skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FCC does not monitor broadcasts for presence or content. They do respond to complaints (typically interference), but a missing signal creates no interference.

If someone else wanted that AM allocation, they would have filed a complaint that the licensee was not operating, and the license would be cancelled.

It's also not typical to monitor your own signal directly. You have telemetry coming back from the transmitter site. This includes antenna VSWR which would spike if the antenna disappeared. Or no telemetry at all, if the transmitter building lost power or was raided etc.

There is zero possibility that a compliant licensee would not be aware of an antenna loss within seconds of it happening. So the question becomes what level of noncompliance this licensee was operating under. Sounds to me like they were cheating because AM transmissions are low ROI.
Okay, okay, I don't disagree. Perhaps Russian language is a dialect of Ukrainian. No worries.

I don't understand a word of Polish text.
Didn't they have a recent data leak?
To be fair, this is entirely a result of having too many front end developers and needing to find busywork for them. So instead of the tweet data being sent by the server in HTML, you load megabytes of JS that (if the stars align and it doesn’t “go wrong”) will then request the tweet from the server and display it.
It weird so many young people do most of their work on iPhone, including producing videos, photos, and text. Yet when it comes to iPads most people don't want to touch it for work.
>>Perhaps if someone has cancer, nobody should profit?

Does that mean the doctors and nurses and others should all work for free to? If individual people can 'profit' by providing care, i.e. a doctor, why can't a collection of people providing the same service, but as a company be allowed to profit as well?
iPads aren't setup for "serious work" out of the box. There's a whole community who have developed workarounds and apps for serious work on it, but it prioritizes being "grandma proof" over a serious work machine from the get go.
Actually you are obligated to use a license, or to return it. You cannot hold a license for the AM/FM/TV broadcast bands and not operate on it for any length of time.
I agree with your position. There is a trend on HN and other platforms that anything with a profit motive is bad. Capitalism is bad, profits are bad... Yet it is all complaining on the problems without a actual real solution.

I thought HN was better, focus on the actual problems and not let every discussion turn into a profit/capitalism = bad debate.
thispersondoesnotexist.com is great, but doesn't provide metadata, and one of the primary goals was to be able to have consistent names with images, so boys don't get girls names. Also multiple sizes and fixed ids where needed.
>Cars, even electric, don't last as long as our bodies.

Because they're not built to, presumably because manufacturers are greedy and want to sell you a new one, and buying a new one is encouraged by consumerist culture.

Let's say effective human lifespan for physical labor is ~40 years (20 to 60).
On average, commercial aircraft last 20-30 years, meanwhile the US military plans to keep B-52s in service at least through 2050s, which will make them roughly 100 on average.

It's not that machines can't last a century with proper care and maintenance, it's that they're not designed to.
I'm very happy this should never happen.
I’ll have to test this tomorrow. Last time I tried sideloading direct from our website I had to flip a switch in settings which came with a scare dialog.
If I remember correctly, it was a system wide setting too and didn’t allow for trusting specific sources.
If we can self distribute on Android, that will be 3 out of 4.
The US military is embedded in the gaming world. Its target: teen recruits
> Fasting is the abstention from eating and sometimes drinking. From a purely physiological context, "fasting" may refer to the metabolic status of a person who has not eaten overnight (see "Breakfast"), or to the metabolic state achieved after complete digestion and absorption of a meal.[1] Metabolic changes in the fasting state begin after absorption of a meal (typically 3–5 hours after eating).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting
There's a pretty nice article on this topic here. [1]

Shareholders do not own companies in any, way, shape or fashion, let alone owning the profits of a company. Shareholders own a right to vote on company matters and have certain privileges based around such, but increasingly often they don't even really own that in any meaningful way. Google, Facebook, and many other companies use tiered shares, where the executive owners of the company grant themselves shares with orders of magnitude greater voting power, generally enough for majority control. So the shares everybody else owns serve little purpose other than speculation.

In any case this is a [somewhat interesting] red herring. The issue is that big pharma profits are already very large (and in fact COVID sent a number of big pharma execs into the billionaires club) and so public funding serves little purpose other than to further increase their profit margins, which should not be the purpose of public funding - even though in practice it often is.

[1] - https://moneyweek.com/merryns-blog/shareholders-and-the-myth...
Actually your comment gives me hope that we will never have AI singularity, since how the brain works is flawed, and were trying to copy it.

Heck a super AI might not even be possible, what if we're peak intelligence with our millions of years of evolution?

Just adding compute speed will not help much -- say the goal of an intelligence is to win a war. If you're tasked with it then it doesn't matter if you have a month or a decade (assume that time is.frozen while you do your research), its a too complex problem and simply cannot be solved, and the same goes for an AI.

Or it will be like with chess solvers, machines will be more intelligent than us simply because they can load much more context to solve a problem than us in their "working memory"
There's a few things at play here.

First, Elon cut a bunch of "non-essential" core Twitter staff, like the trust and safety teams. This is going to cause long term brand damage - in fact, it already is!

Second, Elon completely cut all non-core Twitter projects. Twitter was being used by its major investors as a platform to build and test new social experiments and startup concepts. As far as I can tell, this was about 1000 engineers and product people. This was probably a pretty solid cut for someone like him, but also a pretty gross example of the whims of capital - who knows what great idea was killed off.

Lastly, when they say Twitter cut 80% of their staff, they never mentioned what happened after: massive attrition from people who "survived" but could go elsewhere. Way beyond what Elon thought would happen. Way beyond the 10-20% additional resignations after a normal layoff happens. This may have almost killed Twitter
I love emojis too. Check out my other project, https://emojifavicon.dev/, to use emojis as favicons
Happens all to me all the time, really annoying when you don't want to be cheap on tips...
The only reason why I would install native application is if it's the only way of distribution and I absolutely NEED to use it (banking, government, etc.), for everything else if it's not in a browser - it doesn't exist to me.

Native applications might offer marginal performance boost, but given how optimized modern web is and how powerful are devices that I use - that's not an argument to me unless I do something computing intensive.

I don't know how incredibly self-centered and obtuse you might be to think that your specific crud #383835 is not like all those other™ crud apps and absolutely requires a native application.

In a browser I can:
* Freely select ANY text(unless for some reason some special snowflake website thinks that it needs to disable text selection)
* Bookmark, add tags, sort, organize websites how I want
* Sync all of my information and access it on all platforms, not platforms that vendor decided to lock me in
* Add plugins that allow me to modify and work with content how I see fit
* Prohibit JS, ads or any sorts of tracking

And probably at least another 10 things if I think longer than 2 minutes about it.

All of this is just from perspective of a user. If I were to write from perspective of a developer, that would take a whole blogpost to explain how native applications are relic of the past and should just roll over and die.
It can't be trivially unmasked. If approved researchers get controlled access to the data with oversight, but the data itself isn't shared with the companies.
> if you are idling a lot ARM > X86.

Don't take this for a given. RPis are notoriously bad at idle power consumption. The x86 replacement I bought for my home server ended up having about half the idle power consumption of the RPi it was replacing.
That's an odd take. It's quite possible that the bill will eventually get through the House.
It's all fun and games until your computer starts acting all weird, like my 3 year old box did, last week. After being befuddled for a couple of hours, I decided to run MemTest86 off of an Ubuntu installer and found memory errors[1].

The manufacturer has RMA'd the whole set of memory sticks, but ECC would've detected this earlier and I'd have saved a couple of hours of my time.

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/aRHWKxw
>> Rules for thee, not for me.

And you were sooooo close... A pitty, really...
Do you mean the bullshit to allow innovation in healt treatments and research?
Thanks for the spelling tip.
Experimental carbon-capture ship debuts in Yokohama
Show HN: We built a developer-friendly Headless CMS for blogs
The iPhone doesn’t exist without mobile networks that telecommunications companies used government subsidies to build. (The same subsidies, by the way, that some like to complain weren’t spent on FTTH. Personally, I think mobile was the right call.)
> At a large insurance company I worked for, management set a target of 80% test coverage across our entire codebase. So people started writing stupid unit tests for getters and setters in Java DTOs to reach the goal.

I attended many TOC conferences in the 90s and early 2000s. Eli Goldratt was famous for saying "Tell me how you'll measure me, and I'll tell you how I will behave."
The web is not the internet. Great article otherwise.
apparently my former title was too much for this site: "iPissed: Apple is after web capabilities to protect close-to-100B App Store Tax"

which was relating to the article (and you can read the title of the original article after clicking) but I did not like "kills web apps" because it is not true in my opinion, tries to kill web apps or fights against them or cripples them in the next iOS release...

it sounded too eternal and I think Apple will be forced by DMA to do the opposite

I really am curiouos why and who did my creativity bother?
zed is actually very fast though
> labor insurgency

> armed conflict with unions

The only semi-organized groups with weapons are now wackjob "militias" who think the biggest threat comes from random people hiking up from Venezuela, rather than from the organized fuckery of Jeff Bezos et al. This is a problem.

Nobody looks at an AR-15 and thinks, "this machine kills fascists", or, more relevantly, "this machine kills billionaires". You can't safely attend your city's Super Bowl parade, but they can sleep just fine in Atherton and on (recently-depopulated) Maui. The fuckery will continue so long as that's the case.

Let's contrast with when Labor did gain some power.

During the Homestead Strike, Pinkertons cowered in a barge for at least a day under a hail of bullets.

It's estimated that, in the Battle of Blair Mountain, over a million rounds were fired, and the capitalists brought in a goddamn air force (which dropped both conventional bombs and poison gas).

> Gatling guns and machine guns were employed by both sides

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

Can you imagine a 2024-era "leftist" with a machine gun?

I can't. Which could be one reason Jeff Bezos is able to have his way with you.
You're pointing to a task that is basically the platonic ideal of a work task that would benefit from VR and then saying that programmers are the ones who are unusual?

The vast majority of normal people's compute tasks for work could be done on an iPad with a keyboard. The vast majority of their compute tasks for play just require a smartphone. 3D modeling is already a huge exception to the norm in that it needs serious compute power and in that people already often use specialized equipment for it, and to top it off it's a task that is actually hampered by using a 2D projection on a flat screen.

Most tasks are more like coding than they are like 3D modeling.
OK, I'll bite. While I agree with many of your criticisms, some are IMHO incorrect.

- Apple did Firewire at a time when it was the leading interface for professional video stuff. As Apple marketed their computers to video professionals back then, it made a lot of sense. Also, USB 2.0 wasn't on the market yet or hardly had any adoption, and FW was pretty much the only modern high-speed serial interface. At the time, FW was also a much more capable (if more complex) interface than USB. After USB 2.0 got more adoption, FW 800 was released with almost twice the bandwidth of USB 2.0.

- Forcing USB C adoption upon the industry was a good thing, just like getting rid of floppy disks, serial and parallel ports, and Flash (the latter one being debatable as the beginner-friendly authoring system still leaves a big gap that hasn't been filled since). The transition period was admittedly very painful with all the adapters. But now pretty much all devices charge via USB C, just how neat is that? I know that Apple didn't give up Lightning for USB C in iPhones voluntarily, so they needed a bit of help by the EU in their own mission here :)

- They reversed on the touch bar, thus admitting their mistake. It was indeed horrible, though.

- The glowing Apple on the lid hasn't been there any more for a decade or so

- Dev tools aka Xcode are free, the fee you're probably referring to is for getting stuff into the App Store

In the end, you're correct - haters gonna hate, Apple will be Apple, people will buy their stuff anyway.
It doesn't feel adversarial as a customer. Never did for me, never heard it from others. They aren't even regular companies - they have a special legal status. Private insurance, which is also available, is different.
What I think it will do for me?

Correct single bit errors and alert me to them.
Neoteny in Humans
Here is the model here:

- Apple's software (particularly macOS) is extremely high quality. Best game in town.

- Their hardware is also high quality, but it is often overpriced.

- You must use their hardware to get the best experience using their software.

- Therefore, people might end up buying, say, the Apple XR display or AirPods Max even though they are overpriced compared to other monitors/headphones, because it gives you a better experience using macOS.

I am a pretty huge Apple fan but I think this is pretty unfortunate, not gonna lie -- it kills me a little that macOS doesn't look sharp on my 4K monitor. But it isn't an iCult, it's just that the cheaper thing doesn't work as well with macOS.
The US didn’t “conquer” Afghanistan. It was fighting a nonstop insurgency that obviously we couldn’t sustain for another 20+ years as evidenced by the fact we didn’t sustain it for another 20+ years. Losing political will is quite literally “losing,” and we left and the Taliban now gets to (actually) rule their country how they want to.
Everyone here is hung up on doing "nothing" and handling "errors" and I feel like the post does a poor job explaining how it is not just swallowing everything that's going wrong and going kumbaya. The actual context is that the author is doing emulation/compatibility for software that will not change, and that's very different from most contexts. This is especially confusing because Microsoft often blurs the line between the two themselves, and that's not actually what is being talked about here at all.

Really, emulation is all about telling lies. Your Xbox doesn't actually have a way to attach a printer. You're running a game on Linux, not Windows. Your fake iPhone is actually a ARM server in AWS. The point here is that if you're going to lie you better do so convincingly. That's because you need existing applications to still work! When Microsoft says you can port your existing Windows app to Xbox the promise for the Windows app was that it would be able to print, and so Xbox needs to lie for that to happen.

This is very different from a normal error. If a program does a use after free, and you silently pretend the bug doesn't exist by working around it, then you're not doing anything correctly. That's because nobody promises that your existing use after frees will be bug-for-bug compatible on a new platform.
I find the amount of services/products used insane. Is this all handled/known by those mythical full-stack-dev-sec-ops developers?
Sure they are capable of running for years but they can fail at inopportune times. Every time one has died on me, it always seemed to be the microSD card that died. And that's with using reputable industrial cards and log2ram.

Also there's more complexity and overhead on a pi for simple tasks. And you potentially have to worry about updating the system and packages and other maintenance.

Not saying microcontrollers like the ESP32 are completely invulnerable to failure but it certainly is less likely.

And for another anecdote on uptime, I have a few Arduino-powered devices operating 24/7 for well over a decade now.
Also there is a comment by Major Winters that this is a stupid rule, because Lipton is one of the best and most respected platoon leads in the company.
> corporate existence as well as profits aren’t guaranteed.

This sounds like a terrible business environment. Are you thinking through the long term consequences of this?
Interesting! What software did you use for that? And how did you set your keyboard up?
This is neat but, TBH, i expected a recreation of the actual Program Manager (i.e. the launcher with the groups and icons) :-P

AFAIK back in the 90s there was some (proprietary, i think) Motif based program that looked very similar to Program Manager and some Linux distributions bundled it.

It'd be trivial to make something like it with -e.g.- Lazarus, especially if the subwindows/MDI part isn't needed and instead launch toplevel windows (which IMO is a better idea anyway as you can nest them, something i always felt was missing from the Win3.x Program Manager).

EDIT: for fun i tried to setup a Win3.1 theme for Gtk and put Lazarus (in a separate user account) with this window manager. It looks nice[0] though the WM seems to be lacking support for some common features for setting up window appearance (e.g. the completion window in the screenshot has a frame when it shouldn't and the window doesn't disappear but instead its contents become black - this happens for any window that is expected to remain around but hidden).

https://i.imgur.com/Hpieb0g.png
The Amiga got completely creamed by x86 and was a footnote by 1994, when it was cancelled. It's best titles were ported to other platforms or forgotten. The people who succeeded the strongest on it moved on to other platforms, but its architecture really didn't live on in any mainstream descendants.
Only works on Mac
Big no no
> Can you not install a native app one day, and uninstall it the next day? Or does it not count as "temporary"?

"Don't you guys have phones?"

> Or are PWAs uninstalling automatically somehow?

They don't weigh 100MBs. I feel extremely privileged to have access to super fast networks, but it doesn't mean that lazy developers get right to hog it all.
https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite works very well indeed.
In some ways you became the person you would have needed as a kid. Now relax, you done good and broke the cycle of abuse.
> 1) ECC is almost free if done at scale (e.g. every computer). The only reason it costs extra is that it is only done for high-paying customers and in limited volume.

This is simply not true. ECC means you need to store a minimum of 11% more bits, and at scale this means that you are paying a minimum of 11% more for memory.

Note that I am very pro ECC, and think that most computers should use ECC ram.
The companies and researchers get access to the data with oversight but the data isn't shared. They basically get access to a server to run their analysis but can't retrieve the data.
I mean we are on HackerNews after all, not on MbaNews. And there‘s some great hackery on this project.
> I think Apple did not want to risk letting that happen.

they've already shown a shadow of their true colors when they banned flash under the guise of security (which is also a problem, but for which apple conveniently uses as an excuse).

This is their true intention. The app store and the easy revenue from those sales are just not something they'll willingly give up.
Nintendo CEO once halved salary to prevent layoffs–why that's uncommon
Copying or moving through tmpfs loses silently some file metadata, e.g. extended attributes or high-resolution filestamps.

Copying through /tmp is a frequently used method for transferring files between users on a multi-user computer.

It is said that the Linux kernel will include soon an improved version of tmpfs, which will allow user extended attributes, within certain limitations.

When this will happen, one of the most annoying misfeatures of tmpfs that has persisted for much too many years will finally be gone away.
> He should have been paged 2 seconds after the signal stopped.

I think you're greatly overestimating the technical sophistication of this operation. I'm not saying they didn't notice sooner, but I doubt they had this sort of modern monitoring system set up. It seems like the sort of operation that has been coasting on minimal money/effort for many years.
From limited experimentation, and within the confines of a single prompt (rather than a full chat), this model seems reasonably interesting. Does anyone have good examples of QA that showcase the capabilities compared to other advanced models?
It actually is quite a grand building (I was born in Leeds!)

See https://www.expedia.co.uk/Leeds-Town-Hall-Leeds-City-Center....
It's quite funny to use! It is better when speaking French than chat gpt3.5 on my opinion
If your parents are still around, ask them how they dealt with it when you were going through that phase.
Ask HN: Why do we need generative AI?
For the past year and a half I've been browsing through gen AI news and other related articles and I've come to a question.

Why do we need this?
Why do we need to synthetically generate art, content and other media that humans enjoy creating themselves?
Weren't the machines supposed to make labour easier?
Why is OpenAI - with a nobel name like that - creating something like Sora, instead of state-of-the-art medical models?
Is the current gen AI state a stepping stone to much more useful applications?

I understand the appeal when it comes to writing code, it does really speed things up and leaves the creativity to the programmer.

But so far, I've only seen gen AI be used for low-effort content, gimmicky apps and fraud. Yes, it is an interesting technology but still, why generate media?

What do you think?