skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A radio "hears" only the loudest signal (due to necessary filters). A packet is directed via routes; a network interface only picks up packets on that physical route. It's the equivalent of using a directional antennae ... kinda.

At the beginning of the connection, you must establish some sort of "trust" between your radio and the other radio (if you want to use encryption). Your wifi does this with a Pre-Shared Secret (PSK). Your https connection does this with CA certificates.

This 'baseline trust' allows you to know the other end is who you expect it to be. With traditional radios, there's not much of that. There's just:

- something you have (the radio characteristics)

- something shared (past experiences/conversations)

- something you are (your voice)

If you don't squint that hard, that's the basis of any kind of authentication. Thus we have that covered. So, I can "authorize" myself as my person. Then I can send my keys over the air so we can have a private conversation.

Here's the issue, as soon as I broadcast my keys, someone with a "louder" (technically, brighter) radio broadcasts my voice with different keys. Next, they do the same thing when you broadcast your keys. Bam, we've been MITM'd without even realizing it.

So, ok, you say. Maybe we'll snail mail our keys to each other. Sure, that'll work. Yet still, even then, we'd only be able to talk to each other. At that point, why not just pick up a phone or start up a telegram chat?

The weakest link in any kind of encryption is always during the key exchange. Always. Mostly because we are human... we click through warnings, get our mail stolen, misstype things, and all kinds of dumb things.

My other point about code: we can agree on a dictionary. It's virtually uncrackable and fluent to have a coded conversation. For example, there's 0% chance you'd have any idea what this actual phrase from Afganistan means:

"the dust is blowing in, so we'll need about 5 mins to pick up my sister and head home"

spoiler:

"the americans are here, so we'll need about 5 mins to set up the guns and be the rendezvous."

Code is always better than encryption. Always. The issue is the "dictionary" and the fact that it can be leaked. Encryption gives better guarantees in that regard. But when you already have 'authentication and authorization' via the things I mentioned above, code does quite well...
Rails HTTP Verb Confusion
Funny story: I recently received an email from discord threatening my account with suspension because I had simply lurked a server they found to be rule-breaking. I had forgotten about even joining it until I saw the email.
Radical idea: anything that emits a signal is a life sign.
That sounds pretty tame compared to US road rage.

It's what I'd expect by default when riding a bike on a fast street and it wouldn't even occur to me to call it "road rage"
Thanks! I updated the title to make sure it was clear it was audio.
Fascinating to see a couple recent photos and find out what happened to this place.

The Bell Labs Holmdel Complex is something that I find myself unexpectedly stumbling over on the Internet every few years or so. First time some circa 10 years ago, when they uploaded a 1973 era training video for the computing services to `AT&T tech channel`:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMYiktO0D64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9aVOIuKVUc
One thing I really really miss from working in person on a small team was that we did all PR reviews in person, almost like a little “thesis defense” session. This was medical adjacent signal processing software so that rigor was necessary, but it really helped make sure we all knew exactly what was changing and why, as part of the review was going over any output changes in our test corpus and making sure they were all for the better and understood _why_ an output value changed.

You just can’t do that async inside a GitHub PR to the same level.
I prefer to use dd/mmm/yyyy with mmm like jan/feb/mar etc that takes care of all confusion and seems to be understood the world over. This saves me from having to adopt some local convention depending on who I'm invoicing.
Switch carts use an 8-bit SPI interface.
Ways LLMs could be used in existing products to add a tiny bit of convenience
What about for you: What are some regular occurrences where you notice that if that product had an LLM integrated, it'd ever so slightly improve the product experience? (I think this is a decent source of startup ideas, too)
I just redid a bunch of old code I wrote years ago it was pretty hacky and unpleasant.

Why?

I was feeling good about what I was doing and I just kept going. I was on a roll.

Many of the changes that were on my list to do that day weren’t directly related but I was in a good mood. Things are working so I did a bunch more.

When you get that good feeling it makes a huge difference in the outcome.

If I had felt bad or overwhelmed, I probably wouldn’t of been nearly as ambitious.
Sadly a lot of people don’t produce directly but do so indirectly. When they could been seen sitting at their desk clicking on something by everyone, everyone knew they were doing “something,” even though it was immeasurable (because it was often nothing). Without that ability to signal productivity they need to be seen in meetings on zoom. This isn’t fair of course, most jobs probably don’t legitimately have 8 hours of busy work attached but yet we expect them to work 8 hours. The jobs still important for the hours of actual work they put in. That’s not their fault, but they’re still left with figuring out how to seem like they’re working 8 hours when they are not and never were. The buying of their body in a chair was a proxy for that, and now they need to figure out how to make people see them sitting in a chair.

One thing I found worked, and Zoom has apparently added as a real feature, was to have a standing meeting room that was just always open. We had a conference room in the office signed in. People could just hang there. Usually you just heard typing and occasional questions. People usually had their camera off but not always. But it seemed to appease the need to be seen without inducing anxiety provoked meeting proliferation.
It's not competing with SATA, it's competing with WiFi.
Why did some ancient programming languages emphasize on CAPITAL LETTERS? Was there no "Shift" button on keyboards back then?
Are you sure it's uBlock related? I disabled uBlock origin for the whole site but it still has that behaviour.
If you’re blocking ads and not paying for YouTube Premium, why should Google care if you leave?
I've been using 'just' for running a set of commands that I can't be bothered to remember.

It makes it easier to come back to a project after a few weeks, because you don't have to remember the N commands you were using to iterate/test, you only have to remember the 'just' invocation.

For some reason, it feels like a more natural fit for this than 'make'
You don't stop making blood to get rid of leeches. You pull the leech off.
Real gun

https://www.reddit.com/r/cycling/comments/ofrr0f/armed_cycli...
The air zound, world's loudest bike horn, is another non-lethal
solution.
Well, because it's written by a woman of course 8-)

I agree that I'm tired of the kind of articles that massively generalize millions or billions of people into one category, and then edict how they're "doing it wrong".

This is just another example of meme speak illiteracy.

The news industry has fallen so far, there's almost nothing that qualifies as journalism in the big dailies: Wash Post, NY Times, Guardian, etc. all use the very popular "it was a dark and stormy night" literary form of the light novel as a substitute for reporting what's going on in the world.

p.s. Out of context, but I actually LIKE being in the wilderness... (the real kind, not the make believe one in someone's head)
One of the most interesting Forth projects to me currently is Dusk OS, a 32-bit operating system written in Forth that includes its own C compiler, with various porting efforts under way

https://duskos.org/
If you use TinyGo, it may be possible to squeeze the binary and save a little more space.

Furthermore, why even use Alpine if you're not using its package management? Go distro-less and you could save a couple more MB: https://medium.com/inside-sumup/stop-using-alpine-docker-ima...
Agree.

I'm shocked by how much some people despise email. "You still use email?" Yes, I do, and I believe it is really effective...
BasicMed is a step in the right direction but still a bit of a joke in itself. And you have to go through the regular medical first to even be eligible for it.

1000% agreed that they should relax third class and how absurd it is that private pilots flying a little 2 seater are held to pretty much the same standard as someone commercially flying a passenger jet.

I had two loss of consciousness episodes very close together a number of years ago due to some very extenuating circumstances (and never had an issue before that or since) and was told I will never pass a medical to get a private pilot cert. Want to barrel down a busy highway at 70 MPH in a 6500 lb SUV where you are pretty much guaranteed to hurt multiple people in an accident? No problem! Fly an 800 lb Kitfox over fields in a rural area? No way, you could hurt someone!

Funny enough, practically everyone in aviation I talked to more-or-less told me to just lie about it and pass my medical. It seems like quite a common trend for pilots - the FAA almost certainly is doing far more harm than good with these oppressive restrictions by forcing pilots away from treatment they need for fear they may be permanently grounded. I'm certain I'd pass with flying colors if I just "forgot" that one detail but I'd rather be honest about everything.
Why would you use YouTube to consume podcasts instead of a purpose built podcast player?
Could you elaborate a bit more? Do you mean a paper?
> I would recommend anyone who works with websites to look into the way typography influences the reader's subconscious.

To me, paradoxically, it reached a point where my subconscious associates light or poor typography with serious material, and pretty web pages with empty ad-ridden content:

Serious vibe: http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/t/transint.html

Intermediate vibe: https://drewdevault.com/2023/06/30/Social-and-parasocial-med...

Empty content vibe: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/12/23792382/google-notebookl...
Russia is having difficulty just with our donated weapons, I don't see why a nato involved war would involve conscription on the nato side.
FWIW I haven't had any hard tech issues with Linux across many different kinds of computers (laptops, desktops, servers, as well as some stuff never intended to run Linux at all such as Macs) and haven't had a serious hardware issue in more than 15 years. The biggest stumbling block was to get Linux installed on an early issue Macbook air just after it came out, other than that not a single glitch. Meanwhile, my family members have issues with their windows boxes every other week or so.

I'm sure there are plenty of people that never have a problem with Windows and that can't get Linux to work on their hardware but I'd be careful to generalize from personal experience.
Ah sorry, missed that, thanks!
To be clear, API data is retained for 30 days, to be used for determining usage policy violations.
All good points. Very interesting point about Instagram. The solution to that IMO is building upon a language-agnostic messaging system. I believe the Bezos API mandate addressed this. This would allow a small team to use a better-suited language and still interface with the rest of the company.

> Counterpoint. What if it's an impossible task for languages to encode a business domain and they should give your developers the tools to do it and then get out of the way? Its still opinionated. Its just that the opinions are coming from your businesses stack.

Interesting point; that there is no general-purpose language that perfectly encodes every business domain.

I disagree with giving the developers the tools and getting out of the way. The management is still responsible for the outcome of the project and needs more control than this. Yes, fungibility of developers is a concern. If the developers hold equity in the project, they are incentivized to support fungibility as well, to allow the company to grow.

IMO start-ups should reduce the proprietary code opinions as much as possible, and rely on well-publicized code patterns as much as possible. This both grows the hireable talent pool, and makes it easier for new hires to understand the system once inside. Since start-ups tend to pay less than large companies and the equity is high risk, it is unfair IMO to require new employees to learn a highly-opinionated proprietary start-up tech stack. The requirement to learn a proprietary stack is more justifiable in large companies where the financial compensation is more reliable and often higher.
I have owned a Riese and Muller Load 60 (bucket cargo bike) for over 3 years now. It is the love of my life. My dog rides with me everywhere. Living the good life. So simple but so satisfying.

I have the same exact feeling every time I ride my cargo bike as I did the first day I rode it. An exciting open to the world feeling. It has never wore off. It allowed me to really experience the cities I’ve lived in.
> The numbers are from the respective national nuclear authorities.

And, when it comes to France, the author chose to use 4 year-old numbers.

> At what point does the spent fuel storage there age out and need replacement?

As I said, France doesn't plan to store its spent fuel in dry casks. The current plan is to store it in a deep-storage facility similar to Onkalo.
When does this free market capitalism exist?
Lower-case was not common on printers and terminals in the 1950s and 1960s (and into the 1970s).
Problem is you can't have it depend on anything outside of docker i.e. I can't write a docker-compose file that waits for an NFS mount.
No, in some cases there were not. In addition, capitals served as a method of differentiation for language keywords and such.
I've always liked this one better:

https://zapatopi.net/belgium/

“Tourists, business travelers, and other visitors are allowed to "come" to the "country" in order to "witness" its "existence." In reality, these people are waylaid at the common borders of Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg and taken to NWO branch facilities where they have false memories of vast sprout fields and chocolate factory tours implanted.”
Yes, but practically speaking, waiting 20 years isn't an option. Moore's Law has stopped delivering rapid single-threaded performance gains and not everything is trivially parallelable.

The fastest single-threaded cpus today are only 2x faster than the fastest single-threaded cpus of a decade ago...
Awesome! Thank you! The only thing is I'm getting. A 404 when accessing any of the item urls. Looking at the xml, its adding a / at the end of each url which is causing the 404. If I remove the / it works. Is that an easy fix. The same thing happens if I try to go to any of the pages manually.

For context, I'm on an iPhone using Safari.
> Forcing an on-prem architecture would make our solution less secure in most situations, especially for those customers who do not have the confidence to run a complex SAAS solution on their premises.

Yeah. I spent a couple of years at a billion-$ company in the telco industry which was subject to all sorts of US federal and foreign regulations (because they operated in 20+ countries.) They ran almost everything onprem, but seeing how that was managed, cloud would have 1000% more secure for them. At one point, the entire senior staff of the IT department was fired because of a security breach that was pretty clearly due to their poor decisions.

Companies do exist where their onprem operations do seem very secure, but you need really big budgets and good management to do that properly. Most places are not like that, even in the highly regulated spaces.
Not to be a downer, but does anyone have a better source for this?

This website is (at least to me) full of ads for “AI stock set to soar” and even clicking on the site’s logo to visit the homepage first showed a full page popup with the same ad about an AI stock. I didn’t know gAds even offered a full page modal option.
See, if they had said the tree octopus is found in some remote corner of Australia and has a pouch to raise its young, more of us would buy it...
No problem! It is a bit obscure, to be honest, I was also a bit confused at first until it hit me.
It seems like, at least to an outside observer, Japan and Germany are very good at high precision, high quality stuff.

Not necessarily the style I'd want for most items though. China seems to good at defect tolerant, mass producible, hard to break because it's squishy plastic, everything done in software, kind of work, which is my preferred style.

America seems to be way behind because all our stuff is heavy. We want stuff to have "A nice weight to it", we'll use wood and steel and cast iron, we make stuff big and bulky and simple and leave the tech to everyone else.

We do seem to be pretty good at stuff that needs a ton of paperwork proving it was made a certain way, but half the time "Made in America" seems to mean "Made like it's 1950, with a lot of skill and good materials, but low tech and expensive".

All except a few bits of high tech that we seem to do really well on, like CPUs.

But that's just what I gather from consumer stuff, I'm sure people who work in more specialized fields notice other patterns.
The secret for me was working with something like tailwind etc and in a componentized framework.

the framework part isn’t mandatory, but I suppose very small tweaks with something like tailwind do the trick for me.

I can’t work with css if there are massive classes and nested stuff etc. I guess composition over inheritance
It's the building used in the TV show Severance.

I had a job offer to join Nvidia's office there years ago. Worst financial decision of my life not taking it.
I didn’t realize that content addressing girls like that prevented circular deps by construction (with very high probability). That’s a super cool property to get as a bonus
They're useful on the train (my commute's train didn't allow nonfolding bikes, since the line heads to/from London which makes it crowded). I previously left my acoustic bike locked at the station all day; but wouldn't dare with an ebike, so I got a folder.
Where is “here” for you? I’m a wa state resident and have rental insurance cover bikes no problem
ChatGPT use declines as users complain about ‘dumber’ answers
It's not an argument against government subsidies, it's just looking at the economic viability of nuclear power relative to other options.
I agree it’s annoying. I think it comes from historically defining large energy sources such as gas formations in BTU.
> low end home routers have built-in NAT on the chip

Low end home routers have tiny connection tracking tables and fall back to software routing when that table overflows. IMO if you don't notice the massive drop in performance when this happens, you have very low standards/expectations for internet latency. In had to upgrade to a prosumer router just to get acceptable perf on IPv4
Until you stop paying. Not a good place to lock up communication. Zulip might work, but better to move to docs/wiki as needed.
I think the problem is further compounded by team size and insistence on 40 hour work weeks. As soon as you have people on “manager schedule” that feel the need to look busy the number of meetings starts growing exponentially. I’m all for having enabling people on the team, just don’t expect them or anyone else to meet an arbitrary amount of hours per week quota.
Yes, I was working remotely for a decade, we were hyper-effective, and I'd only met 2 of the people in person once. Most communication was email, and there was the occasional phone call. So productive.

At another place, we used a text chat SaaS to be super-effective, and usually the only internal routine videoconf was for whole-company sync-up and personalizing. Text chat for effective async/real-time (in addition to docs), and occasional videoconf as needed. So productive.

I've also seen places where people did meetings because they didn't know how to collaborate effectively, and there were barriers to learning that. One of the places, it seemed meetings were approached much like they approached coding or documenting: being able to say you performed that proof-of-work was the end goal itself, rather than the meeting being costs invested smartly towards some actual shared goal.
Lots of reasons, chief of which being, I primarily consume them at my desk on my spare monitor, and the ones I follow usually have some visual stuff to check out.

Couple that with being a programmer, and I get a lot of mileage out of youtube.
Thanks, turns out I am not good at forming sentences. I'm not gonna edit it so your comment doesn't get irrelevant.
What a trash post. Slanted language and built entirely around cherry picked quotes from a WaPo article.

At least drive the clicks to actual journalists rather than this rehash-and-repost clickbait junk.
If the headline explicitly anthropomorphizes a language model masquerading as AI, I doubt you're going to get anything reasonable by clicking through it.
> The trick is that they keep building the same obsolete US-based design

Wikipedia has a list of nuclear reactors in France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_Fran...

According to the list, most power plants came online in the 1980s, so it doesn't sound like they "keep building" more of them. The most recent ones, Civaux and Chooz-B, came online in 2000. Flamanville appears to be incorrectly stated as having came online in 2020. Clicking the link, you see that its 2 reactors came online in 1986 and 1987, and as for the third one -- "as of 2020 the project is more than five times over budget and years behind schedule. Various safety problems have been raised, including weakness in the steel used in the reactor. In July 2019, further delays were announced, pushing back the commercial introduction date to the end of 2022. In January 2022, more delays were announced, with fuel loading continuing until mid-2023, and again in December 2022, delaying fuel loading to early 2024."

All of the nuclear reactors in France were built by previous generations.

As an aside, I'm pro- wind, hydro, geothermal, solar, and nuclear. (I'm also very pro-smart-design which obviates the need for created energy.) However I only really see nuclear proponents (and those of fossil fuels) attacking renewables. And I only really see fossil fuel and nuclear proponents making widespread demonstrably false statements. My rooftop solar is producing a big yearly surplus, supplying my neighbors with energy for their AC etc. I think nuclear proponents who say that nuclear is so cheap and so easy should prove it by building their own nuclear reactors and make tons of money. Go ahead, just do it. Stop talking and do it.
We use the following:

Nit: This is a minor thing. Technically you should do it, but it won’t hugely impact things.

Optional: I think this may be a good idea, but it’s not strictly required.

FYI: I don’t expect you to do this in this PR, but you may find this interesting to think about for the future.

None of these block a merge and anything beyond these type of comments will be a in-person discussion.
LLM Generated content?
That's more or less correct.

We have so many layers of agency in our economic system, and it isn't really a good thing.
That makes sense. The problem is that it can be quite hard on large codebases to find such instances if they aren't routed through some library to avoid code duplication.
Best to just hear it straight from the horse's mouth.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01850