skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't had an Android device for a number of years now but my guess is "no" from the device side unless you're going to go make your own custom firmware with Wi-Fi settings tweaked or newer Wi-Fi drivers which handle roaming better.

If your router and device support 802.11 k/v/r it can help, most likely the AP does unless it's particularly ancient and Android has supported all of these since 8.0. Ironically, lowering the AP's power can help too (it'll cause the client to see the farther AP as weaker sooner) but obviously that lowers overall coverage at the same time... so it's a tradeoff unless you're willing to deploy more APs to make up for the lower power. Make sure you're restricting advertised rates from your AP to not include the slowest/oldest standards as well. That'll make the client less able to hold on as the connection gets weaker and weaker. Like the power recommendation, this means at the fringes of your coverage you'll get "no connection" rather than "a bad connection" but it'll make the overall airspace healthier.

If nothing else works and you can't fix the client because you lack full control (or a reasonable way to update it) then you can still try falling back to steering clients via hints from the AP (if it supports it) just keep in mind it also may not work and also may cause problems with other devices which were working fine. Or you may get lucky, worth a shot if you've tried everything else first.

As a note: My experience comes from designing and fixing enterprise wireless deployments so if there are any tricks specific to low AP count environments I would be somewhat ignorant of them. The same could be said if there are more easily accessible wireless controls in Android than I am familiar with as, if there are, I still couldn't use them as different guests walk in each day and they all need to work.
My favorite band of all time is Led Zeppelin. A large number of their songs especially in the early albums were heavily influence by black blues artists or so close that they later had to give songwriting credits to the original black artist.

Elvis also sang lots of blues songs originally created by black Americans.

https://msbluestrail.org/blues-trail-markers/elvis-presley
Since the title mentions the NDA, I have to say that sending an NDA in this situation does not sound malicious to me, it's just bureaucratic incompetence from the legal department. It's the Cloudflare engineers that are being malicious.
Yes, I love Cloudflare’s products, but the way they interact with the community and the internet ecosystem at large leaves a lot to be desired.
Sound weapon used at protest in Belgrade [video]
Instead of 1 billion miles, we're 999,999,999 miles away.

Very thin gruel in this piece. Basically, the James Webb Telescope can see things far away.
I grew up in a small town near four corners and as a pre-teen and teen during the summers I probably spent every 3rd night outdoors, hiking to some new place in the backcountry. I didn't have money and sure didn't have "gear". Outdoors stuff, which used to be a basically fiscally free hobby, has somehow turned into one of the most expensive hobbies one can get into. I've sometimes fallen victim to the latter three points and try to constantly remind myself that I used to do backpacking trips with nothing but a canteen, box of matches, a few cans of beans or soup, and jeans.
There is always the answer "some users" found it too political, or not technical related and down voted. Maybe because YCombinator has a certain user base that skews towards being pro Tesla. I don't know how many bots are running here.

Either way, negative Tesla articles are usually "flagged" within a few hours.
This feels like email all over again. In the early days of email, everyone had their own IMAP server, and it was good. Then spam happened. Slowly it got harder and harder to jump through all the hoops needed to ensure your email was delivered to users of gmail and other large email hosts. Even if you were willing to filter all the spam out from your own inbox, it became practically impossible to get delivered to most other users.

I wonder if we will see something similar happen with browsers now. Cloudflare and other proxies will rely on increasing levels of fingerprinting to sift out scrapers and bots. Already it's not uncommon to get false positives on Linux+Firefox. Maybe if our overlords are feeling particularly benevolent, Firefox might make the cut for browsers allowed to access the vast majority of sites behind CF, but anything smaller will be blocked. Effectively this will kill rolling your own browser.
Being this article is 5 years old, it’s likely just Baader-Meinhof, feels like it happens to me every time I learn a new interesting word or concept—seems like I start seeing it everywhere.
According to the latest stack overflow dev survey 74% of respondents use vs code. I think it's a pretty safe statement.
> CF should not be in a position to determine which UAs are viable on the Internet

Site operators explicitly subscribe to their DDoS protection service. They're not intercepting random traffic they don't terminate.

How do you propose we solve the bot problem? The Internet is a digital Mos Eisley cantina. The "come one, come all" approach isn't viable in 2025.

What if a server operator decided to block Pale Moon user agents? Is that his right? What about blocking bot user agents? How is that any different?

They are fighting a losing battle. Like running your own SMTP server in 2025 and expecting the big dogs (Google and Microsoft) to accept your mail and play by anyone's rules but their own.
Why, exactly, is Arc dying?
Wow. I would never guess it was so hard to convince someone of this.

“The code I write doesn’t have XSS or SQL injection vulnerabilities,” sure. At least those are plausible things to believe.

Client side validation?? How could anybody believe in that?
This was my first instinct as well, which makes sure numbers are adjacent. OP also mentioned this variant as lucidBrot/hexgridspiral in the older post.
I do wonder why people still publish on Medium. There was a time when Medium probably (for no particular reason carried credibility (for no partucularly good reason over a random blog post. But these days the negatives seem like they outweigh any small positives.
From what I can see, there’s reasonable competitors for CF’s offerings, but extremely limited parallels to their free tier. The free tier is the killer.
I tend to listen to a lot of electronic music, and am always looking for new recommendations myself. My taste for 90s stuff has typically run more toward Eurodance/Eurobeat and House and J-pop for more recent things.

Here are some random recommendations:

Daft Punk

Anything on the "Blade" soundtrack

Pretty much any Eurobeat featured in the anime Initial D. e.g. Dave Rodgers, Manuel, Fastway, Go2, m.o.v.e.

2 Unlimited - Get Ready, Twilight Zone, Tribal Dance, No Limit

Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam

Le Click - Tonight is the Night

La Bouche - Be My Lover

Mr Vain - Culture Beat

Black Box - Ride on Time, Strike it Up, I Don't Know Anybody Else (technically 80s, early house music)

The Shamen - Move Any Mountain

Livin' Joy - Don't Stop Movin'

Bonus, more recent: Destination Calabria (Alex Gaudino, Crystal Waters)

Bonus, 1979: Kraftwerk's album "The Man Machine"
That would be believable if they then retracted this demand and worked with PaleMoon in good spirit. This has not transpired. How long can an "oopsie, honest mistake" continue without an apology or a correction before it is obviously not an honest mistake but a slightly veiled "go fuck yourself"?
Show HN: CAD Software Hub – A Directory Built with Django, Htmx and Tailwind
I built this directory website for CAD-related software as a side project, using HN's favorite web-dev stack: Django, Postgres, HTMX and Tailwind.

Some of the problems I encountered while building it:

1. hx-boost always messes up loading via links. I tried several methods to fix it, but finally decided to drop it altogether.

2. Even for this very simple website, using Gunicorn with asgi and setting the workers to be more than one can consume quite a lot of memory (400-500 MB). Daphne is more efficient (~200 MB) though I can't control the number of workers.

3. I have to deal with FOUC specifically for Firefox browsers. Chromium-based browsers don't have such a problem.

Overall it is a quite easy and pleasant development experience. Any suggestions or critiques are appreciated.
> If they did, they would be using a "bare" microcontroller better suited for their needs and costing one tenth the price.

Where do you get something like an ESP that's one tenth the price? ESPs are cheap and you can run Arduino, ESP-IDF directly, or fringe environments (I had some ESP8266 running NodeMCU because Lua made more sense to me than Arduino).
I suspect 5yo won’t be arrested for hit and run either. What matters is the intent and the punishment proportional to the harm. If someone is doing unacceptable acts to my property I should have a way to disincentivize the act.
Yes, I have no interest in backpacking/camping at all, but every time I walk by a Snow Peak I want to buy the entire store and take up the hobby.
I know Amazon tried. I haven't heard of Google trying. Sure they started Stadia but they had no internal game dev teams that I know of.

I have hard of MS's issues. The biggest issue is a game dev team is generally lead by a game-director. It's not a "design by committee, come to consensus" type of thing like software dev is at Amazon, Google, Microsoft. The way work happens is not the same. They might look superficially similar but as a simple example, at typical game dev team is 70% artists, 20% game designers, 10% software engineers (+/-) where as a typical team at Amazon, Google, MS is 95% software engineers.
OIDC is better than SAML, but that isn't a high bar. And OIDC has its own problems.
> find a bunch of Lego fan gamers and hire them to make experimental games

I love this idea, imagine if Lego had an open game creation platform. So much potential for idea generation.
Pretty sure IntelliJ contains a bunch of bundled webviews for various things.

Also, extrapolating usage of vscode seems pretty fair since they said "most"
I was merely explaining what the OP likely meant, assuming your reply was in good faith and you really did not understand
Pretty much every story posted to Hacker News related to Cloudflare has some people making excuses for Cloudflare - how they couldn't possibly have the development resources to test, much less "fix" access for less popular browsers, how the supposed good they do outweighs the bad, and therefore the marginalized people should just accept things, et cetera.

It's easy to handwave about how costly / difficult a thing is when you're ignorant, and you're preaching to others who are also ignorant about the subject matter, but people who actually understand programming can read the bug reports, the read about debugging methods and results, about the tests, et cetera, and can deduce when an action really can't be anything but monumental ignorance or, more likely, deliberately chosen. The ignorance of the apologists isn't equal to the actual experience of the people doing the work.

"triggering script hang/out-of-memory issues through what seems to be deliberate behaviour when the script does not pass a collection of Web API checks (since the same behaviour was observed on their "officially supported browsers" as well if the user-agent was spoofed to Pale Moon!)"

I'd love to see how those people try to spin this.

Also, this is a perfect example of how large companies can both try to create the illusion of being open - several high profile Cloudflare people post on this site regularly - yet there's no way to actually communicate with a human who can do more than copy and paste from a script, unless you're a paying customer. No company should get to operate as a gatekeeper for much of the world yet have zero methods of communication unless you pay them.
I honestly wonder what will happen now that the stock market AND the military industrial complex are both tanking.

The F35 has a kill switch that makes it possible for the US to shut down the aircraft.

Wasn’t an issue until we started threatening the sovereignty of the people we are selling them to, or at the very least of leaving NATO.

Every move is reactive, without a consideration of the greater picture.
That's even more true with a dedicated work github account than a mixed personal/work one; either way they can still login and edit the account name even if removed from the company org, and if it's not shared it doesn't burn their personal account too... right?

Is this speaking from experience?
If you were trying to land on a specific site though, couldn't you drop down a dozen or so transmitters at the potential landing site? The assign them a location, and have them transmit the relative location to anything landing near them?
Wow, thank you for the link to the code - I haven't seen it before - it contains a ton of useful tricks. Lots to learn from there.
"Detecting Fukishima" from North America was no mean feat .. it was akin to hearing the footfall of an ant several miles away.

The radiometric procedure here was (IIRC) replace a large number of air filter mats in a large number of HVAC units and after a week to cycle them back and then reduce the "contaminated" mats down to samples that sat within highly sensitive high crystal volume spectrometers for 72 hours or more.

The 'normal' environmental radiation event count level in 40 litres of doped Sodium Iodide scintillation Crystals (if that's what was used) at some 80m above ground level is between one and two thousand events per second.

The Fukishima signature gamma events came to a few thousand in 72 hours (again, IIRC) whch had to be teased out from a flood of other events many magnitudes greater in count.

Absolutely not enough to be concerned about, but a seriously interesting bit of detection work.
I'm a biologist, I wouldn't be caught saying it in private or public because it's incorrect.

Lots of good discussion here about should Neanderthal and Homo sapiens be a separate species. Like most nature questions the answer seems to always be "It's complicated."

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/mq5u7n/why...

A neat map here showing how much Neanderthal DNA exists in modern humans. Never goes much above 3%.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/hgdioe/prevalence_...
Are they blaming Cloudflare’s code for triggering a situation that they did not account for thereby causing the browser to crash? Sounds like a browser problem.
Not sure it was ever youtubes desire to shut it down. Why would they, as there are a multitude of reasons why someone would want a video off a platform. It was the RIAA's, since there the ones who sent the takedown.
My problem is how to overcome the translating in your head to being able to think in a language even simple things.

I was in Costa Rica and while all of the customer facing people spoke English, one guy who brought us water asked a simple question “desayuno o cena?” After thinking about it for a couple of seconds, I realized he was asking whether we wanted the breakfast or dinner menu. Even the Spanish I do know, it takes me way too long to understand it and speak it.
A new account that dismisses, but offers not the slightest bit of technical reasoning. Please point out something that the Palemoon people have said that's incorrect, or that is even exagggerated.
The lasers are smaller and lighter than most radar systems. They're also pointed out at about 45 degrees from the lander and they're not supposed to be used for the last few dozen meters of descent.
Macro, Mobile, Markets, and Mercy for Intel
Seems it needs docker and/or NodeJS and runs as a server, so not something most of the non technical users out there would use. This makes widespread adoption unlikely.

If it was packaged as a single executable electron app on the other hand, that would be another story.
Every country purchasing US weapons systems will need to evaluate if those systems can be considered trustworthy and reliable, especially given that the US is now a Russian ally.

If the weapons cannot be maintained without US involvement, if the purchaser doesn't have control of the software stack, or if the weapons are severely degraded without access to US infrastructure then they are not reliable.
Why call Neanderthal ugg? Homo sapiens were probably Ugg too.
> It disables the radio in between AP beacons, so unless there's a bug in the implementation it should have no noticeable impact to a quiet WiFi station other than saving a lot of power.

Seems safe, but it probably depends on the clock being accurate, so it can wake up on time for the next beacon, and the clock frequency is likely sensitive to temperature and therefore power usage.

If you're plugged into a wall wart, chances are the power savings aren't going to be too much; if it helps reliability (which should be easy to confirm), then it's likely worth paying a cent or two more a month. It's different if you're running from battery, though.
I am going to turn off my adblocker tonight to see if a product we talked about a lot today shows up anywhere. I won't mention it here, because i haven't typed about the product at all, ever; it was only spoken and i sent 2 SMS asking two people if they had one of them i could borrow today. I won't need one again for 5 years, so there's no sense in me buying one, now.

oh also i have "FUTO Keyboard" on android, and it uses a local LLM (you can pick three "sizes" depending on your device specs and desired battery life) to transcribe my voice. It's pretty good for non-technical conversations, but it starts to trip up if one's jargon pronunciation is close to other words - "Tea Sip, I pee" sort of confounding errors.
Been following signals and threads for a while, and it’s amazing. Have to be in a learning mood, but it gets pretty technical. Podcasts are a tough medium to do that in but if you really zone in, signals and threads is fantastic
When I was a kid, we had radio machine in our house and we used to listen to some live music during those blackout hours. A really fun moment lost to time now but never really got back into personal radio use ever since.
I did not work on the HDA algorithm which is responsible for landing site deviation, but this technology was inherited from NASA's Project Morpheus, which could intelligently detect hazards and divert to safer sites.
https://archive.ph/dmWCe

(FWIW even my subscriber view of that page also shows the weird whitespace around the photos, that's not a result of archive.ph)
> Like so what. Fist, when your engineering philosophy causes collateral damage (debris, damaged property) then other people do not have to accept it with "oh, therefore it is cool".

What collateral damage? Didn't the whole thing burn up on re-entry? Do you know how much meteorite material burns up in the earth's atmosphere every day?

> And second, avoidable failure is still avoidable failure.

huh? we're talking about risk profile and development velocity
dare i ask: how's it going ?
I'm passionate about how in Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Nearer" he predicts that $1000 of compute hardware will be able to simulate the human brain by 2023-2032. I think this means life will change dramatically very soon and we will soon have lives free of repetition.
I actually was hoping to find something like this, but that uses local storage as a backend so it can be plugged into my reframe [1].

It would be nice to have a reasonably nice text editor for notes and whatnot everytime I open a new tab.

[1] https://reframe.canine.sh/czhu12
How is the open-source voice assistant space these days? Is there a self-hosted alternative to Alexa these days?
Its really hard to buy creative studios and the sort of mixed skills and culture that can make top games. Acquiring the studio is one way but inevitably companies want to push their culture into everything they buy along with their cost cutting processes and they often kill organisations like this.

Even organisations like Ubisoft and EA that have a history of making games are now too corporate and have repeatedly killed game studios they acquired along with the games they used to produce. Games at the top level are really hard to make, they are massive pieces of software, mocap, 3d models and story telling. They require rich experience of gaming to produce them and "fun" is something only a few people know how to produce.

This approach is very risky and highly unlikely to work and its going to take years for the first failures to become apparent and then will the executives even understand what they did wrong? Experience says no. This could stop the flow of Lego games for a long time.
The problem isn't with the artist doing a one-off project involving a microcontroller. It's the Arduino "experts" who write blogs, create videos, and dominate forums with their accumulated nonsense. They posit themselves as authorities in the space, newbies adopt and echo whatever rubbish they make up, and the cycle continues. They get very defensive if you try to correct them, even linking directly to documentation supporting it.

If you're going to write a blog about how the ESP32 doesn't connect to the strongest AP so you need to pin it to a specific BSSID in your router settings... Maybe you shouldn't be writing that blog. If you haven't taken at least a moment to check documentation and see that the behaviour you want is already an option that can be selected by changing literally one line in your ESP32's WiFi config. Instead this pseudoscience proliferates.
Arctic Space: Kongsberg's Svalbard satellite earth station
"Adversary" is simply a standard English word. It is neither religious or jargon. My assumption is that the reason it is often used in cryptography papers is because "attacker" rings a bit harshly when you repeat it over and over again.
The comment spoke about nuclear power accidents; neither Three mile island, Fukishima, nor Chernobyl wiped out all (or even a significant number) of existing lifeforms.

Bikini Atoll was blasted with 23 (or 24, there's an edge case) separate nuclear explosions in the air, at sea level, and underwater, one a thousand times more powerful than either of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki weapons.

Not comparable to a nuclear power station accident.
Surely this is satirical
Completely off-topic, but your comment cued me to look at your profile. I don't quite know what it is, but the screenshots on Steam for both Whiskerwood and Railgrade tickle my brain in a very peculiar way. Will surely be picking them up at some point in the near future.
Related: Latacora's (2019) article, How (not) to sign a JSON object[1].

In short, nesting trees and signing them is difficult and prone to pitfalls. It's easier if the envelope holds the message as a raw string, and the signing is performed on the raw string.

[1]: https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/24/how-not-to/
There are a few topics, like racial differences, which are pretty verboten. Here's an interesting example: https://davidsun.substack.com/p/the-origins-of-arcticism-the...
To claim that "we are Neanderthals" is wrong because while modern humans and Neanderthals share a common ancestor and interbred, Neanderthals were a distinct species that went extinct. Genetic contributions from Neanderthals to modern humans are minor, typically around 1-2% in non-African populations, and do not make us Neanderthal in any meaningful sense. Moreover, the idea that specific Neanderthal genes explain large behavioral differences among human populations is not supported by scientific consensus—human behavior is shaped by a complex mix of genetics, culture, and environment. While some Neanderthal-derived genes may have influenced traits like immune response or altitude adaptation, the assertion that they drive major behavioral differences is speculative and echoes outdated, often racially charged ideas about genetic determinism. Biologists do discuss these topics openly, but they do so within the rigorous framework of evolutionary genetics, not unfounded assumptions about "large portions of variances" in human behavior.