skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Around October 2020, there was a group of people putting up battery powered LoRa repeater nodes in the hills around Los Angeles. I had a few LilyGo TTGO units, one with DisasterRadio and one with Meshtastic installed.

I could get occasional packets through to one of the nodes that was about 6 miles away (line-of-sight).

My conclusion was that for a city, a much higher transceiver density would be needed if you wanted viable communications. It's not outside the realm of possibility. The units themselves are less than $20/each in bulk, and could be powered with a $5 solar panel/battery rig. Placement of the units would be key.

I saw some Hong Kong activists online post designs for "throwable" battery-powered units. The idea there was to toss out dozens of them during events where non-internet mesh communications would be needed. Seems like an interesting use case, although jamming and the end points (e.g., burner phones with WiFi->LoRa or Bluetooth->LoRa) are still the weak points in a scheme like that.
Remember Boeings competitive 737 max?

Competition is often about price.
This is a huge advantage to using Node.js (or Deno) on the server. In a lot of my projects, I have a shared library that is used for data validation and constraints that is used on the frontend AND the backend. Makes validating data on both sides incredibly easy, and changing the library forces changes on the frontend and backend to match (enforced by automated tests)
Some people call it wat it is and others call it "re-education" camps.

Yes, it affects statistics :)
Have they even released a product? How can something that doesn’t exist be relevant?
In fairness, in those cases, when they romanticize the thieves, they usually try to make clear that they're only taking the bank/casino's owners and are careful not to hurt anyone.
That's a fairly psychopathic take on the situation.
The go-to for floating solar in the US is Healdsburg reservoir.

Marine growth on the float is OK; I think the panel itself is held up out of the water. I guess a worry could be about heavy things attaching and eventually sinking it, requiring that the carrier be replaced.

At least some canals need to remain "navigable", which needs the panels in a frame overhead. I think this is being done in India.

The last number I encountered was that there was 3GW of floating solar known installed worldwide, much of it in southeast Asia, e.g. Singapore.
From Meta's point of view this doesn't change anything.

Your activities and interests on your meta accounts will all be part of the same profile meta keeps on grin your Facebook activity, internet browsing, and anything else they can attach or infer a tracking identity from.

Their "privacy" controls are outward facing - e.g., how your meta account is related to your Facebook profile outside meta, not inside.

This really doesn't seem to be getting to the meat of the matter.

Your neighbor and family may not know that "John Smith" on Facebook is "mariofan#1" playing VR games and "naughty69" doing VR porn, but meta sure will.
RBMK-1000 is actually still in use in Russia at three locations (they obviously fixed the bug that lead to the disaster, so it won't repeat 1:1...).

That also points at one issue. All the now >50 year old reactors should have been replaced with newer versions at some point. Just think about what kind of electronics there is in those things. This didn't happen anywhere. Not in Germany and not in France.
~75% of those deaths were among people of retirement age or older. I think it's fair to question whether it was "reasonable precaution" to shut down schools, people's workplace, and entire sectors of the economy. Simply showing the total body count doesn't even begin to describe the complexity of balanced risk assessment for younger people and what was allowed to be considered a "disingenuous narrative" or not.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...
Here is my take: if you run your code through gzip (or similar) and it gets any smaller, you've repeated yourself somewhere.

I'd rather read the gunzipped code.
> I remember purchasing a brand new HP Tablet for under $100

> When you purchase an Apple product, any Apple product, you know it's going to be at worst a middling experience.

Is there an apple tablet that costs less than 100$ so we can compare the two ?
It's not crazy when you consider the risk to that population is miniscule, and that the vaccine does have side effects, particularly for young people.
Free book about designing, implementing, maintaining low-cost wireless networks
Interesting attitude, and I wonder how much you've been affected by the pro-vaccine fervor over the last few years. Vaccines are still a risky product; your immune system is a highly complex, tightly calibrated system, and every vaccine has a small probability of throwing that system out of order. New research is coming out to show that horrific chronic illnesses like post-viral syndrome and long covid are caused by autoantibodies--antibodies that attack healthy cells. There's a good reason why we're not recommended monthly vaccine doses, and it doesn't just have to do with the cost.

Flagging this comment is also pretty ridiculous. Here's the source. https://www.science.org/content/article/rare-cases-coronavir...
The banner is positioned where the navbar is usually found on most websites. That's an area people tend to ignore unless they actually need to, you know, navigate.
I can't wait for swap support in k8s (at the pod level).

I've got a bunch of burst-y workloads that not easy to predict, and when they're running at their peak, they're doing important stuff that I'd rather not be terminated. Over-provisioning is one way to handle it, but then I risk OOM-ing the entire node. Throwing more memory at it is another solution but then we're paying a ton of money to let memory sit around unused.
> Sorry what's your contention?

Time of publication. I merely pointed that Schmidhuber et al's results were published long before Hinton et al's work (I included year of publication for a reason), ergo the comment that was in support of Hinton was refuted and my comment gives further validity to Schmidhuber's claims of misattribution and plagiarism, while pointing at yet another paper tiger in the claims that the three pioneered the field.

If anything, Schmidhuber may have deserved a Turing award on his own, and what we see is the result of politics.

This is pure speculation, but to me the whole ordeal hints at manipulation from the companies where 2 of the 3 worked at, which would essentially increase the pool of candidates the respective companies have only by association with their employee.
Useful article, the visual examples help a lot. As the author says "why should JS have all the fun?"
> In the US it's $0.35 billion.

I was curious about this figure, found info here. Also, apparently the Price-Anderson Act which created the liability limit was passed in 1957, and there's a reasonable argument to be made that it no longer makes sense now that nuclear technology has matured: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/n...

> Over time, the "limit of liability" for a nuclear accident has increased the insurance pool to more than $13 billion.
>
> Currently, owners of nuclear power plants pay an annual premium for $450 million in private insurance for offsite liability coverage for each reactor site (not per reactor). This primary, or first tier, insurance is supplemented by a second tier. In the event a nuclear accident causes damages in excess of $450 million, each licensee would be assessed a prorated share of the excess, up to $131.056 million per reactor. With 95 reactors currently in the insurance pool, i this secondary tier of funds contains about $12.9 billion. Payouts in excess of 15 percent of these funds require a prioritization plan approved by a federal district court. If the court determines that public liability may exceed the maximum amount of financial protection available from the primary and secondary tiers, each licensee would be assessed a pro rata share of this excess not to exceed 5 percent of the maximum deferred premium ($131.056 million); approximately $6.553 million per reactor. If the second tier is depleted, Congress is committed to determine whether additional disaster relief is required.
Free Speech and Antitrust
> If you have client and server side and you have to check only in one place if conditions are met, this means that you cant check in client side anything and must do a server call, or implement both server side and client side in single codebase

Checks don't have to include the definition of knowledge independently, so multiple checks against the same rule don't need to be a violation. As a simple example, if you have a JSON Schema, that is the single source of truth for validation, and you can validate against it in 16 different places at different stages of processing and you haven't violated the principle that each piece of knowledge should be represented once in a system.
@dang This is a heavily editorialized bait-and-switch title, posted by a user who is a VP at Facebook. That doesn't seem above board.
I'm sorry, and I'm an idiot, and there is no excuse in being provoked. It's a personal failing. And I'm guilty of provoking the other poster also, it takes two to tango.

I want to make excuses now, but I won't. I'm an idiot. Sorry sorry sorry.
Man, given all the comments suggesting frameworks that will require you to do html/css/js it seems like no one has really read your post.

For your use case I would look at AppSmith (https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith) or ToolJet (https://github.com/ToolJet/ToolJet).

These are full-stack low-code frameworks, but it's easy to use them to do just the frontend and connect to a backend API you implement yourself separately.

Edit: forgot to mention that these support drag&drop for building user interfaces :)
Ironically enough is the same "trust the science" crowd form Germany that has seemingly hindered the advance of nuclear
Agree. After seeing the trauma some of my friends went through, I do my bit to recommend against going to Stanford. The standard of care is poor, and the cost is exhorbitant.
As I said, "if you have room for it".
Ask HN: Low level programming forums and communities?
Hello all,

I’be only recently gotten into low level programming, but I was curious if there are any online communities that exist for it?

I really enjoy going into forums and seeing showcases and discussion (one of the best parts of HN!), so I was curious if there is anything specific like that.

EDIT: I should add conferences are cool too. I am aware of HandMade Seattle already, which I think is kinda the peak one, unless you do specific lang conferences like RustConf or CppCon.
>Any digital store or forum requires you to have an account

Maybe I'm not a master of the internet like yourself, but I'm able to use crazy technology like "oidc" and "delegation" to prevent the same entity who runs the carnival to also own my identity.
I was thinking something like this yesterday when someone posted a blog post about an evolutionary perspective on product market fit. That ended up being a bit of a misnomer and it was really an article about the observation that sex sells, and people are motivated by sex because of evolution, but I was thinking what the article should have been is the real evolutionary perspective is competition itself. Nobody other than you as a founder gives a shit if your specific company succeeds. All that matters is that a need is addressed, some product fits some market. As a consumer, I don't give a crap who is at the other end of a transaction profiting just so long as I get the product I need. As an investor, thanks to diversification, I don't really give a shit which companies make it and which don't just so long as an entire sector grows. Even as an employee in an industry where it is very easy and quick to find a new job and it usually involves a pay raise, I'm not sure I care all that much if my employer continues to exist. I'm not even really sure you should care that much as a founder. As long as funding sources continue to give you money and you use some of that to pay yourself, if one idea fails, try another. Don't get too attached to whatever you're working on right this minute, just so long as at least one thing you try eventually works.

Think of like the commercial equivalent of the United States and every constitutional republic that has followed. We don't have kings. Institutions should outlive regimes. Dynamic markets are healthy markets. Chaos is a ladder or something like that.
Although I'm right wing, I subscribed online to the New York Times for many years, but it moved too far left to me. I read the NYPost now, but it's a mix of news, opinion, and celebrity gossip that I wish I could filter out.
Let me know when ETH gives interest-free borrowing, debt forgiveness, bankruptcy bailouts, years of quantitative easing, 10x leveraging of capital etc. but only for the richest 100 or so ETH holders...

It's easy to believe in M1 and even M2 USD, but when you look at M3 and FR policy driving continuous unending inflation, I think you'll find proof-of-stake to be Robinhood level egalitarian by comparison.

Btw you can stake less than 32 eth on plenty of services.
The printer thing is a teletype. Think of it as a terminal onscreen, but...the text actually gets printed to typewriter paper line by line. The phone thing is almost certainly an acoustic coupler for a 300-baud modem, hooked to the teletype. You'd dial the modem pool for the server you were trying to connect to, and when you heard the happy modem noises come through the handset, you'd slam it down on the two rubber cups, and your modem/terminal would do the Hayes AT dance, and a point-to-point data connection would be established. 300 baud was good for printing teletypes, as the mechanical printhead can only move so fast....
I think there's going to be an increasing push for people to own their own data, from whatever application it is they are using. Tim Bernes-Lee's Solid [1] is aiming at that idea and a lot of the new personal knowledge management tools like LogSeq [2] and Obsidian [3] can work from a local file. My own browser bookmarking plug-in BrainTool [4] reads and writes plain text (in org-mode format) from a local file. BTW I'm advocating for org-mode as the universal exchange format for productivity apps [5].

[1] https://solidproject.org/

[2] https://logseq.com

[3] https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian/Obsidian#How+we're+differe...

[4] https://BrainTool.org

[5] https://braintool.org/2022/04/29/Tools4Thought-should-use-Or...
I had some of these issues with the 5.17.x kernels but once I switched to Fedora 36 and 5.18.x, and updated the BIOS, the situation improved dramatically and sleep was fixed.

Never had the touchpad issue though.
Thanks - my experience with laptop workstations has pretty much universally been huge bulky machines with horrific cooling that is heavily throttled and the battery only lasts 2-4 hours under load. My M1 Mac lasts all day even when compiling which is night and day.

The OS option isn't a problem for me - I'm content running windows/Mac regardles!
I was a huge fan of Knockout for many years. Durandal was neat at the time, too, as a very simple "SPA framework" on top of just Knockout.

I find it a bit unfortunate that Knockout 3 seems to be showing its age at this point and is maybe not something I'd recommend in 2022. I think you can almost do more, easily and handier, with Vanilla ES2020+ than Knockout.

Though I certainly wouldn't recommend against Knockout either today. It's one of the few toolkits of that age that is still seeing somewhat active security maintenance, at least. There's also rumors that there may still be a production-ready "Knockout 4" in the pipeline one day. I'm still somewhat curious to see Knockout further modernized. (Search for "TKO.js" to see a preview. Allegedly, some groups are using TKO in Production already today, though it is under-documented and "unfinished".)
There's also probably not a single mega-platform that cares even a little bit about abuse. At least not to the extent of paying any growth or revenue cost to prevent abuse.
Have been using this for about 3 years almost daily for reading, coding, and meditating sound if I'm in a noisy place.

I've found that compared to regular lo-fi playlists on Spotify my coding blocks have increased from 30 minutes to 50-60 minutes. Not sure what it does in terms of actual "productivity", but I can definitely spend more time working with it.
>The US managed to lower the smoking and all tobacco rate dramatically among new smokers. ECigs reversed this course.

Again, you are conflating ECigs with tobacco. ECigs are a tobacco replacement and one of the things that greatly contributed to reduction in tobacco use (like Nicorette). According to this, tobacco use hasn't reversed anything, so you are definitely incorrect there:

https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco...

>It's children that vape. Some adults switched to vaping, but that number is negligible.

Wrong here too.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db365.htm

The percentage of adults who had ever used an e-cigarette (57.3%) and the percentage of adults who were current e-cigarette users (25.2%) was highest among former cigarette smokers who quit within the past year

57.3% of adults who have ever vaped is not negligible. Seems like your conclusions are based on incorrect assumptions.

So based on that, if 25.2% of the adult population are ex-smokers, and a good chunk of those are vaping Juul, you're gonna have between 0 and 25.2% of the population who aren't smoking now to be smoking again by banning Juul. This action, if allowed to stand, will certainly reverse the current tobacco rate trend, potentially to the 1970s adult smoking rate of ~37%.
I would like news delivered on a set schedule once or twice a day to stop me from doom scrolling and refreshing. The closest I've been able to find is the Economist. It's not perfect but I like the fact that I can sit down when the weekly addition comes out every Thursday. Now if only there was a preference in the app to update the world in brief section once a day.
Ideal outcome for who?

The owners? The customers? The employees? The country? Competitors? My 401K? The creditors?

Some of these stakeholders net-win when zombies die, and some of them net-lose. The economy isn't a zero-sum game, but particular categories of actions in it can produce net-negative outcomes for one of these groups. You can't just wave a large brush and say that everyone net-wins when this happens. It's a case-by-case thing.

Eddie Lampert's corporate plundering of Sears is an example of just about everyone but him (Maybe including him? It's hard to tell) losing.
It's an arguably poor example in an article by "foobar," not a motivating example from Ethereum's white paper, design documents, a senior researcher, or anything official at all. Ethereum was not designed specifically to allow North Korean transactions.

Reasonably good censorship resistance in general is a design goal shared with pretty much all decentralized blockchains. Without that, complaints about proof-of-stake being oligarchic rule would have a lot more legitimacy.
Study: Can ML algorithms make better investment decisions than business angels?
SankeyMATIC: A Sankey diagram builder for everyone
Yes, that's kind of a "fewer moving parts" way of looking at it.

To be clear, I (like the parent post) was using data structures as a metaphor for the organization of source code: "trees" being code that is conceptually like a branching flowchart with many separate nodes, and "lists" being lines of code kept together in one function/class/file (which the parent post points out has the benefit of "locality").
> And it will have no adult VR content.

With the new EU rules there would be nothing stopping anyone from viewing such stuff, because to my understanding those rules apply universally to the company, not just to individual products.
The minimum specs for the webcam are probably the more relevant part. Even incredibly cheap laptops have a webcam, but it's sometimes a 15fps 480p one that isn't actually useful for anything.
That wouldn't be great for people like me who are blind.
It sounds like you are agreeing with me that the school did NOT teach that "if you feel uncomfortable in your body, it means you are transgender."

> I never said it should.

The daughter "had just had her first period two months prior to this class." She's definitely hit puberty.

If this was her first sex ed class, and it was about being transgender, then it something is seriously wrong in the pedagogy.

Why didn't sex ed start earlier?

Why didn't the parent teach the daughter about puberty already?
it's the same garbage license
Burning Man is one of the the primary usecases of one of the core devs, so yeah, it should definitely get some good exercise in that kind of context. Another acquaintance is a PAX admin and looking into it for similar reasons.
Officially: no, you need an Oculus account to even get a Quest set up to do streaming, and you need to separately make your account a developer account to unlock sideloading.
'Psychopathic' is a generous take, as it would assume some level of truth. The take is just wrong and mindlessly repeats the contrarian bullshit we've been hearing for the past two years. I'm very disappointed to be reading it on hackernews actually.
Seconded. When Spotify finishes an album it follows it with "album radio" which is an auto-generated playlist based on the album - that transition is jarring for me if I'm using it as background music for work, because suddenly my brain is "ooh! something new! let's pay attention!"
The first year of the all product pack went from 249.00 to 289.00 Euro including VAT. That's an increase of 16%. I think it's been a few years since the have increased their prices. Given the high inflation in Europe and the US this year, the price hike is not unreasonable.
If all you mean by "chernobyl happening again" is "a serious accident could happen", you've moved the goalposts beyond where I think meaningful discussion is possible.

It also means that a "new chernobyl" can happen at any power station, be it hydro, coal, solar, etc.