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throw0101d··on Industry Brief: Private 5G for Manufacturing and Industrial Sites [pdf]
I would think that private 5G cellular would also be power-limited so as to not disrupt public cellular, so you'd have to set up multiple cells just like you have to setup multiple APs.
throw0101d··on Industry Brief: Private 5G for Manufacturing and Industrial Sites [pdf]
Why exactly is (private) cellular 5G apparently "better" than Wifi (at least for some use-cases)? Is it the frequencies used? The encoding? Something higher up in the stack (like authentication or better hand-offs or cell overlap)?
throw0101d··on Substack writers, you need a website
> Why? I want my writing to outlive me.

Donate to archive.org.

throw0101d··on Substack writers, you need a website
> Counterpoint from someone who's been publishing on the internet for decades: no one will visit your website. It's as simple as that. You need a push mechanism to reach readers.

I think that one should at least have one's own domain instead of example.substack.com. Substack allows for exporting posts (which would be good to do regularly just for backups in case of (account) compromise):

* https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037466012-...

so if you ever feel like the company is acting questionably, you can take that file and bring it in elsewhere, e.g.

* https://wordpress.com/support/import-from-substack/

throw0101d··on I'd not buy a LG monitor
So: Dell, BenQ, Asus (ProArt/ROG)?

* https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-monitors/

throw0101d··on French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time
> And you think the peatlands were natural? In France, in 1857, a stone's throw from Bordeaux?

If it is indeed a question between "artificially forest" or "artificially peat", then pick what's most useful to humans at the moment: how much lumber is needed? Is resin tapping still important? How much more utility is that compared to having to deal with wildfires that seem to regularly rip through the area over the decades:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949_Landes_forest_fire

Does 100% of what is now forest 'have' to stay that way? Or 80%? 50?

> You have to love all the people on this website giving advice on Europeans and Canadians on forest management

1. I am Canadian.

2. The French themselves have considered doing something else besides the forest that is currently there:

* https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2022/08/16/mps-sho...

* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02648...

throw0101d··on Work out daily? OK, but how socially fit are you? (2023)
The book in question:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61273746-the-good-life

Excerpt:

* https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive...

See also discussions on happiness from earlier:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996364

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49000600

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47441784

throw0101d··on Should you wash your solar panels?
See also "staging":

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_staging

throw0101d··on French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time
> Yes, pine is flammable. So what? Should we replace it with wood that doesn't burn?

Different trees react differently to fire. The forest fires of (e.g.) the American west are different than the forest fires in Canada:

> The forest-mismanagement argument was, in fairness, based on real evidence from some regions. In the frequent-fire dry forests of the western US that are dominated by ponderosa pine and mixed conifers the natural fire regime is low-to-moderate intensity surface fire returning every 5 to 30 years, historically stoked in part by Indigenous burning. A century of fire exclusion in those forests really did remove that frequent fire, let stands grow denser and more continuous, and build up a “fire deficit” that raises the odds of severe fire (Hagmann et al. 2021). And in that setting, fuel treatments work: Prichard et al. (2021) find wide agreement that mechanical thinning combined with prescribed burning measurably reduces subsequent fire severity. If you’re arguing about the Sierra Nevada, the management story is as important if not more important than the climate one.

> The problem is that the Canadian boreal is not the Sierra Nevada. It burns in infrequent, high-intensity, stand-replacing crown fires that kill the whole stand on natural fire cycles measured in many decades to centuries (commonly a century or more, and two centuries or longer in the east), not 5 to 30 years. It is, ecologically speaking, supposed to burn this way; black spruce is practically built for it. Fire in this system was never the gentle recurring ground-clearing that suppression interrupted in California. And the burning is astonishingly concentrated: across the boreal, something like 3% of fires account for about 97% of the area burned. This is not a landscape full of many small fires that “used to clean out the fuel.” Rather, its a landscape that waits, and then burns catastrophically under extreme weather.

* https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/canadas-boreal-wildfires-a...

> And grows on already very dry soil? Because what the "informative" OP hasn't told you is that pine growsso much there because other woods don't do as well.

Except the entire forest is 'artificial' in that Napoleon III ordered the draining of the peatlands to create said forest in the first place. Perhaps actually having it as a forest should be reconsidered.

* https://globalpeatlands.org/zombiefiresareravagingpeatlandsi...

The forest was created for industrial purposes and so pine was probably chosen as it grew faster and that's what builders wanted, but is that what want we now? Perhaps the fact that pine grows best there shouldn't be considered at such a high priority, and that reducing the mono-culture, even if it is not "optimal" for growth, be bumped up in priority.

throw0101d··on Who does Anubis actually stop?
> That's knowledge usually learnt in primary school.

Anubis may be known generally as an Ancient Egyptian god, but what he was a god of specifically is a little more obscure. I.e., what 'trait' of Anubis led the developers to choose that name?

I would have thought of something 'defensive', like a shield; to use a Greek example:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis

The association of weighing (human(!)) souls is not something that would have come to my mind.

throw0101d··on Multicast TV Distribution on My Home Network
> Does anyone watch scheduled television anymore except local news and sportsball?

"Except for"? Sportsball events are some of the simultaneously most-watched things out there.

Heck, I bet a lot of the streaming services wish they could do multicast over the Internet instead of CDNs for episodic releases.

throw0101d··on Multicast TV Distribution on My Home Network
The N Is For Networking podcast (from Packet Pushers) has a recent two-parter on multicast:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOJgqu3jRMA

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlP-NAescuA

throw0101d··on Who does Anubis actually stop?
I was curious about the name:

> Anubis is a Web AI Firewall Utility that weighs the soul of your connection[1] using one or more challenges in order to protect upstream resources from scraper bots.

* https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/

> The Weighing of the Heart would take place in Duat (the Underworld), in which the dead were judged by Anubis, using a feather, representing Ma'at, the goddess of truth and justice responsible for maintaining order in the universe. The heart was the seat of the life-spirit (ka). Hearts heavier than the feather of Ma'at were rejected and eaten by Ammit, the Devourer of Souls.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighing_of_souls#Ancient_Egyp...

throw0101d··on Self-host your mail server
Waiting for a submission of "You should run your own NNTP server" (lots of 'nostalgia' for web forums to come back, so why not this too?).
throw0101d··on Self-host your mail server
> But there are other solutions out there like: Stalwart; Mailcow ;Or if you're a purist you can set up your whole server yourself

Another good guide that uses Debian and its standard packages:

* https://workaround.org/ispmail-trixie

(Updated with every release, and upgrade/migration instructions.)

throw0101d··on Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models
> I think the least the labs […]

Perhaps worth not calling them "labs". Are they not (for-profit) companies?

throw0101d··on How the God of Israel Was Born
See also perhaps "RLST 145: Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible)" (originally recorded in 2006):

* https://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-145

throw0101d··on Writing by hand is good for your brain
> A corollary to this is, when reading books, mark them up!

Not library books though.

Every so often I get one with stuff underlined with pen or highlighter, and it's one of things that really makes me angry. (Lightly in pencil I'm okay with.)

throw0101d··on Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth
> […] you're looking at 1500W+. Depending on the country, that may be enough to saturate your home's electricity uplink...

1500W is the power of the typical American microwave or (tea) kettle at 120V. (Convert over to a NEMA 6 plug and dual-pole breaker and you can get 3000W.)

3000W is nothing special in the rest of the world with >200V wall plugs.

throw0101d··on Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth
> You can get used 16GB P100s on AliExpress for ~$100 if you want obsolete GPUs. Allegedly new AMD BC 250s are only slightly more.

In a recent Gamer Nexus video with Level 1 Tech, they mention V100s are also quite useful for many applications that use FP64: stuff four in a workstation, and many PhD candidates would be quite happy with the throughput they can get for certain scenarios.

throw0101d··on git's –end-of-options Flag
> All these tools could've just as well grown to be popular with a proper format, and your point would be exactly the same

And what would this "proper format" be? Currently JSON is in vogue (or JSON5, which allows comments?), but a few years ago it would have been XML, before that… CSV? TSV?

Or perhaps do a Choose Your Own Adventure:

* https://libxo.readthedocs.io/

The Unix-y world has been around for decades, so it many ways it has evolved rather than be designed.

throw0101d··on Full Scale Foldable Wing Extensions
Foldable wings have been on aircraft carriers for a while as well.
throw0101d··on The startup's Postgres survival guide
> Use uuidv7 not uuid in general (typically v4)

7/4 'converters' have been featured on HN a few times:

* https://github.com/ali-master/uuidv47

* https://github.com/stateless-me/uuidv47

throw0101d··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
> Thats because the people behind passkeys are paternalistic and don't trust users.

To be fair, trusting users with passwords/credentials is how we got into the mess of phishing et al in the first place.

throw0101d··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
Also note this from the spec:

> A Public Key Credential Source’s generating authenticator determines at creation time whether the public key credential source is allowed to be backed up. Backup eligibility is signaled in authenticator data’s flags along with the current backup state. Backup eligibility is a credential property and is permanent for a given public key credential source. A backup eligible public key credential source is referred to as a multi-device credential whereas one that is not backup eligible is referred to as a single-device credential. See also § 6.1.3 Credential Backup State.

* https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn-3/#backup-eligible

throw0101d··on The Price of Happiness (2024)
> and depression :/

Regularly recommended on HN by folks:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46674.Feeling_Good

there's also a follow-up:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54930681-feeling-great

throw0101d··on The Price of Happiness (2024)
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.” — https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/02/03/you-can/

An effective form of 'treatment' for depression/anxiety is to recognize that negative feels often don't come first, but rather we are doing actions that cause them, so you should do the positive things and this will reduce one's negative emotions:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54930681-feeling-great

throw0101d··on The Price of Happiness (2024)
> So they took the cream of the crop in the US and tracked it for 80 years. Most of these people will never starve or have to choose a tier 3 education for their children. It's useful as a study, but mostly to demonstrate what matters for the affluent / well-off for their happiness.

1. Their (alleged) affluence was no guarantee of success or happiness.

2. There was a second study (with the two later merging) that followed boys from the rougher part(s) of town: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glueck_Study

The referenced book looks at both cohorts.

throw0101d··on The Price of Happiness (2024)
Books on happiness (research) have become a bit of a thing in recent years, but Dunn seems to have published one of the earlier ones in 2013:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15803098-happy-money

I'd also recommend Morgan Housel's various writings:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/231148075-the-art-of-spe...

He had an interesting observation: the popular saying "don't spend money on things, but on experiences" only goes so far. Spending on things can bring about experiences: the big house/cabin/cottage per se may not bring you happiness, but if it's a place that you can gather family and friends, that can bring happiness/meaning. His first car didn't bring him happiness because it was a car (and not even fancy), but because of all the road trips he did with his friends in it.

throw0101d··on The Price of Happiness (2024)
Harvard has been running longitudinal studies for several decades:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Study

and their findings lean towards good relationships with family and friends are highly correlation with happiness, health, and many aspects of financial success. The released a book summarizing many results a few years ago:

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61273746-the-good-life

* https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive...

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