MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-07 01:44:04+00:00
> My findings were also that it's really super important to have them up high... at which point you need decent cable, termination and general radio knowledge otherwise you are exposing yourself to other issues.

Well, 1090 Mhz is a crap frequency to run through coax cable for long distances. The attenuation is pretty high at that frequency already. So I wouldn't just mount the antenna on the roof and then coax the RF down a few floors. You will reduce your range.

I would simply mount the SDR itself right up on top of the mast, along with a raspberry pi to decode everything. Then add a PoE HAT and all you need to bring down is Ethernet for which long distances are no issue. The PoE uses 48V so it also bypasses the problem of voltage drop on 5V with high current. Put it all in a waterproof box of course. Ideally metal for heat dissipation because waterproof means no airflow from outside to inside.

Make sure you use real copper Ethernet cable and not that CCA crap (copper clad aluminium) because that has much higher resistance and does have big problems with PoE. All the cheap cables are CCA these days so beware.
by nubela | 2025-08-07 01:44:30+00:00
There is this bias problem not just with ChatGPT, but with LLMs in general. It is not able to be objective. For example, if you paste arguments from 2 lawyers, for which lawyer A uses very strong words and writes a lot more VS that of lawyer B, which has a strong case but says less. LLMs in general will always be biased and err towards the side which uses stronger language and write a lot more.

This to me, is a sign that intelligence/rationalization is not present yet. That said, it does seem like something that can be "trained" away.
by zecheng | 2025-08-07 01:45:43+00:00
Yes, we can connect for example CC with MCPs. But this may not work well for example if user wants to check the latency for previous 10 days error log on function A. By using MCP the agent needs to get 10 days error logs at first and then somehow get the latency and correlates them, apply filters for function A. IMO it will hallucinate a lot if there are too many tools, logs and traces. But on TraceRoot platform we "mixed" all necessary data at first, and based on user's query apply filters on structured data, which is more accurate, straightforward and efficient. Here is the README of the general design https://github.com/traceroot-ai/traceroot/tree/main/rest/age...
by throw0101a | 2025-08-07 01:46:22+00:00
> Hm. So then don't use (systemd-)resolved?

The number of ways and things that twiddle with /etc/resolv.conf nowadays is quite unreasonable.

Changing the IP address was also fairly simple in editing a file, but now there's networkd sometimes, and NetManager other times, and netplan too, and perhaps make sure your YAML file is indented with the right number of spaces in the right place…
by kyralis | 2025-08-07 01:47:21+00:00
The parent is talking about rural areas: > You can buy houses in rural New York for $100k-$150k.

But for your comment, what percentage of the population do you believe qualifies for WFH? Do you think the population at risk of homelessness does? Are we going to see WFH hotel check in desks, restaurant servers, and other manual work soon?

Certainly if you have a well-paying WFH job you can work from nearly anywhere. I'm an example! I live in a rural area, precisely because I have a WFH job that enables it. But I still acknowledge that I'm that exception, not the rule.
by esseph | 2025-08-07 01:47:41+00:00
Back to the triage analogy, there is a person with a compound fracture that is losing blood. The gsw needs care. We need pressure on that artery.

We're arguing over the color of the bandaid for the hangnail.

That's why I don't give a fuck about voter ID, because the people that give a fuck about voter ID have been fucking duped, and I don't know how to reason with that human, so I just have given up trying and scream into the void.

If somebody will streamline the process and actually fund some DMVs to get this done I'd be all for it - but they won't, because it's not the point, they'll just mandate it as a form of voter suppression without doing anything to fix the infrastructure problem.

deep sigh
by mindslight | 2025-08-07 01:48:37+00:00
"Give websites your ID" requires doxing yourself to every site out there, including forums etc which will heartily embrace the excuse to dox you.

"Magic ZKP faerie dust" still requires locked down corporate controlled devices implementing remote attestation that destroys everyones ability to run the code of their choosing on their device (see UK's system). Of course Google advertises the cool seems-like-privacy ZKP part rather than the totalitarian remote attestation/"Safety"Net/WEI part.

Filters on the device, including preventing kids booting/installing alternative software only requires devices to prevent easily running other OS images on demand. Boot signatures suffice. And if designed to support it, filters could also be run on the router or by a mobile provider.

That last approach is still the least freedom-destroying, by far.
by swat535 | 2025-08-07 01:49:50+00:00
An assistant is an intelligent human being who understands basic concepts, they are not a slot machine like AI is.

My experience using these is that it makes more time to reverse engineer the bloat they spill out than to write the thing myself.

God help you if you attempt to teach them anything, they will say "You're absolutely right!" and then continue churning out the same broken code.

Then you have to restart with a "fresh" context and give them the requirements from scratch and hope that this time they come up with something better.
by firefax | 2025-08-07 01:50:03+00:00
Interesting. Are vim on the CLI and Vim the gui program two separate things? (I actually used "MacVim" on MacOS for basic note taking in class since I could alt tab to it, but tended to do any script writing in vim on the cli.)

Anyways, my only customizations are usually to turn on line numbers and syntax highlighting... I also have sublime, but sometimes I find writing a script it can be helpful to just use a very simple editor, write out some psudocode with comments, then slowly build it out... it's easy to get distracted in a full blown IDE. (And I'd argue emacs or vim when heavily customized effectively become an IDE)
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-07 01:50:05+00:00
With the iODD 2531: It has modes: CD, HDD, and dual. CD provides emulation only. HDD and dual expose an FAT32 drive volume that can contains a magic _ISO directory to store .iso's. One limitation though is it doesn't support fragmented (discontinuous) files, and so those need to be minimally defragmented occasionally.
by Kambing | 2025-08-07 01:50:23+00:00
The highlights of Google's latest AI push for higher education:

- "Starting today, students (ages 18+) in the U.S. as well as in Japan, Indonesia, Korea and Brazil can sign-up for a 12 month Google AI Pro plan for free."

- "To support their success, we’re providing $1 billion in funding over three years for American education, including AI literacy programs, research funding and cloud computing resources. We’re also announcing the Google AI for Education Accelerator, an initiative to offer free AI training and Google Career Certificates to every college student in America. Over 100 public universities, including the University of Michigan, The Ohio State University, the University of Virginia and the University Systems in Texas, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania have already signed up. We invite all accredited non-profit colleges and universities in the U.S. to apply."
by austin-cheney | 2025-08-07 01:50:24+00:00
You might have the Asperger’s variant of ASD. Asperger’s is no longer diagnosed, but it’s identified as a benign ultra low social intelligence, low conscientiousness, and obsessive disorders. It is often misdiagnosed, or at least prematurely, as ADHD.

What other people see is impulsivity similar to ADHD but without the introspection or impulse regulation still present in people with ADHD.

Do you think almost exclusively in terms of first person pronouns? Do you have difficulty knowing when not to talk or when to stop talking? Do you have trouble determining the interest level or listening posture of the people around you? Do you find it challenging to put things away or remember where you left something?

If any of that describes you I recommend focusing on only two things:

1. Active listening. You have to teach yourself to not talk and to read the nonverbal communications of people. This will be tough because it will be completely outside your interest.

2. Organizational skills. I suspect organizational skills are something always of interest to you but just a bit out of reach. I am not sure how to help with this because I have seen people obsess over this and still do poorly.
by Fomite | 2025-08-07 01:50:48+00:00
The curriculum meetings are because we're starting a new program, and my entire department is on 12 month contracts, not 9 month ones. Honestly, those meetings are rather fun, because it's a chance to talk about what I think we should be teaching people in my discipline - it's just an example of something that can't be "pawned off on a grad student".

My NIH grants have annual reports, as do NSF. CDC and USAID (RIP...) have much more intensive reporting requirements.

Honestly, I love my job, and there are some very nice things about it. It's just not the case that all professors get the summers off, or that if they are working, it's all fun and games and sitting in my office thinking Big Ideas.
by mrsvanwinkle | 2025-08-07 01:51:26+00:00
longtime lurker first time account maker. i wouldnt say this was the first time i was tempted to express what felt to me as due acknowledgment nor was this the most compelling, but personal circumstances aligned with the what is apparently a "universal" (as far as human cognition is phenomenologically similar at least among a normal cluster) applicability of your observation on learning as we age, specifically the transactional social/market value of investing one's remaining lifetime. i especially loved the quasiglobal (euro.. swiss euro your emphasis) scope of the swiss school polyglot generator, definitely captured a sense of immensity in your narration (at least to me who understands how one language i dont know is a huge chunk of a known universe i am blind to) so ye anyway thanks, your post was a welcome dose of motivation to learn something complex yet relatively inane but ultimately disproportionately interesting tonight guiltfree not necessarily a new language but something i can brute clone in a childlike brain without the overhead of integrating it with the collective garbage ive recorded of my pov of the history of the universe so far. (i wish)
by p_ing | 2025-08-07 01:51:51+00:00
You haven't tried therapy. You've found a therapist (or more than several) that you don't gel with. Keep going, it may take you 15, 20, or more therapists to find the correct one. They're not manufactured overseas in a die stamp and shipped in a box to your local generic office space.

Oh, and less HN. HN isn't going to solve your problem. And don't bother with reddit, either. The Internet isn't your head-problem-solving-space. In fact, based on the wall of text, this is the last place you should be. Nothing about "can't function" takes that many words.
by maysunyoung | 2025-08-07 01:52:19+00:00
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by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-08-07 01:53:30+00:00
It would also work over NFS, which could have value.

My interest is actually in the opposite direction; I want a single machine with all home directories on its own internal hard disk, but where each user encrypts their home directory separately. That's doable other ways, but homed could be a nice way to do it that works out of the box.
by bccdee | 2025-08-07 01:56:47+00:00
That's not true. You're stereotyping criminals. People who commit assault, petty robbery, public indecency, etc. are probably on the whole not brilliant. But how about fraud, embezzlement, or parking infractions?

Given that we're talking about cybercrime here, what are the odds that the criminals in question are too dumb to Google "how can i get around whatsapp image scanning"?
by austin-cheney | 2025-08-07 01:57:15+00:00
As a software developer I can always grant myself 20% more time. I will find a way to either automate areas of my responsibilities or reconfigure them as to be delegated to others in a more efficient configuration. This sort of social problem solving is always of greater interest to me than more money. I suspect that is why they promoted me to management and made me lead of operations for this big project.
by simondotau | 2025-08-07 01:57:30+00:00
The only reason why Safari is "shit" is because web developers are too lazy to develop for the web and instead develop for Chrome. The point of the web is that it's an open standard. Expecting everyone to use the bleeding edge version of the most aggressively feature-laden browser isn't just unreasonable, it's counter to the spirit of the platform.

Microsoft got into trouble for pushing Netscape users over to Internet Explorer, but what they did isn't half as evil as the dark patterns Google is using to get Chrome and other Google apps onto the few devices left which don't have them.

It's IE6 all over again. But worse.
by mathieuh | 2025-08-07 01:57:39+00:00
For an English speaker it would be difficult. It is a highly synthetic language (meaning the markers which tell you which parts of the sentence are doing what), compared to English which is an analytical language (meaning there are extra words like prepositions which tell you which part of the sentence is doing what). This is why Finnish (and other Uralic languages’ words) look so long to us, because where we in English would use prepositions and word order to denote object, subject etc., much of that is expressed in Finnish through suffixes.

Perhaps for a speaker of another synthetic language like Polish it might be easier to learn Finnish as their brain might would already have the wiring but even then, as the article notes Finnish is not an Indo-European language so it is further removed still.
by jmye | 2025-08-07 01:59:21+00:00
“Caring about things is dumb” is such a lame response to “at least thirty years of government didn’t fuck this up, so why is this one so incompetent that it did.”

The language you use to dismiss the concern is certainly cute, but maybe put down the thesaurus for a bit. It’s not doing you the favor you think it is.
by Fomite | 2025-08-07 02:00:37+00:00
> This is not typical and you know it.

You said "your".

But my entire field goes off NIH rates, which while not nearly high enough, are well above minimum wage. That's what I'm objecting to - the broad strokes exaggeration that covers up genuine problems.

> That's the thing with hunger games, if they don't get good they don't survive. I've seen it. I know PIs who don't write a single one of their grants.

Personally, I wouldn't put my name on any graduate student's first grant proposal attempt, because I don't like wasting my time, nor is that what I want them working on.

I am not saying abuse of graduate students and postdocs doesn't occur. I'm acutely aware that it does - and having helped colleagues through a number of crises, I'm very much not in denial about it. But it is also not the norm.

If you want to have an honest discussion about the problems facing graduate students and postdocs in academia, including abusive working conditions, that's one thing. But that's also a massive shift in goalposts from asserting that I get to spend 3-4 months thinking about interesting things all day because "You can offload as much work as you want to grad students and postdocs", which is just factually untrue.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-08-07 02:00:46+00:00
Shared space living works as long as your roommates don’t come back horribly drunk and reek of alcohol. True story: when I moved to Lausanne I stayed at the youth hostel for a week while looking for a place to live. The police would bring in some people in sometimes who didn’t have a place to stay…and it was pretty horrible, I’m not even sure how to describe the smell even today. Suffice to say, I got out of that hostel as quickly as possible.

Youth hostels used to be able to discriminate with a lot of requirements to prevent chronic homeless from using them (you need a passport, you need to be under a certain age) but as soon as those criteria disappeared, they basically become unviable.
by brightball | 2025-08-07 02:01:58+00:00
Yea, I subscribed and used it to watch the Hungarian GP this past weekend. The driver view was really intense!

I’ve been catching up by binging a lot of content that was recommended to me. The movie Rush (2013) was great. Brawn on Hulu was a fantastic story. Currently shopping for some vintage gear from them.

Watching a little Drive to Survive on Netflix too.
by kulahan | 2025-08-07 02:03:06+00:00
I think you might have a slightly off-kilter view of what I mean. Regulation is not inherently good. Large corporations will often work through lobbyists (I don’t think anyone can deny the incredible access powerful lobbyists have in the US) to enact laws purely to stifle competition. An example of this is major groups like Meta directly requesting regulations on major topics, because when a law is in place, you know exactly how to skirt around it and you find all the loopholes you can.

A short overview with some examples on how the US differs from other regions in this respect: https://www.numberanalytics.com/blog/regulatory-capture-us-l...
by jerf | 2025-08-07 02:03:28+00:00
"In Firefox I was getting just under a billion operations per second when perf testing on hardware with slow DDR3 memory."

When you profile something and you get "a billion per second" what you've got there is a loop where the body has been entirely optimized away. Presumably the JIT noticed you were doing nothing and making no changes and optimized it away. I don't think there's a single real DOM operation you can do in an amortized 3-ish CPU cycles per operation (2015 3GHz-ish CPU, but even at 5GHz it wouldn't matter).

That's not a real performance number and you won't be seeing any real DOM operations being done at a billion per second anytime soon.
by pavpanchekha | 2025-08-07 02:05:34+00:00
Author here. It's true that you'd need one more bit to represent a bit position in a word, like for shifts, but we're already vastly over-provisioned; even in 64-bit registers we're only using six of eight bits. (Plus, in a lot of places we'd have that extra bit around!)

Some hardware circuits are a bit nicer with power-of-two sizes but I don't think it's a huge difference, and hardware has to include weird stuff like 24-bit and 53-bit multipliers for floating-point anyway (which in this alternate world would be probably 28-bit and 60-bit?). Not sure a few extra gates would be a dealbreaker.
by extra88 | 2025-08-07 02:07:57+00:00
Not 20 years ago and not now because it makes no sense to blind people using screen readers.

And ~15 years ago a consensus formed that making separate sites for phones and other devices was not the way forward and tables are ill suited for responsiveness.

We've had CSS Grid for 7-8 years and Flexbox for longer, tables can be left for what they're good at, tabular data, not layout.
by proc0 | 2025-08-07 02:08:34+00:00
Something I don't see mentioned in the article is the obvious hypocrisy and lack of accountability for making bad decisions. If solar is so bad for prices which affect poor people, then doesn't it follow that the government shouldn't be as aggerssive with other "green" policies? Wouldn't this be the same outcome if everyone starts switching to electric cars? If this is not corruption it is unprecedented levels of incompetence. Unfortunately Californians don't seem to pay attention while the ones that are paying attention are leaving. I fear it's already in a doom loop.
by d00mB0t | 2025-08-07 02:10:03+00:00
"Following his criminal conviction, Zavvar was placed into removal proceedings. A judge issued him a final order of removal in 2007. Zavvar had almost 20 years to self-deport and leave the U.S."

"Federal immigration authorities continue to pursue deportations not only of undocumented immigrants but also of former green card holders with past criminal records."

Seems more than fair to me.
by pavpanchekha | 2025-08-07 02:10:54+00:00
Author here. Actually I doubt we'd have picked 27-bit addresses. That's about 134M addresses; that's less than the US population (it's about the number of households today?) and Europe was also relevant when IPv4 was being designed.

In any case, if we had chosen 27-bit addresses, we'd have hit exhaustion just a bit before the big telecom boom that built out most of the internet infrastructure that holds back transition today. Transitioning from 27-bit to I don't know 45-bit or 99-bit or whatever we'd choose next wouldn't be as hard as the IPv6 transition today.
by skydhash | 2025-08-07 02:11:03+00:00
State can be easy when you’re talking about document-based app (forms and content). But it can become quite hard when talking about some long lived interactions and the state diagram becomes difficult to draw. React (the library, not the ecosystem) make it easy to deal with that case. Otherwise you have to write bespoke reactive code. Not that difficult, bit it’s buy VS build.
by mastazi | 2025-08-07 02:11:11+00:00
I get your point about time availability. This however doesn't explain why it's common for young adults to learn faster than older adults. Often young adults are even more time constrained than older generations (new family, young kids, possibly less stable job situation, etc.) and yet older adults are usually the ones who have a harder time learning a language (as a "serial" migrant I have experienced this personally). So I don't think that time is the only factor.
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by throwawaylaptop | 2025-08-07 02:12:03+00:00
I know a guy that has had meat only for 3 years now. Most fit guy I know.

My father and I have avoided carbs for a few years now. Can do home renovations, gardening, dirt bike riding, and hikes better than we ever did eating carbs. Unless you're doing long distance hikes/running/hard core sports, I really don't think that's true.