skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key to happiness in WiFi is that all the stations have to "hear" each other, or the listen-before-talk algorithm can't work and you end up stepping on valid transmissions that you can't hear. This ruins it for the stations that are the targets of that transmission but can also hear the first station. This is why WiFi tends to degrade at longer ranges; with a topology like <computer A> <---> <access point> <----> <computer B>, both computers can hear the access point, but can't hear each other. This means that they step on each other when talking to the access point; when this happens, the access point sees the sum of the two signals which is has to discard as garbage. As a result, whenever you see enterprise WiFi that actually works, you'll probably be able to see a ton of access points covering a large room. This is so that they can transmit at low power, causing devices in the above topology to roam to a different access point before they enter the failure mode of not hearing other stations connected to that access point.

Now that I think about it, in OP's case, it's quite possible that the iPad can "hear" the microwave, but the access point can't, so the access point will send out its SSID broadcast while the microwave is interfering. This is great because you WANT that packet to get corrupted. So maybe the microwave does help!
>I don't understand why so many people use the discounted price as reference.

Or when they only use it to make the Apple pricing seem more favorable and ignore it when it comes to PC pricing. Most PC manufacturers also have educational pricing, whether directly or through some portal provided by your institution. I know my son's college had a deal and also had a list of the tax free days in the state so that you could pre-order and then pay and pick up on the day the tax didn't apply.
Manjaro Linux prepares to enable telemetry by default - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42043539 - Nov 2024 (100 comments)
Delegation isn’t just about offloading tasks; it’s about leveraging team expertise
i thought the resistors were just the lines on the mondrain painting, my mistake.
I was having this discussion with a workmate. Where this approach really shines is when you need arrange a number of recipe (for example, for a dinner party). Being able to put together different recipe modules into a meal, then know when to do each section would be fun. Though totally over thinking it.
Hiragana (or rather Katakana) alone could never be enough to allow businesses and government institutions to use computers for their daily tasks. These scripts are not just different ways of writing the same things, but rather certain classes of words or certain words in certain contexts tend to use certain scripts. I doubt a fairly conservative society like Japan's would have switched to Katakana for legal documents just to accomodate computers.
If so then I'll be doubly frustrated - I've been assured by our domain experts that this is a requirement of the model.

Did it used to be and was since retracted? I suppose it may be a local or state-based 'implementation augmentation'.

I've trawled just now through the signals directorate site and can find plenty of references to passwords, but nothing specifically covering this.
That's wrong on two points.

First, they haven't obfuscated that; it's not present at all.

Second, your first step is that your hotel falsely inflates customer income. Then you follow up with some pointless additional steps. But if you can falsely inflate customer income, your job as a money launderer is already done. There are no additional steps. Spending revenue from your company on spurious invoices from another company is how you'd pay a bribe, not launder money.
I believe they always do that with the ION line which has crap endurance for random writes (relative to the average datacenter SSD), so I assume it's a way to reassure customers that the non random is not that bad.
They're using Fourier transforms to focus on frequencies of acceleration associated with subway travel; gravity should mostly fall out as an independent factor.
Early Android dev had a guide on how devs could pick the best location from various sources individually, and it was massive pain with dubious results.
There's no container support on macOS unfortunately, except for the frontends for linux virtual machines.

(Well they do have a thing called containers, but it's a desktop app security/sandboxing feature that does something conceptually different)
It may be a local thing in Bay area, but usually there’s some way to get some discount when making a purchase with Apple - be it via education, or via a corporate discount (just show your badge from another company), or via a friend who works at Apple, or some big retailers start selling at good discount (eg Amazon easily gets 5-10% lower price over time).

Anecdotally, last week I visited a local Apple Store with my son who is in middle school. Without any prompting from us, the Apple rep asked my son if he is planning to go to college some day, and applied the college discount to our purchase without my son saying much…
Well, you are not a GPS satellite, so you are indeed spoofing military equipment.

On a serious note, I recall that smartphone location in metro in my city started to "just work" as soon as all stations and tunnels had indoor cell towers. Suddenly all apps worked fine and I forgot that problem ever existed.

Modern location detection is as scary as it is amazing.
Can you hear the difference? Even with mp3, it gets hard at high bitrates.
>which only further supports your argument directly, as the EDU discount isn't universally attainable

Pay someone with an edu account to complete the purchase for you. Also, they are commonly available for community college students, including those taking free classes.
That is not my motivation for using a Linux system, it does play a part, but it's far from the entire point for me and I suspect many others as well.
I agree, "timestamp with time zone" is a terribly misleading name and personally I don't use that type very much.
I’ve been to Japan many times now and have sampled a lot of konbini food and have come to realize that a lot of it is just as junky as the food you can find at 7-11 here. The initial novelty was that it was Japanese junk food.

Don’t get me wrong: I will still absolutely f’ up a steak and cheese roller from 7-11 in the states and will continue to eat konbini food when I’m in Japan, but all of it is kind of mediocre. They hit the spot like (American) Denny’s at 2am.
Full nostalgia for me: The keyboard bios bricks itself, if I unplug the keyboard while the system is up.

Old days were hard before USB showed up.
Yep, a 'Saturn-sized' brown dwarf would have Saturn's radius but vastly more mass
Seems like you could do a better job of tracking progress between stations by detecting the specific acceleration signature of each segment of track. At least for tracks that are not completely straight and level. Somewhat similar to the first primitive in-car navigation systems before GPS, that worked on dead reckoning with drift correction by matching the shape of the measured path to map data.
Ah, thanks I misunderstood.
No, the difference is cultural. Japanese people are very capable, but the flipside of that is they don't need tools to get stuff done. This is why their software sucks fucking donkey arse balls, and I say that as a Japanese myself.

To put this in a more relatable way: Most people will invent apple peelers to peel apples, and make better peelers to make peeling easier. Some will just be lazy bastards and eat the apple skin and all. Japanese peel the apple with just an ordinary kitchen knife, their cutlery technology thus never advances beyond kitchen knife because "Why?".

Japanese simply cannot grasp the appreciation of good tools made for purpose because they can do everything with their bare hands, they can't understand WTF good software is because they don't need it and don't use it.
Regarding the “realism” proposed here, that leadership defines what shipping means: there’s a good faith and bad faith interpretation.

The bad faith interpretation is that this is corrupt and misaligned.

The good faith interpretation is that each leader has context and motivations that are important.

The right interpretation depends on the exact circumstance.

Getting leaders aligned on the right definition of “shipped” is a separate problem to the one described here, and it’s not the project lead’s direct responsibility. It’s the responsibility of the leadership team, the CEO, and the board.

But the realism proposed in the post is useful for project leads. Meeting leadership’s expectation is not necessarily corrupt, and if it is corrupt, it can be improved by directly discussing and negotiating what it means to ship a project.
> Europeans with adult stable jobs fly Ryanair and Easyjet because this is the best that they can afford on European salaries.

Nonsense. It's because they're sufficiently cheaper on certain routes, and when you're taking multiple trips a year, the price difference accumulates; and also because they have very good point to point service, so if you live in a non-hub for the national airline city - a Bordeaux, Lyon, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Köln, Varna, etc, your flight options are a flight with a connection in the hub, or a direct flight with a low cost carrier to a destination.
I’ve been building a Docker Swarm based server dashboard for a couple years now. It should help with some of problems mentioned in the post: https://lunni.dev/

I like the ideas mentioned though! Docker Compose is pretty good, but something more declarative would definitely be a plus. Would love to see where the project goes (and maybe will borrow some things for the future versions of mine :-)
Is there always a great reference for which way down is, given that the phone can be in various orientations? You might have to do some other heuristics / build some other model for that to figure out which axis to subtract your 9.8 m/s^2 from - maybe it's easier not to worry about it.
> The ideal here is to have many injection points that can be inflated to a degree that doesn't quite raise suspicion .. and fewer collection filters (fake plumbing businesses, etc) that each 'charge' several injection points for non existant work and pool money that's invoiced and trackable (from hotel to plumber).

You might note that this scheme doesn't involve you owning the hotel to any degree. You only need to own the plumbing business. That's the opposite of the situation on the show.
It’s impressive how much they offer: from meals, snacks and fresh coffee to bill payment, ATMs, and even clothing basics
Yeah I was confused, I assumed all the 51xx were the older 8088 models.
> South Korea has a market of 51 million and an equally horrendous English language fluency

This shows that even on HN, all you have to do is sound confident.

Anyone who has spent a lot of time residing in both countries could tell you this is not true. English proficiency levels are significantly higher in Korea, to the extent that this difference has a societal and business impact on each country.
I have little confidence that a bug report I make to a large company is read by anyone. Particularly when it's in a generic feedback form. That applies to feedback for Google products.

I suspect this post on HN is more likely to make its way back to a Gboard Developer than submitting feedback in the app.
It’s not the airline, it’s the other passengers.
VW launches $5.8B tie-up with Tesla rival Rivian
Show HN: Browser extension to stop Google country redirection in Incognito mode
Hi HN!

I prefer to browse the web in English, but Google disagrees, diligently trying to localize itself according to the country it geo-locates me to.

Thankfully, they also a provide a special URL at https://google.com/ncr (no country redirect) that disables the redirection.
That's all well and good, but this doesn't work well if you like browsing in Incognito mode, since all the cookies get reset each session.

After being regularly annoyed by this for a few years, I wrote an extension (currently for Chrome and Firefox) that solves this Incognito NCR problem.
Under the hood, browsing to https://google.com/ncr works by giving you a new NID cookie, which according to Google "contains a unique ID Google uses to remember your preferences".
Each time you open a new Incognito session, the extension sets a fresh NID cookie received from a request to https://google.com/ncr, disabling country redirection.
Since you get a new cookie each session, it should not negatively affect the privacy of Incognito sessions.

Happy to hear any feedback you have!
Having the train use Bluetooth Low Energy advertising to broadcast its location and some other data, like time-to-next station, next station name, would be a nice feature.

GPS spoofing should not be done in my opinion until the negative side-effects are well understood.
I used Qwant a lot in its early phase, but then they decided to become yahoo-esque and also removed the lite version, hence I went back to ddg and brave.
I've been doing manual accounting with spreadsheets for years, while looking for a smarter system. I wonder if your solution gives satisfactory answers to the issues I struggle with:

1. Entries in one month's CSV file may be repeated in the previous or following month's CSV file, typically movements at the beginning or end of the month that the bank takes some time to record, or adjusts later. Is this familiar with you and how do you address it? Is your system robust against it?

2. Credit card: the total amount for a month is one single entry in the bank's CSV file, while a separate CSV file contains all the details. Do you rely on accounts to handle this indirect flow, e.g. one transaction of 1000$ from checking to cc, based on the single entry of the bank's CSV, then several transactions from cc to the various expense categories, based on the details CSV, and checking that the cc account has a zero balance?

3. Some utility companies bill every 2 or 3 months. This makes monthly stats meaningless (why is September so high compared to August? did I spent too much or is it the effect of the phone bill of the previous quarter?). Do you make any effort at trying to allocate such expenses to the month(s) when the cost originated, rather when it's billed?
> For many people self-hosting implies a personal server; it's not really "development" but it's not "production" either.

There's Docker swarm mode for that. It supports clustering too.

It's nuts how people look at a developer tool designed to quickly launch a preconfigured set of containers and think it's reasonable to use it to launch production services.

It's even more baffling how anyone looks at a container orchestration tool and complains it doesn't backup the database they just rolled out.

> In that context many people find k8s or other PaaS to be too heavyweight so Docker Compose is pretty popular.

...and proceed to put pressure to shitify it by arguing it should do database backups, something that even Kubernetes stays clear from.

The blogger doesn't even seem to have done any research whatsoever on reverse proxies. If he would have done so, in the very least he would have eventually stumbled upon Traefik which in Docker solves absolutely everything he's complaining about. He would also have researchdd what it means to support TLS and how this is not a container orchestration responsibility.

Quite bluntly, this blog post reads as if it was written by someone who researched nothing on the topic and decided instead to jump to
There is this community, not sure if it's still active, if you join let me know!

https://wip.co/
Even the component model has nothing to say about the concept of methods. All you have are top-level functions with immutable arguments and immutable results. You can't hold on to an instance of an object created by the other language. You could hold an integer handle, but then you don't get garbage collection across the two languages.

So no, we're still a long way from the abstractions of a JVM, even taking the component model into account.

It's a good step in the direction of better interoperability between languages, though, don't get me wrong.
> The definition is that a brown dwarf forms like a star through gravitational collapse within a protostellar nebula

Do you have a cite on that? (It conflicts with Wikipedia, for example.) In particular, I suspect that many people read something that describes how a certain type of star is thought to typically form and then interpret that as a definition.
Control of the hotel is required - that's the cash business that fabricates fake customers and orders non existent repair and upgrade work.

The work is billed by fake (or better, partially fake) contractors who do no work but charge for time, labor and supplies.

It's a funnel with many cash casual customer locations inflate their intake and spend the excess on illusionary busywork "performed" by the next tier in the pyramid.

The entire paper tiger is controlled by the same entity .. who likely firewall and partition sections away (eg: the part that Marty did in Ozark (I read the synopsis) would be the cash flow in and a good number of lower level shell companies that he indirectly controlled) from each other and only are connected in a legal way to the upper layers that have documentation for their inputs from below.
One of the best ways to get good at delivering actionable feedback is to practice a bunch of times!

It's slow and tough to get enough reps in real-life. Eventually, you'll get there.

But you can accelerate your learning by doing AI roleplays with a product like https://www.exec.com/ai-roleplays
Gas stations in the US offer such things too, but it's typically the larger ones attracting interstate traffic, not the little ones in the middle of towns.
> No one is asking for your compassion or complaining,

That's a straight-up lie. Read the comments here. People declaring themselves miserable are asking for compassion.
The search credit model sounds great. I would probably also pay Youtube credit. I use it too rarely that paying their monthly rate makes sense. The user experience with ads sucks, so I further try to reduce my usage. At least that's good for the environment and I can do more useful things.
Also appreciate the reference. I just realized you're the libriscv author (and as pointed out includeOS contributor). Love all your work!
Probably before llms figure it out
> My understanding is that smaller rouge plants do not form in isolation and are always the product of ejection.

Wikipedia says "Rogue planets may originate from planetary systems in which they are formed and later ejected, or they can also form on their own, outside a planetary system."
+1

If not phones, I wish there were at least phone cases with side buttons and dial or two.

(In the health sector, some device manufacturers replaced physical knobs with to touch screens and they suck so much.)
... while inferring from the overall feel of the piece when and where the piece was composed, and what compositional frameworks the composer may be using, so that it can use the correct dialect.

Good chord symbols indicate not only function, but also the composer's intention.

Debussy probably needs different chord symbols from a 1930s Broadway tune, which needs different chord symbols from 1960s jazz leadsheet, which needs different chord symbols for a 21st century jazz composition inspired by Dave Leibman's See "A Chromatic Approach to Jazz Harmony", which is where chord symbols go do die. Seriously. Liebman's chord notation style for quartal chords is influential, if not authoritative.
One of the main reasons I am bearish on Sakana.AI is that for a Japanese-first LLM to work you need to solve a context sensitive language where all 4 alphabets intermingle in a given body of text. So when you are hiring Japanese-speaking PhD's (an already small market), to solve this problem you are moving your attention away from building a great product to optimizing edge cases.
I'm a game dev, and it's useful for me to have stats about how frequently abilities are used, what items players use, etc. to tune game systems. I've often thought it would be really easy to collect telemetry-- send a json blob with some info about actions players take in game -- but I want to make this both transparent and useful to players too.

I know that telemetry should be opt in, but no players will ever turn it on. And that leads to a conundrum- do I incentivize turning it on? Make it opt out? Gate some features (like heat maps on a play session or skill visualizations) behind it?

Would it be useful to have the ability to see exactly what was sent? Like, I could show a telemetry json or yaml blob in the options screen to show what events I collect. Would it be useful to have fine grained telemetry controls, like, the ability to toggle any arbitrary telemetry event from being fired?

It's a tough spot to be in, as a dev, to want insight into how people interact with your system, while also wanting to give people a chance to decline.
Same here, we never use compose in production.

There is already a third version of compose.
> but out of curiosity how much of your time do you spend in air conditioned environments?

Over 30y, I can give all possible answers to that question. I was 15y in scouting leadership. During June-Aug, I would be outdoors for weeks at a time. What I got used to was feeling sick every day.

That said, early heat stroke symptoms get old after a decade or three. Now I go outside after sunset.
> It's basically the same error when naively wielding the scientific method so as to conflate "unproven" and "disproven".

That is not what I wrote, at all.

> The appropriate attitude for scientists is agnosticism, but this hints that you already have your preferred answer. Skepticism should cut both ways.

Skepticism means not accepting an argument at face value without some kind of validation. Something that is partly supported by evidence can be used temporarily as the best current explanation and be discarded or improved in the face of new evidence.

What really rubs me the wrong way is people using skepticism as a weapon of disinformation and rhetorical argument. The first thing to be skeptical of is yourself, because 1) as an individual you are very likely to get carried away by ideology or emotion and 2) this is very difficult to correct because you’re using your own brain to assess and correct itself. If your pet theory is unsupported by evidence and you need a whole scaffold of conspiracy theories for it to make some kind of sense, then the first target of skepticism is yourself, not the others. And you really cannot blame other people to point that out.

> Logically, if you'd have trouble proving the existence of our own contemporary cities after the passage of geological time, then you'd likely have trouble with any other cities.

There is a logical misstep here. We have no trouble whatsoever proving that cities existed, even if we did not find every individual city. For the whole Atlantis thing to make sense, you’d need a whole species able to build cities and manipulate climate intentionally or not, and yet they never left any trace outside this specific location, and something cataclysmic that at the same time also left no trace. It’s not a problem of lack of people looking for it, either. I am really sorry if it annoys you but here it is: the whole thing is entirely unsupported. Show some evidence and this will change. Do your work: it’s not a religion and we are not supposed to accept unfounded beliefs.

> And for archaeology specifically, new discoveries happen all the time, more frequently than say fundamental physics, so more humility also seems appropriate.

You are making that mistake again, so let me reiterate: an evolving field of knowledge does not mean that an unproven theory has any weight and should be accepted uncritically just because someone might find it in the future. Though I do agree on humility, but humility is not only for others, just like skepticism.