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ykat7on Tokyo 2020 TP Card

The TP Card looks to be a variant of the stored-value IC cards like Suica [1][2] used for transit and e-money payments across Japan, but with a fixed commuter pass and no recharge functionality.

The linked thread includes a comparison [3] between the TP Card and a regular Suica.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suica

[2]: https://www.jreast.co.jp/e/pass/suica.html

[3]: https://twitter.com/aishiterutokyo/status/141455095882718003...

ykat7on Google Campus closes in the end of an era for London tech startups

Just FYI for anyone wondering about the photo, this is actually Google's office in King's Cross. "Campus London" was further east and looked more like a coworking space.

ykat7on Prime Minister’s letter to Gareth Southgate [pdf]

Out of curiosity, is there anywhere I can read about the practice of ending a letter with the recipient's name? I've only ever seen this in letters from 10 Downing Street and the Royal Household.

ykat7on A New Tool Shows How Google Results Vary Around the World

https://archive.is/3r5c5

ykat7on Apple Platform Security

Summary from https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/seccd5016d31/...:

> This documentation provides details about how security technology and features are implemented within Apple platforms.

ykat7on I Stopped Using Emojis

> "Emojis" looks wrong to me, but I suspect that's because I speak a little Japanese.

Yep, I prefer "emoji" given the zero plural in Japanese.

I don't think there's a consensus though. For example, Apple uses "emoji" [1], Emojipedia uses "emojis" [2], and the OED includes both [3].

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211808#145

[2]: https://blog.emojipedia.org/first-look-217-new-emojis-in-ios...

[3]: https://www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/389343

ykat7on I Stopped Using Emojis

> I don't think its a good idea to use Emojis in technical documentation, terminal cli apps, package managers (I'm looking at you npm), long form articles, PRs and code reviews, etc.

Completely agree. I also find emoji in commit messages [1] to be far more ambiguous than their text equivalents.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21760021

ykat7on I Wrote a Book with GPT-3 AI in 24 Hours – and Got It Published

https://archive.is/56ybt

ykat7on Are We in the Metaverse Yet?

https://archive.is/lPJ1l

ykat7on First look at Tesla’s FSD Beta V9 with “mind of car” visuals in action

FSD = Full Self Driving.

(Title left intact due to length and per the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

ykat7on Iced tea-to-blockchain pivot prompts SEC insider trading lawsuit

This is "Long Blockchain Corp", formerly Long Island Iced Tea Corp, first discussed 4 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15979024

ykat7on It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us

> Isn't "It may just be a game to you, but it means the world to us" the grammatically correct form?

Yep, that's what I would go with. I can't see a use case for a comma after the "but" in British nor American English.

> I guess people feel like they would speak the sentence with a pause after the conjunction

Even this feels off to me when I read up to the "but" and then pause (as opposed to pausing on the "you").

ykat7on Ask HN: How do you organize your phone’s home screen?

iPhone XS Max, iOS 15b2. I've grown to prefer App Library [1] over multiple pages of apps and this setup reflects that:

* Single screen with plain black background.

* Stack in top-left with small Weather and Calendar widgets.

* Stack in bottom-right with small Sleep and Fitness widgets.

* App icons for NetNewsWire, Kindle, Twitter, Financial Times, HN, and stock apps (Health, Maps, Notes, etc).

* Dock: Phone, Messages, Mail, Safari.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT211345

ykat7on Manager'ing: An Overview for New Managers

This was a nice succinct writeup. On the topic, here are some books I'd recommend for ICs making the jump to a manager role (or thinking about it):

1. The Making of a Manager (https://www.amazon.com/Making-Manager-What-Everyone-Looks-eb...)

2. The Manager's Path (https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Grow...)

3. Crucial Conversations (https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-Conversations-Talking-Stakes-...)

4. The Coaching Habit (https://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Habit-Less-Change-Forever-eb...)

5. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (https://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Len...)

I'm still due to read High Output Management (https://www.amazon.com/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove-e...) and Extreme Ownership (https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Ownership-U-S-Navy-SEALs-eboo...).

ykat7on China’s Cyber Watchdog to Police Chinese Overseas Listings

https://archive.is/zzAgZ

ykat7on Santander to block payments by UK banking customers to Binance

https://archive.is/WAp1N

See also: Barclays UK blocked Binance 3 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27739034)

ykat7on CoffeeShopWifi.com – An HTTP website for connecting to guest WiFi

I like the straightforward explanation this site provides. That said, I tend to use http://example.com to trigger captive portals because it's an IANA reserved domain [1] that other people can't register.

This gives me confidence to browse to it without fear that the domain could lapse in the future and get taken over (e.g. in a watering hole attack).

[1]: https://www.iana.org/domains/reserved

ykat7on What Does My Site Cost?

"On Air Aerospace" being an inflight roaming [1] provider like AeroMobile, right?

I recall getting a text about that £7.20 fee during a flight a couple years ago.

[1]: https://www.aeromobile.net/inflight-roaming/

ykat7on Apple's “iCloud Private Relay” broke risk based authentication

Yep. I've found the setting seems to exist in two places, and it turns itself back on at times (that said, it's a beta):

1. Settings -> Apple ID -> Private Relay

2. Settings -> Network -> Use iCloud Private Relay

ykat7on Amazon launches at-home Covid-19 test collection kit for customers

In the UK at least, private test providers [1] must collect travellers' personal details during booking, but a live ID check isn't required.

[1]: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/self-declare-as-a-private-sector...

ykat7on Amazon launches at-home Covid-19 test collection kit for customers

From the product listing [1]:

> Meets requirements for testing when traveling within the US (except Hawaii), and when traveling from the US to many international locations. Includes access to results documentation for verification.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08ZR5XNBM/

ykat7on Binance ‘temporarily suspends’ payments from EU’s SEPA network

https://archive.is/zCPOX

ykat7on Didi shares tumble 25% in pre-market trading after China crackdown

https://archive.is/RWKQh

ykat7on Fake Tesla, Apple stocks have started trading on blockchains

https://archive.is/W5PRQ

ykat7on Windows 11 laptops will require front facing camera in 2023

I'm still unsure where exactly Microsoft documented the requirement for OEMs to add a front-facing camera from 2023. Did they publish a system requirements doc or something?

IMO the author overindexed on making vague allusions to telescreens ("1984-style future [...] laptops, desktop PCs, TVs") and criticising Microsoft for its "Productivity Score" (a different discussion entirely).

ykat7on Intelligence and Practice in Chess Development

Thanks for this. I'll give it a try and play around with the rest of https://online-go.com too.

ykat7on Intelligence and Practice in Chess Development

Related: When I first got into chess, I especially enjoyed Lichess's 'learn by playing' feature [1] that covered fundamental and intermediate concepts. I'd love to find something similar to help learn Go.

[1]: https://lichess.org/learn/

ykat7on Ask HN: Are GitHub, GitLab, and similars just a fad?

I was curious what had become of the GitHub edu accounts from the early 2010s.

Turns out it's now the "Student Developer Pack" [1] which is more like a bundle of third-party offers.

[1]: https://education.github.com/pack

ykat7on New malformed Wi-Fi name bug can require iPhone factory reset to fix

Current solution [1] seems to involve backing up your iPhone locally, removing the offending SSID from a plist (com.apple.wifi.plist?), and restoring your iPhone from that backup.

[1]: https://twitter.com/vm_call/status/1411753482437148683