skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> single antenna (making most mimo functionality useless)

Can't the AP still use MU-MIMO even for single-antenna clients? That's still a significant improvement every time more than one STA is active, especially in the super-busy 2.4 GHz band.
Anything is more important than making entertainment. It’s literally the first thing to be sacrificed in times of crisis.
> against well-defined knowledge bases, as a sort of anti-hallucination measure.

Given that humans don't have anything resembling well-defined knowledge I'm somewhat confused why this keeps coming up as something desirable.
Or, they're just drop-shipping stuff from China and they don't speak English so they use an AI to create a title.
I got shingles in my eye when I was 57. At the time, the advice was to get vaccinated at 60, and that's when insurance covered it. Now insurance will cover it for people in their 50's because so many cases have occurred.

I was unlucky that: a) I hadn't gotten vaccinated yet; b) my immune system was not just declining, but I actually had CVID (Common Variable Immune Deficiency) and didn't know it when the shingles outbreak occurred. Even though I took antivirals, the shingles kept reasserting itself. I still have live virus in that eye 6 years later, though at least it is not continuing to scar my cornea like it did the first year.

I personally wouldn't recommend getting vaccinated under 50 for a couple of reasons:

1) your immune system has not yet started declining in your 40's, so it's less likely that the dormant herpes zoster virus will come out of its slumber. Your immune system is still keeping it in check, unless you are highly stressed or have some immune system deficiency. If it does pop out in your 40's, you are more likely to have a mild case because your immune system is still strong (usually).

2) the Shingrex shingles vaccination (the modern, dead, 2-dose vaccine) provides 89% protection for up to 10 years. It is an open question how much protection it provides after 10 years. Getting it before necessary may increase your risk for getting a bad case of shingles in your 70's to 90's.
> I think you pretty much have to stick with your prior

Yeah, at least to me that makes sense if you're forced to make a choice. Although in some ways if you really have no clear evidence it doesn't matter what choice you make, since both are equally reasonable.

> I'm curious if you have a more nuanced approach here

Not really :D. I do think things are often more complicated than "you must choose two options", for example you might have to choose between two candidates (in the US at least), but if you are more uncertain maybe you don't put a giant poster in your front yard or get upset at neighbors if they have a different opinion.
This appears to be for private citizens to report illegal content?
RLHF 201
Probably the biggest real life application is 3D walkthroughs of houses for sale & rental. This already exists, but the quality isn't as good as shown here.

Other examples are things like walking through archeological sites, 3D virtual backgrounds (e.g. for newsrooms), maybe crime scene reconstruction?

It's basically perfect 3D capture, except the big limitations are that you can't change the geometry or lighting. The inability to relight it is probably the most severe restriction.
Brine discharge is an issue, but the geography of the North American West Coast is favorable for that. In most places the seafloor drops down fairly deep just a short distance offshore. Past about 400 ft / 120 m there is no flora at all, and most fauna is clustered around rock structures. So, the impact of brine discharge can be minimized with careful pipeline siting.
Show HN: The Enchiridion
The Enchiridion is a fascinating book, an easy read filled with valuable insights. Unfortunately—even with multiple public domain translations—reading it can often be a bad experience.

Between old and sometimes confusing terms, hard to find and even harder to download files, and outdated websites, the barriers between an interested reader and this content are monumental. So, why not make a website that solves these problems?
These VLC packages only had assets for Windows, UWP and Android.
Same. I found a book back in college claiming (on the basis of some theory about the Egyptian pyramids) that if you made a pyramidal shape with certain dimensions out of cardboard, it would make plants grow faster and keep your razorblades sharp. I didn't believe it, but I did make one for fun. All my physics-major friends made fun of me for being gullible. I was like, isn't testing stuff what we're supposed to be doing here?

(It didn't work)
Which IDE does your doggo favor?
Flowpipe: A workflow engine for DevOps scripters
Senior sysadmins in the late 2000's knew how to code for sure, usually perl and some C (though not to the level you'd want them writing code full time).

More fancy sysadmins who were "modern" would learn Ruby.

The issue with "sysadmin" was that it suffered an inflation treadmill, what used to be a very difficult job where you would need to understand programming, debugging, compilers, OS design, distributed systems and so forth became a title for senior helpdesk staff; who, naturally, did not know those things.
Sure, but apparently not for the ones targeted by this chipset.
"Overhired" is not always the best way to describe "hired with intentions to do things while capital was cheap". I saw a bunch of startups and larger that really did intend to build things. When hard times hit, some shut down. Some cancelled any lofty project that wasn't already committing to their bottom line.

So the solution is, "never hire headcount to work on a project that might not be financially viable in a recession"? Help me see another solution here.
I went to do a sanity check using your steps and unfortunately I missed the problem the first time around - when I go to a tweet thread, then a reply thread, then come back to the tweet thread, it is indeed scrolled all the way up to the top. So I was wrong, I am affected by the same issue, I just never realized it until I went looking for it. One positive I'm taking away from this is the realization that I use Twitter less intensively than I thought, because I wouldn't have noticed this without the explicit steps I don't think. :D
Pratt & Whitney is a business unit of United Technologies Corporation. UTC merged with Raytheon a couple years ago. Raytheon was already a dysfunctional corporate culture, and what I hear is that the UTC management that took over is somehow even more risk averse than the old Raytheon leadership, which is hard to imagine.

Risk aversion is probably a good thing if you want an engine that will work reliably. But it's not going to produce the next big thing or massively scale output on short timelines.
What Are Value Objects (wonkish)
The year is 2525, all trademarks have expired. Describe an Ikea® piece of crap to sell on Amazon™
I think it's people rediscovering The Matrix, which itself was used by my A-level Philosophy teacher when discussing Descartes' evil demon.
Clicks is a $139 iPhone case for people who hate touchscreen typing
I’m not against using technology but my concern is that we need to treat resource consumption as a form of addiction. Humanity frequently uses technology as an excuse to further consume instead of using it to pay off ecological debt.
It's such a neckbeardy sentiment. I could also drive the "functional" car that Homer designed in The Simpsons, but my psyche wouldn't survive a week.
Hey, I am not the author but I found it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/194xqzv/i_made...

The person lists the sources they use
What, no reviews
Kicad stores as XML as you probably know and is fairly human readable, so I use git on the project folder directly. Works great, although manual merges are a little involved, but I'm never in that position.

Also a lot of notes in the schematics/layout as well, utilizing layers. Overall I'm pretty satisfied.
Self-regulatory bodies are usually centralized and separate from any individual corporation. They also tend to answer directly to a government agency and cannot be disciplined by a corporation. While there can still be issues such as a strong revolving door and potential indirect pressure to be nice to the regulated entities, it’s not as terrible as what Boeing and other airplane manufacturers get to do (inspect themselves in lieu of regulatory inspections). That’s strange, because lives are literally on the line, more so than some other industries with more independent examinations.
Dropped shipped item probably from here: https://www.vidaxl.com/e/vidaxl-sideboard-18.5%22x13.8%22x29...
The deficit jumped to almost 15% in 2020 with the pandemic. The deficit has returned to normal 5-6% of GDP. 5% is sustainable for forever as long as GDP keeps growing faster. It has been in that range for fifty years except for recessions and Clinton surplus.

Also, the government is now paying for the retirement of the boomers. We could increase taxes to pay for the increase. Or we could borrow it, changing debt to Social Security fund to debt to everyone. Or we could slash spending for everything else.
"This sentence is False" actually has an answer (same with the halting problem). It is indeterminate. You may not like that answer, but it is one. There's a confusion that people think things have to be True or False (halt, not halt) but there's a third answer. This was one of the great logic steps in the 20th century and my name might remind people of that famous theorem.
How does this reconcile with "enshitification" as popular platforms with millions of users try to become profitable by removing features and paywalling access? My understanding was that the zero-interest era was the time of optimism and building new cool things.
SRO sounds like a middle-man in this process. And like all middle-man industries, they suck out money from both sides that they deal with.

We can easily publicly fund over-sight committees to oversee these industries instead of relying on SROs who take tax-payer money and are in the perfect financial and power position to do some really corrupt and immoral things.

Look at the National Association of Realtors, another SRO— On October 31, 2023, a federal civil jury found that the NAR had conspired to inflate commissions paid to home-buyers' real estate agents, and determined that NAR and its codefendants owed damages of almost US$1,800,000,000.

Zillow and NAR have anti-trust lawsuits coming their way too. Relying on SROs is just asking for corruption, imo.
Exactly. Engineering often involves choosing a solution within some time / cost / performance envelope. I’m inclined to think that if you can’t see where trade-offs might exist, it’s because you don’t fully understand the domain.
SMFR Responds to Electric Vehicle Fire Inside a Garage
as others have already suggested, i think the contrast of immersion vs no immersion is not really the issue (only as much as immersion helps people get addicted to games). the focus on entertainment and making a profit vs doing something to advance society is.

immersive games are fine. games aren't failing to teach anything or help you relax because they are immersive. they are not teaching anything because they don't have a good story that would teach something, and they don't let you relax because specific game elements are putting you under stress.

to give two examples: i play elite dangerous. i can travel through space with a VR headset and i trade items between various space stations. very immersive and quite relaxing, until pirates come along and want to steal my cargo. that's stressful. and i wish i could turn that off.

likewise i may play some puzzle game, that is not immersive at all, and that could be relaxing if the gamedesigner hadn't added a timer that forces me to complete the puzzle in a certain time. that's stressful.

so i don't think immersion has any impact here, other than immersive games are just more attractive. both are a waste of time however if they are not educational or relaxing.

but now this issue of entertainment vs advancing society is a problem of the whole entertainment industry. very little content produced is entertaining as well as teaching something.

and so for me the question is not about how immersive the games are but how educational. i believe it is quite possible to create fully immersive but educational games.

looking back at elite dangerous again, for example, the universe in that game is modeled after our actual galaxy. where possible, stars are named by their actual astronomical names, and their looks are designed after what we know about them and i can take a star system in the game and look up its name on eg wikipedia and learn real facts about it. compare that to eve online where the universe is completely fictional. in elite dangerous i can fly around and get a sense of the relative distances of say alpha centauri vs the north pole star or of the position of our solar system vs the rest of the galaxy. (assuming that it is all accurate)

immersive and educational and relaxing (as long as i can avoid pirates)
If we don't get soon effective measures to separate AI bots from humans this will be the end of the Internet as we know it.
for mac:

cmd+click: new tab in the background

cmd+shift+click: new tab and focus that new tab
I’d evolved since then. Support for Fortran 2018 is reasonable in gfortran and you can count on almost all of Fortran 2008 and before.
This is exactly it. There's been tons of these for years on Amazon now, and the AI feature is just another tool to make it easier.
Can you explain how it has something to do with transgenderism?
It worked for Uncle Owen
Upvoted. I'd hazard that--

"LERS is a system in which a verified law enforcement agent can securely submit a legal request for user data, view the status of the submitted request, and download the response submitted by Google.

If you are a sworn law enforcement agent or other government official who is authorized to issue legal process in connection with an official investigation, you may submit your request through this system."

--is not the height of transparency, though.
> The authors of the article claim that the Unity runtime uses (some of) those libraries...

Ultimately I sympathize with the author, and this is not meant to pass a subjectively negative judgement, I know the author didn't unpack a Unity iOS IPA and carefully check if any of the libraries are definitively LGPL and if they were definitively not cross licensed, that would be a waste of his time.

> distributing LGPL apps for iOS is not in contradiction with any of the terms of the LGPL

I don't want to make the author of the LGPL, who is commenting in this thread, regret commenting. There's a phrase he uses that makes it clear to me what its intent is, "right to repair." It comes down to whether or not you think it's impracticable to replace a library in an iOS app. For the average user it obviously is.

Is it practicable for sophisticated users? You can probably get the app bundle, replace a .dylib in an embedded Framework, resign it, and use the app bundle on your development enrolled device. But then you will lose a lot of functionality, like push notifications and IAP. And ad serving will also probably stop working. So my opinion is: no. You can't distribute LGPL libraries in iOS apps.
Fully down from switzerland on ipv6 and ipv4, but only for my tabs that are logged in, from private tabs I get the login screen.

For status page, host a simple server somewhere that is not managed by your infra that just do a curl request (or whatever script you see fit, just make it self contained). Have another domain pointing to it. This can help: https://github.com/ivbeg/awesome-status-pages
this looks and reads great, repo here if anyone is interested: https://github.com/bdsqqq/psykip
Back in the usenet days everybody using it was either an engineer or a physicist, and every single one of those people had a bias about one of those groups being wrong more often than the other.
As long as there isn't any other stuff on 2.4 GHz, it can indeed be beneficial.

But if there are any legacy 802.11 (especially pre-802.11n) or non-802.11 transmitters nearby, it can be catastrophic for throughput, both because you need protective measures when transmitting (so that older 802.11 versions can reliably detect your transmissions as occupying the carrier) and because some of them just don't cooperate well with 802.11 at all (e.g. Bluetooth, which will just happily transmit over 802.11 without any regard for CSMA/CA fairness at all).
> Once the rate cuts occur, the bull market will return

Rate cuts often signal an impending recession, not a bull market, as historical data shows.

The Federal Funds Effective Rate chart illustrates how recessions (marked in gray) align with periods of rate reductions.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS
That's not correct. In the UK there's the Crown Proceedings Act 1947, and in Canada the Crown Liability and Proceedings Act, and Australia this also seems to be the general case, but I didn't immediately find a statutory authority.

> https://www.alrc.gov.au/publication/traditional-rights-and-f...

There is no right to secede or otherwise unilaterally decide what the remedy for this claim is, but the idea that a tort was committed and the authorities were liable seems like the least crazy idea here.
Yeah, all of that is part of the long tail. Fortran isn't going away, but with younger people who grew up without Fortran getting into leadership positions momentum is in the favor of moving HPC and sometimes more mundane computational code to C++. It's not just that developers are harder to find, it's that C++ is also offering advantages with better tooling, better libraries and community support, etc. Leveraging (and contributing to) open source is also important for DoE, which is tough in Fortran.

Of course you could make the case for even more modern languages like Rust etc as well, but the national labs are still on the conservative side when making decisions for their big projects. C++ does hit a nice sweet spot in terms of performance, features, and longevity despite the warts.
For anyone more interested in this general topic, in philosophy of mind, this is referred to as “the extended mind” using the terminology of Andy Clark and David Chalmers in their famous 1998 paper of the same name.
I don’t buy this for even a minute. If my starter solenoid goes out on my old time Jeep I get the same feeling. (It’s happened a few times now). Does this mean the Jeep is now part of my body? Of course not.

It’s called being annoyed or caught off guard by external stimuli.

I think there is a large portion of people on this website who have not spent a day in years without their devices. That doesn’t mean their devices are integrated with their biology. Just that they have become dependent on things.
But who needs to buy audiobooks when you can get a regular ebook and have it read aloud with a very good voice?
Layoffs and offshoring. of course I have a personal stake in this :)

I'm not saying that there's no talent overseas, precisely the opposite. Offshoring has been tried since the 90s and it works to some extent. I expect (hope) things to rebalance once cheaper money becomes available again. Things will probably won't be the same as before, but it'll probably be a net benefit with the wealth being spread around the world.
...be sure to give it an opt-out pop-up too?
A solution is there if we had the will to implement it: https://www.osti.gov/biblio/963122

Take excess water from SE floods and pump it west opportunistically using excess renewables. Bonus because you can use the pumped water as gravity storage.

Yes, it is not cheap, energetically, to pump water. Yes, you have to cross a big mountain range(which increases opportunities for gravity storage).

For some reason, this suggestion always gets a lot of comments from folks living around the great lakes who think we're going to 'steal' 'their' water(just like they 'steal' CA grown produce, I guess?).

Anyway, a national water grid is needed for national food security and can mitigate flooding damage in the SE(probably more important b/c of AGW).
It's in the text of the license? See section 6. a)

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.0.en.html

Also of course section 9: "You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Library or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License."

You can't legally put copyleft stuff on the App store, because the recipient can't modify the results. That we've all as a society decided to look the other way doesn't change the requirements of the license.
Blocked for hours is you learning and totally OK if you are learning. If one is operating open loop and stabbing at configuration options in a brute force manner to "make something work quickly" that isn't learning. Not saying you did this, but I do see this in a number of folks. They don't learn, and they don't form a model of the system. Those folks can be replaced by an LLM and Z3.
I thought there were more examples of hybrid engines?

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

Also, I wonder how complex this is going to make the aerodynamic controls. You are losing moment arms between engine and the forward surfaces, if they exist.
I agree with you but there's a reason Nokia died and SAP and Accenture live on despite both not doing innovation well.

Nokia activated in the cut-throat consumer space and had insane competition. SAP avoids both these traps and is in no threat of going away anythime soon like Nokia did.
They and you are both incorrect. You both wish to pretend that because all dolphins are mammals, all mammals are dolphins.

They aren't removing code simply because they don't like it. They have defined a term of service. You can pretend it's more capricious than that, but it isn't the truth unless you have some additional evidence beyond that one thing.
I guess they could always use inspectors from Airbus since I doubt the US regulators are qualified.
Huh, I guess I was mistaken that restoration on the Salton Sea was already in progress. I've seen large flocks of birds in and around it and assumed there was food for them in it. But it sounds like no, it's still horrible.
the work that pays is the unglamorous stuff that needs doing

no, the work that pays is the unglamorous stuff that someone wants to get done to make a profit. the stuff that actually needs doing is the stuff that would be a benefit for our society.
On Bluesky I saw some screenshots of a flood of Twitter accounts all posting this text. Glad the new management has solved the bots issues.
What's the best way to label wiring?

I used my sweet label maker till I realized that it prints on heat sensitive paper and the label eventually fade out.
That’s largely fine though because the stick to enforce good diligence is the threat that the ability to self regulate is removed. As is being seen.
While Scott does make errors, I've found he works hard to avoid making them and forthright when he does (e.g., not everyone has a Mistakes page in the main navigation bar of their site[1])

What you're missing in your example is that, in context, the state-sponsored violence he's talking about is "against one's own people" (e.g., he also refers to it as a "reign of terror" a few times, like those of Robespierre, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc). I think there's a difference of kind between say the 19th century US's (awful) treatment of Native Americans (who were explicitly treated as "other" very consistently) and Stalin's (also awful) dekulakization (in which one-time typical members of Russian society were declared enemies of the state and purged).

So his point isn't that the UK and US have done no wrong, it's that despite having democratic systems for centuries that haven't gone through the kind of reign of terror that Scott's interlocutors claim they should have

[1] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/mistakes