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by general1465 | 2025-09-24 19:58:23+00:00
It has been found out that using different tech on same frequency spectrum won't give you more bandwidth. And using higher frequency with more bandwidth (The ultra wideband - UWB - 5G running on 10GHz+) has a nasty problem with attenuation and effectively any solid object is becoming a steel wall for such 5G signal, including glass in windows or leaves on trees.

After sales realizing that attenuation is a real thing, marketing started pushing 5G mini BTS which you will put into every room or office. People obviously started pointing on their Wi-Fi routers asking why they need mini BTS.

5G has been grossly oversold in what it can do and drawbacks (like hideously unstable 5G UWB connection when you are not standing still) has been kind of omitted.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-09-24 19:58:28+00:00
> And what percentage of people will take them to court just to get them to refund their ticket?

If there is any upside to mandatory binding final arbitration, it's that proceedings are cheaper and quicker. It might be that the arbitrators decide to universally rule in favor of the airlines amidst unambiguous evidence that the airlines took money and canceled the service, but seems unlikely.

It's also a huge risk on the part of the airlines to decide that their official policy is to stiff customers and hope it works out in arbitration.

> Why are we making it harder for the consumer to resolve an issue when the flight is clearly cancelled?

Because we elected the guy who said he would, going so far as to ensure he had a majority in both houses of Congress.

> They just want to force you into weird store-credit style refunds so that you cannot go to a competitor or choose not to travel.

Lol yes that is exactly it. I wouldn't have written that stuff above if I knew you were going to correct yourself.
by willis936 | 2025-09-24 19:59:16+00:00
Try to use GNOME to drive a variable refresh rate display challenge (impossible).

Jabs aside, GNOME is pretty nice compared to where it used to be. Everything still takes a few iterations of touching, but not as many as it used to. Some things are frustratingly unsolvable (see: advanced monitor features), but at least it is a full replacement for Windows on the same hardware. Oh, and contemporary linux distress have audio drivers that appear to work out of the box without having to build the kernel.

When it comes to laptops: it'd be great if anyone made something that competes with a MacBook. It's been a long time. At this point I can only assume there is an economic reason rather than a technical one that Windows and Linux laptops are so bad.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-09-24 20:00:01+00:00
Lower rungs are definitely not content working 40 hours a week. They work crazy amounts (multiple jobs even!) just to get to the upper rungs of society.

I support the labour laws limiting an employer to 40hrs a week of a man's labour. This is important for people who really just want some employment and don't want to die. But the vast majority of people work two such jobs and try to get into the higher rungs of the financial ladder. Heck, even SDE3s in software companies work off-hours to become IC's and such, and I'm sure it's similar once you go down the executive route.

> "That's what you do"

That is definitely true, a lot of social fabric erodes when providing labour is turned into a psychotic thing. I'm not entirely convinced the labour laws we have today are enough to prevent this. My opinion is that we need to also have policies on the other side of the coin - i.e encourage family/extended family/communal/what have you living. Not "one child policy" level forced policies, but instead in the form of a good complement to strong labour laws.
by goku12 | 2025-09-24 20:00:06+00:00
Please remember that an LLM accessing any website isn't the problem here. It's the scraping bots that saturate the server bandwidth (a DoS attack of sorts) to collect data to train the LLMs with. An LLM solving a captcha or an Anubis style proof of work problem isn't a big concern here, because the worst they're going to do with the collected data is to cache them for later analysis and reporting. Unlike the crawlers, LLMs don't have any incentives in sucking up huge amounts of data like a giant vacuum cleaner.
by occz | 2025-09-24 20:00:16+00:00
It's not really a matter of just turning it on when it comes to the kind of scale that YouTube has on their catalogue. It's practically impossible to retranscode the whole catalogue, so you're more or less stuck with only doing it for newly ingested content, and even there the tradeoffs are quite large when it comes to actually having DRM.

I think we can safely assume that the only content under DRM at YouTube today is the content where it's absolutely legally necessary.
by williamtrask | 2025-09-24 20:00:19+00:00
(OP here) I agree with this in spirit, but also it's hard to imagine the world can be fully described with 200 terabytes of data. There's a lot more good stuff out there.

But to your point, a crucial question in AI right now is: how much quality data is still out there?

As far as the impracticality, it's a great point. I disagree and have spent about 10 years working in the area. But that can be a post for another day. I understand and appreciate the skepticism.
by michael1999 | 2025-09-24 20:00:22+00:00
You completely miss my complaint. Perhaps I was unclear. The Pentagon Papers is the exact opposite! Ellsberg actually shared the documents; there were literal "papers" involved in the Pentagon Papers. That's the "real evidence" I demand.

Off-the-record conversational, "I'd never lie to you" BS, from anonymous sources in the "intelligence community" is a lead to investigate, not a story. They weren't called the Pentagon Whispers.
by vkou | 2025-09-24 20:00:36+00:00
Racism didn't end in 1964, but people sure have gotten better at dog whistling about it.

(Just earlier this year, the first words out of the mouth of the political right about a fatal aircraft crash was to... Question the credentials of its black pilot. Because no matter how much a black person will ever achieve in this country, some mouth breather who hasn't done a day of honest work in their lives will insist that those achievements were all a sham, they don't deserve any of them, they can't do the job, their out-of-work cousin with a meth habbit can do it better, etc.)

And if you call the pricks and nepobabies who are doing that out on it, they start hand waving it as 'we're just asking questions' and 'well, he could have been unqualified', or raise some other nonsense deflection of their vulgar, unacceptably racist behavior.

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All that judgement was made before any of the facts besides the pilot's skin color were out. If your first reaction to 'aircraft flown by <race of> pilot crashes' is 'clearly, that's because they were an unqualified AA hire', you are, unfortunately, a racist. Own it, or stop it.

And, sadly, quite a number of people were very happy to out themselves as such. What is sadder is that others are happy to play cover for them.
by lapcat | 2025-09-24 20:00:54+00:00
> have you considered that I might also be unconvinced by prior examples

Yes. But then you're admitting that there are prior examples, not just this latest example.

> And thus dismissed those off-hand references as largely irrelevant to the main content of your post?

My opinions in the post, whether you agree with them or not, were indeed largely irrelevant to main content, which was highlighting the change of behavior.

You could have chosen to ignore those opinions, if you believe they were largely irrelevant. You chose not only to address my opinions but to turn them into a straw man. (Note that the HN guidelines also say, "Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.") You don't have to agree with my opinions, but again, my opinions are part of a larger context, which you now acknoweldge. My opinions did not arise out of the blue with the video controls change.
by al_borland | 2025-09-24 20:00:56+00:00
The premise, from Wikipedia:

> The series is reportedly inspired by a true-life story titled "Is It Possible to Stop a Mass Shooting Before It Happens?" which featured in Cosmopolitan in August 2019 of a woman who has come to be known as "the Savant" who infiltrates online hate-groups in order to prevent large-scale public attacks.

The show poster also looks like someone got a single bullet to the eye.
by nostrademons | 2025-09-24 20:00:59+00:00
Game theory is exactly it. A bunch of simulations have shown that in a repeated prisoner's dilemma, the optimal strategy is tit-for-tat, sometimes adding forgiveness. The fact that you will play again incentivizes players to cooperate. But as soon as the game becomes finite (i.e. you can see the end in sight), the optimal strategy becomes "defect", because your opponent also has the same incentives and whoever defects first gets the payoff.

Incidentally this also points to the path from a bad to good equilibrium. You have to throw away the big system and start with a system small enough that the participants will interact repeatedly. This rebuilds trust. Then you have to defend that system from outside influences, or at least carefully control them so they play by the same rules as existing participants. The act of defending your local community also builds trust - arguably [1] post-WW2 U.S. social cohesion was actually generated by the experience of defeating the Axis powers and then getting enmeshed in the Cold War. Finally you can gradually expand the system through carefully controlled immigration and naturalization.

Unfortunately, this probably means that the Internet, globalization, and likely large states like the US/China/Russia are all toast. And as Terence Tao's post here points out, large organizations are usually more efficient than small organizations. That means that as large organizations have outcompeted small organizations, the transition as those large organizations themselves become dysfunctional and disintegrate is going to be wrenching. We're going to lose access to several material conveniences that we take for granted.

[1] https://www.paulgraham.com/re.html
by bonoboTP | 2025-09-24 20:01:02+00:00
They are verbose and vague about it: "Some passengers may be concerned about what they can do if they lose their phone or of their devices run out of battery before the pass board the aircraft. Ryanair has said they will assist people experiencing difficulties free of charge at the gate gathering their information and flight details which will be cross-checked and validated against the flight manifest so that they can board as normal."
by giantg2 | 2025-09-24 20:01:07+00:00
"As C3P will tell you: CSAM distribution on Tor onion services is not inevitable."

Lol, are we using the regular internet as an example of preventing all CSAM?

We've known for years that owning enough nodes results in the compromise of privacy and that it's likely the NSA has achieved this. Although there is some question around how that plays out if adversaries like China are also competing for similar node share percentage.
by JetSetWilly | 2025-09-24 20:03:18+00:00
I have a feeling this migrant didn’t get off a dinghy with all the other engineers and scientists so probably isn’t raising a lot of concern for most. Conflating “immigration is too high” with “anyone who thinks immigration is too high is a racist who thinks they are all freeloaders” doesn’t work anymore, no amount of media propaganda will change that.
by snickerbockers | 2025-09-24 20:03:20+00:00
>Plenty of such reporting has resulted in significant truths being revealed and powerful people being held accountable (Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, Abu Ghraib).

And what, pray tell, is the major scandal in this case? The source isn't alleging any impropriety or illegal activity. Anonymous sources are for stories which are being suppressed or lied about, not for investigations which have not yet publicly been announced due to pending litigation. If there's no obvious motive for why the source would want to be anonymous then all you're reporting on is rumor and gossip.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-09-24 20:03:34+00:00
It's not just about translations, either. Sometimes you want to document or describe to someone where something is on a site. "Click on FooBar, then in the popup saying <<Are you sure FooBar is the right Frob>> check the <<Cheesy Cheese Burger>> checkbox and click OK.

It's much less frustrating when you can copy-paste the damned labels straight off the site/app, than retyping them and hoping you didn't misspell FooBar as FooBaz, leading the other person into deeper trouble rather than helping.
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by datadrivenangel | 2025-09-24 20:05:17+00:00
If an adversary is spending tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to find you, that's a lift that most threat actors won't be able to do. Especially if they have to host a significant number of exit nodes for a lengthy period, which often means serving unlawful content which is very awkward for law enforcement.

It's definitely better than regular browsing for security, but it's not perfect.
by vel0city | 2025-09-24 20:05:46+00:00
I'm not sure its that brilliant. You just had an event that made people really think about if they actually wanted it or not with potentially a lot of cancellations. You may have had a few people come back, but now with a price hike they're once again re-evaluating if they really wanted it. For others you lost, you're now probably continuing to cement that decision. Meanwhile, those that felt "I can't quit, its just too good of value" are now also reconsidering that evaluation.
by libraryatnight | 2025-09-24 20:05:48+00:00
In my extended family there's some government employees an auditor and someone in defense, and listening to them try to explain why the 'failed audit' fox news had their father ranting about as a reason everyone deserved to be fired by DOGE at the time and he was "loving every minute" was more nuanced and not good evidence for the conclusion he'd been fed was difficult.

Even in simple jobs I've worked there's always been something armchair experts don't consider that makes their quick fix "just do this" or "how hard can it be to do X" ignorant and irrelevant. But he was so enamored of Elon and "saving us money" he couldn't even fathom maybe his kids who are smart and have been in the industry for sometime might know or understand something he doesn't.

Later I asked him "What audit are you talking about?" And he said "Who cares, I know they failed and that's all I need to know." The brazen ignorance mixed with outright callousness masquerading as righteousness is not good.
by ijk | 2025-09-24 20:05:58+00:00
I find that for more "intuitive" evaluations, reasoning tends to hurt more than it helps. In other words, if it can do a one-shot classification correctly, adding a bunch of second guessing just degrades the performance.

This may change as our RL methods get better at properly rewarding correct partial traces and penalizing overthinking, but for the moment there's often a stark difference when a multi-step process improves the model's ability to reason through the context and when it doesn't.

This is made more complicated (for human prompters and evaluators) by the fact that (as Anthropic has demonstrated) the text of the reasoning trace means something very different for the model versus how a human is interpreting it. The reasoning the model claims it is doing can sometimes be worlds away from the actual calculations (e.g., how it uses helixal structures to do addition [1]).

[1] https://openreview.net/pdf?id=CqViN4dQJk
by epistasis | 2025-09-24 20:06:20+00:00
It's great to see other people's working solutions, thanks. Can I ask if you have backup on something like this? In many systems it's possible to store some data on ingress or after processing, which serves as something that's rebuildable, even if it's not a true backup. I'm not familiar if your software layer has backup to off site as part of their system, for example, which would be a great feature.
by JohnLocke4 | 2025-09-24 20:06:58+00:00
How difficult a language is to learn is very subjective. My mother language is Danish and therefore learning German was relatively easy for me (relatively because it is always difficult to learn a new language!)

Manchmal, wenn ich ein Wort noch nie gesehen habe, kann ich die Bedeutung herausfinden, weil ich das entsprechende Wort auf Dänisch kenne.
by kemayo | 2025-09-24 20:07:52+00:00
> Yes. But then you're admitting that there are prior examples, not just this latest example.

...I'm admitting that people making this argument have suggested there were things that supported it before. Acknowledging that people have made prior claims I disagree with doesn't seem relevant?

> You could have chosen to ignore those opinions, if you believe they were largely irrelevant.

It was your opening paragraph that talked about merging the OSes. There's a reason I responded to it by assuming you thought the rest of your post supported your opening statement.

If you'd like, we really could just talk about whether the change to the video player behavior is a reasonable thing to apply to both platforms. I think it probably is, on balance, for the aforementioned control-visibility reasons. You?

(Though, sadly, I have to go pick up a child from school, so the rapid back-and-forth will have to cease for a bit.)
by lossolo | 2025-09-24 20:08:26+00:00
I'm using ChatGPT daily to correct wording and I work on LLMs, construction and the wording in your comment is straight from ChatGPT. I looked at your other comments, and a lot of them seem to be LLM output. This one is an obvious example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44404524

And anyone can go back to the pre LLM era and see your comments on HN.

You need to understand that ChatGPT has a unique style of writing and overuses certain words and sentence constructions that are statistically different from normal human writing.

Rewriting things with an LLM is not a crime, so you don’t need to act like it is.
by cycomanic | 2025-09-24 20:08:27+00:00
You are attacking a straw man to make your arguments which makes me question your motivations.

Nowhere did the substack author say that cinting anonymous sources is not a thing, which your wording is implying. They say that citing anonymous sources to discuss an ongoing investigation is not a valid reason.

Let's look at the guidelines for ethical journalism and they quote the NYTimes guidelines: anonymous sources... “should be used only for information that we believe is newsworthy and credible, and that we are not able to report any other way.”

"... journalists should use anonymous sources only when essential and to give readers as much information as possible about the anonymous source’s credentials"

https://ethicsandjournalism.org/resources/best-practices/bes...

So the question is were these anonymous sources essential to the story? Have they given enough information about the sources credentials?
by WorldMaker | 2025-09-24 20:08:56+00:00
The biggest deal difference between the Deno LSP and Typescript sort-of-LSP in my experience is around the import model. Typescript has a bunch of "module resolution" modes based on various combinations of browser, bundler, and/or Node. For various reasons the Deno LSP is the only encoding of the Deno "module resolution' and upstream Typescript doesn't have a "denoX" set of "module resolution" options.

The second biggest deal is that the Deno LSP also includes a full linter, versus for the full experience the Typescript not-quite-LSP is often paired with the ESLint VS Code extension and a large eslint install.

Deno's LSP is also sometimes preferred for being a single Rust binary that runs quicker than Typescript's not-quite-LSP (plus or minus ESLint's non-LSP). It may be interesting to see how Golang Typescript's real-LSP fares in comparison in a future version.
by nostrademons | 2025-09-24 20:09:16+00:00
You might have the causality reversed. Another model might be that the electorate naturally divides into tribes, for a similar reason that competitive sports exist: people want to have a team to root for. And then media needs to adapt their message to make it seems like they're on the same "team" as the viewers/readers, because that's the only way they get clicks. So you may have the same parent media company running different spins on different brands to get left or right voters, but their only true incentive is to make the most money by getting the most clicks.

Arguably, the reason that the pre-Internet media oligopoly was more centrist was simply because it didn't face competition. If you were NBC and ran a moderate story that didn't quite please hard-core conservatives or leftists, they could...go to ABC and get the same story? But if you do that now, the MAGA types will go read Infowars instead, the leftists will go read Wonkette, and you'll be left with no viewers and no money.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-09-24 20:09:20+00:00
> Set the floor too low and people fly less because it's too crappy.

Seems like a great opportunity for an airline to be less crappy and make a lot of money selling tickets to all those people who are "flying less" on other airlines, no?

So the question then becomes why hasn't someone done that already, if the floor really is "too low"?
by mrngm | 2025-09-24 20:10:03+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43925892 "Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford" (310 points, 263 comments).

First build the thing that works, and only if it's really necessary, split it up in separate (networked) parts. You won't have to deal with unreliable network communication, or coordinate on a breaking API change with several teams when a simple search/replace on several function definitions and calls suffices.
by vel0city | 2025-09-24 20:10:16+00:00
> DVRs solved commercials on cable back in 1999, "unskippable" isn't an issue there.

I had a DirecTV DVR box that had unskippable ads for some content. It would download fresh local ads from the internet into the ad breaks from the pre-recorded satellite content. Blocking the cable box from the internet just ensured it was always the same old ad content or forced the original ad segments but also limited/broke a lot of other features of the cable box.

It only did it on some shows on some networks. Paramount was the most obvious one, a lot of the recordings of their shows had that "feature" enabled.