skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Presumably the spoofed GPS signals are all coming from the ground, or close to it.

I think that's a good presumption when operating in, say, Iraq or Afghanistan. Maybe less so when operating near Russia (which has its own GNSS system)?

> I would think it would work to use a semi-directional antenna that is on top of the aircraft, pointing upward. Even an antenna that has a 180-degree field of view should reject fake GPS signals from the ground, no?

GPS receivers already do this to reject ground reflections that could give false position readings (and the GPS signal is circularly-polarized so it can reject odd-ordered reflections off building and the ground). However, any kind of steerable (electronically or otherwise) directional GPS antenna is considered an ITAR no-no.

The other problem is that GPS signals are incredibly weak (actually below the thermal noise floor), and rely on processing gain from the CDMA chipping to raise the SNR to something useful. So even an antenna with very very good rejection from the lower hemisphere will easily pass a jamming signal from the ground which is both many times closer and probably of higher power.

> Only thing I can think of that would invalidate this is if the fake GPS signals bounce off the atmosphere above the planes and come back down. What else am I missing here?

Any country with a space program could transmit the jamming signal from above.
Being a visionary does not mean you'll become a leader; more than likely you will be lucky if you're a footnote in history.

Microsoft had visions of smartphones and mobile ecosystems long before Apple or Google had them. They failed hard, which Apple and then Google took lessons from for their subsequent success.

Facebook, Sony, Valve and HTC all had visions of augmented and virtual realities. They all stagnafailed hard, which Apple is taking lessons from for their seeming success soon.

IBM had visions of personal computing long before Apple or Microsoft did. They failed hard, which both Microsoft and Apple took lessons from for their subsequent successes.

Being a visionary does not mean you'll become a leader, but you won't become a leader without a vision.
Fun read. The author, as expected, did an excellent job writing it. This line stood out:

> The dining room was long and mostly empty—apparently a security thing.

That might be a really good idea. If you have a whole lot of money and want to increase security, making it so that lunch groups eat with a lot space between each other is probably a lot of security bang for the buck.
Without reliable numbers, I can’t take this post seriously. As much as I am on “TikTok’s recommendations are better” camp, my direct surroundings only share things with me on Reels. Obviously it’s very age and location related observation, but when you consider places like Hong Kong/India, where it is banned, I don’t think IG is losing big way. Add that the usual “TikTok bad cause data mining”, you’ll get a lot of people who avoid it as plague.

That being said, I hope both of them magically disappear for the greater good of society :)
It just feels like “what LLM is better” becomes new “what GPU is better” type of talk. It’s great to find a clear winner, but at the end the gap between the leaders isn’t an order of magnitude.
> systemd is a religion now, and it's blasphemy to speak against it?

No, yours is just a low-effort comment that doesn't meaningfully add to the discussion.

I strongly disliked systemd (and its proponents) for a long time. Until I realized it just doesn't matter, and all the hate it gets is just boring and takes time away from useful things.
It's great for peoples, the question is probably asked for machines.
Most of this guy's questions could have been answered by reading the very Wikipedia article he cites. For example, "a HEPA air filter must remove—from the air that passes through—at least 99.95% (ISO, European Standard) or 99.97% (ASME, U.S. DOE) of particles whose diameter is equal to 0.3 μm". So, yes the H13 filter meets this spec (99.95%), and the E12 does not. If he didn't trust the Wikipedia authors, he could always follow their references to check for himself.

The question of whether H13 vs E12 actually matters is likely to depend on application and environment. Providing factual information, perhaps taking the position that the IKEA filter is "good enough" despite the review, would have been welcome. Then each reader can evaluate all those factors for themselves.

Whenever I checked his quotes from The Wirecutter, I found that WC had it right, and blogger had it wrong. I stopped reading in detail after the first two sections, then just skimmed the rest.
Thanks. Not sure if we could connect offline but sure.

PDF Pals allows you to highlight a section and ask only about that content. I’m not entirely sure but for some advanced questions, it might require a code interpreter similar to ChatGPT and that feature is not available in PDF Pals yet.

Would love to talk more about your use case.
It’s interesting. I had not heard the latest. Their initial videos looked promising.

I ordered a rabbit r1. I can see it’s missing some key functionality (Bluetooth for headphones so everyone doesn’t have to hear?) But… I think it’s an example of a first, promising, step to the era of real voice assistants/agents.
Thanks for the explanation, that helps a bit. I still think a video explainer would be helpful. :)
Now you know how your girlfriend feels when she hears you speak with other software people :) Excuse my assumptions if they are incorrect. I'm making projections from my own point of view.
I also hate fan noise and ended up DIYing an air purifier with computer fans as you end up with a much quieter air purifier than commercial offerings for a given CADR. If you're going this route I suggest paying a bit more and getting the noctua pwm adapter (https://noctua.at/en/products/accessories/na-fc1) so you can control the fan speed, and designing it (or using an existing design, see https://www.cleanairkits.com/products/fanless-kits and https://www.reddit.com/r/crboxes/ for inspiration) built around filters you can pick up locally. (I built mine around ikea starkvind filters, but in Canada I've never been able to get them shipped online, and the nearest ikea is annoyingly far away)

For fan choice, Arctic P12/P14 fans tend to be recommended because they're cheap and are good on paper, but they're pretty terrible acoustically (super annoying hum in the 800-1300RPM range which tends to be the optimal level just below where you can hear 120/140mm fans). I'm also irritated by fan noise and have tried a lot of different fans over the years in computers, and I've ended up just paying the Noctua tax and buying nf-a12x25s because they're one of the quietest fans, they move a lot of air with pretty good static pressure, and they don't have any humming or other acoustic issues, just the air noise as you ramp their speeds up. Phanteks T30s are even better than the noctuas and a bit less expensive, but have a bit worse noise profile (a slight drone at higher RPMs that only super picky people will even notice).

For mine I made an uglier 3 fan version of the slim 5 fan cleanairkits design using hardboard, fan grills, wood glue, a hacksaw, a drill, and a drywall knife. I'd recommend just getting it laser/waterjet cut though instead of suffering trying to cut fan holes in hardboard with a drywall knife and a small drill bit (it takes forever, and ends up being ugly AF). For power I ended up using a USB SATA adapter (noctua PWM adapter takes SATA power, need to get one that uses an external power adapter so it can output enough power, can also steal it from the air purifier if you ever actually need a usb sata adapter) and an old UL listed 12V 1.2A barrel plug power supply I found in a box of old electronics.
OP might be referring to gpt-4-turbo.
Libgen exists purely for this reason. $50? Sure. $100? Eh sure why not?

$700? lol.
Is that still true? With the size of the bases, I had assumed the network connection would be significantly more robust and/or higher bandwidth. How does the Icecube project or similar scientific experiments work? Or is it all still station wagons full of tapes?
Cashfree Payments built real-time Success Rate analytics with Apache Flink
For me it's when I get assigned to a project where we're rewriting a perfectly-good app for any of the following reasons: (1) in order to use the latest buzzword (kafka... fsck me) (2) as a PR stunt to get the company name back in the press (new! and improved!) (3) because some micromanaging activist investor said so (4) as a hail-mary attempt to erase technical debt (5) as a sneaky attempt to erase institutional knowledge so that they can offshore the whole operation (6) so the tech lead has another badge on his resume
He speaks very unclearly, instead of saying GPT-4-turbo he says 4.5 preview. 4.5 is invention of his.

Also mixtral medium - no idea of what he means by that.

Not to mention a claim that mixtral is as good as gpt-4. It’s on the quality of gpt3.5 at best, which is still amazing for an open source model, but a year behind openai
Um. Not wrong.

It's so "The Machine Stops".
Just follow https://www.reddit.com/r/localllama to keep up to date on this stuff
Wow. I ran this archive back in the 90s, when I was a student at NMSU and it was one of my ancillary duties when I worked part-time for the IT department. I wasn't a fan of OS/2 myself but I appreciated how much of a community there was around it and how excited people were to continue to use it. When I inherited it the website was put together with duct tape and paperclips (and Comic Sans), and the files were pretty inconsistently-organized.

At one point I spent a few months building a new website and tooling to make it easier to manage and then completely reorganized the archive, and while other students replaced the underlying code over the years (eventually replacing my not-very-great C++-based bespoke-CGI system with a much more robust PHP-based one), my design was largely intact, as was the file structure I'd established.

I'm kind of amazed it kept running for this long, but this is a personal end of an era for me. I still hold a lot of nostalgia for it and my time working on it.

EDIT: I wrote some more detailed thoughts on my blog. http://beesbuzz.biz/blog/14299-Hobbes-OS-2-Archive-An-end-of...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38770151
I would suggest to be careful with cutting out things, this leads to bouncing back, like all dramatic changes.

I noticed that carbs such as bread or pasta really help with food satisfaction, unlike fat-intence or protein foods.

Remove sugar in secondary things: tea, coffee, soda. Understand the calorie count in carbs such as chips. East to the mild calorie deficit. Compensate with moderate excercise. And so on, setup new dietary habits one by one.

It doesn't have to be painful!
I'm just a random schmuck with no backchannel connections, but I get Twitter notifications several times a day about accounts being locked or suspended as a result of my report. The internet is awash with explicit antisemitism.
Could it be because they're a foreign company?
CY

I also found outseta.com after reading a post from the at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38941789

Haven't had the time to look into it though but seems promising.
In the long run, anyone who thinks for themselves will eventually be on the "wrong side" of an issue, and the people who copy the leaders, even when the leaders change, remain "right" through all of them. See also: the huge number of brilliant intellectuals burnt to death by the Church because they applied the principle of making up their own minds about stuff to religion. That means, if there is a policy of "burning" people who are "wrong," it will eventually catch every free thinker.
That's absolutely not the case, HN is mostly people who think they're geniuses because they can program computers. Read the comments on any post about a topic you know a lot about and you'll see it's full of people talking very confidently about things they know very little about. There are of course some very smart people mixed in, but it's hard to pick those people out from the noise.
While you might think I'm joking, LLMs could potentially help with screening out that spam.
Since you mention the past disputes over custody and forks:

Earlier discussion from 2017, when customers wanted to sue Coinbase for keeping the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) fork corresponding to their deposits:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14910822

I remember Gemini crediting me with my BCH eventually. (Unfortunately, long after the peak to $4k.) LocalBitcoins gave some classic BTC credit to make up for it.

Some silly analogies I made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14913261

I believe that fears of a similar situation are what led a lot of people to temporarily pull ETH off of exchanges and out of smartcontracts over the time of the ETH switch from PoW to PoS, as that spawned another fork.
It was entertaining to follow and cross check for sanity - admittedly I first read "RenTech" as a reference to https://theitcrowd.fandom.com/wiki/Reynholm_Industries

.. which seemed to fit suprisingly well.
Right. That was almost all about 18 years ago.
Yeah, that's a good point! Thank your for the feedback. The chatbot would be an added bonus to the guest communication, so if there would be a need to specifically talk / ask questions to the real host, they would still be available. With the chatbot the guests can get answers to their questions without needing to wait and bother the hosts. :)
You can hold raw Bitcoin in a self-directed IRA. You just hold it and do the paperwork. You can hold just about anything in a self-directed IRA, including beanie babies.
> The needs of these systems are radically different.

Different to what? Desktop PCs? Commercial avionics? Space-rated computers? Military fighter jet avionics from other planes?

The future upgrade to the F-35 is orders of magnitude worse at every metric than everything else in any of those categories.

For example, the latest F/18 has a computer that is several hundred times faster. It’s also a “networked” fighter jet with sensor integration, etc…

So what’s different about the F-35 avionics that justifies $300K per unit for the computer power of an outdated Apple Watch!?

From where I’m sitting it’s purely corruption and incompetence.

You’re saying it’s something else. Okay, what is it?
You're the one thinking of SD cards - no one else (that I'm aware) mentioned anything of the sort.

The aviation industry, and its monopolies, have to stop being treated as sacred cows and be subjected to thorough - consequent - scrutiny and accountability at all stages of the aircraft lifecycle. It certainly hasn't been the case with the 737 MAX - the system, as is, clearly failed the almost 400 people that already died. And if the MBA-types continue to have their way, the deaths won't stop there.

Finally, I'm not going to engage in insults, they only qualify yourself.
when I do an update I don't do a global state transition tho.
This may be one reason but it doesn't apply to me and I have used both significantly.

I spend far more time on TikTok now than Instagram and that is for a few reasons which may appear minor but make the difference:

- When you open instagram you will see a photo/video and after a few seconds you are sent to the top unable to find what you just saw. TikTok does not do this unless you swipe out.
- Videos on instagram can not be properly paused so when you need to stop a video for a few. seconds you can't. Instagram also doesn't allow you to seek/ffw some content, same issue in youtube shorts.
- On Tiktok you have all kinds of analytics about each post you make as a regular user.
- From reports that I have read, tiktok pays creators a lot more than instagram.
- When I post on tiktok I get far more interaction and this is probably also due to the localization of content and how it is broadcast/spread.
Am I getting "Hey you are a programmer, I have a business idea"-spam not only from friends and family but also while scrolling through hacker-news?
Those sales were subsidized in expectation of future profitability that will never come (at least not without a ground-up redesign of the product around LLM-based AI agents or some other paradigm). Economically Alexa is a "colossal failure": https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/amazon-alexa-is-a-co...
There is literally nothing on that page (nor in the linked help article that describes how to export data) that says how to tell them to "not use my data for training" and not loose history at the least. If you know more about this feature please do tell.
The Journal app doesn't have a Mac app and neither do any of the other apps I was hoping to use. I understand what you are saying, but personally I'd be more than fine with the touch-centric UI - I recognize that as a trade off. In particular, I want to use the Journal app more - but I'm just not going to write very much on a phone.
>Israel, a liberal democratic state with a free press, strong left-wing movement, and the second biggest tech sector out of silicon valley

With Netanyahu and other far right parties in power I'm not sure this is argument you think it is.

Also not great numbers with the free press either:

https://rsf.org/en/index

Better than some in the region, but not great.

And the refrain gets old when used as a cover for Israels terrible actions, but it actively makes me ill nowadays, maybe not as ill as "IDF is the most moral army in the world" when I think about the tens of thousands of kids they have blown up (killed and injured) I suppose.
You can probably target by “believes in several conspiracy theories”.
>I copied the URL of the video and sent it to a team in [Facebook parent company] Meta, some Israelis that work for Meta, and I told them that this video needs to be removed and actually they removed it after a few days.”

Some commenters here ask, "is this guy lying," but I can't help but wonder... was there any correlation between him flagging the post and Facebook's internal misinformation police taking it down on their own? They take down a lot of content every day. It would be pretty funny if the whole crusade was made up of people who could find doomed posts a few minutes before the moderation system does, and so think they're the ones taking things down.
very inspiring.
I like to primitive UX things: the scroll wheel and the turning camera and the button.
If I had 200 bucks for fun, I would spend them.
News Has Become Increasingly Negative in The Past Half Century
Instagram also has a very good/addictive algorithm, for what it’s worth.

I think it is more just network effect in play here - I feel that every generation has their de facto social media platform — the “boomers” have facebook, then comes instagram, and among the youngest generations is tiktok the biggest.

Though I don’t have hard data on that, just anecdotal evidence.
Google is no longer on Glassdoor's best places to work list.

Best Places to Work 2023:

1. Gainsight
2. Box
3. Bain & Company
4. McKinsey & Company
5. NVIDIA
6. MathWorks
7. Boston Consulting Group
8. Google
9. ServiceNow
10. In-N-Out Burger

Best Places to Work 2024:

1. Bain & Company
2. NVIDIA
3. ServiceNow NOW
4. MathWorks
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1,000 operational planes with cost overruns and persistent issues decades into the program — most of which are related to the avionics and their associated software!

The F-35 planes are a success despite the avionics, not because of them.

The upgrade to Apple Watch levels of computing has notably been delayed by a year into mid-2024!

How is that a successful demonstration of computer engineering?
It's hot air all the way down !
Chinese write blank checks. Activate spy to do economic spying. Redirect universities graduate to support their airlines. Which countries other than China is doing that? Airbus in France? UK? USA? Couldnt even settle student loan frogiveness let alone getting liberal arts to work with Boeing. Boeing is basically Solyndra the future in the making.
The main problem here is that you're looking at the energy use as a waste. It's absolutely not, but in order to understand why, you need to understand what's wrong with the current monetary system and the terrible effects it is having on the world.

You're also missing that bitcoin's game theory means that it will ultimately only use unwanted/wasted energy. Bitcoin miners can mine anywhere in the world and those trying to use energy that's in demand by the general population won't be economical.
They also greatly benefit from regulations.
https://archive.is/cL4Oi
I'm only answering in general, not personally, but this question is too vague. Would you take a job in your specialty in the US? If your answer is "yes", great! It's located in Nome, Alaska. Still interested?

There's a world of difference between living in Netherlands and Bulgaria, just like life in Honolulu is almost nothing like life in rural Alaska or NYC or rural Kansas.
I'm confused by this comment. What do you mean "seized by fiat"? Custodial wallets can and have been seized by government agencies. Cold wallet storage devices can and have been seized. Bitcoin has no intrinsic value, only imputed value.
They just started delivering those block III super hornets in 2021. You are comparing hardware from different generations. Just because it's an older plane doesn't mean the avionics in it haven't been upgraded since. Don't worry, they'll get to upgrading the f35s and then they will have the newer hardware. It's the natural progression of these things.
I believe most models have a quickstart function that just starts when you press the start button... if you're so inclined.
According to this article [1], many people with type 1 diabetes are also overweight. In fact, the article cites a research study showing that, for those with type 1 diabetes, higher blood glucose levels corresponded to higher weight gain. Clearly, this weight gain isn't CICO-related but is actually related carbohydrates.

As far as I understand, people with type 2 diabetes (insulin resistance) have excess glucose in their bloodstream, which becomes easily stored as body fat. Type 2 diabetes seems particularly caused by eating excessive amounts of carbs over a long period of time.

In both cases, excessive carbs leads to obesity. The type of calories matters more for obese people trying to lose weight than for healthy people maintaining their weight.

[1] https://www.dbl-diabetes.com/all-about-diabetes/food/type-1-...
https://privacy.openai.com/policies

They hide this link a bit. They completed my opt-out request in about ten minutes and at least claim to be not using any of my data going forward for training.

I didn't lose any features like Chat History
Its called controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPAs), which unfortunately is an ITAR restricted thing because of insane paperwork required, so no one wants to build it for civilian receivers. Which is stupid because beamforming (or null-steering) algorithms are not that difficult to implement, and so we already have Chinese and Iranian receivers with CRPAs.

So PNT National Advisory Board is trying to convince US government to stop putting CRPAs under ITAR: https://www.gps.gov/governance/advisory/meetings/2023-05/mur...
If you want a three-prong USB-C power adapter, options include Apple, Dell and HP.
If you are not paid for being a computer geek - for example, if you are a very interested teenager, or an underprivileged adult, who loves playing with these things but has $0 budget - then the very fact there is a price for entry is a hard to surmount barrier. So while I am happy to pay my $20 a month, I can sympathise with those for whom it might as well be $200 a month given their ability to pay up.
If someone's brain chemistry prevents them from driving without doing stupid shit that puts other people's lives in danger, then they shouldn't be allowed to drive.