skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So it wasn't obvious to me why they needed a $250,000 network analyser, given that there's no network and no signal to analyse. Apparently they used it as a signal generator, and to plot the attenuation. I can imagine a less-costly experimental setup.

The amplification result is rather puzzling; I wonder if the antenna was in contact with the helmet, transforming the helmet into an extension of the antenna? Also, the receiving antenna, presumably located between the helmet and the cranium, is stated to be a directional antenna. What kind? Was it a yagi array, or some kind of dish? I'd like to know how they fitted a directional antenna under the helmet, without it showing.

I thought a crisp packet was supposed to be effective as a radio shield, and there's a lot more metal in tinfoil.

Someone should try to replicate this.
Counterpoint: I've had a fantastic experience with System76 for a decade now.

I think the difference is that, like Apple, System76's existence depends on Linux (for Apple, OSX). In contrast, Dell is basically a Windows laptop vendor with a small Linux side business.
It's pretty common for people to have a regret about moving.

DDG finds one site claiming "30% of Americans that we surveyed regret at least something about their move" and "Among those who regret their move, “moving away from their friends” (49%) and “leaving the area they used to live in” (40%) are the top regrets" - https://blog.hireahelper.com/2021-study-do-people-actually-r...

There's almost always a price to a move. But you said it was a "dear price", with rather little evidence for how dear this regret was to the author.

Personally, I don't get it. Even after renunciation you can still visit the US, just under the same constraints as a foreigner. It's not like Boris Johnson can't visit the US now.

Furthermore, your calculation would have to know how dear the price would have been to the author to not renounce, and the fact that he did renounce suggests it's pretty high.
Lost me at the second word in the title.

I need a quantified, ISO-standardized meaning for "ominous" ahead of mentally tagging The Famous Article as "clickbait". At best.
I bought cheap Latitude 3410 with Ubuntu preinstalled and its Linux compatibility was perfect. I installed Fedora and without further configuration everything just worked.

If anyone looks for Linux laptop, my recommendation would be Dell Latitude or Precision laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled with Intel GPU.
Because GPU-Servers that can run a typical LLM are less than 5k, which includes installation. Really, running an LLM seems to be no more complicated than running a NAS from a system administrators perspective.

Emphasis on running, not training.
Really? I don't know a single software developer who has tried out AI tools and then come away with fear. Most see it as a potential productivity enhancer that also has the possibility to be a time suck.

All of the "programming is doomed" talk I've seen has been from journalists and pundits. Wonder if they're mainly interviewing their friends for quotes.
I'm definitely familiar with Joy. It's so elegant!

I tried to make a concatenate sister language to scrapscript called "sewerscript", but there's only so much time in the world.
There is a common refrain that anyone who wants to be in elected office should not be elected. There is a profound truth that people who want power should be kept in check. Having a bunch of people who really want to teach be shackled with community service is probably better than having people who want to be in charge independent of what they are in charge of.
I simply observed that I lose weight if I eat <3k kcal over long stretches. I think human metabolism has a very wide variance, though it's hard to find good quality studies about it.
If we are honest and look at our memories of three years ago, there was nothing remotely like the current technology. There were pattern recognizers and AlphaGo, but nothing which looked remotely generally intelligent in the way ChatGPT does. Very few people even knew about GPT-2, as it was easily dismissed as just creating an surface illusion of meaningful text, not much different from old text generation approaches from a few decades ago.

There were GANs which e.g. produced realistic faces, but these were restricted to one subject matter only, not something like Midjourney V5 which makes basically every picture whatsoever based on a text description, just with occasionally one to many limb. People were so impressed with Dall-E 2 that it is hard to imagine how extremely impressed they would have been with Midjourney V5 (without having seen Dall-E 2 first).

If you told HN commenter three years ago (for context, that was when COVID took off) that we would very soon have technologies like ChatGPT-4 then, I'm sure, that would not have been taken seriously.
That XKCD is amazing but absolutely terrifying, so sad.
Heads up that a) those commercial/industrial door closer thingies aren't that expensive if the door isn't too heavy, but better than that b) they have spring door hinges, so you can install those and the door will self-close. Not sure its cat friendliness but it works for keeping the door closed.
Given the inorganic nature of sea salt, I believe it should be feasible to remove most microplastics from it, by applying intense heat briefly, in an oxygen atmosphere, so the microplastic particles would just burn away.
That is super cool!

I’ve wanted to do the m3u playlist thing for a long time, so I could create a HLS stream for each “channel”. Then family members could watch from any device.
You can get a long way with neovim. I use it as my text editor, ide, and terminal multiplexer. Consistent tabs, panes, text editing, etc. If it supported a terminal graphics protocol it would be just about perfect.
It's well known that "success" in submitting to HN has a fairly large random component.
The trick to get reliably mail delivery to Yahoo back in the day was to be spending several thousand dollars a month buying ads through Yahoo.

Then when your mails to Yahoo got repeatedly blocked by Yahoo and you got tired of having to repeatedly report the false positives and and get unblocked only to get blocked again a few weeks later you have the person in charge of your ad spending call up your ad sales rep at Yahoo.

You asked the ad sales rep "Why should we keep spending $X/month on Yahoo ads to try to acquire customers, when Yahoo mail keeps blocking the receipt emails, setup instruction emails, and response emails to support questions we try to send to those customers which angers those customers and they cancel (or even try chargebacks)???".

What happened then is the sales rep puts your ad manager on hold for a few moments, then comes back with someone high up in Yahoo IT management conferenced in, and explains the situation. The high IT manager puts you all on hold, and comes back in a few minutes with someone who actually deals with maintaining the spam filters conferenced in, explains the situation, and tells the maintainer to add your domain to a special whitelist of mail that is always accepted.
Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is fighting for the future of open source software
Well why can't this happen ? If all you have is a video record of what was said, then you have no other evidence and it's validity can easily be questioned?
I have no idea, but this company has subsea cables across many North Sea oil rigs. Maybe they are laid as part of the pipelines.

https://www.tampnet.com/oil-gas
As a former music history professor who now works in tech, I think the adjunctification of American universities is one of the the worst "best-kept secrets" out there. The sheer number of blog "exposés" of adjunct teaching that I have read over the last 20 years simply boggles the mind, each one breathlessly "revealing" the same secret. Of course, they are not wrong: I personally adjuncted for years and it does not pay (example: I earned $5,000 total the year after I graduated from Harvard with a PhD).

What really mystifies me, now that I have 8 years of perspective between me and the day I resigned from my tenure-track job, is why people who think of themselves as great thinkers (or, at least, good enough thinkers to teach college) cannot escape from something of a self-constructed prison of adjunct work. Based on my limited conversations with NTT academics who considered career changes during the pandemic, there is an odd quality of stockholm syndrome where PhDs (especially in the humanities) simply cannot fathom that any other life path might be worthwhile, and hence toil away.
In what way is REST more discoverable than RPC alternatives? SOAP had WSDL; you could just hit an endpoint and download the whole schema for a web service. With most RPC protocols there's some sort of formal published IDL. That all sounds a lot more discoverable than anything in the REST world, which is pretty much "go read the docs".
Ideally it could be a measurement of density - how many transistors can dance on the head of a pin.
You are clearly lying here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Barrack#cite_note-:4-19
Polymorphic Blocks – WIP HDL
I think that difference is that Deno is some kind of commercial startup and Rust feels like community project backed by few huge corporations. So Deno needs to generate hype while Rust's not hurrying anywhere.
The last few weeks I have been calling this a Crystal Ball moment. We really don’t know where we are with this. Unfortunately humans don’t do very well handling uncertainty and especially when the incentive to wing it and to be the next big AI player is so great. Greed is good according to some apparently.

On some levels this feels like our Prometheus moment, where we are able to create perhaps new forms of intelligence but we cannot at this point say what it will look like or what impact it will have, and we might certainly be ill equipped to handle the impact on society.
Can you give a concrete example of this problem that you expect an LLM to not be able to solve? It's fine saying "abstract concept" and "problem it has not encountered before at all" but these seem to me quite fuzzy concepts.
Space is huge and the collision risk is extremely low.

See also: "We'll never run out of IPv4 addresses."
Hungary’s Habsburg Ambassador to the Pope, with an Offbeat Résumé
+1; would love code for this!!!
Can you control various android phones from one PC with it? Can't find it in th documentation.
If the function output remains the same, then there are no breaking changes.

If breaking changes occur, the type system will let you know :) Then you can either pin the function to an older version or fix the breaking changes directly.

The language provides enough guarantees to make tooling that can handle most of this for the user automatically.
Plankton concerns me because it's a primary source of the oxygen we breathe.
These objections all seem to be objections to the community having the ability to make autonomous decisions that you don’t personally agree with. Democratic organizations are messy but the opposite has its own downsides.
Yeah, and when another capabilities jump like that comes, then the small capability jumps the article talks about will sound really naive. What the author basically says: There will be no big disruption, the most impressive thing we will get is more specialized language models, that's all, get real. Nothing smarter than a human, just a few nice tools.
Seems rather expensive for an x86 with an i5.
Colder liquids hold more dissolved gas than warmer ones.
This is a wonderful project, I hope someone in the community helps you with a self service version, love the thought you have put into it and Thankyou for explaining the reasoning. You should share this in the Occupational Health community.
Majority of Europeans haven’t left Europe.

It’s true anywhere.
I love how the line scan camera’s horizontal background makes it look like the trains are moving impossibly fast. Not only are the images sharp & high res, it has a great aesthetic and implies you were tracking an action shot.
Node.js v20: Test Runner, Permission Model, Sea, V8 JavaScript Engine 11.3
Some people would argue that Siri has alignment issues and that Apples datacenters should ne airstriked now
One line _after_ you figure out the myriad of database libraries available, half of which are abandoned, a quarter which are little toys, and if you're lucky one that has a core dev who is being paid real money to support and maintain the library.
I agree with all of that, except that procedure calls over a network have "failed". The funny thing is, the way REST is used at 99% of places is just... RPC. People do everything as a POST request (because they're afraid of something being cached), or they may use GET for some things out of a misguided concession to REST, so the verbs really end up having little to do with the actual API semantics, they're just an implementation detail. HTTP may be idempotent, but it's up to the programmers to carry that ideal forward into their implementation. No one is doing programmatic (or even development-time) API discovery, so that aspect of REST goes to waste, also.
I have a similar feeling. I think there is a definite lifecycle to consumer technology (on the internet you have things like wikipedia, youtube, social media, google search, but this also applies to things like smart phones, operating systems, tvs even).

These things all seem to follow a curve. They are released, adopted and improved, they become amazing, and then at some point they start to decline for whatever reason (even as they may be improving in some aspects - like smart tvs continue to get a better picture but only if you can stomach the extra ads, surveillance, and otherwise creepy anti features).

I wish I could just have windows 7 with security updates, a dumb tv with an awesome screen, almost no subscriptions or cloud based doodads.

Id love a frozen version of the internet that nobody can come along and ruin for whatever reason. Internet in a box seems like a good idea to me.
There was a blog post about the problem with almost-good self-driving systems. It takes care of 95% of anything the car might encounter.

The problem is that the leftover 5% are the hard cases. When a driver is completely unengaged 95% of the time, the liklihood of (human) failure is much greater than if they were piloting the vehicle full-time.

You glide by with _when the LM(Ai) is wrong, I just move on.._ as if you were magically born with some intuitive ability to detect wrongness.

I imagine you have _experience_, prior to LM, that gives that ability. Where will that experience come from?
At least the Manhattan project was similarly impressive.
Didn’t say wealth tax, just tax. Taxing unrealized gains would be dumb.

It’s pretty easy, hit dividends, income for social security and Medicare purposes without caps, etc. Eliminate deductions for margin interest, tax filing, legal, other fees. Put an excise tax on LLC formation and annual reporting, and require an annual filing of beneficial owners of corporate entities. Charge a higher fee for foreign and corporate owners.
Do houses no longer come with coax anymore? I broadcast to my house on an injected channel using an HDMI-to-RF modulator[0]

[0] https://www.provideoinstruments.com/hdmi-to-rf-modulator-con...
They're called PECS, Picture Exchange Communication System. A speech therapist is trained to work with people who have verbalization or accent issues and help them work through them. Or if they can't, suggest PECS so they're still able to communicate.
>Wouldn't it make sense to have the terminal in a tab, next to the browser tab?

ChromeOS does this with crosh.
Don't know about the need of INFINITE nesting, but damn is that frustrating when apps copy browsers-style tabs but don't provide the ability to rip one tab into a completely new window.

I'm not blaming apps creators, cause (AFAIK) this whole "tab into window" transformation is completely custom made by browsers and also at least somewhat hacky.

Would be nice for microsoft to notice and make a 'tab' a native component, and automatically handle transformation. Especially since their own, non-browsers apps like explorer, terminal or even notepad started to implement tabs. But without that ability to rip it out, it really feels unfinished.

If it was native, we could even stack tabs from 2 different apps next to each other, as if they were websites!
...full circle back to task-bar :[
The moon seems pretty stable up there. Doesn't rattle my nerves on iota that it is overhead.
A kind of second opinion system might be good.

The danger I see is that you become to relient on it. There is a great science fiction book (forgot the name!) where everyone forgot how things worked (and didn’t need to know!) because machines did all the work. It created this dystopia where people where immensely shallow and immature because all things just happened for them.
I think it's right to emphasise 'your first interpreter', and it does depend on the person's prior proficiency with C and language design/implementation. It's perfectly doable though, my first compiler (technically a transpiler) was written in C, and it worked well although I was hardly a C n00b.

(Just a polite other viewpoint)
We need to get Randall's analysis here.
I really like the doc for developers.

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/blob/master/doc/develop...
So basically a BBS that you access over wifi instead of dial up? :). Long live FIDO net!
I wrote tiny script which reloads kube deployments when GitHub CI finishes. I liked the fact that I did it with zero dependencies. Standard library is good enough, and I even had to use some crypto. Zero effort configuration is superb, I hate when I need to configure node for all the things, it easily takes few hours.

I disliked the fact that this script constantly eats few percent of CPU despite being idle 99.999% of the time. Not a big deal but a sign of bad engineering.
Shinylive: Shiny and WebAssembly
Really nice to see an actual end-user application for a technology like this and this one was quite impressive. I'm sceptical that it'll come to market this way since the durability of this application seems very low with no protective hard layer. Looks really cool though!
I just think nobody read that far
It's still in print. Or at least, the last print run has not run out!
I think it's different styles of processing.

When I don't know something, I think of different possibilities, guess at probabilities, learn more, revise what's possible and not, revise probabilities, etc. Call it circling around the topic.

Other people, like this author, seem to pick one view and assert it as certain and incontrovertible, and wait for rebuttals to debate X or Y or Z externally rather than with themselves. Cann it a pinball style, relying on exterior factors to redirect.
Recalls a vulgar job interview joke. The candidate claims that he can detect prostate cancer with his finger for, say, $1k.

The interviewer (who knows he has a positive diagnosis), sensing easy money, plays along, and an exam ensues on the spot.

The candidate pronounces that the interviewer is clear. The interviewer produces the diagnosis, and demands to be paid.

The candidate shrugs and produces the money. The interviewer notes the sanguine candidate and asks if this is the usual ending.

The candidate laughs and says that he had a $10k bet with the interviewer's competitor that he'd have his finger up the interviewer's backside in under an hour.

In summary, the paradox in The Famous Article seems to boil down to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrage
But you don't need to know to test yourself, and empirically, the author seems right, at least for image generation. The most specific your Lisa is, the less noisy images you get.

My intuition is the same as the author, I feel like we are at a limit (how much data can we really feed the models?), and most llm (except gpt4 apparently) are often too wrong to be useful (unless you need intern-level work). I think the next step is deepening the LLMs and specialize them (at least for code generation).
Dude, you have to write this up!
This is what MMFs accomplish, and they yield higher than banks accounts.
Yes while you're in one 'garden' everything is rosy.

How do you switch to other apps, or between virtual worksapces though? All that's defined by the terminal emulator, or window system, outside of nvim, and hopefully it's consistent or at least doesn't conflict.

So I guess the OP argument is that everything should be in the 'window manager' garden, instead of all the apps making their own little alcoves with their own custom little languages.
One could just as easily argue that the neutering of the Occupy movement points to it having been a big deal to the elite since they quickly jumped on the identity politics train to atomize the masses.
That’s the 12 month trailing rate for each month, not the monthy rate.
I haven't had that before.
So if people grew up with digital media, they would never have "lost" that ritual. No wonder they don't care about it. Its only purpose is nostalgia.

When mass produced media first became possible, people probably said you could only listen to live music and the experience of not being in a venue was lost. Then everybody who grew up with a gramophone, modern turntables, Sony Walkman, etc, think the version they grew up with is the best because of nostalgia.

> People keep talking about quality to praise digital media. But most people saying this listen to music through crappy bluetooth speakers nowadays. There is a very small amount of users still using decent hi-fi equipment.

Lossless digital recordings are the _closest_ way to listening to the originally produced audio authentically. (It still will have artifacts from the equipment itself - the media is the message after all) You can use crappy equipment to listen to any audio, but digital is closest to ideal.
I was unaware of information on superior startup time for Deno and couldn't find references from a quick search. Would you be able to provide more information?

Snapshots having landed in Node (https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v18.8.0), is Deno still superior here?
AFAIK Kali is not as simple as Debian + some pentest apps and fancy graphics, but also has laxer firewall and security permissions to make sure all pentest apps will run properly, meaning you yourself are now vulnerable when running it, which is why it's normally run in a VM during engagements, and not something that you daily drive and host personal information on, like SSH keys or browser cookies.
Switching entire business models to exploit the market, after receiving goodwill contributions/collaborations under their nonprofit model already sets a bad precedent.

So I don't think they have a clean record now, and people are simply wise to be skeptical.
4x Faster Than Wi-Fi 6 First Test of Wi-Fi 7: The Machine Is Soaring 4.3Gbps
Money markets. You can loan your money overnight to the fed at zero risk for 4.5% right now.
This is uncannily like my own upbringing. Dad with hypertension, mum hated cooking (and was therefore a bad cook), margarine, the works. And it sounds that like me it meant you discovered an explicit pleasure in food. I often wonder if in fact I should be thanking my mother for setting that up for me! I married into a Spanish family who are all foodies even by Spanish standards, and I love the fact that when we're eating together we talk about the food we're eating, the last time we ate this food, the meal that reminds us of, oh and remember those amazing roast peppers we had in Rioja etc. etc. etc. I've had semi-spiritual experiences from my mother-in-law's cooking (peppers stuffed with salt cod is a particular highlight).
I always pronounce this project as "soccer copy".
This needs a specific example to point to else it comes off as purely theoretical
3 years is also the time when corporate hardware can start reaching 'end of life' (fully depreciated, often 3-5 years) and disposed of to 2nd hand buyers. Double sweet spot.
Why Is the Denver Airport So Weird?