skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quick look of the datasheet suggests that's specified for three bands around UHF, VHF base stations. I mean I'm sure it'll sort of work outside those bands on receive to some varying degrees of success but on transmit, it's going to be a terrible terrible mismatch.

Would love to see an S11 sweep on a proper VNA for that antenna. I bet it looks like a polynomial with a googol order. On some bands the feed might be a better antenna.

My antenna comment was more about the launch angle. It was in inverted V which was steep aka a "cloud burner".
Pedantically, use of amateur radio as a broadcast medium is prohibited in FCC land except for special exceptions like beacon stations. This, like the wholesale prohibition on music is also antiquated in my view -- already commercial broadcast radio is dying because of streaming. The public interest would be maximized by allowing a degree of non-commercial broadcast and music usage over amateur bands, subject to restrictions.

For example, it would be pretty rad to have an event with an orchestra linked between two nearby cities with full duplex ultra low latency radio--- which can achieve much lower latency than ordinary internet due to the line-of-sight nature.

Now I realize that by 'broadcast' you don't mean the rule-violating one-way-communications kind but the literal propagation characteristics. But at UHF+ it's easier to have a directional signal than an omnidirectional one, and once you get to a few GHz it's quite natural to have laser beam like signals. Plus, at 2m+ signals are naturally limited to the radio horizon (except for exceptional cases).

Personally, when I've advocated for relaxations on encryption and other content restrictions I've done so for UHF+ (or even SHF+) bands where the degree of under-utilization and potential for spectrum reuse through directionality are very high, and abuse is inherently geographically limited by physics.
> You seem to have seen the word 'conservative' in the URL and somehow drawn some conclusion that the author – having followed her work for some years now – actually has a wildly different perspective on.

I'm familiar with the publication, I didn't just guess based on a word. In this venue, the article comes off as the typical "... so we'd better do nothing" sort of deflection-focused piece one would expect on this topic. Some actual vision of how this other approach can address the same problems would be great... but then she'd have had to shop it to The Nation or something, instead of The American Conservative.

> No, the article is a fair critique of Monibot et. al.'s behavior in the context of this topic, who often have fine theoretical frameworks that completely ignore the ideological, cultural, and otherwise vitally important social aspects inherent to food production and consumption.

> To wit, you're not going to get the population of, say, Mexico or France to eat fermented protein paste with out a) becoming a tyrant or b) erasing some of the most important traditions of the cultures in those countries.

Yeah, the broader problem with the article is that it comes from a very-online bubble where any of that seems like it might really happen.

The SV dystopia-food dorks don't actually matter.
The Awful German Language
The Internet has the bandwidth to accomodate private channels. You don't know what you're talking about. There are no security vulnerabilities where there are no secrets. That's the point of ham.

Go look at a spectrum chart. If you're worried about stagnation, go after the stupidly under-utilised swathes of military allocations. Let the hobbyists keep their narrow kHz. Not everything needs disruption.
What sold me on Kagi was when I was trying to find the age of a small lava flow in central Oregon. Google was completely useless. Kagi got it to me on hit #3.

Having a search engine driven by being the best search engine versus by maximizing ad revenue is great, IMHO.
I ran into this issue a few months ago when I got sometime to actually setup my home server and wanted to use urls like nas.local and homeassistant.local on my home network to make things easy for my family to access.

Worked fine on windows but all the Apple devices in the house had a conniption when trying to connect. I ended up just using my personal domain replacing .local. Am currently investigating a wildecard DNS SSL cert to get HTTPS working on the LAN, but that's more out of curiosity than anything else
> People I had thought were on my side were arguing aggressively for the industrializing of wild places in the name of human desire. ... Motorway through downland: bad. Wind power station on downland: good. Container port wiping out estuary mudflats: bad. Renewable hydropower barrage wiping out estuary mudflats: good. Destruction minus carbon equals sustainability.

Exactly right. The industrialization of wild places to satisfy the luxury beliefs of coastal elites is sickening.
> Static typing is super critical for large projects

YMMV very large project have been written in Erlang/Elixir without static typing
and they've been wildly successfull

i.e WhatsApp (based on Ejabberd), Ericsson network switches, RabbitMQ, CouchDB and a lot more, you can read about some of them here https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/which-companies-are-us...

as a less knows example, an entire insurance company in my country with > 1 million customers
This author agrees with the possibility of that and so do I, which is why I'm such a big fan of localism (as opposed to further industrialization – of food even further removed from the human experience)
They certainly don't require it but it tends to be used in other transactions where SEC is going to hang you for example.
I agree. This is the result of being surrounded by developers all day long lol. Will try to focus more on the business problem.
Indeed. Here's his dissertation: https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/2597/

Does it maybe read a bit different from the post above?

Roger Penrose has a Nobel Prize in physics. But his consciousness collapse interpretation and "consciousness arises from microtubules" interpretations aren't taken very seriously, nor is his fecund universes cosmology.

And his work on those things is arguably much more rigorous relative to what Wolfram is doing here - but still falls short of what serious theories by serious theoretical physicists involve.

A dissertation extending views of particle physics under the supervision of Feynman is a very different story from reinventing physics 40 years later with the 'superpowers' of your own mathematical language as best expressed by what happens to generative AI rendering a cat in a party hat.
I can't open the png file in Mac's Preview and Safari.
You might really enjoy All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace. He wasn’t the first to try this, and many failed before him. Most people don’t know that the entire concept of the “ecosystem” comes from a computational view of ecology.

It’s bigger problem than just to this. It’s that we’ve based everything off the Club of Rome style mindset of society and it’s all failed. But we haven’t figured out another way. So climate change, politics, democracy and marketing all continue to try to figure out the computational stable state of society.
the incarnation of what VBlock was supposed to be?
The most interesting thing about this for me was “zig cc”: https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-cc-powerful-drop-in-replace...
Government funding from income taxes is small in comparison to VAT and other taxes.
How to double value of Trabant? Fuel up.
South, far away from Hamas & the tunnels
I pay for Kagi and couldn't be happier. I'm still trying to convert my wife, who actually likes seeing the ads.
Those certs integrated with with any Timestamp Authority?
I should think so. I certainly haven't heard differently, and I'd expect some sort of engineering blog about rewriting an chat system evolved from ejabberd in C++ for a second time.
Depends on the exception. Maybe the sun wasn't moral.
I had switched from Google to DDG years. DDG seemed to be marginally better at the time, but I really switched because DDG was not Google. Google had become annoying.

About six months ago I tried Kagi, then I signed up with them. Kagi delivers what I want: Fast, accurate search results that I can tweak. I'm a huge fan at this point.

The only time I don't use Kagi is if I'm running incognito over VPN, so I use another search engine (DDG or Bing) that I don't have to sign in to.
Until it breaks or becomes out of date.
Brave search.
There's a lot of irrelevant stuff in that answer. People often dismiss ChatGPT based on the free 3.5, not realizing that the paid GPT-4 is in a different league. The difference is a lot bigger than suggested by the 0.5 version number increment. Here's a GPT-4 answer:

If you're focused on writing, then you should consider Ulysses or Scrivener. Ulysses offers a streamlined, distraction-free environment that's perfect for writers who want a no-fuss solution. Scrivener is the go-to for those engaged in long-form writing projects like novels or academic papers, thanks to its robust organizational features. If you're a Markdown fan, go for iA Writer. It's clean, offers excellent Markdown support, and is quite speedy. For coders who write, Visual Studio Code isn't just for programming; it's highly customizable and has extensions that can aid in writing prose. Choose based on your specific needs.
> It really depends on your definition of your massive

massive as in the top 10% of tech companies in the entire globe

> Discord seems to have a few hundreds to a thousand employees in total

quote: WhatsApp scaled to 1B users with only 50 engineers [1]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28985169
Transit authorities are really being hammered with lower ridership right now. Now's the time to get rid of all the friction that prevents usage, like requiring bespoke payment solutions that need prior preparation.
I’ve been paying for Kagi for a couple of months so far and I’m pretty happy with it. No ads, not just the usual expected sites, and easy ability to up rank, down rank, or even block sites for future searches.
If you're interested in the Trabant, the Youtube channel Aging Wheels has a couple of playlists where Robert has rebuilt the engine and gearbox of his [1] and just general videos [2] about his Trabant.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzV2uljPvyAeEgAEgwYNf...

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzV2uljPvyAe1K8ArgPHG...
But why? I have one project that is a single Python codebase that embeds the whole http server, task scheduler, a durable queue implementation, and job processing implementation using those queues all in a single process.

I'm sure you're right that the nature of Elixir makes wrangling all the different services easier but is there something special it does to make embedding easier as well?
It depends a bit on your definition of the Dark Side. I can't help but feel if this legislation had been passed in time Ofcom may have prevented the Emperor destroying Alderaan.
> There is a clear limit to how slow simple looking code can be in C# or java

Java/C# code can become incredibly slow if you allocate way too many objects, use Streams/LINQ or touch URL#equals. Why are managed languages specifically better here?
Using an LLM allows for more flexible filters e.g. clickbait, celebrity news, people trolling in comments.
Good old RDP sent the GDI calls directly. It also had fairly efficient bitmap caching. Then it got the H.264 stuff similar to what's mentioned here.

However in both cases I think the key reason RDP works so well is that it's very integrated in the stack.

I fiddled with FreeRDP server some 10 years ago, to see if I could improve performance. First off it ran on top of Xorg as effectively just another program. So getting a copy of the framebuffer was very CPU intensive, taking hundreds of milliseconds each time. Since this was before hardware H.264 encoding, it then had to do a delta pass to figure out the "damaged" regions, ie those needing an update. A full pass over the framebuffer comparing it with the previous framebuffer, very memory and CPU intensive. Then it could compress and send those regions to the client. The performance was very similar to good old VNC, ie horrible, so I expect it worked similarly.

Compare with good old RDP. It was integrated into the OS. It could send the draw calls to the client, or if needed, it could send bitmaps of regions. However if it had to do that, it already had the information of the damaged regions because Windows kept track of that anyway for redrawing purposes, so it didn't need to do any comparison pass like to find the damaged regions, and it could capture the draw calls from the applications, so no need to do a full framebuffer dump.

I really think Linux desktops like KDE and similar need to go a similar route if they ever want to get a decent competitor to Windows RDP. Remote Desktop needs to be designed into the solution, from the lower levels and up, not just tacked on top afterwards.
Why do we hear time after time about the electric vehicles themselves?

That's putting the cart before the horse. It doesn't matter if every family goes out and buys an electric vehicle at all.

WHAT DOES MATTER IS WHETHER OR NOT THOSE VEHICLES CAN BE USEFULLY CHARGED.

Step one is NOT getting everybody to buy an electric vehicle. Step One is putting in the work on building a capable electricity grid.

When the electricity grid in Texas goes down in winter from overload, WE KNOW THE ELECTRICITY GRID IS INSUFFICIENT!

We need to spend trillions on electricity grid infrastructure before we try to get the general public to buy an electric vehicle.

NO ELECTRICITY GRID CAPABILITY, NO CHARGING OF MILLIONS OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES AT THE SAME TIME = NO SALES OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
Agree, and I don't think Israel has a goal to kill hostages but to eleminate Hamas no matter the cost
Use NetGuard, or a lot of other firewall apps.

https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard
> The main cause of skin cancer is UV radiation from sunlight.

This is not true. The main cause of skin cancer for most people is often unrelated to sun exposure. And sunscreen, ironically enough, is a great contributor towards cancer.

The sun doesn't give us cancer. That it's somehow "harmful" for people to be in direct sunlight is an absurd notion. Getting strong sunlight everyday for an hour or two won't kill you or give you cancer. It'll be great for you.
that's right, and absolutely make sense, as the church meanwhile realized unbaptized babies don't go to limbo but to heaven.
I'm not a target user but wanted to provide some feedback. As a customer, when I buy software I don't really care that it's open source or not and if you look in other threads on here, many people feel the same way. It's good marketing - especially for devs - but the whole point of someone paying you for hosting is so they don't have to do it ;)

I'd feature it less prominently as a selling point further down the page. As in: "btw, we're also open source!".

And I would drop the decimals on the pricing - take it from Patrick McKenzie[1]

The site looks really clean and wish you the best!

[1] https://stripe.com/guides/atlas/saas-pricing -> Under "Getting the aesthetics of pricing correct matters in B2C"
I agree with your comment so much I created a login.

'One thing I miss about in-office work is that people would spontaneously draw diagrams in meetings.

The same diagrams would get drawn over and over again, evolving. And everybody did it'

I miss in online meetings the start with and highlevel outline diagram, and fill in different detailed sets depending on the conversation.

I like plantuml, but it's hard to do that as fast as a white board.

Also I found that repitionion of explaining your system to multiple sets outsiders really helper refine the content.
The scalable part is going to be difficult though.

This is not all that different from the production of hydrogen. Hydrogen is most economically produced from natural gas nowadays. You can produce it from water, with (just like here) an almost 100% current-to-hydrogen efficiency. But it's still twice as expensive, if not more.
I thought kilogram was the only one that hasn't been redefined. Then I checked that and actually it is now defined by speed of light and Planck constant
I'd suggest you either check if you're not reading "post-tax income" as tax, or change the accountants. Even most miserable accounting doesn't get 70% on 80k annual salary.
The rule is technically a problem for meteor scatter in 10m. The short duration of the channel favors high baud rates and multi-path isn't a significant issue there.
Correct (in a `try ... else` the else branch is executed when the try block reaches the end of the block with no exception, and the return is leaving the block without reaching the end)

(Bonus context for anyone surprised that it is valid code — Python actually allows you to use “else” in more places than you’d expect - `for ... else` is my favourite (do a for loop over a list of things, `break` if you find the thing that you’re looking for, and then the `else` branch will be taken if you don’t find what you’re looking for. Much cleaner than keeping track of a separate i_found_the_thing bool IMO))
I'm not talking about expensive in terms of currency, I'm talking about it in terms of human cost. Many, many wars have been fought over attempts to control food, and the lives lost can be counted in the hundreds of millions.
it's also a standard step in shutting down terrorist organizations who need to communicate with the outside world to get their orders (from Iran)
The main issue with Phoenix on the front-end is all the great component libraries target React. Developing accessible, battle-tested components (even a simple dropdown is much more involved than you think) is extremely hard and can drain a lot of development time. I've seen a few blogs about using React alongside LiveView--even sharing state--but I think we need something official.
Would love to know why this article got flagged since it's a response to this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38050236
OK… Does ...this mean light sabers too?!
I find this less under spam, and more under product placement. Like how people often drink water in a movie, why not it be a real brand? Do they drive cars, why not a Prius? If gym tiktoks are going to have an intro/background music, what's so bad about it being Toxic?

It's supplementing content and supports other creators (paid for the product placement). It only works if people care enough to look up the product that was placed.

Personally, I find product placement//sponsored by spots the most benign and acceptable form of advertising.
The bandwidth of a CW signal depends very much on the bandwidth of the modulation, eg the faster the keying speed, the wider the bandwidth.

"On the receive side, you can make your receiver as narrow at the transmitters oscillator". Completely wrong, and shows a fundamental misunderstanding.

Morse is a wonderful mode, but suffers from the lack of error correction which had made modes like PSK31 and FT8 so much more effective, especially in bandwidth usage.
I’ve also completely switched to Kagi and have been very happy - happy enough to pay for it. As is said so often: “it’s amazing what happens when _you_ are not the product”.
Same. It's really the "just take my money" service. I'd pay even if I would fit in the free quota.
Exactly, all Hamas has to do is come out of their tunnels, lay down their weapons, free the hostages and it all ends.
Ah, lucky that this is an Airoha target without firmware encryption.

Also there's an 010 Editor template for the firmware format if you're curious.

https://github.com/ramikg/airoha-firmware-parser
The last time I was in Berlin there was an outfit renting them to tourists for joy rides. My girlfriend talked me down, but in the future if she's not there to help me resist temptation...
Probably not what you are looking for, but being non religious and ignorant myself on those topics, I was able to grasp a lot and get to details very quickly through ChatGPT. Things like discussing the disagreements among catholics with the counter-reformation, more nuanced differences between christian denominations, philosophical parallels between western and non-abrahamic, main ethical systems and so on. Since I had noone to talk about these things, and the fact it provides a lot of historical data that I can double check myself, made it very valuable.
Makes me happy to see that Kagi is so popular in the HN bubble. Changing people's mindset regarding the idea of having to pay for quality search is such a fundamental obstacle, wish them luck!
Interesting to learn about last gasp packets, seems like a useful mechanism for any system.
I generally find that observability into kubernetes is not that great especially for analytical queries. Answering the question of “where where my pods running for a replicaset at time X” is surprisingly not easy to answer with just events. Also, events are designed to have a short ttl so you need to extract them out of etcd and into some sort of long term storage and indexed in a way which you can run useful queries. At larger scales kube-state-metrics will blow up about any prometheus server outside of a full blown billion metric stream scale mimir deployment.
Not just fertilizer:

"In addition to its use in the fertilizer and chemical industries, ammonia is currently seen as a potential replacement for carbon-based fuels and as a carrier for worldwide transportation of renewable energy."

Long-term grid storage?

Publication: 22 July 2022

Anyone know if maybe some pilot / small scale production facility has been set up in the mean time?

I've read about a farm that produced its own fertilizer, but dunno whether that uses this or some older / unrelated process.

Would be a huge breakthrough in any case.
Does ChatGPT really blow away the Turing test?

The criteria listed on Wikipedia is:

> The evaluator would be aware that one of the two partners in conversation was a machine

> If the evaluator could not reliably tell the machine from the human, the machine would be said to have passed the test.

ChatGPT isn't there by a long shot. If you aren't really considering that an online agent may be a bot and are just casually interacting with it, then it might pass. But within 10 minutes, it is not going to become anywhere near as friendly as a person normally would in 10 minutes of conversation, especially if you know that one is a bot and are looking for differences.

Turing Test is not casually passing as human in casual interaction. It is stumping a human dedicated to rooting out that it is a machine who is aware that one of the participants is a machine.
there is some custodian of their assets for sure.
obviously many try to manipulate, the question is in final results, if they can really change picture dramatically.
The (reasonable—IMO) expectation here is that search engines should be smart enough to understand queries like that. Even Google used to be better at that, until they succumbed to other priorities.
You think the government doesn't know the stuff that's already on your ID? Or are you implying governments want to add backdoors for other companies to harvest data?
The key is the oft repeated "deeply abstract."

The whole thing reminds me of a book written by one of the researchers who was first reviewing the Dead Sea Scrolls.

An expert on his field, he eventually writes a book about how everything was actually connected to magic mushrooms. But the key is - it's all using abstract references and coded language.

So much like how online "pedophile investigators" suddenly saw flying in Chicago deep dish pizza as code for child trafficking because triangles are coded symbolism - it becomes a self fulfilling abstraction.

Redefine first principles off a presumed conclusion with enough abstraction and you can magically arrive at that conclusion from those first principles in ways no one can understand unless they embrace your abstractions! Crazy, right?
There you go https://github.com/elnardu/react-use-rust
Here https://github.com/elnardu/react-use-rust
That is interesting, cheers!