skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like an error in the article. [1] states:
"FreeFall’s antenna technology is unique because it is using a spherical reflector. In the past, antennas always used a parabolic antenna. A parabolic antenna focuses energy to a “single point” – while a spherical antenna focuses energy to a “focal line”. Parabolic antennas are symmetric about only one axis which severely limits field of view. It also requires precise pointing for high gain and has more complex packaging, deployment and on-orbit operations.
The spherical antenna provides a wider field of view for antennas and high gain without re-pointing of an antenna. Combining a spherical antennas with inflatables is the key to achieving a large aperture in a simple lightweight system."

[1] https://www.freefallaerospace.com/nasa-balloon/
Road trips are my solution. While driving, no phone! Just miles and hours of staring at the highway.

When the wife takes over driving duties (we work in two-hour shifts) I jot down the ideas that came to me.

(But in fact, phones are boring to me. It's my laptop that robs me of my boredom when at home.)
That's the main reason that made me switch to Linux. A Windows 10 update caused bluescreens on boot and reinstalling didn't help because the official installation image already included the faulty update. After months of bugs and annoyances and then that I had enough of spending a weekend on fixing the system.
> It is fun to think I can never really replay uplink, short of some rather severe amnesia.

That's the feeling I got out of Return of the Obra Dinn. Turns out that a carefully crafted whodunnits becomes a lot less interesting when you already know who's who what the "it" is that they've dun.
Ask HN: What Happened to Picture-in-Picture?
20 years ago picture-in-picture was a common feature on TVs. Even the most expensive TVs now don't support PIP. Why isn't it easy to show all of my HDMI inputs on the screen at once?
After generating 50k images, I released 6 Halloween books
I've been working on a series of 6 Halloween books using Stable Diffusion for the past 3 months. Through this experience, I've come to realize that AI contributes to around 30% of the work, with the other 70% divided equally between self-publishing and marketing tasks.
This is what it is. There were just as many cars when I was little (6 or 7 years old) but I could walk anywhere I wanted with my friends "exploring" most of the day and no one even had the thought that we would be kidnapped or murdered. Fast forward and I am not even sure about letting my 16 year old walk by himself 3 blocks down the road to the corner store. And it isn't about cars! Also, I would say that there was likely just as much violence in the 70's but we didn't hear about every single instance, now we do through social media and the news so it seems pervasive. Also, I will say that nearly all the kids I know very much prefer playing video games or being on a laptop or phone rather than out walking through the tick infested woods like I used to love.
Cool demo!
For local transcription (without fancy stuff like sentiment analysis etc.), Whishper has served me really well, which also uses OpenAI's Whisper.

https://github.com/pluja/whishper

https://whishper.net/guides/install/
Net Neutrality Round 2: A Win for Internet Freedom
Show HN: Open-source observability for LLM apps
Hi HN,

Hugh and Vince here.

LLMonitor helps you record, trace & search your LLM queries and chatbot conversations.

You can also capture user feedback on your frontend and correlate it with backend LLM queries then use that to fine-tune your own models.

The project started has an internal tool in our previous (failed) AI startup.

We’re aware the LLM observability space is very crowded. Apart from being open-source, we differentiate with:

- Model-agnostic and minimal lock-in (no MITM of requests).

- High focus on DX and dashboard clarity.

- Support for complex scenarios: e.g. a chatbot that invokes multiple agents & tools before giving an answer.

- Targeting early-stage startups + indie developers.

Two of our big focuses in the near future are:

- Tests (evaluations) written in either code or English (with GPT-4) to know when queries go wrong.

- OpenTelemetry support to expand traces to the rest of the stack.

(Both of those have turned out to be much more complicated than anticipated.)

One decision we made is to stick with Postgres for everything instead of going OLAP with something like Clickhouse. As we are writing & updating many rows concurrently for the traces, Postgres seems to be the best tool for that. It has been sufficient for our analytics and search needs at the moment. We hope that also makes it easier for people to self-host and contribute.

The entire codebase is licensed under Apache 2.0 and we’re fully bootstrapped. Being open-source has already begun to foster a community, e.g. with people building integrations for tooling we wouldn't have been able to support otherwise.

To be honest we're still quite embarrassed with the state of the product, but I guess we’d be doing something wrong if that wasn’t the case.

We’d love to hear your feedback - thank you!

Landing page: https://llmonitor.com

Docs: https://llmonitor.com/docs

Repo: https://github.com/llmonitor/llmonitor
But if Wikimedia is taking broad approach to enforcing their principles, they would refuse to interface with such a privacy destroying service anyway.
> I don't see how Google continues to let them publish core research at this point

From what I hear from Google DeepMind researchers, the current policies are making it very difficult to publish NLP research. The barrier to disclosing research advances to the wider community appears much higher than it used to be.
Not even that. A deck of cards, checkers or chess, or even a battery powered AM/FM radio (which one should have to receive news and information in the event of a worse case scenario).
When we were kids, it was common knowledge and cheaper to use headphones as a mic. Just plug headphones into mic jack and they work as mic.
The incentives are all the benefits laid out in the article and the comments here.
Then you have a persponsibility to your profession/hobby and you should submit more helicopter stories to HN :).
> Buying up all state of the art production capacities so competition is one node behind.

M2 is a 5nm (N5P) chip, AMD laptops already use 4nm.
> Apollo 13 for example was saved by human improvisation.

Yes, by human improvisation on the ground, with teams of engineers and scientists figuring out the exact steps the Astronauts had to perform, and transmitting these instructions up for the crew to implement.

Just like they would have done, and in fact did on many occasions, with a robotic probe that found itself in a pickle.
> How would one verify age without checking personal identity.

Just like one can auth without checking password. Ever heard of OAuth?
They definitely pay a large number of people a large amount, but they're happy to pay less when they can.
> My theory is that architecture doesn't matter - convolutional, transformer or recurrent, as long as you can efficiently train models of the same size, what counts is the dataset

I assume you mean architecture doesn’t matter much, as long as it’s roughly sensibly designed.

The basics of architecture do matter though: a two-layer fully connected network won’t get very far no matter how many parameters it has. Architectural improvements like ResNets have definitely made a difference to the field.
The Philosophy of Humor: What Makes Something Funny? (2022)
I just put my info into healthcare.gov with $0 in income. Here's the result:

> Based on the income and household information you provided, members of your household don't appear to qualify for a premium tax credit or other savings on health insurance. You can continue to view plans, but they'll be listed at full price.
Am I the only one who feels like I have to do nothing some amount of time every day? Like I get too overwhelmed with everything and then I just walk around while my mind slowly settles. If I try to do something while in this mode - even if it's just watching TV or something - I'm unable to focus and get really irritated.

I feel like I've had this since I was a child/early teenager. My mom always found it weird how I just walked around the house not really doing anything at the age of 13 or so.
If I may make a comment about the search experience on the website...

I searched for "onion" because I knew it was toxic to cats and dogs. I had to scroll down to find it. IMO, if there is an exact match, it should bypass the sort order and be promoted straight to the top.

Otherwise, pretty cool! I think it will be very useful.
I do not see that this includes sponsor block capability. Can anyone else confirm/deny as well?
> Peirce had opinion editorials published in The New York Times in 2012[19] and in 2013,[20] wherein she said it would be more sensible to let the market pare the big banks down to size rather than nationalizing them.

I that's been proven to be false. Gotta be big like Bofa. Their bond holdings market to market losses are off the charts, but it just doesn't matter because they are too big to fail.
The paranoid culture cannot predict the future.

BTW Andy was not the CEO in times of this inflection point.
> Then he said something very interesting. After making sure folks realized he wasn't criticizing all modern animation, he said that he thought it all kind of looked the same. It was all perfect, and all perfect in the same way.

Not only animation. How do you tell tv series from each other? They have like 4 themes with different skins.

How do you tell superhero movies from each other?

That's what you get when you're happy to 'consume content'.
I was being tongue-in-cheek. Plenty of electronic distractions out there beyond smartphones! :p
Apples and Arms
> infinite subsidies

There is no such thing. Private money is finite, it ends up eventually as investors want ROIs.

> Uber has not been profitable

Actually, they announced their first profitable quarter in 2023.

> In which other industry can you lose money (often billions of dollars a year) and still be in business and claim you're successful.

Well in the Government business, of course! Deficits around the world keep increasing and governments borrow trillions they never pay back.
This is a good start, devxpy! What other features are you planning to build over it? Hit me up if you want to collaborate.
This needs an easy to remember URL as well.
>including the obligatory claim that disagreeing with one's personally preferred form of urban planning is a "far-right conspiracy theory"

You're talking about the "15 minute city" conspiracy theory[0,1], which posits that the design of cities such that amenities are available within a 15 minute walk from citizens (in other words, built for pedestrians rather than cars) is, in reality, an authoritarian plot to restrict freedom of movement and control people en masse, often linked with COVID conspiracy theories which implied pandemic measures were simply a pretext by a cabal of global elites to stage a world takeover.

How is that not a "far-right conspiracy theory?" It's literally every other "new world order" conspiracy theory promulgated by the far right, just applied to whatever new thing Twitter and Reddit decide is a globalist plot this week.

[0]https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-15-minute-city-conspir...

[1]https://www.wired.com/story/15-minute-city-conspiracy-uk-pol...
The problem is that as it becomes more popular, it gets increasingly nerfed.

It’s fun to speculate about GPT6, but it appears that the level of patronizing political correctness will be just as astounding.
Interesting anecdote. It's been studied though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_sprawl#Social
Wikipedia don't refuse to interface with privacy destroying payment systems required to collect donations. They will be fine
So basically Israel is testing new US weapons ahead of a US intervention?
Yes! I should set up confirmation emails - I'm reaching out to the folks who have signed up so you should hear back soon! If I miss it (apologies!) then feel free to email directly.
This isn't a technical problem. A technical solution will not fix it.
Off by 1B error
I actually tried writing something like this one weekend last year. I really like the idea of the https://wintercg.org/ group this runtime is named after, and I wanted a non-Node, non-Cloudflare, non-X version just to explore what it took to implement some of the APIs they've standardised on.

It was based on QuickJS and Tokio and never got far. Instead of implementing builtins in C, as the article suggests you would with QuickJS, I was implementing them in JS. I think I got to the point where the very simplest hello world would work.

Anyway, I'm glad someone else has done it.
I remember this being a thing that happened in the prison drama Oz, and thinking that phenomenon being BS, but I've heard enough stories of guards bringing in contraband that it seems to happen at an oddly high frequency. Is the prison system somewhat complicit with the drug running?
You info is dated. 95% of monitors on the market have zero flicker at any brightness. All LG and Acer monitors are for example are all like that.
The GP is probably referring to this:

> After the worst of the pandemic was over, those same falsehoods fed into other conspiracy theories that continue to disrupt society. The original white paper that was the bill’s foundation included proposals for compelling platforms to tackle this kind of content—which individually might not be illegal but which en masse creates dangers. That’s not in the final legislation, although the act does create a new offense of “false communications,” criminalizing deliberately causing harm by communicating something the sender knows to be untrue. [...] The act includes strict rules forcing platforms to move swiftly to remove any illegal post—such as terrorist content or child sexual abuse material—but not on disinformation campaigns comprised of a drip-drip of misleading content, failing to understand that “when that turns into things going viral and spreading, then the harm can occur cumulatively.”

In the article, "other conspiracy theories" is a link to an article discussing people who oppose 15-minute cities, apparently because they regard that level of city planning as excessively authoritarian. It definitely seems to be true that the "opposition" here is complaining this bill did not yet give the government remit to ban "misinformation" and "disinformation", which is indeed depressing. I often wonder whether most such people really believe broad categories like this, which historically encompass everything from legitimately insane conspiracy theories to true facts about the world that the ruling class finds annoying, are something the government should be cracking down on...are they not aware "public order" is the excuse every regime has used to suppress speech?
I don't think that's the intended use-case for this.

If you want to do this, I think something like ComponentizeJS[0] is what you would be looking for. As far as I can tell you'd also need to create WIT (Wasm Interface Type) definitions for the interface(s) that mod_wasm expects for its WASM modules, as they don't provide them themselves.

[0]: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/componentize-js
I guess the other question is what does she want? She is clearly getting media attention still (or does the linked article not exist?). We know from various shitshows in the U.S. that people listen to, respect and follow the kind of attitude and opinion she espouses. So what would someone like her find satisfying?

The problem with people who cannot find a reasonable way to live with "the other" or an out-group (to them) is that there will always be another target for them to choose, i.e. it's not any one group in particular which is a problem for them. So if trans people didn't exist, this same person would be talking about something else. For people such as this, the problem is their personality (so I guess they're deviated on some genetic level), which I guess is too harsh to say? I don't know.
Plenty of shops in my town that sell stuff I can find cheaper on Amazon. Also plenty of employers too (which is the kind of "shop" I was talking about) that compete with Amazon on the employment market.

Pretending that people would be better with less employers in town and laughing at the suggestion that anybody can come in and steal away employees from Amazon if they are unhappy there - is the naive take.
There's a bypass, but it's not officially documented fwict. Some tech news outlets have reported on it, though. Here's a Microsoft answers post documenting it:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/all/set-up...
> a third party IdP provide the site with a trustworthy claim that the user is an adult

Then the Identity Provider would have information about personal identity (to verify age) and information about who is requesting it. This is still www access without privacy.

> too quick to claim victory

What are you talking about. There are good reasons to guess that readers may be generally reading these as ghastly news, far from any sense of "victory".
I didn't know they weren't OpenBSD developers, or that they made patches like that. I'm sorry. I would delete my comment, but it's too late to do that.
People only cared about Guantanamo Bay because they were told to by the media. This isn't to say people shouldn't have cared, but that most people are assigned their beliefs until those beliefs are no longer useful.
This was me 18 years ago, I think as long as the curiosity transfers to something in the real world over time, this is an amazing thing. Like reading museum placards, writing in a diary about her day to day observations, etc. Also, the reading to writing pipeline is probably the easiest to achieve when someone is young and inculcates a lot of thoughtfulness.

Also I don't think the two dependencies can be equated. Electronics create super short attention spans, books are the complete opposite. So I think she's already doing better than most her age.
Some parents / countries even limit independent television, phone, and internet use.
That's super interesting, thank you! I build furniture, mostly more traditionally, but sometimes use a CNC for making jigs. I have access to a 1200mm x 2400mm ShopBot, which has the worst software I've ever used that I didn't write myself. But with care and enough test cuts it gets the job done.

It's fun reading what other people are using these for in practice, and not just the sunny days version. If I ever try cutting brass with this level of detail and scale, this is exactly the kind of thing I'd want to read first.

I look forward to seeing your next project come to life!

Incidentally, your workholding is called a paper joint in woodworking, and is used to make split turnings and sometimes to attach clamping cauls :-)
So how does one verify age....

1. Ask for a credit card number...

Yeah, first hole through this is that all children can get a gift card credit card even if the child is below the majority contract age and that does indeed transform to a real credit card.

2. Ask for state IDs...

Similar problems, as most covert state agencies rely upon holes in state ID systems for stage craft purposes.

An easier solution would be to lock out government users from ]
accessing all these sites....has the added bonus of really identifying the children in this conversation about identity and equal access to knowledge.
I get flack for being descriptive, citing prior policy, and putting things on timelines when everyone is in the know, but the second they move on to the next crisis or a re-org happens and no one knows how the fuck anything is working, guess who they come to?

Nobody. Asking for help would imply they don't know what's going on, which would be embarrassing, so they rebuild from scratch for the dozenth time, duplicating all the same mistakes, just in $HotNewThing.

The auditors like me, at least.
I’m reliably told that diversity is a strength. Why can’t a stronger more diverse Israel work?
If you can install alternative OS, you have your bootloader unlocked. If you have your bootloader unlocked, you can install magisk. And with magisk, you own your device, not some corporates - so you can back up any data you want.
Delphi 7 runs in ReactOS correctly [video]
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I have little original input to your outstandingly well considered comment. :)

Except to say I have the unusual situation of moving from the US to Finland a few years ago partly in the hopes that I would find a better society for my children to enjoy there than what I myself experienced, and I've so far been quite happy with what I see.

One particular difference: I was constantly frustrated as a kid with living too far away from my friends to bike to their houses as a kid like I saw in the cartoons, or even to bike around just for fun. My kids here definitely will have that ability. I know - "How childish!" That's my point!
You might be able to come up with some heuristics, but it won't be very useful. Your best heuristic is probably just to take the wave height and compare to the terrain elevation. Then... add a multiplier.

Numerical simulation is your friend here. And... it gets really complex. There are different simplifying assumptions made to make the calculations tenable. Where run-up is a problem, it typically happens where wave interactions or terrain create concentrations of flow and increased wave height. Roughness of the terrain matters too, not just slope.

You can probably get pretty close with off-the-shelf software just by doing a 2D HEC-RAS simulation with a terrain DEM and creative boundary conditions to simulate different wave heights, and a small time-step.
What's the actual big gain of having history? I have it enabled as well and I sometimes jump back into old chats but it's mostly not so useful.
It could actually be an honest question for those of us who cannot abide the cesspool of twitter, facebook, reddit, etc.

If the comments section on the site of a tech-focussed venture capital firm is stumped on the question of where to discuss item x in the news, then something is wrong with the situation.
is there a calculus version of this ?
for a split second i thought someone had made psv stuff in 2023
He's referring to this article by the same author: https://www.wired.com/story/15-minute-cities-conspiracy-clim...

There are very valid criticisms of the "15 minute city" including the widespread surveillance required to enforce certain proposed traffic restrictions (by personally identifying drivers and only allowing access to some areas at certain times). Councils and national governments in the UK have long abused data gathering to the detriment of its citizens. Unfortunately the Guardian and its ilk have derided critics of these plans as far right extremists and conspiracy theories.
Oh, well if _that’s_ all it’ll take… you may as well stop talking or worrying about it and just enjoy your life since nothing short of a global extinction event will make a dent.
For what it's worth, loud noises always bothered me as a kid. Even the (1000-person audience) applauding after each performance of the end-of-year talent contest in my first two years of secondary school (aged 12 and 13) was so loud I managed to get taken out of the hall because I was crying from the pain.

However, despite some people trying to call me "autistic" as a term of abuse (including a line manager!), my actual score on an (online) autism spectrum test was solidly in the "mundane and normal" category.
So now you can walk around in the townsquare without identification but not on a web browser ? It should probably be the opposite to start with, atleast in places with historically disputed territory among religions.