skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue has been known and adressed in France for a while (and to my knowledge, France has been pioneer in handling the topic seriously. e.g. see https://www.anfr.fr/liste-actualites/actualite/la-protection... ).

5G base stations have compliant out-of-band emissions so the issue is not "because of 5G" but rather "because radio-altimeters gather energy from adjacent bands" (something we call "blocking"). Not all radio-altimeters are the same, but for some of them there is very little filtering and the only thing that protected them from good old 4G was that the antenna behaves somewhat as a filter and 2.6 GHz was far enough from 4.2 GHz... It may sound silly for a safety-critical equipment, but we really have to think about the really long lifetime of those equipments and think with the context of the time when they were designed/deployed (e.g. if there is only space-to-earth transmission in adjacent bands, why would they put filters that would add insertion loss and cost ? In the 80's there was no 4G/5G in sight...). Probably the aeronautical authorities also failed to inform the relevant issue in due time within the spectrum regulation process, so this has not been known or studied properly at ITU/CEPT/etc in the context of those frequency bands close to 4.2 GHz. It also seems that the radio-altimeters vendors keep a lot of secrecy on the technical details of their equipments (a part of the internal culture which also comes from the dual civil/military use of those systems) so even people who represent civil aviation authorities or aircraft manufacturers such as boeing/airbus in spectrum regulation authorities do not always have full access to the relevant information.

Now the situation is what it is, and the short-term solution is to have some kind of 5G exclusion zones around airports, and of course operators are not happy with this because they paid huge prices for 5G licences and now they discover that they have new/additional constraints around airports... Long-term solution is also an issue, because it is not that simple to put filters on existing equipments (if they change the behavior, the whole computer need to be re-calibrated, and pilots trained, and the whole thing re-certified, which is also not as simple of doing it once and certifying all aircrafts from the same model but really must be done one-by-one in a custom way for every aircraft). I understood that new specs for radio-altimeters will soon be out so we can hope that the situation improves soon as the retrofit will be able to start (even though it will take years), but there is a possibility that even new radio-altimeters may still continue to be vulnerable to blocking in 4-4.2 GHz in order to maintain their required accuracy (I'm no expert in radars but I trust those people who told me). So the issue will be solved with regards to 5G in 3.4-3.8 GHz as deployed in Europe, but maybe not above 4 GHz (which is one reason why it may be better to restrict to low-power/verticals in the future uses in those bands).

Anyway, this is a complex topic as you see...
That appears to be the stance of the NRC(Nuclear Regulatory Commission) as well.
I am sure people will hack and jailbreak this thing in no time.
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Yep, we were easily saving a developer salary per month vs AWS using colo’d hardware even as a very small company. And god help you if you’re trying to run something bandwidth intensive on AWS.
i appreciate your candor. i think you may be right. in my current position, i feel at a loss. i think sometimes people, like me in this case, can feel almost indebted to a company that took a chance on them. i have no professional experience in this field and this was known at time of interview. i feel like i am not being utilized in a fashion where i could actually LEARN instead, but then again i struggle with my own head telling me "well, am i really not prepared to be in this field?". it almost feels like imposter syndrome and i know i am ranting now.

all in all, thank you for mentioning this - i definitely have things to consider.
You can still be fired "for no reason" in CA at any time. It's still at-will employment.
neanderthals have a dna based built in instinctual desire to dominate others and steal their inventions, ideas, copy tools etc.

unlike cro magnon which could make fire neanderthals had to steal it...
Hey, thanks for this! I looked online for the release date of the emacs extension he's using, which dates back to 1997. But he mentioned it being quite old so I didn't know what to put as the (year).
Apple chargers prices are ludicrous everywhere.
A lot of people feel the same way about nation states in which one actor can make decisions which unilaterally transform the earth without majority consensus. The world actually has a long history of political leaders making short-sighted decisions which affected generations to come, can you think of times an individual billionaire has done the same?

I'm personally much more concerned with the concentrated individual power of the likes of Putin or Xi than I am of Buffet or Gates.
6502 assembler, good times with some SID tunes (or armsid) in the background :)
> It costs how much?!

Less than $5/month. Yes, on AWS. Serverless (the genuine kind, which scales to zero with pay-per-request) is pretty much free until you have actual users, and once you have actual users, you have actual revenue to pay your cloud bills. Unless your ($revenue / $hosting_costs) is less than 1.0, in which case, you don't have a business.

> "(LISP) programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing". A specific technology product never exists in a vaccuum — it has to communicate and co-exist with other components in the system. There are costs associated with every choice, often hidden costs.

An odd choice of quote, considering the author is promoting choices that costs orders of magnitude more money in the earliest stages, and inevitably provoke high migration costs when it comes time to move off those platforms.

> Cultivate a culture of ruthlessly fighting complexity

Again, an odd claim. Stacks like AWS Lambda and DynamoDB let me forget about scaling concerns* (asterisk because this is true in the early stages, slightly less true later, but still mostly true compared to traditional architecture). Those concerns absolutely rear their head when handing off to a site like Render that refuses to publish public pricing for their largest database instances, or talk about very common usecases like read replicas for analytics workloads.

> the harsh truth is that neither Lambda Functions, nor Kubernetes, nor Kafka on their own will magically make your app work correctly, be performant and deliver value.

But Redis, PostgreSQL, and PaaS-style service deployment magically will? You mean, early startup CTOs need to actually think about the architecture they propose to build to satisfy business needs? gasp

> "Why do we think this choice will provide the most value for users compared to the alternatives?"

Because serverless means not needing to hire DevOps. Because most companies running Kubernetes do not get anywhere near the ~38+% efficiency (last time I ran the numbers, and that's for production environments, not even including staging/testing/development environments) they need to make Kubernetes more cost-efficient than AWS Lambda, because developers just don't have time to figure out why the hell their services need a guaranteed vCPU, won't perform with less, and in the meantime their services are using less than 20% of the resources they requested - and they particularly don't have time to figure it out when Customer Support is happy, Product is happy, and Finance will cough up whatever budget is needed so long as Engineering says that it's "necessary". Because founders who actually think about optimizing for value, will optimize for what is scarce, and what is actually scarce is not money (plenty of money out there looking for the right investment opportunities that check all the right boxes), it is people. Serverless means hiring fewer people because you hand off undifferentiated heavy lifting.
I completely agree with the criticism of bloat but IMHO that is a problem because the tooling to achieve the "modern software" is bad, not because of the requirements for modern software.

In other words, the criticism is fair but the solution of attempting to freeze time or even try to go back is not right. Sometimes though, when things get very bad going back to the basics and re-do everything can work.
It's Apple's fault if people use knock-off chargers? (And you can't even argue that Apple wants that...)
Javascript is so good we hide it with transpilers so we do not have to use it.
Don't forget:
>The danger posed by Toxoplasmosis

>Cats: theost etically problematic species

>Rats: the reclaiming of a word from use as an expression of human frustration

>The Rat Race: A Uiquely Human Phenomena, Misattributed

>The Ultimate Question: Have you all figured it out, yet?
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It's a joke. Or at least I've interpreted it as such. Still true that you always spend more time terraforming the little things compared to what you expected.
The journey [to Mecca] took Musa and his companions through the Sahara desert and Egypt, reaching Cairo, where the emperor would generously splash his cash – or gold, in this case – in the capital. He spent so much gold that he destabilised the local economy and caused mass inflation for 10 years after his departure.

If only they had speculators so he could have made an extra killing shorting the markets, then he'd really topple Musk for all time ;P ;) xx ;p
The level of wrong we can ascribe to holding two jobs when you’re not allowed to is minute and individual. A giant, rent-seeking POS like EFX (who already has proven itself negligent in handling sensitive data) exploiting their data for purposes it’s not intended for is much more alarming and far reaching.
this is where i get stuck - the operators on the shop floor use the program to print their labels, whereas a sales person in the office is using the program to draft purchase orders. it is an absolute beast software and i think i am just getting... in my head.

thanks for the "calm down" it sincerely helps. i will continue to ask around here, as communication is probably the best tool i have at my disposal right now.

thanks again -
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> 1. The lawsuit started when Apple dropped the chargers coming with the phone, but had just changed the cable connection, so you would need a new charger anyway.

That makes no sense, Lightning was introduced in 2012. And the older Dock Connector chargers had detachable USB cables (I don't remember Apple ever using bonded chargers), so you could have used your existing charger with a new cable.

And an other commenter reports that the judge commented:

> telling Apple that it could help the environment in other ways, such as giving its devices USB-C support.

But Lightning predates USB-C by 2 years. There was no USB-C to switch to when Apple introduced Lightning.

And I can understand and emphasise with immediately switching over from and obsoleting all the "brand new" Lighting-based docks & co.

Apple has started the switch with a few ipads (and obviously all the macs), and I've been expecting the deprecation of Lightning this year or the next, as it's been a decade, which is about how long the Dock Connector existed before the introduction of Lightning (though it survived Lightning for a few years in older devices and developing countries, IIRC Apple stopped selling the last dock connector device around 2015).

> 4. If Apple doesn't give the charger, or sell it really cheap, Brazillians WILL use chinese knockoffs that set themselves on fire, it is just the reality in the country where all tech is crazy expensive.

But how is that Apple's responsibility? And surely they'll do that either way so they can have multiple chargers?
You can investigate whatever you want.

If you read the article and look at the differences, they fired the Equifax employees outright. They "flagged" a bunch of contractors. That almost certainly means they sent that list of contractors to their employer companies and requested additional verification of hours and/or requested they be removed from their projects.
They're actively lobbying to raise the taxes of their tax bracket. That's the opposite of empty virtue signalling. Their messaging is "people like us don't pay enough taxes, please raise the taxes people like us have to pay". That's a concrete, actionable demand that directly goes against their supposed interest. Unless you can demonstrate that they're being disingeneous and go behind their own backs to sabotage any actual attempts at tax reform, you have no argument.

I gave this as an example of people asking for a systemic solution that goes against their own self interest but solves a systemic problem that is bad for society as a whole. "Why don't they just give away their money" is an individualistic "solution" that does nothing to fix the systemic problem except going against their self interest.

Of course this assumes you agree with them that them being able to have so much money is a systemic problem worth addressing, i.e. that the system needs to be changed. "The law forcing them" is literally the system being changed. Because, as I said, the system incentivizes harsh competition and maximizing personal financial gain, so without changing the system there is no incentive for any individual to give up their excessive wealth if nobody else will.

If you are desperate to find hypocrisy, you'll have more success looking at "philanthropists" who argue against having to pay higher taxes but instead "give away" their money to their own charities (which just happen to shuffle that money back into their own companies).

EDIT: I see now that you were thinking of the exact billionaire philanthropists I mention as an example for actual hypocrisy, so I guess we agree on the hypocrisy, you just weren't aware of the group of people I was referencing.
Welcome! Remember to read https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html , post interesting thing and make civil and substancial comments.
From the discussion:

> The function allows you to display images of arbitrary HTML elements on your page! And the best thing is: it's live! Try selecting some text or scroll around to see lazy-loaded images kicking in. It's magic!

Edit: I'm not sure if Firefox is the only browser to support it anymore and I see LibreWolf that is forked from the newest Firefox doesn't show it so I guess there is some browser sniffing (uncool) going on here too, not only feature detection.
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What I find amusing is that some third party devs and I believe some official devs at Linden Lab already figured out how to do real time animation with the XBox Kinnect way back in the 2010s. I knew a guy, named Dasaved, who use to play with this functionality all the time in one of the old hangouts (he passed away many years ago unfortunately). So this isn't exactly new tech. I find it odd that the devs at Meta couldn't take a survey of prior art to figure out how to handle this. VR Chat has gotten this down pretty well from what I've seen.
You must be lucky. My cellphone carrier used to injects scripts and ads on plain http requests. Imagine seeing ads on wikipedia. Now that https is everywhere, this behavior is largely stop.
> It's interesting to me how much people are trained to reflex against this possibility.

It's good to have skepticism about anything additive, as these decisions affect everybody and can have unexpected outcomes, for example using detergent to break up oil spills can make the effects worse on coral https://www.livescience.com/4567-bad-worse-oil-spills-cleane...

I'm not saying the proposed solution is good or bad, but trying new things on a big scale can have unexpected outcomes, and it's good to be wary.
And they do exactly that right now (include a C->Lightning cable).
It's a nasty sexist lie.

The person had no relevant degree (as is the case for most people working in security roles, because such degrees didn't exist until very recently).

The person did have a literal decades of relevant experience, working in security.
Pinatubo already did this. The side effects have already been observed. We survived. This is not a permanent solution, so much as a hotfix (heh) while we develop more sustainable solutions.

If I were a wealthy truck-stop billionaire, I'd probably do this without asking anybody. If I were the head of a global NGO, I'd be advocating for this.
In my experience Terraform was a horrible pain point, and yet I'd happily suffer it again. We can spin up and spin down transient UAT environments which are pristine and match PROD exactly in a matter of seconds and we can robustly test infrastructure changes. The improvement in developer productivity that entailed was worth the cost.
In The Netherlands 5g rollout is being delayed over and over again due to a single satellite communication station, used for NATO signal interception and a ship-to-shore communication downlink.
> raise your concerns with your bosses boss.

100% this. "I would love to help with this but I honestly don't think it is safe for me to try."
> SecureDrop – Freedom of the Press Foundation @ GitHub : https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/

Freedom of press lives on a Microsoft site.
Hm, let us see. 10 seconds on google and wikipedia revealed:

"Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, psycholinguist, popular science author and public intellectual. He is an advocate of evolutionary psychology and the computational theory of mind."

"Daniel Clement Dennett III is an American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist whose research centers on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology, particularly as those fields relate to evolutionary biology and cognitive science."

Not even remotely connected, you say?
A faster network is going to have a marginal effect on software getting slower. There are a lot of factors at play: network speed, cpu power, local caches, etc. The speed of the network driver is one factor among many and I'd be surprised if were the most common bottleneck.

The operators of websites that derive most of their revenue from advertising are going to run their sites at whatever level users will tolerate. Where network drivers are faster they'll either cram in more ad tracking, or won't bother optimizing their existing trackers. If users stop accessing sites because they're too slow to load, operators will either cut down on ad tracking, or more likely, put some effort into optimizing the performance of their ad trackers.

Rust is itself something of an architectural revolution. I believe network drivers in userspace is already a thing, and eBPF may also have a role here. All of this is worth exploring. This is what progress in Linux looks like.
Hmm. Ignoring the "SpaceX is a for-profit corporation, seeing to make a profit" angles...does anyone else suspect that Elan's security folks and parents might have had a Real Talk with him? About how cool it feels to be King of Space, rocketing in to rescue Poor Ukraine from Evil Russia. Vs. the real-world situation - where playing at being a King, in a world of nations-states, some of which are inclined to kidnap/imprison/kill those they perceive to be their enemies, is Not Smart. And "hiding" his support for Ukraine behind the usual & accepted social norms and institutions for such things - like a contract with the Pentagon, spelling out the exact terms of the deal, same as any company providing radios or bullets or food service for them - would really be the wiser way to go?
This is a dear question for me and it took me many years to figure out. For many people, occasional drinking is fine, but for me, small amounts of alcohol will mess with my sleep and health. So I would fix it for a while, but because alcohol is socially acceptable, I would occasionally have a drink and then a few weeks later I was back in the habit of a few drinks a week, which meant poor health.
The answer for me eventually was to write a blog post to myself:
https://blog.jtoy.net/stop-drinking-all-alcohol/
After writing that and occasionally going back to reread it, I don't drink at all :) I hope it helps.
You can call it focusing on revenue if you want, but the reason carriers are willing to pay so much for it is because it is so useful. The 280MHz of C-Band spectrum is close to 2TB/s of data throughput. That is a massive benefit to our society.

If we only cared about safety, zero planes would be in the air right now. But sometimes usefulness outweighs safety.

And the money-grubber argument could easily go both ways. The airlines bought radar altimeters that were out of spec. They could buy radar altimeters that are in spec and just as safe, but that would cost money. You could just as easily spin that as the FAA only caring about money.
A super simple way is to have a script in your home directory - far away from your repos - that set environment variables that you read in your configuration.
Alternatively this is one of those things that, maybe, if it all goes well, you could leverage for a promotion and pay raise.

Of course, there's a lot of context that we don't really have access to but that's another thing to consider.
That's brilliant and super fun.
“beacown” apparently: https://github.com/PurpleVsGreen/beacown

Though that may not be a generally used name as yet.
For woodworking: https://www.lumberjocks.com/
My bridge between professional programming and hobby electronics was FPGAs.
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These kind of blog posts treat this as a technical problem instead of a business problem.

Until you get some unicorn that says "we are profitable at price $X and all of our competitors are losing money at $X + $Y, and it's because of our software architecture and infrastructure choices", nobody is going to be convinced.
What kind of latency would this introduce on packet processing? A context switch used to be measured in microseconds. I don't have a linux system here to run lmbench on, and I wonder what the level of latency would be on a modern system.
I think it is the job of your boss to provide you with access. That should obviously happened sooner but I would still enjoy the weekend. It may be your last one.

Kidding, wouldn't worry too much. If your boss works in IT he is probably used to getting called when not in the office. Maybe just tell him you are nervous because of the update. But I very much doubt anyone would blame you if there are any difficulties.
Curious, how are Pinker and Dennett opposed wrt. "new atheism"?
I always wondered why the phonograph wasn't invented earlier! As soon as people were able to build geared mechanisms, they should have had the machining skills to build a simple cylinder photograph.
> Hopefully it will become better/more generally useful within a decade

This is kind of what Apple has always done: bring a new (cool) thing to the consumer, even if it isn't as good as it sounds. But so far they seem to catch up and make it good after a couple of iterations.

And in this case it puts that checkbox in the consumer's mind, so other manufacturers will probably put some effort into matching or exceeding it.

If I were planning on being in places with no coverage and some risk, I would buy one of the relatively inexpensive Garmin satellite comm/safety devices. But most normal, non-wilderness-adventure people are not going to do that. Maybe this Apple feature will save a few people.
There were no floods prior to the Industrial Revolution, I take it?
19 million dollars sounds like a lot of money to me, but it's minuscule to a company the size of Apple.

861,000 tons of copper, zinc, and tin sounds like a lot of metal to me. Is it minuscule at Apple's manufacturing scale?
I disagree. As a small company, having all the various AWS services available is a major competitive advantage.