skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very curious how this will work on a technical level.

My estimate is that (at least initially) it won't be actual texting (i.e. SMS) – unmodified LTE and 5G seem way too verbose to be able to handle the constraints of a much higher number of devices per base station, combined with the significantly higher transmission delay and free space path loss.

One of the IoT spinoff standards of LTE and 5G seem much more plausible candidates – they are built with very similar constraints (extremely low received signal strengths, many devices per base station etc.) and are already being successfully used for satellite applications. I've been testing one device using geostationary satellites myself.

But that would require updates to both the baseband firmware and OS of current or future phones (if not entirely new basebands!), and at that point it's going to be very interesting to see whether Apple (accounting for a very large share of the US market) will play along with that or rather push their own (Globalstar-based) satellite solution.
You should be there. It won't be easy, but you will revisit this memory many times in the future. Each time you think about it later, you won't regret being there. You will, however, regret NOT being there. And know that it gets easier.
Old houses and barns.
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My wife thinks that in time of peace we should require kids that turn 18 to spend a year doing some community service. Somewhere far from home.
It may have already been solved, in the way that cars were "already solved" by the model-t or airplanes were "already solved" by the Wright brothers. That doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement in this space (for some definition of improvement).

I just see a lot of people in this thread (and other related threads) seemingly suggesting that since these videos aren't already better than Pixar or some other arbitrary level of quality they've decided that the technology "isn't ready". I'm suggesting that is a short-sighted viewpoint. Kids (and that actually includes pre-teens and teens) are not going to care. If people generate funny or captivating stuff using this technology then they will definitely overlook the uncanny valley. And the volume at which this content will be created, re-mixed and re-shared will soon outpace any other kind of content source.

I find it a bit amusing since I bet a bunch of nay-sayers probably grew up watching equivalents of Rooster Teeth Halo Red vs. Blue, which was garbage quality for its time. I predict that we'll see at least one massive new studio rise using these "not ready" technologies in the next couple of years.

edit: (As another data point, consider the huge success of Roblox with kids. It certainly isn't due to the visual fidelity of the game. Consider the Roblox equivalent of YouTube that is going to exist pretty soon.)
Lacking time to study, is this basically what Phil Wadler has written and talked about, like "Propositions as types"?
> $10k is nothing if you making half a million dollars a year and have $200k in credit with no balance, because your disposable income is probably $400-450k/yr.

There is no way someone making $500k a year has $400k of disposable income. Taxes will most likely be $120k; and other expenses will take up a sizeable about of that income.

More likely that person will have $100k or less of truly "disposable" income. That $10k vet bill comes out of the budget for a high-end car, or out of the vacation budget, or a landscaping project gets delayed until next year.

This, BTW, is why people who "have money" either buy pet insurance, or put the pet down. Many people who "have money" only have it because they are very careful about what they spend it on.
I used Lit 2 in a complex client project once, which was tough to work on, not because of Lit, but because of Web Component composition. I would not choose Web Components for a new project with component composition again. The Shadow DOM makes many things harder than I was used to when building with a JavaScript library like React or Vue.
For framework independent individual components (e.g. a video player component), Lit is excellent.
Turns out to run the stuff I run I need more than 1 machine :).. luckily a couple of years back when my job was dissolving a dept and had a stack of uneeded NUCs headed for recycling (pretty nice ones, i've added a little ram but that's it) I tossed them in a box and took them home instead. I've also added a couple of PI/Arm nodes just for kicks.
During the digitization stage of the economy every company can be a tech company. That's the thesis.
How’s the customer service experience?
First off, you're not alone - https://charity.wtf/2017/05/11/the-engineer-manager-pendulum.

I haven't made quite the same transition, but I did start coding again last year after 10 years in non-coding leadership roles. Assuming you had decent technical chops in the first place (probably the case given your current role), I would not worry at all about getting back into it. I have a similar .NET background, and I was able to build a product from scratch that did pretty well on Show HN a couple of days back. Used .NET 6 (nice to come back to), React with Tailwind (no prior experience), AWS infra (no prior hands-on experience), etc. Not a big deal, and SUPER enjoyable to be coding again!

Good luck! This decision is not irreversible by any means.
They aren't offering service directly to consumers. This is a B2B service to cellphone carriers, the current ones are listed in the link.
> Highschool physics especially needs to have 'proper units at every stage of calculation' as part of the test.

Did your highschool physics not have this? I always thought it was a universal part of all physics education. Doing things like canceling out units etc. has always been a big part of high school physics, and checking that your final answer has the units it should. (If it didn't, you made a mistake somewhere.)

The idea of building units into Excel is definitely an intriguing one, though. I'm honestly kind of surprised it's the first time I've ever heard it suggested. It does seem like a pretty useful idea.
No regrets here on my investment of :10bux:
I wonder if someday starlink will be able to animate the Big Dipper by blinking satellites. A giant Pepsi logo or something.
I used an account on one of the uncensored non-algorithmic mastodon sites for a bit. I saw that I don't really want uncensored streamed content (and I cleared my browser cache afterwards).

The human brain is not designed to handle that and is entirely abstract from normal pre-internet situations. Normal experience is low bandwidth input of mostly known self-reinforcing stimulus. A signal that's approximately analogous to 100% noise screamed at 120db does not improve the human condition. It just leads to mental breakdown and psychotic episodes.

Carefully filtered bias-reinforcing echo chambers are actually a good thing and are what we should be living the majority of our lives in. Having the option to not do that is a good thing, but it should not be the norm.

Libraries are not raw unfiltered samples of everyone's brains. They're carefully filtered and curated to provide maximal learning ability (with quiet environments to reduce distraction to allow focused learning).
Price increased significantly in 2010 I guess?
I was wondering about that. I'd hate to make their last hours full of freakout.

I'd most prefer doing the euthanization myself. It feels like something that should be my responsibility.
Thanks for the link, plays into a thought about how far Disney's effect on copyright extends to open source.
Personally I just keep a spare cellphone battery in a pocket for emergencies. Would be awesome to have this service. I'm using a T-Mobile MVNO and last I checked they had no idea if T-Mobile would be extending them the service.
CLECs in space~!

Because, as the FCC is likely to realize, once SpaceX (a US company) is acting as a common carrier for other service provider networks, they will end up being required to carry at reasonable cost and without deprioritization anyone who wishes to do business upon their network with customers, under equitable terms to (in this case) T-Mobile and others — just like the old copper-line DSL networks of the nineties. Space is a limited resource and SpaceX’s exclusive network will ensure a regulatory climate that Elon will loathe, and I expect be compelled under telecom law to accept and obey. I can’t wait to see it.

Happily, anyone could write the FCC and ask what their plans are regarding CLECs and SpaceX today — or, for example, ask questions like “Which US governing body regulates the SpaceX common carrier network?”. https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/filing-informal-complai... is ready and waiting :)
cities should evolve and change. Building should be torn down, roads/rail replaced or rerouted and new building fit to purpose should replace it. But they don't. Cities are locked in to their current form for a variety of reasons (economic, historical etc.)

The walkable city implementation should be the result of the demolition of an urban space and reconstructed in the vision of the 15 minute city. I take this view because I live in an old mill town in Massachusetts. Because of house hunting in the area, I would say a good half or more of the housing in town is really crap tenements with a thin layer of vinyl siding on it to make it look better. there is nothing you can do with these properties to make them energy-efficient or nice to live in without totally gutting the property down to including the exterior and roof. The area around these houses is not very livable as it's usually asphalt..everywhere. Not a spot of lawn or trees to be found.

instead of building over green fields, the city should use these Brownfield properties as a land for the 15 minute village. yes, this would push people out of the existing houses so prior to that demolition, they should be construction of social housing like they have in Helsinki to make room for the people displaced.

rebuild cities livable as defined NIMBYs and then you might find greater acceptance of what you propose to change.
I found it difficult to get started with Krita because it doesn't automatically pan when you try to draw beyond the edge of the current view when using a drawing tablet. I wrote about it on https://krita-artists.org/t/how-can-you-have-automatic-panni... a couple of months ago and now filed an issue at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475481 after observing the same behavior in 5.2

Any chance of seeing this feature request in future releases?

For everyone who has a hard time with the keyboard shortcuts I recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiP7pXnwu6g which covers basic navigation in 1 minute.
To be honest, if the power and internet go out, not much would be left, including meat-based technologies such as elbow grease. Can't power the amount of bloodsacks we have with enough biofuels once the electricity goes down and supply chains are disrupted.

Massive scaling down would be required, and we would need to "liquidate" a lot of bloodsacks if the loss of power and internet is permanent.
Yes of course! Remember most of us have dead animal remains in our fridges. Ethics is a complicated subject!
Somewhat, with modern agriculture you only get ~9-15% boost in total yields from a corn/soy rotation long term, but that’s often offset by differences in commodity prices.

Without fertilizers and especially pesticides the gains can be much larger though it forces investments into a wider range of equipment.
I'm in the camp of "satisfying long-watch video is a long way off", but I don't think matching audio to video will be a big hurdle.

Conceptually -- if you're generating the video from a script, you can feed the script and video into a foley and voice generator that recognizes "door slammed" and inserts the kind of sound associated with a door slam and that recognizes face changes and generates speech audio keyed to match. Those tasks will be solved independently on the way to long-form video itself getting sorted because you can exercise them with non-AI video along the way.

I'd be shocked if somebody hasn't already made some good demos of the foley and lip sync stuff.
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A drawing of emotion probably does not have emotion.
> An intelligent student is one who might have forgotten the proof of a theorem or the exact definition of some term, but is able to creatively come to a correct and creative solution when presented a new problem

brain needs to be able to retain some basic information to build upon.
What's with RISC-V and these peculiar extension names?
It's just the 'mathy' type-setting which is hard to read. Types and terms are in the same font & colour and they're on the same line. To paraphrase:

You can curry a function (supply its arguments one-by-one instead of all at once).

You have:

f(x, y) which has type (τ1 x τ2) -> τ3

You want:

f x y which has type τ1 -> τ2 -> τ3

Here's a function which converts what you have to what you want:

λx. λy. f(x, y)

It has type:

((τ1 × τ2) → τ3) → (τ1 → τ2 → τ3)

This type "Curry-Howard"s to the logical formula:

(A ∧ B ⇒ C) ⇒ (A ⇒ (B ⇒ C))

Since this logical formula is a tautology, the above conversion function preserves the meaning of the function it converts.
That's a trick question, since there isn't any customer service.
matryoshka's all the way down doesn't sound that great. OTOH, cheese puffs all the way down sounds pretty perfect.
I'm curious, since you mentioned this, and I've never really understood the alternative to euthanasia.

Your vet said to take the dog in when it wouldn't eat for more than 3 days, and you did.

What would've happened if you didn't take the dog in? If you kept leaving food out for it in case it did eat, but expecting that it probably wouldn't.

I imagine the dog would die on its own, but I have no idea of the time frame or what you could expect in that situation.
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> In Canada [...]

Oh, yeah, all of these considerations only apply to a somewhat functioning/competitive market, unfortunately.

I have my fingers crossed for you! I've had friends of mine live in Canada for a while – it sounds as bad as (or even worse than) what was going on in Germany in the 2000s, when mobile operators had spent ridiculous sums on 3G licenses and almost ruined themselves in the process financially and as a result just sat out on infrastructure investments for the next decade or so.
I was just thinking that it might be useful to add up how much money has been made by selling fonts since the dawn of time. I suspect that it's on the order of $1 billion. Adobe probably owns a big share of that, followed by various publishing houses, creative institutes, etc.

But that's about 10 cents per person. Why are we so concerned with protecting the profits of a vanishingly small segment of the population to the detriment of billions of other people?

I think that there are some weak points here that we could collectively attack and dismantle to reduce wealth inequality. One of the screws to turn might be copyright law, at least reducing the term from author's lifetime plus 70 years to something reasonable, perhaps 3-5 years with an option to renew for up to 10 years total. Another would be patent law, and certainly the elimination of all patents around software, genes, etc.

Short of that, we could form guilds where one of the conditions is that seeking IP retribution revokes one's membership. Then only do business with people and organizations in the guilds or face consequences, sort of like what happened with Drew Barrymore when she went around SAG/WGA.
What are the top 2 pain points you encountered?
No End in Sight for Ozempic-Fueled Drop in Medical-Device Stocks
I imagine this will still start as pretty limited and improve over time. Voice is not that bandwidth intensive but is latency sensitive.

"Data" covers a wide range that probably won't include streaming 4K YouTube at first.
This is a very un-empathetic take towards people who spent many years in school, work very hard, and earn relatively little money for their trouble.
I really look forward to the 13B (if they ever do it). The rolling context is pretty amazing. It get super weird on long text generation but reading long text is great.
Try teaching or tutoring for a while, either something academic or not. You get the chance to talk to groups, it’s going to be a topic you know well and are comfortable with, and you’ll get lots of chances to refine your techniques.
I have been toying with the idea of a group private circulating library. A network of (more or less friends) arrange to have their books available to the entire network. Most likely through an online catalog and enough in-person meetings among the network to provide for routing.

It used to be that I was wary of books or movies not coming back. But currently some of my books are (to me) collectors items while others are merely not easily available from the many local public libraries. These are not really precious to me and they take budget and space and there is no reason for them not to circulate. Selling them back out seems too much trouble. But having access to the entire network's collection would be useful.

Anyone has pointers to people who have done that?
I don't honestly know the details, I'm an heirloom-vi user and was just on the other side of the conversation from the confused newbie multiple times.

So "apparently under some distro configs in some circumstances it does that" is pretty much all I bothered to find out, because the config data structures people were mostly expressing worked fine with a less touchy format. (and this was only the -default- format configured by the scaffold, if you handed the config system a YAML file it was still happy to load it)
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Zero. I referred one person. After their interview I got politely questioned why because they did badly. Referals now become staking your rep on an unpredictable process for a chance to win $1000. I prefer to buy a scratch card.
Is all of it necessary, or is some of it extra verbose for the sake of being explicit? If you leave this blank do you get nothing?

.components =
{
.r = VK_COMPONENT_SWIZZLE_R,
.g = VK_COMPONENT_SWIZZLE_G,
.b = VK_COMPONENT_SWIZZLE_B,
.a = VK_COMPONENT_SWIZZLE_A,
},
unmodified LTE and 5G seem way too verbose to be able to handle the constraints of a much higher number of devices per base station

That's a matter of pricing, isn't it?

Also, won't this primarily be used where very few people roam? Otherwise they could just use the regular land-based LTE infra.

Remember: SpaceX can't just magically offer cheaper mobile coverage globally; they don't own any rights to use 4G/5G frequency bands. These are typically very expensive.

It makes a lot of sense for SpaceX to partner with mobile operators who own these rights but don't utilize them very well in sparsely inhabited areas.
It is accessible if you know a few bits of syntax, such as → being right-associative so τ1 → τ2 → τ3 means τ1 → (τ2 → τ3). And others such as "f: X → Y declares f as a function from X's to Y's." which you can find in any math textbook. The point of using such a terse notation rather than faffing around with Callable[…] is to make it possible to work with larger examples without getting bogged down in the verbiage. It's why we use symbols to solve equations in K-12 math.
I've always been a person with various hobbies, some short-lived, others longer, but the pandemic resulted in what I refer to the trifecta of "old-man" hobbies (I'm a woman).

1 - Advanced Squad Leader. Why? I dunno. I think it started as a challenge - ASL is allegedly one of the more difficult wargames. You play defined scenarios with win/loss conditions. WWII chrome aside, I came to realize it's a great puzzle game.

2 - Scouting memorabilia. This started because I wanted to go through ALL (extinct, defunct, current) the Boy Scouts' merit badges, complete the requirements, and then hand-embroider an accompanying badge. I ended up reading way more than anyone should of early Scouting history (pre-1908/"Scouting for Boys") and associated movements. That led me to discovering the Lone Scouts of America, founded by the first president of the BSA, William D. Boyce, in 1915. They were a separate organization from the BSA until 1924, when the Boy Scouts bought the org. Anyway, I became quite charmed by the LSA - a big part of their program was 'contributing' to their national organ, Lone Scout Magazine, and various 'tribe' papers put out by individual boys. So then I decided to go through THEIR program, and started collecting their various degree pins and booklets, as well as LS Magazine and tribe papers. It's still a long-term goal to get a lot of this stuff scanned and online - there's very little out there.

3 - ham radio. What a rabbit hole this is. They call it a 'hobby of hobbies' - it's definitely led me to sub-hobbies in learning to solder, learning Morse (currently enrolled in the CWOps Academy), electronics, kit-building, 3d-printing, and dreaming of designing my own RF circuits. Note, I have no background in any of this, so it's really been a learning experience. It's really been mentally stimulating in a way I haven't felt in a long time.
Pretty sure the answer is "United Nations"[1] with further changes happening after 1967's Six Day War[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War
Is use of a thought process the standard for calling something art?

Walking into a convenience store and buying milk also requires a thought process, but it's not creating art. Walking into a home store and selecting from various linens to assemble a complementary set requires a creative thought process, but it's not art. The closest analog is commissioning a piece from an artist-- that requires a creative thought process about art but that doesn't make the commissioner the artist.

Most commercial art directors have more granular control of their project's outcome than people generating their AI art have over theirs. While they are credited for their direction and curation of those multiple pieces to create a unified project, they are absolutely not credited for the individual pieces-- the artists that created those pieces are.

Maybe deliberately curating a collection or collaging AI-generated art that, through juxtaposition or some other method, elicited a response or communicated something emotionally that each piece individually could not. But that's not what's happening here. People are commissioning pieces of art from a computer which makes them out of other people's art.
Exactly the kind of analysis I was hoping for. Thank you very much.
You think it would be profitable to source a spec similar screen, market it, backdoor it, exfiltrate in a detection evasive manner what started out as a 3.5MB wide data stream... and build out the infrastructure to receive hundreds of thousands of backchannel connections? Really?
Tangential but:

> My homegrown theory is that the idea of array.each { ... } as the main syntax for cycles was the first “aha!” of the new language development for its author

> The style that flourishes with this new shortcut is representing computation as a chain of small blocks, declaratively describing transformations from inputs to outputs. The style that is native to Ruby, the first mainstream language to have enumerable.transformation { ... } as the main cycle construct, and, I believe, played a role in normalizing “map”, “reduce”, and “filter” as a way of thinking about how things are handled.

Matz got that from Smalltalk. That's why most of the enumeration methods in Ruby match the names of similar methods in Smalltalk ("collect", "reject", "select", etc.) and not the corresponding names in functional languages ("map", "reduce", "filter"). The "each" method is the odd one out because that's called "do" in Smalltalk and "do" is a reserved word in Ruby.

Smalltalk definitely isn't mainstream today, but it did have its day in the sun where it was one of the better-known languages.