attention to the tiny number of British embassy staff who suddenly decided to embark on a car trip to Finland at exactly the same time. There was also an incident where Gordievsky miraculously made it to the rendezvous point early, but decided to leave and go into a cafe in a nearby town — where he not only risked being spotted and questioned, but he actually got drunk and nearly missed his escape. It is basically nothing short of miraculous that any of this worked, and it wouldn’t have worked if the KGB hadn’t set him free and behaved with massive incompetence. Even the British agents viewed the plan as a Hail Mary pass, but put it in place because they believed they had an obligation to try.
This is one of those sayings that's technically true but misses the point by a mile.

A wounded soldier is a greater burden than a dead soldier, so a possible tactic would be to deliberately wound. Some people thought that was especially amoral, so they added a rule against it to what they called international law.

So most police weaponry is illegal under international law, but it's illegal because it's less deadly than the permitted alternative.
Yes, but firmware backdoors are a thing. The same chip does not mean the same behavior.
What's advantage of a switch compared to normal router?
Faster than the old gsutil utility. The speed increase is real and easily measurable, but will depend on your files (lots of small ones vs a few huge ones etc).
Where do you live/who is your ISP? Do you live in Chattanooga, Tennessee or in certain Salt Lake City Suburbs? Residential 10 gig just isn’t super common yet and I’ve only seen a few community/coop fiber networks offer it.
That is actually pretty funny, you independently re-invented the expression.
If this is from overseas, then subjecting American internet users to mass-surveillance would have no effect, and the US lacks the jurisdiction to subject global internet users to mass-surveillance.

>>For every "activist" this supposedly protects, it provides cover to dozens of criminals harming hundreds of people.

Anonymity on the internet helps people fight back against government repression, which harms people on a scale that totally dwarfs the harm done by this phenomenon.
Likewise, I've never had a cellphone and I have no intention of ever getting one. Interacting with a website should never require a portable device.
Learning Regular Sets from Queries and Counterexamples (1987) [pdf]
Fair enough. I agree about that.
I’m going to pay forward a book rec found via a Hacker News comment: Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss.

It’s mostly tactics on how to negotiate well, and one piece of advice I’ve adopted is to start my questions with “what” or “how”, not “why”.

“Why” comes across as interrogative; forcing “what” or “how” creates enough time to reassess the actual uncertainty and rephrase as a curiosity question, not an implicit accusation of wrongheadedness.

“Why did you choose this algorithm” becomes “how did you choose this algorithm?” or “what factors did you consider when choosing this algorithm?”

It can be manipulative when done in isolation. My other main takeaway from the book was to have a genuine interest and concern for the other person’s needs, even when you disagree.

Between the trick and the mindset, I’ve found it’s served me well.
The complexities, irregularities, and imprecisions of our calendars are due to things like

* the Earth's rotational period ("day")

* the Moon's orbital period ("month")

* the Earth's orbital period ("year")

not being integer multiples of each other at all! Despite that, we naturally want to keep time in terms of each of these -- as you said, they're all such extremely noticeable periodic phenomena. According to GNU units, the day is

24 hr = 86400 s

(which is a historical basis for defining the second, though not the method we officially use now because we have clocks that are more consistent than the Earth's rotation), while the lunar month is

29 days + 12 hours + 44 minutes + 2.8 seconds = 2551442.8 s

and the tropical year is

365.242198781 day = 31556926 s

If we think of a month as a fixed whole number of days, and/or think of a year as a fixed whole number of months, and/or think of a year as fixed whole number of days, it's been known for thousands of years that we're eventually going to get in trouble astronomically and require some adjustments.
We will need to design it, but India has a biometrics system (yes big bad privacy issues) called aadhaar which is used for authentication in so many systems. As long as you can build and secure such a system, and people get used to it, as they are used to Socials now, it can be used to unlock a whole lot of things.
I found this one striking.

> Can repro. This is causing major issues with an electron app of mine. Axios is used via unpkg versionless inside of the asar and there is no way to notify users to update as all requests to autoupdater are handled through axios... This should be reverted, and such a breaking change should have been communicated well in advance (and NOT distributed under a semver minor change!!)
You're not really selling the idea of spending more on the big name there. I mean, if the big name is Cisco, then at least the CLI commands come back to my fingers like playing an old piano song, and there's likely to be some documentation from them or a rando's blog, but this is an unmanaged switch - there's nothing to configure.

That said, I'd probably look at TP-Link products; I suppose you could call them the name brand of cheap network gear.
Deep learning (research) has hit a wall. Hint hint no more funding.

Deep learning applications are just getting started and from what I'm seeing on the ground, will take no less than 5-10 years before we see it take off.
Someone should inform the lab mice that they'll be living longer than before.
Job Applicant Turned Down Your Offer? How to Ask Them to Refer a New Candidate
Having extra Ethernet ports on your single network

You could reuse a router but a switch will generally have better perf and theres less to configure or go wrong
It drains the battery really quickly in my experience. On my (admittedly old) iphone a 30 minute subway journey without airplane mode will drain about 10%.

Also even if i'm listening to music I have downloaded locally, Apple Music will do a system-wide popup complaining that it lost cellular connection. Sometimes in Safari a webpage that was downloaded at the station will suddenly erase itself and attempt to refresh itself upon losing connection. Those are usually the kinds of ad-ridden sites that are making nonstop ajax calls, but sometimes that's what i'm reading.
How do you find what you're looking for in the grid of notes on a Linnstrument? I've been looking at MPE controllers and I (currently) want a Seaboard because I feel like the note positioning knowledge will transfer from keyboard.
> The shutdown, requiring the cooperation of 26 validators to close the decentralized system, occurred around 2200 UTC on October 6, as a result of the exploitation of the BSC Token Hub bridge, which connects the BNB Beacon Chain and the BNB Smart Chain so tokens from different blockchains can be exchanged.

Huh
Been a member of the STH forums for years and years and it’s really nice to see STH at the top of HN!
As a co-fouder of https://www.medorbit.co (shameless linking my startup I know but in my defense no one here is my possible user) who is trying to make this possible for the African patient this is very motivating.
I heard "Adar Rishon" and "Adar Sheni" (written "Adar I" and "Adar II").

I've enjoyed thinking of the latter as like a movie sequel. "Adar II: The Revenge of Adar".

Apparently all of these forms are common.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adar#Names_and_Leap_Years
Or a 9 volt some steel wool and not much skill
> With the exception that the reputed brands may just be the Chinese ones but rebranded.

20 years ago, I'd have said you're crazy, but the reality is this is true more often than not. However, there is one caveat I've noticed. Though this hardware tends to come from the same factories, or same ownership, often the 'namebrand' are the 'A' runs, and in some cases the cheaper so-called 'no-name' brands are the 'B' grade.

This is 100% anecdotal based on personal experiences and failure rates.
If it wasn't already clear before it should be now. Paypal is a illegitimate scam company. They do the minimum required to keep up appearances but that's about it. Paypal STEALS other people's money all the time. The faster everyone comes to term with this and stops using it, the better!
Yes and the other new terminology is "persons experiencing homelessness"

It's all so tiresome honestly. One of the absolute worst things about western culture is the apparent creeping obsession with political correctness that has been escalating for the past few decades.

If only more westerners were like the great George Carlin. Grateful for once to live in the third world.
In automotive infotainment systems, where QNX was used a lot in the past, it mostly had been replaced with combinations of Linux or Android on the non-realtime critical systems, and smaller microcontrollers which run realtime OS (OSEK and autosar derivates). The latter are usually not open source.
It's so cheap because it comes with a power supply that doesn't have a UL or ETL certification, and as such could not be legally sold in North America. A decent quality power supply that could output 125 W would be around $50-70. You get what you pay for.
My recollection is that gigabit Ethernet was common on commodity PCs for several years before switching gear was accessible.

Mult-gig is now only becoming available on devices and access points. This time around it does seem to be perceived by the ISPs offering faster speeds, whereas with gigabit, 100 Mbps was more than adequate for home speeds at the time gigabit came on the scene.
Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like the advantage here is that as people loses their sight (slowly or quickly) they would quickly be able to pick up a tactile font with little to no additional training. Normal sighted people would also be able to read things in the dark (safety factor for things like power outages). Percent of people with blindness and vision impairment drastically increase by age so I think it is safe to say that most blind people aren't born blind.
Yeah, I think you’re right that it’s likely largely due to data-driven management. Brand damage is relatively hard to measure, and doesn’t seem to make its way into OKR’s.
I didn’t know adding text to the submission would show up as a comment so it looks like I’m the author. Sorry about that!
It’s obvious: Networking equipment is responsible for transferring your personal data. Especially in home network where it might not be encrypted.

Hell, I don’t even trust most big brands. Run my own FreeBSD + pfsense + well known NICs from Intel sourced from Provantage or other data center distributor. Not eBay or Amazon.
> and warn fellow homeless to avoid gmail

Besides the fact that this doesn't scale at all, not using gmail is arguably a bad decision. If you have an email address at shiftydomain.com, some services won't accept it because its low barriers to entry may have been exploited by spammers or similar.
OpenStreetMap-based city building game
They're pretty well locked in.
I lost access to a Gmail account for which I had the correct password and a recovery email with a different email service. I was still unable to convince the Google machine that the account was mine. My suspicion is that because I'd changed operating systems on my desktop, I appeared to be 'someone else' as far as Gmail was concerned.
It's Lonely in the Metaverse: Decentraland’s 38 DAUs in a $1.3B Ecosystem
Doesn’t Airbnb provide insurance?
q is a boat
I don't think we should burden them in that way. It's hard enough being a lab mouse as it is.
There is a very simple flaw in the "Obamaphone" system that is the root cause of this catch-22 dilemma. I was homeless and had to use an Obamaphone, so I saw first hand how this flaw works.

My solution to this problem was simple: don't use Google. Use Yandex instead because they never require a phone for 2FA and they allow you to set your own custom security questions for account recovery as well as link a backup email account to reset your password. It would be trivial for Google to have these features too, but they won't because this is about spying and tracking and controlling users by forcing everyone to use a SIM card.

The Federal Govt doesn't "give" you a free phone. Cellular carriers give you the phone and the service when you sign up at one of their kiosks usually setup outside local Govt offices that provide services to the homeless. Like the food stamps office.

So you sign up witg T-Mobile or Verizon or smaller carriers nobody has heard of and you get your cheapo off-brand phone with low specs like 1GB of RAM and 3GB of cellular data per month. Great, that is an amazing way to help the homeless since doing everything requires a cell phone now.

But when you sign up, the carriers require you to provide a cirrebtly valid food stamps EBT card and a govt ID like a drivers license with your mailing address on it. They mail a form to that address within 60 days that you must sign and mail back to them to prove you are who you claim to be. I guess this is for fraud detection.

But if you are homeless, then obviously you will never be able to receive that form in the mail to prove you are who you claim to be. Then after 90 days if you have not returned your form in the mail, your free phone service is terminated.

You can immediately go and get a new Obamaphone, but you will have a new number and a new account. There is no way to port your old number because each carrier has totally separate systems to store your account.

This whole Obamaphone program is extremely wasteful because it is intended to help the homeless, but it is implemented to force the homeless to constantly churn through getting new phones every 90 days. I went through several different Obamaphones because of this. Typical Big Govt inefficiency I guess.

It is too bad that Google is so obsessed with spying on people and blibdly trusting SIM cards because you can still use Wifi on an Obamaphone that has been deactivated for cellular service. I don't know why Google refuses to base 2FA on something other than a SIM card. They already control the hardware through Android, so the phone hardware IMEI ID itself should be able to be used as a unique identifier.

Unmoored, trillion dollar megacorporations on autopilot like Google who are managed by multimillionaires Executives living in Silicon Valley and who are staffed by millionaire developers designing these systems of global information control do not think of the use case needs of the poorest, disadvantaged users who fall through the cracks.
So long as you can reference the correct context for interpreting the data, see: datalisp.is.
Sorry for the poor wording of my response, I knew what you meant. I meant that he’s invested the way he is because he believes in what he’s talking about in terms of macro trends. And then I confusingly recommended reading his printed book, which I’ve found very helpful in understanding what the central banks have been doing, and allowed me to be well positioned for this inflation well before it picked up to where it is now.
Switches switch, routers route.
More seriously, a switch connects multiple endpoints to form a network, while a router connects switches to create a network of networks, and it routes packets between nodes in the most efficient way so one side of a network can communicate with the other side of another network.

At home, some use additional switches to get more ethernet ports.
Let me see if I can nail down the argument here:

- Chinese brand, with Chinese manufacturing: Backdoored.

- Non-Chinese brand, with Chinese manufacturing: Safe.

I mean, do people not realize that most "made in China" electronics is taken directly from a shipping container landing in California straight to reseller's warehouses? I mean, sure, they might spot check a few units here and there for QA, but it is direct from a Chinese factory to your mailbox without often receiving a secondary check.

Even "final manufacturing in the US" is often taking the Chinese made casing and the Chinese made board and mating them in a small operation for a sticker.
There's a way to do this, but it requires fat clients https://indieweb.org/POSSE
There was a very short window of time around 2000 when BeOS was viable as a main OS, at least for a high school kid like me. I think I even got rid of Windows entirely and just had a single BeOS partition for a while. It was sooo fast on my little eMachines computer, which was such a breath of fresh air after having hand me down 386s and such that struggled to boot Windows. The only real trouble I remember was the network stack was kind of buggy and had to be restarted every now and then and I think printing was pretty non-existant.
"Military" does not, by itself, imply nuclear weapons.
Interesting, a few questions:

1. Are you running opnsense in a VM or bare metal?
2.Do you know how much throughput it can handle?
3. Is it fanless? How hot does it get?
Notes have been part of your portable data for a while now.

Doctors who haven't learned to write appropriately (or cryptically) have been foolish for a while.
This idea dates back at least to the early 1990s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_country,_two_systems#Propo...

but it's become radically less popular in Taiwan in the last while specifically because of the ways it's been eroded (first gradually, then very quickly) in Hong Kong.
China Seeks a Quantum Leap in Computing
1. Discord and discourse forum make it easy to get answers and search for solutions

2. Language is evolving in both a low level (Racket on Chez) and high level way (zuo make replacement)

3. Package manager built into the language

4 Gradually typed sister language

5. Compiled

6. Binaries for multiple Oses for easy download

7. Built in GUI library

8. Drracket for an all in one text editor and language solution.

Some schemes/lisps have some of these, but they are either bolted on after the fact, or not widely adopted in that community.
Is the actual tweet (https://twitter.com/quinetweet/status/1309951041321013248) supposed to say "This Tweet is unavailable."?
Because patients should have the right to decide whether and where their confidential medical data is stored.
What they are really doing is offloading the job of persisting data from ES.

So you wouldn't need to use S3 or some s3 emulator like other comments have suggested.

Give the ES cluster a disk it can write to that is guaranteed to be replicated (ie a RAID cluster) and thats it. The limits of object storage (no appending, no in place editing) tend to make those clusters cheaper so you could also run something like Ceph locally. It's probably going to do a better job of persisting data than ES also.
Here are some numbers from QNX. These are old.[1]

[1] http://support.qnx.com/developers/docs/6.5.0/index.jsp?topic...
So electrical engineers could just use a MCU let it power itself of during flight, use passive components (discharging capacitors) to trigger a wakeup after a set time and you are good to go?