you sound like a wise 35yo. Hanging around those old folk has some benefits.
I worked really hard with no one to help in a rural community to get my licence at 13, then after saving up and buying an old tube rig finding the disappointment of talking to old men about the weather.
I agree. I’ve always liked being around older people, because I feel like I can learn a lot from them. That was true even when I was a teenager. I had the incredible fortune to be friends with Pem Farnsworth, Philo T Farnworth’s widow in my teens. She was 76 years older than me, but a true friend, and an incredibly interesting person to talk to.
Leave some spectrum available, as unregulated as feasible, with some bar to entry.
Let nature, human nature, fill the gap. It will. In ways we can't predict.
There will be serendipity, genius, frustration, innovation, conflict, debate. These are all good things when you give a shared resource to passionate smart motivated (qualified) public.
Running my own mail server. Off the top of my head, I would also say that the .xyz domain is predominantly used for spam. I remember reading on HN once that this is because it's a TLD where it's easy to register throw-away domains. But maybe that's just the effect of me remembering it more since it's unusual? Anyway, I did a quick check:
For the approximately last 12 months, the probability of a message mentioning ".xyz" in them being spam was approximately 7.4:1. In other words, for every 8 messages received that had ".xyz" somewhere in the headers or body, 7 would get classified as spam by my Bayesian spam filter and 1 would be classified as non-spam.
In fact, looking at the spam filter database, I see a huge amount of .xyz domains in there that appear obvious throwaways in the pattern wordNN.xyz where "word" is some random word and NN is a counter that counts up from 1.
I'm not saying that is the general situation. It just appears that in my corner of the net, a message coming from an .xyz is indeed a pretty strong signal that it's spam.
We had a few customers using Microsoft O360 who said they didn't receive our emails. After troubleshooting we discovered them in spam. For reference we were using Gsuite at a .xyz address. We checked with other customers who received our emails -- perhaps it was the domain, I attributed it to being an odd tld.
FT8 is amazing and would be an amazing way to suck people on HN in. It's fun without transmitting. I'm at the bottom of New Zealand and get transmissions from all over the world including our antipode, Europe. And that's with a crappy short wave receiver with a tiny built in antenna that you can get for <$100.
The fact that someone made the FT8 modulation scheme up out or the blue and people started adopting it and using it and having fun shows the spirit of ham radio.
I bet there are folk on here who would be able to come up with some interesting new modulation schemes to push the envelope even further.
It's a shame that the venn diagram intersection between the modern tech world and ham radio isn't larger.
Yeah I've had WSJT-X (or JTDX) listening here in western Canada and I've picked up FT8 messages from New Zealand, Japan, Russia, Brazil... it's crazy! I just used a random piece of wire laying around on my balcony! So cool :D
If anyone fancies having a play with FT8 without any ham equipment, I was surprised to find I could do so using a regular "world band" shortwave receiver. It does need to have SSB (single sideband) mode, I'm not sure how common that is.
Just tune in to 14.074Mhz and listen for the strangely melodic modem-like tones. Download WSJT-X and pipe one into the other.
It was at this point I was annoyed to find my new PC doesn't have a mic socket (what's that all about?), but in fact holding my usb webcam up to the radio's loudspeaker was enough to get reports from all over the continent appearing.
It seems that they do it for fun and giggles, but all the users are interested in, ultimately, is "Can it run macOS software? No? Stop wasting my time."
One can hope this will become eventually possible, but with the pace of PureDarwin as it is, I doubt it will before Apple migrates to ARM with custom instruction set additions.
Depends the country you are in, a lot of countries have interoperability exceptions, so while a hackintosh might not be legal, something like this would.
The biggest factor is randomness, which can't be understood in that way. People frequently imagine stories about why HN is "doing" this or that, but that's a category error, since HN is a statistical cloud. Randomness plus cognitive bias equals narrative, etc.
You'll notice that your GP comment is now upvoted while this one is downvoted. That's common, because unfairly downvoted comments frequently get corrective upvotes from users who come along and see that the comment is fine: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... Meanwhile, complaints like this one break the site guidelines (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html at the bottom!) and usually end up being false as well.
This comment breaks the site guideline against going on about downvotes, by the way—in spirit if not in letter. Please don't post like this; it's off topic and boring.
This is the best place to discuss about those same topics, BTW, even when from my perspective, some of them look to have a little more bias than others.
I drive and maintain older mercs, and don't really give a shit about problems in the first 90 days, for me it's number of problems at 20 years. These surveys don't reveal anything about that.
I feel for the hard core automotive engineers who are forced to allow the monstrosity that is Bluetooth into their works of art.
There is - you can just install NoScript to block all scripts and stop video autoplay in Firefox setting. Presto - a slim web. (Sites that need JS often have a slim alternative - there are superfast "lite" or "mobile" sites for GMail, Reddit, Facebook and many more.)
Is there something less aggressive? Firefox already stops auto play based on a permission. If you explicitly click on a video then it allows you to start the video within the mouse event.
There are lots of reasonable use cases for JavaScript. Think of something purely event driven like sorting a table by clicking on columns or an input field with autocomplete where you see a preview of results as you type.
I think the web in and of itself isn't the problem. I haven't checked but I don't think any JS framework asks for gigabytes of memory. The problem is browsers prioritizing speed over everything else.
"Are you 12" is an internet insult trope. The comment clearly broke the site guidelines. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
I worked really hard with no one to help in a rural community to get my licence at 13, then after saving up and buying an old tube rig finding the disappointment of talking to old men about the weather.
Then the Internet hit.
Any chance of a link to your app?