skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one of the big challenges at the time was how to install the hydrophones, although as I recall there was also a novel type of hydrophone being used. AT&T had invested a lot of effort into figuring out how to not only build long cables that would survive in undersea conditions, but also deliver power on those cables to active equipment (repeaters in the case of undersea telephone cables, hydrophones in the case of SOSUS). This involved putting several-kV (I think into the tens of kV on long cables) DC onto elements of the cable, and it was hard to design a cable that was reasonable to lay but could take that potential without dielectric breakdown. Remember this was in an era where paper was still a popular insulating material on communications cables, if not lead. DC had to be used instead of AC because on these extremely long cables the capacitance between the two current-carrying elements would end up eating up most of the power you put into it.

Between Bell Labs and Western Electric, AT&T had a lot of practical expertise in designing and manufacturing some really complex cable bundles with high voltage and sensitive communications pairs nearby. This pretty much all became obsolete as soon as fiber started taking over in the '80s, but it was pretty incredible how many coaxial pairs AT&T was cramming into a buried cable (along with power for all the en route equipment!) in the '70s. Hell, AT&T famously held off on fiber for years because they had a plan to bury long microwave waveguides like cables!
I think instead of following a particular publication "New York Times", "Washington Post", etc., people will start to follow the authors. The concept of a brand with mostly invisible contributors should probably go away. Then, I do feel that a "spotify for news" could probably work. It seems a lot better than the current model where (I suspect) 99.9% of potential readers do not get past the paywall.
I mostly do outdoor activities that benefit from more interior space. I'd probably buy a trailer if mulch, gravel, etc. hauling became an issue. You're right that it depends on what you need space that's more than a sedan or a hatchback for.
It also happens to be pretty factual. There are somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 billionaires in the US. Take a guess how many of them are black.
Everyone who works wants money.
That is similar to the old iPhones gets slower after the release of a newer faster iPhone theory, a theory which turned out to be true:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/apple-will-pay-up-to-500-mi...
I subscribe to 141 channels on YouTube. However, only a fraction of those subscriptions involve channels that actively, regularly publish content that I want to watch. Say 10 or so per week.

I watch a lot of YouTube; it pretty much fills all my free time. But I have plenty of playlists to keep me busy, and I pick through recommendations and try "mixes" sometimes. I will even watch the "Free with Ads" films they offer, which is a hilarious mixed bag of box office bombs and diamonds in the rough.

I don't subscribe to YouTube Premium. I don't do Patreon or "Join" any channels for a subscription. I don't send "tips" in live chat. I endure a lot of ads! But I feel like, if I would pay for one channel, I would probably end up paying for 10, and that I can't afford.
If you're writing it in Forth, why bother having a C compiler?
> The best I could come up with is "support for public healthcare"

... Wouldn't that be more than enough?

They can easily spend tens of billions on advertising, in order to make hundreds of billions. You'd expect them to; if they're allowed.
Ask HN: Students who graduated this summer, how are you finding IT job market?
The Timely clock app. It was bought by Google and then never updated so it doesn't work on newer Android versions. Sad.
Because it forces your users to make your site readable which is lazily passing off the responsibility.
We're close to, or even at, the point where hydrogen made with solar, then burned in combined cycle power plants, produces power more cheaply than nuclear. Of course, in a renewable energy system, only a fraction of the energy has to go through hydrogen; much will be consumed directly from the grid (or through short term storage.)
Musk: Twitter has ‘Negative Cash Flow’ due to 50% drop in Ad Revenue, Debt load
https://archive.is/Bu3MZ - Full Title: Elon Musk admits Twitter has ‘negative cash flow’ due to roughly 50% drop in ad revenue, heavy debt load
Ah yes. But still: solar panels will just degrade, they will work until they are physically damaged. People replace them because they want more power for a given surface area, usually not because the panels no longer work though there were some pretty bad batches from certain manufacturers where the backing delaminates or where there is water ingestion. Those are no longer safe. But well made panels should last a long, long time. They are warrantied for 30 years, I'd expect them to last a multiple of that unless they get impact damage.
I'm not talking about synthetic replacement. That's a red herring.

Humans will make decisions about which LLM to use based on factors entirely unrelated to direct task performance. They may be conscious of this irrationality, but it is more likely that they will not.

My prediction is that AIs (in the LLM, homework-writing, prompt-in, response-out sense) will be consciously marketed on the basis of those non-task-specific factors.

> Talking about "casting directors" suggests there's something fundamentally off about how you see AI. They're not actors hired to perform a play, or something.

No, you've missed my point. Actors are hired because they have a monopoly on themselves. Musicians even more so. LLMs will be the same. Beyond a base level of competence, there will be "competition" between LLMs from different companies in the same sense there is "competition" between operatic baritones. You don't buy a ticket to see Bryn Terfel because he can hit a middle C.
It isn't possible to produce a written text in purely ideograms for the obvious reason that there are no coherent linguistic utterances in which every word has some semantic content. We can be confident that what isn't possible has never been done.

> Early forms of many written languages had no phonetic values.

Such as...?
I am proud to say I noticed that one about two minutes before I saw your comment. It's not that I never copy edit, I just usually don't do it until two days later.
The size being the safety feature, and thus a danger to other vehicles on the road
Maps will be useful but after EMPs and nuclear winter, consuming maps on a powered device will be impractical.

Paper maps will be far more practical.

First targets going down in a global war will be GPS, Galileo, Glonass, etc. so all those systems will go offline right away.

All power will go to water pumps, heating, air conditioning, mining, etc.
I think with the light the necklace is too bright and it's difficult to distinguish it from the white shirt.
Yup. I shut off my camera and browse HN.
I think you are missing the point. You might not have access to any modern hardware + modern, multi MLoC operating system medium/ftp server/whatever to boot in a post-apocalyptic world. This would at least provide some level of computation on simple devices.

Even if you do have access to a modern computer which is not fried, you still need a whole bunch of devices, mass storage stuff and mains electricity to be able to boot it, and then on to find and boot some software.

The OS above would run in things like graphing calculator cpus, 8-bit video games and other "almost non-computer" devices which actually have simple but useable CPUs. It would be better than going back to the 1900s.
> The undocumented C9 opcode is identical to the documented CB, far return instruction.

I remember this.

Once ... gosh, it's hard to believe how long ago that was now, but once I knew the entire Z80 opcode table off head. I could read the Z80 machine code and disassemble it. High school crowded that stuff out of my head, I went to a special math school, it was very very hard. Except... C9 was RET (and the Z80 is an extension of the Intel 8080). That has burned into me so deep I still remember, across more than 35 years. I will be 30 ;) years old in two weeks.
The interface is difficult to deal with, but TIL that Linear A potsherd was found in a Philistine site.
I worked here - my first job in the US, via a contracting agency, for a few weeks until I totalled my then-girlfriend's car, broke my arm, and could no longer commute from Philadelphia.

Worst programming job I ever had. My assigned task: change the constant that limited how many forwarding steps a phone could follow in one of their private telephone routing systems, from 32 to 64. That meant: change the macro/definition in a .h file, update the documentation string.

Planned time for this change: 1 week.

There's a reason those telephone switches written in C actually worked so reliably, but oh god, not the life for me.

Did I mention the office^H^H^H^H^H^Hcloset I had to work in.

Very happy to never come close to this vision of programming ever again.
I will check it out thanks
You said it yourself. People aren’t buying trucks for their function. They aren’t hauling bricks up mountain roads. So if it’s not about function, then it’s about something else and a Kei truck might not fill that role.

It’s like people who spend thousands of dollars on a wristwatch. They don’t do that because they need to know what time it is.
Yes, indeed they did, see other comment.
> Rephrasing: As long as there are two independent people making offers, your choice between the two offers is voluntary. (Do not forget the 3rd option: accept neither offer.)

I then make a very obvious example where there are two independent companies offering similar crappy jobs. Plus your 3rd option.

There's no one person giving the choice, there are two companies and your third option. Perfectly conforming to what you say:

> clearly wrote that the person giving the choice must NOT create the choice

Ok? So there is a situation, a very obvious one, that arises from the conditions that you're claiming making something voluntary. You have two different companies offering substantially the same thing. Now it is voluntary when the outcome is no different from if there were just one company offering the (only) choice.

That is clearly something you will have to explain. I know you can't see how many upvotes a comment has, but I can tell you it doesn't seem like I am the only person who has spotted this.

> And in Sophie's Choice the camp Dr setup both options.

But it is also a term that means "an undesirable decision that has to be made".

Before you accuse other people of not reading, I think it's worthwhile to have a scan for irony.
Ben Eater on YouTube has recreated an 8-bit computer on breadboards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXdoim96v5A

That is the start of the videos where the control logic gets microcoded. Its pretty basic but over the next few videos he comes up with about 10 different OPCODES and programs their microcode (a series of control logic activations). Its pretty amazing to see it all come together and work in the end.
Conservative boycotts in the US work now, for one: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/10/conservat...
Here I thought the childmashers were best selling because there is literally no alternative, as is the topic of this entire thread we are in.
Can the AI get the geometry of the reflections in the correct position? There are even some reflections in the red walls of the toilets the look correct. I'd love to see a 3D reconstruction of the scene.
As the article points out "spotify for news" model is already here, that's Youtube and platforms like Nebula. Revenue is shared by the platform with the news creator.

And I get that people don't register many channels as "news", but I see it as just semantics. There is no ambiguity about what MKBHD is providing in his podcast/weekly Waveform videos, or how a lot of channels have a weekly video or corner to lookback at what happened during the past days, often straight labeled something like "news Thursday".

Of course, just like Spotify, the platforms can't sustain these channels. The article points at patreon, but there's another source that is completely missing from the picture: sponsors and product placements. Those represent a lot more money than the platform a and often a lot more that patreons.

Now there might be problems somewhere, but at this point I'ď see them getting solved along the way as we transition further and further from the "news agency" model to smaller "news studio" channels.
The rich corporation is going to use their riches to exhaust your money supply on lawyers, and in the chance that you survive that test of endurance, offer a measly settlement with an NDA attached.
Yes, 20% of the cost "from heart disease, stroke, and diabetes", which is significantly less than 20% of the total. (The press release has less ambiguous wording: "18 percent of all heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes costs in the country").
Microbes love on every square inch of the world, or close enough to it compared to humans.

Humans live like shower fungus at the local gym, we live in the cracks and near the water sources, on the scale of earth we might as well be microscopic.
Have a plan B?

Seems you've found yourself a pretty nifty one:

Bait, bait. Evade, evade. Troll, troll, troll.
You’re allowed to move on quietly. A comment complaining about it is such a poor use of the medium. This needs to be a reaction video.
I live near an airport and built a airplane tracker with a flightaware stick to capture and display the planes that are flying over my house at any given time. It looks for ADS-B signals and then matches the callsign against a database of airplane and my local airports schedule. Here is an image of it: https://imgur.com/UwF6tvb

I didn't document my project but there are similar ones out there that don't use the ADS-B signals and instead just use APIs to identify flights.
https://blog.colinwaddell.com/flight-tracker/

Basically most maker type decor projects seem to fall into displaying some sort of information on a screen/led matrix/flip board etc.

Raspberry Pi, "Magic Mirrors" were all the rage for awhile. https://www.raspberrypi.com/tutorials/how-to-build-a-super-s...

On the less tech side but still in the same realm, we also have a Klein Bottle from the infamous Cliff Stoll (https://www.kleinbottle.com/) and a Erlenmeyer flask as a flower vase.
America's Federal Trade Commission has started looking into whether OpenAI's ChatGPT is breaking consumer protection laws by causing reputational or privacy damage.

Claims to that effect were made last month in private civil litigation when a radio host in the state of Georgia sued OpenAI alleging ChatGPT defamed him and damaged his reputation by falsely associating his name with a criminal issue.

Yikes!
Even better would be a later stage startup (series C/D/E). Employee #1000 at Facebook, Square, Twitter (and many others) have probably done pretty well for themselves financially. Plus startup valuations are at multi-year lows right now.
I would frame it differently, "collapse" can mean any number of conditions that exist in the world today -- internet access that is limited, censored/liable of being shut down, or nonexistent. Same with electricity. We also rely on institutions that may or may not represent your interests to build software that you rely upon (e.g. the decline of search, the locking-down of major social media platforms, etc), and so on.

Virgil's "collapse" mindset, to me, is about building resilience and independence, and IMO Dusk OS is fantastic at this purpose.
I have read about Collapse OS (I think it is because it was about a Forth-based end-of-world OS) a while back, and it has made a lasting impression on me. This might be the reason why I enjoy easy bootstrappable/self-contained toolchain setups and single static binaries. I remember thinking at the time that this idea might be too far-fetched what is more practical approach to this, and remember I also went down the rabbit hole of exploring some Sugar OS or Kiwi something that was used to bring Wikipedia and Stack Overflow to African schools or something similar.

This might sound a little out there, but imagine a world where even if npm/cloudflare/AWS goes down or if there's a world war and intercontinental fiber connections are attacked, everything keeps working. In a strange way, I'm incorporating these ideas into my current project[0]. Thank you weird project, which might have had a much deeper impact on me subconsciously.

[0]: https://github.com/temphia/temphia
How long is an aircraft carrier anchor chain?
It's a little strange to talk about moonscript as something obscure, luarocks the main package manager for lua is written in it, not to mention itch.io. It's a proven language that's at least easier to learn than lua. (well, its at least more programmer friendly)
Having AdBlock extension, but like all my extensions also have "This can read and change site data > when you click the extension" while turn on to any domain that "misbehave" with sticky ads, videos or whatever annoying flashing things. Otherwise I'm just hurting content creators for no good reason.
I would not enable an extension on any domain i input my email, password, or otherwise have sensitive private information.
Raven’s matrices
When Musk eventually writes a memoir I'm going to be interested in what was going through his head during this whole period. Even speaking as someone who mostly agreed with his stated goals at the time of purchase, I don't think it's even possible for him to have executed in much worse of a way. Has there been nobody he trusts to tell him to stop acting like a power-drunk preteen?
I'm not so sure about the future. Such models, all the models don't have a well understood input output mapping and that's going to be a problem for a very long time.
The vast majority of new reactors built each year are still light water reactors using low enriched uranium fuel. There's a smaller but notable fleet of power reactors of the pressurized heavy water type. Everything else is a rounding error.

My newest nuclear engineering textbook is from 1983 [1] and it's still fine because in the last 40 years very little has changed at a high level. In online discussions you'll see a lot of excitement about other kinds of reactors (molten salt reactors, gas cooled, metal cooled, pebble bed, breeders, etc.) and this older textbook mentions all those kinds of reactors too. But if you want to understand what the nuclear industry actually builds and operates, a used textbook from the 1980s or later will be fine.

[1] Introduction to Nuclear Engineering 2nd Edition by John LaMarsh.
I'd bet the US national grid would be back up in some capacity within a year. People tend to assemble in times of crisis.
The OP isn’t asking about boot time.

> Second, most current systems are monolith type, so they cannot load-unload drivers on demand

Which current ones? I don’t see that approach work with USB devices.

> And don't forget, setup scripts are basically running on extremely slow Shell language, which is interpreted and keep simple for considerations of system service. - For example, some systems used Perl for shell tasks

Between the lines, that implies Perl is faster than shell for init scripts. I’m not convinced it is. Perl is interpreted, too, and larger, so likely has a larger startup time. It has more bells and whistles that may make it do what’s needed faster than a shell script, but I don’t think many init scripts need those bells and whistleS.

Also, do the likes of macOS and Linux still have many init scripts? I thought that launchd (on macOS) and systemd (on Linux) were mostly configuration driven.

It is true, though that booting gets slower if the OS has to probe what hardware is available and cannot assume that hardware to be ready for work.
Well maybe if the giant truck driver was able to see over their hood, they wouldn't be in a collision.
As far as easy access to tabs goes, Sleipnir browse (by Fenrir, a Japanese company) works. I do change some of the other default settings. Gestures, user-agent string, button layout, long-tap behaviour… It's fairly configurable. Uses its own extensions system, though.

Also, the desktop version of Sleipnir is…not recommended: quirky and buggy.
My guess is that their interests lie somewhere near the advocacy of something like a techno-democracy. Where "tech" is used dually to refer to "technocracy" in the traditional sense and as alluded to in this article, "technology", as an extension of government.

https://www.noemamag.com/approaching-the-infopocalypse/

https://www.noemamag.com/participation-at-scale-can-repair-t...

An interesting NYT profile from last year on Nicolas Berggruen:

https://archive.is/ScoBe
Dunno where that 2015 date came from, because it's worse than that... (from the source)

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-emergency-ser...
Emergency Services Network

"""
The Emergency Services Network will replace the existing Airwave communications network used by the police, fire and rescue, and ambulance services in the UK.
"""

Published 13 June 2013
Green onions, not shellfish. Close!
Think about how higher education and journals work... There's lots of criticism of them but if you get, say, a masters in chemistry from let's say Columbia, you aren't going to be learning about alchemy and orgones. We seem to be able to reasonably pull that off as a society.

So I guess look at systems with relatively low bullshit information density and try to follow their lead somehow.

We might have to admit that decently produced news is hard, time-consuming, and kind of expensive.

As for "who's going to pay for it", I reject the premise. Society figures out how to pay for things they value. The first step is to create the things of value and get general society to respond in kind.

The first part is mostly done. The second part needs the work. Most people probably don't know about things like say, quanta magazine or whether it's any good or not.
I for one look forward to the post computational era … no monthly cloud storage fees, no data backup anxiety, no cookie tracking pop-ups to click ‘yes’ to … back to when I had to remember where I was driving and when the destination would close …
Discussed at the time:

Loops and Arcs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3907562 - April 2012 (9 comments)
There is a difference between words changing over time (example: awful historically meaning full of awe and the modern usage meaning very bad) and changing a form of Government of the US that is codified in the US Constitution.

>If not, then what are the differences between republic described by Madison and representative democracy?

To try to answer your question, if we used “Representative Democracy” then the US and UK would both have the same form of government, a Representative Democracy, which in my opinion highlights why proper use of the terms is necessary.

The US is a Constitution Republic and the UK is a Constitution Monarch, at least according to the legal documents that establish their respective Governments.

Whether a Constitutional Republic or Constitutional Monarch, neither is a Democracy. Sure both having elections and voting of at least some kind, but the UK is not a Republic despite having a House of Commons with elected Members of Parliament.

Let’s turn this question around…in your opinion what is the difference between a Republic and a Democracy? If any Republic that holds elections of representatives do you simply classify both the UK and US Representative Democracies?
Agreed. We don’t need human linters: https://bower.sh/human-linting
You might be thinking GNU = GNU Not Unix. BSD is a unix flavor derived from AT&T unix.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution
My Ford Ranger has 143 HP, thank you very much.
Home Depot rents a big truck for $20-$40 for the 2 hours I'd need it. I could rent this truck every weekend for 30 years for the same price as a giant truck. And I wouldn't have to worry about its maintenance either.