skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't the parent comment you replied to is saying "if Russia hasn't killed our radios yet than pirate radio is fine". They're wondering if it's a potential attack at all - and if you don't know much about radio then that's a perfectly reasonable thing to think. It's only after you learn about energy dissipation and so on that you realize that the hostile power needs to be pretty close to the actual thing they want to jam.

Though it's not like Russia hasn't already tried anyway[0].

I'm pretty sure most people here are going to at least know what ham radio is. That's not the reason why people here are sympathetic to pirate AM/FM radio broadcasters. It's moreso because the AM and FM radio bands are basically a cultural dead zone: ClearChannel and friends bought them all up in decades past and turned them into garbage. This is the sort of misallocation of resources that economists tend to have a blind spot for. According to them, efficient markets[1] are perfect allocators and anyone not having their tastes satisfied are just harbingers of failure[2] angry that their Crystal Pepsi got discontinued. The reality is that there's literally no reason to have eight stations all playing the same mainstream format in one market, and the FCC has dropped the ball on maximizing public utility of the spectrum.

'Cause here's the thing: yes, radio is "available for use" with proper licensing and certification, but that's basically an elaborated no. It's sort of like saying "copyrighted material is available with proper licensing". Nobody is going to be able to afford the licenses, if they're even offered, because the FCC runs on an auction system. And it turns out that that the mainstream station formats are really, really profitable to the point where you can outbid everything else. Is this an actually worthwhile use of the AM/FM bands to have what are effectively duplicates of the same station on every band in every market?

[0] Ok, it was a radar system, not a jamming system, but that's just a difference of intent. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbi6eoh63ZQ

[1] Fun fact: did you know the Efficient Markets Hypothesis implies P = NP? It's true - if markets are perfectly efficient then they can solve boolean satisfiability problems, which are NP-complete, and thus you can break all crypto.

On the other hand, inefficient markets also imply all those finance soothsayers with their technical analysis can actually beat the market.

[2] "Harbingers of failure" are people who are unusually good at buying doomed products. See https://news.mit.edu/2015/harbinger-failure-consumers-unpopu...
Building Xeact components with esbuild and Nix
perhaps my favourite of sterling's stories.
That average is for all domiciles, so will include apartments - even studios. I would say a "standard" 3 bed house is bigger - usually 1000-1200 square feet.
> A garment district holds no strategic value...

I sometimes wonder whether that’s long-term truly the case. When I see various advanced aramid weaving processes and techniques designed and built in the US, I wonder if they had to scale a dizzying skills and operational mountain by themselves with the lack of a US domestic textile industry, or whether there isn’t much of a cross-fertilization in the entire journey from R&D through scale-out mass manufacturing.

I’m personally inclined to believe an innovation-oriented, Burkes’ian Connections-style society is only feasible when the Brownian motion of ideas occurs within a dense fabric of interplaying, fractally-complex industrial relationships between a massive number of different industries.
Cool proof, though it doesn't consider the case where a=b. If so, the geometric series is non-converging since the ratio isn't less than 1. Geometrically, the construction wouldn't work because the sides A and C of the large "triangle" would be parallel to each other.
WTF is open source economics?

Or you just mean that you don’t want programmers to make money?
I do have lack of skills on creating headlines indeed, thanks for the effort of illuminating with a few sources. Really appreciate the time!
> send a message to the owner and ask them to scan this particular book.

Scanning books take a lot of time. And making an actual high quality scan of a book is difficult even if you have a good scanner.

Physically sharing books could make it so that important books eventually get it into the hands of people with the right expertise and equipment to efficiently produce stellar quality digital scans of the book.
What a coincidence, few hour ago I bought a pot to make choucroute (also fermented cabbage)
“after 70 hours a week it becomes like second nature”. Yikes, that is a lot of time working.
Eh? Homeschooling is a very social activity. I'd argue it's more pro-social than government schools: homeschooled students are learning/ working in more communal environments (e.g. the family home), they spend far less time on busy work, and they tend to have more free time which is then spent on group extracurricular activities.

While many families did jump on homeschooling because of inexpensive computers, online courses and tutors, government schools jumped on online courses, assignments, instructors, etc. even when there is a teacher and two dozen classmates in the room. Government schools are far less pro-social, IME.

To whatever extent AI drives down the cost, it will accelerate the movement toward homeschooling, but I don't see it reducing the prosocial aspects of homeschooling, while it likely will in government schools.
There're more than one embedded database in Java. They were old and well tested 10 years ago. Why people keep missing this ecosystem is beyond my comprehension.
Bob Lee deserved better than to be killed – and then co-opted in death
Another Microsoft History post. I've noticed MSFT history doesn't get as much love as APPL history does, something I consider sad considering all the amazing stories I heard (and directly saw!) while working at Microsoft.

I hope some people get some joy learning about this long since abandoned piece of hardware!

If you want to see some photos of a Joule in action (I wasn't able to find any of my Joule's while writing the blog post!) Windows Central got their hands on one awhile back! https://www.windowscentral.com/xbox-joule-microsoft-fitness-...
Never; this facility will likely continue to serve for as long as the people exchange mail.

Sure, you might say "the sender should write better", but that's needlessly discriminatory and flies in the face of what the United States Postal Service stands for. Not being able to immediately read the delivery address is not an excuse.

The USPS considers it an absolute failure to do their duty if they fail to deliver mail that was otherwise furnished properly, and I commend their commitment.
I miss bonzi buddy
How Punishing the Universe Can Be
>> pay day loan mountain view

This might be the first time anyone has ever Googled that.
Sure. But they already run a piracy site, don’t they?

The cost and delay of shipping are what drives many people to piracy in the first place, I would argue. If I can have a book for $5 in two days as a used physical copy from Amazon, for $20 now as ebook from the publisher, or for free right now from a piracy site, the choice is obvious.
Is LLM traffic counted in that? Google’s share of the traffic won’t matter much if there isn’t much overall search traffic left (and everything gets swallowed by LLM traffic)

LLMs being complementary and not competitive is hard to believe. It’s not an exact substitute for search but there’s a massive overlap.

LLMs are basically search 2.0. They will eventually swallow search and can and will do so much more. Especially at the rate the technology is progressing.

They have also simultaneously introduced a new natural language user interface to technology. Before it is mouse and keyboard command, now it is natural language commands. Maybe not so relevant to the google ad revenue topic at hand though.
So is all of humanity, we call them jobs and debt. Almost all of those animals lives would be considered luxury by human standards. No worries about food, a safe place to sleep, or predators.
> It also demonstrated conclusively that, beyond games, graphics hardware acceleration was going to be essential for hi-res color imaging productivity.

I'm not so sure about that. I used Deluxe Paint (a lot!) on a 286 and 386, without such hardware acceleration. Mostly I worked in 320×200 to have 256 colours, but also used the highest resolution, 640×480 16 colours, without apparent slowness despite needing to process over twice as much RAM over three 16-bit memory segments. Or maybe you meant higher than that?
If the destination address is illegible, chances are so is the return address.
You mean the FM transmitters so that you can play your music on an empty station? I've had interference from them, too, but they're usually very low power and most useful when not stepping on another station, so there's some incentive to not mess with other stations.
Fair enough.

Despite the headline, it really isn't the important part. The important thing is getting rid of the mso styling.
This reminds me of how Reddit works internally. It’s not exactly the same, but I recall they had a “thing” table that aggregated every kind of object into one.

Pretty cool setup. Once again, not the same, but interesting
That just restricts A to implement Allocator trait and will allow to pass any instance of Allocator when calling methods of MyVect. This is unsafe. What is required for safety is to state that all methods of MyVec that receives the allocator reference can only work with one particular instance of Allocator.

To make this compile-time safe in Rust a typical approach is to embed the Allocator reference in MyVect and use regions to ensure that allocated data do not outlive the allocator. This bloats MyVect with a reference to the allocator. To workaround this one specializes for static allocators to eliminate the need to embed the reference to those in MyVect.

An alternative that is not covered in the article is to require that a reference to the allocator can always be deduced from the allocated data. This solves the bloating problem as the overhead can be reduced to a word per allocation page which is typically at least CPU page in size.

Still even with this the result is not optimal especially with arena-style allocators when one wants to ensure the max performance of tiny allocations.
I love your reference to AirBnB. That is precisely when I get to experience what I assume the rest of the world is used to. Firing up a random TV at an AirBnB is simply painful. You're 100% right that CPU power matters. The delay on every menu is painful. The UX is just atrocious compared to my AppleTV. I cringe that people use this for their normal viewing.
https://www.cardcow.com/215722/k9bcj-ill-seeing-you-farther-...

"I'll be seeing you farther down the road"... :)
But not nearly 100%, it could’ve been as simple as an oil smudge from the machinery or water hitting a few characters on a specific portion.
fastapi / react
Modern database architectures have memory safety models that the Rust compiler currently can’t reason about. Hence why new database kernels are still written in C++. It isn’t because C++ is great (it is not) but because there are proven high-performance safety models in databases that Rust has difficulty expressing without a lot of “unsafe”.

Generally speaking, modern database architectures have minimal dynamic memory allocation, no multi-threaded code to speak of, or even buffer overflow issues (everything internally is built for paged memory). Where are these advantages from Rust supposed to come from? It has a lot of disadvantages for databases today, and I say that as someone who has used Rust in this space. People who build this kind of software are pragmatic and Rust doesn’t deliver for database developers currently.
Stories like this are an awesome reminder that advancements in computer technologies are absolutely worth it. Computers are tools, a means to an end, and if they make someone smile then they served their purpose magnificently.
"FIRST EDITION: June, 2001"

I wonder how much of it is still relevant; if memory serves, the kernel advanced through at least 4 major versions since then.
So here we are discussing how AI will soon kill us all or at least solve the big questions of science, and at the same time we employ 800 souls in Utah working 70 hours a week to decipher bad handwriting.
Positive psychology and getting motivated by success stories is one thing, probably universal.

Failure stories are not necessarily de-motivating. I find a good mental energy boost when I read or see 10 ways in which a certain thing went wrong and then coming up with an 11th way that works. Many inventions fall in this category (well known examples: Edison, Wright brothers) I understand not everyone thinks that way naturally.
I read only Grimm's story, and there's no linenmaking in it?
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Micro financing; Kiva.org
Do they use the cores to babysit sensors, or as general compute?
Obviously the 3 objects you allocate with shared_ptr in C++ won’t be a performance bottleneck, but then we are not comparing apples to oranges.

Your single threaded RC will still have to write back to memory, no one thinks that incrementing an integer is the slow part — destroying cache is.
Can a nap make up for a bad night of sleep?
You don't need to do an exhaustive search because optimality here did not account for different amounts for each. A thing is optimally fair in this world if everyone's wealth goes up. That doesn't need exhaustiveness.

A thing that gives me 1 million and you 1 is as fair as one that gives us both 500k.

And yes, we did actually search everything possible because if something did not get done it was, by definition, impossible. After all, the agent that could have made something possible could not have acted as such because we know they did not. If they could have they would have. If they could not conceive of a better thing then the thing was impossible because it was not conceivable by anyone.
True enough - not meaning to dis the plastic ones. I've seen some amazing craftsmanship by some people that just goes so far beyond those kits I built as a kid (or ever could build as an adult).
We live in jaded times. I first misread the title as 'making AIporn from scratch'.
These jobs are not hard on the back, they are hard on the soul. Tilling a field can feel rewarding at the end of the day. Dealing with the living nightmare that is most Walmart shoppers is soul crushing.

Your viewpoint is rather callous. Just standing on your feet bored out of your mind can make even the most hardy miserable.
For a pithy quote, I once read discipline defined as, "Eliminating the bad to make room for the good, and eliminating the good to make room for the great."

I think the conflation with "punishment" has made it very difficult to teach self-discipline to kids and young adults.
I know a bunch, and all of them work.

Also, you’re posting on a forum made by hand by a person who didn’t have to work.

And the whole OpenAI thing is being run by a person who is a retiree as well.
plugins in the mobile version
I've got a few guitar distortion pedals that can pick up AM when the knobs are in a certain position. It's fun to turn it on in between songs at a gig when we're checking our tuning.
> Targeted advertising is incredibly expensive

No it's not. For example, you are paying $7 million for a Superbowl ad and assuming 100 million viewers, you are getting 14 impressions for a dollar for your old spice after shave lotion. You could have gotten 100 impressions per dollar from people who actually shave had you used YouTube ads. So, targeting is and will always be cheaper... so you're over-paying for products which use non-targeted ads.
Agreed. I don’t know if I could be on my feet 8 hours a day like when I worked retail. When you work in a big box store it’s easy to walk 8+ miles a day.
You can scan a 500 page book in 20 minutes with you phone, non-destructively. Though it’s not fun and the quality will not be ideal, especially if there are graphics in the text also. For text-only books, quality matters little as long as the OCR can read the text.
Is AI Leading to GarbAge?
The Mathematical Path to Men Achieving Orgasm
Given that you listed the American viewpoint, what exactly do you think it is?
The holes aren’t in the schools.
I think personally we should also classify human level AGI and smart AGI. After all, the goal is not to make fake humans but to solve problems like cancer.
Microsoft / JARVIS: a system to connect LLMs with ML community
I wish you’re right but I don’t see how what you’ve mentioned stops most malware.
Not DeluxePaint though.
You share this little nugget of enticing unconventional wisdom without doing the briefest google search to find out you, too, are repeating bullshit.

Most countries, especially the developed countries the US is otherwise most comparable to, use WHO definitions, and any independent sign of life is considered a live birth. In other words if there is any life there to save, it doesn't matter if you try to save it or not, it counts.

It is ironic, because if the US was trying much harder to save babies than other developed nations (which doesn't pass the smell test IMO), that should only result in a lower infant mortality rate, not a higher one, unless their efforts were somehow having a negative impact on survival.

You as well may be mixing up the notion that a few countries don't count births before certain gestational lengths or bodyweights as live births (see [1]), however that has been accounted for in international comparisons and doesn't explain the discrepancy between the US and other developed (and some developing) nations.

Regarding corporate income tax example, you are missing the part where the corporations [2] that 'lost money' at tax time are often highly profitable and paying no income tax was only possible through offshoring of profits and use of accelerated depreciation with some favourable corporate tax breaks and loopholes.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

[2] 55 of those on the S&P or Fortune 500 were profitable in 2020 and payed no tax https://itep.org/55-profitable-corporations-zero-corporate-t...
Show HN: Standup automation with automatic Timesheet generation
> is that with the recent explosion of Large Language Models and their inevitable rapid evolution, that to me it's pretty clear education needs to go down the path of AI-based, automatically customized and tuned and guided, computer based education for primary students

Do you mind expanding on why that's clear? At even a first pass by ignoring the "AI" part and focusing on the computer-based approach, it is known and has been shown that screens are detrimental to cognitive development. As in detrimental to brain development and processes, not just learning.

> We're right around the corner from AI automatically generating highly interactive learning courses for children, that will fundamentally reshape the notion of classroom-based education.

How is it going to do this any better than humans? Part of the existing problem is that teachers can teach incorrect information. (I know your wife is a teacher. My mom was a teacher.) With auto-generated learning, what will be the check that the information is correct, following guidelines, not introducing biases and -isms, and not breaking laws and regulations? And I see this approach as doubling down on treating kids as automatons rather than teaching them critical and creative thinking.

The problems with education are multifaceted. Teachers are underpaid and overly managed with managed and standardized curriculums. Families do not have the proper support structures. Thus, schools are babysitters and sources of food for many. Social media is amplifying the worst parts of humanity and eating society from the inside out. We have an extremist/terrorist party insistent on not properly finding education and social support structures and destroying human rights.

It's unfathomable to me how machine learning based, auto-generated content somehow "solves" education without addressing these problems.

I think any parent should immediately withdraw their kid from a school that adopts these "AI". We can already see failures of forced technology in schools, such as PowerPoint and Chromebooks in schools. The myopic forcing of teachers to use PowerPoint was one of the many things that made my mom retire early from teaching.
My baseline assumption would be that an IDE running on my own box wouldn't be uploading my code somewhere unless it was to my own repositories. Understanding that for Copilot to work, it needs to write prompts to GPT, I'd assume it wasn't uploading anything other than the tab it was working in. Not just, like, scanning my whole drive and uploading everything. That's insane.

Maybe I rely too much on the community to red flag these things. I don't install questionable extensions. I wouldn't have tested copilot at all if it hadn't received such enthusiastic support (here, among other places). The fact that it isn't sandboxed to the document you're working on should make it an absolute malware pariah, and this is the first I'm hearing of it.
I think people underestimate the long tail of most problems. Even if it’s 98% good, what do you do with that last 2%? The same applies for self-driving and other computer vision related technologies.
What should they do instead?
Was was that ever allowed in the first place?!
What exactly is the difference you are claiming there is between the US and France/Japan?
Sure. But it’s pretty easy to get dejected when you have a large class full of maniacs and no support.

Also, people here should stop generalizing their experience in California to the country at large. MA and NJ have pretty good public schools, some of which are in dense and diverse regions of each state.
My uncle ran a pirate radio station in rural east Texas in the late 60s with a transmitter he built himself. He broadcast music, and I think some sermons on Sunday from the local Baptist church. It was very low power, probably no more than 15 miles range.

Until my aunt ran a clothes line to the antenna and suddenly it could be picked up in Dallas. Within a few weeks the FCC had tracked him down and made him stop. Luckily they just confiscated the equipment rather than putting a teenager in jail.
There is no killer app because chat gpt is largely useless. It's results might be right, half right, half wrong, or totally wrong. All it's good for is spouting bullshit. It's like talking to a really outgoing, really confident used car salesman.
Probably, yes. Is it more efficient for the single poster to write out a few extra words, or for the hundreds of readers to go to Google or AI to help them interpret the letters? I work in accounting, an industry that throws out work-life balance into daily conversations, and i still didn't recognize it.
The gestation age threshold doesn't really matter across Europe, but a birthweight threshold does somewhat. [1,2] The US doesn't look as bad for infant mortality when only comparing only births at 28 weeks or later, 2nd to last to Denmark in this [3] comparison of Canada, US and the Nordic countries rather than being almost twice as high as the rest if using 22wks as a threshold. However, my understanding is the US has higher pre-term birth rates which is certainly a confounding factor so the difference might not only be due to birth registration differences.

[1] https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1471-...

[2] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

[3] https://bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12887...
> Do not use a download accelerator to download these files.

Man. Nostalgia.
This statistics are misleading as they often rely on tracking images. But all outlooks don't load images by default.
Scanning a book is as easy as ordering a second hand copy in Amazon to be sent to a book scanning service.

But at that price, why bother scanning if you can buy it ?