MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by misteriji2 | 2025-06-16 14:26:25+00:00
> No provision of these rules prevents the use by an amateur station of any means of radiocommunication at its disposal to provide essential communication needs in connection with the immediate safety of human life and immediate protection of property when normal communication systems are not available.

This rules applies to:

> the use by an amateur station

Not every billy and bobby with a baofeng are an amateur station.

Luckily, at the beginning of part 97 there are definitions of such words (you have to open the full document, not just this article)

> Amateur station. A station in an amateur radio service consisting of the apparatus necessary for carrying on radiocommunications.

So, for something to be an "amateur station", you need an "apparatus" (some kind of radio transmitter) and it has to be a part of "amateur radio service". That too is defined in the same document:

> Amateur radio services. The amateur service, the amateur-satellite service and the radio amateur civil emergency service.

It's not RACES (that's defined below), not satellite, so let's see what "amateur service is", again, definition in the same document

> Amateur service. A radiocommunication service for the purpose of self-training, intercommunication and technical investigations carried out by amateurs, that is, duly authorized persons interested in radio technique solely with a personal aim and without pecuniary interest.

So, for that rule to apply, you need a device (an apparatus), that has to be used for self-training etc (read above), for noncommercial, personal aim by a licenced ("duly authorized") person. Only then can you break other rules (eg power limits) in situations described in rule 403 you linked above.

Without a licence, a radio is just a radio, eg. a business band radio (like many motorolas are), and nothing in the part 97 (regulating amateur radio) applies to the user of that radio. Only when a licenced ham uses that (or any other radio, or even a homemade transmitter), in a specific way (described above) that "just-a-radio" becomes an amateur station.
by ben_w | 2025-06-16 14:26:26+00:00
> To claim that all of the benefit isn't going to naturally accrue to a thin layer of people at the top isn't a speculation at this point - it's a bold faced lie.

Indeed.

> When AI finally does cause massive disruption to white collar work, what happens then? Do we really think that most of the American economy is just going to downshift into living off a meager universal basic income allotment (assuming we could ever muster the political will to create a social safety net?) Who gets the nice car and the vacation home?

Completely impossible to forecast, even if not against a backdrop of all the changes due to the very tech that makes people unemployable.

For the latter: One task that is currently done by humans, is making robots. Either that continues to be done in part by humans, or it becomes fully automated. If it's fully automated, essentially nothing stops exactly one lone philanthropist (or anarchist hacker) from telling one to recursively make copies of itself until every human on earth has their own.

Unfortunately, I suspect the realpolitik of such tech will be horrific in the same way that the trenches of WW1 provided an unexpected and horrific use case for all the chemical industry that was in the process of ending famine in Europe, and likewise the manufacturing industry that was in the process of giving everyone modern conveniences such as "electricity", "indoor plumbing", and "affordable home refrigeration".
by Eisenstein | 2025-06-16 14:26:28+00:00
It actually did a decent. Perhaps the font is weird? For reference here is the 'ground truth' content, not in markdown:

Page# 8

Log: MA 6100 2.03.15

34 cement emitter resistors - 0.33R 5W 5% measure 0.29R 0.26R

35 replaced R436, R430 emitter resistors on R-chn P.O. brd w/new WW 5W .33R 5% w/ ceramic lead insulators

36 applied de-oxit d100 to speaker outs, card terminals, terminal blocks, output trans jacks

37 replace R-chn drivers and class A BJTs w/ BD139/146, & TIP31AG

38 placed boards back in

39 desoldered grnd lug from volume control

40 contact cleaner, Deoxit D5, faderlube on pots & switches teflon lube on rotor joint

41 cleaned ground lug & resoldered, reattached panel
by satisfice | 2025-06-16 14:26:35+00:00
I am just finishing a book that took about two years to write. I thought I would be done a year ago. It’s been a slog.

So now I am in the final editing stage, and I am going back over old writing that I don’t remember doing. The material has come together over many many drafts, and parts of it are still not quite consistent with other parts.

But when I am done, it will be mine. And any mistakes will be honest ones that represent the real me. That’s a feeling no one who uses AI assistance will ever have.

I have never and will never use AI to write anything for me.
by awongh | 2025-06-16 14:26:44+00:00
I feel ok that there's a distinction between legal rulings and other circumstances of the case that I as an internet person can use my judgement to understand.

Just because someone is guilty or not doesn't separate other facts of the case.

In an extreme example: I'm ok with the court letting someone off who murdered someone, because the police didn't follow proper procedure wrt evidence/confessions/witness testimony. Our legal system should be held to the highest standard when convicting someone of a crime. That doesn't stop me from believing that the defendant actually did the crime or not.
by _verandaguy | 2025-06-16 14:27:02+00:00
IMO there's two safe ways to implement this:

- Ground-satellite-ground relaying, with at least one geostationary satellite between the ground stations. The satellites being geostationary means that the path of the beam through the atmosphere is constant, and air traffic can be routed around them in a reasonable way. (You could do this with lower orbits, but it'd be a hassle with current aviation industry technology).

- Beaming by tunnel! Can't get hit by a laser if it's under your feet. Obviously, this negates the benefits of the technology, and just turns into fibre lines without the fibre, over shorter distances, with all the pain in the ass of laying underground cable.

In the first approach, there'd have to be an effective exclusion zone around the receiving station (how big, I don't know), and it'd be nice to have satellites fail safe, so that if they end up pitching or rolling off axis, the beam will be shut off before becoming an accidental weapon.
by grafmax | 2025-06-16 14:27:11+00:00
Free speech is a human right not a right of citizens. You conflate several issues here under the notion of national rights: legitimate border concerns, deportation of students as retaliation of free speech (under your umbrella term foreign protest), increasing authoritarianism in the US (which this is clearly evidence of). Nor should we take cues from governments suppressing protests against genocide. Genocide is something all people and all countries should unite against. It is a crime against humanity.
by abxyz | 2025-06-16 14:27:57+00:00
I'm saying that the judgement of a court is useless when making a personal judgement because what a court sets out to do is different to what a human sets out to do. The court system is a collection of complicated and convoluted standards and rules and regulations designed specifically to support a system responsible for depriving people of their rights. A court judgement is not "better" than a human judgement, quite the opposite, a court judgement is often worse, because court judgements are formed without access to all information. A jury for example will often have very important information withheld from them because it doesn't satisfy some esoteric court standard. A person would use that information to form a judgement.
by busterarm | 2025-06-16 14:27:59+00:00
That's not what your report says. Your report says there's evidence she may have been beaten and that her arm may have been broken. There's a likelihood of both and that he did it but there's no evidence in that report that he did it.

There is no actual confirmation in that document that her arm was broken, just that that was what was reported to the officer and that it was injured/swolen.

You're free to say "allegedly", just like the standards the media has to go by.
by voidUpdate | 2025-06-16 14:28:02+00:00
In the part 1 article, the author mentions "making tens of thousands of dollars a week" in relation to drugs, which is why I talked about dealing. Obviously I've got no proof of that or anything, so I'm happy to be proven wrong.

Drug charges are difficult. In my opinion, if you are using drugs personally, I don't really see a problem. If you commit some crime while under the influence which could harm another person, eg driving while drugged, obviously that's a different story, and coercing other people into it isn't great either, but if you're just smoking in your own home, its your body that you're altering. If you're selling to other people, that feels a bit more iffy to me because you're affecting other people with that... though I do realise that preventing the sale is effectively the same as preventing the usage...
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-16 14:28:04+00:00
My experience with Discord is that teams I've been on that use Discord often win (at League of Legends, hackathons, etc.) but that I dread other uses of it. If it's the support channel for an open source project I'd say 1/3 of the time I get to talk to knowledgeable people, 1/3 of the time I get to talk to unknowledgeable people, 1/3 of the time it is crickets.
by marcodiego | 2025-06-16 14:28:17+00:00
> [..] models are [...] limited in [...] ability to answer knowledge-intensive questions [...], they did not memorize the relevant facts. [...] This is probably because the required knowledge cannot easily be accessed via papers [...] but rather by lookup in specialized databases [...], which the humans [...] used to answer such questions [...]. This indicates that there is [...] room for improving [...] by training [...] on more specialized data sources or integrating them with specialized databases.

> [...] our analysis shows [...] performance of models is correlated with [...] size [...]. This [...] also indicates that chemical LLMs could, [...], be further improved by scaling them up.

Does that means the world of chemists will be eaten by LLMs? Will LLMs just improve chemists output or productivity? I'd be scared if this happened in my area of work.
by flaminHotSpeedo | 2025-06-16 14:28:23+00:00
To some extent, yes, strong leadership can squash engineering culture.

But if engineers never push back, how is leadership supposed to know they're asking for dangerous things? For most engineers, that means explaining risks and/or engaging more senior engineer. For L8 and up, it is absolutely their job to say no to leadership.

And that's all ignoring things that should have been done here which wouldn't affect the timeline. Leadership doesn't care what order you deploy things in.
by alnwlsn | 2025-06-16 14:28:40+00:00
I've found Meshtastic is simply not ready to be set up in an environment without internet, as I discovered when I brought some of the boards I bought with me on vacation to a rural area with more space to test them, but very limited internet.

The entirety of the meshtastic project is web first.

- To flash your boards, the suggested method is their "Web Flasher", and if you download the firmware source, it depends on PlatformIO (and the internet) to download and install the toolchains and flasher programs you need.

- The clients for meshtastic are available on the app stores, or as a web app at https://client.meshtastic.org/ None of these are offline. I did later learn the boards themselves host the web app, but they still have to be connected to an Wifi AP, you don't get it just by plugging the board into your computer.

- The docs are hosted at https://meshtastic.org/docs. "Download Docs" or "How to self host this project" are not topics described there or anywhere else. A technical person could figure this out, but this is seemingly not a primary concern.

I suppose this is the very point of this post, to get people to have it all set up beforehand, but not even having the docs as a PDF I can read offline? I learned about Meshcore too in this thread, but if I go to their site and the "getting started" guide is a Youtube video, then you're not ready for an emergency!
by mlissner | 2025-06-16 14:28:47+00:00
Maine's remote work program is an incredibly promising development to prevent recidivism. The amazing thing about it is that it gives real jobs to prisoners that they can seamlessly continue after they get out of prison. Normally when you get out, it's impossible to get a job, and the clock is ticking. This leads to desperation, which leads to bad behavior.

There is a real risk of exploitation, but if it's properly managed, remote work for prisoners is one of the most hopeful things I've heard about the prison system. It gives people purpose while there and an avenue to success once they're out.
by mapt | 2025-06-16 14:28:57+00:00
I've read this, but I'm not 100% clear on this. I think it's probably entangled with the glaciation / interglacial transition, which happened relatively recently. Earthworms are invasive in Michigan, but so are _trees_ in that timescale. It seems like having a foot thickness of forest duff decomposing slowly is probably not a very ecologically stable situation, and might be a temporary phase as the forests creep northwards and the temperatures creep up. Earthworms are not especially frost-hardy, and need to burrow deep enough to survive frost, which is physically difficult as you go farther north.

Has a drastic change occurred in the forest floors of, say, temperate Georgia?
by keepamovin | 2025-06-16 14:29:36+00:00
Presumably the display can fade opaque, or translucent to give a readable background to text or when desired.

Many applications for see-through screens: HUDs, AR, literal camera viewfinder, tile-ability, low-weight.

Also just the general flex and coolness that a "no visible seams" (I mean no visible wires/metal) approach will bring - a case of form meeting function - the screen in the abstract sense is an abstract - a general portal through which anything can appear. A "pure screen" is the physical realization of that.
by misteriji2 | 2025-06-16 14:29:42+00:00
The same applies to driving... you have to know the road rules, how the car behaves in what situations, how to drive in bad weather, heavy traffic, etc.

Now the best way is to get licenced and drive (=use a radio) in "normal" cirumstances to get experienced before an emergency. Somehow 12yo kids manage to get licenced, but preppers can't.
by mcgrath_sh | 2025-06-16 14:30:04+00:00
I can swear a lot while talking. I have never written a curse word in my code, especially professionally. Just seems odd and not useful? I wouldn't be offended if I came across one, but it seems weird to use in a professional setting? A lot of the times I have seen inappropriate words used were not in any context and were used as a "joke" when logging/debugging. So "dicks 01" or "fuck me 01" instead of a bland "check 01" or whatever. For some reason, that seems much more unprofessional than a comment like "this code is shitty but works, need to clean up."

The contextless swearing seems so unnecessary and adds nothing to the code, whereas a comment with a curse word in it reads way more human.
by BryantD | 2025-06-16 14:30:12+00:00
Without judging this guy's current state, he makes it clear in his first blog post that he was a dealer.

"So instead of coming back home broke and apologetic, I ended up pretty deep into this and soon was making tens of thousands of dollars a week, very much unapologetically."

Then, after his first sentence:

"I was left with the difficult choice of either living there and walking to a temp agency with hopes of making $10.50/hour doing manual labor (without an ID or social security card at this point), or getting on a bus to NYC to see some associates, and coming back in a week or so with $15-25k in my pocket and living in comfy luxury hotels until I could rent an apartment... I chose the latter: and obviously, was back in prison after a short 14 months of addiction and misery."
by Der_Einzige | 2025-06-16 14:30:31+00:00
Even the "Bad" bluth films are excellent. Rock a doodle do is a solid 8.5+/10 and I straight up think critics who leave that film with a bad rating are deluded.

Porco Rosso literally reuses music, animations, etc from his other films. I enjoyed the film because a fascist pig cassanova was a fascinating premise - but it's very much derivative.

I bench them against one another because my partner is obsessed with Miyazaki and finds Bluth films to be mundane in comparison. Miyazaki has far more cultural capital today than bluth - which is absurd since more Americans grew up watching the land before time than they did watching anything Miyazaki made.
by vanschelven | 2025-06-16 14:31:10+00:00
I'd say "track errors first" [0] and focus on APM later (if at all). If you're worried about Sentry's lock-in, know that there are API-compatible drop-in replacements[1][2] though they are less feature-complete on the APM/observability side.

[0] https://www.bugsink.com/blog/track-errors-first/

[1] https://www.bugsink.com/

[2] https://glitchtip.com/
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-06-16 14:31:22+00:00
I feel like the better path to resiliency is not persistent radio connections between hobbyists on other sides of the state but rather intermittent ones between people on opposite sides of the bus and an application layer that arranges for people who are heading that way anyhow to carry "internet" traffic on a filesystem in their pocket.

You just get a different type of threat landscape when each hop is also an opportunity to shake somebody's hand and attest that the holder of their private key is a real human. It creates a minimal trust layer you can then build on. You don't get that with a hardware address found drifting on the wind.

Both modes have some potential to attract harmful attention to network operators based on the behavior of their users, but to a very different degree. So far as I know nobody is kicking down meshtastic operators' doors looking to follow a transmission to its source, but I think that would change if the other modes of long range skulduggery were to fail.

The most resilient infrastructure would be one with no high value targets: one where each user is equally an operator.
by the_plug | 2025-06-16 14:31:32+00:00
Hey HN

Just wanted to share a big update on Pipo360 since the original post — thanks to your feedback, it's evolved from an AI backend generator into a full dev workspace.

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16 frameworks supported (Express, Django, Spring Boot, Rails, etc.)

14 databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, etc.)

AI-powered code enhancement (edit & improve generated code)

Full in-browser code editor

Project saving, loading, and 1-click export

Real-time sync across sessions

We’re working on 1-click deploy, team collaboration, and API testing next.

Try it here (no signup required): https://pipo360.xyz

Would love your thoughts: What features would make this serious enough to replace Firebase/Supabase in your workflow?

What part still feels “AI toy” vs “real dev tool”?

Where do you think it will break or fall short at scale?

Appreciate everyone who tried it out and gave feedback — this is being built with you, not just for you.
by busterarm | 2025-06-16 14:32:06+00:00
Because the report only contains statements of fact related to the police report and the police interaction.

There's no actual confirmation in that report that her arm was actually broken or that she was actually beaten. There's no medical examination that happened here that is cited.

That would still be required in a civil trial with preponderance of evidence. What if she was on drugs and did it to herself? (Not saying that's what happened). We don't know what happened from this document and that has nothing to do with this charge or his appeal.
by filoleg | 2025-06-16 14:32:22+00:00
Not every nerdy person is into Star Trek?

Star Wars is imo way more mainstream than Star Trek these days (especially with Disney pumping it), but even then there are tons of people in their 20s working in tech who haven’t seen it and have no interest in it.

I don’t think there was more than one person on my previous Android team who would’ve gotten the Tricoder reference, and I was the youngest person there (29 years old at the time; learned about Tricoder literally just from this thread myself).

If you picked a random person working on Android source code and asked me to guess whether they know about Tricoder (without knowing any additional info about them), I would have decisively guessed “no”.
by jlbooker | 2025-06-16 14:32:28+00:00
> So they are useless. My car warns me even if i don't look.

No, they serve a very specific purpose -- (attempting) to ensure the driver is at the controls and paying attention.

Don't confuse the FSD attention "nag" warnings with collision warnings. The collision warnings will sound all the time, with and without FSD enabled and even if you're not looking at the road. If you don't start slowing down quickly, Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) will slam on the brakes and bring the car to a stop.
by CrackerNews | 2025-06-16 14:32:32+00:00
With the example of the USSR and China, central planning excels for an initial industrialization. The state of Indian industry now is that where China has difficulty outsourcing to the region.

I remember an article linked on this site praising India for not relying on electricity for industrial labor, but that is a sign of underdevelopment of infrastructure. Infrastructure is something that is usually invested in by the state.

Culture is a major reason, and cultural revolutions were a method to reorient the population to a new societal goal. An Indian mentality can be summed up as "doing the needful" without questioning what it is.
by thenthenthen | 2025-06-16 14:34:17+00:00
There are a lot of ‘windows support is ending so change to x software instead’ vibes in my extended community all of a sudden. While this is a great moment to address issues around closed/open source software, it feels a bit off. Open source software is not dependant on/the nemesis of closed source software and risks to reduce the importance of open source software to mere marketing or the very issues open source software tries to address
by ommz | 2025-06-16 14:34:26+00:00
Ah... There's a pattern here. Soon enough, just like with Facebook pages eons ago, they will nerf the reach of WhatsApp channels then prod channel owners to pay for more eyeballs.

It should be a law of nature that whatever Meta/Facebook acquires will surely be ad-riddled & 'spyware' infested regardless of the "we won't" promises they swear to abide by.
by cesarb | 2025-06-16 14:34:51+00:00
> > No, Java applets failed because they became the poster child for "Java is slow" take.

> Java Applets also froze the entire browser when loading.

More than just "poster child", I believe Java applets are the origin of the "Java is slow" meme. The first time many people heard of Java would be when it locked up their browser for a whole minute while loading an applet, with a status bar message pointing to Java as the culprit.
by falcor84 | 2025-06-16 14:35:08+00:00
> But once everyone delegates email responses to ChatGPT, inbox volume may expand, nullifying initial efficiency gains.

Why would that nullify the efficiency gains? If AIs read, process and write all of the emails, why should I care if they write more emails than I would? This is kind of my dream, of the AI acting as a sort of Chief of Staff to me, processing all the correspondence, and only leaving me to make actual decisions, and to start entirely new flows of operation. I'd love it if I could just send a new company memo as a "fire and forget", as execs a century ago would, and assume that things are moving forward, if and until my AI lets me know about any issue.